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Rock the Clothesline!
I love rockin' the clothesline play with children, and it's a naturally delightful summertime activity! It's so much fun to see what we can hang upon the line (see previous clothesline entry), or to use a clothesline as a display for artwork. You can do water experiments with hanging fabrics to see what will dry quicker, or paint on t-shirts and handkerchiefs with spray bottles and squirt guns…so much to do, so little clothesline!
So, you can imagine my joy when I discovered a few recently published clothesline books, as well as a reprint of a golden oldie!
Clothesline Clues to Jobs People Do by Kathryn Heling and Deborha Hembrook, illustrated by Andy Robert Davies.
Most preschools will talk about "community helpers" while toddlers learn what jobs people do, and this book would be a great inspiration for your playroom at home to build upon that theme. Using clues from the clothesline, we guess what each character does. Even though the book is short, Heling and Hembrook do a good job going beyond gender stereotypes (showing a man as "chef", a woman as "carpenter", etc). I think this story cries out for daily costume play, followed by dipping clothes in washtubs and hanging outside. Dress-up and water play! How good can it get?
Laundry Day by Maurie J. Manning
In bright, graphic comic-book style, Manning creates a sweet story of a shoeshine boy in turn-of-the-century New York. The small boy is lost in a crowd until the wind blows him a red scarf and he sets out to find the original owner. In the process, he meets the entire neighborhood and gains unexpected rewards for his kindness. The author draws the reader in with detailed pictures and sparse dialogue that reflects the different cultural traditions in the neighborhood (a laundry list of words in the back will help you pronounce them). This book can also open up conversations with preschoolers about how people lived before electricity.
I Like Old Clothes by Mary Ann Hoberman, illustrated by Patrice Barton
Most kids receive second hand clothing from someone – a cousin, a brother and sister, or a thrift store. This delightful rhyming book by Mary Ann Hoberman, a master of children's poetry, celebrates the wonder of "clothes with a history, clothes with a mystery…sweaters and shirts that are brother-and-sistery" as an enthusiastic preschooler waxes poetic about the joys of the hand-me-downs . First published in 1976, this book has been reissued with new illustrations by Patrice Barton. Characters are expressive and lovingly drawn with loose pencil sketches that are digitally enhanced with colorful cloth patterns. If you have a future fashionista on your hands, this book is a wonderful choice.
For a bit more clothesline fun, read this entry from the Garden Drum blog by Kelly Hesford about how children see clotheslines.
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I have a bunch of old Life magazines at home that I've been browsing recently in search of inspiration. Whenever I find work that catches my eye, I mark it with a post-it note.
Here's an example: An article written and illustrated by Bill Mauldin, the creator of the award-winning "Willie and Joe" cartoon chronicling the travails of a pair of American soldiers.
These particular drawings by the legendary cartoonist stopped me because of their journalistic nature. Turns out the magazine had sent him to cover a meeting of war veterans and he produced both the text and the artwork.
My collage of scans above only shows the illustrations but, guess what, to read the actual article and view the layout in all its glory, you don't have to borrow my dusty copy of the magazine. You can simply go to the archives of Life Magazine on Google Books. Just type "Bill Mauldin Legion" in the search box, check the "Search all issues" box, and, voilà!
What a treasure trove that collection is! Next time, I think I won't bother with the scanning.
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Before I created these chicken cordon bleu lasagna rolls, I had only eaten the traditional version; which is flattened or butterflied chicken breast rolled with inner layers of meat and cheese. The traditional dish is either fried or baked with a sauce. Having never thought much about its origins, I decided to do a wee bit of research on my friend, Chicken Cordon Bleu. Turns out, the first reference to it as "Chicken Cordon Bleu" was in the NY Times in 1967.
I always thought it might have had French origins because of the name, but Wiki says otherwise. Cordon bleu simply means...blue ribbon. If you dare to dig further into it's past, Phrases.org says the term blue ribbon stems from the "highest order of chivalry under the Bourbon kings."
Did someone say Bourbon? Thought I saw some heads perk up from their desks. Sounds Cajun to me, but that makes sense with the French influence in New Orleans. I guess Mr. Chicken Cordon Bleu wasn't exactly French, but his mama liked French names...he must have also been quite the gentleman in his heyday to be dubbed something of the "highest order of chivalry." Yes, yes, I know...who cares about all that? Me. I care. I'm an etymology geek. Drop that knowledge on someone when you're feeding them. It's table talk at its best.
The recipe list looks long, but most of the ingredients are spices used several times to layer the flavors. It's rolled lasagna noodles with Swiss cheese, ham, and ground chicken inside, topped with a spicy Cajun sauce and seasoned bread crumbs. Sounds simple, because it is.
NOTE: I am a master multi-tasker and have written the directions so you appear as a kitchen-ninja while under observation. If multi-tasking isn't your thing, take each element of the recipe (i.e. lasagna roll, sauce, breading) and prepare it on it's own. It will take longer, but you might have more success.
I like to get the noodles out of the way since I hate waiting for water to boil, so I start that process at the same time as browning the ground chicken. I like to salt my water for noodles and add a bit of olive oil as well (optional). Browning ground chicken is straight-forward: add seasoning, break it up, cook it. Set it aside.
Once the noodles are done, allow them to cool and spray them with oil if they're sticky. You can start on the sauce while they're cooling or get the rolls knocked out all together. Clear all the clutter off your counter, you need space. Make an assembly line of lasagna noodles topped with: cheese, ham, and ground chicken (the wee chicken pieces might want to roll out...simply put them in their place... Know your roll ground chicken).
Roll them up and place them in a large pan. I used my 13x9 glass dish.
Making the sauce is just like making gravy if you've done that before. Melt butter, add a bit of flour, whisk in chicken broth & seasoning -bam you've got gravy (or sauce). Make sure to whisk, whisk, whisk. There are a few crucial seconds there when making gravy that you can't slack off. Once you have it incorporated, you're good. Season it, boil it (for about 2 minutes), and take it off the heat.
Drizzle the the sauce on the rolls in the pan and start on your breading.
The breading is the easiest part, combine the ingredients and sprinkle it on top. Done. Bake it uncovered in a preheated oven of 350 degrees for about 10-15 minutes and enjoy. If you made this beforehand and refrigerated it, tack on a couple extra minutes in the oven (30 total).
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Chicken Cordon Bleu Lasagna Rolls
- Preheat oven to 350 degree and start a large pot of water to boil for the noodles.
- In a large skillet, combine the ground chicken, 1/2 tsp garlic powder, 1/2 tsp paprika, and 1/2 tsp salt. Cook on medium to medium-high heat until done (10-15 minutes). Remove from heat.
- While waiting for the ground chicken to brown and the water in the pot is boiling, boil the lasagna noodles for 6-8 minutes or according to directions on the box. Drain and spray with non-stick spray or olive oil so they won't stick together or to the counters.
- While the noodles are cooling, start the sauce. Melt 4 tbsp of butter in a skillet on medium-low heat.
- Once the butter is melted, sprinkle the flour evenly over while whisking it quickly.
- After 30 seconds (before the flour burns), slowly whisk in the chicken broth. Continue with the whisk until the cooked flour is incorporated into the broth (without lumps). Bring to a simmer.
- Add to the sauce 1/8 tsp cayenne powder, 1/2 tsp smoked paprika, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp garlic powder, and lemon juice. Allow the sauce to boil until slightly thickened (about 2 minutes).
- Once the sauce is thickened, remove from heat and add the pieces of Swiss cheese, stirring slowly as they melt.
- On a large flat surface, place a lasagna noodle on the bottom, with layers of ham, cheese, and ground chicken on top.
- Slowly roll the lasagna noodle and place in a large 13x9 dish with the seam-side down. Continue until all noodles are rolled.
- Drizzle the sauce on top of the rolls in the dish.
- Combine the breading ingredient: 1/2 panko, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp smoked paprika, 1/2 tsp garlic powder, 1/2 tsp black pepper, 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper. Sprinkle on top of the lasagna rolls and sauce.
- Bake uncovered in a preheated oven for 10-15 minutes or until the cheese is thoroughly melted inside. If preparing these ahead of time (unbaked), bake in the oven for 30 minutes if chilled.
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"What cracker is this same that deafe our eares with this abundance of superfluous breath?" —- William Shakespeare, King John, Act II, Scene 1, 1594.
Many things were apparent about the way America was going to be populated. Though it may have been seen as a place for religious freedom or a refuge from the harsh treatment of poor people in distant lands, countries like England saw it as a place to dump the worst of its society. A convenient way to outlaw those unwanted millions: exile them to a far away land. So, along with the millions yearning to be free were the millions yearning to be free to wander unmolested in new territory and to ravage the inhabitants of the new world and the settlers alike. Altough most penal emigrants were from debtor prison, England consistently emptied its prisons of all manner of cutthroats, malcontents and other felons and sent them to the United States well into the 1800s…yes, even after American Independence.
Much of this is mentioned by Woodiwiss (2001) who indicates as many as 600 convicts per year between 1719 and 1772 were sent to America, while 1000s more poured in from Scotland and Ireland: "Blackmailers, pimps, rapists, embezzlers and mercenary thugs" among them. So called "crimps" or kidnappers preyed on the poor in those countries, sometimes plying them with alcohol, inducing debt and then sending them from debtors prison to America.
C.E. Lester, in his 1866 Glory and Shame of England, makes it quite clear that this exporting of poor and criminal souls continued even after the war of 1812, despite the clamoring of state governments.
I am half tempted to give what lays at my hand, the statistics of pauper exportation to the United States by the British government. Of her exportation of criminals, secretly and clandestinely, to our shores, I need hardly speak. Ever since our government was founded this has been British policy. In multitudes of cases condemned men, indicted persons, or people who had become obnoxious or dangerous, whom the colonial authorities would not receive, have been shipped to this country--- supplying us with murderers, burglars, forgers and thieves; while of the pauper class the number has amounted to tens of thousands. We all know that this mean, unfriendly and contemptible conduct of the British government went so far, that our general and State Governments had to resort to laws of self protection, when the most earnest and repeated protests and expostulations had failed. The records of our criminal courts in every state of the union show the enormous excess imported over native pauperism and crime.It is also well known from authentic sources, that b y far the larger share of imported paupers was of of the class sent away by the authority or money of the government or both (page 289).
Another source for this is the the Encyclopedia Americana (1920), which put the number of British convicts coming to America at 10,000 from 1717 - 1775. It mentions also that Maryland had 20,000 criminals from Britain, half since 1750 (341). Lester, (1866: 289), chronicled the continuation of shipments of British paupers to America in the 1800s:
…In one year, between June of 1835 and July of 1836, the Poor Law Commissioners of England reported that 7,075 paupers were expatriated at the cost of £39,340, or about $196,000. A more brutal deed was never justified by a civilized nation. Whenever a good opportunity offered itself, these paupers, old and infirm, were shipped off like cattle, in vessels hired to convey them to other countries, where there miserable food and miserable burial would not be charged to the government. Is not this more inhuman than shipping off slaves to New Orleans or the Georgia plantations…
Many Americans are indeed unaware of this British, Irish and Scotch effort to rid themselves of criminals by sending them to America. Many uneducated, in our Federal Government, still talk about how Georgia was a "penal colony", though no one in America considered debtors as criminals (see Dixon and Galan, 1990). Most Americans reached the colonies as indentured servants and worked off their passage to America. Before slavery was rife, most Americans working here were indentured.
By the time of the Revolutionary War, indentured servitude had been a common practice in the United States for 150 years.
…Redemptioners paid their passage to America by binding themselves as servants for terms of from two to seven years. In the seventeenth century most of the servants were English; in the eighteenth century most of them were Germans, Swiss, Scots, Scotch-Irish, and Irish. Victims of kidnappers and convicts sentenced to transportation by English courts supplemented this flow of unfree labor. Probably more than half of the immigrants to the thirteen English colonies in North American came as bondsmen. ( Stampp 1956: 16).
Another problem was the colonists saw no problem in allowing pirates to use American ports.
There was little stigma attached to piracy in early British America for more than a century after Drakes exploits. As the colonies developed, stolen wealth often boosted the fortunes of hard pressed local economies. Port officials in Rhode Island, New York, VirginiaMaryland and the Carolinas were prepared to offer safety and security to pirates in return for a share in the plunder. Even Governors, such as Benjamin Fletcher of New York, accepted "gifts" of money, goods and jewelry from a number of particularly ruthless pirates ( Woodiwiss 2001: 29)…
This New World was occupied by millions of Indians. Already disease from De Soto's and Columbus' Expedition made its way via trade goods from Cuba as far North as the Great Lakes, before the first settlers arrived in Virginia. The death of 99% of Southern Indians left the surviving aboriginals with no oral history and no idea who had built those huge mounds and earthworks at Macon, Kolomoki, Poverty Point and another 100 Indian cities. Studies have shown drastic population reduction throughout the East and South from 1540-1600. When the Mound builders died out other tribes came in: The Cherokee reached North Georgia by 1650; Souixian groups like the Nanticoke and Saponi were as far east as Virginia and the Shawnee ranged from the great lakes to the Tennessee Valley.
In Florida and the deep South were the Spanish, who brought with them Moors, Sephardic Jews and other North Africans. Spanish settlements and missions proceeded up the East Coast beyond South Carolina and all these peoples found their way into the local Indian gene pool. In 1619, the first boatload of Angolans arrived aboard the White Cloud and soon melted into the population of the new colonies. The New World had become a huge cauldron of émigrés: those with great hopes of new wealth and the profligate.
Many who made it to America had been on the run from the Spanish inquisition; these conversos, Moors and Sephardic Jews left Spain and radiated throughout Europe and the British Isles. There were Angolans from a civil war; Scots from a border conflict with England that had gone on for centuries and Irish from their war with England. Many of the horrors of war were exported to America; attitudes and forms of villainy poured off the boats.
The aristocracy and even the middle class in England called these people "lubbers", idlers, braggarts, trespassers on their land and common criminals. Lubber as in "land lubber", not land lover as many think it. A lubber was an idle profligate trespassing and poaching and under the constant eye of those with land and wealth. Many lubbers did eventually find their way into the yeoman farmer or landed society, but most did not. These people became known as "crackers", especially some time around the end of the French and Indian war.
By the 1760s, "crackers" was in use by the English in the British North American colonies to refer to Scots-Irish settlers in the south. A letter to the Earl of Dartmouth reads:
…I should explain to your Lordship what is meant by Crackers; a name they have got from being great boasters; they are a lawless set of rascalls on the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia, who often change their places of abode (McWhiney 1988: xiv.)…
A similar usage was that of Charles Darwin in The Origin of Species, to refer to "Virginia squatters" (illegal settlers) (1909: 35).
George Washington, himself, was aware of the problems of these "squatters" pouring into private lands even before the French and Indian war. He was Visiting Lord Fairfax for a little fox hunting and the Lord noted:
…His Lordships possessions beyond the blue ridge had never been regularly settled nor surveyed. Lawless intruders - squatters as they were called - were planting themselves along the finest streams and richest valleys and virtually taking possession of the country. It was the anxious desire of Lord Fairfax to have these lands examined, surveyed and portioned out into lots, preparatory to ejecting these interlopers or bringing them to reasonable terms (Irving 1888:62-63)…
The most important factor involved in defining this new group of miscreants was its mobility. Having trespassed, or intruded on Indian land and upon being discovered, these profligates would move on.
According to Mitford Mathews, cracker was the first term to be widely and popularly applied to the poor whites in the western reaches of the British Colonies. Mathews writes: "the term in the sense of a poor white" was first used and defined in a 1766 administrative report to the Earl of Dartmouth. Gavin Cochrane, a colonial officer, wrote to inform the Earl about the behavior of certain British subjects in the Upper Ohio River Valley:
Reported complaints came from the Cherokees that white people came into their hunting grounds and destroyed their beavers, which they said was everything to them….I (sent) orders to have those beaverers made prisoners.... (I) thought it my duty to act in the public good; everything succeeded as I could have wished; the officers at Fort Prince George told the Indians the orders he had received and bid them seize the beaverers and bring them to him without hurting them. They brought three of the lawless people called crackers, who behaved with great insolence and told the officer that they neither valued him nor the Lieutenant Gov(ernor) (Mathews 1959:126).
The earliest explanation of the lifestyle of these "crackers" comes from a Frenchman, Le Clerke Milfort (Paris 1802), who wrote of his travels and experiences in the south after the revolution. In Memoire ou coup d'oeil rapide sur mes differens voyages et mon sejour dans la Nation Creek_,_ he described a hard set of ne'er-do-wells who populated the countryside of most of the former colonies.
In I784, at the time of the American peace, and American independence, there was in the United States a very large number of vagrant and dishonest people, inevitable result of a revolution which gives birth to them and with which they must disappear. Peace taking away from them the means of subsistence that they found in devastation and corrupt practices which are inseparable from war, the result was that the peaceful men and the landlords were easily endangered either in their persons or their property. In order to rid themselves of this scourge, they united and declared a war to the death on all these vagabonds, who could not give up the habit of pillaging. Seeing themselves eagerly pursued, they found themselves compelled to seek another refuge. They withdrew to Georgia, where they have remained in peace; but as they still remember their old habit of stealing, they often go into the hinterland of the two Carolinas and of Virginia and take away from the unfortunate inhabitants all the horses that they can catch.
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Note on the Americans called Crakeurs or Gaugeurs
I also said in the first part of my memoirs, that while visiting Tougoulou, Franklin, and other places situated in the hinterland of the United States, I had found some Anglo-Americans of a peculiar sort, called Crakeurs or Gaugeurs, who are nearly all one-eyed. I wanted to know the reason for this. The reader will perhaps not be displeased if I give an account at this time of what I learned about this on the spot.
The reader will remember that I said above that the inhabitants of North Carolina harvested a large quantity of potatoes, with which they made a kind of tafia which they call whiskey. These Crakeurs are very fond of this liquor; when they drink some of it, since they are by nature quarrelsome and mean, they quarrel among themselves, and agree to fight on the day they appoint. Their fights are very much like English pugilism or boxing, except that they are more murderous. When the Crakeurs have agreed on the day and the hour when they are supposed to fight, they gather as many spectators as they can; they form them in a circle and stand in the center, and at a signal given by the oldest among the spectators, the fight begins.
These men are very wicked and do not wish to submit to any government; for the most part they live, more often than not, only by hunting. They plant a little tobacco which they carry, during the winter, to seaboard towns, and which they barter for wisky, firearms, and gunpowder. Although I remained only a few days among them, I had the opportunity of being invited to a meal which amused me a great deal by its singularity, although the food was very bad. This is how it was:
One of these men, having recognized me as a stranger, invited me to have dinner at his house with several of his friends; his wife, who had heard that in well-bred company it was proper to serve tea, asked her husband to get some in exchange for tobacco; he brought her half a bushel of it. She put it all in a cooking-pot and added to it a large ham; she boiled the whole lot until the ham was cooked. The guests having arrived, she took the ham out on an earthenware dish, threw away the liquor, and placed the tea leaves on another dish, and served the whole on the table. I saw all the faces light up at the sight of an inviting dish about which they were building up high hopes, and every one was getting ready to have a real treat. I observed, without saying a word, not being in a hurry to be the first one to give an opinion on food that I knew was not fit to eat; and I watched each one chew with all his might the tea leaves which no longer had any agreeable taste, when suddenly the wife flew into a great rage against her husband, at whose head she threw her plate, reproaching him for having brought her inferior tea, and for having used the money, which good tea would have cost, to buy whiskey for himself. This comical scene made me laugh a great deal; but it was not without difficulty that I succeeded in making the woman listen to reason, and in making her understand that it was not the tea leaves which were used, but instead their infusion, mixed with a little sugar.
Since I had not eaten anything, and was very hungry, I decided to taste the ham which I found rather good, and to which the tea had given an excellent flavor. I ate a great deal of it, since it constituted the whole dinner.
These men go around almost naked. They are addicted to idleness and drunkenness to such an extent that it is the women who are obliged to do everything. They are somewhat better dressed than the men. In winter, they spin cotton and flax which they mix together; from this they make a cloth which serves for all their clothes, even for shirts. These women are as hard-working as the men are lazy.
The farther one goes into the hinterlands of the United States_, which are nearly all inhabited by the same kind _of people; the further one penetrates the more dangerous and vicious they are. They often assassinate travelers to rob them. _Their** closest neighbors are scarcely any safer, they go to the homes of those whom they believe to have some wealth; and when they have succeeded in getting into a house they kill all those they find there, lead away the cattle, and carry away all the goods which they sell afterwards in another state. These thieves wear their hair cut very close to their heads, and paint their bodies and faces with different colors in the manner of the savages; so that their appearance is truly frightful._**
There is in each state of the United States a governor who, once in office, looks upon himself as an absolute sovereign. He uses all means which are in his power to secure the devotion of the persons under his administration; impunity is one of those which he uses with the greatest success. Thus it is most difficult to obtain restitution of the stolen goods from the thieves of whom I have just spoken, and who are placed under the protection of one of these governors. The request for the restitution of goods is often made without success.inhabited by the same kind of men, the more dangerous and mean one finds them. They often murder travelers to rob them. Their closest neighbors are scarcely any safer (183-191)…
Milfort describes these luckless, landless savages in great detail and provides them the name which stuck.. Today crackers and their lifestyle are more associated with Georgia and Northern Florida. But they all came from somewhere else before Georgia and Florida were states. One can follow their progress, moving year after year from the tidewater colonies to all those new acres opened up by results of the French and Indian War and the subsequent American Revolution. One can say that crackers moving into the Ohio Valley not only precipitated the French War…but the American Revolution as well as it was the British view that the Ohio Valley belonged to the Indians, while most colonists disagreed with that portion of the Treaty of Paris. From that moment on the Indians would always choose the British side over the colonists, with few exceptions.
Others described these same people as the frontier expanded. One was Isaac Weld (1800) who travelled through Virginia in the 1790s. He described the same villiany, gambling and fighting Milfort and others witnessed:
Perhaps in no place of the same size in the world is there more gambling going forward than in Richmond. I had scarcely alighted from my horse at the tavern when the landlord came to ask what game I was most partial to…It is chiefly, however, the lower class of people that partake of these amusements at the taverns; in private there is perhaps as little gambling in Virginia as in any other part of America. The circumstance of having the taverns thus infested by such a set of people renders travelling extremely unpleasant. Many times I have been forced to proceed much farther in the day than I have wished, in order to avoid the scenes of rioting and quarreling that I have met with at the taverns, which is impossible to escape as long as you remain in the same house where they are carried on (142) …
Of all the uncouth human beings I met within America, these people from the western country were the most so; their curiosity was boundless. Frequently I have been stopped abruptly by one of them in a solitary part of the road, in such a manner, that, had it been another country, I should have imagined it was a highwayman that was going to demand my purse and without any further preface, asked where I came from? If I was acquainted with any news? Where bound to? And finally, my name?
Stop, mister! Why I guess now you be coming from the new state? No sir--Why then I guess you be coming from Kentuc? No sir -- Oh! Why then, pray now where might you be coming from? From the low country-- Why you must have heard all the news then; pray now, mister, what might the price of bacon be in those parts? Upon my word my friend I can't inform you-- Aye aye I see, mister, you be'n't one of us. Pray now, mister, what might your name be (172)?
Weld noted that such encounters were frequent and usually ended after five minutes and a drink at the nearest tavern, then down the road another questioner would appear.
Not all descriptions were as hilarious, adventurous and rowdy. Some were downright appalling, like that mentioned in Dunaway's Slavery in the American South (1996 ).
_ I cannot omit noticing the many distressed families I passed in the Wilderness (road) Nor can anything be more distressing to a man of feeling to see women and children in the month of December. Traveling a wilderness through ice and snow passing large rivers and creeks without shoe or stocking and barely as many rags as covers their nakedness without money or provision, except what the wilderness affords….to say they are poor is but faintly expressing their situation….Ask these pilgrims what they expect when they get to Kentucky and the answer is land. Have you any? No, but I expect I can get it. Have you anything to pay for land? No. Did you ever see the country? No, but every body says its good land….and when arrived at this heaven in idea what do they find? A goodly land I will allow but to them forbidden land. Exhausted and worn down with distress and disappointment they are at last obliged to become hewers of wood and drawers of water (69)._
Most historians seem to agree that the term cracker arises from a British term for a braggart or loudmouth. The quote from Shakespeare's King John Indicates the age of the expression, but many other ideas have been put forward to nail down the origin of the term. Evan's History of Georgia (1908) includes a list of them:
…The driver of each wagon carried a whip, which he often popped and cracked as he drove along. With the handle in both hands, he would pop his large whip from side to side until it sounded like the rapid fire of a pistol. From this practice the name "Georgia Cracker"is said to have originated, the cracker being a man from the country, who, in driving to market, cracked his whip as he went along (191).
A cracker wagon is not like what most wagons were back then; being most often described as like the one I have always personally associated with these landless rogues: It has two rather than four wheels and more often than not pulled by a cow, bull or ox.
Evans also lists several other possible origins for the term "cracker":
1). Because they eat "cracked corn".
2). A group of Georgians in the revolution who were "crack shots" and thus feared by the British.
3). Bill Arp, the writer said they were boasters in the British sense, but also offered that "crack brained" and being "cracked" came from the same source (Evans, 1908: 191)
It is interesting to note that Nelson (2005) in his research on the subject, was able to follow the history of these crackers into the mill towns of the cotton era south, well into the 20th century. He describes the work of a journalist Clare de Graffenreid, who 100 years after Le Clerke, was still describing the cracker community as slothful men with working women:
Grouped about in a single store of the village, lounging, whittling, and sunning their big lazy frames, sit a score of stalwart masculine figures, while their offspring and womenkind toil in the dusty mill. In these accounts, the work of the women serves only to emphasize what observers saw as the despicable laziness of cracker men. Such condemnations of male idleness were most often misunderstandings of poor white labor practices. Cracker men, in this context, engaged in hunting as a primary labor activity, which was more sporadic work than farming; it was more flexible and created moments of leisure throughout the day, giving the impression of consistent unemployment (121)...
**(from: History of the Pony Club, unpublished) **
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Pyeloplasty is an operation to correct a blockage that has occurred between the kidney and the ureter. The ureter is the tube which drains the kidney into the bladder. Removing the blockage allows urine to drain freely from the kidney to the bladder.
A catheter (small tube) will be inserted through the urethra into the bladder during surgery to drain the urine. It is normal for the color of the urine to be red or pink with a few blood clots. The urine's color will gradually become clear yellow. The catheter is easily removed at the bedside the day after surgery.
Your child may also need another tube, called a stent, placed through the ureter into the kidney to help to drain the urine while the kidney is healing. The stent is removed in the operating room a few weeks after surgery. This is a same day surgery procedure.
Another tube, called a drain, may be inserted in the area around the kidney and ureter to drain extra fluid that can collect during and after surgery. Once the drainage stops the drain is removed at the bedside. This will usually occur 1-2 days after surgery.
This surgery takes approximately one hour in the operating room. Most children stay in the hospital one night after surgery.
The anesthesiologist and pediatric surgery team members will prescribe and explain the medicines that will be used to keep your child comfortable. Pain medication is given through an epidural, intravenous catheter or by mouth.
Your child will have an intravenous line (IV) to provide fluids, antibiotics, and pain medicines. The IV will be removed when your child is taking a good amount of fluids by mouth. This usually occurs 1-2 days after surgery. Your child will be allowed to drink clear liquids once fully awake after the surgery. If this is tolerated, the diet will be advanced to a regular diet for age.
Important Notes:
Plan on a total of 4-7 days off work including the surgical day. This will allow for quiet days at home to recover from the surgery.
Bring for your son:
Bring for Yourself:
It is best, when possible, to make arrangements for siblings to stay at home on the day of surgery, in order for you to participate fully in your child's care.
You will get a prescription for pain medications and an antibiotic.
Roxicet is a narcotic pain medication that can be given every 4-6 hours. Medicate your child as needed. Do not wait for your child to be in severe pain before giving the pain medication. Roxicet contains Tylenol. While your child is taking Roxicet please don not administer any additional Tylenol.
Ibuprofen(Advil/Motrin) may be given in addition to/ or instead of Roxicet. Be aware that Roxicet may make your child sleepy. Both Roxicet and the anesthesia may make your child constipated after surgery.
Call our office at 410-328-5730 if:
A clear plastic dressing will cover the incision. If this has not fallen off after 5 days, gently remove it. The sutures are all under the skin and are absorbable. No sutures need to be removed.
Your child will need 7-10 days recovery after surgery. No vigorous activity or unsupervised play or physical education for 4 weeks postoperatively.


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Setback For Religionists In KentuckyPosted by PsiCop in American Religio-Politics, Christianity, Metaphysics, Religion, Separation of church and state, U.S. Politics
I blogged previously about an effort by the Kentucky legislature to use that commonwealth's Homeland Security office to proselytize. Well, the Louisville Courier-Journal reports they've been dealt a blow by the courts:
A Franklin circuit judge Wednesday declared unconstitutional a reference to God in a 2006 law creating the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security.
In an 18-page order, Judge Thomas Wingate said the General Assembly created an official government position when it passed a law requiring the office to acknowledge "the dependence on Almighty God as being vital to the security of the Commonwealth."
The law requires the executive director of the office to include a statement asserting the state's reliance on God in training materials and on a plaque at the state's Emergency Operations Center.
Of course, this law's proponents haven't given up:
Rep. Tom Riner, D-Louisville, who inserted the language into the 2006 legislation, said Wednesday that he hopes [KY Attorney General Jack] Conway will ask Wingate to reconsider his decision. Conway has 10 days to do that and 30 days to appeal.
Riner, who is pastor of Christ is King Baptist Church in Louisville, said the decision is a "very disconcerting thing."
He cites a precedent elsewhere which, he says, supports his view:
Riner said the provision was akin to the use of the phrase "In God We Trust" on American currency.
"In God We Trust is an affirmation that we trust in God," he said. "That doesn't make that a church doctrine."
Riner is incorrect here: Telling people that they must "trust God," is in fact a "doctrine" and does set the government up as a church. That fact, as well as the way in which religionists like Riner use coinage as a precedent allowing them to proselytize in any other way they can imagine, is why "In God We Trust" must be removed from US currency … the sooner, the better.
Just once I'd like to see a religionist like Riner just come right out and admit, honestly, what his motive is in coming up with stuff like this … i.e. it's to proselytize. That's all it's good for. They know it, and I know it, and we all know it. They damage their own credibility and integrity by insisting that this is not their goal.Tags: almighty god, in god we trust, kentucky, kentucky legislature, kentucky office of homeland security, religiofascism, religionism, thomas wingate, tom riner


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Unlink It
I released my first self-published title, called "Unlink It". It's a simple puzzle game in which you try to swap gems in such a way that they become unlinked from gems with the same color. Also, bombs start to appear. Bombs cannot be swapped with gems so you have to think carefully about how you get them unlinked. It's addictive and challenging and requires a lot of brain muscle if you want to survive.
The game's just a dollar, but I'm thinking of making it free in the near future or releasing a new free version. If you can't wait or want to support me (it's only a dollar anyway) get it on the Apple Store. It runs slow on iPod Touch (or maybe only older iPod Touches but I need to confirm that), so I recommend playing it on iPhone or iPad.
The game also features an excellent track by my go-to musician Jake Almond.


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OK, folks-this is the general forum now for questions that don't seem to fit in any of the other threads. I'm going to sort some of the earlier posts into the appropriate forums, but it might take a while, so bear with me. I'll delete the ones that have already been reposted by their authors.
I think Imrahil is definitely more emotionally mature than Elrohir, primarily because he has seemed to overcome any doubts about his place in life and what his gifts are. I think the point about Elrohir being in arrested development because elves have "all the time in the world" to be a very good point, and if he found himself looking at mortality with Hethlin he would probably shape up quickly.
Imrahil's emotional maturity is one of my main objections to pairing him with Hethlin. If she'd had a different childhood and adolescence, wherein she could already know at her young age what she wanted in life, it wouldn't be a problem to be with an older, emotionally mature man whose path in life is firmly established. But that's not the case. Whereas I think you're right that if it came to that Elrohir would be able to fall in step with Hethlin quickly and they could step into maturity, family, leadership, etc. together.
A thought I haven't seen voiced yet is that for quite some time I have seen Heth as a female parallel to Aragorn. Being somewhat close kin on her mother's side and having an illustrious paternal line, it is not surprising they share many strengths. ... However, to have both of them marry an offspring of Elrond carries just too many similarities, and I would like Heth to make her way a little more separately of Aragorn's example.
That's interesting; hadn't occurred to me until you mentioned it, Denise. ;) It is kind of interesting to think about one orphaned Dunedain being raised in the North, and finding his fortune in the South, while another is raised in the South, and finds her fortune in the North. Although apparently symmetry is frowned upon in some corners!
The main difference I see between the two situations, and it would be a small difference I admit, would be that Elrohir wouldn't be staying solely out of love for Hethlin.
Erchirion would still fit into Faramir's vision, but I also see it as being an incredibly difficult situation for Imrahil and awkward for Hethlin, at least for the first while, even if Imrahil eventually suppressed/got over his love for Hethlin and somehow found another worthy woman.
But it would be awkward for Imrahil even if he did end up with Hethlin. Unless the third chapter of Dol Amroth Yule gets scrapped as uncanonical (and what a shame that would be; I loved the opal necklace and Elrohir's intense love of marmalade), our brave lass has taken another man (ok, elf) to bed under Imrahil's own roof. The whispers, the snickering that would happen if Imrahil married Hethlin. I also hate to think of poor Imrahil feeling old and feeble next to his young wife in another decade or two. Awkwardness would become a constant in Imrahil's life if he ended up with Hethlin, don't you think?
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Know your rights: You can stop a debt collector from calling
By Richard Alderman
May 18, 2013 at 12:18 a.m.
I have a debt collector calling me at work. I have told him that my employer prohibits such calls, and I could lose my job. His answer was, "Then you better pay me because I am not going to stop calling you." How can I stop these calls?
Under a federal law, called the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you have the right to stop all calls from a debt collector or to stop just calls at work.
Under this law, once you notify a debt collector in writing that you want him to stop all future communication, the collector essentially must stop all calls, letters, emails and any other form of communication.
He can contact you just once more to tell you what steps he will take next. If you want to continue communicating with the collector - but not at work - you can tell the collector you are not allowed to receive such calls at work, and the law says he cannot continue to call. If the debt collector violates this law, you have a claim for damages and penalties.
I suggest you let the debt collector know you know about this law and expect he will stop calling. My guess is that will end the calls. If he doesn't stop, you should immediately contact the Federal Trade Commission and a private attorney.
I am a college student, and I just moved out of my apartment. I gave proper notice and left it cleaner than when I moved in. I have been told this landlord does not return security deposits. How long do I have to wait to find out if mine is being returned?
First, be sure to give your landlord a forwarding address. Assuming that you were current in your rent, gave your landlord proper notice and a forwarding address, the Texas Security Deposit Law offers you substantial protection.
Under this law, a landlord must either return your security deposit or send you written notice why it is not being returned within 30 days after you move out. If the landlord does not act within this time period, the law presumes he is acting in bad faith. If you went to small claims court to collect, you could be entitled to up to three times the deposit plus an additional $100.
I also should point out that a landlord cannot arbitrarily withhold money from your deposit. The landlord can withhold only for damages caused by a breach of the terms of the lease, and he cannot withhold for damage caused by wear and tear. If you don't hear from your landlord within the 30-day limit, let him know you know your legal rights.
My guess is that you will get back your deposit. For more information about this law, check out the landlord-tenant section on my website, peopleslawyer.net.
I was hired at a company to do their books. I found that in years past a lot of work this company did was not billed for or paid. How far back can I go in order to try to collect on this work performed? Some of the debts are 10 years old.
If someone owes the company money, the debt continues forever or until the person who owes the money files bankruptcy. This means you can send them an invoice for obligations that are 10 years old. You probably cannot, however, take steps to collect debts more than 4 years old through the courts.
Under a law known as the statute of limitations, obligations arising from a contract cannot be enforced more than four years after they went into default. If you were to sue on these debts, the person you sued could get it dismissed and probably collect his attorney's fees and expenses against you.
My husband and I have been separated for several years. We haven't done anything from a legal standpoint but are planning on getting a divorce. A friend told me that my husband won a lot of money in the lottery. Do I have any right to that money?
Based on what you say, you and your husband are still married. Being "separated" does not change your legal status as married. As a general rule, all money obtained while you are married, unless it is a gift or inheritance to just one spouse, is "community property."
This means that the money he won in the lottery is probably community property. Assuming that is the case, you both have an equal interest in the money. I suggest you speak with a family law attorney about your divorce and the division of this money.
Richard Alderman, a consumer advocate popularly known as "the People's Lawyer," is a professor at the University of Houston Law School in Houston. His column appears weekly in the Victoria Advocate. Write to him at UH Law Center, Houston, Texas 77204-6391. He also maintains a website at peopleslawyer.net.


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Taylor had missed travelling with the rest of the team after suffering from a short illness following his return from the Bangladesh Premier League last Friday.
He was required to take the mandatory fitness test which he underwent on Tuesday morning under the supervision of fitness trainer Lorraine Chivandire.
"Due to his illness and the fact that he had returned to Zimbabwe on a long haul flight prior to that, Taylor narrowly missed passing the fitness test but after consulting with Taylor and the fitness trainer and after reviewing his medical report, the board has decided to allow him to proceed to the West Indies to join the rest of the squad," Zimbabwe Cricket said in a statement.
"The fitness trainer has set out a stringent programme for him which he will carry out in the West Indies under the guidance of the team physiotherapist."
The national team will play a warm up match against a University of the West Indies Vice Chancellors XI on Wednesday before the first One Day International on Friday.
Taylor was forced to apologise last week after publicly criticising Zimbabwe Cricket for dropping bowling coach Heath Streak and batting coach Grant Flower for the West Indies tour.


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June 25, 1999
The Rediff Interview/Inspector General J P Birdi
'In 54 out of 200 villages, the people have started moving back'
Inspector General (border) of Punjab Police, J P Birdi, is one of the few officers from the state police cadre who has served for a long time in the
border area. During the height of militancy in Punjab, Birdi
acquired a reputation for honesty, diligence and dedication.
With militancy at a low ebb in the state at the moment, Birdi now
devotes his attention to other serious matters. When this correspondent met
Birdi, he had just returned from a trip to some of the border villages in
Amritsar district where he had gone with the deputy commissioner of
Amritsar, Narinderjit Singh.
In an exclusive interview to
With militancy at a low ebb in the state at the moment, Birdi now devotes his attention to other serious matters. When this correspondent met Birdi, he had just returned from a trip to some of the border villages in Amritsar district where he had gone with the deputy commissioner of Amritsar, Narinderjit Singh.
In an exclusive interview toOnkar Singh, Birdi claimed that rumour-mongers have misled the people and that's why they had started migrating from the border areas. "We are now dealing with the situation and impressing upon the villagers to return to their homes as there is little likelihood of the Kargil conflict turning into a full-fledged war involving other parts of India too,'' he assured.
Why has there been such large scale migration from the border villages of Punjab in the past few weeks?
The credit for this should go to the rumour-mongers who spread all sorts of tales in the villages and take the villagers for a ride. These elements are mischief-makers and they know if the villagers panic they can get money out of them.
When the talks between the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan broke down two weeks back, the villagers started wondering if the fighting in Kargil would extend to others parts of India as well. As Pakistan moved its army close to the border, the people really panicked. They thought that war would break out any moment and hence they should start moving to safer places.
You know how villagers imitate each other. Somebody started moving his household things to another place as a precautionary measure, then a few others followed him. And soon it snowballed into an exodus.
How many villages have thus been affected? Is it true that over a quarter of a million people have left their homes?
I have seen newspaper reports which say that more than 250,000 people have left their villages and moved to Tarn Taran, Amritsar and other places. Let me assure you, that the number of people who have migrated is not even half of the figure mentioned in the news reports.
According to figures available with us, 90,000 people have left their villages in the last few weeks. Even here I would like to make one thing very clear: not everybody in these villages has left. At least one member in each household is staying back to look after his house and fields.
Which are the worst affected areas?
According to our information the worst-affected are the Khem Karan and Khalra sectors. People living in these sectors suffered heavily in the 1965 and 1971 wars because they had to vacate their lands and houses. Since they had vacated their houses in a hurry, they were looted when they fell into enemy hands. Perhaps that is why they did not want to take any risk this time and left their villages as soon as they heard the rumours of war.
What steps has the district administration taken to assure the villagers that they are safe in their villages and there is no threat of war in Punjab?
We are doing our bit to assure people that they are secure and they should live in their villages without any inhibition. I have just come back after holding one such meeting in the Khalra sector.
These meetings have already started showing results and in some villages the people have started moving back. In one more week we hope there would be substantial improvement in the situation and more and more families would return to their homes in various villages. I have just received information that in 54 of a total of about 200 villages the people have started moving back. This is a good sign.
Are you providing protection to those who are still living in their villages?
Of course we are doing that. We have special police pickets in all the 200 villages on the Indo-Pak border. We have strengthened our posts in the border villages and additional forces have been sent there to ensure better policing.
Special attention is being given to those villages which are right on the border. Some unscrupulous elements have been charging heavily from those who shifted their household things from one place to another. Keeping these complaints in mind we have set up police assistance booths to help the villagers.
What is the ground level situation as far as militancy is concerned?
Though militancy has been curbed substantially, there have been a few instances of militant activity in the Ferozepur sector. They tried to smuggle some RDX into the state but were caught well in time before they could do any damage.
The Babbar Khalsa International in particular has been trying to activate erstwhile militants but they have not met with any success. Secondly, we were able to seize all the consignments which were brought into the state by the militants. They tried various routes to smuggle in RDX but we managed to nab them each time they tried a new route.
What are the former militants doing? Are you keeping a tab on them?
We are keeping an eye on them but by and large most of them have joined the mainstream and are happily married and earning their bread and butter through honest means. A majority of them have uttered a firm 'no' to offers to go back to militancy. 'Thank you very much. We are not interested in your offer and we would like to live our lives the way we want to,' is their response. This is a good sign.
Do you think Punjab will be back to its good old days soon?
The state has already started looking up in almost all spheres of life. I have no doubt that the good old days would soon be back in the state. We should not bother about an incident here and there.
These are the handiwork of Muslim fundamentalists, particularly those belonging to Lashkar-e-Toiba and Hizbul Mujahideen. Pakistan does not want to see a peaceful India. That's why they keep doing some mischief or the other. These aberrations will continue.
Are you satisfied that the situation is under control?
Yes, the situation is under control and there is nothing to be alarmed about. The nation can rest assured on this. In any case we have not lowered our guard and utmost vigil is continuing. We are determined to deal with the militants or Inter Services Intelligence agents with a firm hand.


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Craig Patrick accepts position with Buffalo Sabresby BlueJackets.com Staff / Columbus Blue Jackets
COLUMBUS, OHIO – Craig Patrick, who has served as a senior advisor in hockey operations for the Columbus Blue Jackets since December 2011, is leaving the organization to join the Buffalo Sabres, club President of Hockey Operations John Davidson announced today.
"On behalf of Mr. McConnell, our ownership group and the entire Blue Jackets organization, I want to thank Craig for his service to our hockey club over the past two years," said Davidson. "Craig is a consummate professional and gentleman who brought valuable experience and insight to the club and for that we are grateful. He was presented with a terrific opportunity in Buffalo and we wish him all the best."
Prior to joining the Blue Jackets, Patrick served as the executive vice president and general manager of the Pittsburgh Penguins from 1989-2006 and helped lead the club to two Stanley Cup championships (1991 and 1992), five division titles and 11 playoff berths. He also served as the general manager of the New York Rangers from 1981-86 and his contributions to USA Hockey include serving as the general manager of Team USA at the 2002 Olympic Games and 1991 Canada Cup and assistant general manager/assistant coach of the gold medal-winning squad at the 1980 Olympic Games.
In 2001, Patrick was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, becoming the fourth member and third generation of his family to enter the Hall, joining his grandfather Lester, his father Lynn and his great-uncle Frank. He was inducted for his lifetime of achievements in all facets and at all levels of the sport.


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- All > Medicine Information and Evidence for Policy > Information and Publications
- All > WHO Prequalification of Medical Products > WHO-UNICEF-UN Project
(2012; 4 pages)
The WHO Prequalification of Medicines Programme (PQP) was launched in 2001, in partnership with UNAIDS, UNICEF and UNFPA, with support from the World Bank. Its focus was evaluation of medicines for treating HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis (TB). Products in other therapeutic categories are now also evaluated.
The Programme reviews product dossiers, including data and information on safety, efficacy and quality, and inspects manufacturing sites, to assess compliance with good manufacturing practices (GMP). It also inspects clinical sites, including contract research organizations (CROs), to verify compliance with good clinical practice (GCP) and good laboratory practices (GLP), with respect to bioequivalence studies. It also prequalifies medicines quality control laboratories (QCLs).
For further information on medicines and QCL prequalification go to: http://www.who.int/prequal


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The Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) at the University of Waterloo and a biomaterials company started by two Waterloo chemistry graduates are teaming together to make the next generation of biolatex binders for applications in paper coating, paperboard and personal care products.
The secret of EcoSynthetix's breakthrough is to replace traditional latex with a nano-engineered version that is derived from bio-based sources, such as the starch in corn or tapioca. The applications are diverse. For example, latex made from fossil fuels is currently used as the main binding agent in coating paper for everything from magazines to cereal boxes. With biolatex-containing coatings, the same paper can be made with equal or superior performance, at a lower cost and with a smaller carbon footprint.
EcoSynthetix Corp. and WIN will share expertise in developing and characterizing nanopolymers and other new bio-based materials. The result is anticipated to lead to a new generation of bio-based latex coatings that are suitable for a wide variety of industrial applications.
"By sharing our research skills and insights, WIN researchers will help develop green bio-based materials that have a real impact on society," said Professor Arthur J. Carty, executive director of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology. "This project represents a great opportunity for our institute, faculty and students at the university to collaborate with a local innovator to further our understanding of technology that leverages a green chemistry to produce innovative substitutes for petroleum-based chemicals."
"This collaboration with the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology is a great example of how industry and universities can work together to advance an exciting new area of science to benefit the community," said John van Leeuwen, CEO of EcoSynthetix. "By working with WIN to deepen our understanding of the basic science, we can identify new future applications that could benefit from a sustainable bio-based material."
Explore further: Plastic packaging industry is moving towards completely bio-based products
More information:
For more information visit the website at: www.uwaterloo.ca/institute-nanotechnology.


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Mob stones gardai as car of family is blasted in gun attack
Gardai responding to an gun attack on a car owned by an innocent man were pelted with stones by a mob of youths.
The officers had been originally responding to reports that four blasts from a shotgun had been fired into a car parked outside its owner's home. The gardai then had to call for back-up.
It is understood that a large rock was thrown at their marked patrol car and the windscreen of the vehicle was smashed-in.
Back-up was called in as the gardai were unable to secure the scene of the shooting, but when additional officers arrived the mob dispersed.
The incident unfolded at around 8pm on Monday in Kippure Park in Finglas, north Dublin.
The owner of the car – a dad-of-two in his 40s – has no involvement in crime and lives in the property with his wife and two sons, aged 23 and nine.
Sources have revealed that the family have become targets for local criminals after being falsely blamed for an incident that happened in the area during the summer.
"The incident – which this family had absolutely nothing to do with – was a threatening behaviour incident which is linked to a boy-racer club.
"It had absolutely nothing to do with them," a source said.
"This is very much a local issue and it is a cause of great concern that this has happened," the source added.
Officers from Finglas Garda Station rushed to the scene of the shooting on Monday night.
However, as soon as they got to the location in Kippure Park, a mob of local youths threw stones and screamed abuse at the responding officers. The culprits are not suspected of being involved in the shooting.
Gardai eventually managed to preserve the scene and a technical examination took place.
There have been no arrests in relation to either incident, but sources said that gardai were following a definite line of enquiry.
The car which was shot-up was removed by gardai, who examined the vehicle yesterday.
Last month, figures released by the Central Statistics Office revealed that possession of a firearm was up by 21pc to 214 recorded incidents of this type of crime during the 12 months up to the end of June this year.
However, despite more guns being recovered by gardai the statistics also revealed the number of those firing an illegal weapon dropped by 2pc in that time period.
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This is hard.
Yeah, that's my wedding dress. I was ruthless.
In addition to my workout wear, casual wear, shoe collection and work wear, I also purged for my husband.
I. Am. Exhausted.
The day ended with me hauling four HUGE bags of clothing to the car (with my son on my back in the baby carrier I might add) to take to donations.
Exhausted but feeling a lot lighter.
I can clearly see the clothing that I have. It is all items I actually wear. Most of it looks pretty good on me.
On advice of my sister who is also cutting her wardrobe I am going to create a spreadsheet of every single clothing item. Crazy but so doable now. From there I will identify what pieces I would like to add. A few items I have kept are also pretty worn out, some of my workout gear particularly, so they will be replaced.
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Today was the day the Barista Guild of Europe launched, at the SCAE show in Rimini, and they started selling tickets to the first event organised under the BGE banner: Barista Camp in Greece.
I've been a fan of barista camps since I got to attend one in the USA a couple of years ago, organised by the Barista Guild of America. While I'm obviously a fan of barista competitions, they are expensive affairs that don't necessarily have an even distribution of value to all involved (this is the nature of competition of course!).
Barista Camps are interesting to me because everyone who attends can have an amazing experience, you can't really "win" a barista camp…
I'm a little bit involved in this event, I'm the chair of a working committee, but I'm not for a second claiming any credit for making it happen. Isa Verschraegen is doing all the very hard work, with great support from people like Dale Harris, Kalle Freese, Andrew Tolley and others from the working group.
You can read a bit more about the camp on the website here: www.baristaguildofeurope.com (You can buy tickets there too!)
I just wanted to post a few things about the ideas behind the camp:
– We wanted it to be as accessibly priced as possible. For food, drink, accommodation and education (with certification too) it starts at €400 right now. I think that is great value, and I hope this price point encourages some cafes to buy a ticket for a staff member – or at least support them financially if they want to go.
– There are three different education tracks available, but also group lectures for everyone. I think it is going to be great to mix up more specialised education with moments where everyone comes together to learn and taste things.
– There are opportunities to volunteer. You can offer to volunteer on the website. You'll need to get yourself there (which isn't too expensive at that time of year), but otherwise you won't pay anything. We expect to get more offers than we can accommodate, so don't be afraid to sell yourself a little bit if you're applying.
– The full program isn't published yet, so keep an eye out as we announce various speakers and other fun stuff!
I hope I'll see a lot of people there. The opportunity to get together always results in great things. I like the idea of 150 baristas going back to 150 shops afterwards, and then making better drinks and giving better experiences to hundreds of thousands of people across Europe. Grab your ticket here!
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Lesnar, Batista and More Set for 3/24 Raw
Local ads in the New York City area ran during Raw tonight advertising the following for the 3/24 WWE Raw taping from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY:
-Brock Lesnar will appear.
-John Cena, Batista and Daniel Bryan vs Bray Wyatt, Alberto Del Rio and Kane.
WWE Elimination Chamber All Access Pass Video
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For Immediate Release:
May 28, 2010
Contact Info:
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"[O]ne thing is clear: the financial crisis occurred on Bush's watch. To demand that everyone let Bush off the hook for where we are now because 16 months have passed under his successor is to defy the overwhelming evidence of history."
– Paul Krugman, 5/23/2010
Economy Highlights:
• In positive news for the economy, new-home sales climbed 14.8% in April, the second month in a row that demand exceeded expectations: "Sales of existing homes increased in April for the second month in a row, as buyers took advantage of the government's home-buyer tax credit. Sales rose 7.6% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.77 million units, the National Association of Realtors said Monday. Year-over-year, existing-home sales were up 22.8% in April." [Wall Street Journal, 5/24/2010]
• Consumer confidence continued to rise in May: "Americans are feeling better about their job prospects, pushing consumer confidence higher in May…. The Conference Board, based in New York, said Tuesday that its Consumer Confidence Index rose to 63.3, up from April's revised 57.7. Economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters had expected 59. The increase was boosted by consumers' outlook over the next six months, one component of the index, which soared to the highest level seen since August 2007, before the economy entered in a recession…. The overall index — which measures how consumers feel about business conditions, the job market and the next six months — has been recovering fitfully since hitting an all-time low of 25.3 in February 2009." [Associated Press, 5/25/2010]
• The Joint Economic Committee (JEC) released its monthly state-by-state report showing that in April, 37 states and D.C. experienced private sector job growth: "The updated reports show that in many states, the economy is starting to grow. In April, 37 states and the District of Columbia saw private sector job creation. Eight states have experienced private sector job creation for each of the first four months of 2010, and an additional three states saw private sector growth in the last three months." [JEC Report, 5/21/2010]
Recovery Highlight:
• The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report on the Recovery Act, showing that it was responsible for creating up to 2.8 million jobs in the first quarter of 2010: "The $800 billion U.S. stimulus package has had a slightly bigger effect on the U.S. economy than was projected when it was passed more than a year ago, the Congressional Budget Office estimated Tuesday. Through the first quarter of 2010, the stimulus boosted employment by an estimated 1.3 million to 2.8 million jobs, about a quarter or half million more than projected. Gross domestic product was 1.7 to 4.1 percentage points higher than it would have been without the stimulus, the nonpartisan budget office said." [Wall Street Journal, 5/25/2010; CBO, 5/25/2010]


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NEW YORK & ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rabobank has published a new report on the U.S. cattle industry, calling for changes in the way beef is produced in order for the industry to remain competitive. In the new report, "Ground Beef Nation,", Rabobank says that changing consumer preferences and a production model tailored to production of top-shelf steaks has put the U.S. cattle industry in a position of losing market share to competitive proteins.
"Under the existing business model, the U.S. cattle industry manages all fed beef as if it were destined for the center of the plate at a white table cloth restaurant," notes Rabobank cattle economist Don Close. "The industry is, essentially, producing an extraordinarily high-grade product for consumers who desire to purchase a commodity. More than 60% of U.S. beef consumption is ground product. If the U.S. cattle industry continues to produce ground beef in a structure better suited to high-end cuts, the result will be continued erosion of market share."
The report goes on to explore the trend of changing consumer preferences and the role pricing plays in the notable decline in beef consumption. The industries that produce competitive proteins such as pork and chicken have grown and become more efficient, making the products more readily available at competitive prices.
"The industry must change to a production model that determines the best end use of an animal as early as possible, in order to compete in a 'ground beef nation'," notes Close. "A new system for end-use categorization that influences calf selection, cattle management, production costs, and feeding regimen throughout the life of the animal is vital to keeping beef competitive with other choices at the meat counter."
The full report is available to media upon request.
Rabobank Group is a global financial services leader providing wholesale and retail banking, leasing, real estate services, and renewable energy project financing. Founded over a century ago, Rabobank is one of the largest banks in the world, with nearly $1 trillion in assets and operations in more than 40 countries. In North America, Rabobank is a premier bank to the food, beverage and agribusiness industry. Rabobank's Food & Agribusiness Research and Advisory team is comprised of more than 80 analysts around the world who provide expert analysis, insight and counsel to Rabobank clients about trends, issues and developments in all sectors of agriculture. www.rabobank.com/f&a
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Columbia professor shocks students by stripping during 'quantum mechanics' lecture
Columbia physics professor Emlyn Hughes surprised his students on Monday morning by introducing his lecture on quantum mechanics by blaring rap music, stripping down to his underwear, putting on an all-black ensemble, playing video footage of war scenes and the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, then standing by as two people chopped a stuffed animal in half.
"In order to learn quantum mechanics, you have to strip to your raw, erase all the garbage from your brain and start over again," he declared.
Video of the presentation was published to Vimeo on Monday evening by a student wielding a smartphone.
"I walked in the class, and the lights were out, so I thought something was off," student Darializa Chevalier told The Columbia Spectator. "Then the song comes on, and we were like, 'What version of 'Drop It Like It's Hot' is this?'"
Students said the professor did not explain the intro for context and simply carried on with his physics lecture as if nothing happened, wearing a pair of dark sunglasses all the while.
"I liked that he was captivating our attention," another student told the Spectator. "But at the same token, he didn't take off his sunglasses the whole lecture…I didn't know what to think of that."
Hughes did not respond to Raw Story's request for comment.
This video is from Vimeo, published Monday, Feb. 18, 2013.
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posts on 8/12/2012 5:46:02 PM
I can picture Jane walking down tree lined Eatonville streets! That's just how vivid a picture Robert Segarra, the author of Still Waiting For The Sun paints. I actually feel as if I am walking down those same roads with her. Excellent book, and excellent characters.
posts on 8/11/2012 4:09:29 PM
I for one am happy that this book was indie published. That means that no editor had a chance to ruin what the author had written. I totally loved Still Waiting For The Sun by Robert Segarra. I also believe it is a masterpiece that just has not been recognized as such by the masses....yet. But it will. Of that I am confident.
posts on 8/11/2012 4:03:46 PM
Still Waiting For The Sun by Robert Segarra is one of those books that you;ll never find available at a bookstore. It's an indie release, and as such, it doesn't have that huge publicity machine behind it, pushing it everywhere that good books are sold. That's a shame, because it is probably one of the greatest books I've read to date in my life. It reads smooth, almost as if it were real life that we were eaves dropping on. And the story and characters are mesmerizing. Maybe the reprint will go to a traditional publisher - but until then, this masterpiece is going to have to rely on word of mouth. I think it's been working so far. Good luck.
posts on 8/10/2012 6:19:01 PM
I now have a female role model to look up to and her name is Jane Whitley. Still Waiting For The Sun by Robert Segarra is the book most females in America have long been waiting for. At last there is a character that women can rally around that doesn't cater to men, and isn't your typical stay-at-home mom. Jane works, owns property, and can be single if she wishes to be without feeling lonely. That's the kind of woman I want my daughter to be!
posts on 8/10/2012 6:09:52 PM
If you only buy one paperback novel this summer, Still Waiting For The Sun by Robert Segarra should be it. There isn't a book that even comes close to this one for quality. The story is amazing, and the characters are real, and the combination has restored my faith in American writers once more.
posts on 8/9/2012 7:23:03 PM
Still Waiting For The Sun by Robert Segarra is a lesson to us all to focus on the things we want for ourselves in this life, because if we don't we may never acheive our goals. Not everyone has a great grandfather who can leave us a ready-made business and a new life. Some of us have to go it alone - but even then we can get what we want. We just have to work at it a little harder sometimes!
posts on 8/9/2012 7:18:18 PM
I was searching for something all my life, just like Jane Whitley, and unfortunately, I have not found my reward the way that Jane did in Still Waiting Fot The Sun by Robert Segarra. But there is still hope for me, isn't there?
posts on 8/8/2012 2:52:05 PM
Just like Jane, I moved to North Carolina looking for a different way of life, and I'm happy to say that I found something that I truly enjoy there. Reading Still Waiting For The Sun by Robert Segarra made me feel like I made the right decision.
posts on 8/7/2012 12:07:40 PM
If I ever came into money, I would definitely do what Jane Whitley did in Still Waiting For The Sun by Robert Segarra. I think it is everyone's dream to be able to have a second chance at life. I know it's my dream.
posts on 8/6/2012 5:39:51 PM
I try not to get hung-up with categorizing things all the time. I enjoyed Still Waiting For The Sun by Robert Segarra because plain and simple, I found the characters loveable, and the storylines were interesting and alluring.
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On his 63rd birthday, Robin Williams shared the following photo via Instagram. It depicted him with Crystal, his co-star from the Night at the Museum film series.
Last night, the most striking aspect of Billy Crystal's wonderful Primetime Emmys tribute to the late actor and comedian was the photo of Williams displayed throughout. The selection of that picture made Los Angeles Times photo editor Cindy Hively very proud:
There's another shot of Williams at Hively's celebrity thumbnails gallery, along with other magical glimpses of Jack Lemmon with Walter Matthau, and more. He was a staff photographer at the LAT for 31 years.
Two great photos of one great man, shared with the world July 21 and August 25. RIP.
[Watch the Emmys tribute to Williams here.]
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Little study has been devoted to the history of the term and the phenomenon. Early occurrences of the term appeared in Victorian England, where Protestant anti-Catholicism was organized in numerous societies during the first half of the 19th century (British Reformation Society, 1827; Protestant Association, 1835/1836; National Club, 1845 [7]; [6]). Although central themes of its later manifestations were anticipated in the anticlericalism, antipopery, and the anti-Roman tenor of some late medieval reform movements (including the Reformation), it does no…
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QPR boss Harry Redknapp remains interested in Stoke City striker Peter Crouch.
The Mirror says Crouch, 32, has six goals this season for the Potters. But he would welcome a move to London to be with his TV star wife Abbey Clancy, who is based there.
Crouch was also at Loftus Road for the 2000-01 season as a youngster, scoring a dozen goals to earn a move to Aston Villa.
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Heavy rainfall in the last 48 hours has brought industrial activities to a halt. The scientific instruments cluster of Ambala that has over 1,000 micro, small and medium enterprises, is the worst hit.
Ashwani Goel, president of The Ambala Scientific Instruments Manufacturers' Association, said: "Water started gushing in at about 5 am on Tuesday morning. By the time we got any clue, our consignments and machinaries had already submerged in knee-deep water."
The entire cluster had been hit, said Neeraj Garg, director, Oriental Scientific Apparatus Works, one of the oldest outfits in the region. "The cluster would have a loss of about Rs 20 crore (rs 2 million) to Rs 25 crore (Rs 2.5 million)."
He said most entrepreneurs normally availed of insurance for transit. Since consignments lying on companies' floors were not insured, they would suffer losses. It might take a few days to resume operations.
The incessant rain and the breach in the Ghaggar and Tangri (tributaries of the Yamuna) rivers have flooded most of Ambala and Kurukshetra.
The heavy downpour, followed by floods in Haryana that have affected road and rail network, came as impediment to the industries in Ludhiana. Since most business towns in Punjab and Haryana are landlocked, movement of goods has become difficult.
The rail traffic on Ludhiana-Ambala-Delhi section has been diverted, while trains on the Ambala-Chandigarh-Kalka route has been suspended. Industrialists from Ludhiana maintained suspension of traffic had affected business houses in the region.
Ajit Lakra of Superfine Knitters said the textile industry in Ludhiana had to delay supply of fabric due to rains. S C Ralhan, regional chairman of EEPC (Engineering Export Promotion Council), maintained the engineering goods manufacturers in the region were facing tough times due to the rains.
He said with movement of goods suffering for the last two days, manufacturers were finding it difficult to push their orders. The industry was worried that there might be delay in despatches due to floods.


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Exploring Belize Zoo with kids
We were in Belize last January during a cruise port stop. One of the downsides of cruising is the short amount of time spent in each place. Often times, it's a disappointment since countries like Belize had so much to offer. It was a pleasant surprise to find the Belize Zoo was a highly regarded one. Numerous visits to zoos and animal parks over the years have fortunately encouraged my kids' curiosity and fondness for animals. So, we made sure that despite our brief stay on the island, it included a trip to this unique zoo.
The Belize Zoo and Tropical Education Center was founded by an American, Sharon Matola, as a haven for animals that were used in a Belizean forest documentary in 1983. It has evolved into a sanctuary for orphaned, abused, abandoned, rescued animals and some were donated by private owners.
This isn't your average zoo though. Instead of giraffes, bears and elephants, we had the chance of smelling a stinky pecarry and seeing animals like a bird called a motmot, a huge Jabiru stork and Belize's national animal – a tapir which looked like a large anteater. Ever heard of any of them? The tapirs were so highly regarded that we found out there are major fines for hunting them and they're even on the Belizean currency.
The zoo currently has over 150 different animals that can only be found in Belize. We booked with a local tour operator(Cavetubing.BZ) who took us cave tubing first and then to the zoo. It was a wonderful way to learn about their way of life and culture. Luckily, our tour guide also used to work as a zookeeper here. We were treated to his personal insights into some animals' history and habits. He also knew how to get the animals to come greet us and quickly spotted the ones that were hiding.
With its gravel path and lush vegetation, it almost felt like visiting a botanical garden. It had an intimate and homey atmosphere – small enough to leisurely spend a couple of hours to walk through and enjoy the animals.
The animal enclosures were made to look like their natural habitat instead of concrete slabs common in other zoos. It was refreshing to see most of the animals up close. Many were within reach for petting and our guide did pet some of them which was pretty cool and delighted the kids. This Morelet crocodile was a little too close though.
We adored the big, handwritten exhibit signs for each animal. They were witty and whimsical with special messages from the animals. It also had subtle environmental ideas. The kids enjoyed reading them and we all learned something along the way. Many zoos really should adopt this way of introducing animals. Humor goes a long way to help retain information for everyone.
It made us look forward to reading each sign when we otherwise would have skipped most of them. These were also large signs where you can't possibly miss them. The signs were memorable and one of the great things about the Belize zoo.
The unofficial face of the zoo was Junior Buddy, the jaguar. He was born at the zoo and is such a majestic animal. Jaguars are still considered an endangered species so it was a treat to see him up close. My kids could have watched Junior play all day.
He was aware of his visitors and usually played pretty close to the fence. His enclosure was so accessible that our guide was able to let Junior lick his hand. We obviously kept a close watch on the kids in case they felt the need to pet Junior too.
Staying in Belize for more than a day? When we go back to Belize (yup, planning for a return trip already), we'd love to stay at one of their VIP cabins set in a forest setting adjacent to the zoo. They have a variety of lodging options on the premises. Since many of its animals are nocturnal, the guided night time tours would be an incredible way to interact with the animals.
They also offered interactive exhibits where kids can pose with or feed Junior or feed the birds. Unfortunately, we didn't get the chance to do these activities. This is a popular place for the local children where the zoo hosts various workshops and educational programs. Exploring the Belize zoo with the kids was a remarkable and enjoyable experience. They take pride in calling themselves "The Best Little Zoo In the World" and to some extent, we wholeheartedly agree.
Tips for visiting Belize Zoo with kids:
- If coming in from a cruise, it is best to book a tour in advance. We used Cavetubing.bz for our tour which was a combination with cave tubing and a free lunch.
- If renting a car while in Belize, the roads looked pretty manageable so that would be the best way to get here. It is along the Western Highway. We did see people waiting for buses outside but with kids, that will not be too convenient.
- Allow at least two hours to fully enjoy this zoo and read all the fun signs. You never know what you'll learn.
- Bring plenty of cold water or other drinks since it gets pretty hot.
- No food is allowed inside the park but there was a picnic area by the parking lot.
- Wear comfortable shoes. Most of the path is on gravel so no open toe shoes, sandals or slippers. My daughter kept complaining about the gravel getting in her sandals and hurting her feet.
- Visit the gift shop for some unique and local Belizean souvenirs. We loved the wood carvings and ones designed by Steve Wu. Drinks and ice cream are also sold here.
The Basics:
Hours: 9 AM – 5 PM everyday; Last admission at 4:30 PM
Fees: $15 (US) Adults; $5 (US) for non-Belizean children (Our fees were included with our tour)
Website: http://www.belizezoo.org/
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Google did it again and a whole bunch of internet marketers are shaking their feeble fists in wrath and disgust. I am speaking obviously of the latest Google algorithm update named 'Penguin'. What happened? On 24th April 2012 Google rolled out yet another update that addresses web spam. You can read more about why Google hates web spam so much on this old article of mine called >>>The Real Reason Google Fights Web Spam<<<. Back? Great!
I really don't want to regurgitate what others have already written, or better said yelled into Cyberspace, so here my musings about an aspect which I believe has been overlooked by many. If you read >>>Google's announcement about the Penguin Update<<< carefully and have a close look at the images you will notice something interesting in the second image – the . . . → Read More: Penguin Musings


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