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Palma Ceia Plant High School graduate Dreama Walker plays Hazel in TV's Gossip Girl.
By Alessandra Da Pra, Times Staff Writer
Published February 22, 2008
Tampa native Dreama Walker describes herself as an optimistic, exuberant, happy girl. But on TV, she was an unscrupulous, snobbish gal in the popular TV show Gossip Girl.
She played the relatively new character Hazel in two episodes before the Writers Guild of America strike began in November. She was part of main character Blair Waldorf's circle of friends in the teen drama based on the novel series by Cecily von Ziegesar.
The show follows the deeds and misdeeds of a scandalous and vicious group of young socialites living in New York's Upper East Side.
"It's just a really entertaining, fun show," said Walker, 21, who moved to New York City to pursue an acting career after graduating from H.B. Plant High School four years ago.
Walker wanted to be a performing artist since her childhood.
At age 2, she turned scallions into talking puppets while sitting in the grocery cart. At age 3, she stole the spotlight at her older sister's 12th birthday party by singing in front of the guests.
"She has been a very unique, very talented, wonderfully expressive person ever since she was a little girl," said her mother Elyse Walker. "I miss her tremendously because she is such a joy to be around."
Walker, who has a passion for comedy and admires Hollywood stars such as Julianne Moore, Parker Posey and Kate Hudson, was ecstatic when she got the part on Gossip Girl.
"I first called my mother and then I went on a rampage and I pretty much called anyone and everyone that would care - even people that wouldn't care," Walker said.
Her character has not been completely developed yet because of the strike, which ended last week. Hazel's future is uncertain.
"I am not very sure about what's going to happen yet," Walker said.
One thing she is sure about is that her Palma Ceia high school was not as exciting as the fictitious elite school in the show.
"They are sort of similar in a sense that there is always something to gossip about, there is always somebody that is doing something risque or chilly or whatever," she said.
Walker started her performing career during her teen years in a pop band called the S*coolgirlz. At first, she was determined to pursue a career in music, but a couple of acting auditions in New York changed her ambition.
"I really discovered that I loved it and that it was something that I could really see myself being passionate about," she said.
In the past couple of years, Walker has had a variety of bit parts, mostly on TV shows. She has appeared on an episode of The Guiding Light, as well as Law and Order, a TV show she called "the gate into the acting world."
She was in Zip, a TV pilot for NBC that did not get picked up. She also had a major role in an independent film, Wherever You Are, which is making the rounds at film festivals. And she plays a small part, as an Upper East Side waitress, in the upcoming Sex and the City: The Movie.
Walker, who also works part time as a server in a restaurant, is relieved by the end of the writers' strike. Fewer new shows meant fewer opportunities to audition for potential jobs.
"It's a constant struggle with people in this business," said her mother, whom Walker calls every time she is inclined to give up and move back to Tampa. Mom tells her to keep trying.
"It's very, very difficult, but it's her dream and it's what she truly believes she is here to do," her mother said.
However, the cub actress usually keeps a positive attitude.
"I've never heard of any overnight success," she said. "This business is all about rejection; you can't take anything personally."
Walker misses her family and friends here. It was difficult to meet people her age when she first moved to New York, she said. Eventually, she formed bonds with the girls she kept bumping into at auditions.
"You can't live in a town as crazy as New York without having some good solid friendships around you," her mother said.
Friends are her main source of companionship. For now, there is no man in her life.
"I am 21, I am young and single and living in New York and loving life. I don't need a boyfriend right now," she said.
Someday, she hopes to have a great career in show business but hopes to stay under the radar, to an extent.
She doesn't want to get so famous that paparazzi snap her picture "coming out of Starbucks with a latte."
Alessandra Da Pra can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 813 226-3434.
Dreama Walker
Age: 21
Native: South Tampa
New digs: New York City
Claim to fame: A role on the hit CW series Gossip Girls as Hazel
On the side: A restaurant server
Good news: The writers strike is over.
Regrets: Missing family and friends in South Tampa
High school: Walker says Plant High wasn't as exciting as her current fictitious prep school. Still, she says, "They are sort of similar in a sense that there is always something to gossip about."
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Oh, noble Jocasta, what a mess you are in! Unwittingly married to your own son, who is also the murderer of your husband, his father. Stephanie Blythe, playing Jocasta in the Metropolitan Opera's current production of Stravinsky's ''Oedipus Rex,'' glides across the stage, full-bodied, graceful, every inch a queen, her mezzo rich and plush, effortlessly dipping, then rising with a flutelike purity. ''Ne probentur oracula,'' she sings (''Let not the oracles be proved true''). Unfortunately, the oracles are right -- the worst has come to pass.
As for Ms. Blythe herself, she is not a household name yet, but modern-day oracles see a golden reign. A writer for The Chicago Tribune has gone so far as to call Ms. Blythe ''a messiah'' of opera (with no apologies to Handel). A critic for Opera News wrote that he literally rose from his seat when he saw her sing the role of Auntie in Benjamin Britten's ''Peter Grimes'' at the Met. Anthony Tommasini, writing in The New York Times last year, said that when she sings Handel and Rossini, ''she seems the successor to Marilyn Horne.''
The conductor James Levine, the Met's artistic director, praised what he called her ''enormous gift in timbre and personality and musicianship.''
''She is the kind of singer one is always looking for,'' he said, adding: ''She has a great range that allows her to sing high and low parts equally well. When she works her voice upward and downward she is equally effective.''
Now, 34, with gleaming auburn hair and creamy skin, Ms. Blythe is at an age when singers' voices begin to reach maturity.Continue reading the main story
She is versatile. Unusual for someone with such a big voice, she can sing coloratura -- Isabella in Rossini's ''Italiana in Algeri,'' for instance, with its trills and roulades. She can also do ''trouser'' roles -- Orsini in Donizetti's ''Lucrezia Borgia,'' and Malcolm, a Scottish highlander, in Rossini's ''Donna del Lago.'' She has both a dramatic presence and first-rate comic timing. She plays the title role in Offenbach's ''Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein'' like Margaret Dumont in a Marx Brothers movie. She can also belt it out in true Broadway style, as she does in her program of show tunes that she combines with ''Vignettes: Ellis Island''; the latter was written for her by Alan Smith.
Not bad for someone from Mongaup Valley, N.Y., a tiny town just west of Monticello, in Sullivan County, the heart of the Catskills borscht belt, who didn't see live opera until she was 16, when her high school music teacher took the class to ''La Bohème'' at the Met. ''I was completely blown away,'' she recalled.
Ms. Blythe's father, James, used to be a musician on the borscht belt circuit. Her mother, Ingeborg, is German, and was a professional translator who still translates her daughter's German librettos.
In high school, Ms. Blythe sang in the chorus. At first she wanted to be a musical theater artist, she said, though she didn't know how to go about it.
At the State University of New York at Potsdam, she studied music education at the Crane School of Music. ''You always want to think you have something to fall back on,'' she said. But after practice teaching in an elementary school, she realized she didn't want to do that for a living.
As she trained as a music teacher, she felt her interest in music was being stifled. Her grades fell. ''I majored in marijuana for a semester,'' she said.
Then she took a writing course, and loved it. She became an English major. She credits a Walker Percy essay, ''The Loss of the Creature,'' about seeing the world through preformed expectations, with showing her the way back to music. ''By learning to see the creature in such a preconceived way, one loses the actual creature,'' she wrote in an essay. Through writing, she was able to ''break out of my restrictive learning pattern and discover the creature all over again,'' she wrote, adding, ''Music was no longer a technical exercise.''
She said that a course called Theory of Rhetoric changed her life. ''It made me look at the way we communicate with each other, the science behind communication,'' she said. The desire to communicate became the foundation of her technique.
After graduating, Ms. Blythe studied with Patricia Misslin, who had taught Renée Fleming, another Crane student. Ms. Misslin encouraged her to enter the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. As a result, she was invited to join the Met's young artist development program, which was founded by Mr. Levine. At 24, Ms. Blythe finally got to sing at the Met, offstage, in ''Parsifal,' with Plácido Domingo. It was just nine syllables, but it made an impression. Ms. Blythe said that at the cast party, Mr. Domingo told her, ''Stephanie, when I hear how you sing at the end of the first act, I know how I must sing in the second.''
Ms. Blythe says now, ''I felt knighted.''
Then, in 1996, came one of those fairy tale moments in opera. Marilyn Horne, one of Ms. Blythe's idols, became ill, and Ms. Blythe went on at the Met for her as Mistress Quickly in ''Falstaff.''
But her breakthrough performance did not come until three years later, when she sang Cornelia in Handel's ''Giulio Cesare.'' Her farewell duet with the countertenor David Daniels seemed to some critics a nearly perfect fusion of two voices. ''Stephanie Blythe's big, dark sound meets the Baroque on common ground,'' Bernard Holland wrote in The Times. That year, she won the Richard Tucker Award, one of opera's most prestigious prizes.
She also took on the role of Carmen at the Tulsa Opera: vamp, tragic heroine, force of nature, it is perhaps the most important role in the mezzo repertory.
Meanwhile, she tried to stay away from Wagner. ''I knew Wagner was going to play a big part in my life,'' she said, because of her large voice, and her full body, which is that of the traditional Wagner heroine. She didn't want to be typecast. But she finally took on Wagner in Seattle in 2000, playing Fricka in ''Das Rheingold'' and ''Die Walküre,'' directed by Stephen Wadsworth. The next year, she added the Second Norn in ''Götterdämmerung.'' In 2005, she is scheduled to do Wagner there again.
At Ms. Blythe's side almost constantly, watching devotedly, is her husband, David Smith-Larsen, a former professional wrestler and now an actor. They met when she was singing Mistress Quickly in the Paris Opera's production of ''Falstaff,'' in 1999. Mr. Smith-Larsen was the innkeeper, a nonsinging role. Sparks flew.
''Every time we were on stage as our relationship progressed, there were more surreptitious glances,'' Ms. Blythe said. They married in 2001, and are often accompanied by their dog, Agnes Gooch, named after the companion in ''Auntie Mame.'' When they are not traveling they live in an apartment on the Upper West Side near Central Park.
As for the future, in January she will sing Carmen again at the Seattle Opera, Jocasta again in February at the Met, and in April, the Grande-Duchesse for the Opera Company of Philadelphia.
She has one CD out -- ''Handel/J. S. Bach Arias'' (Virgin Classics) with the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris. Another is on the way. She said she would like to take on more Wagner, and two Verdi roles -- Azucena, a gypsy, in ''Il Trovatore,'' and Princess Eboli, the king's mistress, in ''Don Carlos.''
She would especially like to give more recitals, she said. While a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Festival in the early 1990's, she came to love the recital form, its intimacy and contact with the audience -- the communication, as she puts it -- that is at the heart of her technique.
''It's just you, the pianist, the lights are up,'' Ms. Blythe said. ''And you can look right into your audience's eyes.''Continue reading the main story


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MOUNT VERNON — The Mount Vernon Players, soon celebrating its 50th year of bringing entertainment and theatrical education to Knox County, will offer two nine-week acting workshops over the summer, Tuesday nights from June 18 through Aug. 13. Two workshops will be offered, one for ages 7 to 12 and a second for ages 13… Read more »
Monthly Archives:: May 2013
MVPD: Drug operation successful
Today, the Mount Vernon Police Department, along with the Ohio State Highway Patrol Officers K9 units conducted a drug interdiction operation dubbed "Operation Allied Force" in the city limits of Mount Vernon. The goal of the operation was to help catch subjects transporting illegal narcotics in the city of Mount Vernon. The operation was extremely… Read more »
Property tax statements mailed
MOUNT VERNON — Knox County Treasurer Sandra Mizer announces real estate tax statements for Knox County have been mailed and are due Friday, June 21. Payments by cash, check or money order are accepted in the treasurer's office. Credit card payments may be made online at www.officialpayments.com or by calling 800-272-9829 jurisdiction code 8436. Official… Read more »
Summer reading program offered at county libraries
MOUNT VERNON — The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County is ready to dig in to a summer full of books and events for the 2013 "Dig Into Reading" Summer Reading Program at all locations for all ages. Registration begins, Saturday, June 1. At the main library in Mount Vernon, the program themes… Read more »
Past Utica yearbooks available at school
UTICA — Utica High School, 260 N. Jefferson St., has a limited number of yearbooks for the following school years: 1985, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. Due to the limited quantities, the books cannot be held and they will be sold on a first-come,… Read more »
12U Ohio Stingrays Win Memorial
Photo submitted The 12U Ohio Stingrays went undefeated last weekend in Gahanna to win the 11th annual Brittany Anderson Memorial Tournament, which was held Saturday and Sunday. The Stingrays began Saturday with a 5-2 win over the 12U Ohio Hawks in 38-degree weather, then defeated the 11U Buckeye Heat, 16-1, before finishing the day by… Read more »
Mount Vernon Fire Department teaming up with Interchurch to beat the heat
The Mount Vernon Fire Department is teaming up with Interchurch Social Services of Mount Vernon to help elderly and financially strapped families beat the summer heat. We are seeking donations of new or gently used fans and window air conditioners. Donations can be dropped off any time at the Main Fire Station, 200 West Gambier… Read more »
Dailey receives Firefighter Cross
Photo courtesy of the Mount Vernon Fire Department Mount Vernon Police Detective Cpl. Matt Dailey, left, received the Firefighter Cross Award for his investigation of the Feb. 14 arson at 209 Shirley Ave. Pictured with Dailey are his wife, Kelly, and children, Annalise and Lane. Read More
Freddies break record at MS state meet
Submitted photo The Fredericktown Middle School 4×800-meter relay team set a school record at the 2013 Junior High State Championships on Sunday at Dublin Scioto High School. From left, Lauren Davis, Molly Linhares, Olivia Bates and Fiona Roddy combined for a time of 11:09.3, good for second place in the state. DUBLIN — The Fredericktown… Read more »
Fatal crash under investigation by Ohio State Highway Patrol
MOUNT VERNON — The Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal traffic crash that occurred Wednesday at 6:30 a.m. The crash occurred on Hopewell Road, east of Ohio 586, in Pleasant Township. Josie L. Kaylor, 19, Danville, was traveling westbound on Hopewell Road in a 1998 Honda Accord. Kaylor drove off the right side… Read more »
Pack 332 hunts for arrowheads
Photo Submitted Bear Den Scouts from Pack 332 of St. Vincent de Paul Church recently visited the property of Tom and Oneta Debolt near Utica. Mr. Debolt shared his vast collection of arrowheads and other stone and flint tools that have been recovered from his family's farm. Participants were given a chance to search a… Read more »
Sheriff's office announces results of "Operation Safe Summer"
MOUNT VERNON — The results from day one of the offender check conducted by the Knox County Sheriff's Office and other local agencies. Of the 78 sex offenders that are registered with the Knox County Sheriff's Office, officers were able to verify that 50 were in compliance. Officers will continue to follow up on the… Read more »
Area law enforcement involved in sweep operation
By CHUCK MARTIN News Staff Reporter MOUNT VERNON — About 20 law enforcement officers spread out across Knox County this morning, checking on the accuracy of information registered sex offenders have filed with the Knox County Sheriff's Office. "Operation Safe Summer" is expected to continue into Wednesday at least. Knox County Sheriff David Shaffer said… Read more »
Crouch returns to Mount Vernon as champion
Photo courtesy Florida Southern College Florida Southern junior Tim Crouch lines up a putt during the recent NCAA Division II championship tournament. The Mount Vernon native won the individual national championship on Thursday. Read more
Meth bottles discovered
By ALAN REED News Staff Reporter MOUNT VERNON — The Mount Vernon Police Department is searching for further information regarding seven bottles found Saturday evening on Taylor Road. Capt. George Hartz told the News the MVPD received a call about some suspicious looking bottles found along a tree line near Dan Emmett Park. Officers arrived… Read more »
Grand entry
Photo Submitted Lexi Snyder opens the show season at the Knox County Horse Park carrying the American Flag. For more information about the park, visit KnoxCountyHorsePark.com.
FT Precision was presented a triple award
Photo Submitted In April, Fredericktown's FT Precision was presented a triple award for excellence in quality, delivery and cost improvements. The award was presented May 20. Pictured are, from left, Masashiro Ii, chief engineer; Tamamai Nishimura, president; Mike Williams Sr., manager administrative; Tom Lakes, purchasing division manager; John Reffitt, quality assurance coordinator; Jeff Kelly,… Read more »
Diamond Dawgs 13U Tournament Champions
Submitted Photo The Mid-Ohio Diamond Dawgs won the Baseball Players Association Mid-Ohio Spring Shoot Out Tournament 13U Division on Sunday. The Diamond Dawgs play in the Central Ohio Youth Baseball League. Team members are, front row from left, Dylan Beekman, Seth Wasilewski and Gage Espy; Second row, Garett Dudley, Ethan Beckett, Tanner Elliott, Sam… Read more »
Piano auditions
Photo Submitted Students of the Piano Studio of Jennifer A. Kershner auditioned at the Columbus Guild Center of the National Piano Playing Guild and were accepted to the National Fraternity of Student Musicians. The Guild Auditions have been held across the United States for over 80 years. Over 120,000 pianists of all ages participate,… Read more »
Mount Vernon baseball players honored
Submitted Photo The Mount Vernon High School baseball team was honored at an awards banquet on Wednesday. Receiving special awards were, seated from left: Duke Cunningham, Man of Many Gloves Award; Nick Hoar, Second Team All-Ohio Capital Conference, Honorable Mention All-Central District, Most Inspirational; and Alex Arck, co-Rookie of the Year. Standing from left:… Read more »


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Regional Reviews: Chicago
The Mercy Seat
The play set on September 12, 2001, and the premise is that a 30-ish married man who worked in the World Trade Center before the attack has escaped death by his having chosen to stop at his mistress's apartment for a quickie on the way to work. Some 15 or 16 hours after the fall of the towers, Ben (Darrell W. Cox) has yet to phone his wife to let her know he's alive. Instead, he's considering somehow letting the world believe he has died so he can begin a new life with his mistress Abby (Cheryl Graeff), who's not only nine years older than Ben, but also his superior at work. Never mind the difficulties inherent in gaining employment when one has no identity that can be verified by records, it's harder still to believe a man would allow his wife and young daughterwhom he claims to loveto believe he is died and to plan never to see them again. It may be that the relationship with the wife is horrendous, but that isn't really established, and LaBute doesn't make much of an effort here to give a credible reason for such an improbable thought.
Instead, the playwright spends his ninety minutes of stage time showing us the volatile relationship between Ben and Abby, without really giving any insight into them as characters. Ben is indecisive and has commitment issues, according to Abby. He is intensely quiet through the play. In contrast, Abby seems manic-depressive, alternating between sweetness and rage with long stretches of seething resentment in between. We're not precisely told the reasons for the conflict, nor given any clue as to why Ben and Abby are togetherlet alone why Ben might consider giving up not only his family but his identity for her.
Cox and Graeff are fine actors and it's fun watching them here, but more like the fun of watching tennis champions Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal rallying the ball over a lengthy match. You admire their stamina and their timing, and are impressed with their professionalism and skill. Sadly, their performances are in the service of creating characters that are just not very interesting to begin with. Ben and Abby seem too articulate and their words too carefully planned to appear spontaneous. Under the direction of Joe Jahraus, the action never drags and the performances hold one's attention, but at the end of the ninety minutes we're left without much concern over either of them. Fans of LaBute will see his trademark cynicism and ability to craft a scene, but the uninitiated should wait for an opportunity to see one of his better plays, like the excellent Things We Said Today.
The Mercy Seat will be performed Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 7 p.m. through November 15, 2009 at Profiles Theatre, 4147 N. Broadway, Chicago. For tickets, buy online at www.profilestheatre.org or call 773-549-1815.
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Add OneDrive online storage to your Mac
Some people may regard Microsoft as the arch enemy, but the company really does quite a lot to support Apple Mac users with great software and services. OneDrive, which was formerly called SkyDrive, offers more online storage for your files and it is more flexible than Apple's iCloud storage for free.
Although Apple provides iCloud storage for files on OS X and iOS, and the service has been opened up a lot recently, it is still not as flexible as OneDrive on Windows. The sharing facilities for example, are not as good as with OneDrive, and you cannot get a link to share publicly or to email.
Microsoft's OneDrive enables you to create a folder on the disk drive which is then mirrored online. Save a file to the OneDrive folder on the Mac's disk drive and it is automatically synced with OneDrive online. Any app can access the files in any folder from any computer with OneDrive on. Files can also be accessed through a web browser and from other operating systems such as Windows, Linux, iOS and Android phones and tablets. The iOS OneDrive app will even automatically upload your photos to the online storage.
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You also get more storage space for free than Apple gives you too. On offer is 15GB of storage with the option to gain an extra space for every friend you get to sign up. Add the OneDrive app to your phone, select the option to sync your photos and you get more storage space for free too.
Before you start with OneDrive you need a Microsoft ID. It is best to visit onedrive.com using a web browser and sign up if you don't already have one. This will set up your online storage and make it available through a web browser. Then you can add the OneDrive app to your Mac to mirror the online storage on the lcoal drive.
Go to the Mac App Store and search for OneDrive. Click the button to install it and afterwards, click the OneDrve app in the Applications folder. Click the Get Started button.
The first thing you need to do is to sign in to your Microsoft account. Use the same username and password you used at the onedrive.live.com website.
OneDrive stores files on the local drive, which provides offline access to the files in the online storage. The app needs to be running to keep online and offline files in sync, so you might want to tick the Open at login option. This automatically starts OneDrive each time you start the Mac. Showing a Dock icon isn't important because OneDrive is just a folder on the disk drive and it is accessed using Finder, through Open/Save in apps and so on. You don't need a Dock icon, so hide it.
The next step is to choose the folder on the disk drive to mirror the files and folders stored online in OneDrive. This should be a subfolder of your personal home folder. Here you can see that I have selected the SkyDrive, that's because I am upgrading from SkyDrive to OneDrive, but if you are a new user you can use the New Folder button to create a folder with any name you want. OneDrive is the obvious name choice.
OneDrive can be installed on as many Apple Macs and Windows computers as you want and you might not need to sync every file and folder on every computer. There could be files and folders that you only want to share on your Windows PCs, or your Macs, or you might have a limited amount of storage space on your Mac, such as with a MacBook Air, and don't want to sync everything. (You can upgrade OneDrive and purchase more than 200GB of online storage space, which is more than a MacBook Air's disk.)
Related: Keep being asked for your iCloud Password? Solved!
OneDrive on the iPhone can upload every photo you take to OneDrive automatically, which is useful as a backup. Apple also backs up your photos online, so you might want to exclude the OneDrive Pictures folder from syncing or you could end up with photos stored twice on the disk drive. It's up to you though and if you have lots of disk space then sync all files and folders.
OneDrive will begin automatically syncing the local drive with the online drive. If you are a new user with few or no files, it can be used immediately. If you are already a heavy OneDrive user then it could take an hour or more to download all your files. Just use the OneDrive folder like any other folder on the disk drive, but bear in mind the storage limit, so don't put gigabytes of video footage in it. It is just for files you want to back up online or sync with other Macs and Windows PCs you use.
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Serves: Makes 1 (9-inch) pie
- 1 Chocolate Cookie Pie Crust (page 180)
- 1 recipe Cinnamon Pastry Cream (page 419)
- 1½ ounces semisweet or bittersweet chocolate (up to 60 percent cacao)
- 1 tablespoon (½ ounce) plus 1¼ cups (10 ounces) heavy whipping cream
- 3 large (1½ pounds) firm-ripe bananas
- 1 tablespoon (½ ounce) sugar
- ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- Chocolate curls (page 428) or additional chocolate cookie crumbs, for garnish
- Caramel Sauce (page 426) and/or Dark Chocolate Sauce (page 427), for serving
Place the chocolate and 1 tablespoon cream in the microwave safe bowl and microwave on high for 1 minute. Stir to blend. If there are any lumps, heat for 15 to 20 seconds longer and stir again. Pour the chocolate into the cooled pie shell and use the offset spatula or back of a spoon to spread in a thin layer across the bottom of the shell and as far up the sides as it will go. Chill for 10 minutes to set the ganache.
Use a paring knife to cut the bananas into ¼-inch-thick slices and gently stir into the chilled pastry cream until they are completely coated. Scrape the filling into the prepared pie crust and spread evenly to the edge. Chill while you make the topping.
Place the 1¼ cups cream, the sugar, and vanilla in the bowl of the stand mixer and whip on medium speed until soft peaks form. You can also use a hand mixer and a medium bowl. Scrape the topping onto the banana filling and use the cleaned offset spatula or the back of a spoon to spread it evenly all the way to the edge. The filling should be completely covered. Alternatively, use a pastry bag with a ½-inch star tip to decoratively pipe the topping (but increase the cream by ½ cup, as piping requires a little extra cream). Sprinkle with cookie crumbs or chocolate curls. Refrigerate 30 minutes before serving.


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Final showdown between Leafs and Bruins the fifth game of playoffs for Kovachik
Fort Erie resident Brad Kovachik works a game in the regular season. Monday's showdown between the Bruins and Leafs will be the fifth game of the 2013 playoffs he has worked the blue line. (Special to QMI Agency)
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Tonight's game seven between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Boston Bruins certainly has a local connection.
Brad Kovachik has been a linesman with the National Hockey League since 1996 and has already officiated four games in the Stanley Cup Playoffs this year and the fifth will be tonight between the two Eastern Conference Rivals in Boston.
Kovachik has worked 89 post-season games in his career and 1,025 regular season games.
Monday night's showdown between the Leafs and Bruins is not the first game seven he has worked either.
When asked if the final game of a playoff series is any more stressful than one earlier in the round or in the regular season, he agreed it is more intense but there is no reason to be nervous leading up to the opening face-off.
"You need to have confidence in your ability, you're chosen to do game seven for a reason," he said during a phone interview from Boston.
Growing up as a child, Kovachik was a Bruins fan, but that doesn't mean anything, he said.
"There's nothing really to it."
Every official working in the NHL had a team they cheered for growing up, but once they hit the ice for the first time to work a game in the big league, that all goes away.
"In this profession, you don't take sides," said Kovachik.
In the first round of playoffs, he worked two games in the series between the St. Louis Blues and the Los Angeles Kings and also two games in the match-up between the Detroit Red Wings and Anaheim Ducks.
After Monday's Leafs and Bruins game, he expects to hear whether or not he will be advancing to the second round.
"I'll do tonight's game and worry about that later," he said.
Kovachik worked his first playoff game in 2001 between the Edmonton Oilers and Dallas Stars.
He was born in Woodstock, Ont., but currently resides in Fort Erie with his family.


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Most games with zombies in them...they just do zombies, don't they? Well, this one should be more interesting. Skeletons, ghouls, ghosts, succubi, pit fiends, vampires, mummies, the holy ghost, all the things that at least SHOULD terrify you. You are on a plane from which there is no escape...where everything that fills your nightmares has come to kill you. There are some supplies hidden around...the powers that be want you to at least TRY to survive.
Name: Do I really have to explain this?
Biography: Or this?
Species: See the species section below.
Perk: Based on Biography.
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Secondary Weapon: Combat Sword
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Cheezburgians: The Cat people of Memetia! They vary in their fur lengths and colors, more so that any race. They have retracting hook claws between their fingers and toes, pointed triangular ears on top of their relatively small heads, slit eyes, and all other features a cat would have. They, like other Memetians, are bipedal. Occasionally, you will even get a vampiric Cheezburgian! Their society is highly capitalistic, almost to the point of anarchy. They have equal proficiency with Melee, Magic and Guns. Age range: 50 years
Youtubians: Cyborg people! They are vaguely humanoid, except there are no humans in Memetia. They are born with robotics built into them, varying in what parts of them are robotic and which aren't. They are one of the two trans-organic species in the Memetiaverse. They are more proficient in Guns than Melee, and cannot use Magic without modification. Age range: 150 years
Chanians: Big, hulking freaks of muscle and little brains. Descended from gorillas and pigs, this big monkeys have a tendency to crush first, ask questions later. They often if not always have huge muscles and a misshapen, pig face. They are hunched over like a gorilla and share the long arms. They mostly live on the junk planets and other planets where others cannot survive. Proficient in Melee more than Guns than Magic. Age range: 40 years
Trollix: The more dragonic, lizardoid people. They are more humanoid than dragons while keeping features like having scales, hoarding treasure and breathing elements. They are very lean, without a lot of fat or muscle. Their culture makes up the center of galactic politics. More proficient in Magic than anything else. Age range: 10,000 years
Behemels: The largely hated space Nazis! They are bear people, whom have a highly religious and fanatical society. For this reason, most Behemel are largely hated by galactic society, at times even more than the Collective. However, they are often the best organized against the people who intend to massively do the galaxy harm. Proficient in Magic and Guns, not as much Melee. Age range: 70 years
Hyrin-Pern: The wolf-people! They live in a somewhat tribal system, living in packs. They also have an incredible capacity for alcohol and make the most concentrated alcohol in the galaxy. They are proficient in Melee and Guns. Age range: 30 years
Collective: Have you ever seen Cthulu? Imagine a leaner, smaller, less evil version of him. While they are still somewhat evil, they do try to keep a distinct hierarchical society. Before the presence of the planet Memetia and its inhabitants in Galactic politics, the Collective had control of most all of the galaxy. Very proficient in Guns, not as much in Melee or Magic. AGe range: 1000 years
Balcheans: The frog-like warmongerers! Their skin dries easily, so they have to keep it wet when they can or risk death. Their society is mostly based on honor and discipline, just like every single other proud warrior race. They are very proficient in all weapon types. Age range: 40 years
Tropers: The wisest race in the Memetiaverse! Due to a highly intense sun, their skin, fingernails, eyes and hair are made of gems, the hair and skin a special, fine mesh called Gemsilk. While their outsides are naturally gem-laden, their insides are still squishy as normal. They seek to expand their knowledge and avoid political dealings when it can. They are proficient in Magic and cannot use material weapons. Age range: 5000 years
Watermaids: Mermaids! Everyone loves mermaids. The closest thing to humans you can get in Memetia, they prefer to stay in water and are built just for that, with fins, a fish tail and all. Their bones are mostly actually cartlidge, much like a shark...which is what they'll resemble even more once they go predatory. Proficient in all weapons. Age range: 100 years
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Biography: A Sciencist who was working on combining magic with technology to make better things like a ring that stored magic or a gun that shot bullets made of the very elements, before his lab blew up and he got transported to this dimension from the magical discharge of the various experiments laying around.
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Luck: 5
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As many of you know, my friend Kim Moss has moved back to Truchas and is living in his Airstream on my property for the summer (see previous post A Very Mini Artist's Colony in New Mexico). We've been doing lots of cooking and I wanted to share this wonderful recipe for his delicious young artichoke hearts:
4 small to medium young artichokes, stems and leaves removed
1 T butter
1 T olive oil
2 cloves garlic, finely minced
4 T breadcrumbs (more or less depending on the size of the artichokes)
Chili powder
Olive oil
Preheat the oven to 400.
First, cut off the stems.
Then break off the leaves–sort of snap them off–taking it down to where it's a little white.
Cut them just above the choke.
Trim them back until all the green is removed. The dark green can be fairly bitter. You can use a knife at first and then a peeler.
Rub them in a little lemon juice so they don't turn brown.
Put approximately an inch of water and a sprinkling of salt in a pan and place the artichokes choke down. Cover and simmer for about 5 to 10 minutes, until a knife slides into them easily.
Once they're cooked and cooled a bit, scoop out all of the choke. The best tool to use for this is a sharp-edged scoop, like a melon baller. You want to end up with a nice clean cavity.
Heat the butter and olive oil in a skillet and add the minced garlic. Saute just for a moment without browning the garlic.
Add the breadcrumbs, sprinkle in a little salt to taste and saute mixture, combining it with a spoon, for a couple of minutes.
Remove from the heat and fill the scooped out artichokes with the buttered breadcrumb mixture.
Top with a sprinkling of good quality chili powder and drizzle with a little more olive oil just before putting them in the oven.
Bake in a low-sided pan using the top third of the oven, for approximately 15 minutes until slightly browned.
Optional: Add some diced tomato to the breadcrumb mixture. Serve with chopped, fresh basil sprinkled over top.


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A woman gets a back rub.
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- An example of to rub is to have two things move against each other with pressure, such as a horse and a saddle.
Rub is defined as to use your hand to apply pressure and friction in a circular motion, or to move one thing against another.
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- to move one's hand, a cloth, etc. over (a surface or object) with pressure and friction, in a circular or back-and-forth motion
- to move (one's hand, a cloth, etc.) over, or spread or apply (polish, etc.) on or over, a surface or object in this way
- to move (a thing) against something else, or move (things) over each other with pressure and friction: often followed by together, etc.
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- to arouse anger or irritation
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rub along
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rub down
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rub elbows with
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also rub shoulders with
rub it in
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rub off on
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rub out
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rub the wrong way
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'The book is immensely readable; although it is clearly the work of a scholar, its abundant learning is firmly directed to practical ends. Often, when dealing with a point such as the real purpose of an obscure parable, or the authenticity of a probable late gloss, two or three theories are quoted and examined; the discussion is always scrupulously fair, but in every case Dr Hunter leaves the reader in no doubt that he feels that one answer is better than the others, and he explains just why he considers that it is better. Puzzling stories like the Unjust, Steward, the Labourers in the Vineyard, the Barren Fig Tree and the Importunate Widow, are convincingly explained. And the whole book is written in sinewy down-to-earth terms, as though the writer has got you by the coat lapels and is saying, "Now look here, man, this is the way it is; take it or leave it". I like a book to be written in that way, so long as it also sets out enough evidence to enable you to disagree intelligently with the author if you want to; and this book does just that' (The Inquirer).
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The following is an excerpt from "My Last, Best Spouse" – a play by Raoul D. Luna.
A boyfriend was the last thing I was looking for. And Billy famously said that he was just looking for a fuuuh… oh, let's just say, "something to do". Which is why one 'clicks on' to those gentlemen's websites. But there on that last page of "the men in your area" section, we found each other. We courted. We confided. In time, we married.
So just to get things straight, first we lived together, and registered as domestic partners, because we could in New Jersey, and with that we established our anniversary: the day before Thanksgiving. It's the same day every year, difficult to forget and, with a little planning, comes at the start of a four-day-weekend. Next after a long engagement we made our happy union a civil one, with a ceremony… that required a guest list… on the busiest travel day of the year. Now, through the years we have been carefully constructing our logical family, to replace our bio-logical family. Billy's "don't call her a step"-daughter was there. As was her mother, who's the ex-wife of Billy's ex-radical faerie, past-life-partner… I'm getting off track but this describes the family that I was marrying into. Which I did. Two years later, once it finally became legal in a state just a day trip away. We found a reverend online and were married in Connecticut. In that order and as they became available: Domestic Partnership, Civil Union, Marriage. My mantra became – "I will. I do. I have. I did!" It's all very confusing but we had to cover our bases. We weren't trying to be political, just ahead of the curve. We felt like a couple of rogue boy scouts collecting merit badges… in homemaking of course.


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Whether you are in Uganda for gorilla trekking safaris or any kind of business, Kampala will be your starting point. It is a safe city and easy enough to navigate on foot, despite a complete lack of signposting. The most used means of transport in Kampala are taxis minibus known locally as matatus – they are common all over East Africa and depart only when are full. They are quick, cheap and convenient. There are two matatu parks in downtown Kampala, known as the –Old and –New taxi parks, always crammed with thousands of identical looking vehicles,. It is where all matatus start and finish their journeys. Despite seeming chaotic, they are actually very organised and you just need to ask where the matatu going in your direction is parked . Just remember to yell the Swahili word for stop, 'simama' when you reach your destination.
Kampala's motorbike taxis known as boda-boda (read as 'border-border') are convenient and cheap but a little scary. Unlike in the neighbour's Rwanda, helmets are not worn. Just yell in swahili 'pole pole' – (slowly, slowly) to your driver if you are uncomfortable with the speed.


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I like to support companies that empower women from all over the world. When I heard about Quench, I knew that I had to let you know about it…
Quench is a company that has developed bath and body products based on women's "secret" beauty concoctions. The company employs small companies and co-ops from native communities to foster fair trade. All products are created with ingredients from their native lands.
Quench's founder, Shashi Srikantan, was introduced to natural beauty recipes at a young age, and since then she's had this passion to create unique bath and beauty products. You can find out more about Shashi and the birth of Quench in her blog post, The Origin and The Coneption.
I had the opportunity to try out a few of Quench's products including the Sandal Honey Body Wash and Body Butter (My favorite!) and the Tumeric Facial Wash and Facial Lotion. Not only are the products paraben-free, sodium laureth/lauryl sulfate-free, and petroleum-free, but they never use animal-based ingredients and are 100% cruelty-free. The company also donates 2% of sales to charity.
The Tumeric Facial Wash leaves my skin squeaky clean and smooth, but it has a slight floral fragrance to it. So if you're averse to fragrances in your beauty products, this product in particular may not work for you.
I also like how the Sandal Honey Body Butter leaves my skin feeling soft. I've never been to India, but when I first smelled this product, the first image that came to mind was a temple in India where women gathered to meditate and share stories.
Quench's full line of products will be officially launching on their website in early June. Stay tuned because I will be doing a giveaway for one of their gift sets around June 1st!
Until then, feel free to peruse their website to find out more about the company: http://www.quenchbathandbody.com


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We wanted to share the latest Paper Crafts cover with you guys. There is an amazing card by design team member Chan on the cover! How exciting is that?! This card is just pure Summer joy using Say Cheese and Hello Friend!
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net.wars: Think of the time you'll save
by Wendy M Grossman | posted on 04 June 2004
British Gas this week enclosed a flyer with my latest bill informing me of a campaign: "No more paper bills". Inside it, I read, "With online billing we will send an email to you to let you know your bill is ready to view online at house.co.uk, saving you time, hassle and even money, with a £5 saving for each fuel you register."
The way things work now, a bill arrives in the post. I open it, extract the bill and payment envelope, and discard the rest. Takes about two seconds. Staple the pages together. Another two seconds. The bill then floats around my desk until I remember to pay it. Yes: I write a cheque, stick it in the envelope, stick on a stamp I prepared earlier, and drop it in the mailbox next time I go out to buy milk. Grand total: slightly under a minute, all in blessed silence with no waiting.
Let's compare this to the online experience. An email arrives in a mailbox I reserve for the purpose of bills and other commercial transactions. So first I have to look at that mailbox. Then I have to click on the link or, more likely, copy it and paste it into a new browser window (because when I just click on links the really important research material I was just looking at vanishes, sometimes never to reappear). I have to log on with a user ID and password that Mozilla will kindly remember for me. The site will have to load and I will have to navigate to the right page. Then I will have to print it out (because a portion is tax-deductible). The stapling and floating will be the same. But there will be no payment envelope, so I will have to print one. I have just timed this entire process using my American Express account as a guinea pig. I make it three minutes and 22 seconds. Barclaycard, which has a much more fiddly logon procedure with many more slow-to-load pages in it, takes more than two minutes just to display a summary of the bill. To view the latest statement takes at least another minute (another two pages to load successively).
Think of the time I've saved!
Of course, I have broadband. I could save even more time if I were on dial-up.
(I don't know what they do to those pages inside Barclaycard to make them so slow - I swear they pay gremlins to sit in there and feed the electrons Marvel Snerdles to fatten them up.)
Ah, but Direct Debit, I hear British readers cry.
Yes, for people who are mad enough to let their banks pay their bills for them - the fastest way to lose track of what money you haven't got, especially if you're a freelance and therefore have an income best described as "lumpy" - and who have no reason to want to keep copies of their bills, I can sort of see that there might be some time savings. In fact, a lot of those people will probably never look at their bills, just like a lot of people never reconcile their bank statements now. So I guess those people will save time - all of seven seconds four times a year to pick the paper bill up off the doormat and drop it in the wastebasket.
But the other good thing about paper bills used to be that if the bill floating around your desk got buried or you spaced out, they would send you a nice, fat, red reminder. I only discovered that this kinder, gentler world was vanishing the other day when my mobile phone returned the error "SIM card registration failed". I looked up this error message on Google. Says it means the phone's been blacklisted. They do that when they think it's been stolen. My surmise instead, which proved to be correct, was that I had spaced out a bit too long the floating process. Emailing the company elicited the response that seven to ten days after the due date phones are cut off. No reminders, no more. (Unless you count the phone call from that Vodafone guy I cut off because I thought he was trying to sell me something.)
Somewhere in the back of the balcony, the Direct Debit cry rises again. And that is Our Future. There will be no paper bills. There will be no paper cheques (or checks). Even "cash" will be electronic digits on a smart card. Come tax time, your suppliers and customers will automagically send your records to Accounting Central, where the amount of tax you owe will be calculated. You'll get an email message telling you your tax return is ready for viewing. You will view it, but you won't understand it, but you'll press the button to sign it because it must be right, yes?, and you'll be automatic credited or debited as the case may be. You'll never know how much money you actually have, but then, let's face it, what do those numbers really mean, anyway? We can all live like aristocrats, never dirtying our hands with money.
And think of the time we'll save.
I hope you bank that time at a fabulous rate of interest, because if anything ever goes wrong, you'll spend all of it and then some disentangling the god-awful mess.
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Our monthly Monetary Watch, an Austrian take on where we are on the monetary inflation front and what's next…
Headline Monetary Aggregates in November
The U.S. money supply aggregates based on the Austrian definition of the money supply, what Austrians call the True Money Supply or TMS, were mixed in November, with our shorter-term one and three-month rate of change metrics continuing their recent surge while our longer-term twelve-month rate of change metrics showing some moderation. Focusing on TMS2, THE CONTRARIAN TAKE's preferred money supply measure, we find that it increased at an annualized rate of 15.6% in November, bringing the three-month rate of change to an annualized 15.2%. That's up from October's 14.5% rate and 13.3% rate, respectively. In contrast, the twelve-month rate of change metric on TMS2, the measure we watch most closely, went the other way, ending November at a rate of 9.8%, down from October's 10.5% rate, and marking the end, albeit barley, of 22 consecutive months of double digit increases.
As has been the case throughout 2010, M2, the mainstream's favorite monetary aggregate, continues to show subdued growth, in November posting a year over year rate of increase of 3.1%, down from October's 3.2%. As readers of this site are aware, THE CONTRARIAN TAKE posits M2 as a grossly misleading measure of the money supply, meaning the gap between the true and the perceived rate of monetary inflation is a healthy 6.7 percentage points.
True "Austrian" Money Supply (TMS), November 2010
A Return to Double Digit Increases in the Offing?
We must say that we were a bit surprised by that 9.8% twelve-month rate of change print on TMS2. As we argued in last month's Monetary Watch, we were expecting TMS2's 22-month string of double digit rate of change increases to continue well into 2011. Yes, it fell short by only 2 bps, but double digits it was not. We do think though that a return to double digit rate of change increases are in the cards, for three reasons…
First, the recent surge in TMS2 - up an annualized 10% the past six months and 15.2% the past three - should be supportive of higher twelve-month rate of change increases over the coming months.
Second, the full impact of the Federal Reserve's QE II asset purchase program was not felt in the money supply aggregates. Coming as it did mid-month, plus what appears to be a larger than projected draw-down in the Federal Reserve's Agency portfolio, QE II yielded an annualized impact of just $600 billion in November instead of the projected $900 billion.
Third, and most important, private banking institutions are not only continuing to print money, but appear to be doing so at an accelerating rate. In fact, Uncovered Money Substitutes, i.e., bank deposit liabilities not covered by bank reserves, the issuance of which is the result of the banking systems' efforts to lever up its loans and investments on top of what is currently a mountain of excess reserves, is growing at a year over year rate of 19.9%, a post credit crisis high.
Here's the 10 year record of TMS2 by inflation source, depicting the trend in Bank-Issued Uncovered Money Substitutes vs. Federal-Reserve-Issued Base Money:
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It sure feels like we're getting closer and closer to full disclosure of the new Corvette C7, as more images of the iconic sports car have surfaced this week.
These latest pics have appeared on Corvette Forum and depict the C7 Corvette's rear end, engine bay and interior. The images were posted to Corvette Forum by a user who claims he has received information in the past several months by many people. However, he refused to answer questions about the sources of these images.
The drawings appear to fit with what we have seen so far of the C7 Corvette. The exterior renderings show a much sharper Corvette than the current model. In contrast with the C6's rounded edges and more organic shapes, the C7 will switch to a sharper and futuristic design language.
Judging from the leaked interior images, GM has done some extensive work changing the dashboard. The new center console features a large display screen, while the steering wheel has a new design. Improved sport seats can also be spotted in two of the photos, while the gauge cluster seems to be made of LCD screens.
One photo reveals details about a new "Track Overlay" feature, which seems to be keeping track of several vehicle parameters such as lap times, track location, steering angle and G-forces. The new model will be premiered at the Detroit Auto Show next month.


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A winter tag game in the snow.
Game Type
Active. A lot of movement may be required.
4 or more players
What You Need To Play
In a large open area of new fallen snow, stomp the outline of a huge circle. Next stomp paths that make the circle look like a pie that has been sliced. Try not to step into the snow anywhere but the paths. One person is the fox. Everyone else are geese. The fox tries to tag the geese but everyone has to stay on the paths and not step into fresh snow. When tagged, a goose becomes the fox. Or, if you step into the snow then you become the fox. The more people, the bigger the circle. a snowy field or yard.
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Sam Wazan wears many hats; he is a successful author, business consultant, a sought after speaker, and you should see his moves on a basketball court. Though Sam juggles many balls, his passion for peaceful and harmonious co-existence is where he excels.
Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Wazan attended a Saudi Arabia-funded Islamic school until he finished tenth grade. In 1975, the Lebanese civil war broke out forcing Sam and his family to live in the combat zone for fifteen years. Sam was surrounded by snipers, indiscriminate rockets, and religious massacres, one of which was only a half a mile from his home. In spite of the elements, Sam earned a Bachelor of Science and immigrated to the United States where he earned an MBA and founded an 'information technology services company'.
Before becoming an author, before his MBA, before his success in the business world, Sam made his mark on the Basketball Courts in Lebanon. The first time Wazan laid eyes on a basketball was during the war in Lebanon. He was fifteen-years-old, six-feet tall, absence of skill (his words not mine) and coaching. As chance would have it, he found a training program in an American sports magazine and threw himself into the game. In 1985, during his first year in college, he was selected to represent Lebanon in Japan, where he played on the Lebanese Universities National Team. He was selected again in 1987 and 1988 to play in the Former Soviet Union in regional championships.
Join us May 9th on the next Tea Time with Tenya as we chat with Sam about creating harmony in the middle of conflict, business, and basketball (find out about Monster Vertical Power), LIVE on Charlotte Community Radio at 6:30pmEST.
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|Reviews for Warlock's Bazaar: The tale of the cursed bat
| KZY -AO chapter 1 . 12/14/2011
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Inara Pey, on the ball as always, has posted an update for Linden Lab's Patterns, namely that Linden Lab are discontinuing their development involvement. However, in a sign that someone at Linden Lab has grasped that software doesn't need to be buried on a dusty old shelf when a company decides to stop updating it, Linden Lab have put the feelers out to see if anyone else is interested in taking Patters onboard.
The official press release from Linden Lab, entitled The Conclusion Of Patterns, states :
Recently, Linden Lab announced that we are working on an ambitious project to create the next-generation virtual world, while we continue to improve Second Life and grow Blocksworld. As we focus on these priorities, we have ceased development for Patterns, and we will be no longer offering the game for sale.
We at Linden Lab are extremely grateful for the adventurous early players who explored the Patterns genesis release. Those who purchased the Patterns genesis release will still be able to play their copies of the game, but features relying on server connections, such as world-sharing, will not be functional.
Patterns had early promise, and while Linden Lab focuses our efforts on our other offerings, we are still evaluating the future of the Patterns technology. Interested parties are welcome to contact us with proposals.
This is quite a brave and bold move by Linden Lab and shows that Linden Lab do seem to take notice of situations in the not too distant past, as Inara points out :
The most interesting point of note with the announcement, however, is that the Lab appear to have taken on-board the Versu situation, and rather than simply closing the door, have indicated they'd be willing to hear from third parties who might be interested in taking Patterns on – albeit with the caveat that the company is still evaluating the technology used in Patterns at this time.
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Based on an ancient legend, The Web of Fate was set during the French Revolution. A fugitive aristocrat hides out in the home of his Royalist sweetheart. Alas, a troop of Republican soldiers is also billeted in the girl's mansion. One of the soldiers sense the aristocrat's presence and searches every room. He stops short at a door which is covered by spider webs. Assuming that, because the webs are unbroken, the room must be unoccupied, the soldier bypasses the door and resumes his search elsewhere. It comes as no surprise to the audience that the hero is actually secreted behind the web-encrusted door, nor was it surprising that he was able to make his escape with his sweetheart in tow.
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GameZer.com is a relatively new site that has risen quickly in popularity due to the user-friendly interface that it promotes. GameZer offers online play on a variety of different online games that feature chess, billiards, checkers, and gladiator. I enjoyed testing out GameZer´s site as it is extremely well-organized and easy to navigate. The software is extremely light and moves quickly, enabling a lag-free environment. Another great thing about GameZer.com is that you can always find a game – there are currently over 15 million registered users! So if you are looking for a *Free* website to play chess online, give GameZer a shot!
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America Imported Torture Techniques from China?
According to the NY Times (July 2, 2008), the CIA and the Pentagon lifted their use of waterboarding and other interrogation methods, that altogether amount to torture, from Chinese techniques used on American soldiers taken prisoner during the clashes over North Korea to elicit confessions from them. Some of the American soldiers had confessed under duress to participating in such things as gem warfare, a claim which the United States strongly denied at the time.


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Distributors last week began taking orders through Microsoft's Open License Value program, an alternative SMB licensing option that has raised some concern among channel partners.
The program, first reported by CRN last November, gives customers with five to 250 seats an alternative to Licensing 6.0, allowing them to pay for a companywide license or select software licenses in three annual installments. Participating distributors, designated by Microsoft as authorized license providers, deliver the licenses to end users and handle billing activities. Participating VARs are cast in the role of software advisors and receive a 10 percent commission for influencing a Microsoft software sale but never take title to the product. These solution providers are paid commissions on an annuity basis in alignment with the end users' billing over three years.
Participating distributors include ASI, Ingram Micro, Tech Data, Synnex Information Technologies and D&H Distributing, as well as Hewlett-Packard.
"[Vendors of] accounting packages have used this method for years. Accounting consultants recommend Peachtree or Great Plains or whatever and get a commission," said Jodi Honore, vice president of North American vendor management at Ingram Micro. "It's nice for the end customer because it gives them budget predictability."
Lion's Head Office Services plans to sell Microsoft software through Open License Value. Previously, the consultancy didn't resell products because it didn't want the overhead, said Lee Feldman, technology consultant at the San Pedro, Calif.-based company.
"Prior to this program, I would make a recommendation to my customers, and they would have to find their own source for purchasing those items," Feldman said. "Now we can make a recommendation [and] get a quote out with minimal paperwork and impact on our overhead."
Many resellers are taking a wait-and-see approach to the Open License Value program. Others, however, are resisting the agent model associated with it, saying it will hurt their margins and erode their control of customer accounts.
"Before, I sold the product to customers, they paid me, and my cut was up to me. Given general street prices, my cut was around 17 percent," said Walter Horowitz, president of Mardovar Networking, a reseller in Saundersville, R.I. "Under the agent model, I sell customers the product and then have to explain they are really buying it from a third party. This creates a serious problem when dealing with a government agency," he said. "The only pro to the agent model is that you do not have to have the capital or credit to cover the cost of the sale. If I have any option, I will avoid the agent sales model."


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In the week following the Pemberton Trail 50K, the warm days in the desert offered an opportunity to pile on miles.
Easy, flat footing, along with ideal temperatures, allowed me to easily log more than 45 miles, bringing my 8-day total to an all-time high. Near the end of my stay, I began reading the Hanson Marathon Method in preparation for spring and summer.
My return to Grand Forks also prompted a chance to take a few days off and regroup. Several months of running on an indoor track have taken its toll, leaving me sore and limping from ankle-related issues.
It's a delicate balance: a process I refer to building and healing. The goal is to build fitness through escalating mileage for training and attempting to heal to allow for that training. It can be a grueling process and a bit of a guessing game, especially when there are days when I simultaneously want to hammer out a fast workout but feel the aches of the grind.
Lately, I tend to focus on smiling while running all those laps at the gym. It makes it easier, and more enjoyable. It doesn't always have to be easy. But it always should be fun – and that's what keeps me coming back day after day.