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December 29, 2011
2011: A year in Review
Posted in Community, Living, and Windermere Foundation by Tara Sharp
Saturday is New Year's Eve, and the year in review articles, top ten lists of 2011, and 2012 predictions are showing up everywhere.
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December 19, 2011
December Perspectives
Posted in Buying, Selling, Perspectives, and Windermere by Windermere Guest Author
The year is nearly over, the holidays are in full swing, and reflection and resolution are top of mind. As we look back at the past year, it's clear that in many ways 2011 was a time of transition and renewal for the residential real estate market.
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December 15, 2011
The Risks, Rewards, and Benefits of Owning Rental Property
Posted in Uncategorized by Shelley Rossi
In the first quarter of this year, landlords and property managers across the country rented more apartments and homes than they have during the first quarters of the past ten years.
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December 09, 2011
Make Your Home Safe for the Holidays
Posted in Living by Windermere Guest Author
Statistics show there's a significant increase in home-related accidents, fires, and burglaries around the holidays. To protect your family, friends and property, heed these six suggestions:
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Celebrating 50 years in the United States, Suzuki has a "special edition limited production" Suzuki GSX-R1000 for the 2014 model year. Only fifty units of this machine will be sold to brand enthusiasts in the USA (100 units worldwide), with the 2014 Suzuki GSX-R1000 SE Limited Production debuting today at the Indianapolis GP.
Like the 2013 Suzuki GSX-R1000 "One Millionth" Special Edition we saw late last year, the machine is mostly a cosmetic exercise. Highlights include a chrome-plated frame, and a polished chrome rims that have blue spokes. Other blue bits abound, for +1,000 biker boyz bling points.
If this sort of thing gets you going, you'll have to check with your local Suzuki dealer about getting one. As of this moment, pricing and availability have not been announced. An attractive, though entirely unmoving, machine — you will find photos after the jump.
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In BrikWars, there is probably nothing more satisfying than witnessing the complete and utter annihilation of a city block. Watching buildings get torn apart by artillery and having snipers fight each other from the rooftops probably has more awesome than anything else. With that in mind the Minifigs often construct houses, office buildings, bunkers, and restaurants from which to do battle and to destroy. In addition to the obvious, structures can also be used as objectives or they may house objectives in a tactical battle and may even serve to modify the Battlescape in some manner. As such, structures are often the players' most versatile terrain.
- 1 Famous Buildings
- 2 Atmospheric and Tactical Buildings
- 3 Environmental Structures
- 4 Specialized and Utility Structures
Famous Buildings
Famous Buildings are influential elements of the BrikWars Canon. They help to define the setting and are well known to its players.
Hospital 555
Yellow Castle
Atmospheric and Tactical Buildings
Atmospheric Buildings are table dressing, meant to provide very basic wargaming needs such as cover and obstruction while simultaneously enhancing the play experience by providing a visual aesthetic pleasing to the players. Tactical Buildings serve the same purpose, except they usually have some greater game based function.
Airports are locations that vary from a huge, crowded, self-contained community to a dirt streak in a pasture with a lifeguard chair for a control tower. It is here where planes take off after being loaded with passengers, snakes, bombs or whatever mayhem the Humans see fit. Planes, however, tend not to actually land at airports since they usually explode, crash, or make good use of Kamikaze tactiks.
Possible Uses:
- Access to aviation vehicles.
- The large number of civilians could serve as allies or neutral parties.
- Planes could serve as explosive caches or deathtraps.
- Planes could deploy reinforcements.
Tactical Considerations:
- Airports contain lots of open space with very little real cover, even inside the terminals. If there are a lot of civilians, however, soft cover can be obtained by using the crowd to one's advantage.
- High ground advantage exists from the tower and arriving or departing planes. Since the planes are temporary affairs, the tower is sure to be an objective of contention.
Armories and Supply Depots
A staple for any self-respecting fortress, SHIP, outpost, or fast-food joint. It is here, shelved in gleaming chrome or hanging on slabs of stone, that the tools of mass destruction and hilarity sought after by all in the BrikVerse rest. Usually at an intersection or other easy-to-reach location, the armory is a fighting man's best friend. It is this room where men give their lives to hold back the zombie/barbarian/alien horde and save civilization, and is immortalized for the best place for a pre-battle montage of soldiers arming to the teeth while the beginning credits appear.
Possible Uses:
- Supply and Resupply.
- Obtain specialized equipment or objectives.
Tactical Considerations:
- An armory may have limited access, so watch your exits.
- Supply dumps serve as primary targets for your enemies. An army without weapons is a bunch of figs with shoves. Consider doing the same.
- Remember to protect your supplies but be prepared to burn them as well; other tactical options may present themselves if you buy yourself some time.
Bunkers are heavily fortified buildings where you can put gun emplacements and hold out from apoc-zombies, nukes, and invaders. They are usually underground and have limited access. Smaller versions are called pill boxes.
Possible Uses:
- Provide stationary cover.
- Protect a mobile objective.
- Fallback point, take and hold, or survival objectives work well here.
Tactical Considerations:
- Provides for heavy cover but minimal mobility. Heavier weaponry may be better deployed here.
- Bunkers are obvious and noticeable, making for common targets. Prepare accordingly.
Castles and Defensive Installations
Castles and other such installations are large scale buildings generally built with defense in mind. Due to their massive size, however, they also serve as containment units, housing small to large residential areas and other functionable structures. They can also mount large scale ordinance. They might serve as cities in their own right, military installations, or imposing wards.
Possible Uses:
- Siege Warfare.
- Castles and other such installations, if they are large enough, could literally serve as the entire setting for a battle or story.
Tactical Considerations:
- Concerning Castles in particular: The keep is at the very heart of castle strategy. Usually situated at the back of or in the middle of the fortress, well away from structural weaknesses such as gates, drawbridges, large windows and doggie-doors. The keep is where the most important people in any kingdom will hide, generally while wishing that they had sprung for the more expensive castle with the hidden escape tunnels. The walls are what set a true castle apart from a stand-alone keep, or an unprotected garrison. they are strong, thick and generally monochromatic. Tactically, they provide an ideal defense against ground-based troops. Many castle walls are topped with a rampart and crenelations, the rampart being the pathway around the inside of the walls, provide the perfect place from which to insult invading armies, and/or fart in their general directions. And the crenelations being the intermittent blocks which partially obscure the ramparts, providing cover from most missiles. The Moat is the outermost of the perimeter defenses, it consists of a deep trough cut around the bottom of the castle, usually this is filled in with water, as it is a widely known fact that hordes cannot swim. This feature may be lacking in some castles, but others make up for it by having mega-awesome pits filled spikes and venomous creatures. These strategies may be adopted for other large scale defensive installations.
Death Walls
A Death Wall is a huge wall with heavy defenses on it that makes lesser minifigs shit their pants when they're forced to march towards it. It has to have seen at least approximately a fuckton of minifigs die before it deserves the title death wall (see: Natalya's Death Wall, the Walls of Fico, Starkeep, Lion's Maw, or the Walls of Kerrat).
Alternately, a death wall can be a wall so useless it actually gets those defending it killed more quickly and crumbles apart at the slightest assault, but is still appreciated because of the amount of carnage it allows, or even causes. (see the Bavarian Gustav Line or the Brittanian Wall of Fort Maren.)
Death walls may not suffer from Big Gray Wall syndrome.
Possible Uses:
- To hold a perimeter or line in a battle.
- A convenient place to pile corpses.
Tactical Considerations:
- Assaulting or defending a Death Wall is similar to a castle siege but may involve somewhat different approaches due to the dimensions of the defensive line. A death wall serves only in this capacity. A castle or other defensive installation may, however, employ death walls.
- Bring something nasty to the party or you may not be able to pierce the defensive hail of enemy fire or the wall itself.
- Prepare for heavy fire and a total lack of cover on approach when assaulting.
- Learn to pick your targets wisely when defending.
GasStations and TruckStops
GasStations and TruckStops house massive repositories of various fuels, from gasolines and diesels to breakfast burritos and SodaPops. Usually filled with civilians on their way to and fro, these important structures are epitome of culture. They fulfill every minifig need, at sneakily exorbitant cost, from refuelling vehicles and bodies to exploding barrels of flammable fuels.
Possible Uses:
- Explosive fuel dump.
- Source of vehicles.
- Civilian population can serve as allies or neutral parties.
Tactical Considerations:
- Fuel repositories, as in action movies, explode a lot. Use this to your advantage.
- While the buildings are often small and the lots are open, the abundance of vehicles still provides a lot of cover, some of it perhaps mobile.
Large and Small Business Offices
Often called training centers or concentration camps, Offices exist to hone a minifigure's frustration and rage to a razor's edge. They are considered fundamental in urban areas not only because they maintain all the paperwork that keeps track of death tolls (something CityFolk are oddly fond of) but also because of their boring, oppressive environments. Minifigs aren't patient creatures by nature and being forced to sit around, not killing things, is an agony to them. You can always tell someone is about to be promoted when flipped tables or dead bodies go crashing out of fifth story plate glass windows.
Possible Uses:
- The large number of workers could be used as allies, neutral parties, or cleverly sprung traps.
- Source of OfficeSupplies, handy when you need to MacGyver something mid-battle.
Tactical Considerations:
- Office buildings are a tactical joy: multiple floors, height and line of sight advantages, loaded with basic materials, etcetera.
- Offices are a powderkeg ready to blow. Consider using the disgruntled employees against your opponent, perhaps by baiting and tailing them.
- Keep the windows in mind. Enhanced LOS out also allows for LOS in.
- Think Die Hard.
Many countries and empires maintain a strong police force to deal with the inevitable crimes that occur in a society where everyone aspires to become a mass murderer. Unlike in the Human world, such feats of violence are glorified parts of a minifig's everyday life, police forces don't exist to prevent or punish homicidal rampages, but merely to regulate them at a government-prescribed level and to otherwise maintain their governments' executive monopoly on mass slaughter. During periods of low homicide rates, police forces really have no good reason to exist other than to annoy and ticket speeding drivers, consume copious amounts of ABS donuts and coffee, and engage in the occasional shootout or awesome high-speed chase; these have the effects of disgruntling the local citizens and increasing their propensity to go on wild murder sprees. These cops are housed at police stations, of which there is usually at least one in every town or city. Police stations are quite large, but only have room to hold 1 or 2 kriminals at a time. This tiny inmate capacity is rarely an issue because every cell has at least one breakable or missing wall, a design innovation which has been found to be an effective means of preventing prison overcrowding.
Possible Uses:
- A Station could serve as an impromptu weapons cache.
- Officers could serve as allies or a neutral party that attacks and arrests interlopers.
- Criminals could serve as allies if broken out or a neutral party that attacks nearby minifigs.
- Stations could serve as a "doomsday clock," limiting the number of available turns before an Officer calls in government reinforcement to "contain" the situation.
Tactical Considerations:
- Reinforced walls and cells make for excellent cover. Conversely, action-breakable walls make for enhanced mobility and possible deceptive movement.
- Trained allies may turn the tide of battle or, at least, give one time to deploy a new tactik.
Residential Areas
Minifigs need someplace to store their weapons in between campaigns of slaughter. And, you know, a place to sleep and eat. Houses and apartments fit that bill nicely. Home to a bewildering array of specialty items, a goodly cache of weapons, and usually a handful of reliable vehicles, Residential Areas are prime targets for raiders and key defensive locations, to be protected at all costs, for military and civilian minifigs alike.
Possible Uses:
- Objects can serve as objectives.
- Residential Areas could be used to determine battlefield control.
- The massive number of civilians could be allies or neutral parties.
- Serves as a source of vehicles, weapons, and assorted other useful items.
Tactical Considerations:
- Most residential areas, even if just inside the homes themselves, are dense. Narrow hallways can become killzones and tight corners can restrict line of sight.
- Approach cautiously but quickly, from more than one angle simultaneously, while having each man able to cover another's fire lane. Coordinate effectively.
Restaurants and Other Food Service Businesses
A minifig's gotta eat...well, they don't have to but sometimes they enjoy the practice. Plus, its a way to dispose of all those corpses. And what better time to get the drop on an opponent than when he has his face stuffed full of long pig? Restaurants make for exciting places to have shootouts. Glass shatters, tables get flipped, and the possibilities in a kitchen full of fryers, ovens, and cold storage are endless.
Possible Uses:
- Food can serve to recharge a minifig's energy.
- Food fights are a time honored and practical use of a minifigure's time.
Tactical Considerations:
- There is a lot of open space and sight lines in a restaurant but also a lot of soft cover in chairs, tables, and buffet bars. Make good use of it.
- Highly dangerous hazards and equipment can be found in the kitchen area. Head there for maximum hilarity.
- Always tip your server.
Environmental Structures
Environmental Structures can serve aesthetic or tactical designs, of course, but the primary reason for their inclusion is as a basic modification to the Battlescape. They alter the entire battle in some way, usually related to the environment detailed in the battle's narrative.
Astral Constructs
Astral Constructs are Creations that appear on the Astral Plate. These are most often buildings and the like but there have been some cases of other kinds of Creations, like SHIPs, appearing as Astral Constructs. There are essentially three types. First and foremost are Mirror Constructs. These locales are the idealized Astral reflection of some particularly important site in the RealVerse, even if those sites no longer exist. Second are those created by powerful beings, such as gods or humans. These tend to be much more permanent and unchangeable than other structures in the Astral and often serve as waystations or headquarters. Last are constructs which ebb and flow around the consciousness' in the area. Most often they vaguely mirror their counterparts in the RealVerse but in a twisted and unexpected manner. These constructs are never permanent and change shape and function often.
Possible Uses:
- To navigate the Astral Plate.
- Serve as a morphic terrainscape.
- Spawn any sort of creature, item, or building.
Tactical Considerations:
- You never know what's coming in the Astral. What you see around you could change at a moment's notice. This isn't much different from the regular BrikVerse, so BrikVersians have an advantage here and are able to react more quickly than other universal denizens. However, the changes are still more mercurial and even BrikVersians may be outpaced.
Moon, Asteroidal, or Space Facilities
As evidenced by the overabundance of Space Empires in the BrikVerse, minifigs are always wandering off into space. There are a great many resources to gather and wars to be waged. And, after all, more space means more room to do it all in. Engagements can become ever larger and more epic and the value of resources (and the Creations those resources go toward making) becomes ever more extravagant. Natural byproducts, then, of this expansion include MoonBases, Asteroidal Mining Colonies, SpaceStations, and the like. They serve as the platforms for resource gathering (and, more importantly, for the struggle over those resources) as well as military launchpoints, garrisons, and for other combative purposes.
Possible Uses:
- Obtain or Defend Resources.
- House Armies.
- Plot Villainously.
Tactical Considerations:
- These environments allow for low gravity movement. Some of them allow for gravity to be adjusted on a whim. Take advantage of the movement situation but be aware than other gravity environments can be tricky.
- These facilities often have really heavy duty machinery, both of the construction and destruction varieties. Use them to full effect to create as much mayhem as possible.
UnderWater Installations
Whether used as a means to hide a secret laboratory by submerging it in the deep, a way to gather resources from the ocean floors, or as an unexpected launching point for some military engagement, it can't be denied that UnderWater Installations are an extravagant and iconic trope. Whatever the case, minifigs are only too happy to have yet another way to do battle.
Possible Uses:
- Stage underwater battles.
- Use underwater equipment and creatures.
Tactical Considerations:
- Three dimensional combat is prevalent in underwater scenarios. Be aware that attacks could come from any direction. More importantly, never forget that you can attack from any direction.
- Specialized equipment may be required to operate underwater. If that equipment gets damaged, the minifig relying on it may be out of the fight.
Specialized and Utility Structures
Specialized Structures are pieces that represent a singular function, depending on player taste and the narrative of their battle. This may be purely aesthetic or it may serve some very specific game-related function like an objective that does only one thing when captured. Utility Structures are structures that facilitate an alteration to the basic ruleset instead of Battlescape, such as racing or roleplaying.
Arenas, oddly enough, are one of the more failed examples of BrikVersian architecture. Originally designed to specifically house violence as a spectator sport, these massive constructions seated thousands of minifigs around a central combat floor. Though their actual construction varied somewhat from culture to culture (from sand pits to floating crystalline disks hovering over a variety of deathtraps), their central design philosophy remained the same: provide an artificial location for combatants to duke it out and plenty of space for other minifigs to get a good view of it and revel in the carnage. The reality, however, is minifig reception to the idea ranged from disgust and a feeling of being insulted to outright disinterest. Mostly disinterest. Minifigs already have a place to fight and revel in carnage. It's called "Everywhere Else." And, of course, with the advent of the Far-Ums, the need for physical seating has become a thing of the distant past. Thus, most Arenas are now little more than crumbling ruins, piles of briks not being put to better use. Nevertheless, some of the more martial minded cultures still use them for training purposes or to keep their populations in line by forcing them to participate in the "fake" combat Arenas offer.
Possible Uses:
- Training Grounds.
- Population Control.
- Hideouts and similar retreats.
- Tournaments, challenges, and other tests of worthiness.
Tactical Considerations:
- Ruins provide a steady flow of basic brikbuilding resources.
- While there is a good deal of open ground topside, Arenas often feature more complex underground facilities.
- In functioning Arenas, the stands are a great place to start a riot.
Dungeons are often, in the eyes of many BrikVerse minifigures, the most important (or at least coolest) room in a large space ship or fortress. This room is a combination of torture gallery, transplant-surgery theatre, and over-all prison. It should come with a torture table, some kind of execution chamber, (usually electric or gas, but a firing range is good too) some surgical apparatus for the transfer of POW figs' parts onto wounded soldiers', and a few holding cages. More insane dungeon designers come up with more insane ways of executing minifigs though, so in the ships or bases of especially demented minifgs you might find things like snake pits or lava pools which minifigs are lowered in to their deaths.
Possible Uses:
- House and interrogate prisoners to obtain tactical information.
- Stage rescue attempts.
Tactical Considerations:
- There's a whole lot of really deadly stuff in a dungeon. Most of it takes some time and effort to use, however, and a whole lot of it is designed for pain, not death. As an attacker, consider moving quickly and ignoring most of what you find unless its small, light, or easily usable.
- As a defender, consider the worth of the possible information. If it will help you achieve victory, defend the chamber with all you've got. If not, abandon it at the earliest opportunity and use the time gained to set up a counterstrike.
Mazes, Labyrinths, and ObstacleCourses
Mazes, Labyrinths, ObstacleCourses, and the like serve a very unique function in many BrikVersian societies. As in the human world, these sorts of structures do exist to fluster and bewilder those caught within its confines. However, the end purpose is different for denizens of the BrikVerse. For Humans, confusion is goal enough. For BrikVersians, confusion is the means to a greater end. A stymied minifig is a very, very dangerous beast. Minifigs, in general, don't enjoy thinking too terribly much. They certainly don't enjoy a lack of killing while they're sat about doing all this thinking. This sort of situation can break a minifig's mind, turning them into an engine of mindless rage. Which usually works well enough for the owners of the Maze, though Offices are usually the more efficient and expedient method of obtaining these beasts. However, just sometimes, great leaders are forged through this trial, leaders reforged with a tactikal mindset and a deep, cold rage, and therein lies the true purpose of the BrikVersian Labyrinth.
Possible Uses:
- To forge shock troopers.
- To forge great leaders.
- As tests of worthiness.
- To protect Artifax of great power from lesser minifigs.
Tactical Considerations:
- A battle in a Labyrinth can be a frustrating affair, stick close to your enemy lest he elude you like the coward he is.
- As distasteful as it sounds, make good decisions and use consistent logic to quickly see your way through. Unless your goal is to become a mindless engine of war. Which, let's face it, is a pretty damn good goal.
Good old fashioned war, minifig against minifig dashing about and clashing forcefully together in a ballet of death on the field of battle, never really gets old. But there are always ways to expand the experience. For most BrikVersians, more ways to experience sheer bloody carnage can never really be a bad thing. For some BrikVersians, the way to make battle even more interesting is to put it on wheels and drive it down the highway to hell, mounted machine guns a-blazing. RaceCourses can take a variety of forms, depending upon the vehicles being used (from deathbikes and machine gun toting cars to starfighters), and maybe located virtually anywhere in the known galaxies. One of the more expansive examples is BrikRace, a Far-Ums show featuring a variety of races from around the universe.
Possible Uses:
- Prove dominance in more than one arena.
- More things to put more dakka on.
Tactical Considerations:
- Vehicle speed creates an added element of danger, that of collision damage, so take advantage whenever possible.
- Pilots, drivers, and riders are typically more protected from incoming damage than they otherwise would be on foot, prepare some anti-armor weaponry and accuracy boosts in order to mitigate this advantage.
- Bring pilots to a drive-fight. You want to be able to maximize your killing efficiency.


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Okla. Election Board On Track to Send Out Ballots (Sep 20, 2012)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma troops stationed around the world and other overseas voters should be getting their absentee ballots soon to vote in November's general election.
Oklahoma State Election Board Secretary Paul Ziriax said Wednesday that county election boards across the state are on schedule to meet the Sept. 21 deadline to send out absentee ballots to overseas voters. The ballots were printed last week and delivered to county election boards on Monday.
New federal guidelines require election board officials to send absentee ballots to overseas voters at least 45 days prior to the election. County election boards must send absentee ballots within 48 hours to overseas voters
who apply for them after the 45-day deadline. The deadline for voters to request an absentee ballot for the general election is Oct. 31.
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The Kraken wakes
Alfold, Surrey — Global developments since my last report have been adequately covered elsewhere, albeit that most of these of any significance will have been predicted here some time ago. You can review for example how on January 8, 2008, very nearly 11 months before www.fivethirtyeight.com was allegedly the first to have called it, I forsaw Obama's victory here. (You'd have got 50-1). Despite such a track record, since globally there are now more blogs than mice, this blog's infrequency will have negligible effect on the global buzz.
Furthermore, since this space became quiescent, other than the occasional dog bulletin, there has been an absence of complaint other than from Jacques, my "fan" in Nancy, France, who is forgiven his irritating pedantry (he is a teacher) in return for his loyalty. He may not understand the vulgarity of competing for page views with the likes of Huffington, although this failure has nothing to do with him being French. In any case my new priority is to grow my own veg, with a sideline in physic herbs, which I will mix into spells using my new cauldron. I have some very good Fever Few on the go but my scientist neighbour advises me I will need a special licence for the belladonna and deadly nightshade.
This is merely a note to thank those of you who are still dropping by despite my indolence, but especially to say hello to those who arrive here by serendipity, looking for n'importe quoi.
Here, for those in the latter classification, are some bits & pieces from I told you so that might be worth a visit if not a detour. With Proustian discipline, I shall limit myself to 13:
- My biography (in progress) of Morris Miller, kinsman and hero of the Spanish Civil War. I am growing quercus ilex from acorns I recovered from the place where he was killed.
- Afghanistan I take no pleasure in saying this has been a case where I told you so has been tragically proven prescient.
- Foot & Mouth Big Epizootic Page. If you want to have confidence in the ability of the British government to handle any forthcoming public health crisis, do not read this. I am afraid this is another case where ITYS was right from the start.
- Why I hate trains. They were fabulous in the 19th century, useful in the 20th, but the attempt to revive them is a bizarre transportation choice driven by a cult of fundamentalist train buffs. Obviously, one makes an exception for old steam trains, and paintings by Chris Ludlow.
- What does it mean to read? This is the question posed by Pierre Bayard who I like not only because he annoys fellow academics. The argument for not reading inspires even if it is not the same as the case for not writing, although this is also a very good thing.
- What does it mean to be English? What does it mean to be French? It is amazing how many people do not understand Hortense.
- The Goddess who invented the alphabet . Some sources on Boccaccio's almost forgotten famous woman.
- A Lacanian interprets Google. Jacques-Alain Miller doesn't get it.
- Zionism and 'anti-semitism' Big News Page. (Obama's pandering speech to Aipac does not seem to put him on the right side of these questions.)
- Iraq. Big Stale News Page. All this is getting a little historical but at least it is another example where ITYS was right from the start. It is tedious being correct on so many big questions but there it is. This is as much about spin and media as it is about war.
- A rumination on Arthur Ransome. Another almost forgotten figure worth revisiting, whose robust views on the need for children to be independent have been swept away by a tide of nannyism.
- ITYS was also right about the uselessness of the London police chief. I am afraid this is an example of angst that probably reads rather tediously but sometimes one's hatred for the corruption of our rulers becomes overwhelming and results in sense of humour failure and loss of journalistic superficiality.
- The strange netherworld of the British Broadcasting Corporation. Honestly this is a ghastly organisation that has nothing to do with the public broadcasting we deserve. I've been at them for years, and they get worse and worse. I may have told you so – and by now most people agree with me – but the Ministry of Truth sails on.
I apologise if this list does not feature some of my other thrilling observations (including the embarrassing profession of admiration for Mika), and other little features on such as the cities of Berlin and Poznan. There are many other subjects discussed herein with varying degrees of sobriety which you may discover whilst browsing through this whelk of the blogosphere.
When you start writing it is hard to stop, especially on the palimpsest of the WordPress template. Nevertheless, I have to go now – il faut cultiver notre jardin.


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By Tim Reynolds | Associated Press
MIAMI -- LeBron James scored 28 points, Dwyane Wade scored 11 of his 24 in the final five minutes, and the Miami Heat extended the NBA's longest current winning streak to 11 games, beating the Cleveland Cavaliers 109-105 in a back-and-forth matchup Sunday night.
Mario Chalmers scored 16 points, Shane Battier added 14 and Ray Allen had 11 for the Heat, who took a 22-point lead early in the second half, then prevailed despite being outscored by a whopping 30 points over a 17-minute stretch.
Miami was down eight with 5:16 remaining, and still won.
Dion Waiters scored 26 points, C.J. Miles added 19 and Kyrie Irving scored 17 for Cleveland. The Cavaliers are now 1-8 against the Heat since James signed with Miami in July 2010.
Cleveland erased a 22-point deficit in the third quarter to take the lead, and led by 97-89 with 5:16 remaining -- before the Heat found a way to come back.
More specifically, before Wade found a way to come back.
Wade started what turned into a 16-4 run with a fadeaway with just under 5 minutes to go, then added a three-point play on the next Miami possession to cut the Cavs' lead to 97-94.
The Heat were back in business. And after Irving missed a layup with about 1:35 left, Wade got the rebound and wound up setting up Battier for a 3-pointer that put Miami on top again -- and for good.
From there, the Heat got a little bit of luck. Bosh set up James for what should have been an easy layup with about 40 seconds left. James somehow missed, and the ball wound up back in Bosh's hands, the Heat having a new shot clock. Wade wore it down, then drove the left side of the lane for a two-handed slam with 24.4 seconds to play, and Miami on top by four.
End result of James missing the easy one: Another 16 seconds coming off the clock, and Miami extending the lead to two-possession territory anyway.
Down 68-46 early in the third quarter, the Cavaliers looked finished -- last-place team, on the road, against the reigning NBA champions who just happened to have the league's longest current winning streak.
Midway through the third, Miami's lead was still 17.
With two minutes left in the period, the cushion was 10.
By the start of the fourth, it was nonexistent. The C.J. Miles Show lasted for all of 63 seconds. And they were a scintillating 63 seconds.
It starts with 1:35 left, a 3-pointer from Miles getting the Miami lead down to seven. Then he got a rebound, came downcourt and connected on another 3-pointer. Lead down to four. Another stop by the Cavs on one end, then another 3-pointer for Miles on the other -- that one coming both with him drawing a foul from Mario Chalmers, and with Heat coach Erik Spoelstra getting hit with a technical from referee Ed Malloy for arguing.
He made the technical free throw to tie the game, the free throw for the Chalmers hit to put the Cavs ahead, and they carried that 82-81 lead into the fourth, having closed the quarter on a 36-13 run.
Miami used a 23-4 run in the first half to take what looked like a commanding 42-22 lead -- with more than 9 minutes left until the break. The Heat then managed only one field goal in the span of about five minutes, giving Cleveland the chance claw back into things, which the Cavs did.
Thompson attacked the basket for a pair of scores, Waiters scored from close range as well, and the Cavs were suddenly within 48-41.
So Miami answered with another burst. James didn't miss in the final 4:29 of the half, scoring 10 points on a 4-for-4 run from the floor and fueling what became 16-5 spurt that gave Miami a 64-46 lead going into the locker room. And for good measure, Miami got the first two baskets of the second half, pushing the lead to 22, the biggest of the night.
Over, right?
Not even remotely close.
NOTES: Miami's two wins over Cleveland this season, both at home, have come by a combined six points. ... Heat F Mike Miller (ear infection) was back with the team Sunday, though did not play. "He can't hear anything we're saying," Spoelstra quipped before the game. ... The Heat held a moment of silence pregame for Los Angeles Lakers owner Dr. Jerry Buss, the moment ending with warm applause from the crowd. Heat President Pat Riley coached for Buss, and Cavaliers coach Byron Scott once played for the Lakers.


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Ursula Meier's Sister and documentary More Than Honey were the big winners at this year's Swiss Film Awards.
The drama picked up three Quartz trophies for Best Film, Best Screenplay (co-written with Antoine Jaccoud) and Best Actor for teenager Kacey Mottet Klein.
Sister is set at a Swiss ski resort and centres on a boy who supports his sister by stealing from wealthy guests. The film premiered at the 2012 Berlinale where it received a Silver Bear and is handled internationally by Memento Films.
Documentary winners
At the awards ceremony in Geneva on Saturday evening, Swiss documentaries were particularly successful.
Best Documentary went to Markus Imhoof's More Than Honey, which also won Best Film Score for Peter Schererhas. The film, which examines honeybee colonies around the world, has recorded more than 200,000 admissions in Swiss cinemas.
Another doc that picked up two Quartz trophies included Hiver Nomade, winning Best Cinematography for Camille Cottagnoud and the Swiss Film Academy's Special Prize for Karine Sudan's editing.
The Best Animation Film award went to brothers Frédéric and Samuel Guillaume's doc La nuit de l'ours.
This year's Honorary Award was presented to documentary film-maker Jacqueline Veuve who was prevented by ill-health from accepting the distinction in person, but was represented by her husband Leopold.
The evening's favourite, Marcel Gisler's Rosie, which had received six nominations, took home only one Quartz for actress Sibylle Brunner who had played the title role.
Other prizes included Best Supporting Actor for Antonio Buil in Nicolas Wadimoff's Operation Libertad and Best Short Fiction Film for Rolando Colla's Einspruch VI.
Cloud Atlas leads Lola nominations
Awards season continues in Germany where the nominations for this year's German Film Awards, popularly known as the Lolas, were revealed at the weekend ahead of the ceremony in Berlin's Friedrichstadtpalast on April 26.
- See below for full list
Big budget epic Cloud Atlas by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski's led the field with a total of nine nominations including for Feature Film and Best Direction.
As with Roland Emmerich's Anonymous last year, the majority of Cloud Atlas' nominations are in seven technical categories - from Best Cinematography through Best Musical Score to Best Costume Design.
Some observers have again raised the question of the place of English-language productions in the German Film Awards which, they argue, should celebrate the achievements of German cinema.
Oh Boy
Meanwhile, Jan Ole Gerster's debut Oh Boy, whose budget was a fraction of Cloud Atlas' at around €300,000, attracted eight nominations, including Best Feature Film, Best Direction, Best Male Lead (Tom Schilling), Best Supporting Actor (Michael Gwisdek), and Best Screenplay.
Oh Boy, which has been seen by over 230,000 cinema-goers in Germany, is also enjoying considerable success on the international festival circuit – most recently in Sofia where it received the Grand Prix – and is now beginning its theatrical release outside of Germany..
Cloud Atlas and Oh Boy will by vying for the Golden Lola for Best Feature Film with Margarethe von Trotta's Hannah Arendt, Cate Shortland's Lore, Oskar Roehler's Quellen des Lebens and Julian Roman Pölsler's Die Wand.
The honours for Best Documentary will be fought out between Markus Imhoof's Swiss Film Award-winning More Than Honey, David Sieveking's Vergiss Mein Nicht and Arnon Goldfinger's Die Wohnung.
The Lola for the Best Children's Film will be a two-horse race between Cyrill Boss and Philipp Steinert's Das Haus der Krokodile and Leo Khasin's Kaddisch für einen Freund.
Nomination cash prizes
The production companies who have films nominated in the three categories of Best Feature Film, Best Documentary and Best Children's Film, can already consider themselves winners as State Minister for Culture and Media Bernd Neumann has paid out €2.05m in nomination premiums to these titles.
The six films nominated as Best Feature Film received €250,000 each to be invested by the producers in future film projects, while the three nominated documentaries each took home €100,000 and the two children's films €125,000.
Moreover, this year will see an Audience Award being presented again for the first time since 2005 by readers of the listings magazine TV Spielfilm voting for their favourite from the 12 most successful German films of 2012, ranging from the top local production Türkisch für Anfänger through Hanni & Nanni 2 to Koköwääh 2 at www.tvspielfilm.de/Publikumspreis until April 22.
Minister criticises public television
Minister Neumann used the occasion of the nomination event to add his voice to the chorus of concern about German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF's future commitments to the domestic film industry.
"The channels have a distinct cultural obligation and thus an explicit responsibility to contribute to the safeguarding of German and European film production," Neumann declared.
"It is therefore not acceptable that some channels are cutting their financial contributions and are in some cases withdrawing completely from production. German film productions should have the best slots in the schedules just as major sports events do."
Distributors' lobby
Neumann's comments follow the establishment last week of new lobbying group "DI – Die Independents" which has been launched to draw attention to the negative effects for the local film industry of ARD and ZDF's film acquisition and programming policies.
The group of 23 independent German distributors includes Constantin Film, Koch Media, Senator Filmverleih, DCM, StudioCanal and Wild Bunch Germany and has its headquarters in Munich.
In a first communiqué, the Independents noted that the broadcasters' self-imposed focus on ratings meant they no longer considered such highly decorated and Oscar-winning films as The Artist, Midnight In Paris or Habemus Papam as being suitable for the prime-time schedules.
The consequence was that "the cultural diversity of the German film landscape and the range of films on offer in Germany faces becoming impoverished."
Trade associations of German producers, screenwriters, film directors, actors as well as the German Film Academy also aired their concerns in public statements in recent weeks.
Full list of Lola nominatons
Best Film
Cloud Atlas
Hannah Arendt
Oh Boy
Quellen Des Lebens
Die Wand
Best Documentary
More Than Honey
Vergiss Mein Nicht
Die Wohnung
Best Screenplay
Pam Katz, Margarethe von Trotta – Hannah Arendt
Jan Ole Gerster – Oh Boy
Anna Maria Praßler – Schuld Sind Immer Die Anderen
Best Director
Jan Ole Gerster – Oh Boy
Margarethe von Trotta – Hannah Arendt
Lana Wachowski, Andy Wachowski, Tom Tykwer – Cloud Atlas
Best Actress
Martina Gedeck – Die Wand
Birgit Minichmayr – Gnade
Barbara Sukowa – Hannah Arendt
Best Actor
Edin Hasanovic – Schuld Sind Immer Die Anderen
Tom Schilling – Oh Boy
Sabin Tambrea – Ludwig II
Best Supporting Actress
Margarita Broich – Quellen Des Lebens
Friederike Kempter – Oh Boy
Christine Schorn – Das Leben Ist Nichts Für Feiglinge
Best Supporting Actor
Michael Gwisdek – Oh Boy
Robert Gwisdek – Das Wochenende
Ernst Stötzner – Was Bleib
Best Cinematography
Adam Arkapaw – Lore
Jakub Bejnarowicz – Gnade
John Toll, Frank Griebe – Cloud Atlas
Best Editing
Alexander Berner – Cloud Atlas
Anne Fabini – More Than Honey
Anja Siemens – Oh Boy
Best Production Design
Susann Bieling – Die Abenteuer Des Huck Finn
Uli Hanisch, Hugh Bateup – Cloud Atlas
Udo Kramer – Die Vermessung Der Welt
Best Costumes
Kym Barrett, Pierre-Yves Gayraud – Cloud Atlas
Stefanie Bieker – Lore
Frauke Firl – Hannah Arendt
Thomas Oláh – Die Vermessung Der Welt
Best Make-up
Jeannette Latzelsberger, Gregor Eckstein, Elke Lebender, Stephanie Däbritz, Julia Rinkl – Quellen Des Lebens
Daniel Parker, Jeremy Woodhead – Cloud Atlas
Astrid Weber – Hannah Arendt
Best Score
The Major Minors, Cherilyn MacNeil – Oh Boy
Max Richter – Lore
Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil – Cloud Atlas
Best Sound Design
Christian Bischoff, Uve Haussig, Johannes Konecny – Die Wand
Benjamin Krbetschek, Holger Lehmann – Du Hast Es Versprochen
Stefan Soltau, Björn Wiese, Dominik Rätz – Gnade
Markus Stemler, Ivan Sharrock, Frank Kruse, Matthias Lempert, Roland Winke, Lars Ginzel – Cloud Atlas
Best Kids' Film
Das Haus Der Krokodile
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New trustee joins W. Dundee board
The West Dundee village board has added a new trustee to its ranks.
On Monday night, trustees unanimously appointed Michelle Kembitzky, a resident who has lived in town for 21 years and has found herself with more time to volunteer now that her two children are away at college.
She was sworn into office moments later -- her term ends in April of 2015.
"As a trustee, you can do no wrong," Trustee Norm Osth joked. "Everything is right."
Kembitzky, who is married, works as an accountant at Office Max and is excited to bring her financial background to the board.
She's also been an active volunteer with the athletic booster club at Jacobs High School, with the Community Crisis Center in Elgin, at Camp Algonquin, and she's been president of the parent teacher council at Dundee Highlands.
Kembitzky replaces Becky Gillam, who resigned from the board in December after winning election to a seat on the Kane County Board.
Kembitzky had been wanting to run for office but didn't because she didn't want to risk displacing Gillam or outgoing Trustee Julie Voss whom she called friends.
"This time I'm not taking somebody else's spot, I'm stepping up," Kembitzky said.
The village advertised the vacancy on its website and via email blasts.
Fifteen people submitted applications to replace Gillam. Eleven were interviewed and Village President Larry Keller selected Kembitzky as a finalist. "I think that her financialbackground was an asset, her volunteerism was an asset and ... it was a very, very, very, very difficult decision to come to because there were so many well qualified people," Keller said.


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Praises those who support Amos House
To the Editor:
On behalf of the board and staff of Amos House, I want to extend my sincere thanks to all those who made our 2013 Spring Breakfast a big success.
As our major fundraiser of the year, the breakfast plays an important financial role for our organization.
However, it is the personal connections made surrounding the event that serve as the real support behind our program.
We were all fortunate to confirm our connection with late great Annie Orr, in renaming the Good Samaritan award after her and awarding it to Peter Brady, a true disciple of all that Annie stood for.
Having the opportunity to hear from a recent program participant and learning of her struggles and success in moving on to independent living reminded all of us what Amos House is truly all about.
These are the things that make everything about Amos House so special.
We look forward to continuing our important work in helping homeless families in the Greater Danbury and New Milford areas, and thank you all again for your continued support.
Amos House
Board of Directors


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|Jul 6th, 2013 11:12 AM
|What better way to celebrate our independence from England than to depend on them for firecrackers. Astra must not have gotten the memo.
|Jul 5th, 2013 01:39 AM
|Lone Wanderer
|Seriously, WTF is up with "Attitude Adjustment"? It seems like many firework companies don't even try anymore and just use photoshop or stolen artwork.
|Jul 4th, 2013 05:24 PM
|I wish I had a picture of the huge "Devil's Delight" firework, this was six in one. It was one of the best I had seen.
|Jul 4th, 2013 05:20 PM
|These are all great, but the old timey ones are the best.
|Jul 4th, 2013 04:14 PM
|Just updated the article with a new sixth page chock full o' artwork! Enjoy!
|Jul 8th, 2012 03:01 AM
|Bah-ha! The 2nd 'Ladyfingers' label refers to the products as 'supercharged ladycrackers.' My god, ladies back in the day must have gotten excited easily!
|Jul 5th, 2012 09:53 AM
|That Danger Forward box is just a rip-off of an old Warhammer 40k cover, so... yeah, it already is a 360 game!
|Sep 3rd, 2011 02:53 PM
|Nice labels! There are some funny ones and some with just great art. I came across some labels at an estate sale and don't know how to determine if they are originals or reprints. Any help would be much appreciated. The pic might be upside down but I haven't figured out how to rotate it. Hope the link works!
|Jul 25th, 2011 09:04 PM
|The artwork on the box of the Party Snappers on page 2 looks suspiciously like Arale Norimaki from Akira Toriyama's Dr. Slump riding a pig. (Dr. Slump was the series that made him famous, then he made Dragon Ball, and then...)
|Jul 9th, 2011 06:40 AM
|The Mercurial Bee not only shoots flaming balls like those blondes and Uranus do, but it also reports. That is one serious warning right there.
|Jul 6th, 2011 02:49 PM
Bought me a package of mortar rounds this year with two launchers appropriately labeled Zeus. The artwork on the launchers was too amazing for me to pass up so I got them. I'm a huge fan of those and Roman Candles, my all time favorite.
My wife saw the golden showers pic with me and said that would definitely belong in an adult novelty store though she and I would question the sanity of whoever decided to buy that.
|Jul 5th, 2011 03:59 AM
|oh my god grumpy osama is my favourite
|Jul 5th, 2011 01:11 AM
|I thoroughly enjoyed the neighbor hater one. We used to light a lot of shit on fire in our backyard and when our visiting friends would worry about the neighbors, we'd inform them that the neighbors were illegal immigrants so they aren't gonna call the cops.
|Jul 5th, 2011 12:54 AM
|the warm greetings package scares me to the marrow. I do really enjoy the pissed eagle brand though. it makes me think of malt liquor for some weird reason. I think its the font.
|Jul 4th, 2011 02:34 PM
|The Warm Greeting ones absolutely mystify me.
|Sep 4th, 2009 06:42 PM
|Just saw that "golden shower" one in a sweetbay this july. I would have NEVER expected to find one, but you can find any worth-crap fireworks in those pre-selected kits.
|Aug 31st, 2009 06:35 AM
|mister buch
|That is one odd looking unicorn.
|Jul 26th, 2009 07:17 AM
|timebomb has a massive package
|Jul 10th, 2009 01:37 PM
|Colonel Flagg
I'm totally enthused over this update, -Rog-!
(Golden Shower? That totally belongs on engrish.com!)
|Jul 8th, 2009 05:36 AM
|Jul 7th, 2009 12:41 PM
|The Golliwog and Dixie Boy firecrackers are an NAACP lawsuit in the making if I've ever seen one. Good thing those were manufactured in China.
|Jul 7th, 2009 12:14 AM
|Holy crap, the Great White firecrackers had me laughing uncontrollably. That's so hilariously wrong.
|Jul 6th, 2009 04:50 PM
You know what isn't a word?
|Jul 6th, 2009 04:48 PM
|edit: n/m didn't see dimnos' post FOR SOME REASON ;(
|Jul 6th, 2009 03:56 PM
Use enthused in a Sentence
verb (used without object) 1.to be or become enthusiastic; show enthusiasm: All the neighbors enthused over the new baby.
verb (used with object) 2.to cause to become enthusiastic.
If dictionary.com isnt good enough for you here is the Merriam-Websters page on it.
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Israel is experiencing a serious case of Bieber Fever this week, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won't be a part of it.
Justin Bieber became embroiled in a diplomatic snafu ahead of a Tel Aviv concert when news emerged that a meeting between the 17-year-old "Baby" singer and Bibi was cancelled. Each side had very different reason why.
Netanyahu's office said they had "received a request" from Biebs' management to meet with the prime minister ahead of his concert on Thursday. Netanyahu "asked to have children from the south attend the meeting in order to encourage them and create a PR effect," Israeli news site Ynet and The New York Times reported.
The children included those who were on a school bus attacked by a Hamas rocket, injuring a teen and the driver. Netanyahu's office said Bieber's people called the meeting off.
But the Bieber camp paints a different story. Manager Scott Braun told Israeli paper Yedioth Ahronoth that "we never asked to meet with (Netanyahu) nor has anyone connected with us asked to meet him. Braun also said Bieber was hoping to stay out of politics.
The kids from southern Israel were reportedly unaware of the meeting, but they were given free tickets to the Tel-Aviv show. Bieber's manager said the singer would "love to see them there."
Predictably, Bieber Fever translates into all languages. Ynet reported that Justin originally booked four different hotels in Tel Aviv and one in Jerusalem to escape his fans and pictures show girls going berserk at his presence, per usual. Bieber took to Twitter to complain about aggressive paparazzi.
"i want to see this country and all the places ive dreamed of an whether its the paps or being pulled into politics its been frustrating [sic]," Bieber tweeted on Tuesday.
So far, the star has visited a Tel Aviv beach with his family and posse and plans on touring Jerusalem, the Sea of Galilee, Nazareth and Bethlehem. The trip ends Saturday night.
Selected Reading: The New York Times, Justin Bieber's Twitter, CNN


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Navajo silversmith, Shirley Skeets made this fabulous boot key ring. Sterling silver with a great hand stamped design. Has a nickle clasp for stronger grip and durability. Weighs 14 grams.
1 1/4" wide x 3" long
The Navajos began working with silver in the 19th century, and began making things like buckles, bridles, buttons, rings, canteens, hollow beads, earrings, crescent-shaped pendants (called "najas"), bracelets, crosses, powder chargers, tobacco canteens, and conchos (for belts). Their silversmithing skills has evolved and changed throughout the years, and in about 1880 Navajo silversmiths started to set turquoise in their silver work. Traditionally, Navajo artists worked with jewelry techniques like repousee and stamp work, but today they explored in other Native American jewelry making techniques like Zuni inlay work and Hopi overlay work.
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Novus International to Present New Research at JAM 2015
Recent research trials demonstrate the positive effects of HMTBa and chelated trace minerals
ORLANDO, Fla. (July 1, 2015)—The 2015 Joint Annual Meeting (JAM), a collaboration of the American Dairy Science Association® (ADSA®) and the American Society of Animal Science (ASAS), is a great place to get caught up with the animal food and health industry's latest research. This year, JAM will feature more than 2,200 abstracts in oral and poster presentations delivered by leading scientists and universities from around the world on topics ranging from livestock transportation to education and animal health to well-being and husbandry.
The conference will be held July 12-16, in Orlando, Florida. Attendees will participate in more than 40 symposia, workshops and other pre-conference educational events, all while gaining access to industry thought-leaders' presentations throughout the duration of the event.
Novus International, Inc., a bronze sponsor of the event, will share its most recent findings on HMTBa and chelated trace minerals for improving animal nutrition and production.
The titles of the abstracts to be presented by Novus scientists are:
Following the event, the abstracts will be made available at www.novusint.com.
Stop by Novus booth #314 to learn more about the comprehensive programs and products Novus has available to support the livestock industry, to meet the Novus team or for the opportunity to win prizes.
For more information about JAM, visit the event's website at http://www.jtmtg.org/JAM/2015/index.asp.
About Novus International, Inc.
Novus International, Inc. is headquartered in metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. and serves customers in over 100 countries around the world. A global leader in developing animal health and nutrition solutions, Novus International's products include ALIMET® and MHA® feed supplements, ACTIVATE® nutritional feed acid, ACIDOMIX® preservative premixture, CIBENZA® enzyme feed additive, MINTREX® chelated trace minerals, SANTOQUIN® feed preservative, AGRADO® feed antioxidant and many other specialty ingredients. Stratum Nutrition, a division of Novus Nutrition Brands, LLC, focuses on human nutrition through specialty and functional ingredients for manufacturers of foods, beverages and dietary supplements (www.stratumnutrition.com).
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McDonald's does an excellent job at promoting sandwiches on its menu.
Top on the list is the "McRib" which comes and goes in "limited time" offers. You can even use a McRib Locator to find out which chains have the delicacy.
Before you rush out of your house to get one, you may be wondering "What's in a McRib".
That's a good question and the Natural Society has the answer in McDonald's McRib Sandwich a Franken Creation of GMOs, Toxic Ingredients, Banned Ingredients.
The McRib is the result of intensive marketing by McDonald's. Utilizing the basics of supply and demand through creating scarcity over the McRib by only unleashing the culinary abomination for a fraction of the year that is only known once it is released, McDonald's fans have been known to 'hoard' McRib sandwiches and eat them in extreme excess.
But what's really inside the McRib specifically that makes it such a food abomination? Containing over 70 ingredients, the McRib is full of surprises — including 'restructured meat' technology that includes traditionally-discarded animal parts brought together to create a rib-like substance. Here's some of the disturbing substances found within the McDonald's McRib sandwich:
A flour-bleaching agent used in yoga mats
Out of the 70 ingredients that make up the 'pork' sandwich, a little-known flour-bleaching agent known as azodicarbonamide lies among them. At first glance, this strange ingredient sounds concerning enough to look into. After a little research, you will find that even mainstream media outlets have generated content revealing how azodicarbonamide is actually used in the production of foamed plastics. Foamed plastics like yoga mats and more.
What's more? In Australia and Europe, the use of azodicarbonamide as a food additive is banned. In Singapore specifically, use of this substance in food can result in a $450,000 fine and 15 years in jail. Thank you McDonald's for supplying the nation with such healthful ingredients.
'Restructured Meat' from Pig Heart, Tongue, Stomach
McDonald's McRib is famous in some circles for utilizing what's known as 'restructured meat' technology. Since McDonald's knows you'd never eat a pig heart, tongue, or stomach on your plate, they decided instead to grind up these ingredients and put them into the form of a typical rib. That way, consumers won't know what they're putting into their mouths. As the Chicago Mag reported, the innovator of this technology back in 1995 said it best:
"Most people would be extremely unhappy if they were served heart or tongue on a plate… but flaked into a restructured product it loses its identity. Such products as tripe, heart, and scalded stomachs…"
So in other words, it's not actually a rib. Instead, it's a combination of unwanted animal scraps processed down in major facilities and 'restructured' into the form of a rib. Then, 70 additives, chemicals, fillers, and GMO ingredients later, you have a 'meat' product that tastes like ribs.
Whopper Horsemeat
Surely Burger King is not tainted with such tactics. Or is it? For the answer, let's take a look at another report from the Natural Society: Burger King Admits Burgers Contain Horsemeat
In a piece of highly disturbing news, Burger King has now admitted after continuous denial that it has actually been selling UK customers both burgers and Whoppers that contain horsemeat. This admission comes just after The Guardian reports that Burger King reps offered a round of 'absolute assurances' to customers that it did not ever use horsemeat in its products.
A series of tests done on the burger products now reveal that Burger King has been issuing completely phony statements, with burgers made for the fast food chain from the Irish company Silvercrest containing measurable levels of horsemeat. It's important to note this is the same company that processes meat for Tesco, Asda, and the Co-op. The managers at Silvercrest have been revealed to be utilizing non-approved ingredients within their burger assortment – even for 'household brands'.
Burger King Admits Error
The Guardian reports Burger King reveals its burgers were contaminated in horsemeat scandal.
Burger King has revealed that some of its burgers were contaminated in the horsemeat scare, as the tainted food crisis threatened to undermine the confidence of consumers, and major retailers tried to protect their reputations.
As governments in Ireland, the UK and Poland, where a supplier used by Silvercrest for a year is thought be the source of the contamination, continued their investigations, Burger King admitted that, contrary to previous assurances made to it by Silvercrest, it too had now been linked to the scandal. Authorities insist there is no health danger to consumers.
Meanwhile Aldi UK became the first major retailer to suspend its contract with a British plant, Dalepak Hambleton in North Yorkshire, which, like Silvercrest, is part of the ABP Food Group, pending further investigations into why three of nine newly tested burger samples had traces of horse and pork DNA. The products were from stock withdrawn in recent weeks as a precaution but made since October, the company said.
Burger King said: "Our independent DNA test results on product taken from restaurants were negative for any equine DNA. However, four samples recently taken from the Silvercrest plant have shown the presence of very small trace levels of equine DNA. Within the last 36 hours, we have established that Silvercrest used a small percentage of beef imported from a non-approved supplier in Poland. They promised to deliver 100% British and Irish beef patties and have not done so. This is a clear violation of our specifications, and we have terminated our relationship with them."
Diego Beamonte, vice-president for global quality at Burger King, said the company was "deeply troubled by the findings of our investigation and apologise to our guests, who trust us to source only the highest quality 100% beef burgers. Our supplier has failed us and in turn we have failed you".
Surprise? What Surprise?
Is anyone surprised by this? I certainly am not.
Indeed, after reporting on the "Extra-Value" Horse-Burger at grocery chains in the UK and Ireland, I would have been surprised to find out that burger chains were not contaminated as well.
Heck, even before reading articles on contamination I would have been surprised.
The Secret's in the Sauce!
Inquiring minds might wonder "Just how does McDonald's get the McRib to taste so yummy?" That's a good question too, and I have two answers.
Some simply like azodicarbonamide, bleaching agents, tripe, heart, scalded stomachs, tongues, and other unwanted animal scraps restructured into the form of a rib.
For everyone else, "The secret's in the sauce!" (Just don't ask what's in it).
Mike "Mish" Shedlock


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'No-brainer': Harvesting story prompts rain to Kaine
As the Hook recently reported, a county laundromat owner stepped into a bureaucratic quagmire when he tried to install a rainwater harvesting system last year. Now a slew of environmental groups, political leaders, and business owners have stepped into the fray, firing off a letter to Gov. Tim Kaine this week asking that guidelines for the practice be "expeditiously developed."
Hydraulic Wash owner Charlie Smith says he was "run through the wringer" by the county plumbing inspection process, which thwarted his plans with outdated codes and regulations. Indeed, county building officials have admitted that one inspector was "uncomfortable with the concept" of rainwater harvesting.
Smith was eventually forced to seek approval for his plan from the local health department, but local health officials say it's the first time they have had to review such a request, and that they have no specific guidelines by which to judge the application.
"It has been a far more involved than I thought it was going to be," said Smith. "We didn't realize this was going to be a groundbreaking process."
Smiths' struggles prompted the Rivanna River Basin Commission and the Thomas Jefferson Soil & Water Conservation District to draft the letter to Gov. Kaine. Over a dozen other environmental groups and public/private agencies signed on, including the Southern Environmental Law Center, the Rivanna Conservation Society, and the Piedmont Group of the Sierra Club. In addition, unlikely bedfellows the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority and Citizens for a Sustainable Water Supply joined Del. David Toscano, Charlottesville Mayor Dave Norris, and others in support of the letter.
"When the [Hook] article came out, it reminded us that we haven't seen any progress on this," says Leslie Middleton, executive director of The Rivanna River Basin Commission, "so we decided to elevate it to Governor's attention."
"That's pretty cool," says Smith, unaware that a letter to the Governor had been sent, but still in the process of trying to get approval from the health department. "I really appreciate that. It's time for this to happen."
While Middleton says environmental organizations like hers and the Thomas Jefferson Soil & Water Conservation District have been championing rain harvesting for years, clear guidelines for the practice in Virginia have been slow to materialize.
"The public is clamoring for this, and rightfully so," says Middleton. "It's an ancient practice that needs to be discovered. We hope the Governor realizes it has to happen, and it has to happen now."
Thomas Jefferson Soil & Water's Alyson Sappington says they've been studying and promoting rain harvesting locally since the early part of the decade, and that the lack of specific guidelines from the health department has been a persistent problem.
"This hasn't really been a priority for the health department," she says, "so it keeps getting postponed."
At issue is whether or not water collected for harvesting, specifically for laundry use, needs to be potable, i.e. drinkable. According to local health officials, under that standard, a system like Smith's would not be approved. In the city, new guidelines for rainwater harvesting issued in February simply prohibit the use of rainwater for laundry use, pending the release of new standards from the health department.
Over the years, Sappington says they've assisted homeowners with the installation of harvesting systems, but when it came time to hook them up, there was always a back and forth between building inspectors and the health department, each passing off responsibility to the other. When systems got approved, more often than not, says Sappington, it was because building inspectors finally signed off on them without deferring to the health department.
"Everybody is waiting for someone else to take responsibility," says Sappington. "It'd be comical if it wasn't so sad."
"In fairness to the health department, it's their job is to protect the public," says Middleton.
Indeed, Jeff McDaniel, the department's local representative, points out that Smith would be providing water to the public, as opposed to a homeowner collecting it for their own use, "So we'll have to determine if there are any risks to the public," he says.
However, as Middleton and Sappington point out, rainwater already finds its way into our watershed, seeping into the ground and running off roofs, roads, and parking lots into storm drains that feed into rivers, creeks, and streams. While the ground naturally filters and purifies rainwater, contaminated runoff from man-made surfaces is a major source of pollution to waterways. That's why most cities, including Charlottesville, have storm-water management programs in place, which mostly educate the public on how to prevent the contamination of runoff at its source.
Ironically, the rain harvesting system Smith wants to install, from Roanoke-based Rainwater Management Solutions, would do just that. According to company president David Crawford, his systems can purify water to potable levels if necessary.
"Although it's common sense to us to collect rainwater," says Middleton, " the regulatory system has its own mindset."
If Governor Kaine can break the bureaucratic logjam, rain harvesting might not only protect streams but also reduce the strain on the local water supply. For example, Sappington says that Soil & Water studied yearly water usage at Monticello High School recently, and using a simple calculation, determined that a rain harvesting system would provide twice as much water as the school currently uses.
Now imagine if all of Charlottesville's roofs captured rainwater. According to the city public works department, there are nearly 2,000 football fields worth of impervious surfaces (105 million square feet) in the city, a large portion of that roof space. Indeed, Sappington says that nearly 35,000 gallons of rainwater falls on a 30 x 40 foot roof in Central Virginia every year, nearly half the amount that a household typically uses.
Middleton says there has been no response yet from the Governor's office, but she's hopeful that rain harvesting's time has come.
"Ideally, we hope an interagency task-force is created, so everybody can be beating the same drum, " she says. "Of course, we realize it won't happen overnight, but I have confidence it will happen, because it's a no-brainer."
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If the politicians can't get this done what good are they ?
It's great to see so many organizations on the same page.
"Now imagine if all of Charlottesville's roofs captured rainwater." What would I do with it?
But, what should the water quality be? Someone will have to decide!
Water testing should be a growth industry, I say. Let's just figure it out.
Cville Eye, very little of the water currently used needs to be chemically treated drinking water and many states are way ahead of Virginia in using rainwater for these other uses; gardening, car washes , laundromats , and all the water in the home not for drinking. This is our future. Our community is already using 22% less water than we did 10 years ago and even with growth, those in the water conservation field, who understand the new technologies, say this number will drop even further.
Here is one idea of what you can do with your rainwater


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By Laura D. Porter, MD
Colon Cancer Alliance Patient Advocate Medical Consultant
In January 2003, I was 42 and completing my first year of my pediatric residency. My life was extremely busy; I was working 80 to 120 hours a week. When I first complained of being tired, it was attributed to my age and work schedule. Over the next eight months, my symptoms worsened; I became anemic and had blood in my stool.
In August 2003, I was admitted to the hospital. By the end of the week, I had my surgery and diagnosis – Stage IV colon cancer. I started chemotherapy, and during the next two and a half years, I had two recurrences. The first was in my liver and ovary, and the second in my abdominal lymph nodes and my pancreas.
Miraculously, I have been NED (no evidence of disease) since May 2006. I believe that one of the main reasons for my status is my vigilance in following through on my treatment and having my side effects appropriately managed.
Cancer treatment can be difficult; therefore, it is important to aggressively manage any side effects in order to have the opportunity to complete treatment. I cannot stress enough how important this is. Aggressive side effect management increases your likelihood of completing treatment. The main reason that people don't complete treatment is unpleasant side effects.
Everyone responds differently to treatment, and therefore, not every individual experiences all side effects to the same degree. Talk with your doctor about every pill you are taking, including supplements, as some may interfere with treatment. If a medication is not working, ask your doctor about other options. Be persistent!
Here are some of the most common side effects of colorectal cancer treatment and how they can be managed or treated:
Nausea and Vomiting
It is important to treat chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting early and aggressively. There are numerous prescription medications available for treating CINV. If a medication is not working, talk to your doctor about trying something else.
After colon resection, it will take some time for your digestive system to adjust. By trial and error, you will discover which foods you can tolerate. Treatments include prescriptions such as Sandostatin®, a long-acting injection, and over-the-counter loperamide.
If you experience treatment-related fatigue, it is important to rest when you are tired. Plan activities for when you have the most energy. Ask for help from family or friends when fatigue interferes with daily activities. Fatigue may also be a result of depression, pain, or sleep problems. Let your doctor know if you have any of these symptoms.
Peripheral Neuropathy
This may involve tingling and pain in your hands and feet and an inability to tolerate cold. Symptoms of peripheral neuropathy usually regress after treatment ends. However, up to 3.5 percent of people still have neuropathy four years after treatment ends. Some anti-epileptics, antidepressants, and creams are helpful in reducing the symptoms of peripheral neuropathy. It is also helpful to ingest foods and liquids at room temperature and to keep a pair of gloves near the refrigerator so that you can wear them when getting items out of the fridge or freezer, as your hands will be sensitive to the cold.
Mucositis or Candidiasis
Mucositis, or candidiasis, is the painful inflammation and ulceration of the mucous membranes lining the digestive tract. It is commonly known as a yeast infection and is caused by a fungus. Symptoms include white patches or plaques and cold sores. Mucositis can be treated with Magic™ mouthwash, antifungal prescription medicines, local anesthetics, and analgesics. Do not use hydrocortisone, as it will exacerbate the mucositis. The infection can spread, so do not assume that your pain is a hemorrhoid. It could be candidiasis, and hemorrhoid cream will only worsen the condition. Transient lactose intolerance may also occur with mucositis.
Hand and Foot Syndrome
This involves blistering and peeling of the hands and feet; it also affects the nails. Treatment involves gently applying mild skin creams to the affected area. To prevent exacerbations, take cool showers, wear thick cotton socks, avoid constrictive shoes, avoid friction and heat, and stay well hydrated.
The goal is to complete treatment. Unfortunately, this is not always possible. However, by properly managing treatment-related side effects, you increase the likelihood that you will complete your recommended treatment.
This article was originally published in Coping with Cancer magazine, March/April 2010. Reprinted by permission of COPING® magazine, www.copingmag.com.


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I was thinking that it might be fun to invent some additional forms for my players to fill out. However, there is the small problem of selecting an application best-suited to the task.
Brainstorm thus far
- Checkboxes can be drawn/re-used using MS Word "insert shape" tool.
- Fonts appear to be generally available (Century Gothic?)
- Photo-editing will almost be required to extract all of the "imagey" portions (form header, section header, etc).
- Aligning all of the bits could be problematic
I suppose that all of it can be done in MS Word, but it would be interesting to see what other options are available.
My next step would probably to hand-draw some form ideas and then simply apply a lot of grit to the problem (on top of ALL the other Paranoia goodies I'm working on).
Form Creator?
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