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Dr. David Walsh, professor of politics at The Catholic University of America, will present the address "The Modern Philosophical Revolution: A Guide for the Perplexed" on Thursday, Oct. 2, at 3 p.m. at Hope College in the Maas Center auditorium.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
Walsh is a professor of political science at The Catholic University of America. A specialist in political theory, he is the author of a three-volume study of modernity addressing the totalitarian crisis, the resurgence of liberal democracy, and the philosophical revolution of the modern world. Intended as a guide to the multiple facets of the current age, Walsh's work examines the way in which spiritual crises generate deeper reflections on religious life and shape political order. He is a leading expert on the works of Eric Voegelin and Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
The Maas Center is located at 264 Columbia Ave., on Columbia Avenue at 11th Street.


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My theme for the swap of the month is dry flies tied with CdC.
I will ty olive duns in size 14. The dun is a newly hatched insect that lies flat on its belly. Therefore I will do a hackleless pattern, that floats on the tails, the body and the wings. The tails are hacklefibers, the rest is CdC. Feel free to include other materials like dubbing, hackles, whatever.
Rick Z has volunteered to host the swap for me.
Thanks all for having me!
Don't think of difficult patterns, easy does it and remember less is more!

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Improved budget tablet has better screen, is slimmer and lighter and lasts a little longer between charges, also comes with Amazon's smart voice assistant Alexa
Ця стаття під назвою "Amazon Вогонь 7 огляд планшета: still a lot of tablet for just £50" була написана Самуелем Гіббса, for theguardian.com on Friday 23rd June 2017 06.00 УНІВЕРСАЛЬНЕ ГЛОБАЛЬНЕ ЧАС
At just £50, it was remarkable how not-rubbish the 2015 Amazon Вогонь 7 tablet was. Two years on, the Fire 7 (the 7 comes from the screen size – 7") has slimmed down a little and has an improved screen, but is still just £50.
Slimmer, lighter and brighter
Side-by-side it's difficult to tell the 2015 Fire 7 and the new 2017 Fire 7 apart. The only really noticeable difference is a set of new colours – including black, синій, red and yellow – and if you squint you might be able to see it's 1mm thinner, and it's 18g lighter.
The outside is made of a finely textured plastic that feels hardwearing. Amazon claims it's twice as durable as Apple's iPad mini 4 and that's probably right. The edges are rounded and quite comfortable to hold, and all the ports and buttons are in one edge, including the headphones port, microUSB port, power and volume buttons.
There's a speaker in the back that's plenty loud enough for watching videos on the go, but not quite loud enough to comfortably watch a TV show in the kitchen over the sounds of the cooker hood fan and the wok.
The 7in screen still isn't HD, but its colours and blacks are improved since 2015, making it brighter and better looking. It's not going to blow you away or compete with an iPad of any generation, but it's perfectly fine for watching the odd episode of the Grand Tour or playing a bit of Real Racing 3.
The reading experience is an improvement on that of the 2015 Fire 7, with better looking font smoothing, but it's still not as crisp as a Kindle or a smartphone. It does have Blue Shade, which adjusts brightness and reduces the amount of blue light emitted by the screen to make nighttime reading more comfortable and less likely to disrupt your sleep.
- Екран: 7в (1024 х 600) ЖК (171дюйм)
- Процесор: 1.3ГГц чотирьохядерний процесор
- ОЗУ: 1ГБ оперативної пам'яті
- Зберігання: 8Гігабайт; Слот MicroSD також
- Операційна система: Вогонь ОС 5 на основі Android 5 Льодяник
- Камера: 2Депутат камера заднього, 0.3MP фронтальна камера
- Зв'язок: Wi-Fi n, Bluetooth
- Розміри: 192 х 115 x 9.6mm
- Вага: 295г
Sluggish but not quite infuriating
The new Fire 7 has the same 1.3GHz quad-core processor and 1GB of RAM as the last one, і виконує аналогічно. It'll handle most games perfectly fine, if with slightly longer load times and slower frame rates than you might be used to on a top-end smartphone.
The operating system rolls along perfectly acceptably too. It's not what I would call quick, but I didn't suffer from any moments of lag that made me question whether I actually tapped the button or not. Swiping through the panes of the home screen is smooth, jumping between apps works relatively quickly, but there can be a noticeable delay between the app opening and it being ready for use.
The battery lasted for a little over 6.5 hours of video watching with the brightness cranked up, which is enough to get through most of a transatlantic flight. Playing games brought it down closer to 5.5 годин. If just reading, the battery will likely last quite a bit longer.
Вогонь ОС 5.4
The 2017 Fire 7 runs Amazon's customised version of Android called Fire OS 5.4. It looks quite different to the traditional Android experience from Google, lacks Google apps and only has access to the Amazon App Store, not the Google Play Store.
Navigating it is easy with clearly marked panes filled with either apps, гри, книги, відео, музика, журнали, audio books etc. It makes the best of what is a media consumption device, rather than a work device.
There is an email app, Amazon's Silk browser, контакти, календар, WPS Office and other bits pre-loaded that do general information management and light office duties should you need them.
The jewel in the crown for Fire OS 5.4 is Alexa – Amazon's voice-enabled smart digital assistant. It's the same Alexa that's found in the company's вогонь ТВ і Echo smart speaker прилади, and has access to the same information.
Hold the home button and Alexa listens to your commands and questions, geared up to launch apps and optimised around entertainment. Alexa's responses are more like those found on the Fire TV with interactive cards displayed while it talks through the answer to your questions.
Ask for the weather and get a card displaying current conditions and the weather for the week you can scroll through. Ask how old Uber's ex-CEO Travis Kalanick is and get the answer but also the option to tap a link and search Bing for the query.
You can search for media simply by asking Alexa too. Amazon Music cards display playback controls and asking for a particular show takes you to the listing in Amazon video. Searches for content within third-party apps such as Netflix go unanswered, unlike the Fire TV, but almost everything else works fine including Alexa's flash briefing and review of your day.
- The cameras are pretty poor producing blurry shots with little in the way of detail – only to be used in an emergency
- There's a for Kids edition of the tablet with a rubber case and no Alexa, but there are kids apps on the default version and fairly good parental controls
- The 2017 Fire 7 takes about five hours to fully charge
- It requires an Amazon account to use and a Prime account to make the most of it
The 2017 Amazon Вогонь 7 tablet costs £50 for 8GB of storage and "with special offers", which are little adds on the lockscreen for recommended content from Amazon's store. It costs £10 to remove the adverts. The version with 16GB of storage costs £60 with adverts.
It's still remarkable how not-rubbish the 2017 Amazon Вогонь 7 tablet is when it costs just £50. Two years on from the original £50 marvel not a lot has changed, but the screen is definitely clearer and more colourful, while it is a little lighter and slimmer.
Will it win over iPad buyers? Чи не. Can you "get work done on it"? Probably not. But you can buy six Fire 7 tablets and still have £39 left over for the same price as on iPad. And that's the point. The Fire 7 isn't amazing, but it gets the job of consuming media done at an absolutely rock-bottom price, and is much more capable with other tasks than you might expect. At £50 the Fire 7 has no equal, and now it even comes in a range of bright colours.
Плюси: it costs just £50, Слот для карти MicroSD, acceptable battery life, відчуває міцним
Мінуси: rubbish cameras, дуже повільно зарядки, Екран з низьким дозволом, кремезний, heavy for the size, no USB-C
Інші відгуки
- Amazon Fire TV Stick review: дешево, great TV streaming device with new interface and Alexa
- Amazon пожежної ТБ огляд: просто, швидко, 4До і кращий потокового ТБ
- Amazon Echo огляд: найкращий помічник у поєднанні динамік і голос в Великобританії
- Amazon Echo Dot огляд: так добре, як Echo за одну третину ціни
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Mike said:"... I may insist that real names or at least a link to public contact info such as a blog may be required to post in this "Independent Reviews" section."I'm fully in support of this.And I think real names are necessary to give these things credibility.
And I think real names are necessary to give these things credibility.
Nobody has said anything about no more anonymous posting.
Actually i find this guys a bit too much thin-skinned in regard to their expressed "we don´t care" coolness.
Threads like this one wear me out.
If there's one thing I would change about this forum, it's the negative attitude.
Austere chimed in and then was accused of "faking" his "I-don't-care" attitude (GIVE ME A BREAK!).
Hey Joe
Thanks for contributing to the forum. I look forward to any further thoughts you put forth, though they probably won't provoke as much fun as this one. Cheers!
Hey Austere guys - I'll bet Mike would make an exception in the anonymous dept for you.
You were fun to have around here - and speaking of fun... your 78 sounds awesomely wacky! Cheers to you!
hats off to Joe LP and Austere for handling all these attacks with supreme coolness. Plus your comments made me laugh harder than I can remember at something posted here. Laughing so hard I'm crying!


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Naya Rivera marries in secret
GLEE star NAYA RIVERA has wed actor RYAN DORSEY in Mexico just three months after she called off her engagement to rapper BIG SEAN.
The actress married Dorsey, who has enjoyed roles in Parks and Recreation and Southland, on 19 July (14) in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico in an intimate ceremony in front of a small group of family members.
Rivera wore a Monique Lhuillier gown and carried a bouquet of daisies as they exchanged vows, according to People.com.
The couple says in a statement, "We feel truly blessed to be joined as husband and wife... Our special day was fated and everything we could have ever asked for."
The nuptials come as a surprise for fans as speculation about the pair's romance only surfaced this month (Jul14).
The couple has reportedly been friends since they met four years ago and they began dating after Rivera's engagement to rapper Big Sean ended in April (14).


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Tens of millions of people, of all ages, in the U.S., are lactose intolerant. The disorder affects a high proportion of some populations, including African Americans, Native Americans, and Asian Americans. Lactose intolerance is least common among people with a northern European heritage.
Risk factors/causes
Inherited inability to produce lactase is the primary cause of the condition. This is a genetically programmed decrease in lactase production that most commonly becomes more apparent after childhood and into adulthood. Often, lactose intolerance develops over a period of many years in adults.
Digestive diseases or injuries to the small intestine can also reduce the amount of lactase enzyme produced.
Signs & symptoms
Symptoms of lactose intolerance begin about 30 minutes to two hours after consuming foods or beverages containing lactose. Commonly, these symptoms include:
- nausea;
- cramps;
- bloating;
- gas;
- or diarrhea.
The severity of symptoms varies depending on the amount of lactose consumed and the amount the individual can tolerate.
In addition to taking a medical history and performing a physical examination, physicians may request the following diagnostic procedures in order to diagnose ulcers. These are aimed at measuring the absorption of lactose in the digestive system:
- milk challenge test, in which the patients fasts, then drinks milk, and is monitored for symptoms;
- breath test;
- lactose tolerance test, in which the patients fast and then drink a liquid that contains lactose, after which they have their blood monitored over a two-hour period to measure the blood glucose (blood sugar) level, which indicates how well the body is able to digest lactose.
Many people attempt to self-diagnose the conditions by eliminating diary products from the diet. This is difficult to do, however, as it must be very stringently adhered to.
Although there is no a treatment to improve the body's ability to produce lactase, symptoms caused by lactose intolerance can be controlled with a proper diet. Those with lactose intolerance will have to carefully monitor their food to avoid dairy-based ingredients. (As a result, they may also want to take calcium supplements to assure they are getting their recommended daily allowance of calcium.) In addition, you physician may suggest trying lactase-enzyme supplements. Some dairy foods already have these as additives to make the products digestible to lactose intolerant individuals.
Young children with lactase deficiency should be under the care of a physician.


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Suspended solids are particles which remain in suspension in water either due to the motion of the water or because the density of the particle is lighter or equal to the water. The suspended solid concentration is used as one of the indicators of water quality. All suspended solids can be removed from the water by filtration; however if the suspended solids have a density greater than water the particles can also be removed by sedimentation if the turbulence of the water is minimal.
Suspended solids can be of organic or inorganic origin. Organic material is substances that come from animal or plant sources. Organic substances always contain carbon, oxygen and hydrogen. Inorganic substances are on the other hand of mineral origin and do normally not contain carbon.
Suspended solids play an important role as pollutants both in terms of the organic or inorganic matter that constitutes them, but also by the pathogens that are carried on the surface of particles. Thus, the smaller the particle size, the greater the surface area per unit mass of particle – and therefore the greater the pathogenic load is likely to be carried.


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If there's any comfort to be found for Flames fans after their club's ignominious stumbling past the unofficial quarter-pole of the 2009-10 campaign, it's the look on Brent Sutter's face.
Now Ol' Pup rarely is confused with a member of the Up With People touring group but on a lot of nights this season — and especially Thursday evening when the Flames did an excellent imitation of the Dairy Queen Peewee AA Tigers — Sutter has the countenance of a man who has ingested whole, unskinned porcupines.
Of all the reasons the Flames should easily be able to avoid the temptation to be smug despite a 12-6-2 record through 20 contests, few are as compelling as the utter domination of the Calgarians by the Chicago Blackhawks over the past 103 minutes of head-to-head action. Let's face it, there are only so many ways to spin a 13-1 Hawks advantage on the scoreboard. No wonder the skipper looks like he's ready to impale his No. 1 centreman by using his top defenceman as a sword.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is a flawed hockey club and it seems no one knows that better than the guy behind the bench, who with each passing ulcer-exacerbating night must be wondering why he ever left Newark (if it's possible for a human being to wonder such a thing). Short of having something productive and useful happen — like, oh, let's say convincing the Phoenix Coyotes there was a fine-print money-back guarantee on Olli Jokinen — it must be of some consolation, however small, that Sutter looks as hacked off as the fans feel.
Some will say that any Friday angst about the Flames' fortunes is an over-reaction to Thursday's events, but that's only true if you were swayed by those nights — Saturday's visit to Toronto, for instance — Calgary claimed unconvincing victories.
But yet again, we come to the point that no matter how much one believes something drastic needs to happen, the options that don't involve Sutter wrapping his mitts around selected throats are scarce. Screaming for a major trade is a familiar rally cry in such situations but because of contrast clauses and/or the logic that says NHL clubs won't line up to acquire No. 5 defencemen making $3.7 million, that solution doesn't exist in any meaningful way for Calgary.
And though the Flames have a spiffy 6-1-2 mark away from the Saddledome, a schedule that features just one home game in the next 18 days would appear to be an unlikely stretch for the team's ills to be cured. Then again, this gang is just as likely to piece together a 6-2-1 stretch that will make the next debacle and crisis of faith all the more frustrating for the diehards.


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The President of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, is putting a brave face on the "strike" by Chicago teachers. Only a few weeks ago she was lauding the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and the Chicago Public School (CPS) system for having resolved their differences as it looked like a strike would be avoided. Now she is gamely telling the PBS News Hour that this a "local" issue that has to be resolved locally, ignoring the fact that she was on national TV explaining this.
Behind the scenes she, and many other pro-Democratic Party labor leaders, are pulling their hair out. There could not have been a worse time to pick a fight like this with the city of Obama just as he emerged from his highly successful Democratic party convention. That convention was a convention in name only, of course, as video of LA mayor Villaraigosa ignoring the clear vote of the delegates on key issues indicated. It was political theater of the highest order, hitting its peak not with the speech of the President, but with the speech of the former President, Bill Clinton, who likely helped many voters ease their growing doubts about the Obama Administration.
Now a strike by the CTU over issues that are murky and confusing to the average citizen threatens to distract the electorate just as the Obama campaign picks up lost momentum.
How could this have happened?
The ironic answer is that President Obama himself deserves some of the blame. At the top of the CTU leadership is a group of political activists for whom the health and well being of students is not the top priority much less the bread and butter concerns of their fellow union teachers. Instead, they are the hard core of a highly ideological milieu that has over the last decade or more burrowed their way into the teachers' union.
Now they have their hands on the levers of power of a large urban union and are doing what no sane union leader would do, namely striking at a point where they are least likely to gain allies among Democrats and others on the left whom they normally could, and should, count on in a battle of this magnitude.
Only a group with a different agenda than that of the genuine labor movement would take such a huge risk. Actually, from their standpoint – one which advocates "r-r-radical" change – it makes a peculiar kind of sense because it appears to demonstrate their intransigence. While stalwart militancy can be a valuable trait in a labor leader, mindless militancy of the sort on display among the top leaders of the CTU is dangerous. For too long the democratic left inside the AFT and elsewhere has ignored these risks.
What animates this "mindless militancy"? It is the so-called "social justice" ideology propagated by a sectarian element in American schools of education and among their teacher graduates by individuals like Linda Darling-Hammond, Bill Ayers, Mike Klonsky, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Peter MacLaren and others.
Thus, Karen Lewis, the new "fist in the air" fire brand president of the CTU in the words of her ally the Maoist education activist Mike Klonsky. Lewis recently traveled to Seattle not to discuss the tragedy of poor student outcomes in our nation's schools but to rally the "Shock Doctrine" troops among the social justice crowd to take over the teachers' union.
Lewis appears in fact to be more likely a "sheep in wolf's clothing." She signed off on legislation last year that severely restricted her own union's collective bargaining rights. The bill was attacked as union-busting by one Illinois legislator. Worse, Lewis apparently did this behind the backs of her own union members who hit the roof when they learned of the move. In other words, any "militancy" being shown now by Lewis may be a dysfunctional form of compensation for her role in weakening her own union.
Keep in mind that I put quotes around "social justice" because this crowd's "social justice" ideology has nothing to do with the social justice agenda of the genuine labor movement or the civil rights movement. This is, instead, an agenda about gaining political power, not for the students and teachers of our blighted urban schools, but for the advocates of "social justice" and its allied ideas such as multiculturalism and identity politics.
While proposed as something radical it is important to keep in mind how conservative and reactionary this ideology is, in fact. It represents a retreat from the genuinely progressive and radical agenda of the civil rights movement and the labor movement. And it is therefore not a surprise to realize that this new "social justice" agenda emerged in the wake of the defeat of those earlier democratic movements in the late 70s and early 80s.
The ideology actually leads the labor movement backwards into the divisive morass of politically correct identity politics. In the world of education, for example, it actually helped support the pro-corporate school "choice" movement by the formation of politically correct small schools like the "Social Justice" high school in Chicago. Not a surprise that figures like Ayers and Klonsky back the same idea as one supported by the Gates Foundation.
Thus, instead of creating democratic, transparent institutions that can lead us out of the crisis in our schools, this "social justice" crowd functions like a mirror image of the corporate education reform crowd they so loudly denounce. This faux radical milieu has, in fact, given up, sometimes explicitly, on wider social solutions, such as integration, to the problems of city schools. They promote absurd arguments that the schools are the moral equivalent of apartheid and promote a form of reparations for slavery in the name of repaying what they call the "education debt" that allegedly has accumulated over 400 years.
If some of this sounds vaguely familiar to followers of Presidential politics, it should. This is the very same agenda that Barack Obama promoted when he was an active leader in the "Chicago School Wars" of the late 80s and 1990s. Back then he joined forces with education professor Bill Ayers to lead the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC). Together Ayers and Obama pumped tens of millions of dollars into the Chicago school system with two goals: one, to promote explicitly the politically correct "social justice" agenda by financing curriculum that imposed their views on teachers and students; and two, the financial support of Local School Councils (LSCs) which were established in 1988 after a very unpopular teachers strike in Chicago.
The LSCs were very unpopular with teachers because they set up a new power base for community activists to monitor and control teachers. Ayers and Obama were well aware of this, of course, and fought within the CAC to make sure millions of dollars went to this institution precisely to help undermine the power of the CTU and its then traditional labor leadership, as well as the central power at CPS and the Chicago mayor's office. To do this, they had to overcome the opposition of then Mayor Daley who tried to get the Annenberg Challenge to give him the huge grant instead. And they battled with establishment figures like Arnold Weber, former President of Northwestern University and a very skilled and experienced labor economist, who fear precisely what happened: that the LSC's and the Ayers/Obama "social justice" agenda would become a political weapon.
Of course, with this kind of ambitious political agenda it should not be a surprise to learn that that the CAC money had no impact at all on improving outcomes for students! The CAC's own research arm completed an exhaustive study to reach this conclusion once all the money was spent.
But the CAC was judged a huge success by Ayers, Obama and allies like Mike Klonsky (the 60s maoist who reinvented himself under Ayers' tutelage as an "education expert"). A new political front was now opened up by them inside the Chicago schools. This story was largely ignored during the 2008 campaign not least because the mainstream media had another agenda – electing Obama.
Thus, most prominently, the New York Times "debunked" the easy side of the Ayers/Obama relationship (that Obama had no connection to Ayers role in the Weather Underground and violent political tactics) while ignoring their very substantial work together during the Chicago School Wars and beyond, well into the period of Obama's presidential campaign. See posts here, here, here and here. As I said at the time, the Times won the David Blaine magic award for making that issue disappear. They even ignored a report by their friends at the New Yorker magazine contradicting their reporting.
And the Ayers/Obama/Klonsky "social justice" milieu now had an institutionalized role in the CPS. That eventually led to the emergence of a layer within the CTU itself that challenged its traditional (and progressive and African American) leadership. Despite the many decades of achievement by that leadership, the CTU had proved incapable of dealing with the very severe challenges posed by dramatic socio-economic change in Chicago. This provided an opening for the "r-r-radicals" in the face of pressure from Chicago's moneyed elite to shut down non-performing schools, lengthen the school day and reform the teacher evaluation process.
It would be one thing, of course, if this new milieu had a genuine agenda for reform of education that was linked to student capabilities. In other words, the test of their agenda is to ask, well, what will be the result for the students in a year, five years and ten years? But this group opposes measurement of the impact of reforms, despite the attempt of their own national leadership in the AFT to take this problem seriously. And it pushes for things like extended recess periods and art classes that likely are of value to students but hardly worth shutting down those same schools in a "strike" and leaving Chicago's young children wandering the very dangerous streets of that gang-ridden city.
We are witnessing a train wreck in slow motion that cannot end well for Chicago teachers, their students or their union. Those same teachers will have to ask themselves some very important questions about how they ended up in this situation. But if President Obama is wringing his hands about how his own city and his own political allies could have created such a problem for him, then he should look in the mirror.


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The combine message plugin is developed for people who work (a lot) with affiliate feeds.
The plugin gives you the ability to combine posts & post meta.
To be more specific, image you have two posts for a holiday to spain. The first posts is for 1 week and has a price of € 199,- and the second one is for 1 week with a price of € 189,-
The prices are saved as posts meta.
With this plugin you van combine the posts meta of both posts (all of the meta you want, so tour operator, price, duration, etc. The benefit is that you can compare prices in one posts in stead of having two of them!
This results in less duplicate content and your posts are more unique!
- Combine posts (totaly!);
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Salary was clearly the most important job feature for developers, which I think is a bit of a surprise. But for managers, salary barely nudged out the need to have their opinions and knowledge valued. The latter issue is likely the result of managers' experiences with corporate politics. This aspect is seen again in the wide disparity in response between developers and managers to "My work is important to the company's success." In part, I expect, this shows the developer mentality of "let's just get on with it."
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Dear Sam.
It is just a week since I last wrote to you and I realy intended to write before. It is over three weeks now since we heard from you but of course we understand how things are and how busy you must be. You are certainly doing great work and keep it up.
We have a new member added to the family which takes up a lot of my time. Bert brought home a little kitten and it looks so much like Toodles that we named it Toodles. We are going to take her picture and send it to you. We have Leonard over here with us for two weeks. He told Mrs. Dowden Lena and I all about the movies and he made us laugh until I thought we'd bust. Henry and Bert went to the ball game. (The navy teams are playing today). We are going down to the movies tomorrow night with Leonard. He said if he was a soldier he'd kill the Kiaser and get full of medals.
The Telephone School is closed until September so I'll have to wait until it opens again before I can try for a job. We are trying to get a telephone in but I don't know when they intend to come with it. Pa bought a telephone stand and a chair that he can use when he wants to read. Aunt Madge and Molly are coming out here next Wednesday to spend the day. They were coming out last week but Madge was sick and they called it off. Madge hears from Tom quite often now and he give a good account of himself.
Uncle Al was over Friday night and he brought the old Family Bible from Maine. Seeing that Pa was the only one who had a family he gave it to him. Pa reconized it right away and he was glad to get it. Its as big as a picture album and we have it on the parlor table. In looking over the family record it shows that Pa was born in '52 making him 66 years old.
Bert and Henry got home from the ball game and we just got through our supper. We are now waiting for Pa. He don't get home tonight until 8.30. Bert's sister Alice and her friend are coming over and we are going to have a sing.
I hope this letter reaches you O.K. and that it finds you in the best of health. We are all feeling fine and this air out here is great. Lena is now at the piano and I am going to close wishing that you return home soon. Henry and Leonard sends their love and of cource you know is always the same.
With Love from all
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Police arrested a man who called to report three young children missing Sunday afternoon about three hours after they were found wandering in a Southside neighborhood.
According to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, a citizen found the two boys and a girl ages 1 to 4 years old alone on San Diego Road about 4 p.m. and called police and stayed with them until officers arrived.
Police said the children were in good condition. Within an hour of making a public appeal to help find the parents of the children, police said they found them.
Officers responded to the house of 23-year-old Lanard Bell after he called to report the children missing. Police said the place was in "utter disarray," with marijuana, a pipe and scale found in the living room. Dirty diapers were on the floor, there was spoiled food on the floor and in the kitchen, and the only usable beds in the house had no sheets.
According to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, the children's mother, Ashley Booth, asked Bell to watch the children while she was in the hospital.
According to the arrest report, Bell admitted he made a mistake. He said while he promised Boothe he would care for the kids, he fell asleep about 2 p.m.
Boothe said Monday that Bell is dedicated father who simply fell asleep on the couch while watching his kids. She says her children are adventurous and love to be outside.
"Anything can fall apart in a matter of moments," Boothe said. "He's an awesome father and he would never leave his kids up for grabs or neglect them."
When asked about the drugs in the house, Boothe admitted it was bad choice.
"People make their mistakes and they learn from them," she said. "So definitely, I can say lessons learned for both of us."
Boothe said she was in the hospital recovering from pneumonia and severe acid reflux when the children wandered off.
With the Department of Children and Families now investigating the incident, Boothe is focused on moving forward and hopes that by sharing her story, others won't be so quick to judge.
"We're going to make it through this, and I would appreciate if, for those of you who hear this story, just try to watch how you judge," she said.
DCF says the children are now in protective custody.
Bell made his first appearance Monday afternoon on six counts of child neglect. He'll be back in court May 23.
Bell has one prior arrest for misdemeanor marijuana possession in Clay County. He pleaded no contest to that charge.
Boothe told Channel 4 Monday that she will do what it takes to get her kids back.
"I'm trying to see about getting my children and also taking drug rehab classes too ," said Boothe.
The process of a parent getting their children back can take six months to a year according John Harrell with the Department of Children and Family Services.
"Judges are involved ," said DCF, John Harrell. "We have agencies that we contract with to provide foster care.
Harrell told Channel 4 Monday night that parents could have to undergo parenting classes, therapy and counseling before the children would be returned. Until then, the kids will be put in foster care or taken in by a family member who's been cleared by an extensive background check.
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There was a great free application for the iPhone, called "My Rail Lite". Regardless of whether you believe the iPhone (or trouser Mac, as I prefer to call it) is the second coming or not, this was unquestionably a useful thing to have. I used it virtually every morning to see whether I had to run for my train, or whether the lovely train operating companies had decided not to bother running any trains today. Then, this morning, as I was checking, I was greeted by this little message:
So, it seems that National Rail Enquiries have revoked the license they offered to Kizoom (who make the app) to use real time timetable data. Awesome. So not only do The Railways (yes, I know that term encompasses about a zillion different companies) keep putting their prices up, they also want to charge us for the privilege of finding out whether their trains are running. Most apps on the app-store cost £1.80 or so… They're charging £5 for something that used to be free. I'm not the only one who is unimpressed.
So, if you'd like to grumble at them, here's the feedback form, and here's something to get you started:
I'd like to know why you have forced My Rail Lite to be shut down, so that we have to pay a tax to find out how late your trains are running. When it suits you, you pretend that the rail system is an open market, and that consumers are free to choose which services to use, and yet a key part of that choice is being allowed to see what is on offer (your fabulously overcrowded sweaty trains).
Thanks for shutting down a great app. Do you actually want people to choose cars over trains?
Personally, this may be the spur I need to write a little Blackheath web-app that scrapes their poxy, ad ridden, poorly designed site, and sticks it into an iPhone friendly format…. Where did I leave that O'Reilly book on Python?
NB: Apologies for the excessively geeky tone of this email… Normal service will be resumed as soon as the Bugle has calmed down, and dismounted from his high horse.


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If you're into dark humor, you're really enjoying the fantasy and frivolity associated with the final countdown to the so-called Mayan Doomsday.
Though every credible news agency has emphasized there's really no merit to the belief the world will end on 12/21/12, it's pretty much irresistible to wonder what the end of the world would really be like - in the pettiest possible terms.
Countless numbers have spent at least a moment pondering the dreaded meeting they'll miss at work if the world does come to a crushing end. How many Friday afternoon dental appointments are we offhandedly joking about never having to face?
There won't be much joking by those truly scared about "the end," it must be noted. According to a Reuters/Ipsos Global Public Affairs poll released in May, nearly 15 percent of people worldwide believe the world will end during their lifetime and 10 percent think the Mayan calendar could signify it will happen in 2012.
The rest of us just like entertaining the notion of a divine something hitting the reset button.
I don't wish for the end of life as we know it. But can't you bring yourself to imagine the sweet satisfaction that would come with knowing your pet peeve would not survive the apocalypse?
Josh Ozersky, an award-winning food writer, recently penned a going-viral column for Time about his love for and exhaustion with bacon.
Though Ozersky has rhapsodized about it on TV, eaten it every day and "even written a poem about it," he's wondering "Why Won't Bacon Go Away?"
Hear, hear - I'm all baconed out, too. Shortly after writing about the cult of bacon gum, I was sucked into a greasy underworld of marbled trinkets and outlandish foodstuffs befitting a, well, cult leader.
Ozersky writes about "United States of Bacon," an upcoming TV show: "As far as I can tell from the teaser, the show is so grossly formulaic that it almost seems like a parody: a portly, spiky-haired host overemotes into the camera about 'the orgasmic sense of bacon,' sings silly bacon songs, and otherwise checks off every trope of oaf-pandering, lowest-common-denominator programming you can think of. I am embarrassed to say that I am looking forward to it."
I'd like to think Ozersky would have some peace in the afterlife knowing that, post-apocalypse, bacon worship was just as dead as he was.
Me? I have a lot of serious and petty complaints about society, but I believe end-times require a dose of levity.
So if it's all over come Friday, I'll die happy knowing that the cupcake culture will go down with all of mankind.
Yes, the fetishization and pornification of cupcakes need to end, and Dec. 21 wouldn't be a day too soon.
The countless and endlessly fussy variations on what amounts to a single serving of cake and frosting are beyond annoying, as is the fact that you can't get away from them.
Whether in your face at the grocery store, idolatrized in pricey, high-end shops, sold out of cutely colored food trucks or forced down your throat as a team-building exercise at work ("Let's have a cupcake decorating contest!"), cupcake madness has got to end.
Sure, real doomsday would be a bummer. But look on the bright side: If you could embrace the uncertainly without fear, your reward could be bacon- and cupcake-free nothingness.
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Take the most crowd-pleasing strains of modern automotive culture — rally cars, drifting, gymkhanas, the surreal settings of video games — splice them, wrap it all up for broadcast, and you have SPEED's newest effort: "Battle Cross."
The premise is straightforward: Two contestants face each other in a two-part competition: best time around a fiendishly complicated gymkhana course and points awarded in a drift-style hoonfest. The location is someplace other than a normal race track. Drift kings Sam Hubinette and Stephan Verdier judge the second portion.
The first episode pits 2011 Rally America champ David Higgins against BMX freestyle legend Dave Mirra, in identical Subaru STi rally cars, around courses set in and around an apocalyptic-looking steel mill. Two promo clips have been released: Dave Mirra's run at dusk is frenzied enough, but the David Higgins style portion above is one of the scariest things you'll watch all year, something like "The Blair Witch Project" meets "RoboCop" in an STi-powered blender.
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Generally the first preference among private colleges but beats Somaiya by a small margin and many students who find travelling a problem do not opt for it.
Terna Medical College is located very close to Nerul railway station (Harbour Rly.). Taking a rick (5 mins) or walking (12 mins) are the best means to reach the college from the station. So no problems once you get to Nerul station (which itself is a feat enough for non-Navi Mumbaikars)
BPTh: 30
Infrastructure is not like the way you would expect a private college (go have a look at DY Patil if you don't agree) to have but it is manageable. There is a gymkhana but it is not maintained very well.
Hostel Facilities Rooms Capacity
Boys 34 102
Girls 48 120
MBBS : Rs. 3,05,000/year
BDS : Rs. 1,60,000/year
BPTh: Rs. 60,000/year
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Faculty is good when compared to other colleges. Teachers are helpful.
Hospitals Affiliated:
Students are usually taken in batches to the Vashi General hospital, Meenatai Hospital and the college hospital Terna Medical. The college hospital is generally not that crowded so the other hospitals are used.
Crowd here is pretty decent.
Those who failed to make a mark in CET usually take admission over here because it is under Mumbai University. You will get the nerds and also the cool crowd.
Canteen here is not that good. It is spacious but the food sucks. It is not at all hygienic and believe it or not people have been known to puke in their plates after eating.
There are malls around here – Inorbit, Center One and Raghuleela (All of them in Vashi). Good restaurants are also found in Vashi only. There is also Masala Chai outlet over here. But once you enter medicine, you will realize that hangouts won't matter much.
Attendance is strict as in all medical colleges and students do attend as they have to be with the same teachers for 5 years.
Apart from the AIIMS festival in which students from all over India participate, there is the annual college festival called AKANSHA.
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Sept. 10, 2005
It took 15 years together and three different lineups, but their destiny was ultimately fulfilled.
Destiny's Child, the world's best-selling girl group of all time with more than 100 million records sold, disbanded two years ago after wrapping up a whirlwind tour in support of their last disc, Destiny Fulfilled.
A sign or what?
The trio made the announcement three months earlier, releasing a statement saying:
"We have been working together as Destiny's Child since we were 9, and touring together since we were 14. After a lot of discussion and some deep soul searching, we realized that our current tour has given us the opportunity to leave Destiny's Child on a high note, united in our friendship and filled with an overwhelming gratitude for our music, our fans, and each other…No matter what happens, we will always love each other as friends and sisters and will always support each other as artists. We want to thank all of our fans for their incredible love and support and hope to see you all again as we continue fulfilling our destinies."
Reason for the split, they say, was to allow everyone to pursue other opportunities. We know Beyonce celebrated a B'Day and became a Dreamgirl, but what about Kelly and Michelle?
Before collapsing onstage in Nigeria due to dehydration two months ago, Ms. Kelly released her much-delayed second album of the same name in July to positive reviews and sales. The singer also dabbled in acting, guesting on Girlfriends and Eve. Less rosy was her personal life — she called off her engagement to Dallas Cowboys safety Roy Williams last year and is still looking for Mr. Right.
Meanwhile, Michelle fell into The Gap and is currently on a national tour of The Color Purple, in which she plays Shug Avery. No worries — she's still making music. A new album is expected next year.
As for a DC3 reunion, chances are looking better. Just this year, the girls came together to shoot Beyonce's video for "Get Me Bodied."
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Here's an expansion of my Microscale Blacksmith House Vignette that I made. It's the "Microscale Medieval Street".
It's got four microfigs, three houses, three trees, and much more.
I finished my 32x16 with 6 houses, a castle, a gate, and much more, but I'm saving that for the Microscale Contest so you and I will have to wait 6 months. Oh well, tell me what you think of this one!
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I'm running the latest version of Ubuntu, and I have a Dell Sp2009wfd monitor with built in microphone and webcam. I've gotten the microphone working on mumble and on sound recorder, and I've gotten the webcam to work on Cheese...but it WON'T work through the flash player//website webcam things. I -have- the flash plugin, and I have drivers installed for my video card. Could anyone help me figure this out? It's really frustrating.
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Namuding, a young mother in the drought-hit Turkana region of northern Kenya, is fighting off malnutrition thanks to a nutrition programme supported by the EU. Last year's drought in the Horn of Africa left many communities weakened, making women and children especially vulnerable.
TURKANA -- Six weeks ago, Namuding Akimat's baby, then about three weeks old, cried incessantly. "He did not seem to be getting enough breast milk and I did not know what to do," said Namuding. "Since giving birth to the baby, I just did not seem to have energy to do much and most times I felt sick," she added.
One of Namuding's neighbors encouraged her to take the child to the hospital to find out why her baby cried all the time. The neighbor told her that she might also get treatment for her fatigue. So off she went to Lodwar district hospital in Turkana, which is about five kilometers from her home. Turkana is in north-western Kenya.
"At the hospital they put a tape measure on my upper arm and told me that I needed to go on a programme where I would receive special nutritional food to help me feel stronger," said Namuding as she nursed her now two-month-old baby.
Namuding is now receiving a product called Super Cereal, a nutrient-rich blend of corn and soya. She's one of about 10,000 people receiving this sort of nutritional support in Turkana. The programme reaches children under the age of five years and pregnant and nursing mothers who are moderately malnourished.
When she was enrolled in the programme six weeks ago, Namuding's mid upper arm circumference (known to nutritionists as her 'MUAC') measured 20.3 cm. Now it is 21.3 cm. According to WFP nutritionist Joyce Owigar, a pregnant or nursing mother with a MUAC of less than 20 cm is severely malnourished. "Namuding has improved from being almost severely malnourished to moderately malnourished", she said.
The programme through which Namuding receives her rations of Super Cereal targets people who are already certified as malnourished. But in order to catch women and children who may not go anywhere near hospitals and clinics, another programme aims to distribute nutritious food rations to all under-5s and pregnant and nursing mothers. This programme reaches around 140,000 people in Turkana.
Alongside the nutrition programmes, the European Union (either through individual member countries or through ECHO, the humanitarian arm of the EU) is also supporting other WFP-run programmes for people affected by drought in northern Kenya.
Only one of Namuding's five children goes to school. At school, the child gets a nutritious hot lunch. "I am thankful for the food he gets in school and I pray that after his education he can be a teacher," says Namuding.
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* Just a reminder – I will be guest-hosting the next TAX CARNIVAL this coming Monday.
Those of you who are so inclined have until the end of the day on Saturday to submit your postings to be considered for inclusion in the Carnival.
* It seems that Trump got himself a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (who did he have to pay for that?). David Letterman and Conan O'Brien had some dead on comments on this "event"
"Donald Trump got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It's now official – Hollywood has run out of stars." D LETTERMAN
"In California Donald Trump got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this week. At the ceremony Donald became so choked up that he forgot to say that Rosie is fat." C O'BRIEN
* According to a report by Washington DC's WTOP Radio, "Federal Workers Owe Billions in Unpaid Taxes"
The federal government is trying to recover $2,799,950,165 from 450,000 of its own active and retired employees who failed to voluntarily comply with federal income tax requirements and did not file income tax returns for 2005, according to documents obtained by WTOP through the Freedom of Information Act. The documents show that every federal agency has employees who failed to comply with federal tax laws.
WTOP has developed an Excel Spreadsheet to break-down the non-filers by federal departments and agencies.
* The tongue-in-cheek tax blog Taxalicious has created a website to honor "Tax Giving Day".
"To the delight of Tax preparers and bureaucrats alike Tax Giving Day is right around the corner. Our celebration to mark the tax filing deadline of April 15th, families will celebrate the return of Lord Stew Taxalot hopeful they will be one of the lucky recipients of this year's surprise tax refund."


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OTTAWA — Education, job-training and a commitment to work with First Nations to settle land claims topped the government's budget priority list for aboriginals, which is aimed at ensuring native people — both on- and off-reserve — become full and contributing members of the Canadian economy.
The government will invest $275 million over three years in education and job training, and almost $331 million over two years to build and renovate on-reserve water systems.
Citing statistics that show Canada's youthful aboriginal population is booming, while the rest of Canadians are rapidly aging, the budget said First Nation, Inuit and Metis people will become an increasingly important source of Canada's labour force growth.
The aim of the targeted spending, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Thursday in his budget speech, is to "unlock the potential of Canada's First Nations children."
"I'm very encouraged," said Roberta Jamieson, CEO of the Indspire, formerly National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation. She said she liked the government's emphasis on collaboration with First Nations and the apparent acknowledgment that "the prosperity of the country is inextricably tied to change for First Nations education."
"This change needs to start today," she said.
The question is whether the investment will be sufficient to raise on-reserve students to an equal footing with students off-reserve, as was promised in the "Shannen's Dream" motion passed unanimously by Parliament last month.
An "alternative budget" prepared by the Assembly of First Nations for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives suggests it won't be.
It said on-reserve education systems require $800 million per year to "slowly bridge the $3-billion gap built up since" a 1996 two per cent spending cap was put on all on-reserve spending. In education infrastructure alone, the AFN said, it will cost half a billion dollars to fix the 40 on-reserve schools in need of immediate repairs.
This year, the budget commits $45 million total for aboriginal education, which should cover early literacy programming and initiatives to strengthen students' relationships with the provincial school systems, as well as build new schools and renovate existing ones.
Missing from the government's budget is money to address what Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo called a "housing crisis" in more than 100 remote aboriginal communities.
However, it does re-commit funds to two initiatives that were intended to end next fiscal year. The Urban Aboriginal Strategy, in which the federal government partners with its provincial, municipal and aboriginal counterparts to improve job training and housing in urban centres, will continue with a $27-million influx over two years. As well, an initiative intended to curb family violence on reserves will get a $12-million boost in 2012-13.
In a year when departments were asked to cut between five and 10 per cent of their spending, Aboriginal Affairs, which had the fourth-largest amount on the chopping block — with a little more than $6 billion — found it was only possible to cut spending by almost three per cent, second only to Veterans Affairs, at a little more than one per cent.
Some announcements had no funding attached. The government said it would move ahead "with willing First Nations" to introduce legislation allowing private property ownership on-reserve. The move would allow First Nations to buy and sell their reserve land, which currently is held in trust by the federal government.
As per February's joint-panel on education recommendations, the government said it would introduce a national First Nations Education Act by 2014. It also committed to exploring how to ensure elementary and secondary education on-reserve gets "stable, predictable, and sustainable funding."


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Featuring our all new biscuit doodles print- our new pastel cushions compliment our End of the Rainbow cushion perfectly!
Each cushion features all of our favourite teatime treats- Bourbons, Party Rings, Digestives and Custard Creams. Available in Pink, Lemon Sorbet, or Lilac
With designs hand illustrated by Nikki, this cushion is 16 x 12" and is digitally printed onto the highest quality 100% heavy cotton upholstery fabric. The reverse is a super soft 100% cotton needle cord which is finished with a concealed zip.
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During his time with the Marine Corps, Sagebiel served as a scout sniper deployed in Iraq. It was there that he sustained a brain injury. Back home, he retaught himself to play guitar and used the process as a type of therapy.
"I immersed myself in the study of how the brain learns, and the science and phycology of learning," Sagebiel said. "It was through my own self-healing and recovery that I discovered how to help others through music therapy."
This Texas transplant moved to Queens following his tour in Iraq and opened a music school in Forest Hills. Due to its popularity, he decided to move to a bigger space at 44-02 23rd Street in Long Island City.
In addition to more room, Sagebiel said the proximity to Brooklyn and Manhattan makes it a perfect place to open up a business. He also has plans to open a second facility very soon in Greenpoint.
Currently, Sage Music has student who range in age from four to 87 years old. Sagebiel said that having a bad teacher can actually make a musician worse.
According to Sagebiel, many music teachers are trained in the traditional style of classroom teaching. At Sage Music, he works closely with his eight teachers ensuring they are familiar with the one-on-one style of teaching.
"Music is absolutely great and enriches people's lives," he said. "It's a good thing to do and helps people grow and become well-rounded people."


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2009 Carlisle All-Truck Nationals
A Healthy Exchange Of Ideas
The 19th Annual Carlisle All-Truck Nationals was held August 7-9 at the Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Fairgrounds. Billed as "one of the largest specialty, off-road and collector truck oriented events in the world," all elements of truck culture were in attendance. What's pretty much unique to this event is its scale and scope; some 2,000 trucks attend from all over the Northeast.
If there is such a thing as a melting pot of truck subcultures, this is where things get cooking. Truck lovers of all types can get a healthy dose of each other. It's not unusual to see a classic truck parked next to a frame-dragging mini truck or a sky-jacked rockcrawler. And it's also not unusual to see owners of these different genres checking out each other's vehicles and asking questions about features.
Judging from some of the vehicles in attendance, there's some good cross fertilization of ideas going on. From the standpoint of custom classic trucks, a number of former S-10 mini truck owners are moving their arts to older metal. And some classic truck owners are incorporating some of the engineering found in late-model frame draggers.
It's clearly a two-way commerce of ideas. Twenty-inch Budnick wheels on an air-bagged '65 Chevy Stepside. The owner of an old-school '48 Chevy with leaded-in '53 Buick headlights and a '55 Caddy grille being quizzed about his build by a group of tricked-out, sky-jacked late-model truck owners. A former trick mini truck owner's '65 Chevy C10 "rails on the ground, build-in-progress" is repeatedly visited by classic truck builders. This is a venue that stimulates a healthy exchange between genres.
Those interested in having their vehicle(s) judged will find a transparent, point-based system that is professionally handled. Those simply wanting to bring their truck to the show for a great weekend will totally enjoy the event. There's plenty to see and do with a massive swap meet with tons of old metal, vendors' exhibits and venues including monster show trucks and rides, the famous Carlisle Burnout contest, a Beauty contest, the Carlisle Truck Tug-O-War, rockclimbing exhibitions, and off-road time trials. This show is clearly one that needs to be experienced. For more information about the 20th Carlisle All-Truck Nationals to be held on August 6-8, 2010 check out www.CarlisleEvents.com.


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If the special administrator neglects or refuses to transfer the assets and estate to the executor or administrator, the probate court may compel the transfer by citation and attachment. The executor or administrator also may proceed, by civil action, to recover the value of the assets from the special administrator and the special administrator's sureties.
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Harvest Chicken Soup
I like reading cookbooks and finding new twists to traditional recipe. This hearty soup is made with a colorful and tasty mix of vegetables and avocados. Spending time in the kitchen has kept me busy after retiring some years ago.—Bob & Georgia Crabb, Scio, Oregon
Total TimePrep: 15 min. Cook: 2 hours 40 min.
Makes8-10 servings (2-1/4 quarts)
- 3 medium onions
- 3 bone-in chicken breast halves, skin removed
- 4 cups water
- 3 celery ribs, halved
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) diced tomatoes, undrained
- 3 medium carrots, thinly sliced
- 4 teaspoons chicken bouillon granules
- 1 small zucchini, halved and thinly sliced
- 1 cup frozen peas
- 1 avocado, peeled and sliced
- Chop one onion; set aside. Quarter the other two; place in a Dutch oven with the chicken, water, celery, salt and pepper. Cover and simmer for 2 hours or until the chicken and vegetables are tender. Remove the chicken; set aside. Discard celery and onion.
- To broth, add the tomatoes, carrots, bouillon and chopped onion. Cover and simmer for 30 minutes or until the carrots are tender.
- Debone and cube chicken; add to soup with zucchini and peas. Cover and simmer for 10 minutes or until zucchini is tender. Spoon into bowls. Garnish with avocado.