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67 Fun and Delicious Meals You Can Afford to Eat Every Day in Honolulu
HONOLULU Magazine's tour of 67 cheap eats, from burgers to soft-shell crab to frugal finds with a view.
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It isn't hard to eat cheap. After all, Hawaii is packed with plate-lunch places that serve up heaping clamshells of meat and rice. But what if you want to eat well? For you, here's HONOLULU Magazine's tour of 67 cheap eats, from burgers to soft-shell crab to frugal finds with a view: fun and delicious meals you can afford to eat every day of the week (and would want to).
Maui: Leoda's Kitchen and Pie Shop
At this new, rustically-styled eatery, everything is under $15. Sandwiches can be simple and perfect, like the pastrami sandwich ($10.75), housemade rye bread piled high with pastrami. But you must also have pie—both savory and sweet. Try the meat 'n' potatoes pot pie ($12.75), and to finish, the sweet berry hand-held pie ($5.25), which will remind you of childhood Hostess fruit pies, but so much better, with blackberries, strawberries and blueberries encased in a sugar-crusted flaky pie dough.
820 Olowalu Village Road, Maui, (808) 662-3600, leodas.com.
Da Spot
Try the Egyptian baked chicken, saffron rice and Greek salad as part of a ridiculously un-mini plate ($6). There are also plenty of other options here: vegetarians and meat lovers alike will find sustenance in an Egyptian veggie curry or Moroccan chicken, for instance. For an extra $1.50, upgrade your salad to mango or a vegan Egyptian potato salad, to name just a few. Pair it all with a smoothie, such as the Pineapple Craze ($3), pineapple and peach blended with lychee sorbet, and don't forget dessert: freshly baked baklava ($1.50).
2469 S. King St., (808) 941-1313.
Lucky Belly
This new, stylish restaurant in Chinatown has old Chinese ladies dining side by side with the plaid and tattooed set. They come to slurp up ramen in bowls big enough to wash your face in. Both the Lucky Bowl ($8), with a perfect soft-boiled egg, green onion and fresh ginger, and the Shrimp Kimchee Bowl ($12), adorned with tempura shrimp, have a rich, porky, almost milky broth. Lucky belly, indeed.
50 N. Hotel St., (808) 531-1888.
Dew Drop Inn
Drop in? Don't mind if we do, especially for the vegetarian bean skin ball on choy sum ($9.95), plump packages of shiitake and bamboo shoots wrapped in paper-thin tofu skin. Or order the ground pork and tofu in sesame shao bing ($12.95), and stuff the crumbly, hoisin-flavored mix into shao bing, somewhere between bread and pie crust.
1088 S. Beretania St., (808) 526-9522.
Ginza Bairin
Pork katsu at Ginza Bairin is not your $7 greasy plate-lunch affair. Here, kurobota pork loin katsu can run you $36, making the pork tenderloin katsu sandwich ($10) a deal. Juicy pork, fried light and crispy, is swiped with a plummy tonkatsu sauce and sandwiched between white bread (with the crusts cut off). It's served alongside a bottomless chiffonade of cabbage salad, with a choice of dressings, including a shiso ume vinaigrette that endows this homely vegetable with a delicacy we never knew it had.
255 Beach Walk, (808) 926-8082.
Helena's Hawaiian Food
Helena's famous pipikaula short ribs are gratifying in their crunchy, chewy, beef jerkylike exterior, providing contrast to their thick, meaty insides. Dip them in chili-pepper water and round out the meal with smoky kalua pig and salty lomi salmon, all part of "Menu C" ($14.95). Fixin's also include poi, onions, coarse Hawaiian salt and haupia.
1240 N. School St., (808) 845-8044, helenashawaiianfood.com.
Hiroshi Eurasian Tapas
Be ready and waiting when Hiroshi Eurasian Tapas opens its doors at 5:30 p.m. to grab one of the 15 seats at the bar, then reward your taste buds with an hour of half-off regular menu prices. Not to be missed: the sizzling hamachi carpaccio ($6.25), paper-thin slices of fish, diced tomatoes and tofu in a pool of truffled ponzu. Bonus: Order off Vino's menu when both restaurants are open—we recommend the oven-roasted Maine lobster ($9.50) with risotto, porcini mushrooms and smoked trout caviar bathed in a creamy tarragon buerre blanc.
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Mountain Lion Hunting in South Dakota Hits a Lull
RAPID CITY - Game wardens in South Dakota say it is unlikely that the state-set quota of 100 mountain lions will be killed during this year's hunting season.
KEVN-TV reports that with only two weeks left in the season, only 49 lions have been killed, including 29 females. The season limit is 100 total lions or 70 females.
No lion has been killed for nearly two weeks. The last one killed was on March 6 in Pennington County.
Last year's season ended a month early after 70 lions were killed. Seventy was the quota last year.
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In just three weeks from today, REUNITED hits the shelves! So, in celebration of the final countdown, I'm hosting a giveaway a week. And each week, the prizes get bigger & better!
The winner of last week's contest, and the proud owner of a REUNITED T-shirt, signed bookmarks, & a Road Trip Mix CD is… (drumroll please) aLmYbNeNr, whose favorite band to listen to on a road trip is Puddle of Mudd. The Runner Ups, who'll receive signed REUNITED bookmarks and a Road Trip Mix CD, are Jasmine R.(A Room with Books) and Christina (A Reader of Fictions). Congratulations, ladies! I'll email you for your addresses & prizes will be mailed soon.
Now, on to the theme of this week's Giveaway Tuesday: friendship.
To enter, all you need to do is share your best friend's first name in the comments section of this post, and one winner will receive not one, but two pre-release hardcover copies of REUNITED – one for you, and one for your BFF. You may share more than one friend's name, but if you win, know that all 78 of you will have to share the two books amongst yourselves. 😉 Contest open to U.S. residents only. Good luck!


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Augsburg's history dates back over 2,000 years, making it one of Germany's oldest cities. It was the venue for Imperial Diets, witnessing the Religious Peace of Augsburg, the High Peace Festival and the Augsburg Confession – all of which assured it a place in world history.
The Augsburg Imperial Diet at which Luther refused to revoke his 95 theses is one of the major turning points in western history. The event is commemorated at the fascinating Lutherstiege museum in St. Anne's Church with an exhibition of priceless early Luther manuscripts, documents and paintings.
In 1530 the Augsburg Confession was declared in the Fronhof at the episcopal palace near Augsburg Cathedral. Even today it forms part of the binding confessions of Lutheran churches.
No trip to Augsburg is complete without a visit to the Fuggerei – the world's oldest social housing project still in existence – and the famous Augsburger Puppenkiste puppet theatre, where the marionettes can be seen in the museum as well as during performances. Prestigious contemporary art is on show in the early 19th-century Glaspalast.
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We propose a synthesis of two lines of sociological research on boundary spanning in cultural production and consumption. One, research on cultural omnivorousness, analyzes choice by heterogeneous audiences facing an array of crisp cultural offerings. The other, research on categories in markets, analyzes reactions by homogeneous audiences to objects that vary in the degree to which they conform to categorical codes. We develop a model of heterogeneous audiences evaluating objects that vary in typicality.
Racial attachments are understood to be socially constructed and endogenous to gender, socioeconomic, and religious identities. Yet we know surprisingly little about the effect of such identities on the particular racial labels that individuals self-select. In this article, I investigate how social identities shape the racial labels chosen by biracial individuals in the United States, a rapidly growing population who have multiple labeling options.
Lawyers keep the gates of public justice institutions, particularly through their roles in formal procedures like hearings and trials. Yet, it is not clear what lawyers do in such quintessentially legal settings: conclusions from past research are bedeviled by a lack of clear theory and inconsistencies in research design. Conceptualizing litigation work in terms of professional expertise, I conduct a theoretically grounded synthesis of the findings of extant studies of lawyers' impact on civil case outcomes.
Existing research emphasizes the importance of group identification and perceived similarity in the development of group consciousness. Intersectionality suggests that for many women, a political consciousness of gender may also stem from experiences with race, ethnicity, and sexuality and may be interconnected with a consciousness of other forms of inequality. This study analyzes data from a recent national survey to investigate how race, ethnicity, and sexuality intersect with women's gendered political consciousness.
I report the results of a laboratory experiment in which I examine the relationship between cognitive categorization processes and status-organizing processes, focusing on how seemingly irrelevant information becomes relevant to the informational structure of a task situation. In phase one, participants completed a task in which they were primed with photographs of women occupying either stereotypical or counter-stereotypical roles. In phase two, participants, along with a partner, completed a collective decision-making task.
This study explores gender, activity, and well-being among people with mental illness attending day centers in Sweden. Based on survey data of 215 attendees, this study applies the concepts of doing gender and regulatory regimes to analyze the relationship between being involved in gendered activities and well-being. The results show that while both male and female participants are involved in gender-neutral activities, men are less likely to engage in women-dominated (WD) activities while women are more prone to engage in men-dominated (MD) activities.
How racial identity influences self-esteem and psychological well-being among African Americans remains unresolved due to unexplained inconsistencies in theoretical predictions and empirical findings. Using data from the National Survey of American Life (N = 3,570), we tested hypotheses derived from social identity theory and the internalized racism perspective. Findings support social identity theory in showing that African Americans strongly identify with their group and view it very positively.
While studying the rapid growth of the therapeutic boarding school industry, Jessica A. Pfaffendorf observed that troubled young men in at least one program most often displayed a type of "hybrid masculinity."
This observation — young men incorporating more feminine behaviors in their social interactions while at boarding school — presented a notable incongruence.
For heterosexual couples, most Americans still believe in the traditional division of household labor between husbands and wives, while for same-sex couples, they think the "more masculine" partner and the "more feminine" partner should generally be responsible for stereotypically male and female chores, respectively, suggests a new study that was presented at the 111th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA).
ASA speaks with sociologist Doug Hartmann at the 2016 ASA Annual Meeting on August, 2016, in Seattle, WA. Hartmann talks about what it means to "do sociology," how he uses sociology in his work, highlights of his work in the field, the relevance of sociological work to society, and his advice to students interested in entering the field.


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SAN DIEGO — The food on the disabled cruise ship Carnival Splendor is cold and the lines to get it stretch for hours.
And with the pool and casinos closed and rooms pitch black and stuffy, the nearly 4,500 people and crew on board passed the time with live music, scavenger hunts and trivia contests as they are slowly towed to San Diego.
The bar is also open and offering free drinks.
Two tugboats were pulling the 952-foot ship back to the U.S. and expected to dock in San Diego midday Thursday. Carnival said the ship was 85 miles from San Diego on Wednesday afternoon and traveling at 5.6 knots.
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The ship entered cell phone range on Wednesday and the crew set up a bank of eight satellite phones, allowing passengers mostly cut off from communication since an engine fire disabled the vessel on Monday to finally reach loved ones — and provide the first details of the conditions on board.
'Waiting for the next mealtime'
Among them was David Zambrano, who phoned his employer, Denver TV station 9NEWS, and said people were trying to keep their spirits up by singing, socializing and playing cards.
Rooms in the interior of the ship were dark, and passengers propped open their doors to let in air and emergency lighting from the hallways, Zambrano said.Video: 'It's a little stuffy' (on this page)
"So really, all we're doing is just kind of hanging out on a boat waiting for the next mealtime," Zambrano said.
Mealtime requires a two-hour wait for cold food, he said. Navy helicopters flew in Spam, Pop Tarts and canned crab meat and other goods for the passengers and crew.
"It's almost like a diet cruise because we've been eating salads and fruit and small sandwiches," Zambrano said.
Carnival CEO Gerry Cahill said the challenges on the cruise ship are unlike any others his company has faced in its 35-year history.
"The conditions on the ship have been challenging and we are very, very sorry for the discomfort and the inconvenience that our guests have had to deal with in the past several days," Cahill said at a news conference in San Diego. "They signed up for a great cruise vacation and obviously that is not what they received."
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John Heald, Carnival's senior cruise director who is currently on the Carnival Splendor, blogged about conditions aboard the ship.
"I don't smell of roses at the best of times but as the laundry is not working and I only have two pairs of underpants I smell like Paris on a hot summer's day," he wrote.
"Obviously it has been a challenge but let me tell you the most important facts and those are that the ship is safe, the guests are safe and that nobody was injured in what was a very difficult situation," he continued. "I also want to tell you that the guests have been magnificent and have risen to the obvious challenges and difficult conditions onboard."
He also said he is using the ship's PA system to keep passengers informed.
Gina Calzada, 43, of Nevada, said her diabetic sister, Vicky, called her Wednesday morning on her cell phone and started sobbing. She said she has not been able to take her insulin for her diabetes because she is not eating enough.
She told Calzada all that she had eaten was some bread, cucumbers and lettuce. "I told her where are the Pop Tarts and the Spam? I thought they brought in 70,000 pounds of supplies," Calzada said. "She said I haven't seen that."
Alvarez and her husband saved up for months to take the cruise to celebrate their wedding anniversary of more than 20 years and her 48th birthday, which was on Nov. 4. They had not been able to take a vacation for years because Alvarez was caring for their aging mother, who died in June.
"She said it stinks of rotten food and smoke," Calzada said. "It's dark, and it's cold.'"
Her sister then passed the phone to her husband because she was crying too hard, Calzada said. He told Calzada that when he went looking for food for his wife, a crew member told him to give her a Tic-Tac.
"That really made my brother-in-law upset," Calzada said.Video: Stranded cruise ship being towed to U.S. (on this page)
Cahill said he did not have information about Alvarez to immediately comment.
Ship's power supply knocked out
Passengers were being entertained with bands and board games, and were being offered free drinks at the bar and the option of sleeping out on the deck, he said.
The Splendor left Long Beach on Sunday for a seven-day trip to the Mexican Riviera. The ship was 200 miles south of San Diego and about 44 miles off shore when the engine room fire killed its power.Interactive: Engine fire cripples cruise ship (on this page)
No one was hurt, but those on board were left without air conditioning, hot water or Internet service. Most telephone service had been knocked out. The ship's auxiliary power allowed for working toilets and cold water, Carnival spokesman Vance Gulliksen said.
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Dawn Gill said her son Daniel Gill board the ship with his wife, Kendall, and the Phoenix couple had been celebrating their honeymoon.
"Once we knew there were no injuries, and there's no pirates or terrorist attack, and there's no imminent danger kind of thing, it's just inconvenience," said Dawn Gill. "We're laughing it's like, it had to be Dan and Kendall's wedding, it just had to be, and it's going to be great conversation at Thanksgiving when the family gets together. Just what a great way to start out, it's got to go up from here."
The U.S. Navy resupplied the ship on Tuesday with thousands of pounds of food and other supplies ferried by helicopter from the USS Ronald Reagan, an aircraft carrier diverted from maneuvers nearby.
On Wednesday morning, it was 125 miles south of San Diego and was expected to arrive Thursday afternoon or evening if the weather remained good, U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Rick Foster said. No storms were forecast.
The journey hit more glitches when a second tugboat sent to help the first was forced to turn back because it wasn't powerful enough, and a third was hooked up Wednesday morning and pulling with no problem, Coast Guard officials said.
Carnival first planned to haul the ship to the Mexican port of Ensenada, not far from a movie studio complex used to film "Titanic," and bus passengers to the U.S.
But the cruise line decided they would be more comfortable on board, Gulliksen said.
Zambrano said passengers were overjoyed to hear they were heading straight back to California and wouldn't have to go through the tedious customs process at the border.
"When they said they were towing us to San Diego instead of Ensenada, the cheer could be heard all the way around the boat," he said. "Everybody was screaming.
And each time a rescue boat arrived, he said, people ran to the side, cheered, waved and took pictures.
Associated Press writers Julie Watson and Elliot Spagat in San Diego, Raquel Maria Dillon in Los Angeles, photographer Greg Bull aboard the USS Ronald Reagan, video producer Yvonne Leow in Phoenix, and Jim Fitzgerald in White Plains, N.Y., contributed to this report.
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012
A Fiery New Year!
Here is what the gradient looked like before the black was added. I started out with two coats of Color Club Almost Famous (yellow) and sponged on top with Color Club Warhol (hot pink). This combo looks so great together...
I hope you had a fun New Year's celebration!
What kind of manicure did you wear?
Thanks for looking!
Anutka :)
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Awesome manicure!ReplyDelete
Happy New Year to you too! :)
Omg this looks so awesome!! Really great job :) Happy New Year! ;)ReplyDelete
Ooooh you totally nailed it Anutka! I like it a lot with the flames going in the other direction ^^ And Happy New Year to you too :-)ReplyDelete
This looks amazing!!! Wow!ReplyDelete
Totally Awesome - Love the Gradient under the flames, it's Gorgeous!ReplyDelete
This manicure is so Amazing!ReplyDelete
Those flames are incredibly awesome.
Happy new Year!
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woaaa, amazing!! looks super cool!ReplyDelete
Beautifully done. The gradient is great!ReplyDelete
Happy New Year!!ReplyDelete
That's an awesome manicure, I love the gradient, it's just perfect! :)
You keep wowin me!
Your sponges gradient is incredible! Do you use a sense cosmetic brush? Lovely!
At first the black looked like a "drip manicure" to me, but upside down your nails are ON FIRE!
STUNNING! :) wow
Wow! Thank you so much for all your encouragement and comments! Makes me want to try more fun stuff :DReplyDelete
@Marta, I started using a faux sea sponge for the gradient. A cosmetic sponge is too dense in my opinion and I can't get as smooth of a transition.
Kick ass mani!!! Luv it!!ReplyDelete
Thank you!!! :DReplyDelete
I love this so much! I am curious about Almost Famous, did it stain your nails? Yellows always scare me... but I need to do this mani!ReplyDelete
@Megan, I usually will write if it stains my nails. The two times I used it, I didn't write that, so I don't think this one stained them, but I don't remember 100%.ReplyDelete
I'm always worried about yellows too. If you are really worried try two layers of base to protect your nails :)


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#RSL Tweets of the Day (@RealSaltLake)
#SEA fans: I'm not going home in a body bag but we r going home with a shutout. Respect 2 the #sea fans thathttp://instagr.am/p/RjkyzUqY5U/
My pick 2 win @MLS Cup, @RealSaltLake , looking better after squeezing out result in Seattle. RSL knows how 2 advance, Seattle? not so much.
#RSL GK @NickRimando truly "The Wall of the Wasatch" with 10th career postseason shutout (99 reg. season) ..http://instagr.am/p/RkVe2gsFcI/
Richard Farley @richardfarley
Me on tonight's pile of awesome ... Stuff of legends: Rimando performance deserves place among MLS's besthttp://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/2012/11/03/nick/ … #MLS #SEAvRSL
Kreis on Rimando: "It will have to go down as one of the single best individual performances by any player that's ever worn an RSL jersey."
More proof tonight: If you are in an elimination game or series in MLS, the goalie you want is Nick Rimando.
If you're putting together an all-time MLS Playoff Best XI, Rimando is your starting GK. And that was BEFORE tonight.#BigTimeGoalkeeper
An excellent @MLS playoff performance from @RealSaltLake & probably the best performance I've ever seen from @NickRimando#ontothenextone
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Hell of a match by @NickRimando. Anyone who can get up and play 8 minutes after getting stitches and his nose broken gets our respect.#EBFG
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Welex has worked for several years with Austrian machine builder MAS GmbH to design and test components for the system. Compared with parallel twins, the conical design offers "better feeding characteristics for low bulk densities, higher pressure capability due to larger thrust bearings, more torque capability due to larger screw diameter and shorter machine length, the lowest possible melt temperature, reduced footprint, low shear and outstanding IV retention, and significant energy savings," Nissel states. In the case of melt temperature, Nissel says trials on PLA have been run at 184 C, about 30° less than is typical for the material. The system reportedly can process undried material with moisture content up to 2500 ppm. Systems are available in throughputs from 1100 lb/hr to more than 4400 lb/hr.
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Welex has already sold one system to an undisclosed North American sheet processor. It will be integrated with a Welex Evolution sheet takeoff and Sentinel Intelligent Process Control system. It will run in line with a thermoformer. The line will ship in September and is expected to be in production in the fourth quarter, says David Schroeder, Welex president & CEO.
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I've already voiced my opinion on the incredible amount of previews that go on with car commercials before the Super Bowl. To make it short, I'm not a fan.
But that doesn't mean I'm not a fan of the car commercials in the Super Bowl itself. I tend to actually really enjoy them. Anything that puts cars on the mind of the public is a-ok with me.
My favorite in recent memory has to be Ford's ad from Super Bowl XXXVIII, "The One." It declared the GT as the pace car of the company, a resurgent and dedicated company. It still gives me goosebumps.
What Super Bowl car ads give you chills?
(QOTD is your chance to address the day's most pressing automotive questions and to experience the opinions of the insightful insiders, practicing pundits, and gleeful gearheads that make up the Jalopnik commentariat. If you've got a suggestion for a good Question of the Day, send an email to tips at jalopnik dot com.)


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Read here from jsonline – Gregg Williams no longer an option. I was intrigued by the jsonline article this morning that talked about Tim Lewis. I don't know much about him except that I felt really bad years ago when it looked like he might be paralyzed after making a tackle. His experience is interesting though and I like the fact that he's worked with both the 4-3 and 3-4. I'm on record preferring a change to a 3-4, but I think it would be nice to have someone who has experience with both. I also am drawn immediately to the fact that he's worked with Dick LeBeau. His 4 year D Coordinator success in Pittsburgh was also impressive. Sean McDermott is also a guy to keep in mind as anyone who has been working with Jim Johnson for more than a few years has to have picked up some good ideas. While Gregg Williams may have been decent, I do wonder if his personal style would have fit under TT/MM (I get the sense he's fairly strong-willed). He apparently has had some issues in the past getting along with head coaches, including last year with Jack Del Rio. Right now in fact, I'm getting the sense that it may be a good thing that we didn't land any of the initial, hot candidates because some of these other guys may be just as good. It's not like we missed out on a Monte Kiffin, Dick LeBeau or Jim Johnson.
That said, I do have some concern, as some of you have mentioned, about whether Green Bay is still a place players/coaches even want to come. I wonder if some coaches have concerns about TT and/or MM. Reggie White made Green Bay a place lots of players and coaches wanted to come. And I believe Favre helped maintain that for years. But now, I have to admit, I'm not so sure it's as attractive a place to work.


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Mr. Irrelevant: "Nope. My wife does, though. She has a pacemaker. And my oldest daughter has an artificial hip. And my brother has a bullet from Korea in one arm. And..."
Friday, November 6, 2009
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Mr. Irrelevant: "Nope. My wife does, though. She has a pacemaker. And my oldest daughter has an artificial hip. And my brother has a bullet from Korea in one arm. And..."
10 comments:
- ERP said...
Are you sure he does not have the proverbial plate in the head?
- November 6, 2009 at 11:27 AM
- Doris said...
Oh I see, you're going to do one of those special group MRIs, sort of like a family portrait from Sears...
- November 6, 2009 at 12:40 PM
Hmm.. I'm wondering if he was nervous. I know people tend to ramble on forever in those states. A defense mechanism I guess.
As to why he was nervous, perhaps because he was the newest recipient of a Grumpy blog, and didn't want to make an ass of himself, lol.
Made me chuckle!
- November 6, 2009 at 12:45 PM
Would it help to know that I have a metal plate in my chin, and two screws in my jaw?
- November 6, 2009 at 12:53 PM
"...and my youngest son likes to listen to that heavy metal music..."
- November 6, 2009 at 1:24 PM
- linlah said...
Maybe he thought you were pre-screening for the FAA.
- November 6, 2009 at 3:10 PM
- Chris said...
Thanks. This completes my "metals in humans" survey.
- November 6, 2009 at 8:52 PM
- pAula said...
yo, I feel your pain. How may times have I asked a pt "what time did you eat last?" that I have heard- A piece of toast and a soft boiled egg after the news, then a yogurt that didn't sit well... or...well, last night I got up hungry, finished the turkey tetrazzini, brushed my teeth then went back to bed... As if I'd cared about WHAT they had to eat!
- November 6, 2009 at 11:55 PM
I get the same thing at the pharmacy.
Me: "Have we ever filled a prescription here for you before?"
Customer: "Oh yes. My spouse (kid, sister in-law, cousin, next door neighbor etc) comes here all the time."
Me: "Ok, but what about you? Have YOU ever been here before?"
Customer: "Oh, I see. Yes, I've been here before. Well, not here, but your other pharmacy the next town over."
Me: "I see. Ok, well I need to get all of your information then."
Customer: "Can't you just call over there and get it?"
In the time it took me to get all of that useless information, I could have been halfway done filling their Rx. These are also the people that come back 4 minutes later to see if it is done.
- November 7, 2009 at 7:24 PM
- Arps said...
Now that is some good family history.
- November 10, 2009 at 1:50 PM


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Cleric issues call to arms as Iraq edges closer to war
BAGHDAD — Iraq edged closer to the prospect of full-blown civil war Friday as a top Shiite Muslim cleric issued a call to arms against Muslim extremists who are continuing their military campaign to supplant the government.
In his sermon in Karbala, Sheikh Abdul Mahdi al-Karbalai urged citizens to resist the forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), an al-Qaeda splinter group that overran Mosul, the country's second-largest city, as well as other towns in the past week after encountering little resistance from Iraqi troops.
"Citizens who are able to bear arms and fight terrorists, defend their country and their people and their holy places, should volunteer and join the security forces to achieve this holy purpose," al-Karbalai said. "He who sacrifices for the cause of defending his country and his family and his honor will be a martyr."
In Baghdad, Iraqis were heeding the cleric's call. Former army officer Mohammed Saled, 45, was waiting to enter a military recruitment center that has been swamped for the past two days with men eager to defend the capital from ISIL militants, who have vowed to take the city.
"All Iraqis must get ready to fight those criminals who have no agenda except killing the innocent," Saled said.
As the representative of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, leader of Iraq's Shiites, al-Karbalai threatened, with his sermon, to further divide Iraq along sectarian lines. Many Sunni Iraqis believe embattled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has unduly favored his fellow Shiites, who make up the largest religious community in the country.
ISIL's goal is to establish a new Sunni country that would straddle the current border between Iraq and Syria, where ISIL forces are fighting President Bashar al-Assad in that country's civil war. The group was linked to al-Qaeda until internal disputes led to its separation earlier this year.
Experts believe the poor performance of the Iraqi army reflects how its Shiite officers are reluctant to fight against determined Sunni fighters in Mosul, Tikrit and other Sunni-dominated cities.
"ISIL has built up a head of momentum. Then, as it approaches other towns or cities, the security forces there panic, knowing that they are not well-equipped to fight or repulse the militants," said Matthew Henman, manager of IHS Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Centre in London. "There is perhaps not a great sense of morale or a desire to actually engage and sacrifice lives in an attempt to hold territory in an area where they and the government are not particularly popular by any measure."
That pattern continued as ISIL kept up its blitz across northern Iraq. On Friday, the Islamic extremists captured Jalula and Sadiyah, two towns on the border with Iran, about 70 miles north of Baghdad. Upon entering the city, the fighters portrayed themselves as liberators protecting residents from the central government.
But reports of ISIL members terrorizing those who resist their rule have started to percolate out of the cities they control. On Friday, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said the extremists might have killed hundreds and wounded as many as 1,000 people under their so-called protection.
"ISIL fighters, including prisoners they had released from jails in Mosul and provided with arms, have been actively seeking out — and in some cases killing — soldiers, police and others, including civilians, whom they perceive as being associated with the government," Pillay said in a statement.
In an effort to further demoralize government forces, ISIL has posted chilling online videos of its attacks on government sympathizers, including an incident where fighters decapitated an Iraqi police major in an unknown city to a soundtrack of Islamic hymns. The video could not be independently verified.
In response, the Iraqi government shut down Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in an attempt to stop ISIL from using social media to promote its cause.
The United Nations on Friday reported that 300,000 refugees had fled to Erbil and Duhok to escape the ISIL militants' violence — bringing the total number of Iraqi refugees in the conflict to 800,000.
A refugee in Erbil, Zainab Rasheed, described a chaotic scene at the city's bus station as people figured out whether they could make it to the safety of the capital.
"People were crowded to get tickets to go back to Baghdad," Rasheed said. "They are worried about their relatives there. They can't go by cars, as they are afraid to be killed by ISIL fighters."
Erbil and Duhok are in Kurdistan, a semi-autonomous region where troops are better organized than the central government's forces. About 500,000 Iraqis have already become refugees in other parts of the country as ISIL has acquired territory.
On Thursday, Kurdish troops occupied Kirkuk, an oil-rich city that Kurds have long claimed as their capital but Baghdad has controlled in recent years. Intending to prevent an ISIL takeover of Kirkuk, the Kurds moved into the city as Iraqi government forces abandoned their positions.
Adding another element of instability to the conflict as Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds staked out their territories, Iran's official IRNA news agency reported that ex-Revolutionary Guard members were ready to enter Iraq to vanquish ISIL. The agency said Iranian President Hassan Rouhani assured al-Maliki they could work together. Iran's theocratic government is Shiite.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran will apply all its efforts on the international and regional levels to confront terrorism," Rouhani told al-Maliki, according to IRNA.


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DWTS 12 – Randall Christensen "Behind The Seams" Of Week 4
Stylist reports on Randall Christensen's thoughts on Kirstie's shoe mishap and how she handled it with "expected grace". She didn't skip a beat. He also dishes about how he was inspired to do this week's costumes. More below in a take from the link. I love what he says about Kirstie and how she sketched her necklace-style neckline.
Kendra Wilkinson: Christensen's team bedazzled a classic pinstripe fabric to execute Wilkinson's mafia princess fantasy look. "Kendra had worn a fun gangster costume for Halloween, which was the inspiration for her costume this week," he says. "The fabric was the perfect template to encrust with crystals."
Kirstie Alley: The actress sketched the turquoise, necklace-style neckline of her shimmering lilac waltz frock on her own neck with lip liner and sent Christensen a photo. "We were actually planning something different, but it turned out to be such a fun collaboration," he says. Alley also continues to request more fitted looks as dancing tones her frame. "Her waist is looking fantastic," Christensen says.
Chelsea Kane: The Disney Star's "Harry Potter"-inspired wizard princess look was among Christensen's most ambitious designs of the week. Pewter embroidered netting was used to create the bodice while several kinds of fabric were layered to create the textured ruffles of her skirt for a performance that topped the leader board.
Petra Nemcova: The supermodel wore a red and black two-piece charmeuse number created for a classic Paso Doble. "We were going for an understated Carmen look," Christensen explains. Red and gold stones along the waist and hematite stones on her corset added subtle sparkle. "I really thought the off-the-shoulder ruffles on her top were sexy," he says.
The guys: Christensen's favorite male celebrity costume this week was wrestler Chris Jericho's copper lamé Paso Doble look. "The classic opera jacket in that fabric was the bomb," he says.
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It's often billed as WWE's hottest event of the summer. But was it? That's what I'm attempting to find out as we take a look back at Summerslam, shown live in the early hours of this past Monday morning on Sky Box Office here in Britain.
The broadcast began with the Ring of Fire match as Kane took on Bray Wyatt, accompanied here Luke Harper and Erick Rowan.
This was the first time I'd seen Wyatt in action, and I have to admit that the guy did pretty well. Granted, he probably won't win any awards for technical classics in his career though.
As for the match it was basically like the Inferno matches of years gone by. The two big guys brawled in the ring, and whenever one of them hit a big move the flames shot a few feet in the air.
The match looked pretty even at first, but then Wyatt sought to take the upper hand when he told his boys to get him a weapon. However, when they found a kendo stick and tried to hand it to him the flames rose again and set the stick alight.
Kane came back strongly moments later, and it looked like he was intent on dishing out the punishment when he took Wyatt down with two choke slams. But then the boys found a fire retardant blanket and placed it over one side of the ring, putting out the fire on that side so they could enter the match and take Kane apart.
They then held Kane his place as Wyatt made his recover before taking him down with his as yet unnamed finisher for the three count and the win.
But that wasn't the end of things. As Wyatt took his place in his rocking chair his boys clobbered Kane with the ring steps before Wyatt lighted his lantern as his boys dragged Kane away with them.
The grudge match action then continued with Damien Sandow taking on his former tag partner Cody Rhodes.
Now this I liked. It was one of those short and sweet encounters packed with a ton of action, and two good performances as well.
I was really impressed with how much they packed in. It was a keenly-fought contest in which both guys had strong moments of offence, and it was hard to pick out just who was the better man because they were equally as good as each other.
The grandson of the plumber emerged victorious in this one. Having narrowly missed getting the pin after the Disaster Kick he finally secured the victory after taking Sandow down with the Cross Rhodes. Nice stuff.
The first title match of the evening saw Christian challenging Alberto Del Rio for the World title.
You know, I'm really starting to like ADR's new aggressive attitude. It's certainly served him well recently, and it certainly came to the fore in this encounter.
This was billed as Christian's last chance at the big prize, and if it was then he put in a hell of a performance. Despite the fact that he's been wrestling longer than I've been writing about him his performances have always remained fresh, and once again he came across as the ultimate underdog.
These two ingredients made for a fascinating encounter. Del Rio sought to put his challenger away on numerous occasions, but no matter what he did he just couldn't get the job done. Christian's resilience saw him kicking out of pin attempts time and time again, despite the fact that ADR had targeted his previously injured shoulder.
But despite his courage and heart he came up short. When he finally took his man down with a spear he was in so much pain he couldn't go for a cover. This gave Del Rio the chance to recover, and enough time to lock in the cross arm breaker. Christian held out for as long as he could before the inevitable happened and he tapped out to give ADR the title retaining submission win.
The next match, designed to capitalize on the Total Divas show, saw Natalya, accompanied by the Funkadactyls, taking on Brie Bella, accompanied by Eva Marie and her sister Nikki.
This wasn't too bad I suppose. The performances certainly can't be faulted, although it was pretty obvious that those in attendance weren't exactly into this.
Brie controlled most of the action, and we saw the obligatory catfight from the ringside supporters before Natalya took her girl down with an Alabama slam before taking the submission win with a sharpshooter.
Then it was on to the beast versus the best, with Brock Lesnar, accompanied by Paul Heyman, taking on C.M. Punk in a no disqualification match.
I remember when Lesnar first returned to WWE there were some who feared that he'd be unable to have a good match with Punk, who was WWE Champion at the time, and that's why was never put in a title program. Well folks, I think those fears have been unfounded, because this was a classic.
For over twenty minutes these two put on one of the best matches I've seen this year. It was one of those matches that drew you in instantly. It held you in the palm of it's hand from start to finish.
Lesnar, as is his custom, began with some brutal offence, but Punk, playing the part of the plucky underdog to perfection, kept coming back, even putting the monster on the back foot quite a few times, much to the shock and horror of Heyman at ringside.
As the match went on Lesnar looked in complete control. Punk would get in a few moments of offence until Lesnar quickly shut him down. But there were only so many times that Lesnar could do this, and it wasn't long before Punk made a strong comeback. It also helped that he had a steel chair in hand.
At one point, as they jockeyed for position, Punk even threw a few MMA into his offence, with Lesnar almost tapping out to a triangle choke. The beast never said die though, and when he did come close to losing after a GTS Heyman broke up the pin.
In fact Heyman tried to interfere on quite a few occasions, and when he tried to stop Punk from using the chair again he ended up on the receiving end of a big right hand before Punk locked in a hold he'd just used on Lesnar, the anaconda vice.
But Punk's obsession with dishing it out to Heyman led to his downfall. As he applied the vice to his former friend Lesnar clobbered him with the chair, and a few moments and an F5 later Lesnar finally had the three count and the win.
Mixed tag team action followed as Dolph Ziggler and Kaitlyn faced Divas Champion A.J. Lee and Big E. Langston.
For me this has a similar sort of vibe to the Divas match, a short and sweet encounter that was well executed that probably won't make any match of the year candidates.
There weren't any inter-gender confrontations in this one. It began with Ziggler and Langston pulling off a few good moves before the girls came in and showed why their rivalry has been worth watching in the past few months.
Eventually the fellas came back into the match, and after both Divas got involved and Kaitlyn took Lee down with a spear at ringside Ziggler managed to take Langston down with his zig zag for the winning pin.
The main event saw Daniel Bryan challenging John Cena for the WWE title, with Triple H as the special referee.
To say that this was a good match would be an understatement. To say that this was an awesome match wouldn't be. In fact it may be the best match that either of these guys have had in their WWE careers.
You had two different ideologies in this match, the wrestler challenging the entertainer, and it was a perfect combination. These two took it to each other for what seemed like an age. The performances were tremendous, the psychology was spot on, and everything just made perfect sense.
In fact this match had so much great action it would probably take me too long to list everything I liked. You had numerous submission attempts, excellent back and forth sequences, and in Bryan a guy who wanted to prove that despite everything that's been said about him he was capable of getting the job done.
They threw everything they had at each other, and as time went on they became more and more frustrated at their inability to put each other away, and it got to the point where they slapped each other silly in an attempt to fire each other up.
And after all that, after Bryan countered Cena's Attitude Adjuster and took his man out with a kick to the head he connected with a running knee. A three count later and he'd done. Daniel Bryan was the new WWE Champion.
Then, after Bryan was given the belt and Cena congratulated him with a warm handshake the celebrations began as ticker tape rained down from the rafters and the fireworks went off.
Then it happened. As Bryan celebrated in the ring Randy Orton appeared on the scene with his Money in the Bank briefcase. At first he taunted the new champion with the case before turning his back and walking back up the aisle, but when Triple H attacked Bryan and took him down with a Pedigree Orton rushed down to the ring. He than handed his briefcase to the Game before pinning the fallen Bryan to become the new WWE Champion.
In conclusion – I had heard a ton of things about how good this show was, and I must say that all of them were well justified.
This year's Summerslam was a tremendous show. All of the matches delivered, and the main marquee matches delivered big time, and I wouldn't be surprised if those in the know vote for this as their show of the year.
As for my match of the night no-prize it's going to get split right down the middle and dished out to the Punk/Lesnar and Cena/Bryan matches. Boy were those two good. You had two matches here filled with tension, drama, and a ton of great moves. They're definitely two matches I'd like to see re-matches for, but I guess we'll have to wait for one of them because of Cena's injury.
So with all of that out of the way there's just one more thing to do, and that's to give this year's Summerslam the big thumbs up.
By day I'm an unemployed retail worker, and at weekends I volunteer at a local museum, but by night I'm the author of The Two Sheds Review, Britain's longest running professional wrestling and mixed martial arts blog. Visit my site at www.twoshedsreview.vze.com. It's been online in one form or another since June 2000!


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In one of my presentations recently I was recommending DBCC CHECKDB on every database every day. I realize that isn't always possible or practical, so I noted that if you don't have resources on your production server, or enough spare hardware, you should at least run it on every database once a month. At least on the database you care about.
Someone in the audience asked if they could just script DBCC PAGE on every page in the database instead. I wasn't sure if that was accurate, but I didn't think it was. So I asked THE MAN, and he confirmed this doesn't equate to a DBCC CHECKDB.
I won't attempt to give a complete explanation, mostly because I'm sure I'd miss something or be incorrect, but I will tell you how I feel about this, based on what I know.
CHECKDB performs an extensive evaluation of not only all objects (and hence their pages), but also their linkages. It performs a more complete check by default, but you can add the PHYSICAL_ONLY flag to speed things up and limit the checks to just the physical structures and allocations. PHYSICAL_ONLY also skips Filestream checks.
The DBCC PAGE command, undocumented, works, but it doesn't really examine if the links and relationships between pages are correct.
I can't say that DBCC PAGE couldn't be use to detect corruption or find issues, but I wouldn't depend on it. YMMV, but I wouldn't use this as a substitute for CHECKDB.


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Fox News host Bret Baier and James Comey sat down for a one-on-one interview Thursday night, in perhaps the most serious and direct conversations with the former FBI Director to date.
Incredible interview there from @BretBaier. Respectful, but not deferential. Forceful, without being impolite. And, in a rare feat on TV anymore, it elicited a ton of new and important information.— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) April 26, 2018
Baier held Comey's feet to the fire on a wide variety of controversial topics - including the FBI's decision to exonerate Hillary Clinton before interviewing her, what Comey knew about the "Steele Dossier" used to obtain a surveillance warrant on a Trump campaign aide, and the memos Comey leaked to his friend which he hoped would lead to a special counsel investigation.
Clinton Exoneration
After starting the interview off with a joke about how Comey must find it "a little tougher to get around town without a motorcade," Baier pulled no punches - launching straight into asking the former FBI Director if it was true that his team decided to exonerate Hillary Clinton before interviewing her.
In response, Comey said that because of all the prior investigative work the FBI had done on the Clinton email case, investigators said "it looks like it's not going to get to a place where the prosecutors will bring it," and that it's "fairly typical" for white collar investigations to save interviews for last.
Comey: I started to see that their view was, it was unlikely to end in a case that the prosecutors at DOJ would bring.
Baier: Before the interview?
Sure, yeah, because they had spent ten months digging around, reading all of the emails, putting everything together, interviewing everybody who set up her system. They weren't certain of that result, but they said "Look boss, on the current course and speed, looks like it's not going to get to a place where the prosecutor will bring it."
Strzok and Page
On the topic of Peter Strzok - the anti-Trump counterintelligence agent deeply involved in both the Clinton and Trump investigations along with his FBI attorney mistress, Lisa Page, Comey said he never witnessed evidence of bias working with the pair, but that he was "deeply disappointed" when he saw some of the text messages exchanged between them.
"I can tell you this: When I saw the texts, I was deeply disappointed in them," Comey told Baier. "But I never saw any bias, any reflection of any kind of animus towards anybody, including me. I'm sure I'm badmouthed in those texts, I'm just not going to read them all. Never saw it."
Comey said that if he had been aware of the level of hatred Strzok and Page had for Trump, he "would have removed both of them from any contact with significant investigations."
Key part of interview: @Comey admits he'd absolutely have removed Strzok/Page for bias, and then struggles to then claim their work product is still valid. Admits its a "fair question." Won't admit he doesn't have any reasonable answer. #SpecialReport— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) April 26, 2018
The "leaked" memos
When it comes to the leaked memos that kickstarted the Mueller probe, Comey maintains that the memos he created to document his interactions with President Trump, seven in all and four of which have been deemed classified; two marked "confidential" and two marked "secret."
Comey also admitted that he leaked the memos to two other people who he said were members of his "legal team," including David Kelly and former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald.
"I gave the memos to my legal team after I gave them to Dan Richman -- after I asked him to get it out to the media," said Comey, who likened the memos to his "diaries."
"I didn't consider it part of an FBI file... It was my personal aide-memoire," Comey said, adding "I always thought of it as mine, like a diary"
It's difficult to know where to begin on that Director Comey interview w/ @BretBaier. He just admitted to leaking his memos (with now-classified info) to two more people, in addition his friend.— Mark Meadows (@RepMarkMeadows) April 26, 2018
So he shared government property with not one, but three people? What?
Trump "just wrong"
Responding to a Fox & Friends interview in which President Trump said "Comey is a leaker and he's a liar. He's been leaking for years," the former FBI Director responded "He's just wrong. Facts really do matter." Comey then claimed that because the FBI approved the inclusion of the memos in his book, A Higher Loyalty, they are therefore not classified.
.@Comey: "I don't consider what I did with Mr. Richman a leak. I told him about an unclassified conversation with @POTUS." #SpecialReport pic.twitter.com/iDA5K7JsMU— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 26, 2018
Comey told Bret Baier that he didn't need to tell Congress that Daniel Richman, the "good friend" to whom he leaked, was a FBI special government employee because "it wasn't relevant."— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) April 26, 2018
Byron York of the Washington Examiner provides an excellent breakdown of Comey's semantic absurdity here.
The "Steele Dossier" and who paid for it
Baier asked Comey why the FBI used the Steele Dossier compiled by former UK spy Christopher Steele to obtain a FISA warrant on a Trump campaign aide if it was "salacious," to which Comey replied that the dossier was part of a "broader mosaic of facts" used to support the application.
And when it comes to who funded the dossier used in the FISA application, Comey claims he still has no idea whether Hillary Clinton and the DNC funded it.
"When did you learn that the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign had funded Christopher Steele's work?" Baier asked.
"Yeah I still don't know that for a fact," Comey responded.
"What do you mean?" Baier replied.
"I've only seen it in the media, I never knew exactly which Democrats had funded," Comey explained, "I knew it was funded first by Republicans."
Baier quickly corrected Comey, noting that while conservative website Free Beacon had Fusion GPS on "a kind of retainer," they "did not fund the Christopher Steele memo or the dossier," adding "That was initiated by Democrats."
In @BretBaier interview, Comey seems unaware/confused about difference between Fusion GPS/Free Beacon period and Fusion GPS/Steele dossier period.— Byron York (@ByronYork) April 26, 2018
Comey claimed that "Republicans" funded the *dossier* (not other anti-Trump research) and he wasn't sure that HRC and DNC funded the dossier (they did). That's either mendacity or negligence.— Mollie (@MZHemingway) April 27, 2018
Comey's claims to @BretBaier that A: he didn't leak and B: he doesn't know to this day that the HRC campaign and DNC financed the dossier simply are not credible. He even claimed the GOP started the funding of the dossier. That was debunked many months ago.— Brit Hume (@brithume) April 27, 2018
Actually is stunning overall amount the head of the FBI claims to not have known. Didn't know Steele's name; didn't know he lied to the FBI and was dismissed; didn't know who funded dossier; didn't know who leaked it. You gotta ask: Maybe he didn't want to know? #SpecialReport— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) April 26, 2018
On Friday morning, in response to the interview, Trump blasted Comey again in a tweet:
"Is everybody believing what is going on. James Comey can't define what a leak is. He illegally leaked CLASSIFIED INFORMATION but doesn't understand what he did or how serious it is. He lied all over the place to cover it up. He's either very sick or very dumb. Remember sailor!"
Full Interview Below
Brett Baier's Take and other reactions:
.@BretBaier on @Comey interview: "The other thing that struck me about the interview is when he said...had he not been fired, he would still be working for [@realDonaldTrump] as he's lambasting Republicans for working with [Trump]." #TheStory pic.twitter.com/Zm269FGMtk— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 26, 2018
.@TGowdySC on @Comey #SpecialReport interview: "Jim Comey has a definition of the word 'leak' that no one else has. What he says is a leak is what the rest of us call a felony." #Tucker https://t.co/RggSJ7Gsfm pic.twitter.com/vgnnMXBlhc— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 27, 2018
Baier: Should McCabe be prosecuted?— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) April 26, 2018
Comey: That's not my role.
Baier: It wasn't your role in the Clinton investigation, either.


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Grafton High senior captain Anthony D'Amico has been one of the highest impact forwards in Central Mass. this season, but if he doesn't watch out, there may soon be some debate over whether he's even the best D'Amico in town.
His sister, sophomore Cayla D'Amico, plays on the girls' team, and both squads have lost only one game this season.
Anthony has been on varsity since his freshman season and observed how to be a team leader as the Indians made it all the way to the district final in 2009.
"My freshman year, we were all ready to go every game, and the captains made sure everybody was in the zone," D'Amico said.
D'Amico has been a leader by example as well. He has scored multiple goals in big league wins over SWCL teams Leicester, David Prouty and Tantasqua Regional. He scored both goals on Sept. 12 in a 2-1 victory over chief rival Millbury, the No. 9 Woolies' only loss.
"All preseason, we were looking forward to that," D'Amico said. "They're one of the best teams in the league, and we knew we had to come away with the win."
Overall, the 5-foot-8 D'Amico has 15 goals, making him the third-leading scorer in CMass, and tying his team-leading total in 2011.
Coming up right behind him, though, is Cayla, 15, who plays on an indoor soccer team with Anthony and his friends.
"She's a strong player, and she knows what she's doing," Anthony said.
A central midfielder, the 5-foot-6 Cayla has been able to hold her own, winning balls, distributing and going forward at one of the most demanding positions.
Although she played a moderate role as a freshman, D'Amico has embraced more responsibility and already has nine goals and six assists to lead the team.
"Once the seniors last year left, I just felt like I should step up and take more of a role on the team," Cayla said.
Like the boys' team, the Grafton girls (5-1-4, 5-1-4 SWCL East) have come away with some impressive results.
Cayla scored in a 3-2 win over eighth-ranked Millbury (8-1-1, 7-1-1) while the Indians tied Division 2 state champion Auburn High and No. 6 Shepherd Hill.
"She's got a great high school career ahead of her," Grafton girls' coach John Chatalian said.
Defending CMass champion North High and second-ranked Algonquin Regional may be the toast of the Division 1 soccer scene this season, but don't expect the sleeping giant that is St. John's to stay quiet.
The Pioneers have been stuck in a lull the past two seasons, with just four wins last year, but as recently as 2007, they were state champions. They also won a district title in 2008 and fell to the Tomahawks in the 2009 CMass final.
The results haven't shown up in the won-lost column yet — St. John's is currently 3-7 — but there are positive indicators. The Pioneers have lost twice to the Polar Bears, but scored on them both times and kept it a one-goal game. They also scored the first goal this season allowed by powerhouse St. John's Prep.
St. John's tests itself with one of the toughest schedules in the area; other nonleague opponents include Xaverian, BC High and Marlboro. But the Pioneers are entering a more winnable stretch of their schedule and have a chance at sneaking into the playoffs.
First-year Pioneers coach Ken Salsman, who previously coached at Westboro High and more recently has been involved in the NEFC club soccer network, has been working on changing the mind-set of his players to reflect the "St. John's way," and he's convinced that this is a special group.
"We just need to stay focused and continue to build the confidence and hopefully we pick up the points we need to get into districts and show Central Mass. that St. John's is back," said Salsman, who called this season a "humbling experience," but also said his players are "learning life's lessons through sports."
Salsman said his team is full of "stand-up guys," but he's especially high on his captains. Leading scorer Nick White and goalkeeper Mike Kotsopoulos are seniors, while Mike Flowers is a junior and Aidan Lucey a sophomore.
"We'll have a little change or something, and they'll text me and say, 'Coach, is there anything I can help with?' " said Salsman, who lauded his four captains for their work ethic and willing attitude.
Much-deserved kudos go out to the sixth-ranked Marlboro boys (8-2-2, 4-1-1 Midland B), who pocketed a signature win on Saturday when they handed then top-ranked Algonquin (8-1-2, 5-0 Midland A) its first loss of the season.
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- In a small skillet, heat 1 tablespoon oil over medium-high heat. Add egg. As egg sets, lift edges, letting uncooked portion flow underneath. Remove egg and chop into small pieces; set aside.
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James Franco heads to GH, and Our Heads Explode in 50 Different Ways
1. This morning, I got an email from news correspondent Beth R. saying that James Franco would be joining General Hospital.
2. Thinking I must have misread it, I leaned into take a closer look at my computer monitor.
3. It still said that James Franco would be joining General Hospital.
4. James Franco, the movie star.
5. General Hospital, the piece of crap airing at 3 PM on ABC.
6. I then asked, "My James Franco?"
7. (Yes, I said that. Out loud. Do not judge me, for I already judge myself)
8. Because James Franco is...I love him. In a completely healthy, non-stalky way.
9. Okay, it is kind of stalky.
10. But he was Daniel Desario! And he was so good in Milk! And AMAZING in Pineapple Express. And he's so pretty! And so talented!
11. I own many of his movies.
12. Okay, most of his movies.
13. I even paid real, US money to see Nights in Rodanthe, and he's not even credited in that!
14. And I still have the issue of GQ with him on the cover from last year, even though I am 26 years old and should be well beyond things like that.
15. The point of this embarrassing overshare is that I am a James Franco fangirl.
16. The only person who I think makes me more hysterical is Leonardo DiCaprio.
17. And if I got an email saying that Leo was going to be doing a stint on one of my soaps, I'd probably need to be sedated.
18. (I also would hope that he would at least hold out for The Young and the Restless!)
19. I was speechless, to say the least, unless hysterical, high-pitched laughter counts as speech, and I'm pretty sure it doesn't.
20. This has been the week of me being speechless: first from Ryan and Erica Ryan and Ericaing, and then Jonathan Jackson returning to GH and now this.
21. The people within hearing distance of me are the biggest beneficiaries of these soap happenings.
22. Still reeling from the news, I went to the bank.
23. Not to take out a large sum of money to finance a trip to Los Angeles and the GH set specifically.
24. Really, that's not why.
25. And while I waited, I checked for official confirmation of this, the biggest soap news of all time, on SOAPNet.com
26. And there was confirmation.
27. And I made a sound that was part gasp, part muffled scream and part laughter.
28. The bank teller then leaned across the counter and studied my eyes intently.
29. I am pretty sure this was to check the size of my pupils to see if I was on the drugs.
30. When my transaction finished, I practically sprinted back to the car and did something akin to this
30. I then called my best friend and left her the most rambling, hysterical voicemail of all time. I'm not even sure it was in English. It was lots of "Ohmigod"s and "Eeeeee!!!" and the occasional confused, "And I don't know why!"
31. And as I drove home, obeying the speed limit
32. (Well, it was a speed limit somewhere)
33. It hit me:
33. I never criticize anything that James Franco does.
34. He's been in some movies that others may describe as "terrible", but I always defend them.
35. (Sometimes the only defense I can muster is "Whatever, suck it", but that usually ends the argument!)
36. Does this mean that I will start to defend General Hospital?
37. And defend a story that's heavy on Jason, at that?
He'll be playing a mysterious character -- the details are too hot to share now -- who will interact with most of Port Charles and in particular, make Jason's life a living hell. Expect James to start airing on November 20th and he'll appear on the show for multiple weeks.
38. I think it does, because Becca sent me an email with the subject "What is James Franco thinking?" and my immediate response was "That he's awesome, duh".
39. It's a completely involuntary reaction!
40. I am having terrifying visions of a future where I am compelled to say things like, "I can't wait for General Hospital to come on!" or "GH should totally submit this on their Emmy reel next year for Outstanding Daytime Drama and I will totally campaign on their behalf".
41. And HE approached GH!
The coolest part about this? James approached General Hospital about joining the cast.
42. Which, at least GH doesn't have the balls to approach an award-winning movie actor about doing a stint on their show, so their ego isn't completely out of control.
43. Also..James Franco is short (EDIT: Just to clarify, he's not tiny, but it's said that he's 5'10, which means he's probably an inch or two shorter than that, and I am a giant so I consider most people short).
44. If he is in a scene with Maurice Benard and they are roughly the same height--or, heaven forbid, MB is taller--this will mean that I need to forfeit "Sonny is a shorty" jokes for the rest of eternity.
45. Which is totally disappointing, because those are some of my favorite Sonny jokes to make!
46. Although we'll at least always have the Duh Face.
47. And now I am left to impatiently wait for his scenes to air and gear myself up for two possibilities:
48. The show will continue to be terrible and I will be forced to defend said terrible show, have to watch Jason scenes IN THEIR ENTIRETY WITHOUT FAST FORWARDING and will possibly have to give up my arsenal of wee Sonny jokes.
49. Or he will be the recipient of the best, most engaging writing in years and his guest stint will be, overall, genuinely fantastic.
50. OR--I don't count this as a possibility, since it's more of a probability--I will wind up not being able to focus on any of his scenes at all due to the nervous, hysterical laughter I burst into whenever I hear or see the words "James Franco on General Hospital". Because REALLY, I cannot stop laughing.


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One of the most burning "Voice" questions to come out of last night's surprise eliminations, will go unanswered.
Despite Carson Daly's best efforts to find out why Christina Aguilera would send Jesse Campbell—one of the show's most pitch-perfect singers—back into semi-obscurity, the mystery continues.
"I do have a strategy," Aguilera said before trailing off into a series of proclamations about being true to herself. "I wish him all the best but I don't want to distract from the fact that I have a very talented team," she concluded. Too little too late.
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The "Voice" voters of America, who thankfully made less curious choices than Aguilera did, saved Chris Mann from Team Christina and Jermaine Paul from Team Blake. That left four contestants fighting to stay in the competition. From team Christina: Rocker Lindsey Pavao and blossoming vocalist Ashley de La Rosa. From team Blake: His country darling RaeLynn and powerhouse Erin Willett.
Up first, De la Rosa roared through "You and I" by Lady Gaga, earning praise from Adam Levine, who admitted that he didn't believe in her previously, but does now. Though it wasn't his favorite performance by the 17-year-old, he said, if it were up to him, he'd still vote to keep her around.
Pavao sang a heartfelt "Please Don't Go,"by Mike Posner.
As the cameras turned to Aguilera, her eyes were filling with tears. "I have to go with what's in my heart," she said, after showering each woman with seemingly sincere compliments."And I'm going with Lindsey."
Shelton's pair were up next. Erin Willet showcased her powerful vocals with an energized performance of Tina Turner's "Rolling on the River," while RaeLynn injected a super-sized dose of country twang into a song that probably didn't benefit from so much tampering—The Band Perry's "If I Die Young."
"Gosh, dang, man," Shelton said, vacillating until the credits started rolling and Daly urged him to "give me a name. Just give me a name, Blake."
"I'm going with Erin," he said, letting go of his country prodigy—his last hope for a "Voice"-made country superstar.
The much trimmer competition continues next Monday at 8 p.m. ET on NBC.


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I did finish my course of antibiotic, which did clear my skin infections. Unfortunately, however, I did not see a marked improvement in my psoriasis lesions. Another complication arose, too, which makes analysis more difficult. I've come down with either a bacterial or viral tonsillitis. The doctor cultured my throat for possible strep throat, which was the diagnosis he was leaning toward.
So now I'm on another course of antibiotics. Even though some of the skin infections returned rather quickly, they should be eradicated again. And I also get another chance to see if the antibiotic helps my guttate psoriasis. But with the high fever, achiness, fatigue, sore throat/loss of voice, rashes, and headache I've experienced these past few days I'd rather have guttate psoriasis!
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