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Quinoa rice pilau with dill & roasted tomatoes
Nutrition and extra info
- Healthy
- kcal412
- fat22g
- saturates3g
- carbs45g
- sugars7g
- fibre2g
- protein11g
- salt0.54g
- 250g cherry tomatoes, halved
A member of the nightshade family (along with aubergines, peppers and chillies), tomatoes are in…
- 4 tbsp olive oil
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- 1 onion, thinly sliced
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- 3 sticks celery, sliced
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- ½ tsp cumin seeds
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- 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 100g basmati rice (brown or white)
- 140g quinoa
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- 2 x 20g packs dill, chopped
- 500ml chicken or vegetable stock (from a cube is fine)
- 50g pine nuts, toasted
- white fish, such as sea bass, to serve
Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Put the tomatoes on a baking sheet and drizzle with 2 tbsp olive oil and some seasoning. Roast for 15 mins, remove and set aside.
Heat the remaining olive oil in a large pan. Add the onion, celery, cumin and garlic, then season to taste. Fry on a medium heat for 10 mins until golden. Add the rice, quinoa, dill and stock. Cover with a lid and cook for 12-15 mins or until the rice is soft. Add the tomatoes and pine nuts, and gently stir through. Serve with white fish or a green salad.


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Iowa Supreme Court to hear Tony Bisignano case
In a key voting rights case, the Iowa Supreme Court will decide whether a state senate candidate convicted of an aggravated misdemeanor is eligible to hold office.
The court granted a request Thursday to hear the case in which primary rival Ned Chiodo is seeking to disqualify Tony Bisignano based on his conviction for second-offense drunken driving.
At issue is whether that was an "infamous crime" that stripped Bisignano of his right to vote and hold public office. The court's decision could affect thousands of current and future offenders convicted of aggravated misdemeanors.
A state panel ruled that Bisignano is eligible because lawmakers have defined "infamous crimes" as felonies. A judge agreed Wednesday.
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|*February 9 - 15
|Preparation for
Read for This Week's Study:
|Matt. 5-7; 10:1, 10:5-11:1; Mark 3:1-19; Luke 6:12-16.
Memory Text:
|"You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid. No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven" (Matthew 5:14-16, NRSV).
|A disciple is a learner/follower
of Jesus Christ who constantly seeks to become like the Master. Just as Jesus
trained and sent out His disciples, every local church must inaugurate an
effective program for the facilitating, encouraging, and developing of disciples.
After all, what good does it do us if the folks we baptize soon leave? We
are not being faithful to our Divine commission, because Jesus said, "Go
ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost"
28:19); yet, the word translated "teach" comes from the Greek word
that also means "to make a disciple." (Indeed, numerous versions translate
it in that manner.)
This week we will look at preparation for discipleship.
This Week at a Glance:
|How did Jesus prepare His disciples? What principles can we learn for ourselves regarding discipleship from what He said to them before sending them out? What can we learn from the Sermon on the Mount that is crucial for discipleship? What kind of opposition should disciples of Christ expect?
*Study this week's lesson to prepare for Sabbath, February 16.
|February 10
The Appointing of the Apostles
Mark 3 begins with Jesus entering a synagogue and healing a man with a withered hand on the Sabbath, one of His famous Sabbath healings. A great irony is found in these texts (Mark 3:1-12): the rulers sought how they might kill Him, while great multitudes of people flocked after Him. One group feared His power; another coveted to be blessed and benefited by it.
Read Mark 3:13-18. What was happening here? See also Luke 6:12-16.
From both accounts, it seems that at some point Jesus got away from the great multitude that followed Him, taking with Him a select group of disciples. From among this group of disciples, He then picked out twelve to do the work of apostles.
For this task, Jesus chose the ones He wanted. This implies, as we have seen, that the initiative resides with Him. He extends the call; we respond. This means that we must be available for service, in whatever capacity we are called to serve in.
How do disciples and apostles differ? Disciples were learners. They followed a master to study with that master. The term apostle comes from two Greek words apo and stello, implying "to send from." An apostle was an ambassador or emissary sent to represent a master or a kingdom. While both a disciple and an apostle are students, an apostle received additional training to be sent forth as a representative of the master or organization.
Jesus appointed the twelve so that they might be with Him and that He might send them out to preach. Matthew says that, He "gave them authority to drive out evil spirits and to heal every disease and sickness" (Matt. 10:1, NIV). It appears He chose them to provide trained workers to assist in caring for the large throngs that flocked wherever He went (adapted from The SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 5, p. 322).
|How content are you with the work that you are doing for the Lord? Should you be doing more? Could you be doing more? What is holding you back? In most cases, is it not your own pride and selfishness?
|February 11
The Sermon on the Mount
Many see the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) as Jesus' inaugural address, in which He outlined the ethics of His kingdom. It is also, in many ways, a manifesto of discipleship, for it holds the keys to being a faithful disciple of Christ.
Read Matthew 5:1. What was the background of the sermon? To whom did He immediately give it?
Who knows how many books have been written expounding upon this sermon? For our purposes, we want to look at what things in it are especially pertinent to what it means to be a disciple of Jesus.
Read Matthew 5:13-16. What is the message there for us, as disciples of Christ? Why are these words particularly important to us as Adventists, given our understanding of the three angels' messages of Revelation 14:6-12?
Read Matthew 6:5-13. What important lesson is Jesus giving us here for discipleship?
6:19-21. Why are these words, in many ways, the essence of what true
discipleship is about? Ask yourself, "Where is my treasure [That is, Where
is my heart], in heaven or on earth?" If you do not like the answer, what
can you do to change?
|February 12
The Sermon on the Mount, Continued
As said in a previous lesson, one of the greatest struggles we face as a church is retaining new members, keeping them in the flock after we baptize them. All this is linked with the theme of discipleship, the theme of teaching people what it means to be a follower of Christ, a citizen in His new kingdom. The Sermon on the Mount is filled with illustrations and teachings that all disciples of Christ must learn to follow. As we continue studying the sermon, ask yourself, "How can I apply these teaching in my own life? Also, how can our church better teach these things to new members, to make them better disciples of Christ?"
Read Matthew 7:1-5. What important lesson, and warning, is given there that is crucial for all disciples of Christ to learn? What does it mean not to judge?
Read Matthew 7:15-20. What message is Jesus giving to His disciples here? As you read these texts, ask yourself, What kind of fruit am I, myself, bearing?
It is one thing to profess being a follower, a student, or a disciple of Christ; it is another to be one. As we seek to make disciples, or to be good disciples ourselves, we must not forget the clear words of Jesus in the following texts.
7:24-27. Why is it important to understand what Jesus is saying there?
What issues are, literally, at stake here? How do we understand these words
with the other Bible promises of salvation being by faith and not by works?
|February 13
Instructions for a Missionary Tour
Jesus' promise that His disciples would be fishers of men (Matt. 4:19) was not immediately fulfilled. At first they observed His activities. While ministering in Galilee "preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness," He saw the crowds and had compassion on them, "because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd" (Matt. 9:35, 36, NIV). He commented to His disciples, "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few," and invited them to pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers (vs. 37, NIV).
Read Jesus' words to the twelve (Matt. 10:1, Matt 10:5-11:1). What principles are found in these words that would apply to us today in our work of seeking to make disciples?
There is a lot that Christ's modern-day disciples could learn from these texts. One thing, however, that should come through clearly is that witnessing for Christ is not going to be easy. There is going to be opposition, turmoil, and even, in some cases, persecution. Thus, we should not be surprised when these things come. What should concern us is when they do not.
Read again the texts for today. What kind of opposition, turmoil, and suffering should we expect? In what ways have you experienced in your own life some of what Jesus said here almost two thousand years ago?
|Jesus did not promise His disciples an easy time of it. The history of the church proves just how accurate His words were. Yet at the same time, even amid these warnings, the Lord gives these men wonderful words of encouragement and hope. Read those words, those promises, and claim them for yourself. What can you take from them that you need in particular for yourself right now?
|February 14
Mission of the Seventy
Luke alone mentions that Jesus appointed seventy disciples, whom He sent on a missionary tour (Luke 10:1-23; see also Exod. 24:1, 9). In many ways, His instructions were similar to what He gave to the twelve. After instructing them, Jesus sent them two by two to the towns and places He was about to go. It appears that their mission was preparatory to Jesus' own. In a sense, they were to prepare the way for people to accept Jesus when He came. How does that fit in with what we are to do today in helping prepare people to meet Jesus?
What was the advantage of sending them two by two? What can we take from that for ourselves today?
Luke 10:17 says the seventy returned from their mission with joy because "the devils are subject unto us through thy name." No doubt, they must have been thrilled at the power given them through Jesus, and they acknowledge that it is His power. Jesus, though, while acknowledging the power given them, tells them to rejoice about the thing that really matters.
Read Luke 10:20. Why did Jesus say this? What message is there for us in these words, as well?
Doing great deeds in the name of Jesus is no guarantee of salvation (Matt. 7:22, 23), as some will one day find out. Spiritual position, church authority, even great success at winning souls, are not the things that really matter. What really matters is having our names written in heaven, names that are not blotted out (Rev. 3:5), because a name written in heaven means eternal life through Jesus.
We can be so busy working for others that we neglect our own spiritual life and health. How can you avoid falling into that subtle trap? At the same time, how does working for the salvation of others strengthen your own walk with Jesus?
|February 15
Further Study:
|Read The SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 5, pp. 322-326, 746-750; Ellen
G. White, The Desire of Ages, pp.
312-314; 349-358; Education,
pp. 79, 80;
"In that brief verse [Matthew 5:1] there are three clues to the real significance of the Sermon on the Mount. (i) Jesus began to teach when he had sat down. When a Jewish Rabbi was teaching officially he sat to teach. . . . So, then, the very intimation that Jesus sat down to teach his disciples is the indication that this teaching is central and official. (ii) Matthew goes on to say that when he had opened His mouth, he taught them. . . . In Greek the phrase has a double significance. (a) In Greek it is used of a solemn, grave and dignified utterance. . . . (b) It is used of a person's utterance when he is really opening his heart and fully pouring out his mind. It is used of intimate teaching with no barriers between. . . . (iii) ... Now the point is that in the Greek of this sentence, which we are studying, the verb taught is not an aorist [tense], but an imperfect and therefore it describes repeated and habitual action, and the translation should be: 'This is what he used to teach them.' Matthew has said as plainly as Greek will say it that the Sermon on the Mount is not one sermon of Jesus, given at one particular time and on one particular occasion; it is the essence of all that Jesus continuously and habitually taught his disciples."William Barclay, The Gospel of Matthew (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1975), vol. 1, pp. 86, 87.
Discussion Questions:
| What kind of discipleship program does your own local church
have? What are its strong points? Its weak points? What practical steps can
your church make to be stronger in the area of discipleship?
When a person joins your local church, what can you do, personally, to help disciple that person along? What specific gifts might you have that can be of help? Also, what about your Sabbath School class itself? What role can and should it have in the discipling process?
Discipling takes disciples, those who know what it means to follow Jesus, to learn from Jesus, to be an imitator of Jesus. What did you learn this week from the texts we looked at that, if applied in your life, could make you better prepared to disciple new members?
|I N S I D E Story
|Hope Meets Hopeless: Part 1
by CHARLOTTE ISHKANIAN
S. S. and Geetha Karikalan lived a comfortable life. They bought rice from fanners and sold it to retailers. Then the government cut out the middlemen in order to regulate the rice industry, and suddenly the Karikalans were out of work.
The family was desperate and talked about committing suicide. One day two Adventist women noticed the sad-looking couple getting off the city bus and asked if something was wrong. One of the women, Sahira, offered to pray for the couple there beside the road. Although S. S. and Geetha were of another religion, they accepted the prayers of these devout women. Sahira prayed that God would help them find work and that they would also find peace and hope in their lives.
After Sahira prayed, the couple admitted that they had thought about suicide, but because of her prayer, they felt peace. Sahira had to hurry to an appointment, but she asked permission to visit S. S. and Geetha. The couple gave her the address of Geetha's parents, where they were staying. Sahira invited the couple to visit their church that Sabbath and promised that they would find that Jesus could meet their needs. She gave them the address.
The couple attended the church that week. Sahira welcomed them warmly and gave them a Bible. The next day she visited them. The couple agreed to Bible studies, and Sahira and the pastor studied with them for several weeks. The couple's 13-year-old son, Santosh, joined them for the studies.
One day the pastor needed medicine for his asthma from Santosh's grandfather. Santosh and his grandfather walked to the pastor's apartment to deliver the medicine. While Grandfather talked with the pastor, Santosh went to the roof on the third floor of the apartment building to play cricket with the pastor's children.
During the game Santosh stepped back and stretched to catch the ball. Suddenly he lost his balance and fell backward off the roof. "Lord, save me!" he cried as he tumbled toward some high voltage wires.
Continued next week
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Describing it as "a wireless omnidirectional outdoor speaker," Scosche today unveiled the boomBOTTLE – a wireless speaker for your bike that's roughly the shape and size of an average water bottle.
Powered by Bluetooth, the boomBOTTLE fits in your bike's water bottle holster and promises "rich, deep" audio courtesy of dual 40mm drivers in each unit. The device also has an integrated passive subwoofer with a ported enclosure.Read More


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Simple gingerbread house
Bake a gingerbread house with our simple biscuit recipe and design template. Get the kids involved, too, and weave some magical Christmas memories
Nutrition and extra info
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal636
- fat30g
- saturates13g
- carbs80g
- sugars38g
- fibre2g
- protein10g
- salt0.6g
For the gingerbread
- 250g unsalted butter
- 200g dark muscovado sugar
- 7 tbsp golden syrup
Golden syrupgoal-dun sir-rup
Golden syrup is a translucent, golden-amber coloured, sweet syrup, which can only be produced…
- 600g plain flour
- 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
Bicarbonate of soda
Bicarbonate of soda, or baking soda, is an alkali which is used to raise soda breads and full-…
- 4 tsp ground ginger
To decorate
- 200g bag flaked almonds
- 2 egg whites
- 500g icing sugar, plus extra to dust
- 125g pack mini chocolate fingers
Chocolate ganachegan-ash
Chocolate ganache is a combination of chocolate and double cream. It's simple to…
- generous selection of sweets of your choice, choose your own colour theme
- 1 mini chocolate roll or a dipped chocolate flake
Chocolate ganachegan-ash
Chocolate ganache is a combination of chocolate and double cream. It's simple to…
- few edible silver balls
For the house design
Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Melt the butter, sugar and syrup in a pan. Mix the flour, bicarbonate of soda and ground ginger into a large bowl, then stir in the butter mixture to make a stiff dough. If it won't quite come together, add a tiny splash of water.
Cut out the template (download from ingredients list). Put a sheet of baking paper on your work surface and roll about one quarter of the dough to the thickness of two £1 coins. Cut out one of the sections, then slide the gingerbread, still on its baking paper, onto a baking sheet. Repeat with remaining dough, re-rolling the trimmings, until you have two side walls, a front and back wall and two roof panels. Any leftover dough can be cut into Christmas trees, if you like.
Pick out the most intact flaked almonds and gently poke them into the roof sections, pointy-end first, to look like roof tiles. Bake all the sections for 12 mins or until firm and just a little darker at the edges. Leave to cool for a few mins to firm up, then trim around the templates again to give clean, sharp edges. Leave to cool completely.
Put the egg whites in a large bowl, sift in the icing sugar, then stir to make a thick, smooth icing. Spoon into a piping bag with a medium nozzle. Pipe generous snakes of icing along the wall edges, one by one, to join the walls together. Use a small bowl to support the walls from the inside, then allow to dry, ideally for a few hours.
Once dry, remove the supports and fix the roof panels on. The angle is steep so you may need to hold these on firmly for a few mins until the icing starts to dry. Dry completely, ideally overnight. To decorate, pipe a little icing along the length of 20 mini chocolate fingers and stick these lengthways onto the side walls of the house. Use three, upright, for the door.
Using the icing, stick sweets around the door and on the front of the house. To make the icicles, start with the nozzle at a 90-degree angle to the roof and squeeze out a pea-sized blob of icing. Keeping the pressure on, pull the nozzle down and then off – the icing will pull away, leaving a pointy trail. Repeat all around the front of the house. Cut the chocolate mini roll or dipped Flake on an angle, then fix with icing to make a chimney. Pipe a little icing around the top. If you've made gingerbread trees, decorate these now, too, topping each with a silver ball, if using. Dust the roof with icing sugar for a snowy effect. Lay a winding path of sweets, and fix gingerbread trees around and about using blobs of icing. Your gingerbread house will be edible for about a week.
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It seemed to happen in the blink of an eye. From rumor to reality, Clint Dempsey is now a Seattle Sounders FC player.
Less than one week. That's how quickly news surfaced of USA international Clint Dempsey signing with the Seattle Sounders. Almost from nowhere the potential for the move picked up huge momentum on social media and became an unstoppable force that seemed to will the transfer into reality.
Now officially a Seattle Sounder, Clint Dempsey's move to MLS means so much for all the parties involved. For Dempsey, it's a chance to again prove himself in the league that gave him his first chance as a professional. For the Sounders, they acquire a world class talent who will undeniably take the franchise to the next level. And for the thousands of Rave Green supporters across Seattle and the world, new and old, they have a new superstar (and he is a superstar in every sense of the word) to rally around.
The best way to tell this story isn't through my words. It's a tale that involves everyone above and how it captivated everyone in the U.S. soccer world over the last four or five days. So as the title suggests, let's work in chronological order across the social timeline that was Clint Dempsey to the Seattle Sounders FC.
The club interested in bringing Dempsey back to MLS is Seattle— keith costigan (@KeithCostigan) August 1, 2013
August 1 - It seemed to all kick off with this tweet from Keith Costigan. Could this seriously be a reality? No chance, right?
Damn, guess who's on my flight to Seattle? So random. Blurry photo credit to his handler. #Dempsey #Golazo #USMNT pic.twitter.com/gd7G5uDkF8— ¡Jorge! (@MrJorgePerea) August 2, 2013
August 1 - Then this bomb gets dropped. Dempsey allegedly on a flight to Seattle? It seems almost too perfect.
Well, spoke too soon. He just went to a different gate.— ¡Jorge! (@MrJorgePerea) August 2, 2013
August 1 - Things cooled a bit after it appeared that Dempsey wasn't on his way to Seattle. The twitterverse didn't buy it...and #DempseyWatch was born. (Click the link here for all the DempseyWatch tweets. Too many to go through!
I think everyone needs to calm down. If Dempsey was coming I would of been spilled the beans #foodforthought— Eddie Johnson (@eddie_johnson7) August 2, 2013
August 1 - One of Clint's best friends in soccer, Sounders forward Eddie Johnson decided to chime in on the hype with this absolutely perfect tweet...and further cooled the rumors.
Source close to Dempsey says he's not Seattle-bound, will "probably insist on being closer to home" when/if he returns to MLS.— Doug McIntyre (@DougMacESPN) August 2, 2013
August 2 - The next day, the move was put down by ESPN's Doug McIntyre...much to the dismay of Sounders fans everywhere. Speculation continued.
Sources: Seattle Sounders, U.S. star Clint Dempsey finalizing move: http://t.co/qGsPs8kyqK #usmnt— Doug McIntyre (@DougMacESPN) August 2, 2013
August 2 - It didn't take long but Doug flipped the script on the whole thing.
We have reached agreement with Major League Soccer for the transfer of Clint Dempsey. #THFC— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) August 3, 2013
August 3 - Then this. Dempsey's former team announced that it had officially sold the American captain to MLS. At the very least, he'd be back home.
Welcome back to #MLS, @clint_dempsey --> http://t.co/tHjkpDcpvQ pic.twitter.com/TqxkLg62hL— Major League Soccer (@MLS) August 3, 2013
August 3 - Needless to say, MLS was pretty pumped about the news...
Sources tell me that Clint Dempsey will wear No. 2 for the Sounders. DeAndre Yedlin will switch to No. 17. #MLS #SoundersFC— Ives Galarcep (@SoccerByIves) August 3, 2013
August 3 - Of course that automatically meant he was coming to the Sounders. Ives Galarcrep speculated on the numbers involved.
Make sure you get to your seats by 7:15 tonight for a special presentation from the #Sounders! Matchday: http://t.co/Lo9OOs3OpH— Seattle Sounders FC (@SoundersFC) August 3, 2013
August 3 - Whatever could we be teasing?!
@SoundersFC So excited! Is there any surprise going on? #Sounders— Michael Gspurning (@MGspurning) August 3, 2013
August 3 - The injured goalkeeper was at the edge of his seat all day!
Hey @clint_dempsey I have number 2 locked up. Hostage negotiations commence now hahaha just kidding!… http://t.co/oKf2VWLKpn— DeAndre Yedlin (@yedlinny) August 3, 2013
August 3 - Our rookie All-Star DeAndre Yedlin wanted to make sure Dempsey knew who was boss in the number situation.
August 3 - Then BAM! This one hits the interwebs. Clint Dempsey, a Seattle Sounder.
August 3 - Moments later, Dempsey took to the field and addressed the crowd at CenturyLink Field. Just wow.
Yeah, #DempseyWatch has ended. It's all about #DempseyFound now...— Sounders Matchday (@LIVESounders) August 4, 2013
August 3 - Needless to say @LIVESounders was very excited about the news. I also realize that I just spoke about my own tweet in the third person. It's whatever.
RT if you heart @clint_dempsey.— Sounders Matchday (@LIVESounders) August 4, 2013
August 3 - I mean, how can you not? <3 <3 <3
August 3 - Deuce.
VIDEO: @clint_dempsey gives his first interview as a member of the #Sounders. http://t.co/hEmBVZZpaI— Seattle Sounders FC (@SoundersFC) August 4, 2013
August 3 - The man speaks. You listen.
Congrats @SoundersFC for adding exciting player @clint_dempsey as DP #MLS pic.twitter.com/JnSm8dfNqI— Paul Allen (@PaulGAllen) August 4, 2013
August 4 - You know it's big news when Paul Allen tweets about it...
August 4 - Keep calm, Seattle...Clint Dempsey is here to stay.


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It's time to get reaped, citizens of Panem — over and over and over again (shout-out to Effie Trinket!). Because the odds are ever in your favor, and it is finally time for "The Hunger Games" to arrive on DVD.
To celebrate Katniss and company ditching the Capitol for the comfort of every fan's home, we chatted with two standout tributes from the first film of the "H.G." saga. And Amandla Stenberg (Rue) and Jacqueline Emerson (Foxface) happily spilled some behind-the-scenes secrets to keep in mind on your second (or third, or fourth viewing).
Say Happy Birthday to Jennifer Lawrence, who just turned 22 this week!
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1. Katniss the Sloppy Smoocher? So says Jackie and Amandla! We asked the gals if there was anything to watch for this go-round — you know, those real specific details that only the actors would know about. There aren't any loopholes, per say, but there is what Amandla describes as a "gross spit bubble."
"During [Rue's] death, [Jennifer Lawrence] kisses her head and it leaves a little spit bubble and every time we see it we just crack up," Jacqueline explained, causing Amandla to confess, "Everyone is always making fun of me because of that."
2. A Tree by Any Other Name: There's no blooper real on the DVD (we were sad too, trust us!), but Amandla was happy to fill us in on one of her personal flubs that you will surely remember while rewatching:
"One time, Jen and I were filming in this tree and we kept sliding down, so I found this little hole in the tree where I could sit," Amandla told us. "Right before we're about to go, they call 'Action!' and I start sliding down and I freaked out so I yelled out, 'Wait, wait! I can't find my butt hole!' And everyone started cracking up, and I really hope that they saved that, that'd be hilarious to watch."
Meet some of the tributes coming to The Hunger Games sequel, Catching Fire!
3. Grab Your Gas Masks: "There were a lot of funny bloopers. I think the funniest was probably when we were filming the training center scene," Jacqueline laughed to us. "We were all standing around and one of the tributes, who shall remain unnamed, walked all the way across the platform right when Gary [Ross] called rolling, stood in front of Jack Quaid and let out a massive fart, then walked back to his place, right as Gary called action."
Effie would never! Jackie continued, "We all just lost it. Like, everybody was cracking up and we finally kind of pulled ourselves together, doing the scene and then you see [Alexander Ludwig]'s shoulders start to shake and Dayo Okeniyi's head goes down to the floor and everyone loses it again and Gary was just like 'OK, go home.'"
4. A Summer to Remember: We asked the girls what their favorite scene to film was and one answer may surprise you. "I have to say probably the bloodbath scene, the big fight at the Cornucopia," Jacqueline admitted. "With anything that kind of happened with the Cornucopia field, I think about how we'd all be playing ninja and Concentration and frisbee and stuff behind the scenes. We called it Camp "Hunger Games," it was like a glorified version of summer camp."
So next time you're watching all those poor little tributes get slaughtered, remember, there was plenty of singing and dancing going on between takes. Makes it all seem a little more, uh, fun, right?!
Read all about the final installment of "The Hunger Games" getting split into two movies!
5. Die Another Day: As you surely know by now (assuming you've seen that first flick, that is) neither Rue nor Foxface make it out of the arena...well, certainly not alive that is. There are spears and poisonous berries and lots of resting in peace.
"It was actually unbelievably fun," Jackie explained about filming her death scene. "It was hard not to blink... [What I saw it in the movie] I started laughing really hard the first time I saw it, which I don't think was the appropriate response. But it just happened... I felt like I was watching somebody else."
Amandla (who admitted that fans cry when they meet her because they're happy she's alive) says, "It's a strange experience...It was weirder to watch than it was to film, because I went with my friends and family and they're all crying and I was like, 'I'm right here!'"
Bonus: Since a new crop of tributes are currently casting up to enter the arena, we had to ask the tributes of "Hunger Games" past if they had any arena advice for the new crew:
Jackie advised: "I wish that I had done more training because I had such a good time... I had to do all these obstacle courses and leap over four-foot high blocks and stuff, it was just an absolutely blast. The first time I've ever been excited to work out. So, if you do get to train, enjoy it." Whereas Amandla was a bit more practical: "Bring a lot of bug spray!"


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Finally, everything I use to make bread in one place (well, except yeast, which I have to keep in the fridge). Old microwave cart is actually made of oak instead of pressed wood, so it was perfect for mounting my Country Living Grain Mill. I found the cart at an estate sale. They originally asked $15, but I got it for $7.50. Happiness at such a low price! :-)
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Alright, I'm just jealous. I wish I had the room for something like this in my kitchen. Some day.
And yes, 50% off does make for much happiness - nice work!
Hoosier cabinets were once popular around the 20's and 30's- they had built-in flour containers with sifters at the bottom, custom storage jars for dry goods, a pie safe, kneading board and enamel top. I hope you (re)start a trend.
I like - we have the top of a Hoosier and some day hubby will make a base and I can do the same! We keep looking at marble and granite counter top scraps at our local Rehab Store. One day!
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The Preakness, like all of horse racing, has a problem: no one really gives a shit anymore. It got to the point where Pimlico nearly lost the race.
The Maryland Jockey Club, owners and operators of the track, want to skew younger. Last year was "Get Your Preak On." This year's slogan is "Be Legendary," as best anthropomorphized by Kegasus, who seems to be Kenny Powers meets Barney Stinson meets the bottom half of a horse. Kegasus would like you to know that you will get all the beer you can drink on the Pimlico infield for just $20.
The Sun's cautiously calling it creative yet tasteless, and we've already heard from a thoroughbred breeder who didn't see it as being particularly respectful. Still: 20 dollars.
Maybe 'Get Your Preak On' wasn't so bad [Baltimore Sun]


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Hello and welcome to this website, dedicated to providing you with the latest information on Sexual Health and Fertility issues.
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We want to make sure we provide scientific and current accounts of what is happening in the UK and beyond around these themes that concern women of all ages. From sexual health to contraception to fertility to ethical decisions, this website strives to give you information on what it means to be a woman at every stage of life. We will focus on British news and current events but will report any international stories and academic findings that we think can have a positive impact for women living in Britain.
What is Sexual Health?
The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines sexual health as being not only a state of physical well-being and absence of infections, but a state of encompassing well-being with regards to sexual experiences. These aspects include social, emotional, mental and obviously biological/physical well-being. No one should feel abused or coerced; rather, sexual experience should be pleasurable and the individuals should always feel that their rights are being respected. For more information on this definition, please feel free to visit: http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/topics/sexual_health/sh_definitions/en/
What is Fertility?
Fertility is a word describing the ability to yield progeny. In the case of humans, it regards the possibility of having children. For a woman, this may be a very important aspect of sexual health. As women can make the decision to procreate or not, fertility can become an element that women might want to monitor and protect, though all women have the right to decide not to want any children.
Physical sexual health for a woman becomes a very important aspect if she does decide that she would like to try to have biological children. One way of making sure fertility levels are as high as possible is to check and monitor sexual health with sexual health tests. These tests would look at sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and any other infections and problems that might compromise a woman's fertility.
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Please feel free to browse the website to acquire new information on these health topics. However, please know that this website cannot be used in any way as an alternative to visiting your GP. Rather, you may get information and discuss with your GP any concerns or questions you have on any of the issues, news and descriptions discussed here. Please see this website as a starting point to achieving good sexual health and monitoring fertility, not as a generator of solutions for your personal problems. This is because we cannot provide any medical advice and each single case is different from the other and hence must be assessed by a professionally qualified doctor.


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�The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2� PG-13 � Teens in love with the books by Stephenie Meyer and the four preceding PG-13 films based on them (�Twilight,� 2008; �The Twilight Saga: New Moon,� 2009; �The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,� 2010; and �The Twilight Saga: �Breaking Dawn � Part 1,� 2011) will not be disappointed in this final finale. (The fourth book was made into two films.)
Bella (Kristen Stewart), new bride of vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), has become a full-fledged vampire instead of a groupie. She�s now endowed with super-strength and senses, intensifying the steamy-dreamy but nongraphic sexual charge between her and Edward, which has fueled the entire series � teen longing versus chastity.
As the film opens, she wakes from a difficult pregnancy and childbirth. Her eyes are now vampire-red and she has a thirst for blood. Bella finally sees her baby, Renesmee. The infant is a human-vampire hybrid because Bella was human when she was conceived.
Renesmee grows very fast (played as an older child by Mackenzie Foy). Bella�s friend Jacob (Taylor Lautner), a werewolf, imprinted on Renesmee while Bella was unconscious. Bella fumes at that, but Edward makes her understand that Renesmee needs Jacob as a protector.
That becomes clear after a vampire from another covern mistakes Renesmee for an �immortal child� � a human child who has been turned into a vampire. That is a capital crime in the vampire world because immortal children can�t keep their vampire natures secret.
The Cullens call in vampire friends to testify on Renesmee�s behalf before the ruling Volturi Clan and their leader Aro (Michael Sheen). The confrontation could turn violent and destroy the Cullen Clan forever.
THE BOTTOM LINE: While bloodless, the battle scenes among vampires show heads torn off, and some of the immortal creatures set ablaze. A few werewolves who join the fight alongside the Cullens also get hurt or die bloodlessly. When one Cullen ally causes a huge crevasse to open on the battlefield, some vampires and werewolves fall to their deaths.
The sexual charge between Bella and Edward increases a bit in this film, as it has incrementally in every film. Because they are both vampires now, they can tear each other�s clothes off with comparable speed and super-strength. There is really only one bedroom scene, but it s stylized and nonexplicit. At other moments, the pair kiss passionately and joke nonexplicitly about the violence of their lust.
The newly transformed Bella, trying to sate her thirst for blood early in the film, nearly kills a deer, but a snarling mountain lion leaps into the frame. The camera cuts away, but one guesses the predator cat loses its life while the deer survives.
�Lincoln� PG-13 � Any fears that Steven Spielberg�s �Lincoln� would be a preachy epic will fall away for teens who see this masterful and extraordinarily entertaining movie.
Daniel Day-Lewis� magical, bone-deep Lincoln portrayal is alternately � and sometimes simultaneously � kind, sly, funny, courageous, and briefly, thunderously angry. Tony Kushner�s rich script was partly inspired by Doris Kearns Goodwin�s book �Team of Rivals,� about Lincoln and his Cabinet.
As lucky flies on the wall early in 1865, we watch the president plot with Secretary of State William Seward (David Strathairn) to pass the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery. Lincoln wants the amendment to pass before the end of the Civil War and before his second inauguration. He wants it to be a done deal before he makes peace.
A trio of smarmy political operatives (James Spader, John Hawkes and Tim Blake Nelson) start courting recalcitrant House members with blatant offers of patronage. This unfolds alongside the Lincolns� difficult but, as portrayed here, loving marriage.
Mary Todd Lincoln (wonderful Sally Field) has not recovered from the loss of their son Willie early in the first term. The president delights in their playful son Tad (Gulliver McGrath) and has strained relations with their grown son Robert (Joseph Gordon-Levitt).
The debates in the House are gripping, and Tommy Lee Jones steals scenes as the insult-hurling Abolitionist, Rep. Thaddeus Stevens. A couple of scenes seem stilted, but most of �Lincoln� is divine.
THE BOTTOM LINE: Three moments make �Lincoln� problematic for some middle-schoolers: One shows soldiers fighting intensely but nongraphically with bayonets; another depicts Lincoln riding through a battlefield and seeing endless bodies, at least one graphically gutted; and the third shows Lincoln�s son Robert observing a wheelbarrow full of severed limbs dumped near an army hospital.
Characters (though not Lincoln) smoke, drink and cuss. The N-word and other racial insults are often used. A marital fight between the Lincolns seems so real it is truly upsetting. They also discuss mental illness.
�The Sessions� R � The explicit sexuality in �The Sessions,� even though it is in no way pornographic, makes this a film only for those in their 20s and older.
Based on real events, and acted to understated perfection, it is the story of Mark O�Brien (John Hawkes), a poet and freelance journalist living in 1980s Berkeley, Calif. A victim of polio in childhood, Mark is paralyzed from the neck down and spends part of every day in an iron lung.
At age 38, he knows he won�t live to be old, and the one thing he longs for is to fall in love. Resigned to the idea that he may never have a romantic relationship, Mark hires Cheryl (Helen Hunt), a sexual �surrogate,� so he can at least learn how to have sex.
He asks his parish priest (William H. Macy) whether this would be a sin, and the priest decides God will give Mark a pass.
Even though Cheryl is married and keeps her private life private, she comes to care for Mark, and their sessions change both their lives. Writer/director Ben Lewin has a light touch and it works.THE BOTTOM LINE: The sex scenes between Mark and Cheryl are very explicit and include female nudity. Characters occasionally use strong profanity.


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