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Saturday, June 23, 2012
Just another laugher
The Giants can hit the ball, they just don't hit it very far. Mostly, that is. Today they got two big home runs from two guys they should get home runs from. And they were two-run homers to boot. We know the club can hit. Isn't that a strange thing to say? The team batting average is .262, the fifth-best in the National League. And they manage to score about four runs per game, just a hair short of the league average. Their slugging percentage, though, is only .380, or just good enough for twelfth place. Interestingly, the team OBP is .319, exactly in the middle of the pack. Now I understand the team plays in a park that suppresses the long ball, and if you look at the list you'll see that San Diego, San Francisco, and Los Angeles are the three worst home run hitting teams. (The Dodgers, like the Giants, are winning with pitching.) But the Giants are also 14th in doubles! So extra-base hits are a rare thing with this bunch. I know they have a lot of triples, but so do the Padres and Rockies, two teams with very large outfields. Triples are cool, but I'd hazard a guess that they don't correlate very well to wins. I am much happier about the fact that our outfield triumvirate of Gregor Blanco, Angel Pagan, and Melky Cabrera runs down balls and turn them into outs. They keep the other guys from hitting doubles and triples, and that has a wonderful synergistic impact on the pitching staff. And those three have shown they can get on base, run well, and keep rallies going. But the infielders are going to have to do the heavy lifting. The Buster Posey, Pablo Sandoval, and Brandon Belt triumvirate has to deliver the power. Those guys have to bring the big sticks and get the timely bombs. None of them are sluggers in the classic sense, but they are good hitters with long ball strokes. It's a fun combination, the slash-and-dash mixed with the thunder. It just might have the makings of a winning offense.
The Athletics were generous after roughing up Madison Bumgarner and let the Giants back into the game. Eric Byrnes on the telecast defended the out-of-position Brandon Moss, and he had a point. The first error on the first baseman could have been ruled a hit as Panda really roped it. The second error was all on him, but the third could have been charged to pitcher Tyson Ross, who made a poor throw that handcuffed the hapless youngster. The A's also helped the Giants out on an outfield error by Jonny Gomes that ultimately led to a run. The Bumbino was not to be denied and put up zeros in the 4th, 5th and 6th to give his mates a chance. They took it, and the 'pen and the baseball gods did the rest. How else do you explain a game-saving ground rule double? Sergio Romo struck out three, Jeremy Affeldt worked an easy inning, but the ninth was terrifying. Shane Loux has to get the job done. Santiago Casilla and Javier Lopez get a bit of a pass for all the fine work so far this season, but Loux doesn't. C'mon man, you don't earn anyone's confidence with that kind of outing! Clay Hensley gets the "S" next to his name, but that final out came way too close to being a walk-off winner. I'll take that drink now.
Matt Cain tomorrow.
p.s. Game 72 is the end of the fourth inning. 4/9 of the season has been played. The Giants are 40-32 (.556) having gone 9-9, 9-9, 12-6 and 10-8, and are three back of LA in the West.
p.p.s. Five Brandons started today, the aforementioned Belt and Moss, both who figured large in the outcome. Brandon Crawford, Brandon Hicks (Oakland's young SS who got the ground rule double to make it 9-8), and Brandon Inge (three hits and an RBI in the 9th) also started.
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- nomisnala said...
Talk about torture. Actually the giants are among the best hitting teams in the N.L. in many categories on the road. Unfortunately their pitching is just mediocre on the road. The giants are a terrible hitting team at home, fortunately they are a great pitching team at home. We produce many more runs on the road, and just eke out a winning percentage of 500 give or take a game or two along the way. Without scoring much at home, we have a nice winning percentage at home. We might hit better at home, if some of our players could hit the ball out. 12 homers at home now and 33 on the road. I do not think the giants are really a bad hitting team at all. They even show power on the road. I think in a very near alternative universe, Theriot dropped that ball.
- Sat Jun 23, 11:05:00 PM PDT
- M.C. O'Connor said...
Is that why I have a hangover? It's my alternate-universe me recovering from a horrifying loss? Now things make sense!
- Sun Jun 24, 10:03:00 AM PDT

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text: Mazda Takeri The Takeri isn't a new car debut. It bowed last year in Tokyo, and instead of sitting under a sheet or hiding behind a wall, it was on full display for hours before Mazda's press conference. Still, New York marked the first time it was on US soil and that it was confirmed as a likely Mazda 6 successor to debut this fall. With sensual curves and a fuel-sipping set of technical advances that sit under the Skyactiv umbrella, it'll offer Mazda a fighting chance in the midsize family sedan market. We're hoping for the Skyactiv-D engine to also end up stateside, but that seems unlikely.Shelby 1000 It's not often these days that a carmaker has to mention that a new car is a "50-state, street legal." But when you're Shelby American — and your newest model produces 950 horsepower — it's necessary to remind people you can actually take this car out for a Sunday drive. Carroll Shelby launched Shelby American at the New York Auto Show in 1962, and 50 years later that first Shelby Cobra was parked beside the Shelby 1000. The new car is built on the Ford Mustang, and Shelby American says the 5.4 liter motor was rebuilt from the block up to handle the supercharged power. Oh, and if 950 isn't enough, there is a track only, "S/C" version of the new car rated at more than 1,100 horsepower. As they say on TV, professional driver, closed course: Mr. Shelby does like his horses. <h2infiniti concept="" le="">Infiniti is venturing into Tesla territory with its new LE Concept. The company borrowed from its parent company's Nissan Leaf to produce a four door, mid-size sedan that is the first electric vehicle of its size from one of the major auto makers. One of the cool new things Infiniti says should make it to the production version is an inductive coil system that will recharge the car wirelessly. Like the Leaf, a production version of the LE is expected to have a range of around 100 miles. </h2infiniti>Acura RLX Acura's current flagship — the RL — was a technical tour de force when it debuted back in 2005. That was seven years ago — an eternity when it comes to luxury refresh cycles. The new RLX promises technological innovations in a package that's as compelling as the other cars in Acura's lineup. The top Acura gets a refreshed exterior that Acura says has a "timeless beauty." In other words, it's not so polarizing that it has to be redesigned after only a single year on the market, like the 2010 TL. That signature razor blade grill is still there, but softened. From the side, the car definitely has Honda DNA, looking like an enlarged, chrome-adorned Accord. Inside, according to Honda North America CEO Tetsuo Iwamura, passengers should find the RLX to be a "gracious host." Wood and leather abound, and the AcuraLink infotainment system gains web content thanks to Harman International's AHA service. Most importantly, the RLX debuts two new powertrain technologies. Front-wheel drive cars get Acura Precision All-Wheel Steer, which uses electronic actuators to steer the rear wheels. All-wheel drive cars get Acura's Sport Hybrid Super-Handling All-Wheel Drive (Sport Hybrid SH-AWD, for short), which mounts electric motors in the rear wheels for traction and a combined fuel economy of 30 mpg.Lexus ES300 Hybrid Lexus added a hybrid to their 2013 ES lineup. Depending on your perspective, that's either praise-worthy or snooze-worthy. While the new gas-only ES350 has 268 horsepower and sprints to 60 mph in seven seconds, the ES300h adds batteries, but loses 68 horsepower and 1.1 seconds from 0-60. The tradeoff is that the ES300h manages 39 mpg city and 40 mpg highway — right up there with the Camry Hybrid it's based on. Inside, there's a comfortable interior that's quite similar to the new Lexus GS, but with a much larger backseat.Porsche Cayenne Diesel More than half of the Porsche Cayennes sold in Europe are the diesel-burning version of the German SUV. But stringent emissions regulations prevented the company from offering the oil burner here in the United States. Porsche managed to meet the regulations with some impressive engineering, including up to six separate fuel injections per combustion cycle according to Cayenne powertrain manager Stefan Fegg. "In cold conditions you have two or three small injections to get an early start on combustion, to heat up the combustion chamber" Fegg says. "Then one big one for the power cycle, and if needed up to three post combustion injections to heat up and burn out the diesel particulates, the soot." The post combustion injections also help control noise and vibration in the three liter V-6. More filters down the exhaust system help further clean things up before exiting the tail pipe. The result is an engine that delivers 240 horsepower, 408 lb-ft of torque and 28 mpg on the highway.Subaru XV Crosstrack With the success of vehicles such as the Forrester, Subaru wants to attract a younger buyer to its lineup of all-wheel drive crossover-type cars. Built on the increasingly popular Impreza model, the new XV Crosstrack offers close to the same 36 mpg fuel efficiency of the standard car but with a bit more room and design flare. Like other crossover vehicles, the XV is prepared to venture off the pavement with 8.6 inches of ground clearance. BMW X1 BMW has sold over 200,000 of their X1 mini-crossovers around the world, but not a single one in the US. That's about to change, as the automaker announced they're bringing the X1 stateside. Pricing for the mini-ute starts at just below $32k for the turbo four-equipped rear-wheel drive model. That's just slightly above a comparably equipped RAV4 or CR-V, which makes the X1 one of the most accessible high-end crossovers on the market.Mercedes Benz SL-65 AMG Limited Edition To celebrate the 45th anniversary of Mercedes Benz's performance line, AMG is producing a limited edition of the new SL65. The new car isn't shy: 621horsepower and a staggering 738 lb-ft of torque from the six liter, twin turbo V-12. If the engine is a bright spot, the exterior is a bit subdued as the matte finish exterior paint and carbon fiber parts literally don't shine. To keep the PR on the PC side of things, Mercedes points out the new SL65 is 17 percent more fuel efficient than the last model. The all aluminum frame helps save weight and the engine is the first V-12 with start/stop technology shutting down the power at stop lights to conserve fuel. The German engineers worked hard to boost performance and efficiency by reducing "parasitic loss of power" as well. Driving down a straight freeway the power required for steering is minimized and oil pressure varies depending on the needs of the engine to reduce drag from excess oil. Volkswagen Alltrack Volkswagen is calling its Alltrack a "design study" even though the car is already available on the European market. Based on the European Passat, which is slightly smaller than the North American version, the Alltrack is squarely aimed at the Audi Allroad and Subaru Outback type vehicles. The VW Alltrack features a 2.0 liter turbo diesel engine and the company's 4Motion all wheel drive. To help the driver when venturing off the pavement, the Alltrack sits 1.2 inches higher than the standard wagon and includes a skid plate that protects the underside. With wagons hugely popular in Europe, Volkswagen says it is using the Alltrack to gauge interest in the SUV happy market of North America. 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Has anybody tried the Raspberry Pi Wed IDE? I loaded it up on my Pi and it works like a charm! My first project will be porting Roomba.py and running my roomba bots over the web.
The second thing I did was try it on my Beaglebone. It builds and almost works. If I direct Chrome to the beaglebone's IP, I can't get the editor, but I do get the cloud9 icon on the browser tab, which tells me that something is up and running.


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Bobby Kersee is in favor of a runoff to break a 100-meter tie between his two sprinters, Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh.
Just not now.
Maybe down the road, on the last day of the Olympic trials even. Or perhaps a few weeks later, on a track somewhere to be determined.
U.S. & World
To decide anything right now, the coach said, isn't fair to Felix and Tarmoh, especially because they are both running the 200 later this week.
Felix and Tarmoh finished in a dead heat for the last U.S. spot in the 100 to the London Games, each leaning across the finish line in 11.068 seconds Saturday.
With no protocol in place, there's no guessing how USA Track and Field plans to break the tie. The organization is still determining a procedure to settle the situation.
"I've heard a bunch of stories about what they might do and I'm not sure what's true or not," Kersee told The Associated Press on Sunday.
The one that scares him, though, is having a runoff before the 200 starts its rounds on Thursday. That simply would not sit well with him.
"Just leave them alone until after they run the 200 meters and then come up with a decision, how they're going to figure out the way they want to settle this," he said. "This is a situation to be dealt with later, after you give the athletes an opportunity to focus on what they need to do, what they've been waiting around to do for four years."
The 200 finals are Saturday and the trials conclude the following day.
Being the coach of both, Kersee knows he has a conflict of interest in this situation. But he insisted he's only concerned with one thing: Doing right by his runners.
"You don't have to bother us about this now," he said. "You can wait until later."
Originally, Tarmoh was declared the third-place finisher and the official scoring said she had edged training partner Felix by 0.0001 seconds. But the results were reviewed, and after a lengthy delay, the dead heat was announced.
In swimming, ties are settled with swim-offs between the two deadlocked opponents. Track has tiebreaking procedures for many of its events, as well, but this is a special case for which there is no written solution — a tie for the last spot on the Olympic team.
Ever seen anything as crazy as this?
"I've been doing this for 32 years and no," Kersee said.
The USATF said in a release that two cameras are used to determine photo-finishes, one on the outside of the track and another on the inside.
In Saturday's race, the image from the outside camera was inconclusive for determining the finish because both runners' arms obscured their torsos.
The torso position is used to determine the finish.
The image from the inside camera, shot at 3,000 frames per second, was analyzed by timers and referees, who declared the tie.
In Kersee's opinion, there really is no rush to solve this issue.
However, should USATF decide to settle the tie with a runoff, Kersee won't be at the track for the race.
Sure, he will warm Felix and Tarmoh up. And yes, he will give them some last-minute advice.
But then he will head for the exit.
"I'll go on a long walk," Kersee said. "When I come back, I'll get the news on who did what."


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Tragic trip: Recruiting junket turns deadly
Katie Leicht was there for dinner November 13. The second-year UVA law student was being wined and dined by a prestigious New York law firm at one of Charlottesville's best inns.
The dinner at Clifton Inn wasn't an official UVA Law School function. Willkie Farr & Gallagher sent seven attorneys and two recruiters to sway the handpicked second-year law students who hadn't yet accepted the law firm's offer to work in its summer program.
It probably wasn't a hard sell to get the Willkie lawyers to fly down to Charlottesville to stay at the elegant inn. After all, six of the seven were UVA Law School graduates, so it was a homecoming of sorts, especially for the three members of the class of 2002: Jordan Alpert, Michelle Clark, and Margaret Mansouri.
Willkie, an international firm with offices in Paris, Milan, London, and Rome, employs 461 lawyers and ranks 51st in gross income among the nation's law firms, according to Steve Hopson, the career services dean at the law school.
"Willkie is an old– what they call a white-shoe firm," says Hopson. Former New York governor Mario Cuomo is a partner, as was Wendell Willkie, who unsuccessfully challenged Franklin Roosevelt for the presidency in 1940.
"It's one of the more popular firms for our graduates to take jobs," says Hopson. The firm has hired 12 UVA law grads in the past three years.
And while law students traditionally have until December 1 to choose their summer job, if all went well, Willkie would get them to sign up that night at Clifton.
Katie Leicht estimates that maybe eight or nine law students were there for dinner, along with the nine-member contingent from Willkie and some law students who'd previously worked there as summer associates, bringing the total party to around 25 to 30 people.
"Just as we were sitting down for dinner at around 8, the power went out," says Leicht. The dinner proceeded by candlelight, since the power didn't come back on. "It was out when we left around 11:30," says Leicht.
"Before the power went out, we had tall dinner candles. And then they just brought out everything they had- including pillar candles," says Leicht.
"It was a great dinner and a fun evening," she says. "The firm has a reputation of being very friendly. We were impressed they'd brought so many lawyers down."
Leicht left the Clifton Inn still undecided between Willkie and another law firm. She found out about the tragic fire that took the lives of two Willkie recruiters when a partner in New York called her the next morning with the news.
Trish Langlade, 45, recruiting coordinator, and Billie Kelly, 48, head recruiter for the firm, were staying upstairs in the main building when the fire broke out downstairs.
Hopson says Langlade, the mother of two school-age daughters, had orchestrated the entire visit and was well-known to members of his staff. Rescuers were unable to resuscitate her or Kelly, and the state Medical Examiner's Office identified the cause of death as acute carbon monoxide poisoning.
Margaret Mansouri was more fortunate. The 2002 law school graduate was taken to UVA Medical Center where her condition was initially described as critical.
After visiting her in UVA's intensive care unit, Hopson said she was "in pretty good shape. She was speaking in very low tones, and I asked her why, and she said it was because of all the tubes they've been sticking down her throat."
Mansouri was released from the hospital on Monday, November 17.
The other UVA grads who escaped the burning building are associate Dave Karp, class of 2000, and partners Steve Seidman, class of 1990, and Bill Grant from the class of '70.
The award-winning Clifton Inn has long had ties to UVA Law School. Class of '76er Mitch Willey, who lives in Alexandria, opened the inn in 1985 and the restaurant six years later. "He wanted to get law firms to use the inn," says Hopson, "and they've used it routinely."


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San Antonio police on Sunday arrested a man accused of sexually assaulting a teenager, and officials believe there may be more victims.
Julian Martinez, 20, is set to be booked in Bexar County Jail on one count of aggravated sexual assault of a child. Bail had not been set.
Police spokeswoman Sandy Gutierrez said Martinez is accused of assaulting a 12-year-old girl, whom he allegedly drugged with Xanax before and after the March 10 incident. The assault took place in Martinez's bedroom, Gutierrez said. Police said he was introduced to the victim through a mutual friend.
As officers escorted Martinez to a patrol car prior to going to the City Magistrate's office Sunday, he maintained his innocence, claiming he wasn't sure why he was being arrested.
Gutierrez, meanwhile, encouraged any other victims to come forward by calling detectives at 207-2313.
"If he has assaulted other victims, we want to know – especially if they are younger victims," she said.
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A very informative article on Jinnah,by Tarun Vijay,editor of Panchajanya, appeared in Times of India a while ago.
"I am not prepared to discuss ethics. We have a pistol and are in a position to use it." So said Mohammad Ali Jinnah while delivering his presidential speech at the Muslim League convention on July 19, 1946.
What followed was an unimaginable massacre of Hindus in Kolkata on August 16, 1946. Six thousand killed, twenty thousand raped and maimed.
Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee, the then leader of Hindu Mahasabha had said, "Jinnah is out to destroy the very soul of India."
If one single instance should be cited to understand what Jinnah really was, it would not be his speech in the Constituent Assembly, Karachi, often quoted by Indian Hindus, but his call for "Direct Action".
That was August 16, 1946, known as the day of "great Calcutta killings". After the "Direct Action" resolution was passed by the Muslim League on July 19, 1946, its president, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, said in his valedictory speech: "What we have done today is the most historic act in our history. Never have we in the whole history of the League done anything except by the constitutional methods and by constitutionalism. But now we are obliged and forced into this position. This day we bid goodbye to constitutional methods…. Now the time has come for the Muslim Nation to resort to direct action. I am not prepared to discuss ethics. We have a pistol and are in a position to use it."
Syama Prasad Mookerjee, the then leader of the Hindu Mahasabha, who had said, "Jinnah is out to destroy the very soul of India", organized Hindus fearlessly and foiled Jinnah's plan to oust Hindus from Kolkata. He formed a volunteer group of the Hindus named the Hindusthan National Guards, resisted horrendous goondaism of the League and moved in the riot-affected areas giving courage to the victims of a planned slaughter and orgy of violence by the League's marauders.
Syama Prasad Mookerjee was traveling all over India awakening the masses to rise against the partition plot. On October 8, 1944, at a United Provinces Hindu Conference, he said, "The sooner Mr Jinnah understands that Pakistan in any form or shape will be resisted by Hindus and many others with the last drop of blood, the better for him, for he will then quietly descend on realities and himself plead for a just and equitable settlement. None but an agent of imperialism will so block the path of Indian unity and freedom as Mr Jinnah is doing."
Dr Mookerjee, who is respected as the ideological icon and source of inspiration by the Bharatiya Janata Party, was a devotee of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. In fact, he had been in close contact with Sri Aurobindo, who had said, "The idea of two nationalities in India is only a new-fangled notion invented by Jinnah for his purposes and contrary to the facts. More than 90% of the Indian Mussalmans are descendants of converted Hindus and belong as much to the Indian nation as the Hindus themselves. This process of conversion has continued all along; Jinnah is himself a descendant of a Hindu,converted in fairly recent times,named Jinabhai and many of the most famous Mahommedan leaders have a similar origin."(SABCL, vol.26, page 46).
It was Dr Mookerjee who stood firm and tried to organize a people's movement against partition. He said: "Hindus regard this country as their sacred and holy land. Irrespective of provincial barriers or the diversity in faiths and languages there exists a remarkable economic and cultural unity and inter-dependence which cannot be destroyed at the will of persons and parties who think it beneath their dignity to regard India as their motherland. We must live and die for India and her liberty." (24th December 1944).
He disagreed with Gandhi placating the Muslim demands and said,"As soon as the other communities realize that the Hindus of India are united and have pledged themselves to stand together for the attainment of their ideal and have adopted a policy of understanding and tolerance to all classes of people residing in India, other communities whose support we are seeking in vain today will then join us voluntarily and on terms honourable to all."("Awake Hindusthan", Page 12).
He further said: "Our experiences in recent years have proved that much as we would be willing to surrender the rights and interests of the Hindus for the purpose of placating other communities, much as we would like to pursue the policy of delivering "blank cheques" the response from the other side is slow and halting, if not sometimes hostile in character.("Awake Hindusthan", Page 13)
In this context, I would like to add that however different Jinnah might have been , we just can't belittle Nehru before Jinnah. Nehru belonged to us; he fought for India's freedom, spent years in jail and had an Indian dream. We may have a thousand differences with him on policies and programmes, but so what? That would be our "domestic matter". Jinnah led our motherland's vivisection and he never fought for the freedom struggle.
MJ Akbar has written these lines describing his persona,"Muhammad Ali Jinnah, aristocrat by temperament, catholic in taste, sectarian in politics, and the father of Pakistan, was the unlikeliest parent that an Islamic republic could possibly have. He was the most British of the generation of Indians that won freedom in August 1947. As a child in the elite Christian Mission High School in Karachi, he changed his birthday from 20 October to Christmas Day. As a student at Lincoln's Inn, he anglicised his name from Jinnahbhai to Jinnah. For three years, between 1930 and 1933, he went into voluntary exile in Hampstead, acquired a British passport, set up residence with his sister Fatimah and daughter Dina, hired a British chauffeur (Bradley) for his Bentley, kept two dogs (a black Dobermann and a white West Highland terrier), indulged himself at the theatre (he had once wanted to be a professional actor so that he could play Hamlet) and appeared before the Privy Council to maintain himself in the style to which he was accustomed. He wore Savile Row suits, heavily starched shirts and two-tone leather or suede shoes……Despite being the Quaid-e-Azam, or the Great Leader of Muslims, he drank a moderate amount of alcohol and was embarrassingly unfamiliar with Islamic methods of prayer. He was uncomfortable in any language but English, and made his demand for Pakistan — in 1940 at Lahore — in English, despite catcalls from an audience that wanted to hear Urdu."
That was a bit of Syama Prasad and the related reflections that may prove worthwhile in the present political debate enveloping the nationalist school of politics. At the end of it, what the Gita has said and the RSS teaches us must make the final lines to this blogpost:
It's better to die unwavering even in tatters than to change track midway and die stinking rich.
That's Dharma.
Krishna said: "Swadharme nidhano shreyo (to live and die in ones' own path alone is the life worthwhile and adopting the 'other' dharma is horrible)".
For small desires we lose a lifetime's achievements and glory.
History was never made essentially by those who became state heads, but often by those who didn't.
Or by those who gave up everything for others' good, honestly. Syama Prasad and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya are two major icons of faith for the Hindu nationalist parivar. Both created history and died in their early fifties. Both were mysteriously 'murdered'. Their lives must light the path of those who care to follow swadharma.
That's BJP's legacy too. As it is of other ideologically committed organisations of the saffron hue.
Lincoln didn't shy away from the civil war and stood like a rock on the question of American spirit and unity. So was Syama Prasad. He died but didn't bend.


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"The Lone Ranger," starring Armie Hammer in the title role and Johnny Depp as his trusty sidekick Tonto, and directed by Gore Verbinski, will be here in time for Christmas--Dec. 21, to be exact--next year, reported Deadline.
The script, by Justin Haythe ("Revolutionary Road"), is set in the late 1860s and recounts how a Texas Ranger known only as Reid is shot in an ambush and left for dead, only to be nursed back to health and given a second chance by a kindly Comanche Indian.
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Published: 12/27/2012 12:00:00
There's a bit of Holiday fun happening down at the Juneau Arts and Culture Center in the form of a miniature golf course. Affectionately dubbed the "Jacc Putt, the course is ten fanciful holes all based on Fairy Tales, from the Gingerbread Man to Peter Pan and Rapunzel, and each in itself a small challenge for even an accomplished duffer. Kari Groven, the Program Coordinator for the Juneau Arts and Humanities Council, filled us in.
VIDEO: There's a bit of holiday fun happening down at the Juneau Arts and Culture Center in the form of a miniature golf course. (Image: Juneau Arts and Humanities Council)
"This is good for the whole family, you see kids down to like two and three years old that are kind of stumbling around and seem to have a lot of fun, and then people up into their seventies, eighties, that are having a lot of fun too so it's just a nice thing to do indoors during the Christmas Holidays in Juneau. Five dollars per round per person, if you come in groups of fifteen or less you can get a group discount, you can also actually book this for a private party. And then they get the rules and they can choose to follow the rules or not follow the rules. They get a ball each and a little putter and they start at any hole they like and can make marks on how many hits it takes to get to the hole or they can just hit the ball all over the place.
Not being a golfer myself, I had to ask what was considered par for the course.
Kari's Answer was "We don't have a par, we just have the person who gets the least amount of hits in total when they go through all of the ten holes that are here, and they are the winner if they choose to do the kind of competition part of it."
Hit the Jacc Putt runs until December 30th and benefits the Juneau Arts and Humanities Council.
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NOT MANY PERKS WHEN YOU'RE A CHICKEN – Home Country
Irma has it figured out. She's a bona fide, egg-laying member of the "Production Red" hen sorority and she knows her rights.
This is really remarkable when you consider the braincase of your average barnyard chicken is wedged between some feathers and those big expressionless eyes and has about the same capacity for rational thought as that of an amoeba. But somehow this hen of mine has figured it out.
The sunlight triggers it, I believe. Sequential logic.
When the daylight comes enough to make out the outline of the house, Gunsil (the rooster) starts telling the world how wonderful he is. When the sun hits the house, The Guy Who Takes Away the Eggs (aka T.G.W.T.A.T.E.) comes out and puts food in the dish. When it gets dark, it's time to go back in the henhouse, better known as "Home."
She doesn't get fooled by artificiality the way Gunsil does. We've learned that a midnight visit to the bathroom is fine as long as you don't turn on the light. If the light switch goes on, out comes Gunsil from his hen-pecked existence and he begins telling the world it's time to get up and start laying.
If a person were to have several cups of coffee before bedtime, the result the next morning is a bedraggled, exhausted, confused rooster who is mad enough to want to whip the neighbor's German shepherd.
It's almost worth it.
But Irma isn't fooled by light coming through the bathroom window. She waits for the real thing. Daylight. The sun. The sun's rays slowly slide down the walls of the house until they hit the bricks of the patio. When the bricks are illuminated by the morning light, she waits exactly 17 seconds for The Guy Who Takes Away the Eggs to emerge with scratch and laying mash.
If he's tardy, she goes to work.
Buoyed by a sense of feminine assertiveness and egged on by an empty crop, she strides across the yard, across the patio bricks, up to the very gates of House itself, the sliding glass doors. Then Irma pecks at the glass until T.G.W.T.A.T.E. emerges with breakfast.
There aren't a lot of perks to being a chicken. One must insist on the few one has.
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The countdown to LUDI is on! LUDI is Walnut Hills' largest STUDENT fundraiser of the year! All of the money raised benefits our clubs, sports and extracurricular activities. It is a grade-level competition where winning is based on a combination of fundraising and participation. Our clubs and teams also have the opportunity to win cash prizes based on their level of support. This year's campaign runs from September 8th through October 2nd culminating in our after school field day celebration the last day.
The LUDI celebration is part field-day, part raffle and prize extravaganza and the most fun students will have on campus all year! The Black Ties will be performing as well!
Students have the opportunity to win prizes and bring their class and clubs/teams to LUDI dominance! See Giving Levels & Rewards tab for all you can win. All funds raised on the individual fundraising page count towards the personal score, your class score and your club/team scores! REMEMBER, the campaign closes at midnight on Sunday, October 4, 2015. Let the LUDI games begin!
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Sunday, May 15, 2011
The warmth of the sunshine is felt so much this weekend. The digital thermometer reads around 22c. I even feel more warmth in my home, making breezes drifting in through open windows welcome. I also set up the fans to add more air flow throughout the house. The air smells fresh with hints of new plants and grass. This weekend marked the start to camping for most folks in this area since our outdoor starved souls are thirsty for every moment of sunshine and beautiful weather.
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Hey Faye, I'm back. I don't know what has kept me from reading blogs and blogging sinceI returned home, but I'm hoping to be better in the days ahead.
~hippo hugs~
PS- Thankful for FB where I can keep up with you.
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Clean out your pantry and restock it.
One of the biggest money savers I've ever found is simply cooking at home. There was a time in my early adult life where I ate out for almost every meal. I'd eat out for breakfast, picking up a bagel and some coffee. I'd eat out for lunch with coworkers. I'd eat out for dinner with my wife or, sometimes, with friends. I rarely ate at home.
Over time, though, I slowly started moving towards making my own meals. At first, it wasn't because of a financial benefit – it was simply due to a growing interest in food preparation, brought on by reading food magazines and the like.
It took some time to get skilled enough that I felt ready to prepare meals off the cuff in my kitchen. Early on, I burned everything and didn't understand the need for slower cooking, but as I improved, I found myself making all kinds of things, from coq au vin to from-scratch lasagna (including the noodles).
What I discovered along the way is that the more conducive your cupboard contents are to cooking things from scratch at home, the easier it becomes and the more likely you are to do it. If all you have in the cupboard is random prepackaged foods that, frankly, don't taste all that good or only some of the stuff you need to make things at home, then you'll find that it's much harder to convince yourself to just go home and throw something together for dinner.
So, how do you get from typical cupboards to this?
The first step is to clean out your cupboards and take stock of what you have. Pull everything out. Cover your floors and tables with boxes and bags and containers. Group them in whatever ways make sense to you.
As you go, throw out the outdated stuff. Trust me, you have stuff that's old in your cupboards. Spices that have sat in there for more than a year. Canned and boxed foods past their expiration date. Flour that seems to have some sort of infestation. Get rid of all of it now.
Once you have all of this stuff out there, commit to eating some of the boxed foods and give away the rest. Yep, take it down to the food pantry and give it away if you have an abundance of it. Pass it on to someone who can actually use it before the expiration date.
For most people, this will eliminate a lot of the contents of their cupboards – a shocking amount, even. What you're left with, though, are usable staples and just a small handful of prepackaged foods.
Now you can stock your pantry and cupboards with real ingredients, the types of things that make it possible for you to toss together meals of a wide variety quite easily. Here's a great suggested pantry list from The Reluctant Gourmet:
* Anchovies: a must for many pasta sauces, flat filets in a can or anchovy paste.
* Artichokes: canned hearts packed in water.
* Beans: an assortment of canned (easier) or dry (more work but tastier). Bread crumbs
* Capers: great in salads and pasta dishes.
* Chutney: great for crackers and sauces.
* Clam juice: a good substitute for fish stock.
* Corn meal: great for dredging foods and a must for polenta.
* Coconut: either shredded in a can or coconut milk or better yet, both.Cornstarch: for thickening sauces
* Crackers: assorted types.
* Dried fruits: apples, apricots, currants, figs, and raisins.
* Dried herbs: basil, bay leaves, chili powder, cinnamon, dill, nutmeg, oregano, paprika, crushed red pepper, rosemary, sage, tarragon, thyme.
* Extracts: vanilla is the most important, but try orange and almond.
* Flour: unbleached all-purpose
* Jams, Jellies, Preserves, and Honey
* Ketchup: always have an extra bottle on hand.
* Mushrooms: an assortment of dried including shiitake, morels, and porcini.
* Mustard: Dried and Dijon in a jar
* Oils: Olive, pure for everyday cooking and virgin for drizzling, canola, and sesame.
* Olives: canned, pitted and non-pitted, nicoise and calamata and olive paste
* Pasta: an assortment of shapes and sizes; dried
* Peanut butter: I like the chunky style.
* Peas: canned petite style. Fresh is better, but these are good to have on hand
* Pepper: whole peppercorns, ground black and white pepper.
* Pesto, Tapenade, Salsa
* Rice: Arborio (for risotto), brown, white, wild (not really a rice but a long grain marsh grass).
* Salt: regular and sea salt.
* Salad Dressings: my favorite is Good Seasons
* Sauces: Soy or Tamari, Tabasco, Teriyaki, and Worcestershire
* Sugar: white and brown, granulated and confectioners
* Tomatoes: canned – whole plum, paste, and puree; sun-driedTuna: canned, packed in water.
* Vinegar: balsamic, white wine, red wine, rice wine.Wines: Marsala, Madeira, and Sherry
If you have all of this in your pantry, you're in great shape for some wonderful cooking in your future. This list provides everything you need to make anything from simple spaghetti to very complex dishes.
Even better, you'll quickly find that, if you have any initiative to cook at all, having an organized pantry entices you to prepare more food at home. Preparing more food at home means that your food bill each month goes down. That means you find yourself more in control of your financial life than ever.
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Have You Heard About… Monster on the Hill
… the horrible beast that rampages through the town regularly, causing moderate property damage and making people to flee to safe hiding spots? With its fangs and horns and fearsome roar, our monster is undoubtedly the most amazing you have ever seen. For a limited time, you can also buy souvenir rubble, posters, and ice cream treats. Don't leave town until you've been terrified by our Monster on the Hill!
Author and illustrator Rob Harrell does a wonderful job with this graphic novel. If a town's monster is important to its tourist trade and social standing, what happens when the local monster gets depressed and just doesn't feel like frighting the good fright any more? For one thing, disappointment is palpable in the streets of Stoker-on-Avon. (It makes the newspaper headlines, so it must be true.) For another, the city council gets desperate enough to send the local man of science to cure the monster, fortunately with a little unplanned assistance.
Monster on the Hill is a wonderfully fun, silly story with some sound advice for people who have gotten into a slump. Read it when you're feeling blue and try some of the techniques that help the monster of Stoker-on-Avon get back into top form. (You should probably skip the trepanning though.)
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Below is a description of both types of dance that you will learn during your "Ladies Night or Day Out" experience. All windows are covered up so you and your fellow classmates are free to let your "inner sexy" out!
Pole Dance: Pole Dance Classes offer a sexy and great workout. You will learn basic pole tricks, sexy dance moves, flexibility enhancing stretches and how to let go and have fun! Women 18 years and older only.
Lap Dance: A sensual and sexy style of dance for every woman! We welcome women who have never tried to show us what you got! Classes are both technique and fitness-based. If you're looking to get sexy and get fit at the same time, you've come to the right class! WELCOME DIVA'S!!!!. Women 18 years and older only.
How many women will be in class?
There will be up to 27 female participants in the class, subject to change.
Is there a weight limit for pole dance?
Currently there is no weight limit restriction for this class. However, if you ever decide to try an advanced move, or register for our separate progressive pole dance series classes offered, you must have enough upper body and lower body strength to support your own body weight during more difficult pole dance movements.
What do I need to wear to class?
Please wear form-fitting workout attire, lingerie (boy shorts, tank tops, chemises, short skirts, etc.) or whatever is most comfortable (no nudity). The more skin available the better. No lotion or oil on skin to prevent sliding down the pole too quickly. Wear heels (preferably ankle strap) and bring a small towel. You must cover up in the common areas (i.e. bathroom, lobby, parking lot) when outside of the classroom, so you may want to bring along a sarong or some sort of body wrap or cover.
Is a ticket required for admittance?
Yes, you will need a printed ticket or an electronic/mobile version of your ticket, with the barcode clearly showing for at-the-door scanning. DO NOT FORGET YOUR TICKET. Your admittance may be denied, and there are no refunds once you have registered for class. An order confirmation email or a Paypal receipt cannot be used for admittance.
Can I register at the door?
No at the door registration for these classes. Online registration only.
What time do I need to arrive?
If this is your first class ever at Dance 411, you must arrive a minimum of 15-minutes early to sign your waiver and release, or confirm its previous electronic submission. Our parking lot space is very limited, so please arrive early in anticipation of any parking delays.
I am part of a party or group. Can I bring in any food or beverages?
Plastic bottles of water only are allowed in the classroom. No food or drink of any kind (other than water), no glassware, no alcohol, no juice, sodas or sports drinks. We do have a water fountain outside of the classroom, but you will have to cover up your body to leave the classroom. Alcohol, cake and other foods (if authorized by our staff) are not allowed. If interested in booking a private party or event, visit www.poledance411.com or call 404-622-4110, option 4.
Are there ID requirements or an age limit to enter the event?
Minimum age is 18 to attend the event
The name on the registration/ticket doesn't match the attendee. Is that okay?
No, only the name on the ticket will be allowed into the event.
Is my registration/ticket transferable?
Registered tickets under the attendees name are not transferable.
What is the refund, change or lateness policy?
Once registered, there are no refunds or changes. If you are 15-minutes late, you will not be admitted.
Why is Dance 411 so friggin' awesome?
Our friggin' awesomeness is the product of lots of learning from trial-and-error over the years, and because of our amazingly dedicated staff who is eager to please our patrons. We are well-known for being the best in dance and fitness eduction . . . for offering new, unique, trend-setting classes and events . . . and for providing a fun and exciting experience for everyone who graces our floors. Our motto is "Dance 411 . . . the Floor is Yours!"
How can I help spread the love about you guys?
Please write reviews about us on Google, Kudzu & Yelp! Tell your friends and family about us through social media. Tweet #dance411 and tag @dance411 in your postings. Take Instagram pictures of you and your friends in class, and add #dance411 to your photos before posting. These things go a long way in helping us stay on top. Thanks!


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Oh won't you be my neighbor. Or not. Even Mister Rogers would have to hang up his sweater somewhere else if what Madonna's neighbor says about the pop star is true.
The Material Girl has converted her Central Park West apartment into an improvised dance studio and has been working so diligently on her routines that it's driving her neighbor insane. The incessant stomping around should get her evicted, neighbor Karen George charged in a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday.
"Madonna and one or more of her invited guests repeatedly dance and train … to unreasonably high-decibel, amplified music, causing noise and vibration to pour through the walls, ceilings and radiators," George, who lives just above Madonna's seventh-floor apartment, says in the lawsuit, according to The New York Post.
The beat has been going on – and George wants it to stop.
"Ms. George has been forced to endure blaring music, stomping and shaking walls for approximately one and a half to three hours each day," the lawsuit, filed against the building board, charges.
The board claims they've already told Madonna she could be evicted if she doesn't tone down her dance sessions, reports the Post. The paper wasn't able to get a comment from Madonna's spokespeople.


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EDMONTON - A newly twinned, 36-kilometre section of Highway 63 will open at noon Monday north of Wandering River, but count on traffic delays for the first few hours.
Southbound traffic may experience delays of up to 45 minutes while northbound traffic clears the twinned stretch to allow for a smooth movement of traffic from the existing lanes to the new lanes.
During the transition, there will be reduced speed limits in the area and there may be additional temporary traffic stoppages as shoulder line painting occurs. Traffic is expected to be flowing freely by mid- to late afternoon.
By bringing in specialized infrared heating equipment, Alberta Transportation was able to do line painting during inclement weather.
The opening of the 36-km stretch was achieved more than eight months ahead of schedule. The provincial government has committed to a fully twinned Highway 63 from Highway 55 to Fort McMurray by the fall of 2016.
There may be some continued construction in the area over the coming weeks as the contractor completes the finishing touches.
Visit www.transportation.alberta.ca/4942.htm for more information on Highway 63. Construction updates are available via Twitter through
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WASHINGTON - A Navy admiral is the apparent choice to be the next chief of the troubled National Security Agency, which was rocked by former analyst Edward Snowden's disclosures of its secret surveillance programs that collect phone and Internet data around the world and now faces enormous pressure to change its ways.
According to U.S. officials, Vice Adm. Mike Rogers, a former intelligence director and currently the head of the Navy's Cyber Command, will likely be nominated to replace Army Gen. Keith Alexander. Rogers has long been considered the heir apparent for the job, but Alexander's planned retirement in mid-March has put added pressure on the White House to make the decision and announcement soon. According to officials, Rogers would also be nominated to take over U.S. Cyber Command.
Several U.S. officials confirmed the selection on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly ahead of an eventual announcement by the White House.
Alexander's nearly nine-year tenure as NSA director has been punctuated by a series of revelations about the once-secret government warrantless wiretappings and expansive phone and data collection that came to light as a result of leaks from Snowden. Alexander also became the first commander of the Pentagon's Cyber Command, which was set up in 2010.
The White House has said it intends to continue having one commander oversee the NSA and Cyber Command, despite suggestions that the jobs should be split, due to concerns that the lines have blurred between the two powerful posts. The White House declined to comment on Rogers.
While the president can appoint an NSA director, Rogers would need confirmation by the Senate in order to get a fourth star and take over Cyber Command.
It was not immediately clear when an announcement would be made, but officials said Obama met with Rogers last week, signaling that the selection was on track.
The naval officer is likely to face a heated confirmation hearing, as lawmakers air their frustrations with the agency's widespread secret data collection programs that have swept up the phone records of hundreds of millions in the U.S. And he will be forced to lay out his vision for how the agency will move forward.
Cybersecurity expert James Lewis, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said that the next NSA leader will face some difficult challenges.
"There will be three giant problems for whoever takes over," said Lewis. "They will face political problems both with Capitol Hill and with foreign partners, morale problems with the workforce and technological problems trying to rebuild data collection capabilities."
As an example, he said that when U.S. government and corporate computer systems have faced cyberattacks from China, American officials were able to attribute the breaches to the Chinese because of "our deep insight into the networks." If the nation's ability to watch or monitor those international networks has been damaged by Snowden's disclosures, the government may lose some of its ability to attribute cyberattacks to specific people or entities, he said.
"We don't know enough to say how big of a blow this has been, but techniques and access points have been blown and now they have to recover," Lewis said.
President Barack Obama announced last week that he was placing new limits on the way the intelligence community accesses phone records, and said he was eventually moving to strip the data collection from the government's hands.
Rogers took over the Navy's Fleet Cyber command in Sept. 2011, and before that had served as director of intelligence on the Joint Staff, during the tenure of then-Joint Chiefs chairman Adm. Mike Mullen.
A native of Chicago and graduate of Auburn University in Alabama, Rogers got his commission through the Navy ROTC there and was initially a surface warfare officer. He then switched to cryptology.
He is a graduate of the National War College and the Naval War College and holds a Master of Science in national security strategy.


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Elinor Carucci
This rich and indulgent dish is sure to impress. It's crispy on top and creamy underneath. The sweet flavor of roasted fennel is a nice contrast to the starchy potatoes and spicy white pepper.
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- Makes 12 servings
- 6 garlic cloves, peeled, smashed
- 4 2-inch-long fresh rosemary sprigs
- 2 1/4 cups heavy whipping cream
- 2 1/2 teaspoons coarse kosher salt
- 3/4 teaspoon ground white pepper
- 2 large fresh fennel bulbs with fronds
- 3 1/2 pounds medium russet potatoes
- 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
- Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 350°F. Butter 13x9x2-inch glass baking dish. Place garlic cloves and rosemary sprigs in bottom of prepared baking dish. Combine cream, coarse salt, and white pepper in large bowl.
- Cut off any stalks and fronds from fennel bulbs; discard stalks. Finely chop fennel fronds; cover and chill. Using V-slicer or mandoline, thinly slice fennel bulbs. Layer half of fennel slices evenly atop garlic and rosemary in baking dish. Peel potatoes and place immediately in large bowl of cold water to prevent discoloration. Working with 1 potato at a time, use a V-slicer or mandoline to thinly slice into rounds. Immediately add potatoes to bowl with cream mixture, turning to coat potatoes. Arrange half of potato slices evenly over fennel slices in baking dish, reserving cream mixture in bowl. Repeat layering with remaining fennel slices, then remaining potato slices. Pour cream mixture in bowl over fennel-potato mixture in baking dish. Dot with butter cubes. Cover baking dish with foil, doming foil slightly (do not allow foil to touch potatoes).
- Bake scalloped potatoes until almost tender when pierced with knife, about 1 hour 15 minutes. Increase oven temperature to 425°F. Remove foil and bake uncovered until potatoes are tender and top is deep golden brown, about 20 minutes longer. Remove from oven and let rest 15 minutes. Sprinkle with reserved fennel fronds and serve.


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Jonathan Woods writes: Each year around Easter, a handful of Hungarians take part in a tradition dating back to 2nd century AD. Donning traditional garb, boys and girls take to the streets for what they call the "watering of the girls."
It's a fertility ritual from a pre-Christian time in Hungarian tribes, where boys throw buckets of water of young girls running past them.
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School girls in traditional clothes of the 'Matyo' minority prepare for traditional Easter celebrations on April 21.
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Local school girls, wearing the traditional clothes of the 'Matyo' minority, react as boys throw water on them east of Budapest on Thursday, April 21. Locals from northeast Hungary celebrate Easter with the traditional "watering of the girls," a fertility ritual rooted in Hungary's tribal pre-Christian past, going as far back as the second century AD.
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A bucket of water is poured onto a Matyo minority girl dressed in traditional clothing in Mezokovesd, central Hungary on April 21.
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Boys throw water on girls in Mezokovesd, east of Budapest, Hungary, on April 21.
In response to a comment below from Cassandra we took time to dig up some additional information on the Matyo people.
The most in-depth information we found was via a Hungarian folk art site.
Although the "watering of the girls" celebrations don't appear to be confined to one geographic region, The Matyo are said to be located in Northern Hungary in the settlements of Mezökövesd, and two smaller villages, Szentistván and Tard.
Folk Art Hungary says "The Matyo area is united and distinguished from the other settlements of the region by the colourful costumes and famous folklore art... Their lives are tightly interwoven with tradition... Mezökövesd earned its nationwide reputation based on its unique costumes and free-hand embroidery style."
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Matyo minority boys dressed in traditional clothing prepare for a Hungarian Easter tradition, when boys pour buckets of water on girls in Mezokovesd, central Hungary.


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Imagine stumbling across Mila Kunis on an online dating site.
"If I didn't do what I do, I would do Internet dating instead of going out to bars. In two seconds I would. It makes so much more sense," the "Ted" star said in the August issue of Glamour Magazine.
Kunis said that even though she's too famous for Internet dating sites she still enjoys helping her girlfriends meet men online. "I love those sites. I go on and I pick the guys for my friends. I think it's great. It's online shopping! We all get together with our laptops and have a glass of wine. Then we message the guy," the actress told Glamour.
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Kunis, 28, also addressed the rumors about her dating Ashton Kutcher. "Ninety-nine percent of it is bulls--t. That is the biggest form of bullying ever, the paparazzi," she said.
The actress isn't one for dating around. "I've never dated. I can say this honestly: I don't know what it's like to date. But also, how am I going to date? I'm not in one state long enough," she told Glamour.
Kunis dated Macaulay Culkin for eight years until the two split in 2011, according to the Huffington Post.
Selected Reading: Glamour Magazine, The Huffington Post, MTV UK


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NSA Defenders Insist Their Lawbreaking Should Be Ignored Because They 'Didn't Mean It'
from the let's-try-that-anywhere-else deptWe got a hint of what NSA defenders would say to try to respond to the latest revelations of thousands of abuses per year by NSA agents, but late Friday (the best place to try to hide from the news cycle) we saw the official response plan roll out and, my goodness, is it ridiculous. The NSA held a conference call, in which it said, sure, sure, agents had abused the system thousands of times, but it shouldn't count, because they didn't mean to:
"These are not willful violations, they are not malicious, these are not people trying to break the law," John DeLong, NSA director of compliance, told reporters.Except... the NSA also admitted separately:
Mr. DeLong reported, however, "a couple" of willful violations in the past decade. He didn't provide details.Wait, hadn't Keith Alexander just told us that there had never been a willful violation?
Meanwhile, Senator Feinstein is trying a similar "but they didn't mean it" argument with her statement:
The majority of these 'compliance incidents' are, therefore, unintentional and do not involve any inappropriate surveillance of Americans.Two points in response to this. First, John DeLong admitted during the call that there have been willful violations. Feinstein -- the person in charge of oversight -- is claiming that she's never heard of an instance of intentional abuse. Either she's really, really, really bad at her job and should be removed from the Intelligence Committee, or she's lying (and should be removed from the Intelligence Committee).
As I have said previously, the committee has never identified an instance in which the NSA has intentionally abused its authority to conduct surveillance for inappropriate purposes.
Second, the next time someone is accused of a crime, can they just say they didn't intend to violate the law and get away with it? Because that seems to be what the NSA and Feinstein are saying here. Good news for Ed Snowden and Bradley Manning, right? Both of them have made it abundantly clear that they didn't "intend" any harm at all. In fact, they "intended" to help America. So, based on Feinstein and the NSA's reasoning, they should be in the clear, right?
The other talking point, which we'd briefly discussed last week is this idea that because these abuses are such a small part of the NSA's overall surveillance, this isn't a problem. The NSA's DeLong tried this line of reasoning as well:
The official, John DeLong, the N.S.A. director of compliance, said that the number of mistakes by the agency was extremely low compared with its overall activities. The report showed about 100 errors by analysts in making queries of databases of already-collected communications data; by comparison, he said, the agency performs about 20 million such queries each month.Other defenders of stamping out the 4th Amendment, like commentator David Frum, bizarrely argued that as long as the NSA does more spying, that's actually better because the ratio of abuse to spying is so low. Uh, that's not how it works.
Again, going back to the Snowden and Manning examples, for the vast, vast majority of their lives, neither of them leaked a damn thing. It was really just one day in their life that they leaked something. So, according to the reasoning of the NSA and Frum, they couldn't have broken the law, since it was such a tiny, tiny part of their lives, right?
Does anyone actually think these arguments make sense? Systematic abuses of the system are not okay just because they're not "intentional," and they're not okay just because they're a small percentage of all the spying the NSA does. This is still about the NSA breaking the law, and then failing to have any real oversight concerning its activities (not to mention lying about these abuses repeatedly).
Filed Under: dianne feinstein, intention, john delong, keith alexander, nsa, nsa surveillance


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Happy Monday!
We had a fun weekend celebrating my hubby's best friend's birthday! We have been planning this for a couple of months now, so I was really looking forward to it. Plus I haven't been there in 4 years! Amazing how time flies.
We ate good, went to a lot of fun places, and had a lot of good laughs.
Here's the weekend in photos:
My hubby & I both worked till 5 and then hit the road. Baltimore is a lot closer to us than Philly or New Jersey, so I don't know why we don't go there more often!
We got there around 8:00 and went to Abbey Burger. We've been there a couple times before and it's so good. You basically get a sheet of paper and build your own burger. It was a lot of fun.
I attempted a turtle on my nail for the aquarium - complete fail. I also used a Five Below nail polish that I have to review.
We stayed at the Marriott in Inner Harbor. I would highly recommend, except that you are right by the stadium and all three days there was Orioles games so traffic was ridiculous.
Build-A-Burger. :)
Seriously amazing, and great atmosphere.
Later that night we picked up drinks for the room and I found this card! How adorable. I didn't buy it, wish someone would buy it for me! :)
If you ever watched Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives you would have saw that this restaurant was featured. It is known for it's Sweet Baby Jesus and Captain Crunch French Toast. I can't get passed the Captain Crunch French Toast to ever try the Sweet Baby Jesus - maybe one day.
Then we were off to the Aquarium!!
I just wore a romper from Kohls and my Wal-Mart jean jacket. It was extremely hot so I figured I'd keep it simple.
Some pictures from the Aquarium.
We were at the aquarium for about 3+ hours. It is so beautiful!The next time we visit we're going to go to the DC Zoo. He says it is HUGE.
We had an early brunch at the Boat House Cafe. It was right next to the bay and was a beautiful site. He is so lucky to live there! I would love to go sight seeing every day.
For brunch I had the Red, White & Blue. It was a red velvet waffle, with blueberries and strawberry and white syrup. Yummy!
On the way home we stopped at Red Rabbit - a real car hop!
I took a lot of pictures with my camera so I might share those over the weekend. :)
Have a great night!


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Romulo Yanes
'50s I LOVE LUCY
When Ricky and Fred switch roles with Lucy and Ethel ("Job Switching" first aired on September 15, 1952), Ricky decides he wants to make his native Cuban arroz con pollo for dinner. You know there's going to be trouble when Ricky asks Fred if a pound of rice per person sounds right — and sure enough, before long, mountains of rice are bubbling out of a pot, and chicken is exploding from a pressure cooker. Here's a tamer approach.
Active time: 1 1/4 hr Start to finish: 2 1/2 hr
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- Makes 4 servings
- Active Time
- 1 1/4 hr
- Total Time
- 2 1/2 hr
- For chicken
- 3 large garlic cloves, coarsely chopped
- 2 tablespoons fresh orange juice
- 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 3/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 (3 1/2- to 4-lb) chicken, cut into 8 serving pieces
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- For rice
- 1 lb onions, chopped (2 1/2 cups)
- 2 green bell peppers, chopped
- 3 large garlic cloves, minced
- 1/4 teaspoon crumbled saffron threads
- 1/4 cup dry white wine
- 2 teaspoons ground cumin
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 Turkish or 1/2 California bay leaf
- 1 (14- to 15-oz) can diced tomatoes, including juice
- 1 1/2 cups low-sodium chicken broth (12 fl oz)
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 2 cups long-grain white rice (3/4 lb)
- 1 cup frozen baby peas (not thawed; 5 oz)
- 1/2 cup small or medium pimiento-stuffed green olives (2 oz), rinsed
- 1/4 cup drained chopped bottled pimientos (2 oz), rinsed
- Special Equipment
- a wide 6- to 7-qt heavy pot (about 12 inches in diameter and 4 inches deep)
- Prepare chicken:
- Purée garlic, orange juice, lime juice, salt, and pepper in a blender until smooth. Put chicken pieces in a large bowl and pour purée over them, turning to coat. Marinate chicken, covered and chilled, turning occasionally, 1 hour.
- Transfer chicken, letting excess marinade drip back into bowl, to paper towels, then pat dry. Reserve marinade.
- Heat oil and butter in 6- to 7-quart pot over moderately high heat until foam subsides, then brown chicken in 2 or 3 batches, without crowding, turning occasionally, about 6 minutes per batch. Transfer chicken as browned to a plate, reserving fat in pot.
- Prepare rice and bake arroz con pollo:
- Put oven rack in middle position and preheat to 350°F.
- Sauté onions, bell peppers, and garlic in fat in pot over moderately high heat, stirring occasionally and scraping up brown bits from chicken, until vegetables are softened, 6 to 8 minutes.
- While vegetables cook, heat saffron in a dry small skillet over low heat, shaking skillet, until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add wine and bring to a simmer, then remove from heat.
- Add cumin and salt to vegetables and cook over moderately high heat, stirring, 2 minutes. Stir in saffron mixture, bay leaf, tomatoes (including juice), broth, water, and reserved marinade and bring to a boil.
- Add all chicken except breast pieces, skin sides up, and gently simmer, covered, over low heat 10 minutes. Stir in rice, then add breast pieces, skin sides up, and arrange chicken in 1 layer. Return to a simmer.
- Cover pot tightly, then transfer to oven and bake until rice is tender and most of liquid is absorbed, about 20 minutes.
- Scatter peas, olives, and pimientos over rice and chicken (do not stir) and let stand, pot covered with a kitchen towel, until peas are heated through and any remaining liquid is absorbed by rice, about 5 minutes. Discard bay leaf.


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GH3 gets DxOmarked! Is on par with the E-M5.
The Panasonic GH3 sensor finally got "DxOmarked"! You can read the full test at dxomark.com. As you can see from the image on top the GH3 is basically on par with the other 16 Megapixel Olympus cameras. No surprise here. The real killer feature of the GH3 is his video quality which DxOmark doesn't measure. DxOmark writes: "The Panasonic Lumix DMC GH3 is a very good camera, among the best tested by DxO Mark in this format. It is small and light and will make an excellent camera to travel with and fulfils all of the requirements that a serious enthusiast is likely to have. However, it is pricey for a hybrid and it has competition from several directions."
Meantime the GH3 is still sold out in US and will ship from February 28th only according to BHphoto (Click here). By the way, there is a $30 price drop on the Panasonic GH3 battery grip at Shop Panasonic.