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Capricorn monthly horoscope with decans for a more accurate forecast. If you are on a cusp, use the free horoscope to find your decan.
Capricorn Decan 1 born Dec 22 to 31.
Capricorn Decan 2 born Jan 1 to 10.
Capricorn Decan 3 born Jan 11 to 19.
Decan 1 Capricorn May 2014 Horoscope
As mentioned in last months forecast, the April 29 solar eclipse marks a positive turn around in your life, following some recent struggles. The harmonious trine aspect from a solar eclipse will give a boost to your self confidence, and will make it easier to forge ahead in the following few months. However, for the month of May 2014, you may start to think I have been off the mark with this prediction. This is because for the majority of May, testing transits from Venus then Mars will take the shine of the nice solar eclipse.
With Venus ruling love and Mars ruling passion, it will be your intimate relationships which mostly feel the heat. Although later on, this combative environment could prove difficult in your career. From May 2 to 12, Venus square your decan will make it harder for you to get motivated. Any slackness from your end could result in tension between you and your partner, or between close friends. If so, this will become more of a problem from May 7, with Mars square your decan. This frustrating and angry influence will last for the rest of the month.
The most critical time to take care in close relationships is from May 10 to 12. Venus opposite Mars will create a confrontational environment, and this battle of the sexes could result in a high degree of sexual tension. Because these are your transits, it will be up to you to make the compromises necessary to keep the peace. Loosing your temper now would be very destructive and hard to make up for. Complicating matters at this time is Mars retrograde making it more difficult for you to release any anger or resentment safely. Sport and exercise would be a good way to deal with this, and things will start to settle down more after Mars turns direct on May the 19th. Then from May 28 to June 7, Venus trine your decan will certainly calm things down. With that aggressive Mars transit ending as this peaceful transit begins, you should notice a big improvement in your relationships.
Decan 2 Capricorn May 2014 Horoscope
One more week of anger-management issues with Mars square your decan until May the 8th. If anger has been building up, then take advantage of Mercury trine your decan from April 29 to May 3. It is likely that some serious discussions will take place in the first few days of this month, and you will be able to get things off your chest to clear the air. You should also notice a much more cooperative feel in all of your relationships, with the Sun trine your decan from April 30 to May 11. This harmonious influence is greatly enhanced by the April 29 solar eclipse, which also means that you can look forward to an easier run in the months ahead, especially in working toward your career goals.
Increasing your desire to get ahead in life has been Jupiter opposite your decan since November last year. This is a generally lucky transit, indicating many opportunities for personal and material growth. The one drawback with this one, is a tendency to overestimate your abilities and resources, resulting in missed opportunities if you spread yourself too thin. This enthusiastic influence lasts for the rest of May, and it overlaps with the beginning of the more patience and grounding Saturn sextile your decan.
You should apply yourself this month to the achievement of longer term goals you have been working on since late last year. Take full advantage of any opportunities from May 4 to 8 with the Sun sextile Jupiter. From May 8 to 12, take a more defensive approach and hold onto recent gains with the Sun opposite Saturn. A culmination of your efforts should occur in the final two weeks of this month, with Jupiter trine Saturn from May 16 to 31. This is an aspect of business success, and you have a great opportunity to make substantial and lasting gains in your career, or with wealth creation. This could involve a promotion, a new job, or investing in your home or the stock market. The peak of this foundation-building influence comes around the 24th of May 2014. Keep any eye on the recent posts because I plan to write in more detail about Jupiter trine Saturn.
Decan 3 Capricorn May 2014 Horoscope
There is a very sociable influence on your decan this month. You should already be in a loving mood with Venus sextile your decan from April 24 to May 3. This harmonious influence will switch from you love life to all of your relationships in general, with Mercury trine your decan from May 2 to 8. Clear thinking and good judgement skills make this an ideal week for attending to business and clearing your in-tray. Making plans for the immediate future is favored, and you can feel confident about signing contracts because of honest discussions and accurate insight on your part.
From May 10 to 21, the Sun trine your decan brings this harmonious feel to all areas of your life. It will be easier to achieve your goals now because of less resistance and competition from others. In fact you can expect good support an even offers of assistance, especially from men and superiors. The Full Moon on 14 May 2014 focuses the good feelings onto your home life and your more intimate relationships. This emotionally nourishing and supportive moon phase will see you through til the end of the month.
With this friendly moon phase creating peaceful conditions, the sometimes uncomfortable influence of Venus square your decan from May 20 to 29 will hardly be noticed. More noticeable should be the start of a growth spurt, with Jupiter opposite your decan from May 27 to July 19. Although oppositions do create some problems, this Jupiter transit is one of the more favorable ones. There should be opportunities coming up for personal and material growth, and you can make big advances so long as you don't get greedy or spread yourself too thin.


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- Regardless of the drop in revenue, the company managed to outperform against the industry average of 4.3%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly dropped by 3.6%. Weakness in the company's revenue seems to have hurt the bottom line, decreasing earnings per share.
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I wish to co-sign this statement. I also hope that his penis catches the pig AIDS.
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All I require is that he speak some English. Monosyllabic is fine.
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The Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge is an hour's drive for the 12 million people who live in the region between Chicago, Milwaukee, and Madison, Wisconsin.
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Built and maintained largely by volunteers, the North Country National Scenic Trail traverses seven states from New York to North Dakota.
Totally surrounded by the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, this 80-acre Bayfield County property was one of the few remaining privately held lands within the national forest.
In 2007, TPL protected the Venison Creek property, one of the largest contiguous blocks of privately-owned land within the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest.
Canthook and Steelhead Lakes represent a rare opportunity in northern Wisconsin to protect intact and undeveloped wild glacial lakes.
In yet another partnership with the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, TPL helped conserve the last remaining unprotected tract on Mirror Lake, located just 20 miles west of Chequamegon Bay in Lake Superior.
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Definition of crab apple in English:
crab appleLine breaks: crab apple
noun(also crab)
1A small sour apple.
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- If you buy a crab apple today, it won't go sour on you.
- If they are very lucky there may be some fruit, wild plums or a crab apple.
- He pulled out his slingshot and loaded it with a crab apple, and took aim at Parsons' broad back.
2 (also crab tree or crab-apple tree) The small tree that bears the crab apple.
- Genus Malus, family Rosaceae: several species and hybrids, in particular the wild Eurasian crab apple (M. sylvestris)
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- The Midland Section commemorated the 10th anniversary by planting a snowdrift crab-apple tree.
- She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting.
- Tree peonies, magnolias, pagoda dogwood and flowering crab trees accompany roses.
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Adult Summer Reading Grand Finale Party with John BarricelliWritten by Erin S on 05/28/2012
Tuesday, August 28 at 7 p.m.
John Barricelli, author of The Seasonal Baker: Easy Recipes from My Home Kitchen to Make Year-Round, will be our featured speaker.
Both novice and experienced home bakers will love John Barricelli's follow-up to the acclaimed SoNo Baking Company Cookbook; this new, seasonal cookbook, with easier recipes, puts mouthwatering, everyday home baking within reach for even the most harried among us.
In this collection of 135 sweet and savory recipes that John Barricelli makes at home, his family stories and seasonally driven use of produce make it easy to create fresh food for everyday baking. He also includes a definitive glossary on how to buy, store, and prepare fruits and vegetables. These recipes are as eye-catching as they are delicious, and are accessible enough to teach new bakers the ropes of creating meals for the whole family.
About the Author
John Barricelli is the owner and chef of the SoNo Baking Company in South Norwalk, CT, which opened in 2005. For many years, he worked at Martha Stewart's magazines and television and radio shows. He was also the host of the PBS show Everyday Baking. A third-generation baker with thirty years of experience, he worked at River Café, Le Bernardin, and Four Seasons before opening his own bakeries. He is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and author of the SoNo Baking Company Cookbook.
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Throttled by a sex scandal more than a month ago, members of the University of Louisiana-Lafayette football team were publicly baptized recently to pledge their love for Christ. read more
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Jamie Arniel Leads Providence to 3-2 Win vs. Connecticut
Providence, RI - The Providence Bruins defeated the Connecticut Whale 3-2 on Friday evening at the Dunkin' Donuts Center in front of 8,017 fans. The P-Bruins received two goals from Jamie Arniel and another from the reigning AHL Player of the Month, Trent Whitfield.
Despite some scoring opportunities late in the first frame, neither team could find the back of the net and went into the first intermission scoreless.
Providence came out of the locker room flying, testing Whale goalie Dov Grumet-Morris early and often. The P-Bruins nearly took the lead in the first two minutes of the period, but Jordan LaVallee-Smotherman's goal was waived off for incidental interference. However, Providence lit the lamp just a minute later on the power play. David Warsofsky found a breaking Maxime Sauvé, who then fed Arniel in the slot, beating Grumet-Morris five-hole at 2:22 of the second. The point was the first of Warsofsky's professional career.. Play between the Atlantic Division rivals started to get chippy after Arniel's goal, with fans seeing Lane MacDermid drop the mitts with Stu Bickel in his 20th fighting major of the season. Despite Connecticut's physical play, Providence answered on the scoreboard at 18:51. Grumet-Morris gave up a rebound from Kirk MacDonald's bullet, and Whitfield drilled it home to take a 2-0 lead going into the second intermission. LaVallee-Smotherman also assisted on the play.
The Whale opened up the scoring in the third frame at 4:21 when Brodie Dupont tallied his 15th goal of the season to bring Connecticut within one. Providence College alum Kyle MacKinnon was sent to the sin-bin 30 seconds later, but solid pressure from the P-Bruins' penalty kill led to a Whale turnover at the blue-line and an odd-man rush from both Stefan Chaput and Arniel. Arniel faked the initial shot and beat Grumet-Morris top-shelf at 6:46 of the third. The two-goal lead was short-lived when Kris Newbury brought the Whale within one at the nine-minute mark. Despite pulling Grumet-Morris in the last minute of the game, the last ditch effort from the Whale wasn't enough as the P-Bruins held on for the 3-2 win.
Michael Hutchinson earned the win, blocking 29 shots, while Grumet-Morris blocked 26 of 29 attempts, suffering the loss.
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I bought this to replace the old, worn plastic shelf I previously had. I really loved the style of this shelf and knew it would look great in our small bathroom! I was also excited knowing we would have a little more storage space to take advantage of. Upon assembling this product, I realized that the quality of the wood was very poor. The wood split in a few places while inserting screws. Quit a few of the screws would not tighten all of the way due to poor quality. I really love this product and it can still be used if you used some glue while inserting screws. I suggest using a stronger wood that won't split as easily. I know it would cause the price to soar, but the quality is what counts the most. If people can't rely on your product, they aren't going to keep buying it.
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New details into the investigation into Browns owner Jimmy Haslam's family business Pilot Flying J. The FBI is looking into possible rebate fraud at the truck stop business.
New information involving Browns owner Jimmy Haslam and the rebate scandal at his family business Pilot Flying J.
Tuesday morning, Haslam entered into an agreement to settle all the civil lawsuits against Pilot Flying J. Just before 1 p.m., the judge signed preliminary approval of the settlement. [Read the complete settlement HERE]
Haslam and Pilot will pay 100 % of refunds owed to trucking companies plus 6 % interest in settlement. There are 4,000 members in the Pilot class action lawsuit besides the initial 8 trucking companies. It's expected only a small amount of the 4,000 are owed money.
Haslam released the following statement on Tuesday
"Today in the United States District Court, Western Division of the Eastern District of Arkansas, our attorneys, working together with attorneys for eight of the companies that have filed class action lawsuits against Pilot Flying J, agreed to a plan to pay all customers who join the class 100% of the money they are owed, plus 6% interest, as soon as possible and without the need for unnecessary time in court, plaintiff legal fees or out of pocket costs. I commend all of these individuals for their hard work and dedication to ensuring our customers are paid back quickly and fairly for any potential discrepancies found in their accounts.
"Customers who already received checks with interest based on our internal field audit team's ongoing review will receive supplemental checks for any additional interest not included in the original calculation. In addition, all of our customers, as defined by the court agreement, may join the class and have a free independent accountant, approved by the court, validate Pilot Flying J's internal audit process of the customer's account.
"In addition, Pilot Flying J will pay all court, administrative, accounting, mailing, processing and legal costs incurred as part of the procedure approved by the court today, ensuring our customers will get every dollar they are owed, with interest, without protracted legal battles, time delays or costly legal expenses.
"Under the court agreement, Pilot Flying J will distribute a statement to all of its customers and to the media as part of notice provision to ensure all of our customers have the opportunity to resolve any concerns they may have in this fashion. We also will make available to attorneys for the class a mailing of all of our customers.
"Customers who are satisfied with their accounts may continue with business as usual, and we assure them our utmost attention, 24-7, 365 days a year, serving them and their drivers. Customers who are concerned about their accounts may join the class by simply doing nothing. Their accounts will be audited free to the customer. Finally, customers have the right to opt out and pursue their own legal objectives at their own expense, which can be significant.
"This is an unfortunate time for our customers and our company, but we remain committed to making things 100% right with our customers, to put systems in place to help ensure this does not happen again, and to re-earn our customers trust."
More than dozen companies filed suit against Pilot Flying J after the FBI raided Pilot's headquarters in April.
So far, five Pilot employees have pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection to a rebate fraud scheme at the national truck stop company.
On Monday, Reporter Scott Taylor discovered that Haslam and Pilot had just mailed out refund checks to every customer their internal audit identified.
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WICOMICO CO., Md. - It's an experience John Robinson says he unfortunately shares with many in Wicomico County.
A burglar went inside his home and stole "some cash and some jewelry," according to Robinson. But at his store, he says burglars will try to sell back those stolen items for quick cash.
To stop this, Robinson keeps two handy records: a copy of customer's driver's license and a "Do Not Buy" list, compiled from residents with prior theft arrests that he shares with Crazy Louie's Pawn Shop.
"We will not buy from [any person on the list]," said Robinson. "We just send them out the door."
But that's not enough to stop the crime from happening. In 2011, there were almost 900 burglaries in Wicomico County. While the crime was on a downward trend for several years, Sgt. David Owens of Wicomico Bureau of Investigation says, as of Sept. 19th, there was already as maybe burglaries as all of last year.
"The people that are casing neighborhoods, there will be people that will leave their house to run to the dump or pick up lunch and bring it back, gone an hour and a half, been a victim," said Owens.
Owens says that more than 90 percent are stealing to satisfy their drug habit. State's attorney Matt Maciarello says they see the same trend when trying to lock up offenders.
"[Criminals will buy] a 20 dollar pack of heroin from the dealer and where do they get that $20? Well, they go break into a car and they steal it or they steal an iPad," Maciarello said.
Finding the stolen iPad and jewelry may be easier than giving it back, says Maciarello. Some ways he and Owens say will help investigators re-locate lost items include writing down serial numbers for all electronic devices and taking pictures of jewelry.
But Owens says this only protects you after the crime. More times than not, burglary suspects will scope out a spot, then later on, go to front doors and knock to see if they get an answer, says Owens.
"A car that's normal to your area or your neighborhood that is driving in a manner that makes them look deliberate: they're slow and they're studying, they are really looking at the properties," Owens said.
"If you happen to be home during the day and there are activities taking place, then that's a call that needs to be made [to police]."
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Highlandtown Elementary/Middle School #215, a Baltimore City certified green school, participated in the first annual Green Apple Day of Service on Saturday. The goal of the project was to transform the school's existing playground into a beautiful, clean playground and garden for the benefit of the students and neighborhood.
Over 60 volunteers including teachers, students, local businesses, and members of the community teamed up to execute the difficult task of overhauling the playground. Nancy Fagan, Highlandtown's principal, and faculty members Joan Goodson and Alison Moore collaborated with Louisa Rettew, a project engineer from the Baltimore County Department of Public Works, to execute the event.
Fagan "really liked the part of the community coming in. This will add value to the community."
Students Michael Candelario, 13, and Jasmin Briones, 13, arrived at 8 a.m. Saturday to start working.
"I want our school to be better and the playground to be cleaner for the other children" said Candelario.
The sense of community, philanthropy, and teamwork at the event was palpable. At the close of the day, the playground looked as if it was professionally made over. Faculty and neighbors hope the improvement will reduce vandalism.
"This is one of the nicest green school projects I have seen," said Goodson.
Rettew added that the project will help the neighborhood in "developing a sense of ownership."
Moore said her jaw dropped when she saw how quickly the makeover was being accomplished.
"I am so happy that there is this much support and energy," she said.
Moore came to the school in 1998 when it was one of the most underperforming schools, she said. In the past 13 years she has witnessed major improvements.
Miguel Rivera, a neighbor of the school, is the founder and president of M.A.R. Stone Contractor Inc. In addition to offering a professional touch on Saturday, Rivera and his wife, Estella Rivera, invited the school to use their vegetable garden as a resource to teach the students about gardening. Faculty members claim Rivera has been improving the neighborhood for years.
Dishell Threet White and her son, Ra'Quan Davis, 10, volunteered to benefit the neighborhood. They live two blocks away and Ra'Quan does not attend the school.
"We were walking by and wanted to help," said Threet White.
Local businesses helped facilitate the project. Hord Coplan Macht Inc. provided the design, landscape and architecture for the playground. Julie Higgins said that her firm got involved with the project through its membership with the U.S. Green Building Council. David Kelly, director of Jani-King of Baltimore, also a USGBC member, was hard at work with the other volunteers.
Baltimore Community ToolBank donated the tools; Belair Road Supply donated the pavers; mulch, compost and labor was donated by Live Green Landscape Associates; labor and haulage was donated by Lorenz, Inc.; and The StoneStore helped supply the stone, gravel and sand. There were a number of smaller donations from other companies.
Highlandtown achieved certification as a Maryland Green School in June. Fagan, Goodson and Moore were faculty members who worked at achieving the certification. Green Apple Day of Service is sponsored by the USGBC's Center for Green Schools.
Leslie Spacek
Special to the Baltimore Guide
Leslie Spacek is currently working towards a Masters Degree in Journalism at the University of Maryland.


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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Wallace Kowrach
Thursday, April 19, 2012
The Artisan Group is proud to announce this week's Artist Spotlight feature is Wallace Kowrach of The Exceptional Artisan!
We caught up with Wallace and asked him a few questions about incredible hand-crafted pen line and his experiences so far working with TAG. Here's what he said:
- Tell us a little bit about your shoppe. My shop only features a handful of my work. There's simply so much that I don't have the time to photograph all of it and put it online -- yet. It encompasses three lines: ballpoint, rollerball and fountain pens. An entirely new line -- not pen-related -- should be debuting within a month or two.
I have made pens out of all sorts of materials: wood, acrylics, marble and even computer circuit boards. Recently, I made a pen out of wood that has been radiocarbon-dated to be between 35,000 to 50,000 years-old. It comes with a certificate of authenticity I received from the supplier attesting to its age. Actually, it may even be older than that but radiocarbon-dating is only accurate up to 50,000 years. Just think about it. The dinosaurs had just packed up and left when these trees got preserved in a bog in New Zealand after the last Ice Age.
What many people don't realize is that I don't really design all my pens. My customers do. They know what they like and it's my job as an artisan to take their design/idea and make it a reality.
Sometimes, it's a real challenge to find out what kind of a pen they want because most people think they have no artistic talent and want to leave the design up to me. At that point I begin using a bit of reverse-psychology.
I'll suggest some really outlandish color or material which usually gets an "Oh, God! No! I don't like that at all. Can't you do something in "xx" color?" That usually gets a dialogue going real quick and before you know it I have all the information I need to make the pen of their dreams.
They look at me sort of dumbfounded when I congratulate them on designing their own pen until it sinks in about what they've just accomplished -- their own pen design. It just goes to prove that there's an artisan in each one of us just waiting to be discovered.
Besides getting paid -- which always helps -- is seeing the expression on their faces when I deliver the finished pen to them. It's worth more than whatever they're paying me for my work because I've just brought a smile to their faces. Making someone happy -- it doesn't get any better than that.
- What is your favorite pen in your shoppe and why? Wow! That's a tough one. If I had to narrow it down I'd say it's the fountain pens -- especially my Paragon model. I know. I'm dating myself but the first pen I learned to write with was a fountain pen and I fell in love with it. Never did forgive the teacher when we "graduated" to ballpoints.
For me, fountain pens have an air of dignity and quality about them. I love the way the ink just flows effortlessly onto the paper and even the sound the nib makes as it traces its route across the page. It hearkens back to an era where penmanship mattered and great care was taken with each written message.
- When you're not handcrafting these gorgeous pens, what are your hobbies? Hobbies? Free time? H-m-m-m-m, what a concept! Can't say I remember the last time I had any.
Well, if push came to shove, I'd say I've been an avid science-fiction fan from early childhood--before it was fashionable to admit to such a thing. I fell in love with Star Trek and have even been on several Star Trek cruises where I met most of the cast of all the different series.
The most memorable moment was a conversation I had with Tim Russ who starred in Star Trek Voyager. Majel Barrett Roddenberry overheard our conversation and joined in when she heard I worked for AAA, the auto club. She thought it was a good idea for her to join AAA since she drove an older car. I almost dropped on the floor laughing when Tim said to her, "Majel, you drive a Bentley. They're not supposed to break down."
- What do you like best about The Artisan Group? Right from the "get-go" I'd have to say it's the camaraderie. Everyone supports and encourages each other to a degree that I've never encountered in other groups.
I've never felt self-conscious about asking the group a question. In fact, it amazes me when I post a question and get a response in less than a minute.
That brings up something about The Artisan Group that's been puzzling me quite a bit. Doesn't anyone in the group sleep anymore? Everyone's always online helping each other. :-)
Seriously though, TAG has done wonders for me by providing access to areas I never dreamt were possible. It's a real conversation-stopper whenever I mention to a potential client or distributor that my pens were one of the gifts given to celebrities at the (GBK) 2012 Oscars. They immediately listen to what I say a lot more closely. This has opened up doors for me that otherwise would have remained shut.
To paraphrase a credit-card commercial, "That's absolutely priceless!"
7 comments:
- Sock Monkey Emporium said...
Fabulous! I'm always amazed by the stunning quality of Wallace's work :) xx
April 19, 2012 at 6:04 AM
- Dee Crowe said...
Wallace is so talented...loved reading about how he works with customers!
April 19, 2012 at 6:15 AM
- Autumn Bradley said...
Love Wallace's work and his interview!
April 19, 2012 at 8:17 AM
- Catcophony said...
Congratulations, Wallace! I agree - it's so hard to pick a favorite of your pens but the Paragon in malachite-wow!
April 19, 2012 at 10:16 AM
- EdenSong Essentials said...
Congrats, Wallace! I am in awe at your incredible artistry!
April 19, 2012 at 12:27 PM
- Anhoki's Place said...
Awesome. Congrats. :)
April 20, 2012 at 6:02 AM
- Wee Bindery said...
Your work is stunning! Love your shop! Nice interview!
April 26, 2012 at 9:33 PM
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Although he may not be a household name, director James Wan is suddenly among the hottest filmmakers in town.
His $20-million thriller "The Conjuring," released in July, grossed $260 million worldwide, and on Friday his "Insidious: Chapter 2" hits theaters and looks as if it will open a strong No. 1 at the box office. On top of all that, he started production this week on "Fast & Furious 7," taking over the blockbuster franchise from director Justin Lin.
By almost any measure, that's success. But given where Wan's career was just a few years ago, his current status represents a particularly remarkable change of fortune after back-to-back flops.
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Coming off his hit 2004 directorial debut "Saw," a horror film that had a budget of just $1.2 million, the Australian filmmaker was hired to make two genre films for major studios in 2007: Universal Pictures' "Dead Silence" and 20th Century Fox's "Death Sentence," both of which cost more than $20 million to produce.
The two films combined took in less than "Saw" did all by itself, and both studio efforts were savaged by reviewers. Where other directors might have retreated to some deserted island, Wan instead returned to his independent film roots, giving up money for creative freedom. He restarted his career with "Insidious," specifically designed to be made free from studio shackles.
"I was very mindful of what I could do on a small budget," said the 36-year-old Wan, who has relocated from Los Angeles to Atlanta, where much of "Fast & Furious 7" will be filmed. "And that was to have full creative control and make the movie I wanted to make."
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Shot for just $980,000, "Insidious" was initially rejected by the Toronto International Film Festival in 2010. Bowing to pressure from producer Jason Blum, festival programmers gave the haunted house tale one of the last (and worst) slots in the festival's Midnight Madness section, and the few distributors who were still in Canada greeted the thriller with a collective yawn.
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Wan said he was more focused on putting distance between himself and the "Saw" franchise than making people forget about "Dead Silence" and "Death Sentence." Wan left the "Saw" series following the first film and didn't direct any of the subsequent movies, which have been criticized as gratuitously grisly. "Insidious" and "Insidious: Chapter 2" are both rated PG-13.
"I like to say I just directed the pilot," Wan said of the "Saw" movies, which, with the seventh installment, 2010's "Saw 3D," finally ran out of gas. "For better or worse, you get what comes with it. If it weren't for 'Saw,' I wouldn't have a career."
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Strainee: Would You Buy This Product?
We shudder a little every time we have to clean food gunk out of the kitchen sink strainer or pick hair from the one in the shower, and we frequently spray or scrub our strainers with vinegar to disinfect them. But as much as we might be grossed out by cleaning strainers, we'd never consider using disposable ones. How eco-unfriendly, right? Strainee proposes to solve this problem…
According to manufacturer Dansa, metal bathtub, shower, and sink strainers are difficult to clean and non-hygienic. Thus, the company developed a line of disposable strainers called Strainee. These strainers can last up to two months or be disposed of after a single use. The retail price about $1.13-1.50 for a package of six to eight strainers.
Here's where the "earth friendly" part comes in: Strainee is made from 100% corn starch, which is biodegradable in five to six months, according to the company, or even faster "if birds, squirrels, or rabbits eat Strainee after disposal." We haven't had enough time to observe this first hand, but we imagine it would degrade fairly easily in a compost bin or backyard as it does not contain any plastic fillers like many other corn starch products.
Still, we can't help feeling that this is an unnecessary product. We'd rather deal with the minor disgust of cleaning our metal strainers than purchase an "eco-friendly" product that still take resources to grow, manufacture, package, and ship. But what do you think? Is Strainee just another example of greenwashing, or is it the answer to your housekeeping prayers?
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I always thought it was a mark of an adult when you go in and take the kitchen and bathroom gunk out and pitch it with your bare hands! I think this product is kind of silly, and if you really have a problem with it, just wear a glove to do it, since most people already own those for cleaning/super hot water washing?
Corn plastics tend to break down faster when exposed to hot liquids, which recently resulted in a party-fail at my house. However, with that in mind I'm skeptical about how long these would really hold up.
I'm also skeptical about any hygiene claims they're making - it's not something that's regulated and what exactly makes them cleaner?
Also, the flip side of that coin is that they require a pretty hot pile to break down, which not everyone has access to. They're not appropriate for vermiculture.
There's the question of packaging, water usage in manufacturing etc. No single use item is green. Period.
My husband empties the sink trap in our house though, because it makes me heave. I think an industrial rubber glove is the solution for me.
I think a lot of people use harmful products like Draino when their drains plug up instead of just digging it out like I do (at least once a month... damn you thick hair.) So, why not use a product that will A. stop the hair from going down the drain and removing a gross task from your chore list and/or B. prevent people from resorting to chemicals.
If they are manufacturing in the U.S. and using domestic materials, then I think this is good. They provide jobs and buy materials from other U.S. companies.
Plus, the people who may buy these are most likely using plastic, non-green, strainers.
I use a stainless steel mesh strainer for the shower drain, as I just don't want lots of long hair going down the drain. I take the hair out after every shower (it's clean hair, after all), and give the strainer a scrub when I clean the shower. Easy peasy. I've used the same strainer for something like 4 years now, and it still looks new. Only cost a couple bucks at the time. I can't even imagine when I might have to replace it... a few decades?
Using it means I don't have to mess with plumbing issues (yay!), so I wouldn't go without at this point. But disposable? Ha! There's no way I could get talked into that.
@birdablaze I would rather people keep using their plastic non-green strainers and clean them out by hand than chuck the plastic ones into the trash to replace them with these.
While it's not exciting most often the "greenest" product is the one you already own. Buying stuff (new stuff especially) is pretty un-green, though marketers would like you to believe otherwise.
So much "green" product out there is a result of manufactured demand, which is extremely un-green.
I have a friend who goes through at least one plastic strainer per month. And considering the companies who make those things are still in business, it's pretty safe to assume people don't keep them forever. So, might as well offer up a product that DOES break down when tossed because the reality of the situation is that people throw them away regardless of the product's long-term capability.
I'm not condoning using disposable products like this but since people do anyway, a green solution is a good idea.
We always has a stainless steel one for the shower and sink...unfortunately my current house has a stopper in the tub that I can't remove. I do the ol' baking soda and vinegar w/boiling water once in a while.
This is absolutely not green and they are trying to market it as thought it is. Being green doesn't just mean that can be composted. What about everything that went into the production and transportation for this unnecessary disposable product?


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The adults are difficult to distinguish from the kids in Tom Perrotta's entertaining new story collection. Age aside, what separates the poor decisions of the unhappy teen in Backrub who delivers pot with the pizza from those of the restless, married chaperone in Nine Inches eyeing a co-worker at a middle-school dance?
The longings of the disgraced Little League umpire in The Smile on Happy Chang's Face mirror the yearnings of the football player whose injury has sidelined him in Senior Seaso n: Both want to undo what was done. The senior of The Test-Taker, who gets paid to take SATs for other students, wants revenge as badly as the husband in Kiddie Pool, who gets a shock when he sneaks into his dead neighbor's garage.
As he did in such hilarious, biting novels as The Leftovers, Little Children and Election, Perrotta turns his satiric gaze on suburbia and unearths gem after gem about modern life. He revels in the ordinary, crossing generational lines with ease and chronicling the humiliating behavior, petty insecurities and surprisingly poignant regrets that plague us all.
Perrotta can be funny — "[T]hey were ambitious even when they danced," thinks a teacher about his privileged students, who are already "dogged little achievers" at 12 and 13 — but he also has a heart. He wryly points out the truth: If we only paid attention to each other, we might recognize and appreciate what we have in common.
Throughout Nine Inches — the distance young dancers are required to keep between them during slow songs — most characters share the helpless feelings of the insecure Vicki in Grade My Teacher, reeling over what an angry student has posted on a website ("OMG my math teacher Vicki Wiggins is an INSANE B*@&! One day she called me a FAT PIG for eating candy in class").
Vicki, who recalls a much different incident, feels victimized: " I have so much to offer. And no one even notices." She's right. But the same is true of the student, which Vicki realizes when she takes the time to connect.
I have so much to offer. That refrain could come from the foolish, lonely grandmother in The Chosen Girl or the foolish, unfaithful pediatrician in One Four Five. The first seeks comfort in a mysterious little girl from a peculiar religious group, the other in playing the blues even as he's living them. "It was a tough world out there, and you were a fool to reveal your weakness," he knows. And yet, in a rare act of courage, he takes a chance anyway. See? Perrotta's not merely taking shots at suburban malaise. He's showing us the way out.
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Astrobiologists study everything about life in the universe, including how it originated, how it might be distributed in the universe, and what might be its fate. Recognizing and understanding how and where life exists on Earth, especially in harsh conditions, may help in identifying life in other parts of the universe. "We're particularly interested in testing methods of detecting evidence of life in extreme environments without using destructive methods," says JPL astrobiologist Dr. Pan Conrad.
She focuses on looking for signs of life in rocks. "In harsh environments, life may live in rocks rather than outside rocks," she explains. "Also, rocks are where we look for evidence of past life. I'm not as much interested in the organisms themselves," Conrad continues, "as in the measurable chemical evidence the organisms leave behind in the environment to announce that they were once or are still present."
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The Eagles will join 11 other teams in tourney and will play one game in Pullman and three in Santa Clara.
CBE Hall of Fame Classic Web Site<http://www.cbehalloffameclassic.com/>
Eastern Washington University, led by second-year head coach Jim Hayford, is among the 12 NCAA Division I men's basketball teams participating in the 2012 CBE Hall of Fame Classic, the National Association of Basketball Coaches announced Thursday (July 26).
As part of the tournament, Eastern will play at Washington State in Pullman, Wash., on Nov. 10. The Eagles will also play three games in Santa Clara, Calif. – Nov. 20 versus Utah Valley; Nov. 21 against South Carolina-Upstate; and Nov. 23 versus Santa Clara.
The remainder of Eastern's non-conference schedule is still be finalized and will be announced at a later date.
Kansas, Saint Louis, Texas A&M and WSU will serve as the four host round participants for this year's CBE Hall of Fame Classic, with the opening round games beginning on Nov. 9. Each team will play two games on campus before advancing to the Championship Rounds on Nov. 19-20 at Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo.
Joining Kansas, Saint Louis, Texas A&M and Washington State in the 2012 CBE Hall of Fame Classic are Eastern, Louisiana Tech, Santa Clara, Southeast Missouri State, Tennessee-Chattanooga, Troy, USC-Upstate and Utah Valley. Santa Clara and Tennessee-Chattanooga will serve as sub-hosts for games played Nov. 18-23.
ESPN Networks will broadcast the four championship round games. The semifinal doubleheader featuring Texas A&M and Saint Louis will be aired on ESPNU at 4:30 p.m. Pacific time, followed by Washington State and Kansas on ESPN2. The next evening, the consolation game will be shown on ESPN3 at 4 p.m. Pacific, followed by the championship game on ESPNU.


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|Cirrhosis of the Liver
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- Excessive consumption of alcohol
- Hepatitis C , B , and D
- Autoimmune hepatitis
- Inherited diseases, such as glycogen storage disease , hemochromatosis , or cystic fibrosis
- Galactosemia
- Fructose intolerance
- Tyrosinemia
- Wilson's disease
- Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency
Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), associated with:
- Diabetes
- Obesity
- Heart disease
- High blood triglycerides
- Steroid use
Bile duct blockages, associated with:
- Cirrhosis
- Congenital defects
- Scarred ducts—sometimes related to inflammatory bowel disorders
- Gallbladder surgery
- Pancreatitis
Drugs and toxins:
- Arsenic
- Isoniazid
- Methotrexate
- Excess vitamin A
- Schistosomiasis
- Brucellosis
- Echinococcosis
- Advanced or congenital syphilis
- Heart failure , causing blood to repeatedly back up into the liver
Risk Factors
- Alcohol abuse
- Hepatitis infection
- Liver cancer
- Use of drugs toxic to the liver
- Being overweight or gaining weight
- Diabetes that is poorly controlled
- Ingestion of too much iron
- Fatigue
- Weakness
- Poor appetite, nausea, or weight loss
- Itching
- Abdominal swelling, tenderness, and pain
- Appearance of thin, purplish-red, spidery looking blood vessels on the skin
- Menstrual problems
- Impotence
- Enlarged breasts in men
- Jaundice —yellowing of the skin and whites of the eyes
- Dark urine
- Water retention and swelling in the legs and abdomen
- Enlarged liver or spleen
- Loss of body hair
- Bleeding and bruising
- Vomiting blood
- Neurological problems, such as forgetfulness, confusion, agitation, or tremors
- Inability to process medications
- Ascites —accumulation of fluid in the abdominal cavity
- Arrhythmias —abnormal heart rhythms
- Sleep disturbances
- Digestive disorders, such as abdominal infections, ulcers , or gallstones
- Liver cancer
- Insulin resistance
- Hypoglycemia
- Coma
- Blood tests
- CT scan , ultrasound , or liver/spleen scan—to identify changes in the liver
- Liver biopsy
- Laparoscopy —looking at the liver via a thin tube with a lighted camera
- Inserting a catheter into the liver vein and measuring the pressure within that vein; rarely necessary
- Removing fluid from the abdomen and examining it
- Other tests to determine what caused the cirrhosis and what complications may occur
- Control the cause
- Treat underlying medical conditions
- Prevent additional damage
- Treat symptoms and complications
- Liver cancer screenings
- Treat hepatitis and complications that arise
- Reduce the absorption of waste products and toxins in the digestive system
- Reduce the risk of a blood vessel-breaking
- Fight infections
- Shed excess fluids
- Complications can no longer be controlled using medical therapy
- The liver stops functioning
- Stop drinking alcohol completely.
- Do not take any medications without your doctor's approval, including over-the-counter drugs.
- Eat a balanced diet . Choose a variety of fruits and vegetables, as well as lean proteins, like beans and poultry.
- If your liver disease is more advanced, you may need to limit protein intake, because your weakened liver will not be able to process it properly.
- You may need to limit salt in your diet, because it increases water retention.
- Take any vitamin supplements your doctor recommends.
- Put your feet and legs up to decrease swelling.
- Due to increased risk of infections, take these steps:
- Drink alcohol in moderation. Moderate alcohol intake is no more than two drinks per day for men and one drink per day for women.
- Get hepatitis vaccines.
- Practice safe sex to lower your chance of getting hepatitis B.
- If you use IV drugs, do not share needles, which can spread hepatitis B, C, or D.
- Maintain a healthy weight.
- Follow your doctor's recommendations about blood tests when taking medications that may damage the liver.
American Gastroenterological Association http://www.gastro.org
American Liver Foundation http://www.liverfoundation.org
Canadian Liver Foundation http://www.liver.ca
Health Canada http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca
American Academy of Family Physicians. Information from your family doctor. Cirrhosis and chronic liver failure: what you should know. Am Fam Physician. 2006;75(5):781.
Cirrhosis. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases website. Available at: http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/cirrhosis . Updated February 21, 2012. Accessed August 28, 2013.
Cirrhosis of the liver. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed.ebscohost.com/about/about-us . Updated July 19, 2013. Accessed August 28, 2013.
Hirschfield GM, Gershwin ME. Primary biliary cirrhosis: one disease with many faces. Isr Med Assoc J. 2011;13(1):55-59.
Molodecky NA, Kareemi H, Parab R, Barkema HW, Quan H, Myers RP, Kaplan GG. Incidence of primary sclerosing cholangitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Hepatology. 2011;53(5):1590-1599.
Understanding cirrhosis of the liver. American Gastroenterological Association website. Available at: http://www.gastro.org/patient-center/digestive-conditions/cirrhosis-of-the-liver . Accessed August 28, 2013.
2/12/2010 DynaMed's Systematic Literature Surveillance https://dynamed.ebscohost.com/about/about-us : Chang Y, Ryu S, Sung E, et al. Weight gain within the normal weight range predicts ultrasonographically detected fatty liver in healthy Korean men. Gut . 2009;58(10):1419-1425.
Revision Information
- Reviewer: Kim Carmichael, MD
- Review Date: 09/2013 -
- Update Date: 09/30/2013 -
This content is reviewed regularly and is updated when new and relevant evidence is made available. This information is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with questions regarding a medical condition.
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Scripting allows you to create basic to complex web applications at the XWiki page (or view) layer without the need for compiling code or deploying software components. In other words, you can use scripting syntax in addition to wiki and HTML syntax as the contents of an XWiki page.
XWiki integrates jsr-223 scripting. You can script using several available languages by using one of the following macros:
Since XWiki supports several scripting languages you might be wondering which one to use. Most of the code written by XWiki developers is in Velocity, with a few more complex extensions written in Groovy; these two are thoroughly tried and tested, so they are both a safe bet. The other languages should work just as well, but there are less developers that could help answering any questions.
The first thing to know is that Velocity is different from the other scripting languages on 2 aspects:
Being a templating engine, Velocity doesn't offer many means of structuring code. In fact, there's only one useful directive in this regard, #macro. However, because it is a templating engine, its syntax is much simpler and easier to understand by non-developers, which means that it's accessible to a wider range of users, without a serious background in programming.
Without programming rights, it's impossible to instantiate new objects, except literals and those safely offered by the XWiki APIs. Nevertheless, the XWiki API is powerful enough to allow a wide range of applications to be safely developed, if "the XWiki way" is properly followed.
In conclusion, Velocity is suited for projects with small to medium complexity, and which don't require access to other resources except the provided XWiki API and registered script services. It allows very quick and easy development, offers good security and decent performance, and can easily be packaged and distributed as a XAR.
Groovy is a full-fledged scripting language, which supports almost the entire Java syntax, and provides its own syntax delicacies and custom APIs that enhance the Java language even further. While it is recommended that complex code be written in Java as components accessible via script services, Groovy has the advantage that it is written live in the wiki, without requiring compilation, deployment and server restarts, thus enabling faster development.
The XWiki API is available in the context when executing Groovy scripts, but unlike in Velocity, the code isn't limited to this API, and any other classes or objects can be accessed freely. New classes can be defined in Groovy, compatible with Java classes, and this allows more structured code to be written, unlike in Velocity. A particular case of classes is new component roles and component implementations, which allows, for example, new script services or new event listeners to be defined in the wiki. It is possible to load attached jar files into the classpath of an executing script, which means that a wiki document can contain a complex program AND its required libraries not already provided by the platform.
Other than being available as a scripting language for writing custom code, it is also the language in which scheduler tasks are written.
In conclusion, Groovy is suited for complex projects or for custom wiki enhancement through new components, when speedy live development is required. Being written in wiki documents, it can also be easily packaged and distributed as a XAR.
After taking into account these considerations and if requiring Programming Rights isn't an issue for you, you should pick the script language that you're most familiar with!
The API is documented in Javadoc format and can be accessed here: XWiki API Javadoc. If you are not familiar with Java or object oriented programming, you will probably be confused by the API documentation. It is not within the scope of our documentation to teach you all the details about Java, or object oriented programming. You can find all of that information already online. You can also explore the page code found throughout the Extensions wiki area to see how others have figured out how to achieve a variety of results.
These main objects available to you in scripting languages are:
See Scripting Reference Documentation for a complete list.
Since XWiki 4.1M2+ there's a Script Service to access the Component Manager (see also: Accessing components from Groovy).
For example using Groovy you'd write:
You can also get the ComponentManager with:
Sometimes the XWiki Api doesn't provide the methods which you need for your application. You can gain raw access the core of XWiki but it presents an increased security risk and requires Programming Rights to be able to save the page containing the script (Programming Rights are not required for viewing a page containing a script requiring Programming Rights, rights are only needed at save time). Using the core should be avoided if at all possible.
After using this snippet, you will have 3 new objects:
You will find that many of the methods in wiki and xdoc require an instance of the XWikiContext, this is the underlying xcontext xc not the Api context xcontext.
Again, these methods are only for the rare cases when functionality is not provided by the public Api. We put a lot of effort into preserving the behavior of the public Api and much less into preserving the behavior of core methods so you may find that core methods are deprecated, removed, or their behavior is changed in subsequent versions.
From your script you can query the full XWiki Model. Check the Query Module for more information.
Velocity is currently the only scripting language which can be used without Programming Access Rights. This means you can save velocity scripts using a user with less permission and an exploit of your script is less of a security breach.
You can gain access to the XWiki core from Velocity but this will require Programming Rights. Strictly speaking, protected APIs are only available when the page that contains them was last saved by someone who had Programming Rights (see above).
In Velocity you can't import classes and as such you cannot gain direct access to XWiki components as shown above. This leaves you with the provided bindings (NOTE: In Velocity, these bindings all start with $ as with all other Velocity variables)
For more information about programming in the Velocity language, you can refer to the Velocity User Guide.
For more details on using Velocity check the Velocity Module Documentation which also contains the full list of Velocity Tools that you can use in your scripts.
To include Velocity scripts in other Velocity scripts, see How to include a velocity page into another page.
You can control whether to display Comments/History/Attachment/Information sections or not by setting some velocity variables to false:
To remove them all you can set:
The following variables (set in the xwikivars.vm template) are shortcuts for checking various information for the current user:
The following variables (set in the xwikivars.vm template) are shortcuts for checking various information about the current wiki:
The following example demonstrates how to use a groovy script to interact with velocity code in your page. This example performs a DNS lookup from the velocity variable $hostname and stores the result in the variable $address.
Using XWiki Syntax 2.0:
Objects can be passed back and forth between scripting languages by storing them in commonly available objects. One such commonly available object which only lasts the length of the request is the context object, known as xcontext.
Using XWiki Syntax 1.0:
Because Groovy and Velocity code are parsed together, variables defined in Groovy can be used directly in velocity without storing in and retrieving from the context.
You can run Python code in XWiki just like Velocity or Groovy.
Most JSR223 based scripting languages reinject the created variable in the current ScriptContext which means you can define a variable in a Groovy script and reuse it in a following Python script for example.
Since 4.1M2 a bridge has been written for Velocity (which is not based on JSR223) to allow it to access the current ScriptContext variable so you can do things like:
XWiki Syntax 1.0 is rendered by an old rendering engine which is still supported but for which no further development is planned (it will eventually be removed). Syntax 1.0 has some idiosyncrasies which were solved by syntax 2.0.
The last part is important because it means you need to be careful when using $ and # in your document. This is still true inside of <% and %> so you have to be careful when writing Groovy.


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Ninja Gaiden 2 Footage Reveals Story, New GirlContinuing today's media blast, Microsoft had released a new in-game cinematic that reveals a bit more of Ninja Gaiden II's storyline, which apparently involves the CIA and a scantily-clad female known as Sonia.
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An Xbox 360 exclusive developed by Team Ninja, Ninja Gaiden II arrives on June 3, with a downloadable demo slated to hit sometime in May.
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Scott Brown is this state's once and likely future Senator — the beneficiary, this holiday season, of some striking good fortune.
Brown undoubtedly had a gloomy Thanksgiving; he had, after all, just lost to Elizabeth Warren. But since then, things have brightened. With John Kerry now President Obama's nominee for secretary of state, another Senate seat should soon be up for grabs. That by itself is good news for Brown. But it was hardly his only political gift this season.


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White Chip Meringue Dessert Bars
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2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 cup butter or margarine, softened
2 cups Nestle Toll House Premier White Morsels
1-1/4 cups coarsely chopped nuts, divided
3 egg whites
1 cup packed brown sugar
To make crust, combine flour, powdered sugar and butter with pastry blender in a medium bowl until crumbly. Press evenly onto bottom of ungreased 13x9-inch baking pan. Bake in preheated 375 degree oven for 14 to 16 minutes. Remove from oven. Sprinkle morsels and 1 cup nuts over hot crust. Beat egg whites in small mixer bowl until frothy. Gradually add brown sugar. Beat until stiff peaks form when beaters are lifted. Carefully spread meringue over morsels and nuts. Sprinkle with remaining nuts. Bake at 375 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes or until golden brown. Serve warm or cool. Makes about 2 dozen bars.
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Consultant Fired for Sending Threatening Email to City Councilman's Opponent
LOS ANGELES -- A campaign consultant for Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar was fired Sunday after he told supporters in an e-mail that the campaign was planning to "put a political bullet" in the forehead of Huizar's opponent in the March 8 election.
Huizar campaign spokesman Michael Trujillo sent an e-mail Friday to roughly two dozen Huizar employees and campaign workers boasting that the campaign would "unleash the dogs of Satan" on Huizar's opponent, businessman Rudy Martinez, by publicizing news that he improperly possessed a badge belonging to an Los Angeles police officer killed in the line of duty.
The e-mail went out shortly after Huizar's campaign gave The Times a heavily-redacted copy of a 2005 report from the LAPD, which investigated how Martinez had come to be in possession of the badge. The Times subsequently wrote a story on the matter and noted that it was the latest salvo in what is shaping up to be one of the most brutally negative City Council races in recent memory.
In the e-mail, Trujillo told supporters to be prepared for a news conference about the allegations on Monday, and gloated about the effect the allegations would have on Martinez's campaign.
"I treated him like I was a cat playing with a trapped mouse," wrote Trujillo. "Well, now he is going to be the dead rat he really is....We are about to put a political bullet in between Rudy Martinez's forehead and make him pee in his pants too."
The e-mail comes one month after the shooting of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, an incident that prompted advocacy groups to call for an end to violent rhetoric in political campaigns.
Trujillo described his e-mail as "tongue in cheek" and said it should not be associated in any way with violent acts.
But Huizar campaign consultant Parke Skelton said Trujillo's words were indeed inappropriate and would have been even if the Giffords shooting had never happened. Still, Skelton said there was no "evil intent" behind the e-mail. "It was an attempt to buck up the campaign and let them know that things were going good," he said.
The firing was the latest twist in an increasingly bizarre campaign. Martinez and Huizar are one-time friends who now attack each other on a near daily basis. Martinez's mother worked for Huizar until last summer. Huizar, in turn, relied on Martinez in recent years to refinance his Boyle Heights home and select tenants for his rental house in El Sereno.
Martinez also has a sushi bar in Eagle Rock with a sushi roll named after Huizar, although he recently changed the menu item's name to the more neutral CD 14 roll, a reference to the council district both men now seek to represent.
In recent weeks, Martinez and two former Huizar staffers have said the councilman is under investigation by the FBI. Huizar, in turn, has hammered Martinez on the badge issue and highlighted Martinez's four misdemeanor convictions, which were racked up between 1985 and 1992 for crimes such as battery and reckless driving.
Meanwhile, L.A. County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley has opened separate inquiries that deal with both men, one into Huizar's past consulting work for a union organization and another into $6,000 in campaign contributions given to Martinez.
Martinez campaign spokesman George Gonzalez said Huizar himself should apologize for Trujillo's e-mail. He pointed out that Martinez's brother, Mario Martinez, was shot in the head and killed in Hollywood in 1987 by an attacker who was never arrested. The campaign described the crime as a "gay bashing."
In addition to his work for Huizar, Trujillo works for the re-election campaign of school board member Richard Vladovic and is a consultant with California Strategies. Trujillo would not identify his clients.
Trujillo was one of the anonymous bloggers who wrote for the Mayor Sam political blog during the 2005 election, criticizing various politicians while writing anonymously under the name "Chief Parker."
Last week, Trujillo resurrected "Chief Parker," signing the e-mail with that moniker. The e-mail also contained the statement that Martinez was "a disgusting human being that needs to be sent back from the vile bag of tripe he emanated from."
He vowed in the e-mail that Martinez would "wish he never heard the words Team Huizar."Copyright © 2014, The Morning Call


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You may or may not have noticed that our homepage sports a new video to help introduce some of the many features found within Digital Pigeon.
Spoiler Alert: This is the first time Digi has been animated, and for the curious, I do all the Digi related graphics with 3D Studio Max (with V-Ray renderer) and for this video a little compositing with After Effects.
So that's how my weekend was spent but, despite my insistance, we didn't get to put a little motion capture suit on a pigeon.


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Publication: The Day
For more than 30 years West Hartford resident Don Reder has been a loyal Hilton customer collecting hundreds of thousands of Hilton reward points.
This Spring Reder discovered that he was about to lose his remaining 250,000 points because he did not have any activity in his account in the previous 12 months.
He wasn't notified of the impending loss by Hilton, rather by his free Android App AwardWallet.
AwardWallet notified him that he could continue to keep his points alive for another year if he paid $12.95.
"I thought it was a bit strange that I had not received an email from Hilton regarding this and logged on to my account to check my points status," Reder told CtWatchdog.
"I checked my messages...nothing. I confirmed that they had my correct email. I spent ten minutes clicking all the options regarding points and never found anything that addressed the expiration of my points."
"I finally called Customer Service and spoke with a very pleasant woman who confirmed that, yes indeedy, my quarter million points were about to expire. She, also, could find nowhere on the HHonors site to see this. She could also not explain why there had been no email to me and nothing in my messages regarding this."
Reder asked CtWatchdog to look into whether his case was a mistake or if Hilton was trying to get rid of points it had on its books by pulling a fast one on its customers.
"Maybe their system was supposed to notify me and just burped at that moment, but the fact that I could not find the expiration status when I was signed on makes me a tad suspicious," Reder said. "Because of the overhang of these programs, lots of companies are changing their plans to make it more difficult to use points and there is no such thing as a free ticket on some of the airlines anymore since they charge you a $100 or more "processing fee" to get you your "free" flight."
I contacted Hilton and promptly received a response from Anthony Martucci, a public relations official working with Hilton.
Martucci, in effect, said that Hilton reward customers need to discover the terms of its program and it wasn't Hilton's responsibility to notify customers when their points are about to expire.
"Members who do not have eligible activity in any 12 consecutive month period may be removed from the Hilton HHonors program and are subject to forfeiture of all accumulated points," Martucci responded to Reder's questions.
"We strongly encourage all members to review the HHonors terms and conditions to be informed of the program's policies. For more information on this specific policy and to understand what is considered eligible activity, please visit HHonors.com/Terms."
I took a look at www.HHonors.com/Terms and I encourage you to look at it.
It is page after page of small print delineating "HHonors Terms & Conditions."
Reder did read the fine print and discovered that among the pages the contract "absolutely allows them to vaporize my quarter million points if I've had no activity in twelve months."
"But that's not the point," Reder said. "Hilton seems to have the capability to email me when there's some type of special they want me to take advantage of, so I find it curious that they don't have the ability to email me when I'm about to lose all of my points? And they not only didn't email me, they didn't send me a message through their own HHonors web site OR provide any way when I logged into my account to determine that my points were in jeopardy."
Reder is absolutely right.
This is no way to treat loyal customers.
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Oslo out of 2022 running
Oslo has become the latest city to officially withdraw from the race to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games.
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Oslo has become the latest city to officially withdraw from the race to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games.
The San Francisco Giants kept their season going with victory over Pittsburgh Pirates in the National League wild-card contest.
A Gaelic football match will be played at Ravenhill next month to help raise awareness for Motor Neurone Disease.
Tommy Walsh has confirmed he will return to Ireland at the end of the year after deciding to leave Sydney Swans.
Brian McEniff says Jim McGuinness has "unfinished business" with Donegal and expects him to continue as manager.
The CCCC will meet to decide what action to take against Brian Cody for his comments about referee Barry Kelly.
The Kansas City Royals edged out the Oakland Athletics to win an entertaining American League wild card match.
Lindsey Vonn is set to ski for the first time in 10 months as she targets a December return to the World Cup circuit.
Team Sky has announced the signing of Irishman Nicolas Roche as one of five new names for 2015.
Sir Chris Hoy expects fellow knightrider Sir Bradley Wiggins to blaze a trail to the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.