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Sharp Spencer Reynolds, Sr., lived 60 years before the Civil War and 25 years afterward (1801-1890.) He was a slaveholder, but viscerally opposed to secession. He was a member of the Union Party but saw two of his sons leave the family's north Georgia farms to go off and fight the Union. (John B. Reynolds did not return; Andrew Jackson Reynolds did, and became a Baptist preacher in Gainesville, Georgia, and lived into the 20th Century.)
Sharp was born in Pickens County, South Carolina, in 1801, to Bartemous Reynolds (son of William Acheleus Reynolds, a Patrick County, Virginia, plantation owner) and Mary Mildred Taylor Reynolds, daughter of another Patrick County, Virginia, planter David Taylor. She was the granddaughter of a Zachary Taylor, whose grandson and namesake would go on to become the most famous general in America in 1847, and would be elected President of the United States in 1848 when his first cousin Mary Mildred was 71. Sharp was 47 when his 2nd cousin from Louisiana, by way of Virginia and Kentucky, won the Presidency.
Bartemous Reynolds, with his growing family and an entourage of slaves, settled in the place now known as Hall County, Georgia, in 1804. He became one of the founders of Hall County (along with John W. Bates and others.) Bartemous was elected Justice of the Peace. He was also a founder and pastor of Timberwill Baptist Church. When Bartemous died, in 1854, he left no will. Therefore, his estate had to be inventoried for taxing purposes and this inventory lists all his worldly possessions and their estimated value. He left the final 280 acres of the 1,000 he had once owned. When he died his storehouses were filled with corn. He still had herds of farm animals but only 7 slaves, two of whom were very old, three very young, and two of prime working age. Several entries on the inventory from November 28, 1854, six days after his death, were individual books and several 'lots' of books, including a Bible, "Dr. Wright's Book," two "Law Books," and a walnut bookcase. So we know that Sharp Spencer grew up in a slave-holding, religious family, in a home with books. And we know that he had a way with words.
On January 25, 1827, Sharp Spencer Reynolds married Nancy Bates, daughter of another Hall County founder, General John W. Bates, a member of the committee that had formed the county from a slice of Jackson County. John W. Bates was a member of Hall County's first Inferior Court. He was Hall County's first representative in the State Legislature (for 16 years.) He was the leader of the Union Party in Hall County, Chairman of the Union Democratic Republican Convention in 1835, a veteran of the War of 1812, a Major-General in the 7th Division of the Georgia Militia from 1832-35, resigning in 1835, allegedly over the state's takeover of Cherokee lands and the ethnic cleansing that would—three years later—send the entire tribe to Oklahoma over "the trail of tears." John Bates' wife, (and Sharp Reynolds' mother-in-law,) Barbary Crenshaw, was said to be a full-blood Cherokee. When John Bates moved to Murray County which was taken from the Cherokee and awarded to white men by allotment in 1836, Representative/Judge/General Bates was once again elected to the Georgia Legislature.
So there was a time when Sharp Spencer Reynolds was in his late 40's that his mother's first cousin was President of the United States, and his father-in-law was a state legislator, ex-general and ex-judge and his father was a major land-owner, prosperous farmer, preacher and local elected official.
(Note: After bearing 9 children, Nancy Bates Reynolds died in 1851. The next year, Sharp married Elizabeth Terrell, the daughter of a civil engineer, surveyor and War of 1812 veteran named Timothy Terrell. Elizabeth Terrell Reynolds bore four sons, including my Great-Great-Grandfather Sharp Spencer Reynolds, Jr., born on July 23, 1857.)
Sharp & Nancy's eldest son John B. (named after his grandfather Bates) was born in Hall County in 1838 and enlisted in Company D, 27th Georgia Volunteers, (Captain Dorsey's Company,) on September 23, 1861. John B. Reynolds was 23 years old when he said goodbye to his twice-widowed father, his five older sisters, one younger sister and his four little brothers who were all under the age of ten. My great-great grandfather Sharp Spencer Reynolds, Jr., age 4, was the youngest of the brood when his gallant big brother marched off to war.
The Civil War was a horrible thing for those who fought it and for those who got in its way. For some southern cotton planters, it was a bonanza, both because cotton prices went up and because secession allowed indebted planters to get out of millions of dollars in debt to northern banks. The Confederate government wanted the region's planters to grow more corn and foodstuffs, but many planters refused to do so. With dollar signs in their eyes, they kept on growing cotton. The Confederate government confiscated or bought much of the food that was grown in the south. Confederate soldiers sometimes lived off the land; unfortunately, it was their own territory, and the more the army took, the less there was to feed the women and children at home. There were several women's riots in which women broke into stores and warehouses to steal food. Confederate soldiers, hearing about the dire conditions back home, deserted in droves to try get home to find some way to feed their families. Many of these family men were tracked down by special squads and brought back to the front lines to be executed.
Sharp Reynolds, although a slave owner, had never been in favor of secession, arguing against it for decades before it finally happened. His writing shows his loyalty to the concept of the Union. His first father-in-law had been a leader of the Union Party and the anti-secessionist Democratic-Republican Party in Georgia, and Sharp had also espoused those causes. Once secession became a reality, Sharp's loyalties may have changed. Certainly when his oldest son, John B. Reynolds, went off to war, Sharp's notions of Union vs. secession would have become irrelevant.
When sons of the more prominent southern families grew tired of the war, they were allowed to go back home to their lives of relative ease to help raise and ship the cotton and manage the slaves.
Whether the Reynolds family, being north Georgia farmers, not south Georgia plantation owners, were prominent enough to get John B. out of service, I don't know, but after April 05, 1862 it was too late. He died that day of Typhoid Fever in Chimborazo Hospital, Richmond, Virginia.


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After an event that shakes his entire world, Kurama reflects. Songfic to the Fall Out Boy song of the same title.
He knew that he had to leave. It wasn't just that the human police would be looking for him; it wasn't just that he no longer had a place to live. It was that everything he knew in this world had been touched by her; every place he could have gone she had visited, every person that he could have spoken to she had known, every thought he could have brought to light she would inhabit.
He was always surrounded by her memory there, and he felt it slowly begin to turn him against him; to make him nearly insane with the weight of it.
There were no words for him to vocalize what he felt. Not that anyone asked him; they all understood that he could not talk about it, and they got all their information from other sources. They were all respectful. But they didn't know what he felt—and how could they? They, who had never felt this pain?
He could not tell them what it was like. He could not tell them what he wanted, because he didn't know. He was tempted to continue attending school, to keep up appearances, to pretend that nothing had happened. That it didn't matter.
But that wasn't an option—that was the equivalent of pretending that she didn't matter, and there was no way he could do that, even if he had wanted to. He also wanted to run away from it all; from her memory, from the place where she was buried, and from his friends. They were only constant reminders of everything he'd lost, because they had it all, and he now had nothing.
It was lonesome being stuck in this pit of grief and guilt. No one could commiserate; no one could understand him, and he spoke to everyone less and less because of it. She had always understood him...no, she hadn't. He was fooling himself. She had only begun to understand his emotions when he had let her in.
In the earlier years, when he had found her nothing but a means, nothing but a way to get what he desired, she hadn't known him or understood him at all. It pained him greatly to think of all those years that he had wasted thinking of her as a means and not as an end.
I can't explain a thing
And I want everything
To change and stay the same;
Time doesn't care about anyone or anything.
Come together, come apart
Only get lonely when you read the charts.
For a few days after it happened, he continued his normal routine. He went to school, he did his homework, and he cooked for himself. But everyone, even people he hadn't known, had seen the difference in his face.
The girls at school who had paid him so much attention kept their distance; not because they knew what had happened (they found out eventually, of course) but because of the simple look in his eyes.
Previously he had been charming, warm, kind. Not now. Now, he was a stranger in his old body; a heartless man who had always masqueraded as a caring one.
They saw that something had broken, either in his mind or in his heart, and they let him be. Perhaps it was for the best; he wanted nothing more than to be alone most of the time, except, of course, when he was alone—then he wished for someone (usually her) to comfort him.
Everyone knew, though, not long after, because the word broke out. He wasn't a suspect; he had been at school during the attack—it was a solid alibi. The police knew that it would have been difficult to murder her while he was learning in his calculus class. But the media didn't care about that; all it cared about was the money shot, the picture of grief for the tabloids. Cameramen followed him, reporters tried to interview him, and he shunned them all.
And oh, baby
When they made me
They broke the mold.
Girls used to follow me around
Then I got cold.
Throw your cameras in the air
And wave them like you just don't care.
There was nothing left for him to go to. There was nothing left to turn to, to run to, or to cry to. What he had ever had, but her? His brilliance? His serenity? His past? Worthless, all of them, when compared with her love.
Most of his memories of her were good, but his most recent ones made those bittersweet. He wouldn't have minded if she had simply gone away, or if he had done so, or if something else had happened...anything other than what really did.
He hated that her memory was tainted; he hated that he couldn't think of her face without seeing it twisted in agony and covered in blood. He hated that she had left him, but he hated that she had left him with such poisonous thoughts more.
He wasn't sure that returning to the Makai would make things any better for himself; he wasn't sure that anything could ever make him better. But he had to try, because this way, things would destroy him. His lack of attentiveness, his stupor, and his misery would all collapse on top of him and crush him.
However...was that really such a bad thing? Perhaps he didn't care to live anymore, not with this gaping hole in his chest. What was there left to live for? He was able to answer that for himself—his friends. At that moment, though, he didn't give a damn about them.
They had each other, and they hardly needed his help now. Things had been at peace. Everyone would flourish, with or without him...
I will never believe in anything again.
I will never believe in anything again.
Change will come
Change will come
I will never believe in anything again.
That was a lie, however; a lie that he told himself when he felt as though he could live with this guilt and horror not for one more minute. There was one who would utterly fail without him, though the demon had hardly said a few words to him in the past month, probably for good reasons.
No, Hiei wouldn't do well at all without him, and when he remembered that, for some time, he was himself again. He was sane, calculating, caring, and alive. He remembered that Hiei would need him, and that was the end of his suicidal thoughts for a second, a minute, or a day. They would come back not long after, and he'd have to wade through them yet again.
His logic was part of his downfall. Now, even if he lived for Hiei's sake, could he really fool himself into believing that he deserved to live any longer? That it had not been his fault?
Because he knew that it had been. If not for him, she would have lived on happily. Childless, perhaps, but living just the same.
...Only that was a lie, too. Because if it hadn't been for him and Yusuke, she wouldn't have been cured by the Forlorn Hope. Without him stealing it for her and betraying Hiei and sacrificing his life for her, though Yusuke's sacrifice overrode his, she would have died years ago. And yet that made it somehow worse that she had died at all. Especially when he thought of the way she had died...
We will never believe again
Kick drum beating in my chest again, no.
We will never believe again
Preach electric to a microphone stand, no.
He notices the scent of blood immediately. He's not even halfway home, and he can smell hers, and there's a lot. His thoughts become frantic. His body shakes. He takes off running, leaving his school bag on the sidewalk. He dashes home, but it's too late. It's been too late for hours.
He processes the information quickly and unconsciously. He was at school. She was home alone. Now he smells her blood—a lot of it—at their house. What does it mean? That she might be dead is one of his first thoughts, but he pushes it away, his emotions clouding his brilliance. She can't. She just can't.
The front door is bashed in and destroyed. Demons, for sure. Yet he barely notices as he runs into the house. Bookshelves thrown to the ground. Lamps smashed. The table overturned. A struggle, he notes without noticing. A major struggle. Perhaps she was saved by a friend, then, as she couldn't have fought quite that well.
Blood on the floor next to the kitchen's entrance. Maroon, drying, smelling of her. The scent is so strong that it overpowers him. For a moment, he feels woozy and can't continue. But then he does, because he can sense her in the next room, though he can't hear her heart. He ignores it. He ignores the signs, ignores that he should be able to hear her breathing if she is, indeed, breathing.
The blood runs in a trail into the kitchen. Drops of it spattered on the walls. Something chased her through here. The demon smells like sweat and rotten potatoes. He gags before going into the kitchen.
What he sees there ruins him.
I'm the mascot for what you've become
And I love the mayhem more than the love.
"No more..."
He spoke in his sleep with much more frequency after her death, but there was no one around to hear it. Hiei had heard of the news, but had not come to see him, for reasons that Hiei himself couldn't fathom.
Now he dreamed the memory of that day, which he did often, and tried to stir himself away—tried to escape it. But he never really could; when he was awake, it was always on the tip of his tongue, in the front in his mind, and there was nothing he could occupy himself with that would ever make it fade. He relieved it in his waking hours, and again in his sleeping ones.
Over, and over, like a scene from a terrible, tragic movie—too real to be a good one—that was on replay in his mind. Play, rewind, play, pause, rewind, play. Over and over again he saw it, and his thoughts turned to repetition until they were not thoughts, but chants; mental chants that nothing could help him break.
And oh, baby
When they made me
They broke the mold.
Girls used to follow me around
Then I got cold.
Throw your cameras in the air
And wave them like you just don't care.
Shiori's body (but he doesn't think of it as her body—to him she is still "mother," for the rest of his life) lays sprawled on the kitchen floor. Blood appears to him to be everywhere; on the walls, the floors, the counters, and of course all over her. And it's all hers. She was a balloon full of the stuff, like a ripe fruit, like a soaked sponge...
His mind makes the metaphors unconsciously, as he almost falls to his knees. Almost. What keeps him standing is the blood, which he's stepping in; if he kneels, it will get on his school pants and Shiori will have to have them dry-cleaned, and that costs a lot of money. He doesn't want to cause her pain in any form, even financially.
He isn't thinking straight, and he knows it, but for the time being, he allows himself to give up thinking rationally. His heart is seizing up; his chest hitches and his eyes burn. It's horrific, and he's seen worse before, but never like this. No, not like this.
Please not like this.
He has done worse to others, but not his mother. Please, not her. He would have fallen for her. He would have gone in her place every time.
I will never believe in anything again.
I will never believe in anything again.
Change will come
Change will come
I will never believe in anything again.
She died like a dog. He later found the truth as easily as one finds the place for the last puzzle piece. A demon broke in. Destroyed the living room. Wounded her. Chased her into the kitchen.
He knew that the scent of blood and fleeing prey always aroused demons. But to think that she, of all people, could die in such a way...it didn't make any sense. It was lunacy. Insanity. Irrationality.
The demon chased her into the kitchen where it trapped her. Where it tore at her clothes with its claws until they fell away like shreds. Where it threw her on the ground and raped her. Where it killed her soon after.
Kurama heard all the details, but he listened to none of it. This was his fault. How could he have led her to such danger? How could he have sat in class, barely paying attention to his professor, while she had been assaulted and killed on the floor?
How could he have been so blind to the dangers? How could he have thought that no one would ever figure out who he really was, especially after the Dark Tournament? How could he have let this happen? How could he have let her die like a dog?
We will never believe again
Kick drum beating in my chest again, no.
We will never believe again
Preach electric to a microphone stand, no.
He sees the clothes in shreds mingled with her blood. He sees her body, naked, pale, contrasting with the dark blood all over and around it. He sees her legs spread, her breast with the claw marks deep as canyons, the rivers of blood now dried up inside them. He sees her face, twisted in horror, and he curses himself.
He curses the day he ever came to her, the day he ever burdened her with his presence. He curses the pain he has caused her. He curses his weaknesses; his arrogance. He curses himself.
It shouldn't have been this way. He should have been killed by the hunter all those years ago. He should have been brought down in the dust of the Makai, far and away from this woman and her complete, unfiltered love.
It should be his blood on the ground, his body found desolate and destroyed, and maybe even naked and abused as well. He deserves it. He clenches his fists hard enough to draw blood, and it falls and mingles with hers.
He screams while being completely unaware of it. The sound is so heartbroken, so miserable and cracked that the only thing living to hear it—a bird just outside the nearby window—flies away, hoping never to hear something so chilling again.
He goes to her, cradling her body in his arms.
Throw your cameras in the air
And wave them, 'cause I just don't care.
Throw your cameras in the air
And wave them, 'cause I just don't care.
He never asked Koenma to revive her. In fact, he never spoke to Koenma again. He said words of goodbye to Yusuke, Kuwabara, and his various other friends (there were not many more.) He told Hiei where he would be, and that he should not hesitate to visit. In fact, he asked Hiei to come with him, but the younger demon, who had never seen his partner so defeated, told him that he would see him later.
Kurama left the human world forever after that. Hiei did indeed see him later, but only a few times. Some years after Kuwabara had married Yukina and Yusuke and Keiko had many little half-demons graduating from middle school, Kurama fell out of contact with everyone. They talked about where he might have gone, what he might have been doing, but they didn't go after him.
Hiei was the only one who regularly searched the Makai for his signature scent or energy. It wasn't because Hiei was the only one who cared about him; it was because he was the only one who knew some inkling of what Kurama might have felt after finding his mother dead and gone on the kitchen floor. The others couldn't begin to understand, not even after they lost loved ones of their own.
They missed him through the years, and they couldn't understand his pain, but they had known that they would not see him again.
They had known, because on the day that he had said goodbye, they had seen in his eyes how broken he was. They had known.
I will never believe in anything again.
I will never believe in anything again.
Change will come
Change will come
I will never believe in anything again.


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Master of International Health > Admission > Draft Thesis Proposal
How to Prepare a Draft Thesis Proposal
Applicants to the MIH in Copenhagen are asked to prepare a draft thesis proposal of max. 4 pages, based on a field study or on a critical review of articles referring to a relevant problem within international health. It is important the thesis proposal is relevant in a low- or middle-income setting.
Why is a draft thesis required?
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- A working title could be for instance
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- "Quality of care in the prevention and treatment of childhood diarrhoea in a country"
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News - Afghanistan
President Hamid Karzai sent a warning against any delay in transferring Bagram prison from US to Afghan control, saying it would be "considered a breach of Afghan sovereignty".
Presidential office released a statement Saturday, two days ahead of the scheduled transfer date, cautioning the US representatives against any postponement.
In a meeting Saturday with top US commander in Afghanistan Gen. John Allen and US Ambassador to Afghanistan James Cunningham, "President Hamid Karzai made it clear that the Bagram Prison be transferred from international forces to Afghan authority on Monday", the statement said.
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The transfer means the Afghan military will take control of around 3,000 detainees at Bagram, including the most senior insurgent captives held in the country.
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Ok, I used ground lean beef instead of the meatless crumbles, but otherwise was true to the recipe. Very, very good. The family just snarfed it down.
Vegetarian Chipotle Nachos
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These vegetarian nachos flavored with chipotle chiles have all the heartiness of the beef version. You can also use the spicy bean mixture to fill tacos and burritos. Look for meatless crumbles in the produce section near the tofu and other soy products.
Yield: 6 servings
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Amount per serving
- Calories: 408
- Calories from fat: 26%
- Fat: 11.8g
- Saturated fat: 4g
- Monounsaturated fat: 4.2g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 2.5g
- Protein: 23.8g
- Carbohydrate: 53.7g
- Fiber: 11g
- Cholesterol: 16mg
- Iron: 3.6mg
- Sodium: 906mg
- Calcium: 316mg
- Cooking spray
- 1 cup chopped green bell pepper (about 1 medium)
- 1 cup chopped onion (about 1 medium)
- 1 (12-ounce) package meatless fat-free crumbles (such as Lightlife Smart Ground)
- 1 (7-ounce) can chipotle chiles in adobo sauce
- 1 (15-ounce) can pinto beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 (14.5-ounce) can diced tomatoes with basil, garlic, and oregano, undrained
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- 8 cups baked corn tortilla chips (6 ounces)
- 2 cups shredded romaine lettuce
- 1 cup diced peeled avocado (about 1 medium)
- 3/4 cup vertically sliced red onion
- 3/4 cup (3 ounces) shredded sharp cheddar cheese
- 6 tablespoons fat-free sour cream
- Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Coat the pan with cooking spray. Add bell pepper, chopped onion, and crumbles; cook 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove 1 chile and 1 tablespoon sauce from can; reserve remaining chiles and sauce for another use. Chop chile; add chile, sauce, beans, and tomatoes to pan. Cover, reduce heat, and simmer 5 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in cilantro. Arrange 1 1/3 cups chips on each of 6 plates. Top each serving with 1 cup bean mixture, 1/3 cup lettuce, about 2 1/2 tablespoons avocado, 2 tablespoons onion, 2 tablespoons cheese, and 1 tablespoon sour cream.
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- COURSE: Main Dishes
- CONVENIENCE: Entertaining, Kid-Friendly, Quick/Easy
- CUISINE: Mexican
- MAIN INGREDIENT: Tofu/Soy
- DIETARY CONSIDERATION: Meatless
- PUBLICATION: Cooking Light
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Neill H. Alford Jr., dean of the UGA School of Law from 1974 to 1976, died Oct. 20 in Charlottesville, Va., at the age of 88. Alford was Joseph Henry Lumpkin professor of law while dean at Georgia, and taught at the University of Virginia law school from 1947 to 1974 and from 1976 to 1990. He held the chair of international law at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, R.I., in 1961-62. He served as an Army infantry officer in Europe during World War II and was awarded the Bronze Star and Combat Infantry Badge. He served in the Army Reserve until 1969, retiring at the rank of colonel. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Smith Alford of Charlottesville, Va., three children, three grandchildren, and one great-grandson.


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It's a conundrum many of us have faced. We have a Twitter account and a Facebook account. We don't always have the same followers and friends on each. But sometimes we want to share the same content with both. It used to be that you could Tweet something and the Twitter app on Facebook would update both. But about a month ago, that all went to the crapper.
Many of us turned to Tweetdeck. Now, there's another option: Su.pr. Even better? The content will also be submitted to StumbleUpon which sees about 8 million users a month.
This is the soon-to-be-launched new URL shortening service launched by StumbleUpon, but you also get the option of updating Twitter and Facebook when you're up to all your shortening ways.
If you can't wait, you can go ahead to http://su.pr and request an invite code. Be forewarned that the invite codes will be given out via Twitter and looking at StumbleUpon's Twitter feed, they're just getting started.
This is a great way to streamline your content sharing. But that's just my opinion. What's yours? Share in the comments.
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Roasted Striped Bass with Warm Lentil Salad
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Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 408
- Calories from fat: 13%
- Protein: 46g
- Fat: 5.9g
- Saturated fat: 1.1g
- Carbohydrate: 44g
- Fiber: 8.2g
- Sodium: 451mg
- Cholesterol: 136mg
- 1 cup small French green or brown lentils, sorted and rinsed
- Caramelized onions
- 1/2 cup canned peeled roasted red peppers, cut into strips
- 3 tablespoons sherry vinegar
- 2 tablespoons chopped parsley
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- About 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 4 boned, skinned striped bass or other firm-fleshed white fish fillets (about 6 oz. each)
- Pepper
- Lemon wedges
- 1. In a 4- to 5-quart pan over high heat, bring lentils and 1 quart water to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer until lentils are tender to bite, 25 to 30 minutes. Drain and return to pan. Stir in caramelized onions, peppers, vinegar, parsley, cumin, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and cayenne.
- 2. Meanwhile, rinse fish and pat dry. Sprinkle lightly all over with salt and pepper. Arrange pieces slightly apart in a foil-lined 12- by 15-inch baking pan. Bake in a 400° regular or convection oven until opaque but still moist-looking in the center of the thickest part (cut to test), about 6 minutes.
- 3. Mound lentil salad equally on four dinner plates. Using a wide spatula, top each mound with a piece of fish. Serve with lemon wedges to squeeze over fish.
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- CONVENIENCE: Entertaining
- CUISINE: American
- MAIN INGREDIENT: Fish, Vegetables
- COOKING METHOD: Bake
- PUBLICATION: Sunset
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Call of Duty 3 : Developed by Treyarch, Call of Duty 3 required a bit of a different approach to the world of traditional COD. It is based instead of playing in battles symbolic of World War II, and the shift from one area to another all over the map, Call of Duty 3 in one set of specific battles centered on the outbreak of Normandy, and work until the liberation of Paris in the later 88 days only.
Taking control of each region represented, players will jump from the American troops over to the Canadians and Polish, as well as the British forces as they push against the elite German Panzer forces.
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Call of Duty 3 has been reworked and reinvented this time around, following a more specific story and centered around a more cinematic approach due to Treyarch's design. Taking a few notes from Call of Duty: Big Red One, the team has added a ton of cinematic flair, with constant action surrounding the player at all times and the same solid gameplay mechanic as the previous games.
Where the title sets itself apart form the other console versions is in the revamped FPS control. Working along the same lines as Metroid 3: Corruption, Call of Duty utilizes a bounding box that gives the player faster and more precise controls, very similar to a PC mouse and keyboard. When the cursor is in the middle of the screen, the player is still. Start moving the Wii-mote against an invisible bounding box, however, and you'll start to move your character's head as well. The farther from the center of the screen you move the controller, the faster you'll turn.
But does it work? That's the question on everyone's mind. After all, Call of Duty 3 got a huge graphical overhaul on the other next gen systems, so the game's control better be worth it, right? Well, the overall feel is definitely solid, but we wouldn't go as far as to say any and every player out there is going to enjoy it more than the traditional dual-analog setup.
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Mississippi Recovering Following Tornado OutbreakBy Daniel Cherry | Published 18 Apr 2011 02:16pm |
Victims are picking up the pieces and trying to return to their lives after a deadly outbreak of storms devastated parts of Mississippi. MPB's Daniel Cherry reports on cleanup efforts and what those affected can do to get back on their feet.
Tonia Ray was at work when the tornado passed through Clinton, but she rushed home as soon as she could.
"I couldn't yet see mine. This was all covered with trees. I couldn't see my house at all. In the beginning I thought it was just gone, I couldn't see it at all. Of course we got a little closer and saw that my garage was gone. I could see inside my attic."
Now Ray says the house might be a total loss. This scene is being repeated in more than a dozen counties across Mississippi. David Moore is with State Farm Insurance. He says it's ok to start cleaning up...just don't make any major repairs until an agent is able to assess the situation.
"If you need to protect your home, feel free to do that...any temporary repairs. The most important thing is make a list of what you have that's damaged, and then call your insurance company and get a claim started."
Statewide about ten tornadoes damaged or destroyed nearly three hundred homes from Adams to Kemper Counties leaving one person dead. Jason Price runs a tree service in McComb. He's one of hundreds making his services available to those in need.
"It's kind of like a warzone. I've worked Katrina, Gustav, Ivan. It looks like a hurricane came through."
When disaster strikes Mississippians are always willing to swing into action. Mike Womack is Director of the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.
"Find a good organization to volunteer with. Certainly you can just be a spontaneous volunteer, but you don't know where to go, you may not be trained in safety and things of that nature. Those large groups know how to interface with government and go to those areas where they're needed."
The Red Cross is one agency on the ground in the tornado stricken areas. They've opened four shelters and served nearly five thousand meals to those families in need. Daniel Cherry...MPB News.
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March 26, 2012, 2:48 PM — Advances in analytic technologies and business intelligence are allowing CIOs to go big, go fast, go deep, go cheap and go mobile with business data.
Current trends center as much on tackling analytics challenges as they do on taking advantage of opportunities for new business insights. For example, technologies for managing and analyzing large, diverse data sets are arriving just as many organizations are drowning in data and struggling to make sense of it. Still, many of the cost and performance trends in advanced analytics mean companies can ask more complicated questions than ever before and deliver more useful information to help run their businesses.
In interviews, CIOs consistently identified five IT trends that are having an impact on how they deliver analytics: the rise of Big Data, technologies for faster processing, declining costs for IT commodities, proliferating mobile devices and social media.
1. Big Data
Big Data refers to very large data sets, particularly those not neatly organized to fit into a traditional data warehouse. Web crawler data, social media feeds and server logs, as well as data from supply chain, industrial, environmental and surveillance sensors all make corporate data more complex than it used to be.
Although not every company needs techniques and technologies for handling large, unstructured data sets, Verisk Analytics CIO Perry Rotella thinks all CIOs should be looking at Big Data analytics tools. Verisk, which helps financial firms assess risk and works with insurance companies to identify fraud in claims data, had revenues of more than $1 billion in 2010.
Technology leaders should adopt the attitude that more data is better and embrace overwhelming quantities of it, says Rotella, whose business involves "looking for patterns and correlations between things that you don't know up front."
Big Data is an "explosive" trend, according to Cynthia Nustad, CIO of HMS, a firm that helps contain healthcare costs for Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as private businesses. Its clients include health and human services programs in more than 40 states and more than 130 Medicaid managed care plans. HMS helped its clients recover $1.8 billion in costs in 2010 and save billions more by preventing erroneous payments. "We're getting and tracking so much material, both structured and unstructured data, and you don't always know what you're looking for in it," Nustad says.


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Hassan Nemazee Lied About His Assets
Which is confusing, considering he had $74 million in cash to give to authorities on a day's notice.
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Which is confusing, considering he had $74 million in cash to give to authorities on a day's notice.
A new, special kind of torment is coming in the mail.
Things are about to get even more embarrassing for Marcus Schrenker, if possible.
The Ponzi schemer's fellow inmates report that he's taking twenty pills a day.
Also, he was sentenced to four years in prison.
The work of the man arrested for stealing data from 130 million credit-card accounts is rife with pop-culture references.
Eric Butler appeared "shocked" he would be going to jail for crimes he committed.
Which is exactly what we imagined, insofar as we were imagining it at all, which we weren't.
"Brooklyn's Bernie Madoff" is way less glamorous than the Ponz.
He was just hanging on to them, we guess, in case they came in handy.
A new book reveals "intimate descriptions" of the Ponzi-schemer.
How the SEC could suggest a thing is beyond his lawyers' comprehension.
A report from the New York inspector general's office reveals a web of personal favors and porn at the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor.
Take that, Sarah Palin.
Not bad for four months of work.
The Goldman Sachs computer programmer accused of stealing software is negotiating a plea.
Dina Wein-Reis ran a ballsy scam for ten years. It might have gone on longer, if she had been nicer to her assistants.
Among the revelations: "He cares about Ruth, but he doesn't give a (expletive) about his two sons, Mark and Andrew."
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Proton-M rocket launches Turksat 4A from Baikonur, Feb 2014.
Proton rocket with Breeze-M upper stage launches from Baikonur with Raduga 1M, a Russian military communications satellite.
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Launch of Sirius FM-6 aboard ILS Proton-M with Briz-M upper stage.
Launch of Proton-M with Astra 2E satellite from Baikonur. This is the first launch of a Proton rocket since July's explosive failure. This return to flight mission was a success.
Close-up spectator view of Proton-M GLONASS failure and explosion.
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Wide-angle spectator view of Proton-M GLONASS rocket failure and explosion from 2 miles away, via Air & Space Mag.
Massive and explosive launch failure of a Proton-M heavy lift rocket with 3 GLONASS navigation satellites.
The Proton-M rocket began losing control mere seconds after liftoff, careening and spinning before arcing back down and breaking up to explode on the ground near the launch facility.
Proton rockets are fueled by dinitrogen tetroxide and unsymmetrical methylhydrazine, both highly reactive hypergolic propellants which are corrosive and poisonous. The debris cloud is highly toxic. Launch crew were safe in an underground bunker and are unhurt.
ILS Proton M launches SES 5 / Astra 4B from Baikonur.
Proton-M rocket launches with YahSat Y1B from Baikonur, Apr 2012. (no sound)
Proton-M/Breeze launch from Baikonur with Luch-5A and Amos-5 satellites.
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As a parent of three, I have found this school provides a challenging curriculum in an incredible Christ centered environment. Under the direction of Principal Suzanne Edwards, the school promotes an atmosphere of high achievement and personal respect where each child is valued and loved. They have a fantastic faculty who are exceedingly dedicated, highly effective, and extremely knowledgeable and current. Two of my children have gone on to excel in high school (one now in college) with the wonderful moral and academic foundation provided by St Mary's. Whereas no school is perfect, after 14 years here I can say this school continually works to improve and is an excellent place for our kids We are very happy parents.
St Mary's is a top-notch school. It is both tremendous scholastically and environmentally. They are concerned with assisting your child his/her full academic potential - even if that means extra work outside of the classroom on the teacher's part. They are also very concerned about helping each child learn to set individual boundaries with peers and behave in a moral and socially appropriate fashion in a positive, reinforcing atmosphere.
St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception is an amazing school! We are a faith-filled community dedicated to learning and growing in God's love. Our students strive to be lifelong learners, independent thinkers, globally aware citizens, respectful individuals and thoughtful Catholic leaders. With support from our parents and guidance from our faculty and staff, St. Mary provides a positive environment for all children as they become active members of our ever changing world.
My son loves St. Mary School. He loves his teachers, his friends and the community, family feel the school has. The academics are rigorous and the Catholic values that are instilled into the everyday routines are why we choose St. Mary School for our son.
We LOVE St. Mary school! I have a 7th grader and a 4th grader who look forward to school everyday! The wonderful teachers at St. Mary make learner fun while preparing our children to be lifelong learners! We love the wonderful community atmosphere that is lead by a fantastic principal! We couldn't be happier at St. Mary school!!
St Mary's is an excellent school. I have two children at the school, one in 1st grade, and the other in 4th grade. The teachers are great and there is almost no turnover. The children are very high caliber and we enjoy the other parents and families. We have made many good friends. The principal is outstanding. The school offers many extracurricular activities, including scouts, sports, drama, choir, and others. Our children participate in many. We have plans to keep our children there through graduation. We are very proud to send our children to St Mary's and I highly recommend the school.
Our son just entered 1st grade and we cannot be happier with the decision to enroll him at St. Mary's last year. Faculty and parental support is fantastic. Our schools "Faith Family" is a amazing peer mentoring program that helps the younger students get acclimated to their new school and St Mary Catholic Church activiites. Although faith-based around a Catholic education, I feel the school is more about empowering our children to be confident, academic and social individuals & citizens within our community.
This school continues to improve--especially over the past three years under the leadership of a dynamic new principal. Strong teachers, and excellent, academic program in all areas, especially junior high. Math program has been greatly improved, and Algebra instruction is strong in 8th grade. Writing, vocabulary and English programs equally strong and students are well prepared for high school. Good, safe, academic and Christian environment. Bullying is NOT tolerated.
This is a great school! My 3 children have been going there for 3 years. My oldest is in the my middle is in 5th and my youngest is in 3rd. They love it!
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ITF welcomes Shahabi release, but remains watchful
8 January 2013
The ITF has welcomed the provisional five day release of sick Iranian prisoner Reza Shahabi, treasurer of the ITF's affiliate the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company.
Following a three-week protest hunger strike, Shahabi was released yesterday on the grounds of his deteriorating medical condition. His condition had gone downhill since he underwent surgery to his neck and spine. Shahabi has been incarcerated for over two and a half years and it is possible he will be returned to prison after undergoing treatment. On his return home he called off his hunger strike.
"We are delighted that Reza Shahabi can finally get the treatment doctors recommend", said general secretary David Cockroft. "Charges against him have not been dropped however – so ITF unions globally remain watchful."
"This is good news for human rights and will be welcomed everywhere – the next step would be for Shahabi together with other trade union prisoners in Iran, to be cleared of wrongdoing" said ITF president Paddy Crumlin
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None whatsoever. Now, it might make a difference that all of my 85's are Horde and my highest Alliance is 65. But my Horde guild even has a sister/alt guild Alliance-side, for those of us who want to switch sides from time to time. (Of course, there are nearly 500 toons in the Horde guild, and less than 20 in the Alliance... But I do happen to know that some of the guildies have Alliance alts in other guilds, so that doesn't really represent the total number of crossover players.)


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At least I got mentioned. Even if I'm not in the actual Top 10.
Well, I know I've been slacking off as of late and ignoring my duties as Arbiter of All Things Good on this board. I've got some free time tonight so I figured I'd put together a Top Ten list. Got some old stuff on here but I think it's worthy of recognition so I'm not gonna worry about that.
1. The Roman Candle - For the record, I stand behind the Blandy/Giannini campaign, but The Candle unleashed a hilarious smear campaign designed to derail their Presidential bid. Great stuff:
2. Technofear - Dude came with some quality self-deprecating humor in his "Just Look What My Uncle Left For Me As His Computer Wallpaper This Morning" thread.
Heh heh. Poor Kelly. Umm...props to Uncle Technofear, too.
3. Boris the Blade - Boris turned a thread about Geoff John's last issue of The Flash into his own personal, lyrical tribute to Geoff Johns. Funny stuff.
"Yeah, GJ got much love for Boris Da Blade, too. Word."
4. Pat Loika - I ain't gonna lie, highbrow humor is NOT a requirement to make the Top Ten:
Yeah, it's funny on a Carrot Toppian level but I still laughed.
5. Flonk - I like All-Star Batman and even I couldn't help but laugh at Flonk's hilarious All-Star Batman quotes. Here's a couple of them on display:
I think there are more of them posted somewhere but I can't recall what threads they're in.
6. Myxomatosis - The guy posted a great response to all the folks looking to trash Frank Miller and All Star Batman for their treatment of All Star Robin. Very logical and humorous:
7. Gail Simone - Reading her "DANGER Bendis DANGER Board Outbreak!" thread kinda reminded me of reading a Grant Morrison Seven Soldiers comic...I didn't quite understand it but I still enjoyed it.Originally Posted by Myxomatosis
8. Thudpucker - Nobody - and I mean nobody - does a better job of creating "conversation" here. Thud plays a big part in keeping things interesting on this board...and, even if he didn't, I'd still have to give him props just for having the biggest balls since Tony Tedeschi (porn lovers will get that reference):
9. Goddamn Trillian - The wit and wisdom of Trillian are on full display in her "Question for the ladies" thread. If you people have any sense, you'll vote for her as the Bendis Board Woman of the Year:
http://www.606studios.com/bendisboard/showthread.php?t=32371&page=1&pp=10&highlight=godd amn+trillian
I'd continue heaping on the praise but that might take me into creepy stalker territory...and I ain't goin' there.
10. BWCBoston - ZING OF THE WEEK!
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At least I got mentioned. Even if I'm not in the actual Top 10.
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You'd better learn how the game is played if you're gonna get into politics, man.Originally Posted by Giannini
See? If the cast of Lost had the top ten list, maybe they'd know what the hell was going on!
King of Mars is the M'Krann crystal of the Bendis Board.
How's VP chief of staff sound?Originally Posted by King of Mars
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As long as the "high paying" part is there, you're golden.Originally Posted by Giannini
This thread's a sham and a shame because it doesn't have my Vikings thread.
Make it so.Originally Posted by King of Mars
Blandy/Giannini/Cathy fully support this statement.Originally Posted by Natty P.
He's been hired as my chief of staff.Originally Posted by Blandy
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