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My rabbi permitted me the opportunity to break away from 10 days of reflection and repentance (give or take) so I could speak with the lovely and talented Tara Petrolino of CineSport about the Atlanta Braves, their sweep of the Washington Nationals and what it means moving forward.
And, action …
By Jeff Schultz
For previous CineSport video blogs, click here
And here are some things I actually typed
– This Braves' September isn't anything like the last one
– Georgia Tech shows its upside in win — and it's impressive
– Short takes: 3 thoughts on Georgia Tech's win over Virginia
– A Medlen start, a Braves' win and finally a positive sign
– Predictions: Falcons over 666, Tech wins, Pigs faceplant
– Loss of Brent Grimes doesn't have to derail Falcons' season
– Video blog: On Brent Grimes, Falcons' offense and some early picks
– Falcons finally show an offense worthy of their talent
– Short takes: 3 thoughts on Falcons' win over Chiefs
– Short takes: 3 thoughts on Georgia's win over Missouri
September 17th, 2012
3:41 pm
Good stuff, Jeff. Happy new year!
September 17th, 2012
5:43 pm
Jeff: No doubt your enjoy doing interviews and/or videos with Tara? You certainly looked like you do.
Anyway, you handled the questions with good answers.
September 17th, 2012
6:05 pm
gotta agree with Singer2..Schultz looked at ease…….no squirming or pausing…smooth interview JS…well done
September 17th, 2012
6:14 pm
We don't know, Jeff, you looked a lot like you was reflecting during that video. You know what? We don't blame you a bit. We read where Dan Uggla said there was a lot of joking around going on with the players and we wonder if somebody gave him a noogie after that at-bat last night when he popped up an 0-3 pitch? Is that something you would consider doing in the clubhouse if needed? Also, we was noticing that Fredi said Uggla had the green light on that 0-3 pitch and we was wondering if maybe somebody could give Fredi a tip of the cap for being the unconventional party guy he obviously is.
September 17th, 2012
6:36 pm
FREDI says no nogies just a fanny pat and a hug.
September 17th, 2012
7:25 pm
Trade Uggla to Miami – it's the only place he can hit like that.
September 18th, 2012
9:05 am
I bookmarked this video so I can watch it with my girlfriend tonight. Videos of Jeff turn her on and she's always feeling frisky after. Thanks, Jeff for helping me out.
p.s. If you could do something about shortening that 30 second advertisement leading up to the main feature we'd appreciate it. We get really impatient waiting to get it on.
September 18th, 2012
1:19 pm
Jeff, such a camera hog!
btw, did you hang a picture of you and Tara on the wall to see who Lilly would go for?!
September 18th, 2012
2:00 pm
Interesting point about "loose" players playing better. I read a thing quite a few years back that said they'd done medical studies and they found that when people "choke" the actual electrical impulses in the brain change.
September 21st, 2012
9:29 am
Can't wait till the end of the season when we can demote Hanson, DFA Hanson, or outright release Hanson……HANSON = KAWASUCKI – Worthless


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Moyes encouraged by good week at Finch Farm.
David Moyes says he and his players are relaxed and confident as they prepare for the 216th Merseyside derby.
The Blues welcome their near neighbours to Goodison on Saturday for an eagerly-anticipated lunchtime kick-off in what is one of the Premier League's marquee fixtures.
Moyes says that, as per usual, he will send his players out with a blend of passion, commitment and controlled aggression as they seek to find the right formula for derby success.
And the Everton boss says he has been encouraged by the atmosphere at Finch Farm this week in the build-up to the big game.
"I think we have had a good week," said Moyes. "I think in many ways the mentality comes from the manager. They notice how I am – I could be more stressed than normal or more relaxed than normal – they pick up on the vibes.
"But we have been quite happy. We were pleased with what we did at Man City last week – I know we did not get the result – but we did a lot of things right and we have had a relaxed week.
"The eyes have popped out a few times but no more than normal!"
The Merseyside derby is of course the most played domestic fixture of them all and Moyes believes it remains a unique occasion.
And with him set to lead a team out in the derby for the 21st time – he says his prolonged involvement in the fixture is a source of great pride.
"When I look back after it is all over I will feel very proud and privileged that I was involved in so many," he said. "My job is to now make sure I get a few more wins in them.
"They are all nerve-wracking but any derby, whether it be at Goodison or at Anfield, is great for the supporters. The people are passionate about football – they want to support their teams and there is no harm in that.
"Derbies are not all the same," he added. "Sometimes you need to be cool, sometimes you need to show more passion, while sometimes you get poor refereeing decisions which have made it seem a lot worse than it was.
"You need a good referee and a balance between being committed and wanting to do well for your team and going over the top."
During his time at the Goodison helm Moyes has seen off three Liverpool managers, but is now up against a fourth in Kenny Dalglish – a man he used to idolise in his days as a young fan of the Scottish national team.
And Moyes believes Dalglish's arrival has given their rivals a real lift in the past 12 months.
"There was no Scottish lad who was not a fan of Kenny Dalglish," he said. "Kenny came down and did great playing for Liverpool but I followed him as a player for Scotland. I was a Scotland supporter and used to go to all the games and he was involved with all the great Scottish teams of that time, so you would have to be a fan, wouldn't you?
"This time last year Liverpool were not in a great position," he added. "But they have had a change of owner, a change of manager and some new players – everyone knows that and it is there for everyone to see.
"Liverpool have got good players and we will have to be careful. Since Kenny came in he has transformed them. As I said, a year ago it was very different, but with their spending and Kenny coming in he has given them a lift."
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It's over. The charm is gone and it's sad when you see a flawed cowboy become a parody of themselves. I know the illustrious Dr. Kronner covered this debacle already, but A Good Day to Die Hard should have built on the momentum of John McClane (Bruce Willis) established in his return in Live Free and Die Hard but it just comes a generic, cold reminder that it might be best to retire the character and story because it makes little to no sense anymore.
The plot of the story stems from John McClane coming to Russia to help out his estranged son Jack (Jai Courtney), who seems to have gotten into a mess of things with a political prisoner tied to nuclear weapons. Turns out that Jack is in deep CIA cover and this elaborate plot is about to get McClane'd (y'know, an event that goes awry due to explosions and Europeans?). I wish there was more to this movie, but that pretty much explains it. It tries to create a window into a relationship between a father and son (I guess to a lesser extent, parent and child because there's a subplot of Jack's mark and his own estranged Russian daughter), but it's basically a cliché-fest. The major appeal is John McClane. He is flawed, he buries himself in work, his family always suffers and he still charms his way though with his loyalty and his unflinching desire to right the wrongs, even if he caused them to begin with.
The problem is this isn't John McClane. Bruce Willis is handcuffed by a script that makes him indestructible and boring at the same time. Yes, he gets his quippy one-liners, but he's not human. He doesn't have the odds stacked against him. Obviously we know he comes out on top in the end, but the journey is always one of physical and mental beatings that just don't happen this time around. This time, he might as well be the man of steel as he goes through the routine like it's just another day in the office. Wrong place at the wrong time was always the mantra of these films but in this case, it's wrong place at the right time. When he cross paths with his son, who is in way over his head, everyone knows everything will be alright.
Jai Courtney is serviceable as Jack McClane, although nothing memorable or spectacular. It doesn't help that he's built like a gladiator (probably from his Spartacus days), so he seems more meathead than someone who battles the against insurmountable odds like his father. John McClane was the unlucky guy that had to become a hero out of necessity to survive. Jack McClane seems to be born out of a comic book, seeking the explosions as opposed his father running from the action with glass embedded in his feet. That seems to be the biggest disconnect with this movie, I just don't buy the father/son relationship. There's no real chemistry between the two guys and it feels more like two randoms getting together to fight some Russians. The script doesn't deliver any real moments between the two other than 'you suck as a dad' or 'please forgive me son'. It's basically a generic script they picked out the pile, courtesy of Skip Woods, that threw the McClane name on it. It's lazy and unimaginative.
What else is unoriginal? The direction under John Moore. The shots are straight from the Bourne series and the set pieces come off as uninspired. It's a lot of 'been there, done that'. The car chase sequence has its moments but short of that, it is all retread from previous action movies that have done it better. The movie is a blur and not in a good way. It's nothing memorable and is immediately forgettable after the 97 minutes of mediocrity that splashes the screen. It's a shame really. After 25 years, this should be a celebration of Die Hard. All it ends up is a morning of a franchise to realize that John McClane needs to retire and ride off into the sunset like the cowboy he truly was. "Happy trails
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Interview: with Linus Torvalds
In June of this year, kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman sat down with Linus Torvalds in front of a live audience at LinuxCon Japan to look at the first 20 years of Linux, the state of the kernel, and the future of Linux.
Greg Kroah-Hartman: You announced that the version number is going to change. You said 3.0.
Linus Torvalds: It's not out yet, but I did the RC just before I left for this trip. If everything goes well – and it looks fine so far – in about seven or eight weeks, we'll have the final 3.0 release just in time for the year's festivities. I'm actually really happy about the whole thing. I'm finally getting rid of 2.6!
I don't know how many of you know this, but with our old versioning, I added a third number – we're up to 39 right now – and then to make things even more interesting, Greg does something like 22.214.171.124 to number the stable releases. It just gets really messy. Then all the distributions have their own build version, so when you actually run Linux, you will run something like 18.104.22.168-13 [audience laughs]. We've been doing this for a long time, and it's been kind of meaningless.
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SILWAN, Occupied East Jerusalem, Jul 5, 2010 (IPS) - Frequent clashes and continuing tension in disputed East Jerusalem could portend a major outbreak of civil unrest, residents fear.
Confrontations follow Israel's acceleration of plans to demolish dozens of Palestinian homes. This could leave over a thousand Palestinians homeless.
Furthermore, Israel is continuing to strip hundreds of East Jerusalemites of their residency. Four members of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) from Jerusalem have been ordered to leave the country.
Silwan has become a pivotal point of friction, in the boiling cauldron that East Jerusalem is fast becoming. This follows Jerusalem municipality's approval of the pending demolition of 22 Palestinian homes -- with another 66 on the waiting list -- to make way for a Jewish theme park and an extension of Jewish neighbourhoods, all illegal under international law.
The Jerusalem municipality argues that the Palestinian homes were built without building permits. But Palestinians face an almost impossible bureaucratic battle to obtain permits, despite a chronic housing shortage.
Simultaneously the Israeli authorities actively facilitate Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem even though this is in violation of UN resolutions.
The Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee will shortly publish a new blueprint for the expansion of Jewish neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem, most of them on privately owned Palestinian land.
"They can bring the bulldozers over my family's bodies," Fakhri Abu Diab, an accountant and spokesman from the Bustan Committee trying to fight demolitions tells IPS. "We will not leave our homes. I would rather die than see my children homeless. I'm not prepared to live in a tent that gets continually pulled down.
"The demolition of the homes will leave about 1,500 Palestinians with nowhere to go. Sixty-two percent of the homeless will be children," adds Abu Diab, father of five, and one of the residents whose house is due to be demolished.
Residents of Silwan's Bustan area have tried to meet Jerusalem's municipality halfway. They have hired architects at great expense to come up with an alternative plan that would incorporate green areas into Silwan, and also save the residents' homes.
"The plans were rejected out of hand because they didn't fit in with the municipality's plans to Judaise the neighbourhood," says Abu Diab.
The Jerusalem municipality has been adamant about destroying Palestinian homes and evicting Palestinians from Silwan, but it has not shown the same determination over settlers ordered by the Israeli courts to vacate the vicinity.
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Mother Nature announces the Prophecy. In the living room.
My eyes shoot open in surprise as I feel the energy of my bedroom completely change. The voices in my head jar together, creating a mob-like sound of shouts and curses. What the fuck! Who the hell is that?
Kara, lock your door!
My headache has ebbed, but it's still there; I need more time. But I'm not just about to sit around and do nothing while my friends are shouting – mentally and literally – down the hall. I need to see what the deal is.
I manifest myself a baseball bat before stepping out into the hall. The living room seems to be filled with this unearthly glow, bathing everything in its wake with a newfound sort of beauty.
A voice of wind chimes scolds Mira in…is that Latin? "Vultis mihi? Facis omnia perdant! Omnipotens non disiungi Four in hoc loco!"
I step to the edge of the hallway, peeking my head in. At the center of the room stands a lithe woman with hair the color of wheat, skin the color of pearls, dress the image of a sunset, eyes shimmering through each shade of the rainbow.
"What the fuck are you talking about?" Mira shrieks. "Get out!"
My mind is whirling. Could it really be…? I notice the silver circlet around her head. My heart hammers. It is.
"The Prophecy is at stake here Mira," Mother Nature goes on, easily swapping to English. "This is not time for you to cap an attitude just because you feel cats and dogs shouldn't mix. Nascantur!" Suddenly, Mother Nature turns to face me. Her eyes are a little unnerving, but I manage to stand straight; this is not time to be a wimp. "Kara; so nice of you to join us; is your head feeling any better?" I shake my head no. "What a shame." An idea seems to spur in her. "Come here, child. Lorem?"
Tentatively I take a step forward. I feel everyone's laser gazes on me, burning holes into my back. Mother Nature steps forward and places her fingers on my temples and instantly it's as though this weight has been lifted from my head. I sigh. "Thanks, Mother Nature."
Mira's hand flies to her mouth, muffling the exclamation of "Holy shit!" It's still audible though. Jake's eyes stop roaming her body and look at her, mouth hanging open. Alex nods to himself, probably already realizing this.
"Why are you here?" Mira looks like she wants to either run like hell or scream; knowing her, she'd probably do both.
"And what the hell – heck – were you speaking earlier?" Jake plops down on the couch, wearing his classic expression of blankness.
Mother Nature motions for us all to sit down. So we do. Once we're seated, she waves her hands and the doors lock and curtains snap closed.
"Aren't you not supposed to leave Paradiso except for dire situations?" Alex has taken up his habit of tossing a fireball again.
"I was speaking Latin, my dear boy," Mother Nature says to Jake, ignoring Alex and Mira. Sighing, she waves her hand again and sits on a chair of clouds that just appeared. This is starting to freak me out.
"Why aren't you answering any of our important questions?" I blurt out, stomach flipping.
Her eyes are daggers at me. "I thought you were the mild one, Kara. I suppose not." I wince, waiting for her wrath, but receiving none. "That is good. If you are to fulfill the Prophecy, you need to be courageous."
"Wha – wha – huh?"
"I think what Kara is trying to say is…" Alex looks at Mother Nature pointedly. "We need to know what you're talking about if you want us to do anything." I nod.
"So stop speaking in your damn riddles!" Mira shouts, not bothering to fix her language, even for one of the creators of our world – of us.
Mother Nature twitches uncomfortably in her seat. "I can't tell you everything. That's against the Code. But I can tell you some. For instance, you four are part of a world-altering Prophecy that Tim and I made long ago: the beginning of time."
"Whoa whoa whoa." Jake backpedals, looking at Mother Nature as if she's sprouted another head. "Did you say Tim?"
Mother Nature waves it off. "Father Time; I call him Tim; much too long of a name. He calls me Nat; you may call me this too if you feel compelled to. Anyways," she continues, obviously annoyed to have been stopped for that. "We call it the Great Prophecy. It consists of four Abnormalities – the Almighty Four – and the defeat of the Ancient Ones."
"But they're dead," I insist, not willing for my life to get any weirder. "They were destroyed in the Contritio de antiquis!"
Nat sighs. "So we thought, but a few survived. Then they went into hiding and repopulated, creating the –"
A flash of lightning crashed down onto Nat, and everybody screamed. The lights went out for a minute, and when they flickered back on, Nat was glaring huffily at the ceiling, muttering in Latin. "Deus damno Tim. Acturus sum ad illos stulte!"
"That was Tim?" Mira says, shocked. "Why would he do such a thing?" I don't know what she's talking about; nothing was hurt, and now that it's over, I can confidently say how awesome that was!
"Yes," Nat says, done with her mumbling. "He was fearful that I would give away too much, which I'm not!"
"Okayyyy." I'm determined to find out what's going on here. "You were saying?"
Nat shakes her head and stands up, her chair diminishing. "I only have one more thing to say to you four, and that is the Prophecy."
"Isn't that not allowed? For you to tell us the Prophecy?" Alex is looking nervously towards the ceiling.
This time Nat laughs. "There is some I can tell you without angering Tim." Stretching her arms luxuriously and shaking herself out, Nat opens her mouth and speaks, the light around her growing brighter.
"The Almighty Four will come together to destroy Ancient kind.
Complete the tasks:
Learn your roots
Your powers
And who you are.
Find the ones who go missing
And reunite them.
Defeat the Ancients
Save the Mortals
Or destroy the world.
Complete the tasks or else
Forever serve the Ancients."
Flash! Bang! Sparkles! Sunshine!
Nat is gone and the weight of the world is on our shoulders.
Nice to know you, world. Goodbye, life; we are all screwed.
There goes my shot at normalcy.
Maybe skipping school wasn't the best idea, after all…
Yeah, just defeat the Ancient Ones and you'll be fine. No pressure. I knew skipping school would bring us bad news. This must be some sort of sick, twisted, cosmic joke. There's no way that Mother Nature and Father Time would have woven a prophecy involving four eighteen year olds saving the world. The idiocy of such a thing is so great that I feel like I should be rolling around on the floor laughing right now.
Too bad I know that this is totally legit, and there's no way that this could be a hoax. God damn it all…
Kara has jumped up to begin pacing where Nat stood just a second before. "What the hell are we supposed to do now?!"
"I don't know," I reply honestly. What does one do when they're told that their job in life is to save the world?
Mira's digging her nails – excuse me, they're claws now – into a pillow. "This is fucking screwed up, you guys. I mean, what the fuck does that Prophecy even mean?"
"It means exactly what it says," Kara tells her, sinking back into the cushions beside me. "But what we do about it, I have no idea."
Jake breaks the silence. "Has anybody ever considered that we just do it?"
"How do you propose we do that, smart-ass?" Mira looks ready to rip his head off. Yeah, she tends to have issues with her temper…
When he shrugs, I can literally see my twin restrain herself from lunging at him. "She never said we couldn't ask for help; why don't we? I'm sure somebody knows the truth about the Ancient Ones."
Kara stands up and resumes her pace. "That's actually not a bad idea. Our only problem then would be with whom should we trust?" Stopping mid-stride, she looks at me. "Didn't Ms. Clumpy seem a little, I don't know, suspicious when the topic was brought up in class? Maybe she knows something." A look of relief sets into her face. "And she's pretty reliable; I say she's as good a person as any to go to."
Mira stands up. "Well, that's good enough for me; let's go!"
"Wait a second," I say, running this idea over in my mind. "School's still going on, and we cut. Do you really think we can just waltz back in there? It's highly unlikely that Mr. Fedner didn't inform the Headmistress about our escape."
For once, Kara's the one with the evil glint in her eye. "So we'll break in."
This new devious Kara is pretty awesome. Still, I have to wonder if it's really a good thing that she's letting this Prophecy affect her this much. Oh well. Without her, this entire scheme would have never gone down.
We head off to school on foot, so as not to raise suspicion from a very late-coming car. We approach school grounds through the woods on the east side – the school is settled in a U-shaped clearing amidst the woods – and linger on the fringe of the trees. Kara motions for us to stay put while she runs off with her superhuman speed towards the back of the school, remaining in the woods. When she returns, she gives us the thumbs up. "P.F.E. is doing training outside. We're in the clear."
Now we each go to our respective tree shelters as we change into the P.F.E. uniforms Kara has just manifested us. They consist of baggy green shorts (ew) and baggy white shirts (also ew). Once everybody's changed we head step out of the woods and scurry towards the school building.
Here's the thing: we're only using the uniforms as an excuse. If somebody spots us out here, they can assume we're harmless students who wandered away from the sweat of P.F.E. But really, we won't be outside long. If this works, we'll be on the second story of the school in Ms. Clumpy's classroom. We timed this perfectly: her one free period, since we have such a small senior class. As long as the window's unlocked, we're in.
Kara stares intently at the wall for a moment. No one has spoken since we left the house, except for Kara to signal the all-clear. I want to scream at the top of my lungs I'm so pent up with anxiety, but I figured that would pretty much fuck up the plan, so I stayed quiet and listened to the joyous screams and shouts from the other students who were so close, and yet so far. We could never be like them again.
Jake's nudge scares the shit out of me I'm so spaced out. "What the fuck, Jake?" I whisper, unwilling to be the one to mess anything up.
He looks at me, big brown eyes startled. "It's your turn," he says quietly, stepping aside and motioning towards the ladder Kara manifested. Crap. Now I hurt the damn dog's feelings. And for some reason I feel guilty. This Prophecy thing is totally doing all sorts of crazy things to my already fucked-up brain.
Only once we're all on does Kara peer over the top of the ladder and into the window. Cautiously, she tries to pry it open.
God damn it, we're locked out!
"What are we going to do now?" I whisper irritably at Kara's foot. "Knock?"
To my utter shock, that's exactly what she does. Her pale hand forms a fist and raps on the glass three times: click click click. "What the fuck, Kara? She's never going to –!"
Next thing I know, my best friend's been dragged through the window effortlessly and The Clump's bright pink hair pops into view. "What are you waiting for?" she hisses, eyes darting furiously. "Get in here!"
Ms. Clumpy is kind of frightening when she's royally pissed off. I mean sure, she's three feet of pure jiggle, but seriously, she can do a mean glare. And the words that come out of her mouth put even Mira to shame, and that's saying something. Her disapproval rolled off of her in waves as she ranted about our irresponsibility, the danger of doing such a thing (doesn't she remember we're indestructible?) and finally, the reason why we did it in the first place. Once we explained the Gym Incident – aka, its burning – she started screaming again, her plump face going red. I thought she was going to go into cardiac arrest at this point. But no, we weren't done yet; we had yet to explain the purpose for actually coming to her. Let's just say that we learned an important lesson: elves do not take kindly to people dumping water on them. Yes, that's right: when we told her about the Prophecy, she literally passed out. The girls freaked.
"Oh my God!" Kara screamed. "Is she dead?"
"No way," Mira said, nudging Clumpy with her toe. "Does this mean that paper thingy isn't due tomorrow?"
"Mira!" Kara slaps her arm. "What the hell kind of question is that? This woman could be dead, and you're worried about homework?"
"I know," she says, dazed, but still horrified. "I sound like you!"
"Oh my God, Mir." Kara slaps her again. "Get a grip!"
"Guys," Alex finally cut in. "Would you stop arguing? She's clearly breathing. We just need to wake her up."
One bucket of water and a very wet and very aggravated wake-up call later, Ms. Clumpy is awake and calmed down. We're sitting in front of her desk in some hard metal chairs and she's staring at us expectantly, waiting for one of us to begin. Not surprisingly, Kara is the first to speak. She had the whole thing memorized, and she recited it for Ms. Clumpy in a dreamy, lilting voice, sounding, in my opinion, better than Mother Nature herself.
Another beat of silence goes by after she's finished. Ms. Clumpy's head rests on her clasped fists, eyes closed in concentration. When she looks up, she picks her glasses up off the desk and taps them against the wood, still thinking. "And you are sure those were the words?"
"Yes ma'am." Kara still had the Southern manners she had been raised with, even if she lacked the accent.
"And you are quite positive that it was Mother Nature you saw?"
"Yes ma'am!"
Ms. Clumpy's face falls back into her hands. "You poor children."
Kara's eyebrows knit together. "Ma'am?"
Our teacher's eyes are sharp, and unnaturally dark as opposed to her usual teal. It's more than a little unsettling. "You don't know, do you?"
"Don't know what Ms. Clumpy?" Mira snaps. "I'm really tired of all these damn riddles that are being handed to us!"
Tilting her head to the side like some sort of creepy doll, Ms. Clumpy replies: "That you four are –"
A flash of lightning crashes down in the center of the room. Again, both of the girls scream shrilly. When I turn back to Ms. Clumpy, she looks…older; her hair looks more washed out, and her face is wrinkling. But the new set eyes she has are the same.
"Ms. Clumpy!" Kara pants, "That must have been Mother Nature. You can't tell us whatever you were about –"
This blinding light and rumble of thunder shake the room, and I can't see a thing. The room is now pitch black. I feel Kara and Mira grab either one of my arms, their nails digging into my skin. Mira lets out a threatening hiss, and I growl. Kara abandons me – for Alex, I'm sure – and whimpers.
"What's going on?" Alex demands, voice ringing out. "Ms. Clumpy –"
Flash! Bang! Sparkles! Sunshine! "Suspicabar te ab initio audistis me Tania?" Nat's voice was rash and loud as she rambled on in Latin, clearly her favored tongue. "Tu excessisse rerum ordinem. Tempus veneris mecum collocaverunt ad. Tu prohibentur Uprising ponatur pro te ita. Nunc dimittis Quatuor omnipotens et abeuntes! Mando it!"
She's saying that she suspected Tania all along, and that she's overstepped the Natural Order of Things. Now Nat's demanding that Tania come with her to be relocated because it is forbidden to put the Resistance in her favor. I guess she was trying to tell us too much? She also wants us released.
Wait. Tania. Wasn't that Ms. Chambers first name? "What's going on?" I command, feeling weak next to Mother Nature's imposing glowing figure and violated from Kara's invasion of my mind to translate.
"Silentium puer!" An all too familiar voice yelled, and my lips were suddenly sealed shut. I felt Kara's panic sweep into my mind. Jake! Headmistress Chambers is an Ancient One! And she's just cursed you!
Where the fuck are you, Kara? For some reason, I knew she wasn't here.
I don't know, she answers smally. In a room. Alex is here. I'm seeing all this through your mind. I think Mira's still there with you. Tania must have separated us for safety reasons. Her voice was growing faint. Jake, I can't hold on… She was gone.
"Tu quoque naturalibus interrupit!" Tania went on, voice clearly joyful. "Aequum est ut dicamus, accipe oculum pro oculo. Filii nobiscum. Vel ego iugulo slit in praesentia, et non poterunt facere aliquid."
Now she's saying that Nat also overstepped the Natural Order of Things. So following the old saying "an eye for an eye," we have to stay or she'll slit our throats. Nat won't be able to interfere; it's against this old law that really needs to be changed. Apparently Kara got her grip back.
Nat's face and voice were clearly strained as she sat silent for a moment. Mira's hand found mine and I squeezed it gently.
"Satis bene. Quod si ita est necesse modo. Oculum pro oculo. Posthac autem per permanere Legibus prophetiae. Ego paradisum Tania spectat, recordare."
She's leaving. Nat will be watching, but now they both must follow the Laws of the Prophecy. I don't know what those are! Kara's connection goes static-y before once again she's ripped from my head.
Flash! Bang! Sparkles! Sunshine!
Be careful, my children, Nat whispers before she is gone and Tania stands alone in the center of the room.


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RECIPE # 4449 - GIANT PUFFED APPLE PANCAKE - Thurs., March 11,2010
2 Granny Smith apples, peeled and sliced
1/4 lb butter
1/2 c brown sugar, packed
1 t ground cinnamon
3 eggs
1/3 c whole milk
1/3 c heavy cream
2 T granulated sugar
¼ t salt
1/4 t vanilla
1/3 c all purpose flour
Prepare one day ahead. Serves 2-4.
Melt butter in skillet over medium heat. Add brown sugar and cinnamon. When brown sugar and butter are melted, add apples and sauté for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Let cool and store in refrigerator overnight.
Beat eggs in electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add milk, cream, sugar, salt and vanilla. Mix until sugar is dissolved. Sift flour into mixture and blend until smooth. Refrigerate.
Remove apples and batter from refrigerator and bring to room temperature for about 1 hour before cooking.
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Place the apples in bottom of 8-inch skillet (preferably an iron skillet) and cover the entire bottom with the apples. Shake batter well, pour over apples, and immediately place in the oven. Bake for 16-18 minutes or until top starts to brown. Remove from oven and cool for one minute.
Loosen pancake from pan by running a spatula around the edges. Place serving plate on top of the skillet and invert onto the plate. Dust with powdered sugar and serve with syrup if desired. Serve immediately.
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Chicken Caesar Salad
Using a precooked rotisserie chicken makes this salad extra easy and fast, although any leftover cooked chicken or grilled fish will work. If sending to school for lunch, pack dressing, croutons, and cheese in containers or zip-top plastic bags separate from the salad.
Yield: 2 servings (serving size: 2 cups)
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Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 219
- Calories from fat: 0.0%
- Fat: 11g
- Saturated fat: 2.7g
- Monounsaturated fat: 1.2g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.5g
- Protein: 18.3g
- Carbohydrate: 13.2g
- Fiber: 2.5g
- Cholesterol: 54mg
- Iron: 1.3mg
- Sodium: 695mg
- Calcium: 122mg
- 4 cups torn romaine lettuce
- 3/4 cup shredded skinless boneless rotisserie chicken breast (about 3 ounces)
- 1/3 cup diced red bell pepper
- 1/4 cup light Caesar dressing
- 1/3 cup fat-free Caesar-flavored croutons
- 3 tablespoons grated fresh Parmesan cheese
- 1. Combine first 4 ingredients in a large bowl. Sprinkle with croutons and cheese; toss gently.
- Young Chefs can:
- Tear lettuce leaves
- Measure croutons
- Older Chefs can:
- Help shred chicken breast
- Combine ingredients in bowl
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And The Associated Press reports that "Court blocks 2 more parts of Ala. immigration law."
Posted at 10:24 PM by Howard Bashman
You can access today's 6-to-3 ruling of the Supreme Court of Mississippi at this link.
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And Dow Jones Newswires have an article headlined "Ecuador: Two Judges Involved In Chevron Case Dismissed."
Today, Chevron Corp. issued a news release headlined "Judge Who Issued $18.2 Billion Ruling Against Chevron Removed From Bench; Ecuador's Judicial Council Determines Judge Zambrano Complicit in Drug Trafficking Scandal."
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Update: Terry Baynes of Reuters reports that "Law based on animal fable confuses jurors, lawyers and judges."
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You can freely access the full text of the article via Google News.
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In today's edition of The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko reports that "Wrongful death suit over pink underwear reinstated."
And Cronkite News reports that "New trial ordered over Arpaio's pink-underwear policy for inmates."
My earlier coverage of yesterday's Ninth Circuit ruling appears at this link.
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The cutout portion is tossed into the cabinet. A spectator is asked to tug on one of the protruding ends - and the other end immediately moves! The door drops open and the handkerchief is completely restored! The spectator may remove it from the cabinet himself. We know this sounds impossible but that's is exactly what happens. Remember, a borrowed handkerchief is used - it can be marked - no sleight of hand is required the handkerchief never leaves the sight of the audience. A necktie, ribbon or long thin stocking may also be used. A stunner!


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Turritopsis nutricula
In a normal jellyfish life cycle, the jellyfish will transform from an immature polyp stage to a sexually mature medusa stage. After reproducing, the jellyfish will die. However, the turritopsis nutricula can revert back to its polyp stage after achieving maturity. In laboratories, the turritopsis nutricula has been able to continue doing this indefinitely.
This would be like an adult human turning back into a little kid, then growing up again, over and over again. The turritopsis nutricula can't die of old age, so it earns the title of "immortal". Of course, unlike the normal definition of immortal, the "immortal jellyfish" can still be eaten or die from natural causes.
ITS SO FREAKING COOL! This thing can't die!
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Per the twitterz, Duke is now expressing interest in 6'6 2014 wing Justise Winslow. Highlights from last weekend: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CNZuSssf2U
Adding Justise Winslow to our 2014 target list, what I've been able to compile from the posts and tweets of others, meaning it's likely incomplete, our list for 2014 looks like this:
Tyus Jones 6'0 171 out of Minnesota. Appears we're going real hard after this kid. But so is everyone else. Appears to have superstar written all over him at this point.
JaQual Richmond 6'1" 170, out of North Carolina.
Theo Pinson 6'6" 180, North Carolina. Been on him a long time already it seems like and he's just a rising junior!
Wayne Selden, 6'5" 200, Boston
Justise Winslow, 6'6" 195, out of Houston.
Jahlil Okafor 6'9" 270, Chicago. Everyone wants him.
Here's a nice write up on the current #2 prospect in the 2014 class.
In particular, this is nice to read:
He has taken trips to Ohio State, Duke, North Carolina, North Carolina State and Arizona.
I'm looking for a place that has good players. I want to win a lot of games, Okafor said. And my focus is on education.
While there are no favorites right now, he said Duke, Michigan State, Ohio State and Arizona are coming at him the hardest.
Singler is IRON
I STILL GOT IT! -- Ryan Kelly, March 2, 2013
Really hoping to get the Pinson kid as well as Wayne Selden.
"[T]he tarnished Tar Heels that bear little resemblance to the revered program built by Dean Smith."- Ashville Times
"UNC and the NCAA are trying to conceal that the fraud was specifically designed to pad the transcripts of varsity athletes" - Bloomberg
"[T]he tarnished Tar Heels that bear little resemblance to the revered program built by Dean Smith."- Ashville Times
"UNC and the NCAA are trying to conceal that the fraud was specifically designed to pad the transcripts of varsity athletes" - Bloomberg
Just thought I'd throw out this article I came across today on Tyus Jones, predicting him to be a Blue Devil among other info.
FYI...It goes will with the main-paige article about Wiggin, Pinson, and Jones.
Does anyone know our strategy with respect to Theo Pinson's recruitment? It sounds like he likes Duke and that we are in a strong position with him, but are we waiting until 2013 fleshes itself out prior to offering him? Seems like a top talent who would be a great fit.
I don't know how much actual information on this Telep has, so take it for what it's worth.
Scout has its updated 2014 class rankings out. These are rising juniors. Of the guys we're thought to be going after hardest, here are their rankings:
1 - Wiggins
2 - Okafor
5 - Tyus Jones
6 - Wayne Selden
12 - Justise Winslow
17 - Pinson
25 - Joel Berry
35 - JaQuel Richmond
Scout has a column for each kid entitled "Schools of Interest." I don't know if that means schools that are interested in the player, or vice-versa. But they do not list Duke with regards to Selden, Winslow, or Berry. That could be just the result of Scout not having the information that we're actively recruiting those kids, or perhaps as to one or more of them, they're correct and we're not.
On the other hand, they have us on the list for #16 rated Justin Jackson, a 6'6" SF out of Texas. That's a name that I haven't seen discussed in relation to Duke before.
Here's the link to the list:
i am an asst. coach in scranton, pa and there is a kid by the name of j.c. show that plays on an opposing team that i hope the staff takes a look at. he is very similar to gerry macnamara, from syracuse, at this point in his career. i know duke went after macnamara hard. i think this kid would be a great fit at duke. he is a great kid, leader, and an unbelievably hard worker. as a soph. this past season, he took his team to the state semifinals in the aaa division and averaged close to 30 pts. in the tournament. he will def. be popping up on the radar at some pt.
ESPN's hot-off-the-presses updated top 60 players "considering" Duke:
2. Okafor
3. Jones
11. Winslow
14. Pinson
The USA U-17 team is rolling, winning big tonight over China.
USA 116 -- China 47
2014 prospects Justise Winslow, Tyus Jones, and Jahlil Okafor have been playing well as the USA is 5-0. Believe 2014 prospect Theo Pinson failed to make the team. Jabari Parker, a star in the 2013 high school class, has been held out for two games due to a (reportedly minor) knee injury.
Winslow appears to be a "stat-sheet stuffer" who gets points, rebounds, assists, and steals.


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Baerke van der Mey was asked to join VVV-Venlo's star midfielder Ken Leemans during a training session in De Koel Stadium on Tuesday before being offered 10-year professional contract.
After seeing his side lose 4-0 to Brondby, Randers FC head coach Ove Christensen vented his fury at reporter who asked him "whether he believes is he the right man to lead the club out of relegation zone".
A late Liam Davies' strike secured a vital point for Northampton as they came from two goals down to draw with Rotherham at the Sixfields Stadium, but it was the Cobblers fan in the wheelchair who took the credits for the highlight of the match.
Like father, like son, like any other football crazed fan.
Boston Bruins defenseman Andrew Ference could face a fine for as much as $2,500 for flipping the bird to Montreal Canadiens fans, depending will NHL office believe the video or his apology.
Only hours after beating archrival Barcelona in the domestic cup final in Valencia, Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos accidentally dropped the Copa del Rey trophy under the wheels of a parade bus in front of 60,000 celebrating fans in Madrid.
Here is a little hint: Cristiano Ronaldo is not bald, Brazilian and retired.
Crowd in famed Bördelandhalle in Magdeburg saw some unexpected punches after Khoren Gevor, an Armenian-German boxer and former EBU Middleweight champion, lost his nerve and started beating referee Manfred Küchler, furious after being disqualified.
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The Islanders will play their third home game of the season later today against the New Jersey Devils. After a 5-game road trip, the Isles secured 7 out of 10 possible points, leaving them tied with the Devils for 2nd place in the Atlantic. (Photo Credit: Thomas Weber/The Checking Line)
These two teams last met on Thursday, where the Islanders put on a spectacular special teams showcase. The Isles killed all five New Jersey power-plays and went 3 for 4 on their own man advantage, winning the game 5-4 thanks to a Brad Boyes overtime goal.
NY Islanders End Road Trip With An OT Win in New Jersey (photo credit:newjerseydamo/flickr)
With seven games in the books, Islander fans are left feeling oddly confident and pleasantly surprised with the team's success to begin their season. With a tough road trip that traveled through the cities of Toronto, Boston, Winnipeg, Pittsburgh and New Jersey, the Islanders return home accomplishing what they had intended to do.
Stay afloat.
One of the most refreshing commentary about this team is that they are in every game. Yes, it is still early but they have not looked over matched and they had opportunities to win every game they've played in this year.
The Isles are currently 2-1-1 on this trip after Tuesday night's destruction of the Pittsburgh Penguins. As always, the Islanders are led by their star John Tavares who has two goals and six assists for eight points in the season's first eight games.
Looking to rebound from two consecutive road losses to the Bruins and the Jets, the Islanders came into Pittsburgh on Tuesday night to break the streak. The Isles, who haven't had much luck in the Steel City, had been defeated in 13 of their last 14 games in Pittsburgh. (Photo Credit: AxsDeny/Flickr)
Early in the first period, the Penguins went to the power play twice where they were incredibly ineffective. The Islanders penalty killers held the Pens out of their zone and off the scoreboard.
With under five minutes left in the opening period, the Isles put up their first of the night.
During the second intermission, MSG's Peter Ruttgaizer asked Islanders assistant coach Doug Weight what he wanted in the third period and Weight responded, "two goals."
The request was granted, and then some!
It's early. The season is only four games old for the New York Islanders, who have come out of the gate with a 2-2-0 record. And although he has four assists on the year, it hasn't been John Tavares who has been scoring the majority of the goals (Photo Credit: MR_53/Flickr).
Keith Aucoin, who is tied for first on the team in goals with Michael Grabner, is slowly emerging as this year's key pick up by GM Garth Snow.
Grabner is expected to be on the score sheet after scoring 20-plus goals over his first two years with the Islanders. But Aucoin has only played 106 NHL games and only had the first two-goal game of his career last night against the Boston Bruins.
NY Islanders Open 5 Game Road Trip With a Big Win in Toronto (Photo Credit: earth to ilyse)
The New York Islanders kick off their first road trip of the season tonight against the Toronto Maple Leafs at the Air Canada Centre. It will be the first of three meetings between the two teams during the shortened 48-game season.
With healthy head coach Jack Capuano back behind the bench, the Isles came out on Monday afternoon with confidence and agility. They look to keep the momentum going tonight and pick up another two points. (Photo Credit: gbalogh/Flickr)
Lee, the Islanders 6th round pick (154th overall) of the 2009 NHL entry draft, is a center on a very good Fighting Irish team. The 6'3" 227 pound Edina, Minnesota native is a junior for the 7th ranked Notre Dame squad.


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The "neuroscience" shelves in bookshops are groaning. But are the works of authors such as Malcolm Gladwell and Jonah Lehrer just self-help books dressed up in a lab coat?
An intellectual pestilence is upon us. Shop shelves groan with books purporting to explain, through snazzy brain-imaging studies, not only how thoughts and emotions function, but how politics and religion work, and what the correct answers are to age-old philosophical controversies. The dazzling real achievements of brain research are routinely pressed into service for questions they were never designed to answer. This is the plague of neuroscientism – aka neurobabble, neurobollocks, or neurotrash – and it's everywhere.
In my book-strewn lodgings, one literally trips over volumes promising that "the deepest mysteries of what makes us who we are are gradually being unravelled" by neuroscience and cognitive psychology. (Even practising scientists sometimes make such grandiose claims for a general audience, perhaps urged on by their editors: that quotation is from the psychologist Elaine Fox's interesting book on "the new science of optimism", Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain, published this summer.) In general, the "neural" explanation has become a gold standard of non-fiction exegesis, adding its own brand of computer-assisted lab-coat bling to a whole new industry of intellectual quackery that affects to elucidate even complex sociocultural phenomena. Chris Mooney's The Republican Brain: the Science of Why They Deny Science – and Reality disavows "reductionism" yet encourages readers to treat people with whom they disagree more as pathological specimens of brain biology than as rational interlocutors.
The New Atheist polemicist Sam Harris, in The Moral Landscape, interprets brain and other research as showing that there are objective moral truths, enthusiastically inferring – almost as though this were the point all along – that science proves "conservative Islam" is bad.
Happily, a new branch of the neuroscience explains everything genre may be created at any time by the simple expedient of adding the prefix "neuro" to whatever you are talking about. Thus, "neuroeconomics" is the latest in a long line of rhetorical attempts to sell the dismal science as a hard one; "molecular gastronomy" has now been trumped in the scientised gluttony stakes by "neurogastronomy"; students of Republican and Democratic brains are doing "neuropolitics"; literature academics practise "neurocriticism". There is "neurotheology", "neuromagic" (according to Sleights of Mind, an amusing book about how conjurors exploit perceptual bias) and even "neuromarketing". Hoping it's not too late to jump on the bandwagon, I have decided to announce that I, too, am skilled in the newly minted fields of neuroprocrastination and neuroflâneurship.
Illumination is promised on a personal as well as a political level by the junk enlightenment of the popular brain industry. How can I become more creative? How can I make better decisions? How can I be happier? Or thinner? Never fear: brain research has the answers. It is self-help armoured in hard science. Life advice is the hook for nearly all such books. (Some cram the hard sell right into the title – such as John B Arden's Rewire Your Brain: Think Your Way to a Better Life.) Quite consistently, heir recommendations boil down to a kind of neo- Stoicism, drizzled with brain-juice. In a selfcongratulatory egalitarian age, you can no longer tell people to improve themselves morally. So self-improvement is couched in instrumental, scientifically approved terms.
The idea that a neurological explanation could exhaust the meaning of experience was already being mocked as "medical materialism" by the psychologist William James a century ago. And today's ubiquitous rhetorical confidence about how the brain works papers over a still-enormous scientific uncertainty. Paul Fletcher, professor of health neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, says that he gets "exasperated" by much popular coverage of neuroimaging research, which assumes that "activity in a brain region is the answer to some profound question about psychological processes. This is very hard to justify given how little we currently know about what different regions of the brain actually do." Too often, he tells me in an email correspondence, a popular writer will "opt for some sort of neuro-flapdoodle in which a highly simplistic and questionable point is accompanied by a suitably grand-sounding neural term and thus acquires a weightiness that it really doesn't deserve. In my view, this is no different to some mountebank selling quacksalve by talking about the physics of water molecules' memories, or a beautician talking about action liposomes."
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This article is the sort of thing I love. Actually examining the economic decisions people make, and looking at the various cognitive biases that come into play, rather than assuming that people act "rationally" according to free-market theories. It's astounding, if you actually scratch the surface of economics how much of it rests on assumptions that are never empirically tested. In this article, Nobel Laureate and psychologist Daniel Kahneman looks at the performance of mutual fund managers:
Mutual funds are run by highly experienced and hardworking professionals who buy and sell stocks to achieve the best possible results for their clients. Nevertheless, the evidence from more than 50 years of research is conclusive: for a large majority of fund managers, the selection of stocks is more like rolling dice than like playing poker. Typically at least two out of every three mutual funds underperform the overall market in any given year.
More important, the year-to-year correlation between the outcomes of mutual funds is very small, barely higher than zero. The successful funds in any given year are mostly lucky; they have a good roll of the dice. There is general agreement among researchers that nearly all stock pickers, whether they know it or not – and few of them do – are playing a game of chance.
The subjective experience of traders is that they are making sensible educated guesses in a situation of great uncertainty. In highly efficient markets, however, educated guesses are no more accurate than blind guesses.
And when he discusses these findings with the mutual fund managers themselves, and their employers?
This should have been shocking news to them, but it was not. There was no sign they disbelieved us. How could they? After all, we had analysed their own results, and they were sophisticated enough to see the implications, which we politely refrained from spelling out. We all went on calmly with our dinner, and I have no doubt that both our findings and their implications were quickly swept under the rug and that life in the firm went on as before. The illusion of skill is not only an individual aberration; it is deeply ingrained in their culture. Facts that challenge such basic assumptions – and thereby threaten people's livelihood and self-esteem – are simply not absorbed. The mind does not digest them. This is particularly true of statistical studies of performance, which provide base-rate information that people generally ignore when it clashes with their personal impressions from experience.
But a scientific revolution that has taken place in the last decade or so illuminates a different way to address the dysfunctions associated with childhood hardship. This science suggests that many of these problems have roots earlier than is commonly understood—especially during the first two years of life. Researchers, including those of the Bucharest project, have shown how adversity during this period affects the brain, down to the level of DNA—establishing for the first time a causal connection between trouble in very early childhood and later in life. And they have also shown a way to prevent some of these problems—if action is taken during those crucial first two years.
The first two years, however, happen to be the period of a child's life in which we invest the least. According to research by the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, children get about half as many taxpayer resources, per person, as do the elderly. And among children, the youngest get the least. The annual federal investment in elementary school kids approaches $11,000 per child. For infants and toddlers up to age two, it is just over $4,000. When it comes to early childhood, public policy is lagging far behind science—with disastrous consequences.


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Very easy and quick to make, I like very much
Chicken Quesadillas With Roasted Corn Salsa
Leigh Beisch
Yield: 4 servings (serving size: 1 quesadilla)
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- Calories: 351
- Fat: 11g
- Saturated fat: 2g
- Monounsaturated fat: 6g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 2g
- Protein: 25g
- Carbohydrate: 40g
- Fiber: 4g
- Cholesterol: 3mg
- Iron: 3mg
- Sodium: 645mg
- Calcium: 50mg
- Salsa:
- 1 cup frozen whole-kernel corn
- 3/4 cup chunky bottled salsa
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh cilantro
- 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- Chicken:
- 1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breasts, diced into 1/2-inch pieces
- 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
- 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
- 4 teaspoons olive oil, divided
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 4 (8-inch) flour tortillas
- 1/2 cup grated queso fresco or Monterey Jack cheese
- 1. Heat a 12-inch nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add corn; cook 5 minutes, stirring until lightly charred. Remove from heat; wipe skillet clean.
- 2. Combine corn, salsa, cilantro, and 2 tablespoons lime juice in bowl.
- 3. Place chicken in medium bowl. Add 1 tablespoon lime juice, chili powder, cumin, salt, and pepper; stir well and set aside.
- 4. Heat 2 teaspoons oil in skillet over medium heat. Add chicken; cook 5 minutes or until it is heated through, stirring occasionally. Add garlic during last 30 seconds of cooking. Transfer chicken to a plate; wipe skillet clean.
- 5. Wrap tortillas in a paper towel; microwave on HIGH about 15 seconds or until warm. Sprinkle 2 tablespoons cheese over half of each tortilla; top each with chicken and 2 tablespoons salsa. Fold tortillas in half; brush tops with remaining oil; sprinkle with salt, if desired.
- 6. Heat skillet over medium-low heat. Add 2 quesadillas, oiled sides down, pressing to flatten. Cook 1 minute or until lightly browned. Flip; cook 45 seconds and transfer to a cutting board. Repeat procedure with remaining quesadillas.
- 7. Cut quesadillas into wedges; serve hot with remaining salsa.
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- PUBLICATION: Health
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MOSCOW — Mikhail Gorbachev will not attend late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's funeral in Britain next week because of health problems, a spokesman for the last leader of the Soviet Union said on Thursday.
"He is not feeling very well," spokesman Vladimir Polyakov said by telephone.
"He cannot make it," Polyakov said. "One must take into account his age."
Gorbachev, 82, paid tribute to Thatcher in a statement after she died on Monday, calling her "a great politician and an exceptional person" who helped end the Cold War.
The former Soviet president's last public appearance was on March 30, when he gave a lecture in Moscow.
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DENVER, CO - It's been a hot topic across the United States, recreational marijuana legalized in both Washington and Colorado. Pot stores are already opening up in Colorado and many people in Washington are watching closely.
Inside 3D Cannabis just outside downtown Denver, workers package their product to gear up for another big weekend of sales. Since the shop went retail January 1st the flood of customers has been unlike what anyone has seen.
"It's crazy to see this many people come in and out," said Brooke Taylor-Oloughlin, 3D Cannabis employee.
Olaughlin works at the shop she says there are certainly challenges to keeping secure their product and the hundreds of thousands of dollars it brings in.
"It definitely brings some risks," she said.
At 3D Cannabis in Denver there are six of these grow rooms. The product in here alone is worth $70,000. So with big money comes big security.
"We have a security camera in every room," she said.
Manager David Martinez estimates the shop spends 3k on security every month.
"(It's) just like a bank. (The) nice thing about a bank though if they were to get robbed they have insurance we don't," said David Martinez, 3D Cannabis manager.
Unlike Washington and Colorado law, federal law still says marijuana is illegal. And the difference says Martinez is not
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Doc Rivers has agreed to a five-year, $35 million contract extension to remain coach of the Boston Celtics, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.
Rivers' contract was set to expire at the end of this season. He had considered taking a leave from coaching, but after the Celtics were eliminated from the playoffs on Wednesday he told players he planned to return.
Rivers led the Celtics to the 2008 championship. The Celtics also reached the NBA Finals in 2010 and lost to the Los Angeles Lakers in seven games.
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This was very interesting. You can definitely taste the sour cream. We don't have Brown Turkey figs where we live so had to substitute. The ice cream is fairly mild in flavor, & the sour cream makes it unusual.
Fig and Sour Cream Ice Cream
We tested this recipe using Brown Turkey figs. Their subtle coppery skin won't discolor the cream as it churns. The ice cream will be very soft served fresh out of the churn. If you drain the liquid, repack with ice and salt, cover, and ripen the ice cream, it should set up.
Yield: 8 servings (serving size: 2/3 cup)
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- Calories: 243
- Fat: 8.7g
- Saturated fat: 4.7g
- Monounsaturated fat: 2.8g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.6g
- Protein: 6.1g
- Carbohydrate: 35g
- Fiber: 1.5g
- Cholesterol: 120mg
- Iron: 0.4mg
- Sodium: 91mg
- Calcium: 159mg
- 2 cups coarsely chopped fresh figs
- 3/4 cup sugar, divided
- 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
- 1/8 teaspoon salt, divided
- 2 1/2 cups whole milk
- 4 large egg yolks
- 1 cup reduced-fat sour cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1. Combine figs, 2 tablespoons sugar, juice, and a dash of salt. Cover and chill.
- 2. Cook milk in a heavy saucepan over medium-high heat to 180° or until tiny bubbles form around edge (do not boil). Remove from heat.
- 3. Combine remaining 10 tablespoons sugar, remaining dash of salt, and egg yolks in a bowl, stirring with a whisk. Gradually add half of hot milk to egg mixture, stirring constantly with a whisk. Return milk mixture to pan; cook over medium-low heat 5 minutes or until a thermometer registers 160°, stirring constantly. Place pan in an ice-filled bowl; cool custard mixture, stirring occasionally. Stir in sour cream and vanilla. Cover and chill.
- 4. Pour custard mixture into freezer can of an ice-cream freezer; freeze according to manufacturer's instructions. Stop machine and remove lid. Add fig mixture to freezer can. Replace lid; restart ice-cream freezer, and freeze 5 minutes or until set. Carefully drain liquid from bucket; repack bucket with ice and salt. Cover with kitchen towels; ripen at least 1 hour.
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- CUISINE: American
- MAIN INGREDIENT: Dairy
- DIETARY CONSIDERATION: Low Sodium
- COOKING METHOD: Ice-Cream Maker
- OCCASION: Summer
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Felger & Massarotti opened the week discussing the Bruins 5-3 Game 4 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday afternoon.
Is this the kind of Bruins team that like to play when their back are up against the wall? Is this team better when they are playing from behind?
Does a loss in Game 4, tying the series, swing the momentum into Tampa Bay's favor?
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The following students at Richmond Hill Middle School were named to the honor roll for the second nine-week grading period of the 2010-11 school year:
The following students from this area were named to the Columbia College dean's list for the October to December 2010 award period: Kimerly E. Chillers, Christina E. Gondry, Robert Gross and Valerie Ramos, all of Richmond Hill.
College is getting harder to pay for.
The Savannah Area McDonald's Operators' Association has opened its scholarship program for applications, and is primed to award more than $50,000 towards higher education for the second year in a row.
Richmond Hill Middle School has talent.
Stefanie Meghan Ortiz of Richmond Hill qualified for the dean's list at Brewton-Parker College of Mount Vernon for the fall 2010 semester.
Richmond Hill Middle School students Erin Crosby and Conner Shortridge proved Wednesday they really know how to spell. Shortridge and Crosby took first and second place, respectively, in the school's spelling bee. Shortridge will go on to compete in the system-wide spelling bee next month. If for any reason he can't make it, Crosby will serve as alternate. Shortridge won by correctly spelling "dangle," but other words during the four official rounds of the bee included "cumulonimbus," "entrepreneur" and "jingoism."
Lanier Primary School hosted its second annual Dr. Seuss Night on Jan. 10. Parents came to the school with their children to participate in activities centered on the Dr. Seuss theme and promoted child literacy. More than 350 parents and children attend the event in spite of the frigid temperatures.
Bryan County High School Future Farmers of America members completed their annual fall service project on Dec. 17 with the presentation of 35 FFA fruit baskets to the senior citizens at the Bryan County Senior Citizen Center in Pembroke.
ATLANTA (AP) - Schools across Georgia are bracing for another tough budget year as federal stimulus money dries up and state dollars remain scarce.
ATLANTA - Georgia's new schools superintendent warned that the state's public schools will "have to continue to do more with less."
Two Richmond Hill schools were recently honored for academic achievements during the 2009-10 school year.
American consumers are paying high prices for low-quality food, and so are our public schools," said Jane Hersey, director of the nonprofit Feingold Association of the U.S.
Homework is often a daunting task for parents as well as students, and can easily become the cause of family disputes, regardless of how conscientious your kids are. As parents try to ensure their children prioritize schoolwork and complete tasks on time, they have to contend with trying to fit in various activities and family commitments. For students, concentrating at home can be tough, especially after a long school day that starts early and may include a lunchtime meeting for the science club and lacrosse practice after school.
Saving enough money for a child's college education is a concern so great many parents began planning even before their first child was born. The escalating costs of a college education make such concerns wholly understandable.
Max Makhinson was named Junior Rotarian for the Month of September by the Rotary Club of Richmond Hill.
Mrs. Pam Walker's fourth grade class at Carver Elementary used supplies sent in by parents to complete an Earthquake-Simulation project. Students learned how engineering, stability, and gravity are related to natural disasters as they built their multi-story structures. Students then recorded the effects of a simulated earthquake on their structure.
Unfilled teaching jobs in Arizona are at a crisis level, AZ Central reports. There are over 527 job openings, resulting in crowded classrooms. One Phoenix-area district alone had 63 openings.
Bryan County Elementary school students enjoy their new connections classes by becoming detectives in a Math Scene Investigation. In the Math Lab class, Katelyn Finnegan encourages them to investigate and find clues to a math mystery. As they walk around the room to find and solve math clues, it is easy to see that the new connection classes are a big hit.
Georgia Southern University is gearing up for its second annual science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) festival from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday at the Nessmith-Lane Conference Center, 847 Plant Drive in Statesboro, according to georgiasouthern.edu.
Mrs. Walker's fourth grade students at Carver Elementary recently became "Meteorologists of the Day."
Army Command Sergeant Major Cameron Porter talked to more than 110 Bryan County High School JROTC students during an assembly last week. The career public affairs officer, assigned to the Armed Forces Network Command in Europe, talked to the junior cadets about what a positive influence the Army and military could play in their lives. He encouraged them to consider a career in the military when making the plans.
Georgia Connections Academy, a free public virtual charter school open to students from every county of the state, has openings for students in grades 9-12.
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