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Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
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|"Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey"
|Song by the Beatles from the album The Beatles
|22 November 1968
|27 June & 1 July 1968
|Hard rock[1]
|Apple Records
|George Martin
|The Beatles track listing
"Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey" is a song written by John Lennon (credited to Lennon–McCartney) and performed by the Beatles on their 1968 album The Beatles, also known as "The White Album". It is the longest title of any song released by the group.
An unreleased demo of the song, recorded in George Harrison's Esher home in May 1968, features all-acoustic instrumentation, and a vocal sung an octave lower than the released version. The released version of the song was recorded at Abbey Road Studios on 27 June 1968, and an overdub session on 1 July.[2]
Cover versions[edit]
- Fats Domino covered this song in 1969.
- The Feelies did a cover of the song on their 1980 debut album Crazy Rhythms.
- When Mojo released The White Album Recovered in 2008, part of a continuing series of CDs of Beatles albums covered track-by-track by modern artists, the track was covered by My Brightest Diamond.[3]
- John Lennon – vocal, rhythm guitar, percussion, handclaps
- Paul McCartney – backing vocal, bass guitar, bell,[4] percussion, handclaps
- George Harrison – backing vocal, lead guitar, percussion, handclaps
- Ringo Starr – drums, percussion, handclaps
- Personnel per Ian MacDonald[5] except as noted.
- ^ Sound & Vision 2001, p. 103.
- ^ Lewisohn 1988, p. 139.
- ^ http://www.mojocovercds.com/cd/306
- ^ Emerick & Massey 2006, p. 387.
- ^ MacDonald 2005, p. 293.
- Sound & Vision, Volume 67, Issues 2-5. Michigan: Hachette Filipacchi Magazines. 2001. "Go forward to 1968 and The Beatles (a.k.a. The White Album) and you get a veritable hard-rock clinic on what used to be, in the days of vinyl. Side 3: "Birthday," "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey," "Helter Skelter""
- Emerick, Geoff; Massey, Howard (2006). Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 1-59240-179-1.
- Lewisohn, Mark (1988). The Beatles Recording Sessions. New York: Harmony Books. ISBN 0-517-57066-1.
- MacDonald, Ian (2005). Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties (Second Revised ed.). London: Pimlico (Rand). ISBN 1-84413-828-3.
- Sheff, David (2000). All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-25464-4.
External links[edit]
- Alan W. Pollack's Notes on "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey"
- The Beatles Bible: Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey


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David Lamelas was born in 1946 in Buenos Aires and studied painting and sculpture at the city's Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes during his teenage years. In the early 1960s, he was associated with the emergent Argentine avant-garde at the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella. After moving to London in the late 1960s, he studied at Saint Martin's School of Art, where he took courses with artists Anthony Caro, Barry Flanagan, and John Latham, earning an MA in 1968.
In the late 1960s, Lamelas's practice shifted away from Pop art–inflected sculpture toward a more conceptual methodology involving the appropriation of technology and techniques from the mass media. His installation Situation of Time (1967) consists of seventeen television sets that transmit only flickering light and static interference; the artist suggests the viewer watch these screens for eight hours straight. Beginning with this work, time became one of Lamelas's central themes.
In the tense global political climate of 1968, Lamelas represented Argentina at the Venice Biennale with Office of Information about the Vietnam War on Three Levels: The Visual Image, Text, and Audio. Taking the form of an office, the installation was equipped with a telex machine that conveyed news about the conflict in Vietnam. Lamelas thus co-opted the tools of broadcast technology to explore one facet of art's communicative potential. In the same year, Lamelas moved to London and began experimenting with film. Study of Relationships Between Inner and Outer Space (1969) is an institutional critique that engages with then-emerging theoretical discourse on art in the public sphere. Beginning with an analysis of a gallery's architecture, the film's focus then shifts to the public space of the city (which is likened to the mass media), and finally to a different meaning of space altogether via interviews about the then-recent moon landing.
In the 1970s, Lamelas produced a number of films that pay particular attention to the medium's communication of meaning through visual codes comparable to those found in written language, and in the photographic series London Friends (1973) and Rock Star (Character Appropriation) (1974), explored the blurring of reality and fiction. Also fascinated by the construction of celebrity, Lamelas moved to Los Angeles in 1976 hoping to participate in the film industry. Ultimately he turned his attention to video, aiming to broadcast his work on American television. Parodying mainstream formats such as news programs, Lamelas sought to expose and disrupt the mass media by producing a countercultural variant. In videos of the late 1970s such as The Hand (1976), for example, he refers to the violence associated with contemporary politics. Since this time, Lamelas has made work across Europe and the United States, each location influencing his work as he attempts—with conceptual rigor and a sense of humor—to understand its cultural specificities.
Solo exhibitions of Lamelas's work have been held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (1975); Witte de With Centrum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Rotterdam (1997); Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2005); Vienna Secession (2006); and Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (2008). Lamelas participated in the group exhibitions Information, Museum of Modern Art, New York (1970), and Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s–1980s, organized by the Queens Museum, New York (1999–2000). Lamelas earned the prize for sculpture at the 1967 São Paulo Biennial and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993. He lives and works in Los Angeles, New York, and Paris.
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Colo. teacher carries explosive device outside
May 14, 2013 12:45 PM
LAFAYETTE, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado teacher found a suspicious package inside a high school in Lafayette and took it outside, where police detonated it.
A 16-year-old student was arrested after the explosive device was found at Centaurus High School Monday morning.
Lafayette Police Cmdr. Gene McCausey tells the Boulder Daily Camera the device similar to a pipe bomb forced the evacuation of the school and the closure of a nearby road for several hours.
McCausey says the device could have hurt people nearby had it exploded.
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No criminal charges to be filed in alleged bullying case at Gig Harbor middle school
UPDATED: No criminal charges will be filed in the case of a 13-year-old boy who his parents said was bullied by other students and his teacher at a Gig Harbor middle school -- an incident that was caught on video, Pierce County prosecutor Mark Lindquist announced Tuesday.
Randall and Karla Kinney, the parents of the boy, asked the Peninsula School Board Sept. 6 to fire the teacher and, through their attorney, asked that the police investigate it as a crime. The Pierce County Sheriff's Department conducted an investigation and forwarded its findings to the prosecutor's office.
"In the prosecutor's office, we seek justice," Lindquist said Tuesday. "Sometimes justice requires vigorous prosecution of a case. Sometimes justice requires that we decline to prosecute. While this is unacceptable conduct in a classroom, it's not criminal conduct under the law."
In a statement, Lindquist said that on Aug. 9, the boy, referred to as CK, told a forensic interviewer that the entire incident was all in fun. The forensic interviewer advised CK's parents and their civil attorney that there was no disclosure of a crime.
The actions of CK and his parents indicate that they did not believe a crime was committed as they did not report the matter to law enforcement. Only after consulting with a civil attorney, more than five months after the incident, was the matter reported to law enforcement.
"The actions of CK and his parents indicate that they did not believe a crime was committed as they did not report the matter to law enforcement. Only after consulting with a civil attorney, more than five months after the incident, was the matter reported to law enforcement," Lindquist noted in his statement.
"In conclusion, the prosecutor's office has determined that no criminal charges will be file in this incident," Lindquist said.
Randall and Karla Kinney said their child, CK, was so traumatized by the alleged bullying that he talked of committing suicide and they had to remove their son from Kopachuk Middle School, where the incident occurred.
In front of a packed school board meeting, Randall Kinney called for the firing of the teacher, John Rosi.
Kinney said the alleged abuse and bullying captured on video should speak for itself. Rosi has said it was "horseplay" by the kids in his class.
"To me, it was bullying and degradation to his character," Kinney said. "Watching the videos is so painful to us as a family.
"Holding him down, pulling his underwear up, giving him wedgies, laughing at him, putting socks in his mouth," Kinney said of the actions seen taken by students in the videos.
But acting School Superintendent Chuck Cuzzetto said, "It never was recorded or characterized by any involved students, parents or teachers as a harassment, intimidation or bullying complaint."
The district suspended Rosi for "classroom mismanagement" shortly after the incident and reassigned him to Harbor Ridge Middle School. The district later put him on administrative leave and said they will not may a decision on Rosi's future until the Pierce County Sheriff's Office is done investigating the incident.
"Classifying it as classroom mismanagement to me is unfair, not only to my son but other kids in this district," Kinney said.
A teacher, Susan Deeds, said she felt "let down not only by John Rosi but the rest of the staff of Kopachuk Middle School."
Outside of the school board meeting, Randall Kinney said his son is "getting better, thanks to his mom" and the professionals he is seeing.
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Kai-Uwe von Hassel
|Kai-Uwe von Hassel
|Hassel in 1978
|Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein
|In office
11 October 1954 – 7 January 1963
|Preceded by
|Friedrich Wilhelm Lübke
|Succeeded by
|Helmut Lemke
|Federal Minister of Defence
|In office
9 January 1963 – 1 December 1966
|Konrad Adenauer
Ludwig Erhard
|Preceded by
|Franz Josef Strauß
|Succeeded by
|Gerhard Schröder
|Federal Minister for Displaced Persons, Refugees and War Victims
|In office
1 December 1966 – 5 February 1969
|Kurt Georg Kiesinger
|Preceded by
|Johann Baptist Gradl
|Succeeded by
|Heinrich Windelen
|President of the Bundestag
|In office
5 February 1969 – 13 December 1972
|Preceded by
|Eugen Gerstenmaier
|Succeeded by
|Annemarie Renger
|Personal details
21 April 1913
Gare, Lushoto District,
German East Africa
|8 May 1997
(aged 84)
Aachen, Germany
|Political party
|Christian Democratic Union
|Joachim von Hassel
Barbara Weisse-von Hassel
Jan von Hassel
Kai-Uwe von Hassel (21 April 1913 – 8 May 1997) was a German politician from Schleswig-Holstein associated with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as minister-president of Schleswig-Holstein from 1954 to 1963, as Federal Minister of Defence from 1963 to 1966, and as Federal Minister for Displaced Persons, Refugees and War Victims from 1966 to 1969. From 1969 to 1972 he was president of the German Bundestag parliament.
Von Hassel was born in Gare, German East Africa (now in Lushoto, Tanga Region, Tanzania), where his father Theodor von Hassel (1868–1935) had served as a Schutztruppe officer. After World War I, Hassel's family was banished by the British mandate administration and settled in Glücksburg, Schleswig-Holstein. Hassel took his Abitur exam in 1933, trained as an agribusiness merchant and returned to the East African Tanganyika Territory in 1935. At the beginning of World War II he was interned in Dar es Salaam by the British authorities and again banished to Germany. Drafted to the Wehrmacht armed forces, he served as an interpreter of the Abwehr military intelligence organisation under Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, decorated with the Iron Cross 2nd Class.
After the war, Hassel joined the newly established CDU party in the Flensburg district and from 1947 served as mayor of Glücksburg. In 1950 he became a member of the Schleswig-Holstein Landtag legislature, and upon the 1953 federal election a member of the German Bundestag.
On 11 October 1954 Hassel assumed the office of a Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein. From 1955-1956, he was President of the German Bundesrat. He was closely associated with Ludwig Erhard's two Chancellorships, serving as Minister of Defense from 16 October 1963 to 1 December 1966. He then served in Kurt Georg Kiesinger's Chancellorship from 1 December 1966 to 21 October 1969 as "Minister of Displaced Persons, Refugees, and War Victims". His son and naval aviator Oberleutnant zur See Joachim von Hassel was killed in a Lockheed F-104 Starfighter crash on 10 March 1970.
Following this ministership, he became president of the Bundestag from 5 February 1969 to 13 December 1972, after the previous president (Eugen Gerstenmaier) resigned amidst a financial scandal. He died aged 84, when he suffered a heart attack during the Charlemagne Award ceremony in the Aachen city hall in 1997.
- Michael F. Feldkamp (ed.), Der Bundestagspräsident. Amt - Funktion - Person. 16. Wahlperiode, München 2007, ISBN 978-3-7892-8201-0
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- Ministers-President of Schleswig-Holstein
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A surprising majority—almost 60 percent—of American teenagers thought things like water-boarding or sleep deprivation are sometimes acceptable. More than half also approved of killing captured enemies in cases where the enemy had killed Americans.
In just the last few days, virtually unnoticed by most of the news media, Obama administration officials have:
*Rejected a new Freedom of Information request for White House visitor logs (despite their announced intention to start making such documents public).
*Appealed, yet again, to invoke "state secrets" to block a lawsuit that might shed light on the CIA's extraordinary rendition of terror suspects to countries that practice torture.
*Gotten Congress to pass legislation that would prevent graphic photographs of detainee abuse by the U.S. government from ever becoming public.
And all of this is in spite of Obama's vow—in a memo on the first full day of his presidency—to create "an unprecedented level of openness" in government.
It's become the conventional wisdom that the tortured will say anything to make the torture stop, and that "anything" need not be truthful as long as it is what the torturers want to hear. But years worth of studies in neuroscience, as well as new research, suggest that there are, in addition, fundamental aspects of neurochemistry that increase the chance that information obtained under torture will not be truthful.
So let's break this down anatomically. Fact One: To recall information stored in the brain, you must activate a number of areas, especially the prefrontal cortex (site of intentionality) and hippocampus (the door to long-term memory storage). Fact Two: Stress such as that caused by torture releases the hormone cortisol, which can impair cognitive function, including that of the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus. Studies in which soldiers were subjected to stress in the form of food and sleep deprivation have found that it impaired their ability to recall personal memories and information, as this 2006 study reported. "Studies of extreme stress with Special Forces Soldiers have found that recall of previously-learned information was impaired after stress occurred," notes O'Mara. "Water-boarding in particular is an extreme stressor and has the potential to elicit widespread stress-induced changes in the brain."
Stress also releases catecholamines such as noradrenaline, which can enlarge the amygdale (structures involved in the processing of fear), also impairing memory and the ability to distinguish a true memory from a false or implanted one. Brain imaging of torture victims, as in this study, suggest why: torture triggers abnormal patterns of activation in the frontal and temporal lobes, impairing memory. Rather than a question triggering a (relatively) simple pattern of brain activation that leads to the stored memory of information that can answer the question, the question stimulates memories almost chaotically, without regard to their truthfulness.
Two words jumped out at me from Cheney's Fox News interview last week. Chris Wallace asked, "So even in those cases where they [CIA interrogators] went beyond the specific legal authorization, you're OK with it?" Cheney answered, "I am." That unadorned "I am" was terrifying. Cheney was saying that certain ends justify criminal means. This is a deeply antidemocratic and authoritarian notion. Why even create his bogus legal authorization for "enhanced interrogation techniques" (a way to get around U.S. laws banning torture) if it could be disregarded without consequence?


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Known as the "Cinderella of the Pacific", Ensenada is located 70 miles south of the US border, an easy drive of just over an hour. As the third largest city in Baja California, with a population of about 250,000, it is it is one of the most important ports on the Pacific Rim. It is Mexico's second most visited port-of-call for major cruise lines and pleasure boats.
More than 90% of Mexico's wines are produced in Ensenada and it's surrounding regions. The climate, warm summers and mild winters, sunny days and cool nights makes it the perfect setting to produce wine. The internationally recognized wine makers produce a number of different types and styles of wines. Most wineries offer tours and wine tasting.
The Ensenada Museum of History is located in the historic building, the Riviera del Pacifico Cultural Center (originally built in the 1930's as a hotel and casino). On display at the museum are original artifacts, handcrafts, new and antique photographs, and paintings from the native Indian Culture of Baja California.
Ensenada is fabulous to visit all year-round. There are pleasant ocean breezes in the downtown area in the summer and a temperate, mountain-valley climate northeast of the city in the wine country.
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i'm choking on words—too many to force from my flowerbud throat—too many to swallow back—down—i can't—speak my arms are pinned to my sides—wrapped with thick coiled titanium—i want to write you walls tall thick protecting walls weave them out of corded muscle out of my heart—out of tall trees too wide to wrap your arms around too old—they'll grow up rising crooked like flame—tossing away words—incandescent multitudinous baleful—and the ground is littered with stray letters—too many roiling waves of vowels strung together into—forevermonster and curiousmultifacetedraindrop—chimera words in ancient alchemistical alphabets—sigils—it's only in words like this that i keep you.—
October is a bitch.
She shakes her
Empty, emaciated fist
At a pale, gray sky
Dotted with freezing rain:
She fizzles with cheap thrills.
There's plastic
Caught in her smile,
Pollution-red lips
And a smoky eye.
She ripped my tears from me
With frigid, Kevlar hands,
With wind sharp as glass.
i chased you
—apollo and daphne—
strands of long hair
catching in my outstretched
desperate fingers. you laughed
our anger incandescent wild
your fear your spite
for me my breathless
adoration my desire for you.
i reach reach reach.
(Your skin turns to bark
When I catch you,
The best escape.)
I end up writing fic about 19th century German poetry masquerading as folklore and set in a 1920s New York speakeasy. Yeah. I don't know either.
lorelei. "and winter comes and she forgets." Written for the Bastardized Fairy Tales Fest on LJ.


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so my little brother has avengers legos and i just saw that he had the loki one set up like this and i was so confused for a minute and then i figured it out
he's roasting marshmallows
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2013 Notre Dame Football
Alicia de Artola, editor of Reign of Troy, a USC Trojans news and opinion site on the FanSided Network, answered a few questions regarding this Saturday night's game.
USC bounced back against Arizona last week. What did the Trojans do differently in their one game under Ed Orgeron? Was it really the cookies?
USC's local rivalry is UCLA, but the one that matters most is Notre Dame. There's a saying: There's nothing better than beating Notre Dame and nothing worse than losing to UCLA. That's the way it is. We take the most pride in competing with (and beating) Notre Dame. The Trojans view the Irish as worthy adversaries for the most part and it's more fun when the two teams are on top and competitive.
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Since rosters were cut down to 53 players the 49ers have had some time to look for players cut by other teams to fill out the roster. In many ways the 49ers bucked the trend and went against conventional NFL wisdom when putting together the roster up until this point. It is clear the 49ers are not filling the roster with players just to ensure they have enough at each position, rather they are keeping the best players regardless of the position they play. The team is now down to just 3 OLBs after cutting Antwan Applewhite in favor of Tavares Gooden an ILB recently cut by the Ravens. The team only has 2 TE's which is almost shocking considering the fact that Jim Harbaugh and Greg Roman are famous for using 3 and even 4 TE sets at Stanford, something that was pretty much assumed would be a big part of their game plan in SF. The team kept 6 safeties while holding onto only 4 CBs even with one starter banged up all pre-season. They kept as many RBs as WRs, and as many FBs as TEs, ok so what's going on here?
What we're seeing here is a team in the middle of their evaluations with a patient coaching staff that is refusing to rush things. The 49ers as much as any team in the NFL have had their backs against the wall this off-season. Coming off a disappointing 2010, with a new coaching staff in place the 49ers needed this off-season to be as productive as ever. This just so happened to be one of the least productive off-seasons in the leagues history however with the NFL Lockout. Aside from the 1 day Lockout reprieve the coaching staff has only known this group of players for just over a month. There is little doubt this football team has talent with the likes of Frank Gore, Patrick Willis, Vernon Davis, Braylon Edwards, Justin Smith, Michael Crabtree, Mike Iupati, there are some quality pro bowl type of players here. Aside from the established stars the team's depth in a lot of areas needs to get better. The coaching staff has shown they will keep the best 53 at all times. When someone better comes along that fits the team's plans they are going to make a move. The team put in waiver claims several players over the weekend (all went to other teams), signed QB Scott Tolzien, ILB Tavares Gooden and worked out WR Donnie Avery. It is clear the team is not done adding pieces if they think a player can help them win.
The patient approach by the coaching staff is evident in their words as well. The staff has continued to insist you won't see a whole lot more offensive innovation early in the season then we have seen in the pre-season. I find it hard to believe they won't be less vanilla but I don't see an extremely complex offensive approach even beginning to take shape until after the bye week. The team has to gel naturally and the plan has to come together and cannot be forced, this coaching staff seems to get that a lot more than the previous 2. No more will we have to watch as Singletary orders a power run despite a 9 man front that knows Gore is coming on a power up the gut. But we may see a more vanilla approach early in the season than we would like to see as fans. The difference this time around is our coaching staff has a vision, they are building a team with the goal of building a dynasty while the previous regimes seemed content on imposing their wills and scraping to get by week to week.
Fans in SF have been restless for a winner ever since Jeff Garcia left town way back in 2002. After 6 straight seasons of Alex Smith the fan base couldn't be more on edge as the season rapidly approaches. Many of these fans will severely over-react if and when the 49ers struggle early in the season. Many will forget that the team landed the hottest coaching commodity in a long time this off-season in Jim Harbaugh. They will forget all the star players mentioned above, they will also forget that after much criticism GM Trent Baalke turned in a pretty impressive haul in free agency without spending much money at all. They won't pay attention to the budding young star Aldon Smith so obviously is whenever you watch him rush the QB. They will scream about Alex Smith, the Yorks, Trent Baalke and anything else to unleash their rage. Sometimes I will be among these classic over-reactors. What we all must remember in this upcoming season is the real talent we do have on this roster and the legitimately talented coaching staff we have running the show. If and when this team struggles early and reminds us all of recent years remember the lockout, give Harbaugh time.
I believe this team will blow up in 2012 and win 11-13 games with Frank Gore and Kendall Hunter as a double headed monster rushing tandem. With Patrick Willis and Navorro Bowman as the best ILB core in the NFL, Edwards and Crabtree as our best WR group since Rice/Owens and Aldon Smith a dominate pass rusher. This season it will depend on when the team puts it all together and builds some momentum. My belief is it won't happen until after the bye week if the team can squeeze by at 3-3 before that team they should be fine. When all is said and done there will a lot of ups and downs with obvious progress made towards the future, an 8-8 record that will tie us for the division lead resulting in a playoff birth due to the 49ers better divisional record.
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Leading Tackles: Willis 129
Leading Sacks: Aldon Smith 11
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Cranberry Relish Emergency
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- Parrot Mom Nov 22, 2005 08:50 AM
For the first time in many, many years I have not made my own cranberry relish or corn relish for that matter...and I'm feeling very guilty. Any ideas of what I can do to "doctor" up the canned stuff!!!
i've never had the canned stuff. it looks like jello. is it loose enough to mix up, or will it just look ugly then? if so, you could add toasted pecans/walnuts, candied orange peel/orange marmalade, dried cranberries to make it more toothsome and add some flavor dimension. horseradish is wonderful with cranberry sauce/relish, but it does impart a pepto-like hue.
re: mark
They make a canned version of whole cranberry sauce that does not come out in one big chunk like everyone is familiar with. I would think you could doctor that up pretty easily... maybe some orange zest and some grand marnier, and toasted pecans? Or maybe some jalapenos for a spicy kick?
re: Katie Nell
All is not lost...will mix up a batch with the oranges, zest and nuts...adding Grand Marnier... thank you...
If it's available where you live, try a jar of Wisconsin Wilderness cranberry chutney. It has a nice spicy flavor, much better than trying to doctor the canned stuff.
Stonewall Kitchen makes several really good jarred cranberry relishes, which I've used and gotten great response to. They are carried in many supermarkets near me, so I imagine there must be someplace by you which stocks them too. They have a website, perhaps they list resources there.
My mom used to used the canned whole cranberry sauce and doctor it up with mandarin oranges and chopped up walnuts. Personally, I never liked this but everyone else seemed to think it was fine.
After reading the 'recipe' on a previous post, I decided to mix up a can of whole cranberry sauce with a can of mandarin orange slices and some chopped walnuts. Very few people in my family like cranberry sauce and I decided I'd pour my energy into other things this year. If your family is the same, don't feel guilty about going the canned route.
I have to say that I had a very stressful morning yesterday (husband trying to fly our small plane down to FL from Toronto and avoid icing conditions) and 'tasted' the cranberry sauce combo. It was quite delicious and I ate most of it -- I now have to make another batch! So I can vouch for that previous recipe, and a big 'thank you' to the recipe poster.
re: Parrot Mom
My mom has made this for years, and it will last a long time after Thurs, if you care. Also she chops whole berries, sugar and orange peel in processor. The first our family calls the "good", probably because it's sweet and everybody (who eats cranberries) likes it; the second is the "bad", because it's tarter and more cranberrier. So, the good and the bad are now traditions, and can be made in 15 minutes max.
A tip o' the chowhound hat to Paula Deen of foodnetwork.com. This is the BEST of the super-easy recipes: to each can of whole berry c. sauce mix in one can drained mandarin oranges and about 1/3 - 1/2
cup chopped walnuts. When I brought it to a formal (potluck - contradiction in terms?) dinner it got universal raves and one woman said she wanted to eat it with a spoon. It's not weird, which is one thing I don't like about many of these jazzed up cranberry ideas, and it's pretty colors, and it really goes well with turkey.
re: Niki Rothman
Ah, that's where the recipe came from. Thanks! And btw, I did eat mine with a spoon. (see my other post on this thread)
In far less time than it takes to doctor up the canned stuff, you could take a small bag of raw cranberries, a package of fresh raspberries, and some sugar and throw them in the blender. Maybe add a little lemon juice. Makes great relish.
I'm with the "how hard is it to make one if you have access to a bag of the fresh berries" camp.
The fast, no-cook relish I like is the one involving about a cup of white sugar, a bag of cranberries, and a quartered orange with peel. Put all ingredients into the cuisinart and pulse.
Diners at our table seem to be about equally divided as to whether they prefer that one over the homemade cooked spiced one. (Cranberries simmered with brown sugar, cinnamon, allspice, cardamon, and cloves).
I still have memories of my mother, who will probably deny it vehemently, serving cranberry sauce from the can, with the little ridges from the can still visible on the jiggly mound.
re: PollyG
Most of us have that "in the can...ridges and all" memories. In fact, the company designed a can without ridges and there were so many protests, they went back to the old can. Ahhh, traditions.


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Twenty-seven. That's how many players that not only the New Orleans Saints must cut, but also every other team in the NFL. It's mandatory as teams can only carry 53 players on the regular season roster, and dress only 46 of those come come game day.
It's a numbers game, and inevitably good talent nearly always gets caught up in the cut. That doesn't mean they won't end up on another team, but for some it does mean the end of their dream to play in the NFL.
The New Orleans Saints have assembled a promising group of veteran players, drafted and undrafted players, of which they must decide just who will comprise the best possible team this season.
All of these cuts must be finalized by tomorrow afternoon. Let's take an early look at who may make the cut with the Saints and land on the coveted "53".
Quarterback: Drew Brees, Chase Daniel
Runningback: Pierre Thomas, Mark Ingram, Darren Sproles, Joique Bell, Chris Ivory
Fullback: Korey Hall
Receiver: Marques Colston, Lance Moore, Devery Henderson, Robert Meachem, Adrian Arrington
Tightend: Jimmy Graham, David Thomas, Tory Humphrey
Offensive Line: Jermon Bushrod, Jordan Black, Carl Nicks, Olin Kreutz, Matt Tennant, Jahri Evans, Zach Strief, Charles Brown, Brian De La Puente


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What about this section:
" Because it is used only for padding at the end of the data, the
occurrence of any '=' characters may be taken as evidence that the
end of the data has been reached (without truncation in transit). No
such assurance is possible, however, when the number of octets
transmitted was a multiple of three. "
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From: "Ilya Teterin" [mailto:alienhard () mail ru]
Sent: Monday, 22 September 2003 10:50 PM
To: bugtraq () securityfocus com
Subject: base64
Consider we decoding data which contains padding character ('=') at the
unexpected place. What we should do with such data? The specification
of base64 decoding does not tell us what we MUST or even MAY do with
such data... So, we can do anything we like to do:
1. threat padding character as end of the encoded data
2. ignore padding character
3. decode padding character as well as some other character from base64
4. do something else ;-)
I have tested some popular implementations (such as email clients, GNU
utilities, RTL and other development's libraries). All items (1)-(4)
are actually present.
Is it dangerous? Sure. Consider antiviral software, which implements
behaviour (1), and e-mail client, which implements behaviour (2). Attacker
can insert padding character in the beginning of the encoded data, and
antiviral software will think encoded data is empty. But e-mail client
will think differentother way ;-) So, bypassing of content-filtering
and antiviral protection is obvious subject for this issue.
How to solve this issue? I believe we should rewrite at least filtering
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Like it or not, as we survey the debris of shattered Dade, we must begin to mythologize the devastation of Hurricane Andrew. In the fledgling years of the next century, our children and grandchildren will clamor for stories of the Great Storm of '92. And because they'll be products of the media-saturated society we're unwittingly creating even as we speak, they'll want their stories the way we want our MTV -- in three-minute segments and with a pulsing soundtrack. Luckily, the rock era has yielded a bloated bag full of wind music. Dozens of artists have played tribute to the exhaling deities by recording songs named "Hurricane," including Neil Diamond, Nia Peeples, Bette Midler, See No Evil, and Y&T (yes, Bob Dylan, too -- just have patience). Then there's Peter Frampton's "Wind of Change," Jefferson Starship's "Winds of Change," Roger Hodgson's The Eye of the Storm, German Bowie-acolyte Peter Schilling's "Hurricane (Hammers on the Shore)," new jack king Bobby Brown's "Storm Away," Alice Cooper's "Hurricane Years," and Billy Joel's Storm Front. And who can forget Spinal Tap's sophomore LP, Break Like the Wind, which initiates the philosophical inquiry, "Why do these anemometers go all the way up to eleven?"
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1. Neil Young, "Like A Hurricane." This eleven-minute guitar orgy is not only a rock classic but a towering monument to truth in advertising. From its first pealing notes to its marathon tailpiece, the song is Neil in full six-string regalia, conjuring up as near a musical approximation of the dreaded event itself as you're likely to find in classic rock, with the possible exception of "Sister Ray." "Like a Hurricane" has the additional advantage of couching its tumult in a goopy "Everyone Knows It's Windy"-style love story ("You are like a hurricane/There is calm in your eye") that puts an intimate spin on this whole macrodestruction business.
2. Parliament, "Tear the Roof Off the Sucker." George Clinton's crowning achievement, his most convincing anthem, and also a fitting description of the aerial view of everything south of Kendall Drive. Free your mind and your ass will follow, but free your ceiling tiles and the only thing that follows is that sinking feeling. Victims of Andrew who find Uncle Jam's bootyfest slightly too celebratory may substitute either Prince's "Sign o' the Times" -- in particular the lyric, "Hurricane Anne ripped the ceiling off a church/and killed everyone inside" -- or the Pretenders' taut, grave "My City Was Gone." Be forewarned, however: The latter concerns Ohio.
3. Tom Waits, "Blow Wind Blow." Taken from 1985's Frank's Wild Years, this ode to desperation finds its Lear-like protagonist challenging the oncoming storm with the defiant, if addled, boast, "I ride upon a field mouse/Go dancing in the slaughterhouse." It's a statement of sorts, that you can afford surreal defiance even when your neighborhood is being torn in half by a giant cough. Remember, if you can spit in the wind, you earn a host of other privileges, including the rights to tug on Superman's cape, pull the mask of the ol' Lone Ranger, and mess around with Jim.
4. Public Enemy, "Welcome to the Terrordome." Though quite a stretch thematically -- it's a song about Chuck and Flavor being scrutinized by media devils -- this jam is right up Andy's alley sonically, as it slams relentlessly, thumps, bumps, pounds, and resounds. In rap, when people get blown away, it's more likely to be a semi-automatic than a Class Four doing the blowing, but "Terrordome" is still a masterpiece of unstoppable force (cf. PE's own "Raise the Roof" and "Megablast"). Postmodernists will thrill to the way that sampling simultaneously mirrors the fragmentation of society and conceptualizes the debris of the storm-torn terrain.
5. Graham Parker, "Howling Wind." One of the most menacing and bracing songs ever written, Parker's Vituperama was an instant hot-under-the-choler classic when it was released in 1976, and its incisor-chorus ("A howling wind blows through here/Almost every day/A howling wind blows through here/Takes your breath away") still holds up today. "Howling Wind" has several spiritual cousins in the music world, chief among them John Fogerty's "Change in the Weather," the best song of the ex-Credence leader's solo career and a truly menacing trip through the dark recesses of emotional meteorology.


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The oddly named Rantee Remember has two main styles of rooms, wood and thatch bungalows facing the beach and a single row of uninspiring concrete bungalows running back from the beach behind the reception area. Neither are great and the bathrooms in the beachfront huts were also ordinary, but they're otherwise clean and well tended. We reckon the concrete ones would get very stuffy through the middle of the day. For budget travellers, this is about the best on the beach, but be sure to hit them up for a discount if staying more than a day or two.
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By Eric Pianin and Mary Agnes Carey
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Five Rivers Medical Center in Pocahontas, Ark., needs help to get a highly coveted "critical access" hospital designation - and the extra Medicare funding that comes with it.
Sen. Mark Pryor, an Arkansas Democrat, intends to provide it.
Pryor is among several senators - including Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Sam Brownback, R-Kan., and Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D. - who want to help rural hospitals in their states get the funding boost that comes with the "critical access" designation. The catch: The same senators are among those pushing hardest to hold the line on the cost of health care reform.
Source: The Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program and CMS.
"When there are local interests, cost constraints go out the window," said Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, a budget watchdog group. "When you see those things, it does make you wonder about the ability to follow through on some of the very aggressive provider restraints they assume in these bills."
Asked whether Pryor saw any inconsistency, his spokeswoman said the senator is committed to "ensuring people living in rural America are able to get to an emergency room in a reasonable amount of time when they need to." Access to care is a critical issue in isolated areas, other lawmakers and rural health care advocates say, and hospitals need extra funding and flexibility.
Congress created the "critical access hospital" category in 1997 to ensure access to care in isolated parts of the country. Under the law, hospitals that are at least 35 miles away from other health facilities can be deemed "critical access" hospitals; those hospitals can collect 101 percent of their costs from Medicare, for a maximum of 25 beds, rather than the usual 95 percent of allowable costs.
SOURCE: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Growth in such hospitals exploded, and by 2006, there were 1,280 critical access facilities. And many of them won the designation despite being located within 35 miles of other medical facilities; state officials routinely waived the requirement with federal acquiescence.
The rapid growth slowed three years ago when Congress, worried about billions of dollars in added Medicare costs, eliminated states' rights to waive the 35-mile rule. Since then, only a couple of dozen new critical access hospitals have been designated. The total is currently about 1,300.
Now lawmakers from rural states want to ease the rules, partly by making it easier for hospitals to qualify for "critical access" status even if they are less than 35 miles from another facility. Supporters note that the hospitals, besides providing emergency and limited inpatient treatment, are often the mainstays of small-town economies. "Hospital reimbursement systems that work well in larger cities do not necessarily work in rural towns, where people still need health care," Pryor's spokeswoman said, "but the same volume of patients is not present."
The administrator and CEO of Five Rivers Medical Center, John Tucker, said getting the critical access designation would turn a projected $300,000 loss this year to a $400,000 surplus, allowing him to improve equipment and technology. "It would help us maybe thrive where we ordinarily just survive, like it has done with so many rural hospitals across the country," Tucker explained.
Conrad acknowledged in a recent interview that rural lawmakers may push for changes to expand the critical access program when health care overhaul legislation reaches the Senate floor. "That's certainly an item for discussion before we're finished," Conrad said. "Most of my hospitals are critical access hospitals ... [They] are important to so many members."
Pryor and Brownback want to restore states' rights to waive the 35-mile distance requirement and declare that additional critical access hospitals are necessary for public health and safety. For his part, Wyden has indicated he would press to give critical access hospitals the flexibility to expand beyond the required limit of 25 beds to meet the needs of their communities.
During the Finance Committee's consideration of health care legislation, Wyden filed but did not offer his amendment, which would have cost $1.7 billion over the next decade; he couldn't point to a spending cut or revenue increase to offset the cost. His spokeswoman, Jennifer Hoelzer, said that Wyden's focus on a complete overhaul of the system would result in cost savings that could be used for critical access hospitals.
The finances of Hillsboro Medical Center in North Dakota improved markedly after it got a "critical access" designation -- and higher Medicare payments. Sens. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., Ron Wyden, D-Ore., David Pryor, D-Ark., and Sam Brownback, R-Kans., want to make it easier for other rural hospitals to get the designations, as part of a health overhaul.
"When he talks about the need to bend the cost curve down, he's [saying] we're spending enough money in health care right now, we're just not spending it efficiently," Hoelzer said. "If you can actually inject choice and competition you're going to come up with savings that can go to things like critical access hospitals."
Executives of the hospitals and supportive lawmakers say the extra money is a drop in the bucket. In 2007, Medicare payments to these hospitals totaled $7 billion, or 5 percent of all Medicare inpatient and outpatient payments to hospitals, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, which advises Congress on Medicare issues.
Critical access hospitals now account for more than half of all rural hospitals and a fifth of all hospitals across the country.
Some experts say that the waiver process led to a subversion of the intent of the 1997 legislation, which was to create a small number of critical access hospitals in isolated areas to stabilize patients and then transfer them to larger hospitals. "Over time, it's become clear that the concept has changed, so it looks like almost any rural hospital is being considered as a critical access hospital, with no longer the expectation the patient will be transferred," said Robert Berenson, a former Medicare official who is now at the Urban Institute.
Maggie Elehwany of the National Rural Health Association said that changing the bed limit regulation, as Wyden wants to do, would enable rural hospitals to respond better to crises such as an outbreak of swine flu. The hospitals, rather than being limited to 25 beds, would have the flexibility to expand or contract the number of beds, as long as the annual average was 20.
The 13 Democrats and 10 Republicans on the Finance Committee represent states with a total of 619 critical access hospitals, nearly half of all such facilities. Montana, the home state of Sen. Max Baucus, the chairman of the committee, has 47. North Dakota, which Conrad represents, has 36, among them tiny Union Hospital in Mayville, N.D.
In 2000, the hospital was on course to lose $500,000 and either drastically cut back its services or shut down, according to Roger Baier, the chief executive officer. In desperation, officials decided to seek the critical access designation to boost its Medicare payments by as much as 7 percent. "We decided this would be the best approach to keep our doors open," Baier said.
Union won the designation even though it was only 19 miles from another hospital in neighboring Hillsboro. State officials waived the 35-mile requirement, concluding that the hospitals had different patient service areas and that some of the roads connecting the two facilities were in bad condition. Now the 25-bed hospital has $800,000 in reserves.
In 2004, Hillsboro Medical Center got its own waiver and converted into a critical access hospital. "We were in the red for years until we became a critical access hospital, and that really turned things around," said Patricia Dirk, the hospital's administrator.
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Can you believe it's been a year since I posted a Gachapin accessory? What have we even been putting on this website? Well anyway, let's get back to business.
Here's Cyber Gadget's Gachapin X Mukku Silicon Cover for 3DS XL and Protection Sheet for Wii U GamePad. One day I'm actually going to watch some of their show so I know something non-accessory related about the characters, but I'll never stop posting these things.
I'll never stop.
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Gachapin X Mukku 3DS LL Semi-Hard Case and Protect Case by Cyber Gadget. I don't know why I've spent the last four years documenting every DS/3DS accessory featuring this pair of Japanese children's show characters, but no way I'm stopping now!
These aren't yet available for import via Play-Asia, but it looks like two DS games from Hudson are.
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Aw, hell yeah, it's Gachapin accessory time! I bet you thought I was going to follow up last night's big news with some more megatons! Instead, you get Vita cases with faces! Interchangeable faces.
Each Gachapin x Mukku Protect Case comes with three different face overlays that cover the rear touchpad. A truly incredible technological leap. The future of face-decoration technology comes to Japan May 4, for ¥1,659 ($20).
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Gachapin x Mukku Battery Adapter, for use with DS Lite, DSi, DSi XL, and 3DS.
If you want a solution to the 3DS's battery problems — and if you want that solution to have a picture on it of Gachapin riding a bike to power a Mukku-shaped lightbulb — here you go. It's a battery pack that holds 4 AAs to provide some extra power to the system. If you use rechargeable batteries, it's kind of… practical … maybe?
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Gachapin accessories for 3DS! Finally, Cyber Gadget has revealed its 3DS line of accessories starring the Japanese children's show character and his pal Mukku, allowing me to continue my longtime project of documenting all Gachapin accessories.
The available accessories include the Gachapin X Mukku Protect Case, Semi-Hard Case, Touch Pen, and Pouch. In non-Gachapin news, Cyber Gadget also has these "Rubber Coat Jackets" for 3DS in the system's existing colors. Looks pretty nice!
Oh no! Disaster! I just realized that the cancellation of Mega Man Universe means that the Mega Man X Gachapin crossover is already cancelled! No playable Megapin… I hope you're happy with yourselves, Capcom.
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Furifuri x Gachapin-Mukku Multi Game Pouch by Cyber Gadget. This DS/PSP case combines a pixelated Gachapin and Mukku with Furifuri-kun, a weird, dancing… thing.
Import: Gachapin junk
See also: All the other Gachapin stuff I keep posting for some reason
Gachapin x Mega Man: Megapin. Though JC is currently absent from the site while he's working his ass off at Tokyo Game Show, we can keep him in our hearts here with this mash-up of Mega Man and Gachapin. I bet he would've loved this if he were still around. I bet he would.
Megapin will appear as a tie-in character in Mega Man Universe, an upcoming XBLA/PSN game focused on user-created characters and levels, as downloadable content. Capcom celebrated the collaboration by bringing the two characters together at a TGS event. Mega Man doesn't look too happy about it.
Buy: Mega Man games
Gachapin AC Adapter by Answer. Basically the ultimate DS charging accessory, combining a solar panel, charging adapters for DSi/LL, PSP, DS Lite, and DS, and Gachapin.
See also: More Gachapin
Gachapin and Mukku iPhone cases. As much as I love cases and other accessories bearing the image of the Hirakke! Ponkikki TV star, I've never been able to classify any of them as "subtle" until now. These don't even have goofy, sleepy faces!
If you want your iPhone 3G/3GS to act as a secret Gachapin fandom test (and oh my God who doesn't), you can pick up one of these cases from Strapya for $18.70.
Gachapin earbuds! Yes, you could have tiny Japanese TV character heads sticking out of your ears. This item comes in both Gachapin and Mukku versions, each of which has the other character on the cable holder.
See also: I keep posting Gachapin stuff for some reason
It is on — and by "it," I mean "a Gachapin costume," and by "on," I mean "on Hello Kitty." Both the Gachapin Kitty and Mukku Kitty are available as charms or straps, from Strapya. Apparently the partnership also resulted in a TV special, called "Umi no Bouken" (Sea Adventure), shown this month.
See also: More Gachapin stuff


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