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The intelligence community is perhaps the most innovative data collector on the planet, with each of its 17 agencies able to siphon off various pools of information from nearly any source.
Yet the IC collects voluminous amounts of mostly fragmented data, and therein lies a challenge every other body in government struggling to make use of big data can relate to.
"In our world, we're very good at collecting data, we're also pretty good at analyzing it – we have to quickly parse out what is valuable," Roger Hockenberry, a former chief technology officer for the Central Intelligence Agency, said during a panel session March 11 at the Symantec Government Symposium in Washington.
"Our data is always fragmented, and we're trying to make sense of fragmented data options, which is extremely difficult," said Hockenberry, who is now a consultant. "How we analyze every piece of data, how we reprocess it to continue to make better sense of what is going on – that is the biggest we have, especially when we can't get complete databases."
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden's public disclosures of classified information have highlighted how the NSA and other agencies collect various sorts of signals intelligence. A significant amount of this data doesn't come packaged neatly for ingestion and analysis in any open-source or proprietary platform. Social media feeds and emails, for example, represent large but highly unstructured datasets. To "normalize" that kind of unstructured data in a way that it becomes useful continues to be a major challenge, Hockenberry said.
To conduct its large-scale analytics effectively, the CIA uses a mixture of open-source and commercial products built off a data-science oriented reference architecture that sprung up from one of its small labs in the past decade. The CIA started with OpenStack and added commercial products in various places to note differences and build an effective and scalable solution.
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The intelligence community is at the forefront of big data as a technology, but even at its most effective levels, analyzing piles of unstructured, fragmented data is challenging. Algorithms will improve and data holders will inevitably learn to ask better questions of data, yet as the deluge of unstructured information continues to pour forth, finding meaningful signal in the noise is likely to remain problematic for some time.
"It'd be nice if al-Qaeda would ship us all their records in a nice, standard format, but they don't," Hockenberry said.
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The End of the Dream: The Golden Boy Who Never Grew up and Other True Cases (Ann Rule's Crime Files Series #5)by Ann Rule
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They were best friends, four talented and charismatic young men who lived charmed lives among the evergreens of Washington state: Kevin, the artist; Steve, the sculptor; Scott, the nature lover and unabashed/b>
They were best friends, four talented and charismatic young men who lived charmed lives among the evergreens of Washington state: Kevin, the artist; Steve, the sculptor; Scott, the nature lover and unabashed ladies' man; and Mark, the musician and poet. With their stunning good looks, whip-sharp minds, athletic bodies and no lack of women who adored them none of them seemed slated for disaster.
But few knew the reality behind the leafy screen that surrounded Seven Cedars, Scott's woodland dream home a tree house equipped with every luxury. From this idyllic enclave, some of these trusted friends would become the quarry for a vigilant Seattle police detective and an FBI special agent, who unmasked clues to disturbing secrets that spawned murder, suicide, million-dollar bank robberies, drug-dealing, and heartbreaking betrayal. When the end came in a violent stand-off, the ringleader of the foursome the fugitive dubbed "Hollywood" for his ingenious disguises and flawless getaways; the persuasive talker who turned his friends into accomplices faced a final chapter no one could have predicted. In a blast of automatic gunfire, the highest and lowest motives of the human heart were, at last, revealed.
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In Seattle, Washington, Thanksgiving is only rarely celebrated under a brilliant blue sky and against a landscape rife with autumn colors. More often than not, the holiday seems to draw memorably violent storms to the Northwest. Many a turkey has been coaxed to semidoneness on an outdoor barbeque because power lines are down. Wednesday, November 27, 1996, was the day before Thanksgiving; the weather was wildly rainy and stormy, with gusts of wind stripping the trees of their last few leaves. Whatever smothered sun there had been that day had long since set, the streets were coils of shiny black, reflecting yellow streetlights and the red, green, and silver of Christmas lights.
Late customers hurried into the Lake City Branch of Seafirst Bank only eighteen minutes before closing. More than a dozen people stood patiently in the long lines, most of them so intent on the errands they still needed to run that they were unaware of what was going on around them.
The bank's automatic cameras kept clicking away as they always did, silent, mindless and mechanical. One camera snapped everyone coming in the door,another caught the bored or impatient faces of people waiting in line for a teller, while another scanned the entire bank. A fourth was aimed away from the tellers' cages toward a central island where customers stood writing out deposit and withdrawal slips. Each frame of the film noted the camera's number, the bank's ID number and name, the date, and the time to the second.
Camera 1-06 recorded the time at 5:42:13 P.M. at the instant a figure appeared at the far right of the frame. From a distance, he seemed only slightly bizarre; he wore both a hooded rain jacket and a baseball cap. A casual observer saw a man past middle age with gray hair; a full, drooping gray moustache; and a prominent chin. His dark glasses seemed odd, considering that the sun had set more than an hour before, and his wide, garish necktie was in dubious taste. He wore cheap tennis shoes, the low black canvas type that predated Nikes and Adidas. A closer look revealed that the body beneath the bulky jacket was too toned to belong to a man in his fifties, and he moved with an almost pantherlike grace. He had to be either an athlete or a dancer.
The camera clicked off seconds and the man approached a line of people. They looked at him with startled eyes and then averted their glances as considerate people do when they realize they are looking at someone with a handicap. Although the man's stride was confident, his face wasn't normal. He appeared to have suffered serious facial burns, and he was wearing either heavy makeup to cover scars or a rubbery mask to prevent additional scarring.
Here, in this neighborhood bank, no one expected trouble. The robot lenses caught their expressions as the odd-looking man cut between customers waiting in line. One man had an embarrassed half-smile on his face, a woman's eyes shifted momentarily, and a girl covered her mouth with her hand. What they were feeling was just a tingle of alarm. Nothing overtly frightening had been said or done. It was a little rude of the scarred man to slide between people in line, but it wasn't as if he were crowding in. He moved through, toward the back of the bank.
They didn't see the gun. They didn't see the holster strapped under his shoulder nor the knife or the extra gun strapped to his ankle. They certainly didn't see the other strange-looking man. The second man was quite tall, over six feet, and close to two hundred pounds. He wore a khaki parka with a light brown hood. His skin also had a masklike appearance, and he had a bushy moustache, too. The teller closest to him saw that he wore beige gloves and lace-up allweather boots.
Eyewitnesses are far from reliable, particularly when they are stunned and frightened eyewitnesses. Human perception is skewed by so many things, and people recall height inaccurately more often than not. A man who is frightening may be remembered as being much taller than he really is. "Young" or "old" is relative to the age of the witness. These two strangers would be described as anywhere from "thirty" to "over fifty." Only their eyes were visible beneath their masks and theatrical makeup.
The first man pushed past a bank customer, walked up to a teller, and said, "Step back. Stay away from the counter. This is a robbery."
Of course. Of course it was; why else would there be two bizarre-looking men in the bank?
The middle-aged male customer must have looked terrified, because the bank robber leaned toward him and said gently, "Don't panic. Stay calm. This is a robbery."
At that point, as if to emphasize his words, he pulled a black handgun about six inches long from his parka. "I'm serious," he said. "If you're nervous, please step out of line and sit down."
The customer and his wife walked gingerly out into the central lobby area and sat down in the easy chairs there. Now, they saw the second man and, when he moved, they caught a glimpse of a gun beneath his jacket that looked like the one the first bank robber held. Although he motioned people to get in line, he didn't use the gun to threaten them.
The first man was efficiently herding everyone from the tellers' lines out into the main part of the bank. He seemed to be in charge; he had an energy field around him that was fraught with danger.
The second, taller, man was very polite, very calm. When he spoke, it was with a southern-sounding drawl. He addressed women respectfully as "Ma'am." The first man, the one in the wild tie, had physically pushed the teller away from the counter. He appeared to be working against a clock.
Neither seemed worried that someone might walk in and interrupt the bank robbery. The bank doors remained unlocked, and new customers actually walked into the bank, unaware that anything was wrong. The tall bank robber had obviously been given the job of controlling the customers and staff. He gestured courteously as he asked people to move into the middle of the bank or into lines in front of the tellers' cubicles. Everyone complied. From the outside, it would look as if business was being carried on as usual.
The smaller man's voice boomed throughout the quiet bank. "Who is the vault teller?"
He seemed to know the inner workings of a bank and the duties of the staff. The big money would surely be in the vault.
A bank employee stepped up and said, "I'm the vault teller. I'll go with you." He led the way through the gate into the tellers' area.
It seemed a very long time before the two men emerged from the vault. Some witnesses thought it was ten minutes; some thought it was half that time. When they came out, the robber who was choreographing the crime carried a shiny blue duffel bag with a rope tied tight at the opening. He tossed it over the gate, and then placed one hand on a low partition and leapt over it effortlessly. Again, his physical agility was incongruous with his gray hair and moustache.
Now, those closest could see that he carried a handheld walkie-talkie radio. He spoke into the radio, saying what sounded like, "Did you hear anything?" or "Is she here?"
And then they were gone. One customer insisted on following the two bank robbers despite the pleadings of the others. He ran out into the darkness beyond the streetlights. Inside, they waited with dread, expecting to hear shots. But none came.
No one but the vault teller suspected that they had all just been part of one of the biggest bank robberies in Northwest history. In less than fifteen minutes, the robbers had managed to carry away more money than most people make in a lifetime.
This was not the first time that these robbers had struck Northwest banks. Far from it. This was at least the twentieth bank hit. The shorter man had become the quarry and the focal point of ultimate frustration for some of the most skilled investigators in the Seattle Police Department and the Seattle FBI Office. Just when predictable patterns and a distinctive MO began to emerge, he would slip through the invisible net that had been laid out for him. He and any accomplice he brought with him were wraithlike; it was almost as if they ran from the banks and vaporized.
No one knew who they were or what they looked like without their masks. They had to live somewhere; there were probably people who loved them and worried about them. Somewhere, probably within fifty miles of Seattle, they quite likely lived outwardly normal lives.
For the moment, they were known only by the profile they had filled in with their actions and their disguises. The investigators tracking them knew more about who they weren't than who they were.
Copyright © 1999 by Ann Rule
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Ann Rule is the author of thirty New York Times bestsellers, all of them still in print. Her first bestseller was The Stranger Beside Me, about her personal relationship to infamous serial killer Ted Bundy. A former Seattle police officer, she knows the crime scene firsthand. For more than two decades, she has been a powerful advocate for victims of violent crime. She lives near Seattle. Visit her at AuthorAnnRule.com.
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If you are an Ann Rule fan, I think you will like the End of the Dream. One thing I found different about this book; I actually felt for the criminal in the major story of this crime collection. I thought something was seriously wrong with me until I read that Ann Rule felt the same way. She managed to bring out the human side. I never imagined she would do that and was quite shocked. As usual, with Ann's crime collections, she adds stories of different length. However, with End of the Dream, the major story is 90% of the book. I think she should have made the main story a book instead of adding the others. There was certainly enough information and detail to do just that. After reading the main story, my feelings were focused on that and was difficult absorbing the shorter ones. My suggestion would be to put the book away for awhile after reading the main story. Save the shorter ones for a later time. That way, the shorter stories will get the attention they deserve.
I could NOT put this book down. It haunted me for days. Even now I'll look back at the pictures and want to change the outcome, just like people in the story itself wish they could. Weird just how enthralling the main story became!
I live in WA State and remember seeing this on the news when I was a young woman. The main story of this book is quite different than most of her others in that the crime is NOT a murder. It is absolutely fascinating to read about the "behind the scenes" lives of the young men and women involved. Great story!
I love her true crime books. I couldn't put this book down. I've read other true crime books but hers aren't too horrific in its content. I just love this book and can't wait till I read more.
I first heard of this story watching the Court TV? Channel. It was hosted by Bill Kurtis of Investigative Reports fame. After hearing the entire story I was prompted to read what I did not learn in the two-hour segment Court TV presented me with. Here was a man so 'caught up' in having a lavish lifestyle that he successfully robbed banks, pocketing an estimated 2.5 million dollars! The story was so well-written that the characters literally come to life. I highly recommend this book.
I thought this book was great! It keept me in to the storie all through the book. This has been the first Ann Rule book I've read, and i plan on reading alot more of her books!
I've read alot of Anne Rule books, this one is a must-read! She really goes into the backgrounds of all the people involved, you really feel like you know them, they could be in your family...just regular nice guys, and you see little by little how some nice guys can get 'sucked in' to a crime you'd never think they could be capable of, they all had SO much to live for, so sad they were willing to risk it all...
Great book by a great author. Ann Rule has a wonderful gift of telling you the true story behind the headlines. A must read if you are also a fan.
It was ok, but would have been better as one of her shorter stories. I found it a bit stretched out and boring in places.


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Posted on 27 August 2014 by WNST Staff
WNST.net owner Nestor Aparicio will make an on-air statement regarding the future of WNST.net/1570 AM on Friday, August 29 at 5 p.m.
To hear Aparicio's statement, tune into WNST.net/1570 AM at 5 p.m.
Posted on 01 June 2014 by Glenn Clark
We're quickly approaching the midway point of 2014-which means we're preparing to celebrate our 16 and a half(th?) birthday here at WNST. Yes, we're also expecting a card from you for this one.
We've been marking our 16th year of being Baltimore's sports media leader by going over some of the more significant "water cooler" topics of the WNST era. Each week we attempt to "define" the topic with a list we're calling the #WNSTSweet16 here at WNST.net.
The concept doesn't exactly take an Ivy Leaguer to figure out. In fact, we've noticed that even some of the folks who listen to the "other" station in town have managed to be able to participate. Remarkable.
If you've missed any of the first 21 Sweet 16 lists we've put together this year, here's a look back. (The #WNSTSweet16 is brought to you by Jerry's Automotive!)
Week 21: Glenn Clark-Sweet 16 greatest local lacrosse players of all time
Week 20: Drew Forrester-Sweet 16 most unsung Orioles
Week 19: Gary Quill-Sweet 16 all-time Maryland horse racing moments
Week 18: Luke Jones-Sweet 16 most important picks in Ravens draft history
Week 17: Glenn Clark-Sweet 16 worst draft picks in Baltimore Ravens history
Week 16: Drew Forrester-Sweet 16 greatest players in Washington Capitals history
Week 15: Nestor Aparicio-Sweet 16 games we've been treated to
Week 14: Drew Forrester-Sweet 16 Masters moments of the last 30 years
Week 13: Luke Jones-Sweet 16 greatest pro wrestling moments in Baltimore history
Week 12: Luke Jones-Sweet 16 local sports goofballs/personalities
Week 11: Glenn Clark-Sweet 16 local sports saints-athletes who gave back
Week 10: Nestor Aparicio-Sweet 16 events a Baltimore sports fan must attend
Week 9: Drew Forrester-Sweet 16 greatest Baltimore college basketball players
Week 8: Luke Jones-Sweet 16 Orioles who didn't live up to the hype
Week 7: Glenn Clark-Sweet 16 most underappreciated Maryland basketball players
Week 6: Drew Forrester-Sweet 16 local sports "Heartbreakers"
Week 5: Luke Jones-Sweet 16 local Olympic sport athletes
Week 4: Drew Forrester-Sweet 16 local athletes who deserved to win a championship but didn't
Week 3: Nestor Aparicio-Sweet 16 local sports people who "had a dream"
Week 2: Luke Jones-Sweet 16 local sports playoff moments
Week 1: Glenn Clark-Sweet 16 "debuts" in local sports history
"The Nasty One" himself is back at the helm of the #WNSTSweet16 in Week 22 and taking on another very difficult list.
I had the pleasure of speaking at Aberdeen High School last week to a group of kids that included a great number of seniors. We discussed opportunity, preparation and reaching goals after graduating from high school. For so many of them, the chat was particularly important because they were less than a week away from joining the "real world".
It is graduation season throughout the region, which made us think about some of the great athletes who have graduated from Charm City area high schools. This stream of consciousness should probably tell you that this week's topic is the "Sweet 16 greatest local high school athletes".
We have certainly been blessed in this area to have had the first opportunity to see quite a number of incredible athletes here in this area. We probably could have made a list using Dunbar basketball players alone, as the likes of Reggie Williams, Reggie Lewis, Sam Cassell, Skip Wise, Muggsy Bogues, Kurk Lee, David Wingate and Keith Booth are all really good options to make this list.
Just considering basketball alone you can lump names in like Carmelo Anthony, Rudy Gay, Will Barton, Juan Dixon, Gary Neal, Marvin Webster, Kim English, Aquille Carr and more.
We haven't even considered football players (Tommy Polley, Tavon Austin, Antonio Freeman, Keion Carpenter, Jeff Grantz), baseball players (Mark Teixeira, Gavin Floyd, some fellas named Cal Ripken and…ummm…Babe Ruth?), lacrosse players (Kyle Harrison, Steele Stanwick, Ryan Boyle, Joe Cowan, etc.) or some of the amazing female athletes (Pam Shriver, Angel McCoughtry, etc.) who did their prep work in the area.
I do not envy…in any way…the responsibility Nestor has in putting this list together. We haven't even talked about the soccer players, wrestlers, runners, swimmers and others who are certainly also deserving of consideration. This list is going to be REALLY tough.
Nestor wants your suggestions. You can leave them here in the comments on this blog post or email him (email@example.com). We will be discussing the list throughout the day Monday on AM1570 WNST.net. We'd love to have you Tweet with us or discuss the topic via Facebook by using the hashtag #WNSTSweet16.
On Tuesday morning, Nes will unveil the "official" list here at WNST.net and then discuss it with Drew and Luke on "The D&L Window Tinting Morning Reaction" at 8am. He will then re-visit the list at 4pm Tuesday on "The Happy Hours".
Shack Stanwick might be just the latest tremendous athlete we had the opportunity to see locally over the last school year. As it wraps up, let's recognize the greatest we've ever seen. Make your voice heard!
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Posted on 13 April 2014 by Glenn Clark
This is the part of our weekly #WNSTSweet16 introduction where I remind you that we're celebrating our 16th anniversary here at WNST. I feel like you should probably have caught on to how we do these things by now.
To celebrate our 16th year as Baltimore's sports media leader, we're discussing various "water cooler" topics from the WNST era every week and defining them via a list. We're calling it the #WNSTSweet16. It's been a lot of fun. You should probably call your family and friends and let them know they'll want to be a part of this thing.
We've already hit 14 topics this year as part of our #WNSTSweet16 celebration. Did you miss any of them? (Shame on you if you did.) Here's a quick recap.
(The "Sweet 16″ is driven by our friends at Jerry's Automotive-Jerry's Chevrolet & Jerry's Toyota Scion!)
Week 14: Drew Forrester-Sweet 16 Masters moments of the last 30 years
Week 13: Luke Jones-Sweet 16 greatest pro wrestling moments in Baltimore history
Week 12: Luke Jones-Sweet 16 local sports goofballs/personalities
Week 11: Glenn Clark-Sweet 16 local sports saints-athletes who gave back
Week 10: Nestor Aparicio-Sweet 16 events a Baltimore sports fan must attend
Week 9: Drew Forrester-Sweet 16 greatest Baltimore college basketball players
Week 8: Luke Jones-Sweet 16 Orioles who didn't live up to the hype
Week 7: Glenn Clark-Sweet 16 most underappreciated Maryland basketball players
Week 6: Drew Forrester-Sweet 16 local sports "Heartbreakers"
Week 5: Luke Jones-Sweet 16 local Olympic sport athletes
Week 4: Drew Forrester-Sweet 16 local athletes who deserved to win a championship but didn't
Week 3: Nestor Aparicio-Sweet 16 local sports people who "had a dream"
Week 2: Luke Jones-Sweet 16 local sports playoff moments
Week 1: Glenn Clark-Sweet 16 "debuts" in local sports history
The Nasty One himself, Nestor Aparicio is in charge of the Sweet 16 again this week.
As you may be aware, I'm a fan of a nice Easter treat. I prefer Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs to Cadbury Creme Eggs and I DEFINITELY prefer Starburst Jelly Beans to Jelly Belly Jelly Beans (and if you disagree I hope you'll do the right thing and just leave the country); but I at least respect all treats equally.
As Baltimore sports fans, we've been "treated" to some awesome things in our lives. Some of them have been individual games-games we'll remember forever and we can recall details about no matter how far away we've gotten from them.
This week's list is meant for those games. These are the games that made us sit on the edge of our seat, the games that made us sweat as if we were actually playing in them. The official topic is "Sweet 16 Games we've been treated to".
While it seems like the 1958 NFL Championship Game will be hard to beat on this list, I wonder if the factor of time will play a role here. While the game has come to be known as "The Greatest Game Ever Played", much of the aura surrounding it is based on the significance of the game and less about the game itself-although we certainly know the game was quite good.
But what are the greatest games in Baltimore Ravens and Baltimore Orioles history? Until 2012 I think I would have declared the win over the Tennessee Titans in the 2000 NFL Playoffs (January 2001) the best game-but how can you argue against the Mile High Miracle and 2OT thrilling nature of the Wild Card win over the Broncos?
I'm hard pressed to tell you what the greatest game in Orioles history might be. We all remember great hits, great moments and great plays-but what was the most dramatic game? If this were my list, I'd be needing a ton of help.
To me the greatest Maryland basketball game I've ever seen was the thrilling Elite 8 contest against UConn in Syracuse back in 2002. I've shared my feelings about the game more than a few times, including a love letter I wrote on the 10th anniversary of the game a few years back.
And perhaps the most difficult part for Nestor will be remembering that the area team didn't have to win the game in question. This list isn't supposed to be for the greatest wins in local sports history, it's meant to be about the greatest games. It can be any combination.
What needs to be on the list? This is where you come in.
Nestor wants your ideas. Leave them here in the comments or email him via firstname.lastname@example.com. We will be discussing the list throughout the day Monday on AM1570 WNST.net. We'd love to have you Tweet with us or discuss the topic via Facebook by using the hashtag #WNSTSweet16.
On Tuesday morning, Nasty will unveil the "official" list here at WNST.net and then discuss it with Drew and Luke on "The D&L Window Tinting Morning Reaction" at 8am. He will then re-visit the list at 4pm Tuesday on "The Happy Hours".
What games still give you chills when you think about them today? Let your voice be heard!
Posted on 22 January 2014 by Nestor Aparicio
As I continue to gather more information and write the legacy of the Baltimore Orioles under the ownership of Peter G. Angelos, I'm stumbling onto all sorts of information, quotes and basic truths.
My book on the first 20 years of Angelos' ownership, The Peter Principles, is coming to WNST.net in March.
I've only met Peter Angelos three times in my life. This was the first time in March 1997. When this video starts, I had literally just shaken hands with him less than two minutes earlier.
Posted on 19 January 2014 by Glenn Clark
We're into the third week of our year long #WNSTSweet16 celebration, recognizing a remarkable 16 years of WNST.net as Baltimore's sports media leader.
To mark the occasion, we're spending the year looking into the biggest "water cooler" topics in Baltimore sports history. If you've missed our first couple of lists, take a look back on them. Last week Luke Jones celebrated the NFL Playoffs by looking into the greatest postseason moments in local sports history. We introduced #WNSTSweet16 the week before when I took a look at the greatest debuts in local sports history.
As a country this week we're recognizing one of our greatest Americans. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was an incredible visionary and leader of the civil rights movement. We recognized the 50th anniversary of his famous "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington just last August and continue to recognize the role he played in bringing social justice in our country as we celebrate MLK Day Monday.
It's with that in mind that this week's list is about "dreamers" as well. "The Nasty One" himself Nestor Aparicio will take on this week's topic, the "#WNSTSweet16 Local Sports Figures Who Had A Dream".
This is where we need your help. Nestor certainly has an idea of which 16 dreamers should be included in this list, but he wants your help to come up with those he might not have thought of and where these dreamers should rank on this list. Like in other weeks, we're looking to make a "definitive" list, not just a personal opinion list.
As I thought about the possibilities for this week's list, a number of names came to mind. William Donald Schaefer had a dream for downtown Baltimore that was heavy in local sports. Former Maryland football player Kevin Plank had a dream for a product that would help athletes in tough conditions that would ultimately lead to one of the biggest companies in the world. Lefty Driesell had a dream to make Maryland "the UCLA of the East", Gary Williams had a dream for a new basketball facility in College Park.
Art Modell had a dream to re-create a football culture in Charm City, Steve Bisciotti had a dream to take that franchise even further. Daryl Hill had a dream to integrate the ACC. John Rallo had a dream to bring Mixed Martial Arts to the state of Maryland, Bob Bowman had a dream to coach Olympic swimming champions. Peter Angelos had a dream to…well…I'm not entirely sure.
Who else? What other local sports figures were "dreamers"? Where should they rank? Let us know here in the comments. We'll be discussing our "dreamers" throughout the day Monday on AM1570 WNST.net. We encourage you to discuss the topic Monday via social media by using the hashtag #WNSTSweet16. On Tuesday morning, Nestor will unveil the list here at WNST.net and he will discuss it with Luke Jones on "The D&L Window Tinting Morning Reaction" Tuesday morning at 8am. He'll then check back in Tuesday afternoon at 4pm on "The Reality Check Driven by Jerry's Chevrolet" to discuss the list with me.
Give us your thoughts. Whose dreams most shaped local sports?
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Posted on 25 December 2013 by Glenn Clark
To those who celebrate, I'd like to wish you a very Merry Christmas. To those who don't, I hope you enjoy/enjoyed your holidays/Winter celebrations.
I don't have a lot for you today, but what I have is important.
You guys never cease to amaze me. Never. I wandered downstairs Monday morning at The Zone Superstore Studios in Towson and looked around and just felt dumbfounded.
The picture I snapped wasn't even CLOSE to a reflection of how many coats/jackets/hats/etc. you all had collected. It was incredible. It was overwhelming. I was truly moved. I never know how our charity events/drives are going to go and I'm probably a bit more obsessive than necessary when it comes to these things.
It's personal for me. Personal in that I've known people-in fact I've known people well-who have gone to facilities just like The Helping Up Mission. Truth be told, I've had close friends who have needed to right their life at The Mission.
This is Baltimore. This is "Smalltimore". It's Christmas, forgive my emotions. This really is something that matters that much to me. I'm grateful to find myself roughly a decade into my career as a sports talk host at a station I grew up listening to, but I am not capable of funding or lifting up these places on my own.
To have the opportunity to lend my voice and my heart to places like The Helping Up Mission…I can't really describe it. But as Drew and I always say, these events aren't about "us", per se. We're not the WNST community. We're merely the members of the WNST community with the microphones in front of us.
The WNST community is made up of local sports fans-people who care deeply about the Orioles, Ravens, Capitals, Maryland, Towson, Navy, UMBC, etc. More importantly, the WNST community is made up of people who care DESPERATELY about our community. People who aren't in Charm City because they have to be-people that are here because this is HOME.
The scene at The Helping Up Mission Monday was overwhelming. Hundreds of men came through the Conference Room to sift through those thousands or items to find clothes for themselves and for their families. For many of the men, this was their only opportunity to provide a Christmas for their loved ones.
Each man stopped to say "thank you" and "Merry Christmas". Like every year, it was incredibly moving. After the residents came through, the staff of the Helping Up Mission brought dozens more Baltimoreans in RIGHT OFF THE STREET to find those coats that could help keep them warm. The items that were leftover after that point were then sent to other shelters throughout Baltimore.
You saved Christmas, WNST community. You guys are heroes. Every single one of you.
Even after these thousands of items were taken to the HUM, roughly a thousand more were headed to Goodwill as well.
An unscientific poll from WNST/Enoch Office Equipment and the Mission determined the 2013 Coat Drive (our fifth) to be significantly our most successful. That's what the WNST community is. That's what the WNST community does.
That's why I'm so damn grateful to be a part of the WNST community this and every holiday season. You collected THOUSANDS of canned goods and non-perishable food items for SARC in Harford County and just a month later collected thousands of coats and winter weather items. Who does that?
You guys rock. I don't know what else to say. You're my Christmas miracle once again.
Please let me use this space to thank all of those who have helped us. Drew Forrester envisioned this five years ago. His idea at the time was to simply drive downtown and start handing out coats. Tony from Rosedale wisely directed us instead to HUM, where Barry Burnett has coordinated with us every year.
Rick Donovan and Sherrie Jones from Enoch Office Equipment have been a vital part of this since Day 1. There's a reason Joe Enoch has been able to put together such a successful business. His crew is amazing. They help us transport the coats, they collect coats, they advertise the campaign, they set up the "shopping" time and Rick and Sherrie walk around with each man in the Mission to help them find exactly what they need.
Peter DiLutis, Nestor Aparicio, Luke Jones, Thyrl Nelson, Ryan Chell, Paul Kopelke, Ashley Bishoff, Brett Dickinson, Barry Kamen, Shawn Credle, Max Buchdahl, Ethan Felderstein, Nick Dorsey, etc. etc. etc. make up the WNST crew that attacks this drive at a level comparable to breaking a story about the Ravens or fielding a paying client. They're awesome at EVERYTHING they do-especially when it comes time to do the right thing for the community.
Buffalo Wild Wings in White Marsh, Bel Air and Owings Mills all went out of their way to host drives this month-sometimes even risking fire code! Ravens LB Jameel McClain, LS Morgan Cox, OT Eugene Monroe, WR Marlon Brown, WR/KR Jacoby Jones and DL Chris Canty all kindly signed footballs to give away in exchange for gear. The WWE and Baltimore Arena provided tickets to give away, as did Rams Head Live and The Modell Performing Arts Center at The Lyric. Jason Butt and Triumph Books donated incentives, as did The Zone Superstore, Freedmont Mortgage, Gary S. Williams & Ronnie Lott, Press Box and more.
If I've forgotten anyone I apologize profusely. An undertaking of this size doesn't happen without the support of many.
But it's you the listeners-the WNST community-that have come through the most. This drive ONLY happens because of you. The WNST community is amazing. The WNST community is the best representation of our city I could ever possibly imagine.
God bless you all. Merry Christmas. Happy Holidays. Thank you…from the bottom of my heart…thank you.
I truly love you all.
Posted on 05 November 2013 by Nestor Aparicio
On Monday night, Joe Flacco joined friends of WNST and The Living Classrooms Foundation at The Prime Rib in Anne Arundel County for conversation and charity.
The videos here feature a wide-ranging Q&A and a lot of laughs. Hope you enjoy "An Evening With Joe Flacco."
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SPORTS LEGENDS MUSEUM AT CAMDEN YARDS TO HOST FOOTBALL ROUNDTABLE WITH LOCAL MEDIA ON SEPTEMBER 17th
Baltimore Media Members to Provide Insight on 2013 Baltimore Ravens Season
Baltimore, Md. – Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards today announced that it will host a football roundtable discussion on Tuesday, September 17 from Noon to 1:30 p.m. with members of the local sports media.
The panel of Baltimore media experts will consist of Pete Gilbert (WBAL-TV, WBAL Radio, 98 Rock & Ravens Broadcast Team); Bruce Cunningham (Fox 45 Sports Director & Public Address Announcer at M&T Bank Stadium); Nestor Aparicio (WNST Founder & Author of Purple Reign and Purple Reign 2); and Jeff Zrebiec (The Baltimore Sun). The panelists will discuss the Ravens off-season moves, provide their insight & predictions for the 2013 season and take questions from members of the audience.
"There is an excitement building as the Ravens prepare to kickoff their 2013 campaign, especially after winning the Super Bowl last season ," said Mike Gibbons, executive director of the Babe Ruth Birthplace Foundation. "Baltimoreans love talking football, so we thought this roundtable would be a great opportunity for the media who cover the team and fans to come together to share their thoughts on the Ravens initial start to the season and the long-term outlook for 2013."
Tickets for the program are $25.00 and include lunch, the roundtable program and admission to the galleries at Sports Legends Museum. Attendees will have the opportunity to see the latest additions to the Ravens Gallery featuring new artifacts from the Super Bowl XLVII Championship season. Artifacts include Ravens Kicker Justin Tucker's cleats worn during Super Bowl XLVII; Ravens Defensive End Arthur Jones' jersey (#97) worn during the Wild Card game against the Indianapolis Colts; a reproduction Super Bowl XLVII ring that is an exact replica of the one presented to Joe Flacco with his name and "MVP" engraved on the side; and more.
To order tickets, please contact Ashley Serano at 410-727-1539 x3013 or email@example.com.
About The Babe Ruth Birthplace Foundation
The Babe Ruth Birthplace Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving and celebrating the legacy of Maryland's rich sports heritage. The Foundation owns and operates both Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards and the Babe Ruth Birthplace. Located adjacent to Oriole Park, Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards opened in May 2005 and consists of 22,000 square feet of artifacts and interactive exhibits profiling Maryland's sports history. Among the items featured in the Museum's Ravens' Gallery are the Super Bowl jerseys of Jonathan Ogden and Matt Stover, as well as the football from the team's first home game.
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Marcavage, 30, is an evangelical P.T. Barnum, a sin-slaying showman who says Satan "has invaded our communities" via America's acceptance of abortion, homosexuality, and TV's South Park.
The Lansdowne preacher eschews a cassock for T-shirts and baseball caps. He wields a bullhorn and fetus photos and records each graphic spectacle for YouTube and www.repentamerica.com - where the like-minded are urged to "prayerfully consider" donating and the unsaved are sentenced to smolder in a "lake of fire."


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Hi, I need the part number for the main rotor grip set for this rotor head (the one that includes all the bearings, thrust washers etc.. to put the head back together after changing the feathering...
I bought this one
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Hobbyking has a couple that are $15.95, go on the site and search for rc18t and it gives a list of parts that fit the car. I just ordered a 4200kv and 6200kv to try. I can send you the part numbers...
yup, screaming fast, and the heat was so bad i pulled the motor before it fried itself, fun for a short time, i think it was running faster than 30mph
I'm using a hobbywing 7800kv motor and a 25a esc. The motor was getting too hot to touch so i'm installing something a little slower, going to try a 4200 and 6200 and see how they work.
thanks for the tip, i installed brushless and made sure the mesh was good, runs smooth and i can't believe how fast it is, i never expected these speeds from 1/18 scale.
thanks, that helps, there is a plastic guard that had me thinking i had to take it apart, i'll remove it and follow your instructions.
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Does anyone have instructions or a video for changing the motor on these? I'm used to the larger 1/10 scale where you remove 2 screws and the pinionand the motor pops right out. I just bought a used...
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The response i got from Redcat was that the ESC is only good for 2s. The motor should be ok with 3s.
put the GPS on my Tornado EPX PRO brushless, stock with 2s lipo, got 52kmph (32mph) and it wasn't quite at full speed yet,
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Yes, seems much smoother and more responsive when turning, i don't have much experience with this so i didn't realize how much better it would be than analog.
Swapped out the servo for the digital one that came with my DX3E, no issues, slotted right in with the included hardware.
Is the the factory servo digital or analog? I have a digital servo i'd like to swap in but not if the factory one is already digital.
thanks, couldn't find anything on the Redcat web site.
Sheograth, they are not mini EC3, check this site:
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i purchased this combo for my Blade 400:
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i purchased the upgrade combo for my Blade 400:
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Released: Jul 01st, 1987
Running Time: 85
Director: Robert McCallum
Company: Cal Vista Video
Cast: Don Fernando, Nina Hartley, Joey Silvera, Lili Marlene, Jason Powell, Buddy Grant, Sandy Summers, Maggie Randall, Eric Edwards
Critical Rating: AAAA
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Here's something all too rare these days, a fine adult film that has everything: a serious plot, great photography, good acting and great sex.
Sandy Summers stars as Sharon, Nina Hartley's disturbed daughter who goes to San Francisco to live with Nina's ex-hubby (Eric Edwards) and his live-in girlfriend (Maggie Randall). Sharon, who spent a lonely, ignored childhood listening to her mother indulge her sexual appetites in the next room, is just beginning to discover sex on her own. Since Edwards is not actually Sharon's father, her arrival strains household relations and the tension builds as Sharon becomes a nighttime voyeur and goes to sex clubs during the day, eventually choosing to get on stage.
The story climaxes as Sharon finally seduces a door-to-door Bible salesman, played wonderfully by Joey Silvera, who again proves he is one of the few adult performers who can actually act. For her part, Sandy Summers brings a fresh and mysterious quality to Doll Face.
All the other performances are also strong, especially Edwards. Sexually though, it's Nina Hartley who steals the film with a steamy scene with Don Fernando that's pure Nina. The rest of the sex is almost as good, and you can hardly wait till the end for Summers to join in. For the troubled Sharon it's the end – her final step towards psychosis – but for Sandy Summers it's just the beginning, and a great one at that.


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Branching out from politics and economics, I have been examining Oscar predictions over the last few weeks. While I approach the science of predictions the same way for both political elections and the Oscars, there are some key differences.
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No, it's not a young Dakota Fanning. The girl who recreated the iconic Les Miserables poster for the Oscar-nominated movie is Isabelle Allen, who play...
Don't rely on bloviating pundits to tell you who'll prevail on Hollywood's big night. The Huffington Post has crunched the stats on every Oscar nomine...
This year, it's looking as if I won't be buying tickets to most of the nominees for Best Picture, because I have this built-in protective mechanism which keeps me away from exceptionally violent films.
The outcomes of the Golden Globes cemented our expectations in most categories, but the few surprises will not have as large an impact on the Oscars as you may expect.
"Les Miserables" has won Best Picture, Musical Or Comedy at the 2013 Golden Globes.
"Les Miserables," directed by Tom Hooper, defeated "Silver Lini...
The winner for Best Picture, Musical or Comedy at the 2013 Golden Globes was announced Sunday night, with "Les Miserables" besting the competition.
The Friday box office estimates for "Zero Dark Thirty" are in and they are looking good. While it has been playing in limited theaters since Dec. 19, ...
Politicians in Washington may be patting themselves on the back for preventing a fall off what they called the nation's "fiscal cliff" but, really, what they have done is just put off the hard decisions until another day.
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Answer by Michele Maika Berg, Actor Les Miserables Broadway
Oh yes, people make mistakes. Sometimes th...
In our initial likelihoods of victory for the big six categories, Lincoln is our most likely winner in three: best actor (Daniel Day-Lewis) at near certainty, best picture at 94 percent, and best director (Steven Spielberg) at 70 percent.
What exactly does it take to prep Amanda Seyfried for the red carpet? A lot, apparently -- and she still isn't sure what this Sunday's Golden Globes w...
by Bennett Marcus, Vanity Fair
Jessica Chastain, John Krasinski, and Anne Hathaway; photos courtesy of WWD, Steve Eichner, and Thomas Iannaccone
As to the DGA awards, Hooper joins Steven Spielberg, Kathryn Bigelow, Ang Lee, and Ben Affleck for this honor. Omitted were Quentin Tarantino, Paul Thomas Anderson, and most serious, a favorite: David O. Russell.
To my mind, we need some more "good" fairy tales, in that we need the inspiration to work at the realities of our selves, and of course each other, and of course the larger world. The giving it up to God almost spoiled my enjoyment of the movie.
One Oscar Les Miserables won't be nominated for is "Best Original Musical." Wait a minute, you're thinking, that's crazy talk -- there's no category called "Best Original Musical." As a matter of fact, there is such a category, but it's just never been activated.
The Academy Award nominations for 2012 films will be announced on Thursday, January 10; the following are the most likely contenders. Good luck to them all:
Texas Chainsaw 3D topped the box office this weekend with a robust $23 million. That this under-marketed film was still able to kick up a solid opening is proof of the franchise's long-standing popularity with genre fans (this is the seventh entry in 40 years).
The question of whether we see the world through the eyes of Javert or Valjean amounts to our understanding of justice. For Javert, justice is retribution in the interest of maintaining an abstract order; for Valjean, justice is solidarity in the interest of personal love.
The roster of actors forced to drop out of "Django Unchained" is almost as impressive as the film's cast: Kevin Costner, Kurt Russell, Jonah Hill, Jos...
This film poses the question, Can a successful Broadway musical be turned into a successful movie? Sure it's been done, but this interpretation of Les Miserables is not it.
I'll save the review, but the faithful film of the musical phenomenon is just as emotionally exhausting and breathtaking as it should be. It left me properly devastated and touched, and surely ready to analyze the performances.
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photo by WWD/Steve Eichner
The cast of the sure-to-be blockbuster musical Les Misérables has been working triple tim...
I was thinking it would be like roadkill. Something you know you shouldn't look at. But you do anyway. Which is followed by that horrible feeling in your gut that you should have followed your instinct and avoid it.
Russell Crowe took to his Twitter account Tuesday night to respond to a very vocal "Les Miserables" critic.
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Tube-Opera «Pique Dame»
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Tchaikovsky's opera thriller Pique Dame tells the story of the penniless outsider Hermann. He falls in love with Lisa, who is already engaged to be married. Hermann is a gambler, and hopes to attain wealth and status through luck at cards and thus win Lisa's heart. However, his obsession with gambling destroys his love for Lisa, and Hermann ends up by shooting himself. Gripping characters and settings such as a gambling casino and a ballroom make the opera particularly suitable for interpretation on film. In this holiday workshop, young people make a music video about selected scenes from the opera under the guidance of video experts and drama teachers.
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La bohème – perhaps the most youthful opera of all: a group of young, creative people approaches life full of idealism and vigour with the aim of realising their ideas as artists. However, great ideas, friendship and love are also accompanied by experiences of despair and failure. Similarly, young people, torn between conflicting emotions, embark on a quest to find the meaning of life. Giacomo Puccini's magnificent music offers us a great deal of inspiration for a music video, which young people can make in this holiday workshop with the help of video experts and drama teachers – just like the Bohemians themselves.
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Zurich Opera House aims to kindle young people's enthusiasm for opera and ballet. Our offers are directed at all age groups ranging from children of pre-school and primary school age to young adults, and make these art forms and selected works accessible, appropriately to these age groups. We take our guests on themed tours behind the scenes at the Opera House and provide insights into the way we work and our artistic processes. At thematically structured workshops with an immediate relevance to practical implementation, we intensify these impressions and make work at the theatre come alive. We intend to raise awareness of the quality of art and stimulate children and young people to discover their own creativity. We seek a dialogue with young audiences and give them the opportunity to engage with art in an active way.
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Deep Fried Mozzarella Cheese Sticks
Total Time
Prep 20 mins
Cook 20 mins
I have been playing around with this recipe since I was a teen. I love to make these for friends and they say they are better than the restaurant version. Stacey
Ingredients Nutrition
- 16 ounces mozzarella cheese
- 1⁄2 cup water
- 1⁄2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon dried oregano, crushed
- 1⁄2 teaspoon dried parsley, crushed
- 1⁄3 cup cornstarch
- 3 large eggs, beaten
- 1 1⁄2 cups Italian seasoned breadcrumbs
- 2⁄3 cup flour
- 1⁄8 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄8 teaspoon pepper
- Mix together the eggs and water, set aside.
- combine the Italian bread crumbs, garlic powder, dried oregano and dried parsley.
- salt and pepper to taste.
- in a separate container, mix flour and cornstarch.
- cut mozzarella cheese into any desired shape, rectangle strips are traditional.
- One at a time, dip mozarella slices into the egg mixture, then the breadcrumbs, then the flour.
- fry sticks at 375 F until golden brown and serve with desired dipping sauce.
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I made this tonight as an appetizer to the dinner I made for my fiance and I. I made a few changes, since I didn't want them to be too Italian flavored. I wanted them more along the lines of the way they taste from Denny's since those are my favorite. I used 1/3 cup flour, 1/4 cup cornstarch, & an egg + milk mixture. I kept the garlic, oregano, parsley amounts the same. I upped the salt and pepper to 1/4 tsp each. I went in the order of milk, flour, milk, plain bread crumbs. I also froze the string cheese (I made 5 pieces, cut in half) before battering. They came out really, really good this way! They tasted almost exactly like the one's from Denny's and luckily we had some left over restaurant ranch from when we'd ordered wings the other night. Now I don't have to go to Denny's just for their cheese sticks :P
I've made these several times now and after a few tasty yet messy mishaps, I've finally perfected the technique. My cheese kept bursting out of the coating before it was brown enough so I cranked up the heat to 400 and it worked perfectly. Also, I had accidently doubled the spices once and DH said they were the best cheese sticks he had ever had that time. Definitely resturant quality! I will be making these again and again!
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Alabama's Board of Pardons and Paroles
is turning over its transition center for women paroled from the
state prison system to the state Department of Corrections.
Corrections Commissioner Richard Allen says his department will
be in control of the center by July.
The center, which opened six years ago, is less than a mile from
the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women, which is under court order to
keep its population at no more than 700.
The center was designed to relieve overcrowding in Tutwiler and
give women paroled from the prison system vocational training, drug
treatment, and other tools to make it on the outside.
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Dynavax Technologies will receive a $3 million payment from AstraZeneca to fund the initiation of clinical trials with their partnered asthma drug AZD 1419. The payment comes as part of the firms' amended collaboration to accelerate the start of clinical development of the second-generation TLR-9 agonist. Dynavax will manage the early clinical development of AZD 1419, but development expenses will be fully funded by AstraZeneca, which will provide its partner with about $20 million to cover the costs of clinical studies through to the completion of Phase IIa. The firms aim to start a Phase I study after regulatory requirements have been met and clinical materials released.
Under terms of the original and amended deal, Dynavax could receive another $20 million if AstraZeneca decides to progress development of AZD 1419 following completion of Phase IIa studies, plus additional milestones of some $100 million, and royalties on future worldwide sales. Dynavax also retains the option to co-promote AZD 1419 in the U.S.
The firms established an agreement in 2006 focused on developing TLR-9-based agonists against asthma and COPD, including AZD 1419. The program is based on Dynavax' TLR-9 agonist immunostimulatory sequences platform, which comprises short DNA sequences designed to activate the innate immune response by specifically targeting toll-like receptors (TLRs).
Dynavax' in-house and partnered pipeline is headed by the Phase III-stage hepatitis B vaccine, Heplisav™, which combines the hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) with a TLR9 agonist to enhance the immune response. Early clinical-stage products include a universal flu vaccine (partnered with Novartis), and hepatitis B and hepatitis C therapeutic candidates.
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Island Paradise Smoothie
Total Time
Prep 10 mins
Cook 0 mins
Smooth and refreshing, it almost has a tropical breeze flowing off of it! :)
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 1⁄2 cups orange juice, chilled
- 1⁄2 cup pineapple juice, chilled
- 1⁄4 mango, peeled and sliced
- 1⁄2 banana, peeled and sliced
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons fresh lime juice
- 1⁄2 cup crushed ice
- Mix ingredients in blender until smooth.
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Very nice! I used a whole banana for thickness, but otherwise followed directions. We loved it! Thanks! Reviewed for Healthy Choices ABC Tag.
Made & reviewed for ZWT 4 ~ Kumquat's Kookin' Kaboodles! This is fast & super easy to make & produces a delicious, healthy shake. I doubled the recipe & the whole family enjoyed it. Thanks Sue. :)
This was so yummy. Each Thursday in my home I serve meals with an "around the world" theme. I used this as a beverage for a "caribbean" themed meal - though I didn't use a main course recipe/side dish recipe from this site, this beverage fit the theme perfectly. I chose to garnish the glasses w/ a slice of pineapple and a cherry. Talk about thinking I was in the tropics!