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Great one Chrissy, this time I used pork schnitzel and it worked out fine. Cheers, Jenny
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Big Brother Season 18 Episode 18: The Secret's OutThe secret room was discovered; the twist to the room revealed and Julie announces how we can have an influence to the game.
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Approach Used to Add Cancers to List of Covered Conditions Was Reasonable, but Could Be Improved
GAO-14-606: Published: Jul 23, 2014. Publicly Released: Aug 22, 2014.
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The Administrator of the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP)—a program of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)—used a hazard-based, multiple-method approach to determine whether to add cancers to the WTCHP list of covered conditions for which treatment may be provided at no cost to an enrollee. Experts who participated in a meeting held by GAO indicated that the Administrator's approach was reasonable but could be improved.
According to these experts, a hazard-based approach focuses on identifying whether particular "hazards"—sources of potential harm—are associated with certain health conditions, and does not attempt to quantify the risks of developing those health conditions. The Administrator's approach used four methods to determine whether there was an association between a September 11 exposure and a specific cancer, and thus, whether to add that cancer to the list.
The experts considered the approach reasonable given the WTCHP certification process for enrollees to obtain coverage for treatment for a condition on the list, the lack of data related to exposure levels and risks, and the use of similar approaches by previous federal compensation programs.
The experts indicated the approach could have been communicated more clearly. For example, the description of the approach in rulemaking did not clearly articulate how decisions would be made when evidence under one method supported adding a cancer type to the list, and evidence under a different method did not. The Administrator noted that this omission was an oversight. Since the Administrator plans to use the same approach in future cancer-related decision making, the absence of a clear description can lead to questions about the credibility and equity of the program.
According to the experts, an independent peer review process similar to that used in other federal compensation programs could improve the approach. According to the Administrator, this was not feasible due to time constraints imposed by law. A process through which an independent party assesses the validity of the information upon which decisions are being made and that rationales for decisions are clearly described could help ensure the credibility of the Administrator's approach.
WTCHP spending (claims paid) directly attributable to the addition of cancers to the list of covered conditions accounted for 6.5 percent of its total spending on services from October 2012 (when cancers were added) through March 2014. The addition of cancers to the list led to the need for a third-party administrator to help the program provide uninterrupted cancer-related services to enrollees who had been receiving care outside of the program. WTCHP and other officials reported that the addition of cancers has helped ensure enrollees have access to high-quality cancer care, which may contribute to better health outcomes, but required increased WTCHP staff to accommodate the program's growing scope.
The effects on the Department of Justice's September 11th Victim Compensation Fund (VCF) of adding cancers to the list of covered conditions are not yet known because there have been a small number of compensation decisions. Of the 502 compensation decisions made as of March 31, 2014, only 39 were for claimants with cancer, either alone or in combination with other conditions.
Why GAO Did This Study
The WTCHP provides health benefits to eligible responders and survivors of the September 11, 2001, attacks. In September 2012, the WTCHP added 60 types of cancer to the list of covered conditions. The VCF—which provides financial compensation to eligible individuals—uses the WTCHP list as a basis for eligibility. GAO was asked to review the WTCHP Administrator's approach to add cancers and the effects of the additions on the WTCHP and VCF. This report (1) describes and assesses the approach for adding cancers to the list of covered conditions, (2) describes the effects the addition has had on the WTCHP, and (3) describes the effects the addition has had on the VCF. GAO reviewed relevant laws and documents, interviewed WTCHP officials, and convened a meeting of experts with the assistance of the Institute of Medicine. GAO examined data for services paid by the WTCHP from October 2012 through March 2014, and VCF claims data as of March 31, 2014.
What GAO Recommends
GAO recommends that, to help ensure future decisions are equitable and credible, HHS direct the WTCHP Administrator to communicate clearly the approach used for determining whether to add conditions to its list, and include an independent peer review in the approach, seeking authority to extend time frames if necessary. HHS supports these recommendations, but noted concerns with including a peer review given statutory time frames. GAO acknowledges the time constraints by recommending HHS seek authority to extend the time frames if necessary.
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Recommendations for Executive Action
Status: Open
Comments: As of September 2015, we are awaiting an update from HHS/CDC on the status of this recommendation. We will update the status of this recommendation when we receive additional information.
Recommendation: To help ensure that future decisions related to adding conditions to the WTCHP list of covered conditions are equitable and credible, the Secretary of HHS should direct the WTCHP Administrator to communicate clearly, through rulemaking or other means, the approach for decision making related to the addition of covered conditions to the list, including a clear delineation of the relationship between methods when conflicting evidence is available.
Agency Affected: Department of Health and Human Services
Status: Open
Comments: As of September 2015, we are awaiting an update from HHS/CDC on the status of this recommendation. We will update the status of this recommendation when we receive additional information.
Recommendation: To help ensure that future decisions related to adding conditions to the WTCHP list of covered conditions are equitable and credible, the Secretary of HHS should direct the WTCHP Administrator to include an independent peer review in the approach for adding to the list of covered conditions, seeking authority to extend time frames if necessary.
Agency Affected: Department of Health and Human Services
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The Seattle Parks Department is piiiiiiissed about a pillow fight which took place in Ballard over the weekend:
On Saturday a flash mob left Ballards Bergen Place covered with feathers after a pillow fight and on Sunday night vandals scrawled graffiti across several structures in Discovery Park. These two weekend incidents took 10 hours of staff time to clean up.
On Saturday afternoon, about 50 people converged on downtown Ballards Bergen Place for a spirited pillow fight. After about five minutes, feathers covered the entire park. Participants left soon after that without picking up after themselves. Parks maintenance crews spent six hours cleaning up the mess and a Parks security officer is trying to track down the organizer and other participants.
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This will not be a post about how Saga is awesome. I've written 30 of those already. No thrilling over Lying Cat here, no desperation for the next issue, none of my hopes to see The Will return to action or for [SPOILER] to [SPOILER] and [SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER].
Nor will I lose my cool over the fact that, right now, my bookshelf contains two excellent and weird and hilarious China Mieville (China Mieville!)-penned trades of Dial H, complete with blink-and-you'll-miss-'em anti-MPAA digs. Or that Neil Gaiman, in the – yikes — almost two decades since I picked up my first Sandman trade, has evolved from Sensational Comic Book Writer Neil Gaiman to MechaGaiman, Devourer of Worlds, Savior of Publishing and Champion of Art. Or that Genevieve Valentine is writing Catwoman!
I won't flip out about The Wicked + The Divine or Chew or either Marvel, Ms. or Captain.
Whether you're looking to benefit a good cause or simply trying to squeeze in another tax deduction before 2014 comes to an end, you need look no further than the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
The nonprofit, dedicated to protecting the First Amendment rights of comics creators, publishers and retailers, is rewarding contributions — of any amount — made by midnight Wednesday with an exclusive download of Neil Gaiman: Live at the Aladdin, the 2001 CBLDF benefit reading that includes performances of "Chivalry" and "Being an Experiment Upon Strictly Scientific Lines …"
If, for some reason, you're uncertain of precisely what the CBLDF does, this post on the organization's website touches upon the highlights of its "busy year"; there's also a handy chart, which you can see below.
Regular readers of ROBOT 6 will undoubtedly recall the nonprofit's involvement in Banned Books Week (which this year focused on comics) and the debate over Alison Bechdel's Fun Home in the South Carolina legislature.
Crime | Artist Josh C. Lyman reports that thieves broke into his car sometime on Monday or Tuesday and stole about 40 pieces of original art (some of it commissioned), 1,200 prints, plus convention setup materials, art supplies and clothes. "I'm more devastated in the fact my originals are all gone … some of my better non-commissioned work of the last 3 years … along with all of my tools I have earned and acquired during the aforementioned periods. Tshirts and the like I can slowly replace … but it's the matter of having all this potential art for shows gone; along with all the posters I had left," he writes. Lyman contacted police and has notified local comic shops to keep an eye out for the missing work, and he has posted images of the stolen art. [Facebook, via Bleeding Cool]
Censorship | Rachael Jolley takes a long and wide view of the pressures that political cartoonists are subject to, looking at several recent attempts to suppress editorial cartoonists as well as the history of tensions between creators of political cartoons and those they portray; the article also includes comments from Neil Gaiman on the topic of censorship. [The New Statesman]
Conventions | The San Diego Tourism Authority is asking hotels in the Comic-Con International room block to freeze their rates at the 2016 level for the following two years, as part of its bid to keep the convention in the city. Already, 30 of the 50 participating hotels have agreed to do so. Meanwhile, Mayor Kevin Faulconer will attend the next Comic-Con board meeting to make an appeal to organizers to remain in the city; Tourism Authority CEO Joe Terzi said Anaheim has made a bid for Comic-Con, but the city's convention bureau wouldn't comment.
A plan to expand the San Diego Convention Center collapsed after the hotel-tax funding scheme was ruled unconstitutional, but Anaheim is preparing to break ground on its own 200,000-square-foot expansion. However, Comic-Con spokesman David Glanzer said, "Some people had mistakenly implied that an expanded convention center would be the thing that solidified our decision to stay or go, but there are a number of factors to be addressed: hotel room rates, available space within hotels and outside the center, things that could mitigate the issue of having outgrown the convention center. An expansion would be great for the city and us, but if it doesn't happen we've been able to make do without it, and if we can mitigate the concerns we do have we'll be able to stay here." [U-T San Diego]
This year's pairing of Banned Books Week and comics, with considerable input from the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, was pure genius. While it is sponsored by a number of organizations, Banned Books Week is heavily supported by libraries, and librarians have been among the most ardent boosters of graphic novels in the last ten years.
In fact, Banned Books Week is really all about libraries, and to a lesser extent, schools. The days of government censorship in the form of prohibiting publication, import, or sale of a book for offensive content are long gone. Nowadays, "banned books" really refers to books that someone wants to remove from a public library or a school. Often, those attempts are unsuccessful because the library in question has a solid acquisition policy and a process for handling challenges, which is how it should be. Libraries buy books for a reason, and they shouldn't take them off the shelves without a better reason.
Many public library challenges have a similar narrative: Kid checks a book out of the library, mom finds the book and freaks out, mom goes to the library, or the press, and demands the book and all others like it be removed from circulation. When the proper process is followed, a committee of professionals reviews the book and makes a decision, and you and I seldom hear about it; it's when someone goes to a public meeting and starts yelling and waving a book that things go haywire. That's what happened in South Carolina, where the a mother let her daughter check out Alan Moore's Neonomicon, which the library had correctly shelved as an adult book, then was shocked to discover it had sex in it. In this case, the library review committee recommended that the book remain on the shelves but the library director overruled them.
Banned Books Week | Michael Cavna talks with Jeff Smith, Scott McCloud and Neil Gaiman about the importance of Banned Books Week. Says Gaiman, "I get tired of when people say that no books are banned just because [you can get it elsewhere]. Say you're a kid in a school district [that banned a book] and there's not a local Barnes & Noble and you don't have 20 or 50 bucks in disposable income … That book is gone. It was there and now it's not. The fact you can buy it on Amazon doesn't make that any less bad." [Comic Riffs]
Banned Books Week | Charles Brownstein, executive director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, discusses comics and censorship in a video interview. [Reason Magazine]
New York Comic Con hopefuls who missed out on passes when they went on sale June 27 will get another chance beginning Thursday — as long as they live near one of the convention's official retailers.
Organizer ReePop is rolling out a limited number of tickets for the sold-out event, starting Thursday at Midtown Comics' Downtown location in New York City. After that, they'll also be available while supplies last at select retailers in New York City, New Jersey, Connecticut, Illinois and Massachusetts. The full list of comic stores can be found here.
Some of those stores will also have cards for the Oct. 3-12 New York Super Week, a "week-long immersive and inclusive experience," featuring concerts, live radio shows and podcasts, game shows and more, all leading up to New York Comic Con. Among those activities, ReedPop has announced, is a special edition of NPR's Ask Me Another, featuring Neil Gaiman as the VIP (Very Important Puzzler).
Benefits of the New York Super Week Card include priority seating at events, drink specials and merchandise discounts. New York Comic Con will be held Oct. 9-12 at the Javits Center in New York City.
Nearly a year after it was announced, the Neil Gaiman-inspired video game Wayward Manor at long last has a release date: July 15. That's just 15 days from now, for those keeping count.
Originally scheduled to debut last fall, the game experienced a bit of a delay. However, according to the official website, it was worth the wait: "Although it was a difficult decision to delay the release of the game, we did it with the knowledge that we were creating an even more immersive, enjoyable experience for amazing fans like yourself. Because, hey, you deserve the best, as your enthusiasm for Neil's first game has only been outdone by your patience. Now, it's time to reward your forbearance and open the doors for haunting."
Colleen Doran loves comics. Although she's best known for her creator-owned series A Distant Soil, she has no qualms about working on someone else's projects, from The Sandman to Spider-Man to licensed properties. To Doran, it's all part of a balanced diet.
On June 4, DC Comics will release The Vampire Diaries #6, a standalone story written and drawn by Doran, who has previously penned issues of the series, based on The CW's hit supernatural drama. She completed the work months ago, and has a busy schedule ahead of her that includes a graphic novel with Neil Gaiman, a new series with Top Cow's Matt Hawkins and a resumption of The Book of Lost Souls with J. Michael Straczynski.
In a previous interview, Doran told me she enjoys being busy, defining herself as a "work reveler" as opposed to a workaholic, but I managed to catch up with her to talk about these projects, her process and discussing the business of comics.
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has teamed with Heritage Auctions to auction original art to benefit the nonprofit organization. Although Charlie Adlard's contribution has already been snatched up, the rest of the inaugural lot — original art by Jim Lee and Paul Pope, and a letterpress broadsheet signed by Neil Gaiman — are up for bid through Saturday.
"CBLDF's important work on behalf of the comics industry makes them an important organization to support," Lon Allen, Heritage's managing director for comics and comics art, said in a statement. "We're proud to join the artists who donated these pieces by contributing our services to help the Fund reach our bidder community. We hope to make a meaningful impact on their work protecting comics!"
Cosplay | The Christian Science Monitor looks at how cosplay is spilling out of comics and sci-fi/fantasy conventions and into "daily life," such as movie theaters, pubs and public squares: "The spread of cosplay owes a lot to the Internet. Social media sites build buzz around the next big cosplay event. Tumblr and Instagram allow strangers to pass around photos of past work and offer words of encouragement from afar. YouTube videos reveal how to craft foam core into realistic-looking armor and braid hair like an elf." [The Christian Science Monitor]
Publishing | I talked with TOON Books founder Francoise Mouly about her new imprint, TOON Graphics, which will feature "visual books" (picture books and comics) for readers ages 8 and up. The line launches with three titles: Theseus and the Minotaur, by Yves Pommaux, Cast Away on the Letter A, by Fred, and Hansel and Gretel, retold by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Lorenzo Mattotti. [Publishers Weekly]
Commentary | Former DC Comics senior editor Joan Hilty tackles the issue of sexism in comics and calls for publishers to include more women in their senior editorial rank:. "Women are getting the bestselling books into stores and greenlighting the million-dollar movie franchises, but they're barely represented among the creative executives who map out the universes and storytelling strategies. That's where you cement broad-based, long-term loyalty to authors and characters, tap new audiences and trends, and grow readership, without which none of those books or movies would exist." [The Guardian]
The British Library has debuted a trailer — a "Curators' Introduction" — to promote "Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the U.K.," the largest comics exhibition to date in the United Kingdom.
Opening Friday to the public, "Comics Unmasked" spans the history of British comic books, from the 19th century to the present, exploring how they've addressed such subjects as violence, sexuality and drugs while breaking boundaries. The exhibition kicks off with a screening of the documentary Graphic Novel Man: The Comics of Bryan Talbot, followed by a conversation with Bryan Talbot, Mary Talbot and Kate Charlesworth.
Academia | The Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont, is adding a masters of fine arts degree in applied cartooning that will allow students to focus on using the comics medium for journalism, medicine, business and other fields. [Valley News, press release]
Creators | With the arrival of the second issue of The Sandman: Overture, Neil Gaiman talks about the joy of writing the first series and returning for this one, why he chooses to pen a story as a comic rather than a novel, and how his process differs as well: "When I'm outlining a comic, I write down the numbers 1 to 24, and I jot down what's happening on each page, because I have to think of things in terms of pages, and double-page spreads. In a novel, if I want to move a scene, I just cut and paste. In a novel, it's a completely different conversation." [CNN]
Digital Story Engine has released a trailer for its documentary The Graphic Novel Man: The Comics of Bryan Talbot, which, as the title suggests, chronicles the four-decade career of the creator of The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, The Tale of One Bad Rat, Alice in Sunderland and Grandville.
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Published: Thursday, September 22, 2005 at 4:30 a.m.
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To The Editor: Well another school bus accident with, thank God, minor injuries. How many children have to sustain injuries or even die before safety restraints are placed in school buses?
What's considered cost prohibitive? Placing restraints in buses or your child's life. No price is too high for my children's lives!
Any airline requires you to wear your seat belt during take off, turbulence and landing. Our children don't have that choice. Even ambulances have restraints on stretchers. Why? For patient safety!
The law requires everyone in a vehicle to wear a restraint and even specifies a weight and age requirement for children in car seats.
This is the law. Kindergartners have to sit in a special seat in their family vehicle, but they don't on the bus. Our state superintendent needs to step up to the plate and fight for our children's safety.
Will the government finally practice what it preaches? This is precious cargo in these buses and a lot of people rely on buses to get their children to and from school safely.
Maybe we need to get state Sen. Tom Apodaca on this case. He seems to know how to get things done.
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I would like to say I a have the most amazing, supportive and loving husband a girl could ever ask for. I am crying just thinking about him.
For the past six months i have had a terrible time with depression. He has been a rock for me. I live each day to see him come home. I have put him through so much. he is basically doing most everything.
I tell him constantly how much I love him, but I have put so much stress on him. Yesterday he had to work out of town (my worst nightmare right now) He was coming home late, but I totally freaked out.It is just a matter of time before he will have to go back to working out of town a week at a time. Right now this is killing me to think about. i don't think I can do it.
Anyway, when he got home last night, I couldn't let him go. I had taken my medicine which makes me very sleepy, bu tknew he wanted some adult time with me. he made thi scoment when Iwas sorta trying to weasle out of it., 'it's okay. But sometimes I want to feel likea king" I wasn't sure what he meant. i showed him I love him to the best of my ability, but I need something else.
a couple of weeks ago I cooked dinner (a biggie for me right now) and the kids and I made him a big sign saying how great he is. i just need something extra special. This man has stayed when most people have left. he deserves the best.
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By Mrs. Jennifer Bacchus (AMC)December 6, 2012
ANNISTON ARMY DEPOT, Ala. -- DLA Distribution Anniston, Ala., has new safety personnel. Though Bea Holman and Barry Adderhold may be new to DLA, having transferred a few months ago, they are not new to safety.
Both bring with them years of safety experience and they are eager to share knowledge with their new coworkers.
The first order of business for the duo has been to fully train every employee on standards set by the Occupational Safety and Health Association.
From the top down, every member of the Distribution Anniston workforce is being given at least 10 hours of OSHA training. For most employees, the training covers the basics - personal protective equipment and how OSHA plays a part in the safety of each individual.
Distribution Anniston leadership, supervisors and safety monitors have completed 30 hours of training - giving them an overview of their safety responsibilities.
"This training has made the supervisors and the employees more aware of the hazards in their work areas," said Holman.
That awareness has increased calls to the Distribution Anniston safety office, something Holman and Adderhold hope continues.
"Our philosophy is that if an issue is very important to an employee, then it is important to us," said Adderhold.
"We use the phone calls as a teaching moment," added Holman. "When we look at the problem, we will tell them if it is a safety problem and why or if it is not a safety problem and why not."
Each step of the teaching process is also a piece of a culture change, which is important to achieving the Voluntary Protection Program Star.
Anniston Army Depot has set a goal of achieving the VPP Star and, as a tenant organization, Distribution Anniston is part of the process, since VPP is a fenceline-to-fenceline program.
In Distribution Anniston, the VPP culture change begins with the leadership. Lt. Col. Robert Rouse, Distribution Anniston's commander, and Paul McMillan, the deputy commander, have each taken the 30-hour OSHA training and both make sure they have on their proper protective equipment, down to the steel-toed boots, every time they step into a work area.
Recently, Distribution Anniston implemented mandatory tie-down for all DLA trucks transporting parts and equipment on the depot.
"That is a big thing for us," said McMillan. "It's taking the time to do things right. It's changing the culture."
Other safety changes implemented by Distribution Anniston include:
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• Job safety analyses of every process, which are done by the employee and their supervisor
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MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - Officials plan to open more biofuels pumps for use by motorists on Interstate 65 in a distance from Mobile to Gary, Ind.
Alabama is slated for eight biofuels pumps with E85 ethanol and B20 biodiesel, including the two recently opened pumps in Mobile.
A "Clean Corridor" kickoff event is planned for 10 a.m. Tuesday at the site of a Government Boulevard station off I-65 in the port city.
Elected officials will be joined by Kathy Hornsby of the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs energy division, Ford's Fuel president Don Evans and Alabama Clean Fuels Coalition director Mark Bentley.
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Michael: Its pretty obvious that Democrats insistence on confirming this Supreme Court nominee is because they already "know" he will vote in favor of shielding all these illegals from deportation. As far as Hillary "accepting" her Party's nomination for president, when the leaked emails of Debbie Wasserman Shultz prove Democratic primaries were "rigged" so no one other than Hillary could win that nomination, just confirms how easily Clinton will lie to same American citizens she claims to be "fighting for". Hillary did not "win" the Democratic nomination, she "stole" it and the fact this same disgraced DNC chairman who "rigged" that nomination is now working for Hillary on her campaign should be ample proof of not only her knowledge, but direct involvement in election fraud that took place.


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England paceman delivered a blistering performance with the ball to put England on top against India
England's batsmen carried on where skipper Alastair Cook left off as the tourists built up a strong lead in the third Test in Kolkata
England's streetwise approach to the third Test is paying dividends as the tourists use Indian tricks to get the
David Warner smashed one of the fastest ever Test centuries to cap a wholly dominant opening day for Australia in the third Test against India at Perth.
India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has labelled Australian fans as "aggressive" with their taunts but says his players have to be smarter when reacting to such provocations.
It's said there are three grounds that all cricketers want to play Test cricket at - Lord's, Eden Gardens and the MCG on Boxing day.
India have fought some epic battles with Australia but now embark on a test tour with what many believe is their best chance of humbling the wearers of the baggy green caps in their own back yard for the first time.
Sachin Tendulkar fell just six runs short of his 100th international century before tailender Ravichandran Ashwin showed him the way with a maiden Test hundred in the third Test against the West Indies.
West Indies' batsmen finally put up a fight as they made an impressive start to the the third and final Test against India in Mumbai.
RECORD-BREAKER Alastair Cook revealed his nasty streak to torture India, and leave them with two days to save their cricketing heritage.
STUART BROAD and Tim Bresnan brought a feel-good factor to Birmingham with an eight-wicket demolition of India's batting line-up.
HAT-TRICK hero Stuart Broad produced one of the most devastating spells of bowling in Test history to haul England back into contention against India at Trent Bridge.
BACK in the sweet shop, England batted as if a prankster had planted jellybeans on a good length.
DON'T cry, Sachin, you're in good company. Most great players of your generation missed out on the Lord's honours board.
ENGLAND hammered India to claim the 2,000th Test match as their own on a day for cricket to remember.
MATT PRIOR'S Lord's love affair has put England in the box seat to break a billion hearts in a final-day duel to settle the first Test.
Stuart Broad has got his mojo back.
BATTLING Tillakaratne Dilshan inspired Sri Lanka to a 74-run win over India in the Triangular Series by smashing a century off 115 balls.
VVS LAXMAN's superb unbeaten century inspired India to a five-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the third Test at Colombo.
Kevin Pietersen got his own back on Indian 'pie-chucker' Yuvraj Singh by smashing 144 on the pitch and then slamming him off it.
Three Down after three matches and a gap in class that is hard to stomach.
England's tour of India has been a major cock-up and tells me that their cosy selection club must be blown out of the water once and for all.
Flintoff helped himself to a powerful 100 not out against a Mumbai XI to get England's tour of India off to the perfect start.
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Lobster Thermidor
|Special margarine
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|Live lobsters/African lobster tails
|2 , split
|Minced onions
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Dry white wine
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|1 Tablespoon
|Skim milk
|3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs)
|Dry mustard
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|3⁄4 Teaspoon
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|1⁄4 Teaspoon
|Minced parsley
|1 Teaspoon
|Dry bread crumbs
|2 Tablespoon
Melt 1 tablespoon margarine in a skillet; put the lobsters in it flesh side down and saute 5 minutes.
Turn lobsters over; cover and cook over low heat 10 minutes.
Cool and remove the meat.
Reserve the shells.
Slice bodies and dice the claws.
Melt the remaining margarine in a saucepan; saute the onions 5 minutes.
Add the wine; cook over low heat 5 minutes.
Mix the flour, milk, mustard, salt and paprika.
Add to the wine mixture, stirring steadily to the boiling point.
Cook over low heat 5 minutes.
Stir the lobster meat into the sauce with the chervil and parsley.
Stuff the shells and sprinkle with the bread crumbs.
Bake in a 425° oven 10 minutes.
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Calories 421 Calories from Fat 104
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 12 g18%
Saturated Fat 2.2 g10.9%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 216 mg72%
Sodium 1117.2 mg46.6%
Total Carbohydrates 23 g7.7%
Dietary Fiber 0.76 g3%
Sugars 3.1 g
Protein 46 g91.5%
Vitamin A 20.3% Vitamin C 4.5%
Calcium 18.7% Iron 9.2%
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Olive Sauce for Pasta
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Prep 10 mins
Cook 15 mins
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1⁄4 lb pimento stuffed olive
- 1⁄4 lb black olives, stoned
- 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 1⁄4 lb unsalted butter
- 6 fluid ounces tomato juice
- Roughly chop the olives.
- Gently fry the garlic in the butter until just beginning to brown, and then pour in the tomato juice.
- Bring to the boil then add the olives and cook for a few minutes.
- Serve hot mixed/tossed with pasta.
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I altered this a bit by using olive oil and a smidge of butter to saute the garlic. I also added a few capers and tomatoes w/Italian seasonings. Delicious!!!


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I got this thread immediately, but I think about this question of "what is money really?".
I think that this "thought experiment" sort of supports Karl Polayni's 'fictitious commodities' thesis with respect to the fictitious commodity of money. (The other two by the way are land and labor.)
I can't explain it at the moment (no time), but could do so later.
I'll just say: 'labor' is really the commodification of humans, 'land' of nature, and 'money' of the social institutions of exchange.
None of these things (man, nature or the institutions) are genuine commodities, so these concepts (labor, land, money) are in fact 'fictitious commodities'.
This has a lot of consequences, which is what I can't go into at the moment. But, first thing I thought of when I read the OP was this schema.
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What would happen is, the Chinese would steal the blue prints for it like they steal all of American technology and then build it only to have it explode and kill thousands.
Meanwhile the U.S would say they have no interest in building it all the while building it in secret with Japan like they did in the movie and find something out and never tell the rest of the world for another 100 years.
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I love that movie, one of my favorite sci-fi films.
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the chicoms will build several and sell it at wal mart for $50.
just don't eat it. chinese lead paint you know.
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For Congress, a History of Effort to Enforce Budgetary Restraint
More than 25 years ago, Congress confronted what looked then like big budget deficits and tried to tie its hands with the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, also known as Gramm-Rudman-Hollings for the three senators who pushed it.
Gramm-Rudman, as it came to be called, failed to meet its goals—but paved the way for a bipartisan agreement to cut the deficit years later.
The law set annual targets for the deficit and required spending cuts if projected deficits exceeded them. The original law called for the budget to be balanced by 1990. It was amended in 1987 to delay the date of fiscal nirvana until 1993.
It failed. The 1993 deficit came in at $255.1 billion, or 3.9% of gross domestic product, which seemed large then.
"The president and Congress evaded the targets by relying on overly optimistic economic assumptions and outright budget gimmickry," then-director of the Congressional Budget Office Robert Reischauer testified in 1993. "This smoke-and-mirrors strategy enabled policy makers to appear to live within the annual constraints while doing little to reduce the actual deficit."
But Gramm-Rudman presaged a successor that did work: It was replaced in 1990 by the Budget Enforcement Act. That law tried to enforce a detailed bipartisan agreement on the budget, rather than use process to force a compromise. And it abandoned the attempt to target deficits, which are driven, in part, by factors Congress can't control, such as the economy. Instead it focused on decisions that Congress actually makes: capping annually appropriated spending and setting hurdles to expanding benefits or cutting taxes without offsets.
"For about a decade," then-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said in 2005, "the rules...provided a framework that helped the Congress establish a better fiscal balance." Eventually deficits were replaced by budget surpluses in 1999 and 2000, the result both of tax and spending policies and an economic and stock-market boom.
The surpluses "eroded the will to adhere to these rules," Mr. Greenspan said. They were allowed to expire in 2002, making possible subsequent tax cuts and the expansion of Medicare to cover prescription drugs without offsetting spending cuts or tax increases.
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There is a certain joy in re-mastering old American recipes in cookware appropriate to the period. A simple cornbread recipe in a cast iron pot is just that. Cornbread has been called the cornerstone of Southern cuisine, and it is the perfect side to the spicy and saucy dishes of the South. It can also be eaten for breakfast or as a light dessert topped with jam or honey.
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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) veteran and Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley Saturday lashed out at the Trinamool Congress (TMC), saying it cannot escape the sins of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government as it was an important partner in the regime. "The Trinamool Congress cannot deny its responsibility and escape the […] Continue reading Trinamool cannot escape UPA's sins: Arun Jaitley
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Nicolas Maduro was sworn in as president of Venezuela on Friday, replacing the late Hugo Chavez and calling for dialogue with the opposition to build a better country "for everyone, by everyone."
To cheers in the National Assembly, Maduro dedicated his oath of office to "the eternal memory of the supreme commander" Chavez, who dominated this oil-rich South American country for 14 years until dying from cancer in March.
Maduro, 50, said he wanted to begin his presidency "with a call to all Venezuelan men and women to continue to build a better fatherland of peace, an inclusive fatherland for everyone, by everyone."
And he urged the opposition to "converse in the different settings where conversations can be held. I am ready to converse even with the devil."
But the new president also resumed attacks on the opposition, highlighting what has been a week of soaring political tensions since he was declared the winner of Sunday's snap elections by a narrow margin of 1.8 percentage points.
The new leader's speech was briefly disrupted when a man in a red shirt rushed onto the stage and roughly pushed Maduro aside to grab the microphone.
National television coverage of the event was suspended, causing momentary confusion until it returned minutes later after Maduro regained his composure and the intruder had been removed from the stage.
"Security has absolutely failed. They could have shot me here," Maduro complained. Then shaking it off, he added, "Incident overcome."
Watching the ceremony was a packed assembly with foreign leaders, lawmakers and other dignitaries in attendance.
Close allies Presidents Raul Castro of Cuba and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran were in the audience, along with the leaders of Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia and neighboring Colombia.
Maduro had met the night before in Lima with regional leaders who extended their congratulations to the new government and urged all sides in the bitterly contested elections to accept "the official results."
The endorsement came just hours after Venezuelan election authorities announced they would conduct an expanded audit of Sunday's ballot returns in response to opposition demands for a full recount.
Opposition candidate Henrique Capriles immediately accepted, congratulating his followers on their "struggle for the truth."
Violent post-election protests left eight people dead and dozens hurt, igniting a crisis as Maduro and Capriles traded fiery accusations over who was to blame.
For Maduro, the election was the culmination of a political career that took him from one-time bus driver and union organizer to Chavez's handpicked successor.
"I am the first post-Chavez president in history," Maduro said on the eve of his swearing-in. The new first lady, Cilia Flores, is a heavyweight in her own right in the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela.
But Maduro also lost the votes of hundreds of thousands of Chavez supporters to Capriles, a 40-year-old state governor who lost to the comandante in October by an 11-point margin.
The weak performance suggested Maduro has yet to step out of Chavez's giant shadow with a mandate of his own.
"Maduro is Chavez's legacy. To support him is to support the supreme commander," said Jose Rendo, a 38-year-old electrician who joined hundreds of other Chavez supporters in the nearby Plaza Bolivar for the inauguration.
As Maduro entered the National Assembly, supporters showered him with cheers of "Chavez lives, the struggle continues."
Later at an esplanade dedicated to the country's founders, Venezuelan military leaders pledged their loyalty to Chavez's socialist revolution and their new commander-in-chief.
Honor guards and military units paraded past him in pouring rain as he watched from a covered reviewing stand.
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While backed fiercely by the ruling PSUV and the deep pockets of Venezuela's state oil industry, Maduro must also contend with an emboldened opposition and a somber economic outlook.
Soaring inflation, a weak currency, shortages of basic necessities, and fiscal constraints are a growing challenge to the costly social programs that were among Chavez's signature achievements.
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Is it possible for me to have market place installed in my windows mobile. Where can i get the cab file for it?
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For those of you who didn't make it to the Emerald City Comic Con (ECCC) last weekend, I'll fill you in: it was awesome.
This year, the ECCC moved into a new, gigantic space at the Washington State Convention Center to give us nerds more room to roam.
I was only able to make it to the con on Sundayno, I didn't go in costumebut the place was still friggin' packed. It also smelled a little stinky.
There were lines wrapping around the room for some of the big name comic writers and artists signing books and doing sketches, but nobody seemed to care about the "celebrity" guests, who practically had tumbleweeds blowing by their tables. Just what the hell is a Farscape, anyways?
All the booksellers were well stockeda huge improvement over last year, where there were, like, three dudes selling comicsand willing to haggle, and I walked out with a full run of Sandman books. Big disappointment of the day: I couldn't get one seller to drop his asking price for this beauty:
According to the guy selling this monstrosity, it's "totally worth $800 bucks" because it "doubles as a coffee table."
For those of you that missed this year's rad ECCC, Kelly O's got your back. Ms. O shot a fantastic two-part video with local ruffian and comic fan Jeff Leonard, featuring the Suicide Girls (???) and a dude dressed as Space Ghost who bears an uncanny resemblance to Paul Constant. Hmm….
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Imagine walking up one morning to find that a part of your body part eaten by your dog. Well, it is certainly possible if the part is infected or wounded.
Biloxi, Miss. -- A cat missing for five years is back home in Mississippi, bearing battle scars and a wilder attitude but happy, the owner says,
"This is the power of microchipping," humane society Director Tara High said. "There is no other way that cat would have found its
family. This is a very dramatic story with a wonderful ending."
Scrub was an indoor cat living in Gulfport, Miss., with Jennifer and Chris Noble prior to Hurricane Katrina, but after the storm hit their living conditions changed considerably, The Sun Herald of Biloxi, Miss., reported.
Sanford, Fla. -- Sheriff's deputies in Florida arrested a man on a negligence charge for allegedly not doing enough to try to capture his loose bull.
Sam Smith, 40, who lives west of Sanford near State Road 46, said he tried to catch the 500-pound bull, which had recently been given to him by a neighbor, for about 3-4 hours Sunday before going home and making a plan to return for the animal at first light with someone who had experience roping cattle, the Orlando Sentinel reported Monday.
However, sheriff's deputies said the bull was posing a potential hazard to motorists on the nearby busy street and Smith repeatedly refused to join in efforts to corral it.
Blackwood, N.J. -- A fat cat rescued after its owner lost her New Jersey home to foreclosure two years ago has died, his new owner said.
Prince Chunk, who was said to weigh 44 pounds at one point, passed on in his sleep last weekend after being diagnosed with heart disease, Vince Damiani, 20, of Blackwood, N.J., told the New York Daily News.
"We're all upset," he said. "We lost a family member."
Chunk became a celebrity in 2008 when he was found roaming the streets of Voorhees and dropped off at the Camden County Animal Shelter. His owner had abandoned him after losing her home.
The Damianis took in Chunk in August, and he took to his new life, using a litter box in a homemade castle.
Muskegon, Mich. -- A cat that went missing three years ago has been found apparently no worse for the wear, its owner said.
Terri Essex was in New Mexico when she received a call from her house sitter that her cat, Harrison, had escaped and couldn't be found, the Grand Haven (Mich.) Tribune reported.
Essex said she did everything she could to find Harrison after she returned home to Muskegon.
"We looked, we checked all the shelters, we ran ads in the paper," she said.
The Harbor Humane Society caught a cat in a trap in Spring Lake Township this week and brought it to the Ottawa County Sheriff's Department Animal Control, where it was checked for a microchip.
Detroit -- The Michigan Rottweiler that survived a euthanasia attempt has found a new home and renewed medical treatment, her owner said.
Matt Olivarez, 27, of Detroit, said Mia, the 11-year-old dog that made headlines last month after she recovered from euthanasia treatment at the Westcott Veterinary Care Center, is moving to the country with friends who asked to remain anonymous, The Detroit News reported Tuesday.
Olivarez said donations have flooded in from around the country to pay for Mia's veterinary treatment for conditions including a ruptured disc in her spine, arthritis in her hips and spine, and partial paralysis in her right rear leg.
Tampa, Fla. -- A Jack Russell terrier may have survived an encounter with an alligator in a Florida river because her quick-thinking owner performed CPR.
Tom Martino said he was taking the dog, named Lizabeth after Fred Sanford's wife in "Sanford and Son," for a walk last Saturday when an alligator lurking in the Hillsborough River near Tampa grabbed her, The Tampa Tribune reported. Martino said he used his licensed handgun to shoot into the water, apparently encouraging the alligator to release the dog.
Martino, for the first time in his life, performed canine CPR.
"She coughed up a bunch of water," Martino said. "I was scared. That's my little baby."
Arlington, Texas -- Texas baseball and presidential royalty will throw out ceremonial first pitches as the World Series moves to the Lone Star State.
Tossing the ceremonial first pitch in Game 3 between the Texas Rangers and the San Francisco Giants Saturday will be pitching great Nolan Ryan, team president and an owner of the Rangers, Major League Baseball said in a release.
In Game 4, former Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush will share ceremonial first-pitch duties, league officials said. George W. Bush was the Rangers' managing general partner from 1989 through 1992 and maintained partial club ownership until 1998.
Rochester, Ill. -- An Illinois winery owner said he is attempting to use politically named wine to predict the outcome of the upcoming midterm elections.
Loren Shanle, owner of Walnut Street Winery in Rochester, said he is selling the same wine with two different labels, GOP and DEM, respectively featuring a cartoon elephant or donkey, The Springfield State Journal-Register reported Wednesday.
He said GOP has a double meaning of "grapes only party" while DEM also stands for "delicious every moment."
Shanle said the wine is a pink grapefruit blush with "natural fruit flavors, distinct aromas and grape characters, enhanced with a tangy blast of natural pink grapefruit."
"Our sales for GOP," he said, "are a little more than DEM."
Chiacgo -- Todd Ricketts, an owner of the Chicago Cubs, gets fired as a maintenance employee on an upcoming episode of the reality show "Undercover Boss," CBS said.
Ricketts "goes undercover within one of baseball's most famous franchises and fights for the chance to redeem himself after being let go on the second day. Also, when a friend recognizes him parking cars, the boss panics that his cover has been blown," the network said in a news release Tuesday.
The show challenges business owners and managers to try working at lower-level jobs in their own companies.
Ricketts' episode is to air Nov. 7.
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CHICAGO - Last week while on the southwest side of Chicago, I filled up my four-door passenger car with a tank of premium gas. It cost me $165.48 that was immediately deducted from my debit card.
I was so angry and set back, I literally cried and loudly cursed no one in particular as I watched the pump's display flash soaring numbers, and I cringed as the off-white receipt slithered out of the dispenser like the forked tongue that slides from the greedy mouths of oil industry executives who claim they are not responsible in any major way for the high price of oil and gas.
My high-strung emotions raged. In reality my anger was out of place and misdirected.
OK. I'm obviously lying about how much I paid for the gas; it actually cost $65 to fill up the 22-gallon tank. But I am not lying about screaming obscenities. My vitriol was directed at everyone and no one within earshot as the reels indicating the dollar amount seemingly spun three times as fast as the display beneath it indicating gallons.
Yes, the per-gallon price of gas - especially in the nation's inner cities - is higher than a giraffe's butt, and motorists as a whole are virtually powerless to do anything (save complain) about it.
Welcome to American capitalism run amok, greed gone garishly gaudy, and the likely permanent disappearance of any meaningful legislation targeting corporations' excessive profits.
Web sites that direct consumers to the cheapest gas in their community notwithstanding, the most unnerving aspect to paying more than $3 for one gallon of gas is the inescapable fact that if you must or need to drive a car, you must pay the price. It's that eternal sense of helplessness and powerlessness that is roiling drivers like me, and even more so when we take into account three irreversible and sobering scenarios:
America's well-documented addiction to gas and to the $75 barrel of oil needed to produce gas is even more debilitating when you understand how many other everyday products typically use petroleum-based ingredients.
The next time you press a piano key, brush your teeth, paint a house, change a baby's diaper or even wear comfy slippers, remember that those products are manufactured in part with oil. Therefore, if you want to contribute in some small way to reducing the price of a barrel of crude oil, think about allowing your baby to stink longer with a soiled diaper, don't brush your teeth, and walk around the house barefoot - even in winter.
The nation's addiction to gas and oil is never-ending - hybrid vehicles, carpooling and ethanol be damned. Americans are too selfish, too impatient and too narrow-minded, for starters, to alter the way we get from place to place. Public transportation is an imperative, but any expectation that millions of motorists will ditch their convenient car for the clocklike consistency of a public train or bus or the less-expensive trip provided by a taxi is a hope fueled and poisoned by the noxious fumes emanating from gasoline.
Finally, now that ingenious Republicans in the U.S. Senate have an idea to mail $100 checks to voters to help us stomach the price of gas, we can rest easy. That $100 will last forever. (Never underestimate how creatively desperate elected officials can become when re-election is looming and polls indicate that distrust about the U.S. Congress, in particular, is at its highest level since 1994, according to The New York Times.)
Led by Sen. Bill Frist, the proposal calls for $100 checks to be sent late this summer to about 100 million taxpayers, regardless of car ownership. Single taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes above about $146,000 would be ineligible for the checks, as would couples earning more than $219,000, the Times reported.
So . . . I get it. The Republicans think if they give us $100, we'll forget that they're in charge as industry leader ExxonMobil makes what seems to be a million dollars a minute, and as they report record profits and dish out the most garish compensation packages to their executives at the top.
Negative musings to be sure. But when you're paying $165.48 every week to fill up a passenger vehicle, and there isn't a damned thing you can do about it, who in their right mind expects you to be positive? Or even tell the truth?
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Active Directory, 3rd Edition is an outstanding real-world resource for anyone who wants to make AD work in the real world. Many thousands of administrators, architects, and developers already swear by this book: Now it's been fully updated through Windows Server 2003 R2.
If you're just starting out with AD, this book will give you a confident understanding of all the fundamentals: objects, structures, naming, schema, site topology, replication, DNS, profiles, group policy, and more. Next, it introduces current best practices for AD infrastructure design to maximize control, performance, and reliability. From namespaces and security to backups, it's covered -- along with practical guidance on upgrading from older versions of AD.
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While AD for Windows Server 2003 is more "evolutionary" than "revolutionary," over 100 features have been introduced or improved -- including significant new features in R2. This book covers every significant enhancement.
Notably, there's a full chapter on Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM), Microsoft's long-awaited "Active Directory Lite." ADAM provides a standalone LDAP service without complex DNS and FRS requirements, Group Policy, Kerberos, and other complexities. Using it, you can directory-enable applications you might not want to integrate with your domain-based Active Directory -- and this book covers all you need to get started.
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