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Hi all, am running bt3 on VMWare 6.5.1 build-126130 from and iso image. Is it possible to install VMWare tools when one is running bt3 from an iso? Am running Fedora release 10 (Cambridge)
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"The "west" - what curse has fallen upon it that at the term of its trajectory it produces only these businessmen, these shopkeepers, these racketeers with their blank stares and atrophied smiles... is it with such vermin as this that a civilization so delicate and so complex must come to an end?"
Emile M. Cioran
"We ask investors and businessmen to observe workers' rights and they will find us four square behind them."
Dr. Toni Abela
"Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer"
Lestor Maddox
"I really liked what I saw of them and respect them as businessmen, they are clearly good operators,"
Craig Johnston
"Nearly 6,000 businessmen from the UAE visited the fairs last year and gained businesses worth $1.35 billion. The fair has played a very important role in expanding the trade between our two countries."
Xu Bing
"Investors and businessmen depend on the Government for the security of their property and therefore if the Government does not abide by the law, they might feel hopeless and relocate."
Wafula Nabutola
"These two complementary shows will satisfy the diversity and rapidly changing requirements of Saudi businessmen and traders in the home, business and leisure sectors."
Zahoor Siddique
"I am disappointed that the sophisticated businessmen involved in this dispute have failed to strike a deal. There should be enough money and enough good sense to make a deal work for everyone. The only people hurt by this dispute are the fans."
Tom Davis
"Russian businessmen are not afraid of investing in Kyrgyzstan. They appreciate our current situation, and their programs are aimed at solving social problems. Opening joint enterprises means creating additional jobs and - to some extent - reducing unemployment,"
Felix Kulov
"All businessmen are scum."
Frank Dobson

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Chelsea midfielder Michael Essien believes he is recovering well from his latest knee injury.
The 28-year-old Ghana international ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament at the start of pre-season training, and is expected to be sidelined for most of the campaign.
Essien has not enjoyed the best of luck with injuries, but remains positive, and wrote on in his blog on the official Chelsea website: "The injury is well-documented so I will not dwell on it, however I can say I have had a good operation on my knee and I am definitely on the mend."
He added: "My days are filled with physio sessions from 10am to 5pm and it is a gradual process which I am confident will lead to the results I want.
"I have been here before and know the routine inside out now but it's still hard work as I hate to watch games on TV.
"I prefer to be with my team-mates in training and on the field of play, however I know I have to be patient so I can heal properly.
"I have been asked when I am coming back and at this point in time it's down to how the recovery goes and when I am given the all clear by the medical team.
"Sorry I can't be more precise, but its too early to give specific dates."
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wide open spaces....
definitely a favorite place to be...simply embracing all of life...
This is out in the middle of a barely on the map area in Pennsylvania.
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Frederic Frognier (Deleted) said (17 Nov 2007):
Minimalist photo. I like those
Lindsay Lou gave props (18 Nov 2007):
agree with the person before me. great.
Paul Lavallee gave props (18 Nov 2007):
cool composition & warm tones
Jodie Andrefski said (19 Nov 2007):
thanks everyone..I actually liked the feel of this one too....the whole "reach out and twirl and love life"...it working as a photo was a happy bonus! =)
Jason Pierce gave props (10 Dec 2007):
beatiful and perfect.
Eric Sayah gave props (12 Dec 2007):
Beautiful! I especially like the color relatedness between the wood and the gown.
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I love the colors and "openness" of this one.
Paul Lavallee gave props (15 Dec 2007):
cool to see this in a theme!
Jodie Andrefski said (16 Dec 2007):
thanks Jason, Eric, Jason H, and Paul. =)
Heather Campbell gave props (2 Jan 2008):
great composition! lovely colors.
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I love pa. Nice!
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Nice one for the theme. Has my vote. Please take a moment to view my entry in this theme.


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On this morning, Stewart exchanged pleasantries in near-fluent Dari (the Afghan dialect of Farsi, or Persian) with gardeners in the grassy terraces behind the qal'a, and soothed a receptionist distressed by the commandeering of her computer by a colleague. He led me into the ceramics workshop, a dark, musty room permeated with the odors of sweat and moist clay. There, the ustad, or master, Abdul Manan—a bearded ethnic Tajik that Stewart recruited from Istalif, a town in the foothills of the Hindu Kush famed for its artisans—was fashioning a delicate, long-necked vase on a pottery wheel.
In a classroom across the grounds, Stewart introduced me to Ustad Tamim, a renowned Afghan miniaturist and graduate of the Kabul School of Fine Arts who had been arrested by Taliban thugs in 1997 for violating Koranic injunctions against portrayals of the human form. "They saw me on the street with these pieces, and they knocked me off the bicycle and beat me with cables, on my legs and my back, and whipped me," he told me. Tamin fled to Pakistan, where he taught painting in a refugee camp in Peshawar, returning to Kabul shortly after the Taliban were defeated. "It's good to be working again," he says, "doing the things I am trained to do."
As he retraces his steps back toward his office to prepare for a meeting with NATO commanders, Stewart says that "the paradox of Afghanistan is that the war has caused the most unbelievable suffering and destruction, but at the same time, it's not a depressing place. Most of my staff have suffered great tragedy—the cook's father was killed in front of him; the ceramics teacher's wife and children shot dead in front of him—but they are not traumatized or passive, but resilient, clever, tricky, funny."
A taste for exotic adventure runs in Stewart's DNA. His father, Brian, grew up in a family based in Calcutta, fought in Normandy after D-Day, served in the British colonial service in Malaya throughout the Communist insurgency there, traveled across China before the revolution and joined the Foreign Office in 1957. In 1965, he met his future wife, Sally, in Kuala Lumpur. Rory was born in Hong Kong, where his father was posted, in 1973. "The family traveled all over Asia," Sally told me by phone from Fiji, where she and Brian reside for part of each year. At Oxford in the 1990s, Rory studied history, philosophy and politics.
After university, Stewart followed his father into the Foreign Office, which posted him to Indonesia. He arrived in Jakarta in 1997, just as the country's economy was imploding and riots eventually forced the dictator, Suharto, to step down. Stewart's analyses of the crisis helped to earn him an appointment, at 26, as chief British representative in tiny Montenegro, in the Balkans, where he arrived just after the outbreak of war in neighboring Kosovo. After a year in Montenegro, Stewart set out on an adventure he had been dreaming of for years: a solo walk across Central Asia. "I had already traveled a lot on foot—across [the Indonesian province of] Irian Jaya Barat, across Pakistan—and those journeys stayed in my memory," he says.
In Iran, Stewart was detained and expelled by Revolutionary Guards after they intercepted an e-mail describing political conversations he had with villagers. In Nepal, he came close to giving up after trekking for months across Maoist-occupied Himalayan valleys without encountering another foreigner or speaking English. Near the halfway point, agitated villagers in Nepal approached him, saying something about "a plane," "a bomb," "America." Only when he reached the market town of Pokhara four weeks later did he learn that terrorists had destroyed the World Trade Center—and that the United States was at war in Afghanistan.
Still trekking, Stewart arrived in that country in December 2001, just a month after the Northern Alliance, backed by U.S. Special Forces, had driven the Taliban from power. Accompanied by a huge mastiff he named Babur, Stewart walked from Herat, the ancient bazaar city in the northwest, across the snowy passes of the Hindu Kush, ending up in Kabul a month later. The Places in Between, Stewart's account of that often dangerous odyssey, and of the people he met along the way—villagers who had survived Taliban massacres; tribal chieftains; Afghan security forces; anti-Western Pashtuns—was published in the United Kingdom in 2004. Despite its success there, American publishers did not pick up the book until 2005. It got the lead review in the Sunday New York Times Book Review, was on the Times' best-seller list for 26 weeks and was listed by the paper as one of the year's five best nonfiction books.
Stewart applauded the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq; in his travels across Iran and Afghanistan, Stewart says, he had seen the dangers posed by totalitarian regimes and believed ousting Saddam Hussein would, if managed properly, improve both the lives of Iraqis and relations between the West and the Islamic world. In 2003, he volunteered his services to the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) and, when his letters went unanswered, flew to Baghdad, where he took a taxi to the Republican Palace and knocked on the door of Andrew Bearpark, the senior British representative in the CPA, who promptly gave him an assignment. "I had a raft of people asking for jobs, but everybody was asking via e-mails," recalls Bearpark. "He was the only person who had the balls to actually make it to Baghdad."
Bearpark dispatched Stewart to Maysan Province, a predominantly Shia region that included the marshes Saddam had drained after the 1991 Shia uprising. Setting up an office in Al Amara, the capital, Stewart found himself caught between radical Shias who violently opposed the occupation, and hungry, jobless Iraqis who demanded immediate improvements in their lives. Stewart says that he and his team identified and empowered local leaders, put together a police force, successfully negotiated for the release of a British hostage seized by Moqtada Al Sadr's Mahdi Army and fended off attacks on the CPA compound. "I had ten million dollars a month to spend, delivered in vacuum-sealed packets," he recalls. "We refurbished 230 schools, built hospitals, launched job schemes for thousands of people." But their work was little appreciated and, all too often, quickly destroyed. "We'd put up a power line, they'd tear it down, melt the copper and sell it for $20,000 to Iran. It would cost us $12 million to replace it." He says only two projects in Al Amara engaged the Iraqis: a restoration of the souk, or market, and a carpentry school that trained hundreds of young Iraqis. Both, Stewart says, "were concrete—people could see the results."
As the Mahdi Army gathered strength and security deteriorated, the CPA turned over power to the Iraqis, and Stewart returned to Afghanistan. He arrived in Kabul in November 2005 determined to get involved in architectural preservation, a cause inspired in part by his walk four years earlier. "I saw so much destruction, so many traditional houses replaced by faceless boxes. I realized how powerful and intricate [Afghan tribal] communities can be and how many potential resources there are." A promise of financial support came from the Prince of Wales, whom Stewart had met at a dinner at Eton College during Stewart's senior year there. (At 18, Stewart tutored Princes William and Harry at the royal estates in Gloucestershire and Scotland.) Prince Charles arranged an introduction to Afghan president Hamid Karzai. Stewart also met Jolyon Leslie, who directs the Historic Cities program for the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, a foundation that promotes urban conservation in the Muslim world. The trust, which has restored major sites in the Old City of Kabul, is preparing to begin work in a residential gozar, or neighborhood, of 254 buildings. "We sat down with an aerial photograph of Kabul and batted around ideas," Leslie recalls.


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Postcards from Mommywood: Preschoolers and Computers
What's so bad about spending time away from the keyboard?
-Diane Clehane
Now that texting and Twitter have made email almost quaint, a new compulsion has emerged. The desire among young and old to have instantaneous access to information and the increasingly commonplace habit of bleating out our own exalted opinion to our "friends," "fans," and—even if they don't want to get them—family, has fostered a whole new genre of worry for parents.
Welcome to the age of Internet Anxiety.
Having acknowledged my Internet addiction, I have taken steps to monitor the free time I spend checking my favorite sites. I do some serious time-wasting on Facebook. Honestly, though, in the media business, I'm finding you're nobody unless you've got at least 400 friends, so my time spent coming up with clever quips for my status updates and trolling through the random 250 posts of News Feeds is for strictly professional reasons. I swear.
Read Postcards from Mommywood: Why Can't We Just Get Along?
While my five year-old daughter hasn't expressed any interest in Facebook, she has been asking with increasing frequency about spending time on the sites that she hears about while watching her favorite television shows. My husband and I sit at the computer with her for 15-minute intervals a few times a week and play games (Kai-Lan's Happy House is a particular favorite). She hasn't mastered the whole point-and-click thing yet, but she's getting there.
Is this a good thing?
I'm aware that today's child needs to be fully conversant in computers, but at what age? Some preschools make a big show of having a computer for the classroom, and some even offer computer classes. At the start of the school year, I asked my daughter's teacher if computers were going to be part of the curriculum, and she told me the school had one computer in the class that was going to be removed. She said the school found that for preschoolers, it was a distraction. Kids wound up vying for time at the computer rather than engaging in the activities that were part of the class schedule. She also said, "We don't know how much time the children are spending at the computer at home, so we think it's best not to include it as part of the class day at this stage."
At first, I was disappointed and thought, "What if all the other pre- schools in the area were including computers in their classes?"
That was immediately followed by another thought: "Is that really a bad thing?"
The answer, at least for our family, is no.
Here I am, an adult struggling to whittle down my time spent online so I can be more productive. Did I really want to have my child introduced to something that could be equally distracting—but in her case, take her away from the fleeting joys of childhood?
The answer is no.
Maybe it's a counter-intuitive response, but, in my house, it's the right one.


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Heat the oil in a large, heavy pot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Add the salt meat and cook, stirring, for 2 minutes. Add the cabbage, onions, and water; stir to mix, cover and reduce the heat to medium-low. Cook, stirring occasionally, for 30 minutes.
Add the sugar, salt, black pepper, and TABASCO® Sauce, and stir to mix. Cover and cook, stirring often, for 30 minutes longer. Serve hot.
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According to local tradition, you must eat cabbage on New
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Mixology Monday #9 has arrived.. I re-discovered this blog event while I was looking to substantiate my case in an arguement that a friend and I have been having ALOT lately. He would drink wine all the time and thinks that there is a wine for everything. Now, while I love (would elope with a great bottle in Fiji..) I mean, love wine, I also think that sometimes variety is indeed the spice. Beer and cocktails always have a place at my table.
What better to accompany a spicy daal soaked up with naan than a hoppy Emerson's 1812 IPA? Or tortilla wrapped barbequed lamb and salsa verde with an Emerson's Organic Pilsner? Then there are rich meat pies.. while Valpolicella is nice, without a stout, beer suits as well. Classic pizza and Peroni? And although I like a moderately chilled Pinot Grigio or Sauvignon Blanc as much as the next person, a champagne cocktail aperitivo, or a tasty flavoured vodka concoction are both great celebration drinks.
Maybe not so common although I think they are enjoying a bit of a renaissance.. are gli amari. Bitters. Ranging from mildly bitter to downright sour.. in the right balance these have the potential to taste great and quench thirst like nothing else.
As for a cocktail, one of the nicest and accompanied by an equally nice memory.. was an afternoon and time out for a few drinks in the courtyard at Non Solo Pizza in Auckland. To forget, if only for a moment, the impending separation of a loved one about to board a flight bound for halfway round the world.
Aptly titled 'Ignorance is Bliss'.. 2 ways
Martini style - Shake the following with ice and strain into glass.
Serve with slice of lime.
1 shot citrus flavoured vodka (Ketel One Citroen or Absolut Mandarin)
1 shot Campari
1 shot Passionfruit syrup
1 shot pressed Apple juice
my take on the Non Solo Pizza Style - Serve on ice in collins or sling glass
1 shot Absolut Mandarin
1 shot Campari
Fill with Apple juice and juice of half a lime (to taste)
Top with shot of Passionfruit syup.
Garnish with citrus slice.
Martini recipe courtesy of sauceguide vol.4
Non Solo Pizza provided the inspiration for the long drink (theirs is fantastically more-ish!)


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Luke 21: 5 - 11 | |
5 | And as some spoke of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, he said, |
6 | "As for these things which you see, the days will come when there shall not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down." |
7 | And they asked him, "Teacher, when will this be, and what will be the sign when this is about to take place?" |
8 | And he said, "Take heed that you are not led astray; for many will come in my name, saying, `I am he!' and, `The time is at hand!' Do not go after them. |
9 | And when you hear of wars and tumults, do not be terrified; for this must first take place, but the end will not be at once." |
10 | Then he said to them, "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; |
11 | there will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences; and there will be terrors and great signs from heaven. |
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The Park Hotel – 201 Knapp St., Toledo, OH 43604
Built in 1909 this grand brick structure is now down on it's luck. The windows are broken out, there have been several failed businesses on the ground floor, and it is said that scrappers have gone through and illegally gutted the place. Nearby properties regard it as a tragic eye sore. The nearby business owners I talked to say that they have made attempts to contact the owners about the destruction and vandalism of the property and that the owners do not care nor do they make efforts to attend to the broken windows. The time is ticking here…. I did not get access to this structure because I lacked the safety equipment I prefer. I might return later to try and get better photos.
Interestingly one of the nearby business owners claims that a series of detective novels were partly based on this location. That the books involve a serial killer that actually came through and used the location. No clue if this claim is true or not.
Per the Toledo Blade there were recent plans for this location: http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2006/05/11/Historic-Park-Lane-Hotel-gets-refurbished.html – "The Park Lane Hotel in Toledo's historic Old West End is in the midst of a makeover its new owners hope will turn what once was a retirement community into a collection of market-rate apartments and corporate suites." This was in 2006, and I can clearly see nothing has become of such plans. The building is creeping past the point of return.
More location details: http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/16637559/201-Knapp-St-Toledo-OH/ , http://www.toledolegalnews.com/realestate/details/id/110956


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How many women have been on the FBI's Most Wanted List?
The first woman on the list, Ruth Eisemann-Schier, was added in 1968 for kidnaping, extortion, and other crimes. The list was created in March 1950, and nearly 500 people have been on the list since. For an updated list and answers to frequently asked questions, including the number of women on the list, see: FBI's Most Wanted List..
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School year could end Thursday, pending strike vote
The last day of class for Comox Valley students could be Thursday this year, according to Comox District Teachers' Association president Steven Stanley.
"June 12th could be the last day of school in the Comox Valley, depending on the outcome of the (strike) vote," Stanley said Friday.
If teachers vote Monday and Tuesday to move to a full strike, Stanley said they could do so as early as Monday, June 16. Comox Valley teachers are already scheduled to strike Friday, June 13 as part of continuing rotating strikes around the province.
But, a vote in favour of escalating strike action doesn't necessarily mean a full walkout, cautioned Stanley, because the strike vote specifies 'up to and including a full walkout.'
"We don't have to go to a full walkout," said Stanley. "We could just increase it to two days of rotating strikes a week, something like that, and that hasn't been determined, and it will depend on what happens at the bargaining table."
BCPSEA has tabled a 7.3 per cent wage increase over six years, plus a $1,200 signing bonus if an agreement is signed by the end of the school year. Teachers dropped their wage increase proposal last week to an increase of 9.75 per cent over four years, plus cost of living adjustments each year, expected to bump the total up to 12.75 per cent. Other issues the two sides disagree on are around class size and composition. Bargaining talks have been ongoing for 16 months.
Meanwhile, some Comox Valley students joined others across the province last week in walking out of class in protest of the dispute between the Province and the BC Teachers' Federation.
Comox Valley District Parents Advisory Council chair Tonia Frawley said she hasn't heard much from concerned parents but, personally, she's worried about how the situation is affecting students.
"The only people truly losing out here are the students," she said. "I feel so bad for those students who are trying to finish out their final year. I feel bad for the high school students who are trying to get ready for provincial exams. I feel sorry for the kids who are in elementary who need extra support. I feel bad for families who have to find daycare on the days when the teachers are on their walkouts. It's just, it's all over the place."
The BC School Employers' Association has applied to the Labour Relations Board to have teachers services required for report card completion — including preparing and marking exams and submitting final grades — deemed essential, according to the Ministry of Education. A ruling is expected shortly.
Comox Valley superintendent Sherry Elwood said Friday exams will go ahead even if teachers move to a full walkout and the LRB does not rule these services essential.
"At the moment we are required to offer both the marking and supervision of exams," she said of administrative staff. "Principals, vice principals and district management will be assisting. We will have to take students from where they are in terms of marks whenever job action begins to affect course completion and advancement to the next grade."
Stanley noted the LRB's ruling last week — which upheld the lockout imposed by the BC Public School Employers' Association and the 10 per cent wage reduction — means most Comox Valley teachers will refrain from extracurricular activities.
BCPSEA has said teachers will not be restricted from "extracurricular and volunteer activities," including graduation ceremonies during the partial lockout, even if they're held on school property. But, Stanley called the idea behind the lockout "fundamentally flawed".
"They can't dock our pay and say that they're taking away work and then tell us to work anyway. If the justification for taking our pay is that we're not doing as much work, then we shouldn't do as much work.
"We're not allowed to supervise students at recess or work with students at lunch and we have to be off school property within 45 minutes of end of school time, then obviously it puts a lot of (extracurricular activities) in jeopardy," he said. "Individual teachers might make a decision to go ahead with (extracurricular activities) but the general position is that you shouldn't be doing that because you're locked out."
According to Elwood, graduation ceremonies will go forward with or without teacher assistance.
"District staff and principals and vice principals from other schools, retired principals and vice principals will assist," she said. "Extracurricular events will continue unless there is not adequate teacher supervision. In cases of cancellation, schools will try and get as much information out to parents as soon as possible."
For updates, visit www.sd71.bc.ca.
Support workers reach tentative deal
B.C. Kindergarten to Grade 12 support staff reached a tentative framework agreement Saturday with the Province.
According to the Ministry of Education, the five-year framework agreement covers about 34,000 support staff, most of whom are CUPE.
If ratified, the contract will extend from July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2019. The framework includes provincially-funded wage increases totalling about 5.5 per cent over five years, with potential for more if B.C.'s economy exceeds annual forecasts set by the Economic Forecast Council in the last four years of the agreement.
For more information, visit http://www.cupe.bc.ca/ or http://www.bcpsea.bc.ca/.
The deal was reached after five days of talks.


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Denise Steverson was recognized by the State College of Florida Manatee-Sarasota District Board of Trustees at a December meeting for being named 2009 Florida Association of Community Colleges' Unsung Hero.
Steverson, SCF's marketing production coordinator, was recognized for her service as the college's FACC chapter events coordinator at the 60th annual FACC Convention in Orlando in November. As events coordinator, she launched new activities, including a "Day with the Rays," the holiday costume party and a luncheon fundraiser for student scholarships.
"Dee Steverson is a true example of the collegial spirit that is so important to FACC," Bradley Davis, associate vice president of program and compliance and SCF's FACC chapter president, said in a prepared statement. "She utilizes her organizational skills and creative talents to engage SCF faculty and staff in our SCF chapter's ever-growing social and community service projects. Whether she is raising funds for student scholarships or bringing donations for our local community project, she is a role model for us all."
SCF faculty and staff were selected at the convention for new leadership roles in FACC. SCF Adjunct Coordinator and FACC Region IV director Mary DiTaranto was elected as FACC vice president elect for regions and chapters. Jeff Laborda, natural sciences assistant professor, became Region IV representative for FACC Faculty Commission.
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Island Gallery West will begin a new season of free weekly art demonstrations.
The events, which are open to the public, are from 10 a.m. to noon Saturdays at the gallery, 5368 Gulf Drive in S&S Shopping Plaza, Holmes Beach. There are no reservations; seating is first come, first served.
The schedule for January is:
Saturday: Susan Oberender, stained glass artist, will show glass fusing in making jewelry.
Jan. 9: Barbara Orear, watercolor artist, will demonstrate painting Florida boats and water.
Jan. 16: Caroline Whitmore, watercolor artist and teacher, will show how to paint watercolor seascapes.
Jan. 23: Paul Achre, watercolor artist, will demonstrate watercolor painting techniques.
Jan. 30: Cecy Richardson, mixed media artist, will show the uses of various media.
Also at the gallery, Joe Fletcher, professional nature photographer, was selected to be the featured artist for January. His exhibit, which will included his popular work "Jonathan Seagull," opens Saturday. A reception will be from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Jan. 8.
For details, call 778-6648 or visit www.islandgallerywest.com.
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The honeybees that live on the roof of the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts have a great view, but they're probably too busy to notice it. Beekeeper Fred Davis reports that about 150 pounds of honey have been collected so far from the Four Seasons Centre hives. One thing he's noticed is that the honey that has been produced this year is darker and this indicates that it's gathered more from flowering trees and bushes and less from flowers. This same darker honey is being gathered from other downtown Toronto hives as well.
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2014/2015 marks quite a season for Russell Braun! The Toronto-based, internationally acclaimed baritone performed a full summer of concerts and recitals across North America and Europe, then made his role debut as Ford in the COC's production of Falstaff in the fall – and now he takes on Mozart's legendary womanizer, Don Giovanni.
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These Silver Threads is a combination story collection and journal of memories for readers who love family history.
Author and Radio Storyteller Dan Wilt shares the "silver threads" of encouragement and faith he has found in his own family's stories.
Six whimsical walks through the author's memories take us from the coal regions of Northern Pennsylvania, to the orchards of ancient Armenia.
The second half of the book is full of journaling space, and invites you as the reader to document your own memories, searching for the "silver threads and sacred moments" running through your own family experiences.
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Just back from a cow working clinic! And I have heaps of pictures and some video! My mare has just had 7 months off being a paddock ornament while I was working on a cattle station in another state. I've been back three weeks, and she has only had a handful of rides as we are also trying to get her in foal so she has been back and forth to the vets and the stallion owner. I was so, so happy with her at this clinic. She is still really green, we went to this clinic about the same time last year and we got to maybe two drafts before I left, that is all the cattle experience she has. She just pulled it out for me, I was so impressed. This is me and Lucy at the clinic. The photos in the light shirt are the first day on the mechanical cow, the pink shirt is the second. One video is the mechanical cow on the first day, and the other is working a live cow on the afternoon of the second day. You can see in the start of the mechanical cow video, she sometimes gets excited coming out of a turn and jumps around and flings her head. However by the afternoon of the second day she wasn't doing it at all. We missed one stop in the live cow video but apart from that she was fantastic. I missed videoing the mechanical cow on the second day, because she was going so well we were only on it for maybe 2 minutes. I love my girl! http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/e...t/P1012372.jpg http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/e...t/P1012374.jpg http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/e...t/P1012375.jpg http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/e...t/P1012376.jpg http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/e...t/P1012286.jpg http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/e...t/P1012287.jpg http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/e...t/P1012288.jpg http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/e...t/P1012383.jpg http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/e...t/P1012283.jpg http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/e...t/P1012487.jpg http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/e...t/P1012493.jpg And cause she's cute :D http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/e...t/P1012523.jpg Enjoying a scratch: http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/e...t/P1012313.jpg |
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What a beautiful girl! And for 7 months off being green broke? I think you have a horse with a ton of potential |
I am in love!! She's gorgeous :D |
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Thanks so much guys :) I sometimes forget how much I like her, and a few friends don't think she is that great and sometimes I listen to them. But weekends like that one and hearing you guys say nice things really make me appreciate her! |
How many times has she worked a live cow? |
At this clinic last year, Then two campdraft starts before I left at the beginning of this year. She's done a little bit of cattle work, but with bigger mobs, no actual cutting. |
Here's the mechanical cow video. You can see at the start she has a few of her 'moments' where she gets excited and flings her head. She settles down okay though and starts working well by the end! |
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Juanita Bynum II Speaking In Tongues On Facebook: Is It Possible or Just Insane?
We have been following Dr. Juanita Bynum II on Christian Television for many years; even before she tied the knot with her ex-husband Bishop Weeks. Since her breakup, we have also noticed she has been falling away from being holy and hanging out with celebrities and making sure her followers see her at the Soul Train music awards by revealing past photos that were previously on her website. In the early days of her ministry, we also remember when Dr. Juanita Bynum appeared on TBN, mentioning how she was in a mental institution and how she was experiencing delusions of grandeur, allegedly. She talked about how she lost her mind and how God delivered her- a few times. Therefore, look at her Facebook account. It seems as though she is possibly having an episode again because something is wrong.
First of all, we are going to pray for Juanita Bynum, but we must address this issue, because now we see why the church is not right and demons have been controlling the body of Christ. When we have ministers like the late Zachery Tims who had a drug habit and who was recently discovered dead in a NYC hotel room; Bishop Eddie Long who allegedly had several affairs with teenage boys and young men; marriages that continue to end in divorce between couples in the ministries, we must address what seems to be the problem within the body of Christ and a lot of it is, rebellion, greed and lust. However, when we look at this Facebook page of Dr. Juanita Bynum II, it seems as though, she is allowing the Devil to misrepresent God's Kingdom, and maybe this is a mental issue. No one in their right mind would ever think that you can type out speaking in tongues.
Let us read this together, in the book of Acts 2:1-4, it says this: 1 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. 2 Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. 4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them (or gave them utterance).
This is why we all have to be led of the spirit and be careful who we follow, because no matter how good one preaches or can make us feel good, demons travel and we cannot allow them to take dominion over the body of Christ.
So you see the scripture says 'spoke', it did not say they wrote it out, in these days, it would be impossible to type it out. Therefore, what we see is not of God. Just look at her Facebook page below:
In conclusion, when we are in ministry, we want the world to know we are in our right mind. We serve a God who is not insane and all of His children are intelligent people, so this Facebook page is not under the anointing, but is demonically oddly strange or peculiar. Yes, we go through things, but we should deal with it through christian counseling, because obviously there is something going on in her life that is causing her to act, very strange. In the meantime, we will keep Dr. Juanita Bynum II in our prayers.
NOTE: For any of our readers who want to know whether we have heard directly from Dr. Juanita Bynum whether these are 'tongues' she wrote out or not, we have not heard from her about it. We understand that some feel she is taking her 'anointing to another level in God.' Our response is this: most people have comprehended that she was trying to communicate to her Facebook fans via 'tongues' but our stance is this is not authentically possible or ordained by God.
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The Greatest Sex Scene Ever Written: Failure And Success In The Age Of Unlimited Porno
Consider this literary sex scene: "A spaceship crashes with two midgets that get split up. The blonde one walks around until she finds a farm where she rests and masturbates."
In reality, that quote is literary only in that somebody went to the trouble of writing it down--it's actually an excerpt from the liner notes for "Two Midget Aliens" (really NSFW, that link), a 15-minute porno about, you know, two midget aliens having sex and stuff. It is, however, illustrative of an important literary point, which is that John Heilpern is dead wrong about sex. At least in a literary sense.
In the September issue of Vanity Fair, Heilpern -- who's also a drama critic for the New York Observer -- interviews esteemed postmodern novelist (and current Brooklyn-dweller) Martin Amis for his "Out to Lunch" column, in which he takes people out to lunch and has conversations with them; Heilpern's end of the conversation tends to be kind of charmingly random. In this particular one, he and Amis are talking about movies when Heilpern says, "And yet no novelist, including you, has ever written a successful sex scene."
Heilpern makes this assertion so matter-of-factly, it's tempting to take it at face value. After all, we all know what he's talking about. For the most part, sex scenes in literature are pretty terrible, and we just want them to be over with so we can get back to the parts about... whatever it is that's not the sex scene. Stephen King, for example, is well known for his egregious depictions of coitus. From his most recent novel:
"Ohmygodyes," she said and I laughed. She opened her eyes and looked up at me with curiosity and hopefulness. "Is it over, or is there more?"
"A little more," I said. "I don't know how much. I haven't been with a woman in a long time."
It turned out there was quite a bit more. ... At the end she began to gasp. "Oh dear, oh my dear, oh my dear dear God, oh sugar!"
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The tricky thing about sex--and the reason it's so hard to write about--is that sex is like an on-off switch: It's either arousing or it's disgusting. There's basically no middle ground. So when it's written in a way that's neither arousing nor disgusting (a la King above), it just rings false and silly.
Keeping that in mind, it's possible that "successful" could mean either arousing or disgusting. But where sex is concerned, it's hard to anticipate either reaction; what's arousing to one man is deeply shameful to the next, and possibly both for the same guy--one need only consider the vast array of porno available on this very internet (Two Alien Midgets, anyone?) for proof of just how bizarrely disparate are the things that turn us on and off. Doug Stanhope elucidates:
Porno aside, for an example of this phenomenon at work in literature, look no further than anything by Tom Robbins, who writes about vaginas with enough horny precision to give even the most porn-jaded 19-year old at least a half-chub--until you picture Tom Robbins himself furiously masturbating at the Remington SL3 and it becomes disgusting. Successful? Perhaps, if only for the fact of its duality.
Either way, there's some truth to Amis' response to Heilpern, which was to say, "Well, I think it's a watertight statement that you can't write about successful, fulfilling sex. But you can write about the fiasco."
Fair enough, Amis, but I want to say it goes deeper than that. The thing about successful, fulfilling sex, you see, is that it's only successful and fulfilling to the people having it. Watching successful, fulfilling sex, on the other hand, is disgusting at best, boring at worst--at least in literature, where no matter how deep we get into the head of a character, we're just cheap thought-voyeurs. And for the creeper-peeper, it doesn't get worse than boring.
But let's put all this quibbling aside and generously assume that what "successful" means is just plain "genius-level fucking brilliant," in the most objective sense possible. Even then, the truly baffling thing about Heilpern's assertion is that he and Amis are talking literally not five sentences earlier about the writer of some of the most evocative, compelling and all-around brilliant sex scenes of all time. That writer, of course, is Nabokov.
"Oh, it's nothing at all," she cried with a sudden shrill note in her voice, and she wiggled, and squirmed, and threw her head back, and her teeth rested on her glistening underlip as she half-turned away, and my moaning mouth, gentlemen of the jury, almost reached her bare neck, while I crushed out against her left buttock the last throb of the longest ecstasy man or monster had ever known.
The disturbing fact that this scene happens to take place between a middle-aged man and a 12-year-old girl just makes the scene more... well, it's hard to say "exciting" without seeming pedophile-ish, but I dare you to read this scene in its context without quickening your breath. With the power of literature alone, Nabokov forces you to feel the excitement of the conquest of a pedophile. If that's not some kind of success, I don't know what is.
But whatever. We obviously can't all be Nabokov. What I'm saying is, maybe a literary sex scene is successful if someone likes it--just like in porno. Because as long as the vast legions of turgid, glistening members continue to pump their copious harlequin jism onto the palpitating laps of housewives in used book stores everywhere, there will always be a chance for a Lady Chatterley's Lover to capitalize on the promise of its dirty parts. Plus, 50 Shades of Grey just made ninety bajillion dollars while you were reading this.
How's that for successful?
Jef Otte is a writer and essayist living in Kalamazoo, Michigan. In his spare time, he contemplates writing sexy Twilight fan fiction to pay the bills.
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FOSTORIA - A 25-year-old Fostoria man who fired multiple gunshots into an East Center Street home in May is going to prison.
William Lamar Jackson, who pleaded guilty to improperly discharging a firearm into a habitation and having a weapon while under disability, was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison in Seneca County Common Pleas Court.
Jackson was involved in a dispute on the street and, in response, fired several shots into the home just after 5 a.m. May 26.
He claimed the other person involved fled into the home, Seneca County Prosecutor Ken Egbert, Jr., said, but none of the three occupants of the home was involved in the dispute, according to investigators.
Jackson was prohibited from having a firearm because he was convicted of trafficking in crack cocaine in 2002.
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Richard Lewis: One of Government Technology's 25 Doers Dreamers & Drivers
The city is close to going live with a $10 million case-management system that will allow the Houston municipal court system to eliminate paper, Lewis said.
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In addition to the six major IT initiatives already going strong in Houston, CIO Richard Lewis' hands were full dealing with the fallout from 2005's hurricane season.
Displaced New Orleans residents streamed to Texas to temporarily live in Houston. Lewis and his staff logged myriad hours working with the Red Cross to create online missing persons' registries and databases to match Katrina victims with Houston homes. Now the city is close to going live with a $10 million case-management system that will allow the Houston municipal court system to eliminate paper, Lewis said.
"I've assumed the acting municipal court chief clerk position in addition to my IT responsibilities," he said, adding that Houston's municipal court system will become one of the largest paperless class-C misdemeanor court systems in the country.
The city also is in the build-out phase of a $23 million ERP implementation, Lewis said, and financials and procurement are set to start operation on July 1 -- the beginning of the city's fiscal year.
"We're really under the gun on that," he said. "But we've got a great team on the field. That's going to be a big deal."
Lewis was surprised to learn, after a network assessment a few years ago, that 90 percent of the 300 routers and 800 switches in the city's network were beyond their manufacturers' support life. Houston is now in the second of a three-phase network upgrade to standardize routers and switches.
"Governments really don't do a good job of asset management," he said. "The IT environment in the city is highly centralized. I have control of about a third of the operating expense, but I control the entire capital budget. Sixty percent of the operating expense is in the Police Department and the Public Works Department.
"Those two departments have CTOs that report to me, as well as to their department directors, so I can try to control most of the big stuff without having to own it," Lewis continued. "But it does make for a challenging environment."
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United Nations: Muslim leaders were in unison at the United Nations this week arguing that the West was hiding behind its defense of freedom of speech and ignoring cultural sensitivities in the aftermath of anti-Islam slurs that have raised fears of a widening East-West cultural divide. (Agencies) Latest News from World News Desk
A video made in California depicting the Prophet Mohammad as a fool sparked the storming of US and other Western embassies in many Islamic countries and a deadly suicide bombing in Afghanistan this month. The crisis deepened when a French magazine published caricatures of the Prophet.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said it was time to put an end to the protection of Islamophobia masquerading as the freedom to speak freely.
"Unfortunately, Islamophobia has also become a new form of racism like anti-Semitism. It can no longer be tolerated under the guise of freedom of expression. Freedom does not mean anarchy," he told the 193-nation UN General Assembly on Friday.
Egypt's newly elected Islamist president, Mohamed Mursi, voiced similar sentiments in his speech on Wednesday. "Egypt respects freedom of expression, freedom of expression that is not used to incite hatred against anyone," he said. "We expect from others, as they expect from us, that they respect our cultural specifics and religious references, and not impose concepts or cultures that are unacceptable to us."
Mursi was one of the first leaders to be democratically elected after Arab Spring r evolutions that led to changes in the governments of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen last year.
Western states that backed the uprisings have urged these countries to quickly foster democratic reforms and adhere stringently to human rights principles and basic freedoms.
They fear a more austere version of Islam could hijack the protest movements. Most Western speakers at the United Nation defended freedom of speech, but shied away from calls by Muslim leaders for an international ban on blasphemy.
While repeating his condemnations of the video, US President Barack Obama staunchly defended free speech, riling some of those leaders.
"The strongest weapon against hateful speech is not repression, it is more speech - the voices of tolerance that rally against bigotry and blasphemy," Obama said in a 30-minute speech dominated by this theme.
Clash of civilisations
Speaking after Obama, President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan, where more than a dozen people were killed in protests against the anti-Islam film, demanded insults to religion be criminalised.
"The international community must not become silent observers and should criminalize such acts that destroy the peace of the world and endanger world security by misusing freedom of expression," he said.
Highlighting the anger of some, about 150 protesters demanded "justice" and chanted "there is no god but Allah" outside the UN building on Thursday. One placard read: "Blaspheming my Prophet must be made a crime at the UN"
Foreign ministers from the 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation met on Friday. The film topped the agenda.
"This incident demonstrates the serious consequences of abusing the principle of freedom of expression on one side and the freedom of demonstration on the other side," OIC Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu told reporters.
"Countless incidents show that when governments or religious movements seek to punish offences in the name of combating religious bigotry, violence then ensues and real violations of human rights are perpetrated against targeted individuals," they said in a joint statement.
The 47-member UN Human Rights Council, dominated by developing states, has passed non-binding resolutions against defamation of religion for over a decade. Similar ones were endorsed in the UN General Assembly.
European countries, the United States and several Latin American nations in the council opposed the resolutions, arguing that while individual people have human rights, religions do not, and that existing UN pacts - if enforced - were sufficient to curb incitement to hatred and violence.
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle attempted to dampen talk of a clash of civilisations on Thursday. "Some would have us believe that the burning embassy buildings are proof of a clash of civilisations," Westerwelle said in his UN address. "We must not allow ourselves to be deluded by such arguments. This is not a clash of civilisations. It is a clash within civilisations. It is also a struggle for the soul of the movement for change in the Arab world."


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text: Archive for November 10th, 2012 View: News Blogs Programs News BBC chief quits after saying TV report was wrong US & World | November 10th, 2012, 2:56pm | AP It is "one of the saddest evenings of my public life," said Chris Patten, the chairman of the BBC Trust. "At the heart of the BBC is its role as a trusted global news organization." Four days later, Florida declares for Obama November 10th, 2012, 1:57pm | Melisa Goh | NPR Obama garnered 50 percent of the vote to Romney's 49.1 percent. His win gives Obama a total of 332 electoral votes to Mitt Romney's 206. GOP Congresswoman Bono Mack concedes Politics | November 10th, 2012, 9:14am | Steven Cuevas Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack asks constituents to give winner Raul Ruiz an opportunity to succeed Veterans look for jobs, companies look for vets Local | November 10th, 2012, 9:05am | Brian Watt Veterans look for jobs, and companies look for veterans at a "Hiring our Heroes" event in Los Angeles before Veterans Day PHOTOS: Inside LA's Wilshire Grand Hotel during demolition Local | November 10th, 2012, 8:14am | Maya Sugarman Crews have begun demolishing the Wilshire Grand Hotel to make way for a new hotel and office tower. Take a last look inside the historic hotel. Blogs Barbra Streisand thrills chilly Bowl Without A Net | November 10th, 2012, 4:00pm | Tony Pierce The songbird returns to the Bowl on Sunday and good seats are still available for the princely sum of about $650 a seat in the up-close Garden Boxes. Deep pockets Dodgers bid $25.7 million for Korean southpaw pitcher The Latest | November 10th, 2012, 12:42pm | AP The Hanwha Eagles of the Korea Baseball Organization said Saturday they have accepted a posting fee of $25.7 million for the 25-year-old left-hander. POLL: Should Phil Jackson return to the Lakers? The Latest | November 10th, 2012, 11:18am | Tony Pierce The L.A. Times is reporting that "one person in the organization [is] calling it a '95%' chance [Jackson] will return for a third tour with the team." But should he? Stormwater permit approved for Los Angeles watershed Pacific Swell | November 10th, 2012, 9:04am | Molly Peterson Water regulators have passed a sweeping set of rules that will change how L.A.-area cities manage stormwater runoff by imiting almost three dozen pollutants in water. Suspect in rape on Metro bus arrested The Latest | November 10th, 2012, 8:51am | Erika Aguilar A tip led authorities straight to the house of a man suspected of raping a mentally ill woman while on a Metro bus. Programs Jump to: AirTalk® Off-Ramp® AirTalk Episode: Special edition of AirTalk with the Splendid Table's Lynne Rosetto Kasper (11/10/12) Holiday recipes and kitchen castrophes with The Splendid Table Arts & Entertainment | November 10th, 2012, 2:09pm | AirTalk The weather is cooling down in Southern California, and Thanksgiving is approaching quickly. In a special weekend segment on AirTalk, Lynne Rossetto Kasper of The Splendid Table answers your holiday food questions. Off-Ramp Episode: Give til it hurts in a good way. Off-Ramp for November 10, 2012 Browse our news archive January February March April May June July August September October November December 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017


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Carroll County Sheriff Jamie Kinman has been arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree burglary, a class B felony, and two counts of theft by unlawful taking-controlled substance, and class D felony.
The Carrollton Campus of Jefferson Community and Technical College has teamed up with Lindsey Wilson College to offer a Bachelor of Arts degree in human services and counseling and a Master of Education degree in counseling and human development. All of the courses will be offered on Fridays from 4-9 p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at the new Carrollton Campus, which opens in August.
He's created close to 100 pieces of artwork and has met an estimated 180-190 Elvis Presley tribute artists. He has been to the Graceland mansion four times and wears two Elvis-related rings every day on his right hand.
It's safe to say that Greg Damron is a HUGE Elvis Presley fan.
"I'm a big Elvis fan, but I don't think I'm obsessed," he said. "Now if you talk to someone else, you might get the obsessed. I'm a big, big fan, borderline obsessed."
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The following decisions were rendered Wednesday and Thursday, March 7-8, 2017, in Carroll County District Court with the Hon. Elizabeth Chandler presiding.
When you finish the math, there are only three dogs at the Carroll County Animal Shelter. Carroll County Animal Shelter Director Lisa Hartman reported to Carroll County Fiscal Court Tuesday that 31 dogs had been received by the shelter, with 16 transferred to rescues, five returned to their owners and seven adopted from the shelter.
Relive the romance and the excitement of one of Walt Disney's most cherished love stories, as the Carroll County High School drama club presents "Beauty and the Beast." Performances will be at 7 p.m. Friday, March 24, and at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, March 25, at the high school cafeteria. Tickets are $3 for students and $5 for adults.
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Trimble County Sheriff Tim Coons has succumbed to his battle with cancer. Following several months of treatment, including frequent trips to Chicago for specialized care, Coons, 58, reached the end of his earthly watch on Wednesday morning, March 8, 2017, while resting at his Trimble County home.
Local businesses are still recovering from the wind storm that blew through Carroll County at approximately 6:30 a.m. March 1, and left substantial damage in its wake.
Mi Viejo, a Mexican restaurant located on Hwy. 227, sustained structural and water damage. The damage closed the restaurant's doors until repairs could be completed.
Carrollton City Council is working to address the problem of how to retain its current police officers and how to attract new ones. In order to achieve these goals, Mayor Robb Adams and council members Mike Gordon, Kevin Craig and Jeffrey Dickow discussed at the budget work session March 21, the possibility of offering raises–either for just the police department or for all city employees. This would be in addition to the up to 4 percent across the board raise already budgeted for fiscal year 2017-2018.
In Public Works Supervisor Ronnie Knight's absence, Carrollton Mayor Robb Adams reported to Carrollton City Council Monday that Public Works has been busy cleaning up tree limbs and other debris following the wind storm March 1. Adams said the city has received numerous calls from residents regarding limbs, and he said Public Works would be around a second time to pick them up. However, residents must cut the tree into chunks that the backhoe can pick up. Residents must dispose of the root ball, he said.


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Dirk Nowitzki hit on a great point in the Mavericks' postgame locker room after they overwhelmed the tired and injury-ravaged Timberwolves 100-77. He was talking about Vince Carter and Elton Brand and the bench that carried the Mavericks much of the night, when he had terrific moment of insight.
"If we really want to make this push and make it interesting, we got to be firing on all cylinders," Nowitzki said. "We need everybody playing well and let it all hang out."
That pretty much nails it. The Mavericks can't have three or four guys playing well. They need everybody. And that's what they got against the Wolves, who had played in Denver Saturday night, were dead tired and have been playing the last couple months without Kevin Love. They also were missing Nikola Pekovic, Andrei Kirilenko and Chase Budinger, among others.
So the Mavericks made them pay. Carter hit four-of-five from 3-point range to lead the Mavericks with 22 points.
"Phenomenal," Nowitzki said. "He's been great all season. His 3-ball looks automatic. He's got the nice high arc on it. Really, everytime he shoots it now, I feel like it's going in."
And it ended up being the kind of by-committee win the Mavericks need.
"Vince started out hot and when he came in, that's when we were able to get our game going offensively," coach Rick Carlisle said of the Mavericks rattling off 14 consecutive points to start the second quarter and open up a lead that never dipped below 10 the rest of the way. "At halftime, we just said we have to keep playing sticky defense and getting rebounds and make it as much of a tempo game as we can without turning it over. And we were able to do that."
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- 3 teaspoons garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1 turkey (14 pounds)
- 1 medium orange
- 1 can (14 ounces) whole-berry cranberry sauce
- 3/4 cup reduced-sodium teriyaki sauce
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1/2 cup orange marmalade
- 2 tablespoons reduced-sodium soy sauce
- 4 sprigs fresh herbs, such as thyme, rosemary, parsley and sage
- 2 medium onions, cut into wedges
- Preheat oven to 325°. Combine garlic powder, salt and pepper. With fingers, carefully loosen skin from turkey breast; spread half of the seasoning mixture under the skin. Sprinkle skin with remaining mixture. Tuck wings under turkey; tie drumsticks together.
- Juice the orange, reserving the rind. In a large bowl, mix cranberry sauce, teriyaki sauce, honey, marmalade, soy sauce and orange juice. Remove 3-1/2 cups mixture for sauce; refrigerate, covered, until serving.
- Rub remaining cranberry mixture under turkey skin. Secure skin to underside of breast with toothpicks. Place herb sprigs and reserved orange rind in turkey cavity.
- Arrange onions in a shallow roasting pan coated with cooking spray. Place turkey over onions. Roast 3 to 3-1/2 hours or until a thermometer inserted in thickest part of thigh reads 170°-175°. (Cover loosely with foil if turkey browns too quickly.)
- Remove turkey from oven; tent with foil. Let stand 20 minutes before carving. Discard herb sprigs and orange rind. Place reserved sauce in a small saucepan; heat through. Serve with turkey. Yield: 14 servings (3-1/2 cups sauce).
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"If you haven't made this turkey you are ruining Thanksgiving!!! This is the most moist turkey EVER!!! I love the sauce and have used it in other recipes!!! I have made this recipe for the past 3 years and my family BEGS for this Turkey and the recipe!!! Thank you so much for this recipe."
"Made this turkey last year and it was the best flavor I have ever had on a turkey. Will definitely make it again this year!"
"This was very good. The turkey was infused with great herb flavor. The sauce was different but tasty, I thought. The sauce would be really good with ham and pork as well. May make the sauce again by itself for other meats. Will be making the turkey again since it is so simple to prepare."
"I used this reciepe for my Thanksgiving turkey and was told by all that the turkey "was the best ever!!" The turkey was juicy with lots of great but sublte flavor. That being said however, the cranberry orange sauce with the teriaki and soy sauce was awful but that might just be a taste preferance. But I would make less sauce next time."
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HOUSTON, United States, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- The rate of A/H1N1-caused deaths in the United States continues to be higher than expected for this time of year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Friday.
"During Week 47 (ending Nov. 28), 7.2 percent of all deaths reported through the 122-Cities Mortality Reporting System were due to pneumonia and influenza (P&I). This percentage was above the epidemic threshold of 7.1 percent for Week 47," the U.S. federal agency said on its website.
"Including Week 47, the proportion of deaths attributed to pneumonia and influenza was above the epidemic threshold for the ninth consecutive week," the CDC added in its latest weekly report.
The latest statistics released by the CDC showed that from Aug.30 to Nov. 28, there were 31,320 laboratory-confirmed influenza-associated hospitalizations and 1,336 laboratory-confirmed influenza-associated deaths, including 189 of young patients under the age of 18 years that have been reported to the federal agency.
But health officials believe that actual death tolls have been much higher than the figures of laboratory-confirmed influenza-associated deaths.
Since it was first identified in April, the A/H1N1 flu has sickened an estimated 22 million Americans, hospitalized about 98,000 and killed 4,000, including 540 under 18, according to predictions released by the CDC last month.
"The estimates are actually much more accurate than the confirmed numbers," CDC director Dr. Thomas R. Frieden said on Friday.
"The number of confirmed deaths is really just a small proportion of the number of total deaths," he explained at a press conference.
On the whole, the CDC said on Friday that the A/H1N1 flu infections appear to be on the wane nationally.
The latest report showed that only 25 U.S. states are now reporting widespread flu activity, down from 32 states in the previous week and from 43 the week before.
The CDC officials said the downward trend of A/H1N1 flu activity does not necessarily mean the worst is over.
Flu activity might pick up in December, January and February, Dr. Frieden warned.
"It's not possible to accurately predict what's going to happen with influenza," he explained, adding that only time will tell what the rest of the season brings.
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August 11, 2011. A sizeable percentage of Americans are overweight or obese nowadays. I'll speak of my personal approach to this problem. A Lazy Man's Diet.
I am a single male, in my late 50's, 5'10" in height. I was very skinny growing up; in my 20's I weighed 130 lbs. In my 20's I was also vegetarian ("sattvic diet", including dairy), and I did not own a car, walked a lot. In my 30's I got a steady job, bought a car, adopted the "standard American diet" (also known as the SAD diet),…
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Gary Farrell Russian River Chardonnay 2007
Chardonnay from Russian River, Sonoma County, California
Winemaker's Notes
The 2007 Russian River Chardonnay has bright aromas of lemon custard, butterscotch and hints of nutmeg, followed by additional notes of baked apple, hazelnut, vanilla cream and tropical fruits. Although youthful and enticing, this wine will benefit from some additional time in the bottle. The wine's medium plus body and acidity will lend itself to many seafood dishes as well as aged Gouda cheeses.
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Wine Enthusiast - "Brilliantly crisp and lushly creamy and honeyed, just a beautiful Chardonnay that offers decadence and sheer deliciousness. Massive in grilled pineapples, green apples, ripe nectarines and butterscotch, brightened with mouthwatering acidity. A joy to drink. "
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A pioneer in the Russian River Valley wine region, winemaker Gary Farrell released his first vintage of Pinot Noir in 1982 to widespread critical acclaim. For 25 years, Gary Farrell Vineyards & Winery has crafted small-lot artisan wines that capture the impeccable balance and stylistic elegance of some of the finest vineyard sites in the region. Noted cool-climate winemaker Susan Reed now presides over the award-winning winemaking program. Susan worked alongside Gary Farrell in the winery for four years, and she continues to craft the winery's new releases in the hallmark style developed by Gary himself, meticulously handcrafting each lot to capture the innate elegance and layered complexity of each individual vineyard site and growing region. View all Gary Farrell Wines About Russian River
View a map of Russian River wineriesThe Russian River Valley is named as such due to its proximity to the Russian River, the river itself named for the Russian fur traders who came down from Alaska in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The Russian River is agricultural land. While there is a focus on wine, beyond the vineyards are many small, family-owned farms cultivating everything from cattle to Christmas trees.
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The proximity of this cool river and the rolling fogs from the Pacific Ocean make the area amenable to cool-climate grapes like Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. In fact, the region is quite known for its full-bodied, yet elegant Pinot Noir, as well as their ripe, yet lean Chardonnays. Within Russian River Valley lie the smaller appellations of Chalk Hill and Green Valley. Chalk Hill is the warmer of the two and furthest from the ocean, while Green Valley is cooler and closer to the water.About California
It's not rare to see a wine's country of origin listed as "California." A country into itself in the wine world, California makes enough varieties and styles to match many European wine countries. It produces a diverse range of wines that span the quality spectrum.The most famous of the California wine regions is Napa Valley, and these wines are certainly outstanding – but it's not as broad and diverse as its larger neighbor, Sonoma County. Down south, Santa Barbara's Santa Maria Valley is well-known for its Rhône blends, as well as cool-climate varieties like Pinot and Chardonnay. The Central Coast, the largest California AVA, has many different microclimates that lead to a wide range of wines with many sub-AVAs.
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I'm not a big white wine drinker, but this Chardonnay really made an impression. Yellow/Green Color; Ripe apple, pear, pineapple, bitter lime on the nose. Nice balance between the crisp acidity and a fair amount of creamy oak. Not too overwhelmingly buttery, which was nice. Opened up beautifully after about an hour. Acidic/Medium Finish. A Superior Chardonnay. Would recommend it.drosen12 - Dallas, TX45/29/2010pretty good as I recall


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After seven years on the air, it'd be tough for any series to find a new beginning. And yet, "Bones" managed that feat quite literally this year with the arrival of Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and Booth's (David Boreanaz) baby. The birth was the highlight of a season shortened due to Deschanel's real-life pregnancy.
Despite the shortage of episodes this year, though, there's plenty of "Bones" yet to go. Not only are four additional episodes that may air during the summer, Fox has already renewed the series for a Season 8.
Says executive producer Hart Hanson, "Because of that early pick-up, we knew we could do an action-packed cliffhanger finale (which airs May 14)." Adds fellow exec producer Stephen Nathan, "This gives us an opportunity to go in a new direction. We didn't want to be complacent. So this year, there was a baby. And next year, we'll pick up Booth and Brennan in situations we never thought we'd put them in." He won't share what those might be, but both producers did offer a little insight into what fans can expect before this season ends.
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Take us inside your approach to the finale, and what you wanted to accomplish.
Nathan: We definitely got to where we wanted to be. We knew going in that we were only doing 13 episodes so we had a clear trajectory to the end of the season, especially with the serial killer storyline we get to. We had more fun with him and will continue to have more next year. It gets more and more complicated.
Hanson: We have a serial killer who is very adept, and strikes close to home. And it was important to find the right director for this one. We needed somebody who was enthusiastic and engaged. And so far, so good, David Boreanaz. We wanted him to direct two episodes this year but because the season was shortened, he only got one.
Nathan: We also had the chance to add a new character in the episode that precedes the finale, who might be a recurring character. Booth gets stuck behind a desk for various reasons, so a new FBI agent played by Danielle Panabaker has to investigate the case. And Reed Diamond will also be a guest star.
Hanson: He's another special agent that booth has to contend with. He comes in when a serial killer case turns out to be bigger than it appears. And if he survives, we'd love to have him back again too.
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Did anything disappoint you about this season? Anything you wish you could have done, but didn't have the time, forethought or resources?
Hanson: We did have to remove some storylines because of the shortened season. There just wasn't as much time as we usually have. Then we got four more episodes but those had to exist outside of the other arcs of the series. Not to worry, though. None of the stories we originally thought of for this season will go to waste. And I suppose we could have done one more undercover episode. People love those, but we ran out of real estate.
Nathan: We also wanted to do some episodes very stylistically. We thought of doing a film noir, but "Fringe" already did that.
What should fans look forward to next season? And if you haven't gotten that far yet…what would your dream season be?
Nathan: Next year, we want to just keep doing episodes that surprise us. We're not complacent, trust me.
Hanson: We wont recycle any stories. We'll keep putting characters in new situations.
Nathan: Of the new characters, we don't know at this point who is going to stick around. The new FBI agent will make an appearance, but we don't know how long she'll be with us.
What were the high points of the season?
Nathan: Having the baby was a huge high point.
Hanson: We were happy with how it went, and I think America was too.
Nathan: Also, the relationship between Booth and Brennan is better than it has ever been. There was always the potential for the show to go wrong with that, but I don't think we did. And at the end of last season, we knew we couldn't do the "will they or won't they?" thing anymore.
Hanson: We talked for five years about what people refer to as the "Moonlighting" curse. What happens when two people you want to see get together actually get together? They're so much in love, but do you even want to have dinner with people like that? When Emily fortuitously told us she was going to have a baby, and we're not a show where you can hid a pregnancy, we didn't have to go through that disgusting middle period (of a relationship) that people think they want to see but they're wrong. Now, this is a couple that has a baby and they share a large swath of their lives together, but not the whole thing. There's not that sexual tension anymore, so we had to work on how it would be different.
Do you have a favorite episode, line, or scene from this season? If so – what?
Hanson: We've been looking for a way to do a "Bones" episode about 9/11, where it's part of a case, and that's in one of the extra four episodes. I don't know when it'll air but I love that one. And there's the episode where on of Brennan's books gets made into a movie, so they come to the Fox lot, where it's being filmed. We redressed all the sets for the Hollywood version of her life.
Nathan: It's the Michael Bay version of her life. It's the next to last episode of the season and a real high point.
Hanson: One of my favorite moments was Brennan coming into this horrible old house he had found and seeing what a great home it could be for the two of them. I loved that moment and I sort of sums them up. If would have been another direction to go entirely if she had said, "No, I don't like this place." It was really, really kind of a nice moment.
Nathan: There is one perverse line we had this year that I love, because I knew it would never appear on television otherwise. It was in the episode where economic cutbacks were happening and they wanted Hudgins to give back some fancy machinery, and he says, "Don't you just hate the neo-classicists?"
The Season Finale of "Bones" airs Monday, May 14 at 8/7c on Fox.