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Padova is a city steeped in creativity and culture. At every turn, you will find works by the great masters such as Michaelangelo, Donatello, Titian, Giotto and Mantegna in it's frescoes, basilicas, piazzas and palazzos. The University of Padova, which was established in 1222 and is one of Europe's oldest, has seen great minds such as Galileo and Copernicus grace its halls. Padova is also the setting of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, and its 13th-century Basilica di Sant'Antonio is the resting place of venerated Saint Anthony of Padua.
Among Padova's picturesque neighborhoods is Villa del Conte, home of world-class artisanal chocolates. With such a historic and creative town as backdrop, it is no wonder that even the chocolate has an interesting story to tell. The story of Villa del Conte chocolates spans three generations. It all started with Nazzareno Cattapan's pioneering spirit and passion for creating only the finest cioccolato, giving birth to what is now Villa del Conte chocolates. Like an heirloom, each recipe of these edible art forms is passed on from father to son. Nazzareno bequeathed the cioccolato legacy to his son Orfeo Celestino, who likewise passed it on to his son. Today, at the helm is the third-generation cioccolato connoisseur, Enrico Cattapan. With 75 years of experience, passionately making traditional fine chocolate in their factory in Padova, they make sure that every piece of Villa del Conte chocolate is of premium quality and contains only the finest ingredients.
Villa del Conte chocolate is made from the highest quality, handpicked cacao beans and shaped by a unique process, passionately perfected throughout the years. With each bite, you will savor a masterpiece of authentic, Italian tradition.
A myriad of chocolate flavors and variety awaits you. My attention was caught by their Praline balls, which are milk or dark chocolate shells enclosing silky, creamy flavors of hazelnut, macadamia, caramel, cacao or coffee. Biting into one will reveal the delicious flavored center. Their Praline sticks on the other hand, had fruit and mint cream filling, with an outer layer of milk or dark chocolate. Truly exquisite.
A foodie and an avowed chocoholic, a visit to storied Padova cannot be complete without a stop at Villa del Conte Chocolates, a truly amazing experience..
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Posted on 2011/12/19, in Interviews, Local, National, News, Upstate Metal and tagged asshole, buffalo, dick, die, every, fight, good, guitar, i, infinity, metal, music, positive, press, push, release, security, shove, statement, time, unicorn. Bookmark the permalink. 1 Comment.
i could see if it was ffdp….but they are just etid. doesnt make it ok either way.

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Mansun were an English indie band formed in Chester in 1995. The band comprised vocalist/rhythm guitarist Paul Draper, bassist Stove King, lead guitarist/backing vocalist Dominic Chad, and drummer Andie Rathbone. They came to prominence in the mid-nineties British indie/ guitar-rock resurgence, despite pursuing their own path away from any of the emerging scenes.
Mansun disbanded in May 2003. This was a culmination of band tensions which had seen one of the original members leave (Stove King). Disappointed by the poor reception of their 3rd album, the band folded with little fanfare of their passing.
Due to pressure from their fans, EMI released the posthumous "4th album", Kleptomania, which was a three CD set containing rough recordings of tracks slated to be on the unfinished 4th album, b-sides and rarities... today's song was Mansun's last single, a great example of their magnificent music. Enjoy!
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Have you listened to it?, PLEASE MAKE A COMMENT; let us know if SLIPPING AWAY by Mansun is a Truly Awesome Song 4 U!


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Definition of Whistleblower
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The Whistleblower's role is reporting party, not as an investigator. Although the Whistleblower is not expected to prove the truth of allegation, he/she shall sufficiently, demonstrate the grounds of concern.
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Make up your minds, girls. I'm running for POTUS? No sweat. I win. Shittiest job on Earth. Ask Michelle Obama. 10 second commercials--because your brains are burnt-out, not mine.
The running gag is, the car, van, RV, bus won't start, and...
When lame duck Obama's limo pulls-up, now I know who is opening the hood.
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Karen E. Quinones Miller's Loves, Hates, Rants & Raves... Letting It All Hang Out!
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Acid Attack Self-Inflicted? (Updated 9/17)
Police are investigating whether a 28-year-old Washington state woman splashed acid on her own face in an attempt to get intention!
Bethany Storro had told police that an unknown woman walked up to her on a city street and said, "Hey, pretty girl, do you want to drink this?" and then threw a cup of acid in her face.
Storro described the woman as being "black with a slicked-back ponytail," and a police subsequently released a composite sketch of the alleged attacker based on her description.
"It was the most painful thing ever," Storro told the AP. "My heart stopped. It ripped through my clothing the instant it touched my shirt; I could feel it burning through my second layer of skin."
But now there are some who are questioning her account. For one, people say, Storro is deaf. How could she have heard what the woman said?
Also, Storro's eyes were not splashed because she was wearing sunglasses. But, some are asking, why was she wearing sunglasses when the alleged attack took place after sunset.
And a group of homeless people, said that there was no one in the vicinity when Storro fell to the ground writhing, and screaming that she's been attacked.
Storro was supposed to appear on Oprah, but canceled the appearance after doubts were raised about the attack.
Police will be holding a press conference at 4 p.m. PST (7 p.m. EST) to talk about the case.
UPDATE: Police officials reveal in a late Thursday afternoon press conference that Bethany Storro has admitted that she lied, and that she acid attack was self-inflicted.
Storro had received an outpouring of both sympathy and money after leading the police -- and the nation -- that a black woman with a slicked-back ponytail walked up to her in the street and threw a cup of acid in her face. Storro said she'd never seen the woman before, but told police that the woman had "this weirdness about her," and said she thought the woman might have felt jealousy or rage for some reason.
"It was the most painful thing ever," she said from her hospital bed. "My heart stopped. It ripped through my clothing the instant it touched my shirt; I could feel it burning through my second layer of skin."
In a press conference about a week after being released from the hospital, Storro said she wanted her assailant found, but she planned to forgive her so that she herself could move on.
Storro's parents released a statement Friday morning, saying that they did not know why their daughter would manufacture such a hoax, and apologized to the nation for her behavior.
They also said all the monetary donations sent to Storro would be returned.
Posted by Karen E. Quinones Miller at 6:43 PM
Labels: acid attack, acid hoax, bethany storro
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She needs a psych evaluation! There should be a charge against people who blame their crimes on AA people. That in itself is a hate crime.
- Fri Sep 17, 10:18:00 PM EDT
Why is it that these people do this to themselves and blame Black people? I don't see the sense of it. Do they want innocent Blacks to be incarcerated for something that they didn't do if it came to that?? This isn't a game.
- Sat Sep 18, 07:50:00 PM EDT
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Spokesperson Video Shoot
Today we have a spokesperson video shoot for a CD-ROM project. It is nice to get back into production after a few weeks of post. The last video shoot we had was for DDA CMT and that seems like it was ages ago. This shoot shouldn't take too long since it is just 4 one page scripts with no complicated screen actions. Although the studio will have to be rearranged a bit since I have been working with the light tent to video tape the rotating ring videos. We will be working with a member of our actor's network named Nancy, who is quite talented. She has done a spokesperson video with us before and blazed right through it. I had better finish setting up, they will be here soon!


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NO-bama, part V
Posted by Godefroi on February 5, 2008
Radical Muslims for Obama
By Joe Kaufman
FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, February 05, 2008
With its similarity to popular online sites such as Facebook and MySpace and its links to a network of grassroots blogs, Barack Obama's campaign website has been hailed as a testament to the candidate's transformative politics. But at least part of the senator's online outreach, "Muslim Americans for Obama '08," proposes installing Muslim prayer areas in public places and giving Muslims time off for prayer and has denounced Obama's colleagues in the U.S. Senate who happen to be Jewish. This segment of Obama's online outreach also has ties to unindicted co-conspirators in terror trials and has recruited Obama supporters from among the ranks of fundamentalist Muslim extremists.<
span>On the blog, which is attached to BarackObama.com, viewers can read about "the Senate pro-Israeli zionist hawk Joe Lieberman," as well as criticism aimed at Obama himself for getting too cozy with the Israeli lobby. As stated on the blog, that last part was derived from information found on Electronic Intifada (EI), a terror apologist website based in Chicago, Illinois, Obama's hometown. According to the site's co-founder, Ali Abunimah, Senator Obama once told him, regarding Abunimah's anti-American and anti-Israel writings, to "Keep up the good work!"
While the Muslim Americans for Obama '08 blog is hosted by Obama's website, it is actually part of another site that goes by the same name, located at muslimsforobama08.com. The registered agent for the site is Zakiyah Omar, a women's costume designer from Jacksonville, Florida. Omar has been involved in the Obama campaign since December 2006 (She has had the site since February '07). She too has her own blog hosted by the official Obama website.
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We can't see the entirety of this man's license plate (TCH something), but after reading this article, we're confident that it must be douche-y.
(Please note that the article is from KFI-AM, the local firebrand conservative shock-talk-radio station, which is far from free of douchebaggery itself. Warning: Facts may be left out for maximum shock value.)


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Patch 6.2.3 Hotfixes: Guild Challenge Rewards Updates,
by Magistrate - 3 years ago show comments
Today's hotfixes reflect changes to Guild Challenges–guilds will no longer be awarded weekly gold for completing previous expansion dungeons, with a gold award increase of around 50% to compensate.
For the complete 6.2.3 hotfix list, see the official blog post.
Originally Posted by The post author (Official Post)
December 15
- Guild Challenge completion credit for guild groups in dungeons and raids are now only awarded when completing current-expansion content.
- To offset this change, Guild Challenge completion credit no longer requires Dungeon Finder to queue for the dungeon. This means guild groups can now complete Mythic dungeons for Guild Challenge credit. Additionally, the gold awarded for all Guild Challenges has been increased by roughly 50%.
- A discussion for these changes is available in the forum thread: Guild Challenge System Changes.
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Being a keen guitar player and someone who has dabbled in making guitars for quite a while, the need to build my very first guitar pickup was overwhelming. For those who don't know, guitar pickups are to a guitar exactly what a mic would be to a vocalist. In other words, it's a method of enabling the guitar to be electronically amplified.
I collated every piece of information I could from the web and various books, and with my background in customising guitars I was all set to take on the job. As my guitar is a Les Paul model I'll be building a humbucker type pickup in contrast to the single coil pickups found on most Fender guitars.
The very first thing I had to undertake was to come up with all the guitar pickup parts required for the building process. Luckily a British pickup provider offered for sale every part I required for my project. Wonderful! The second thing I had to do was to construct a simple pickup winding machine. Basically whatever electronically spins and will allow control of the speed could be used at the centre of your pickup winder. A basic electric motor or your old electric powered drill will be sufficient with some customisation. I resolved to go for the drill option which I secured in a wooden structure. It's also vital that you add some form of digital or mechanical counter to add up the revolutions as the number of turns is important to the output of the completed pickup. I used a simple reed switch mounted on a digital counter which functioned beautifully.
In the centre of the pickup are two plastic bobbins that will handle 5000 turns each of 42 AWG wire. This bobbin wire is as fine as a human hair and so takes practice to handle and spin. Once the bobbins are spun they require thin jump leads to be soldered to the beginning and end of each coil. One of the bobbins has 6 metal slugs pressed inside the holes and the other has 6 pole screws added. The finished bobbins are then mounted on a steel baseplate and soldered just where necessary. There is an Alnico 5 magnet inserted between the bobbins and the base in addition to a maple spacer and keeper bar.
Once everything is screwed and soldered in position it was time to try my creation, and to my amazement, I had an excellent sounding pickup.
I've clearly whizzed through the progression and yes, I did make a couple of mistakes that required correction, but I must say how satisfying it was. Now I'm completely ready for my next effort.


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Bobbi Walker – "Come Back Lover (Air Zaïre Edit)"
Nothing hits the spot quite like disco can. Air Zaïre seems to be on that same wavelength with this new edit. He puts his silky, sunset disco touch on Bobbi Walker's classic 1982 track "Come Back Lover, Come Back." A bit of funk aimed directly for the hips and copious amounts of shimmering disco progressions for you to enjoy all summer long. It's up for grabs for free so hop on it folks!


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Hi everyone,
Well, due to a huge Historical Society meeting at the Garden City Historical Society, I had to miss Saturdays volunteer session. I understand that work continued on the M1 simulator program and it is fully integrated now.
But as for yesterday, Brooke took care of finishing up the installation of the door sweeps and then sanded down the entry way into #50 and laid a coat of polyurethane down on the entire floor.
I had set up Mike and Paul to both needle scale the front of #397 dinky.
by the end of the day, it was complete and primed.
We will continue to do 2 parts at a time as manpower can handle. If we can get 2 people a session, I feel #397 can be completed by the end of fall. Yes, that's all body work. paint stripping and painting.
The biggest part of the session for me was to remove some of the rotten concrete on the floor of the Ping Pong coach. I broke up an area from the rear door going inside just to the edge of the bathroom door frame.
Most of the floor is a red color and that is just a skim coat of self leveling concrete that covers the original concrete. The actual flooring in the original floor was 9 by 9 composition tile over concrete. The concrete was poured on top of corrugated steel. This is the same way that most roads and bridges are put together, except, they use stainless steel corrugated panels.
Due to the corrosion of the concrete on the plain corrugated steel throughout the years, the floor is coming apart and will need to be completely taken off the car. What Leon and I did was to mix up some self leveling concrete and pour this onto the solid concrete on top of the corrugated steel.
We will need to pour a 2nd level next time to build up the floor so it will not be a tripping hazard.
The link below is to the picture I took.
ping pong floor
until next time-----
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Just in case y'all thought I was.
No, I'm not dead. BUT I went on vacation for 1.5 weeks, then came back to a busy schedule. I came back on September 5 (0r 6, or 9....). And it's been crazy ever since. Monday: School, breathing, errands. Tuesday: School, lunch, physical science 12:45-3:00, then rush to Ballet, which lasts until 4:30. Then Nan, my sissy, has a tutoring job (Yays!) that lasts from 5-6 PM. Wednesdays are always different. Every other week is piano and a science test, every third week is art, plus youth group and regular school. Thursdays, we basically eat breakfast, then we go to a friend's house. There, Nan takes chemistry and literature with 4 (or is it 5?) other girls, while I do writing with a friend, and do math. We eat lunch there, then go to drama, which lasts till 3. Sundays are out, too. So you can see, blogging has been put on the back burner.
ANYWAYS. I shall try to make a bigger effort toward blogging more frequently, before my follows (all four of them) start picking out virtual gravestones.
Most sincerely and with best wishes,
Tee hee.
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text: I have one of the Stewart PA-1000 amps, one of the single space lightweight units. While I had read about the shutdown problems, I had never had a problem until this weekends gig. I run the amp bridged, on an 8 ohm load with my 410xlt. EQ set flat, gain set as reccomended, limited engaged with a slight bit of compression to even out the spikes on it, it died on me for about 30 seconds or so right in the middle of a song. The amp was not hot at all, I leave two spaces above, and one below open in my rack, and it was about 60 degrees out saturday night when it happend. I was pushing the amp pretty hard to keep up (75%, cab was farting a little) due to being an outdoor gig. I did although figure with the touch of compression, limited engaged on the pre, and the light 8 ohm load, I would be okay. Is there any way to prevent this? Sometimes you HAVE to push it a little more than you like in order to be heard. Also, the amp is 700w @ 8 ohms bridged.


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Movie: "Green Ice", Actress: Anne Archer, Rating: 4 out of 5
Series: "Days Of Our Lives", Episode ???, Actress: Stephanie Cameron, Rating: 4 out of 5
Movie: "Kong Island", Actress: Ursula Davis, Rating: 2 out of 5
Movie: "Solomon And Sheba", Actress: Gina Lollobrigida, Rating: 3 out of 5
Series: "Twin Peaks", Episode: "Demons", Actress: Sherilyn Fenn, Rating: 3 out of 5
Movie: "Bulldog Drummond", Actress: Anita Louise, Rating: 2 out of 5
Movie: Firewalker, Actress: Melody Anderson, Rating: 4 out of 5 (two scenes at least)


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I've been drinking soy milk instead of cow's milk for several months now. I switched because it's healthier, it lasts longer so I don't drink curdled milk as much by accident, and I thought the estrogen would help me curb excess hair. I have a strong hair gene and sometimes the hairs make people uncomfortable.
I've lost 13 pounds, I'm starting to get hips, and my right boob got bigger. Hopefully the left one will catch up before I look ridiculous. I almost look like a teenager. I certainly dress like one! This look is affected by my clothes, which are mostly from highschool.
I've also taken to adding St. John's Wart to iced tea to curb my suicidal tendencies. It's been working pretty well. Commercials don't upset me and I don't get broken hearts from, say, Ghost Whisperer or Animal Cops, anymore.
Used consistemtly, it stabilizes my mood, and I haven't curled into a ball for two weeks, except for Friday, when three awful things happenned and my life fell into shambles. But I'm okay now. You can stop worrying about me, but I'd still like you to buy me drinks and I'd still enjoy your pity.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Sometimes I think I'm a Doctor
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In the meantime, I'll tell you what it's like to be running at 37+ weeks..
Great!! The only issue I am having is my poor, tiny paws feel the immense weight gain after about 10 minutes and need a short break before I can resume.
I am desperate not to give birth early because of work stuff at Joe, so yesterday, I asked my Dr. if running would possible start labor, and he said no! Phew! My dream is to be running the day before I go into labor at 40 weeks. Except I hear that in these last couple of weeks the hips start to loosen. I felt that happen today, and almost went down just standing!
Anyway, I will be out there Saturday for what could be the last Team Joe run..come run with me one last time!


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NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is close to getting a five-year contract extension to remain in his position atop the league, according to multiple reports.
According to the Sports Business Journal, Goodell will earn close to what he is during his current contract, which is set to end in 2019. Goodell has presided over the NFL since 2006 since he took over for Paul Tagliabue. The extension would keep him on as commissioner until 2024.
During his first 10 years as commissioner, Goodell earned $212.5 million. However, the league no longer has to report his salary since it lost its non-profit status in 2015.
Goodell, who has been in the league in some capacity since 1982, will at the head of the NFL at the current CBA expires in 2020. DeMaurice Smith, the Executive Director of the NFLPA told Sports Illustrated that lockout is "almost a virtual certainty" in 2021.


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Kaspersky is one of the best antivirus available. Though it's resource hungry if you've got one installed in your system(windows) forget about getting caught by those nasty viruses and worms. But it's not free. You can have a trial version free for 1 month but after the trial expires, you can do nothing with it. Although you can reinstall any product of Kaspersky, it'll say you've passed your trial period and hence you're out of option.
Today I'm going to share something with you that will make your trial version of Kaspersky to last forever.
Firstly, make a habit of saving those Kaspersky updates locally in your PC as well. If you're regular user of Kaspersky you'll know how to, else pop in and I'll guide you guys.
Now in this tip we'll fool Kaspersky by removing the entries of trial version. To do this just remove the following entry from the registry.
Once you've deleted the entry, reinstall Kaspersky, you'll be able to activate the trial version once again. And you can try the same method N number of times.
So, have Kaspersky forever…
But it doesn't cost much to get a license too. So, why not buy a license totally. The choice is yours.


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Monday, April 21, 2008
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
And we did! We had a ball at our preacher's 80's themed birthday Saturday night. How funny to see an Atari as a table centerpiece. But not as funny as the giant Cell phone my girl friend had dangling from her arm... that was a real cell phone from back in the day. Funny... Funny. So checkout the hairdo. That took some work. And I converted one of my hubby's t-shirts into a shirt that said SAVE FERRIS from the best movie of that period... o.k. accept the John Hughes films, and ET... OK there were a lot of good ones. And then I topped it off by puffing it out around the waist as any good mall rat would have done.
My hair is still crunchy!!!!!!!!! Good by White Rain Hairspray.
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- Bethany Hissong said...
Thanks for making me smile today!! ... for your nice note earlier and this post brings back lots of good memories!!! Though you don't exactly have mall bangs ... you look too pretty! My husband's favorite movie is Ferris Bueller's Day Off, so I had to laugh at the t-shirt you wore!!! It just sounds like a lot of fun. I'll have to remember that for my husband's 40th in a couple years!! I'm going to the doctor this afternoon and seeing if there is something physically wrong and I also talked to my sisters and one of my cousins and they all have the same stuff going on as me. It is good to talk about it because I don't feel so alone in dealing with it. Thanks for being such a great friend! I felt that hugely today!
- April 21, 2008 at 11:45 AM
- Willow said...
Perms, baggy shirts...disco. How can we live without them?!
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(Makes 24 cookies)
5 oz. pignoli nuts
1 (8-oz.) can almond paste (use canned only)
2/3 cup sugar
2 large egg whites
1 tsp. almond extract
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line cookie sheet with parchment paper. Place nuts in a shallow dish.
In a medium-sized bowl, beat almond paste, sugar, egg whites, and extract until smooth. With slightly wet hands, form dough into 1-inch balls using a heaping teaspoon for each cookie. Press balls into nuts, flattening only slightly and coating one side. Place 1 inch apart on prepared cookie sheet.
Bake 22-25 minutes, until golden brown. Cool completely on cookie sheet on rack.Store, tightly covered, up to 2 weeks. Freeze any leftover cookies.


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This tank boasts an allover sequin applique, a racer-back, and chiffon trim at the neckline, armholes, and back.
"The perfect thing to wear under a tough leather jacket or a pretty feminine blazer, these tanks are incredibly versatile."
Textures and backgrounds for your next project, and articles about visual patterns in nature, arts and science, with patterns on clothing, porcelain, rugs, wallpaper, stationary and gifts.


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Small 9.5 by 2 Inch Vintage Wooden Cribbage Board
Small vintage wooden cribbage board, 9.5 inches by 1.875 inches, with 4 wooden pegs. This diminutive cribbage board has an elongated checkerboard design down the center. It is in good condition, sturdy and solid. The finish shows some wear and staining, and the original metal slide has been replaced by a hand-cut sheet metal slide. Please refer to the 4 photographs for appearance and condition. Shipping and handling will be $5.00.
Windwalker Antiques and Fine Arts
Charlotte, Michigan
Dealer accepts: PayPal, Money Order
Shipping: $5.00


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A bill has been introduced in Florida to make taking any unauthorized photograph of a farm a first degree felony. Felonies in the first degree are the most serious class of crime. Armed robbery, burglary with assault, and kidnapping are examples of a first degree felony. In Florida, a first degree felony is punished by up to 30 years in prison.
Soon, doing this
Certain to suffer would be places like Lady Hawk Farm which makes its living from vacationing tourists. One ornery neighbor could send their entire clientèle to the slammer for a quarter century. Hat tip to DailyKos.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Use a Camera, Go to Prison
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Oh how things can change in an hour.
I snuck out of the house while everyone was sleeping for a wonderful, peaceful trail run through Mills Canyon. I did an hour loop there and back to my house. Granted, it was a little longer than I had planned on but I thought things would be well taken care of by the time that I got back....
I get in the house and the kids aren't dressed yet and my husband is barfing in the toilet, suffering from a migraine. Egads. And then the morning went crazy.
I had to rush to get the girls dressed, and I ended up being very short tempered with them, yelling and screaming (which I feel terrible about now). Then I took a shower quickly and got dressed fast. I ended up running out the door with wet, unstyled hair, no make-up and a screaming four-year-old that was in full tantrum mode. Not very Zen.
Of course we were a half-hour late for everything. And now I feel super guilty for being such a b*tch and not keeping my Zen through the situation.
I'm going to try to sneak outta work a little early and get something fun for them at Target to try and make up for it. I don't know why, but lately when I'm really pressed against the wall with things I just blow up. It just all comes back to me about how I really wish I didn't have to go to this job and how I wish I could work from home and take care of things there. I hate living in chaos and creating chaos.
It will be a hot evening tonight. I'll try and make it up to the girls (although I know that they've probably forgotten all about it by now). We'll play outside in the yard until later and just RELAX for once.
IV drip for the tequilla, please.
Friday, May 16, 2008
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Two dead Neeks. He couldn't honestly say that he cared, but he couldn't get the fact that no slightest trace of either had been found. The thought nagged at him as he donned a fresh uniform. Things just weren't adding up—the freak explosion, and the missing Neek bodies.
He couldn't make sense of it, and what he couldn't make sense of, he attributed to Malik Blayne. And whereas fifty dead Neeks, much less two, matter nothing at all to him, Malik Blayne was something else entirely.
But if Blayne was responsible for the sewage plant explosion, what he was up to and why was a mystery to Eversyn.
He glanced to his clock on his wall. Oh eight thirty. Perhaps it wasn't too late to have dinner with Rudof. Yes, an excellent idea. He could eat elegant food, discuss his most recent problem…and secretly marvel at the man who was rich enough to eat bov-steak at every meal if he wished.
With a newfound smile on his face, Eversyn left his apartment, and headed for the Starview Lounge.


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Our assignment for this week was to watch two videos, one about a PLE (also known as a PLN) and one giving you two questions to ask yourself about your life.
The little girl who discussed her PLE was very informative. I loved how she showed us her home page. I think she is very responsible. I love how she told us that even though her school gives her the freedom to go onto the social networking sites she feels it makes her more responsible that she do her classwork. I feel that a PLE or PLN can be very useful and this video proves it. If she did not have her PLE then she would not have all the wonderful websites or she would forget which websites did what.
My favorite video was the second one. This is because it reflects where I am in my life right now. I adore that all I have to do is choose a sentence to reflect my life. I know if I were to begin to live my life by this sentence "I am going to be a great teacher!" I will become the teacher I need to be. I will have the motivation to be better than I was yesterday and to continue to overcome the obstacles that stand in my way.
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text: October 24th is Zambian Independence Day, and this year marks 51 years of freedom for Zambia. The future is a little clouded right now with the hard economic situation and the upcoming election, but we continue to pray for our country and to be thankful that the door of the gospel is still very much open. To celebrate this national holiday, we have a flag raising ceremony in the morning, then a swimming gala down at the pool, and finally a bonfire at night. I wasn't able to take any pictures of the swimming gala since I was busy getting excited children to their races on time, but here are a few pictures from the day and the bonfire which had to be held on Sunday night because of rain.


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I once thought I was in love with this intelligent, attractive, perfect-but-not-quite, guy.
He said and did all the right things. Kinda.
He would take off work early, just to beat you home. He'd stop by the florist's to get you flowers . . . but they would be something like carnations. He'd put one of your favorite, slow, calming CDs on . . . but just a little too loud. He'd light dozens of candles in the tub, on the sink, in the bedroom . . . but they would be a scent that makes you sick; like vanilla. He'd wait until five minutes before you were set to be home and run you a deep, relaxing bubble bath . . . but somehow the water was always cold. He'd cook you your favorite meal . . . but the best parts always ended up burning. He would make love to you passionately . . . but always stop just before you climaxed. He would rise quietly and ready himself for work .. . but then he'd slam the door.
If it was truly the thought that counts, this was your man. But after a while, the thought grows old and it's the actions that matter.
I spent our last night at his place. I put on his favorite CD, but just a little too softly to hear. I cooked his favorite dinner, but burned his favorite dessert. I took a long, steamy shower, but made sure to use all the hot water. I teased him passionately, then fell asleep before he made it to bed. I silently readied myself and packed my bags, but I made sure the taxi knew to honk loudly when it reached the house. I flew to my convention and stayed there for a week, but I never took his calls.
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Something that hasn't happened in my classroom in a few weeks happened today. I was able to talk books with my students! I knew I was missing this valuable time, but didn't realize just how much I was missing it! The last few weeks have been hectic. Going to the NCTE convention, the short Thanksgiving week, administrating reading assessments and district writing prompts, and completing report cards meant something had to be sacrificed. Unfortunately, it was talking about books with my students. They had time to read, but since I only see each group for a 90 minute block of time, I haven't been able to meet with them.With the district mandates finally completed, I was so excited driving to school today. I couldn't wait to be able to reconnect with my students as readers. After reluctantly finishing other work, we transitioned into reading. The students knew I was excited to be meeting with them again and quickly settled in around the classroom, eager to discuss their books with me. Time seemed to fly by as I met with reader after reader. Over the next forty five minutes, I reconnected with old characters, was introduced to new books, challenged my reader's thinking, left some of them wondering about upcoming events in their book, introduced some to new books, etc. There were no charts to fill out, data to collect, papers to assess, or time restrictions (except for lunch, of course!)! It was just my students and me, our notebooks, and genuine talk.
With all of the mandates and data collection, the information I received today by simply talking to my readers about their books is the most important data I could ever receive. I also realized that I wasn't the only one who was missing this treasured time. So were my students. As we were packing up, one of my students told me they planned on finishing their book tonight and that she couldn't wait to talk to me about it tomorrow. "Neither can I!" I thought!


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wish i could pull off feathers in my outfits. flowers will have to do =]
i just dont understand these types of outfits....please explain
i literally laughed out loud when i saw this
three great actors.
grew up with tron. hopefully going to the midnight showing of the new one with my mom this december!
i just thought this girl was adorable


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Grayia spinosa, a dicot, is a shrub that is native to California.
Recognized as current in TJM2 + PLANTS + JM93
Alpine, Inyo, Kern, Lassen, Los Angeles, Mono, Modoc, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Siskiyou, Tulare, Tuolumne
See a detailed Distribution Grid of this plant in Calfornia.
Links: USDA Plants Profile | Jepson Herbarium
Website references on Google
Bloom Months(Blooming months in blue)


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I know kids say the darnedest things. Everyone's got their own stories of funny / endearing / embarrassing things their kids have said. But what won't kids ask? I'm sure some neighbor kids must think I fell off a turnip truck recently as they send my youngers home asking for some of the darnedest things. Certainly kids ask for things that they don't understand the value of. Ever had your kid ask you for a laptop? a gaming system? a cell phone? Or every doggone thing they see in Walmart from sugar cereal to new bikes to the crap they sell in the checkout? Yeah, me neither. *cough* Those are kind of expected, though. But lately, I've had some pretty interesting requests.
Mom, can I have a bucket of water to take to the park? (Uh, it's 45 degrees outside and you want to make mud (my arch enemy) so no, probably not.)
Mom, can I have a shovel? (With which you can chop off a toe, whack someone in the head requiring stitches or dig a hole in my preciously tended and failing grass? Sorry. Not today.)
This one... this was the doosy.
Dad, can I have your saw?


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Being a working parent is like swimming against the current with a whopping great hippopotamus strapped around your neck. Physically, emotionally and financially you will constantly be treading water, trying to keep your head up long enough for a breather.
We've tried a number of ways to make it work over the last three years and we still haven't cracked it.
It's less 'just keep swimming, just keep swimming'
And more 'don't fucking drown yourself, or your children'
Do that in the Dori voice.
I first tried it working part time, straight back from maternity leave. The money I earnt working three full days a week would have just covered three full days of nursery fees. In fact, each month I would have actually come away with a profit of around £25.
I shit you not.
Luckily for us though, we have help from Grandparents and so I only had to give up one third of my earnings each month on child care fees.
Lord only knows where we would be without the Grand-parentals, up shits creek without a paddle no doubt. Most people don't have this extra help and there is no way we would have survived without it.
Any-who a third of your wage on child care doesn't sound too bad does it? But when you've already reduced your hours to part time, the money you are actually making is a pittance. I was now earning 3/5 less than what I had been pre-baby. I had been bringing home around £1200 and now it was around the £500 mark. Of course, my husband was still earning his full time wage but it became increasingly more difficult to make ends meet. Whenever something unexpected happened, like a failed MOT or a busted washing machine, we had no where to go. There just wasn't any spare cash, for emergencies or holidays or days out. Nothing.
Of course, you can get by without a holiday or a trip to the zoo. It sucks no doubt, but life goes on. However its pretty fucking difficult trying to get by without an exhaust pipe or a front windscreen.
Trust us, we know.
I next tried it working full time, which improved our financial situation slightly. But inevitably, the more I worked – the more we had to pay out in childcare. And the more commuting and ferrying around we had to do. At this point I'd say that around half of my after-tax wage each month went straight to child care costs. Again, had we not had the two days a week help from Grandparents, my money making efforts would have been entirely futile. It was incredibly deflating to work the first half of a month and have nothing in your pocket to show for it.
It is only now that our son has reached three years old and we receive the 15 hours free childcare, that we have found some kind of balance. And in a strange turn of events, it is actually more financially viable for me to work part time than it would be for me to have full time hours. We're now paying around £100 a month in child care fees – whereas previously it has been as much as £600.
In a bid to help us working parents, the fountain of knowledge and relate-ability that is our Government are soon introducing the 30 free hours scheme. This wont apply for us because Finley starts school in September. However it sounds like a great idea, at least on the surface…right?
It is indeed more free childcare but it aint-actually-all-that when you read the small print.
First off, you aren't getting 30 free hours each week, you're only getting it for 38 of them. So if you do the math – that's actually 22 hours for each week of the year, not 30.
I believe that's what people tend to call a 'poetic licence'. Or we could call it a 'bull-shit fabrication' , if you prefer.
Secondly, it's still only for kids aged between 3 and 4 – so it's not helping anyone for at least the first three years of their child's life.
And lastly, there are valid concerns that placements will start charging for 'extras', such as meals and nappies to supplement their profits. So you could end up paying for a load of stuff out of your own pocket anyway.
In my opinion, giving more free child care is just a bottle stopper way of fobbing people off and not actually dealing with the real issue.
Story of our lives right?
The real issue, is our attitude towards working parents and our crap viewpoint on flexible working.
In my experience and from conversations I have had with friends who are also parents – it is impossible for two parents, to work full time hours in everyday office jobs without some level of help and flexibility from their employers.
And by impossible, I don't mean physically. Of course physically it can be done, like two rabid, headless chickens running around with hoover extensions up their bums (I know we did it for 18 months). But impossible in the sense, for them to live balanced lives and give their jobs and children the attention and enthusiasm they deserve.
Times are a changing folks, we need to find out what actually works.


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Overview: Antique 24-carat gold earrings are missing from a guest's room.
Crime Scene: Hotel room.
The suspects: Front desk clerk, the housekeeper and the handyman.
Clues: Room 181 still had the maid service card dangling from the knob when the detective arrived. There was an unmade bed, waste basket full of paper, and wet towels in the bathroom to indicate the maid had not been in there yet. The victim claimed she had worn her earrings the night before to an event and had left them on the bureau before she retired and they were still there in the morning. The victim rose at 8:00 AM, made tea in her room and turned on the weather channel. She tried to do some work at the desk but the lamp did not work. The victim took a shower, hung the maid sign on the door, and went downstairs for breakfast. She was gone for about an hour. When she returned to her room, the earrings were gone. The handyman stated he had been tied up on another floor and hadn't had a chance to fix the lamp yet. The housekeeper maintained that she hadn't been in room 181 to clean yet as she arrived late for work and was behind in her duties .
Detective Kay noted that the two people who had door keys alleged to have not entered the room to do their job. While the detective mulled over the case, she turned on the TV in the room via the remote and watched a hockey game in progress. This act gave her the information she needed to solve this crime.
Red Herrings: The desk clerk told the detective there were no signs of a break-in even though he was not asked. The words 'clean getaway' in the title send the message that it was the maid. Upon hearing there had been a theft, the desk clerk paled and called the police. Yet later he stated that the victim must be mistaken and that the hotel has a flawless reputation. The desk clerk surely has access to the master key that opens every room on the property.
Solution: The handyman did it. He had gone to the room to fix the lamp, had turned on the sports channel to check the score for his favorite team, saw the earrings, stole them, then left without fixing the lamp so he could say he had never been in the room.
My two cents: I was not able to figure out how a hockey game on the TV fit it. My weather channel has sports and news clips in between the weather bits, so I didn't think anyone had changed the channel. Perhaps it should have read the 24-hour all weather channel. And the hockey game didn't lead me to the handyman. That part was a bit stereotyped. The maid couldn't be a big hockey fan? My daughter is.
All in all this was a good story. Worthy of WW. It read well, was consistent and was not easy to solve.
NOTE: The author of this story advised me that WW changed a lot of her details, including the title and the clue that solved the crime. This happens all the time with WW. "My Two Cents" critiques the story as WW presented it.


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I am designing and installing the electrical system for a commercial bakery. I am running a 175 amp feed to an oven. The electrical panel is within sight of the equipment. I installed EMT to the location and am proposing to transition to liquid-tight flexible metal conduit. However, the customer would like the ability to pull the oven away from the wall for cleaning...We are installing 2" liquidtight so are limited to 4' of unsupported length. Would a cord wired to splice box with a seven foot unsupported loop (other than a cord grip connector) be acceptable?
Also, if I did go with the liquidtight, would a junction box be required in between the LFMC and EMT. Or will a rigid coupling "from-to" be an acceptable means. Thank you.


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Sony Xperia Z Ultra Price Announced: Just this morning, Sony Vietnam has quietly announced the official price for big screen phones Xperia Z Ultra.
Thereby the product is priced at 17,990,000 not much different than the predicted value.
But rather than frantic times announced Xperia Z this round of Sony just announced the order at some dealers such as Mai Nguyen, Nguyen Kim, Telecommunication A.
Besides the familiar Sony Center and the gift depending on where customers booking. Gifts can include a rechargeable battery backup CPF1LS 3500 mAh capacity, machine or piece of leather tiles where applicable depending on sales.
Total gifts worth an estimated 2.4 million. Users have to order at the dealer right from today (26/07) the expected delivery time is 08/08/2013.
In Mai Nguyen said that they will deliver on 08.06.2013 on the occasion of the opening of the new showroom at 144 Vo Thi Sau Street, District 3, HCMC.
For accessories were introduced with the Sony Xperia Z Ultra,Sony Vietnam said the products will appear after Z Ultra Xperia distributed.
If only its own product line phone Sony Xperia Z Ultra broke the record for the highest price from the genuine product ever distributed in Vietnam.


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Well, i ordered my ventilated bee suit from Golden Bee out of LA. http://www.goldenbeeproducts.com/
A friend of mine bought one for Christmas and brought it to the Powhatan meeting last week. I must say all my concerns about the hood were gone. It is an odd shape much like a cylinder, but compared to the "other" brand which uses the "floppy" type of hood that my cheap back-up jacket has, i am happy. I hate a hood that flops around...
Golden Bee's hood uses a "sweat band" on the inside to hold the hood stable and in place. It's A Ok in my book.
I look forward to spending this August etc in a pair of shorts and short sleeve shirt NOT sweating to death in my new ventilated suit!
Its well worth the money.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Ventilated Bee Suits
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I'm a newbee at this, and will be getting my hives in April. I bought Golden Bee suit too. Everyone else who has posted about the suits has said they've never been stung through the mesh. What is your experience with it?ReplyDelete
Nice Bee suit. Golden Bee is a good reputed brand. I recommend them. I also like to use products of Pest Mall. This two firms are really good for pest controlling products.ReplyDelete
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"Why, certainly, officer..."
Although it is temporarily out of stock at Entertainmentearth.com, you too can secure your very own official set of SHIELD credentials. They come in a handsome embossed leather wallet and include the metal badge and two ID cards: one for Nick Fury (the Sam Jackson version), and a blank one for you to complete!
Yes, you can be an Agent of Shield!
Unlike many Marvel prop replicas, this is a pretty reasonable $39.99, which isn't too extravagant. You want one, don't you?
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5 Top Vacation Locations To Get Your Game On
Top 5 locations for gaming enthusiasts to vacation.
If you are a gamer of any kind, chances are that you will be interested in visiting locations that are known as the best places to play their game of choice. Travelling to these locations is great to be able to tick off your bucket list, and it will also allow you to meet other like-minded gamers to share your love for gaming! Here are our top 5 locations for gaming enthusiasts of all kinds!
Best Pacific Coast RV Road Trip Routes
Best Pacific Coast RV Camper Road Trip Routes
RV adventures have become a great American pastime, and there is perhaps no destination more iconic then the ultimate RV trek to the Pacific coast. Each year, droves of thrill seekers set out on the journey across the states to begin their own west coast adventure. Whether you are looking for nature in the northwest or sunshine in the south, you will find yourself right at home at the RV hotspots along the way. See below for some crowd favorites, and before setting out on your dream ride, make sure to stop by a service provider near you to ensure your ride goes smoothly from start to finish.
Packing For Paris – What To Bring and What To Buy There
How to look chic in Paris – what to bring from home and what to buy in this stylish city. We will take a look at some items that you must bring along to Paris and some items you can buy there to make your travel experience even greater.
Packing Tips for Paris – What to Bring and What to Buy There
Secrets To Saving Money On Your Next Vegas Trip
How To Save Money On Your Trip To Vegas
If you're looking forward to traveling to Las Vegas to play in the casinos, see the shows and have a holiday, then it is highly likely that you're prepared to spend a lot of money. However, that doesn't necessarily mean that you need to spend more money that you've budged for. There are a few ways that you can actually save money when you go to Vegas. We've put together a list of some of the best ways to save, including at the casinos and even just through booking your trip.
Western Massachusetts Fall Roadtrip, Full of Hidden Gems
Each year thousands of leaf peepers tumble into their cars and head north toward the mountains of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont to be dazzled by fall foliage displays. Highways become clogged, restaurants are filled to overflowing, hotels are sold out and prices are at their max.
This year we have a smarter suggestion for you, instead of heading north, point your car toward central Massachusetts and discover the beauty of ancestral farms, hillsides awash with fall colors and small towns chock full of farm stands, art, music, history and artisan craft shops. Fall foliage is just as brilliant in this verdant region, but you'll miss the annoying crowds.
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New Travel Tips for Las Vegas
Las Vegas, one of the most well known vacation destinations in the world, is the ultimate destination for anyone who enjoys gambling. Apart from enjoying games such as keno, poker, roulette, wheel of fortune, craps, blackjack, and baccarat, people who love to play slot machines, visit sites like Royal Vegas as well. While many other cities boast of casinos, Las Vegas is the most popular casino city in the world and entertains visitors 24 hours a day. Little wonder that those who visit this city once keep on returning.
11 Famous TV and Film Coffee Shops You Can Visit For Real
Famous TV and Movie Coffee Shop Hangouts
All of our favorite TV sitcom shows seem to have a comfy neighborhood coffee shop where all the popular characters gather to exchange their inner-most feelings and to share a laugh or two, even if it is supplied by a phony laugh-track…. Even so, travelers love to search out the real diners and coffee shops that were used as TV settings. Probably Tom's Restaurant in Manhattan is the most famous, as the gathering spot for the Seinfeld gang.
7 Tricks For Getting The Best Deals On London Hotels
7 Savvy Tricks To Get The Best Deals On London Hotels.
Visiting London at any time can bring you the challenge of finding the best deals in the area—after all, it's highly likely that you're not the only one wanting to experience what the city has to offer when the weather is at its best. Not to worry: you can get an edge over other travellers and save money on your London accommodation if you have these seven tricks up your sleeve.
Lake Erie Wine Trail – A Fun & Spirited Road Trip Destination
Lake Erie Wine Country stretches for 50 miles along the southeastern edge of Lake Erie (Erie, PA to Chautauqua County in up-state New York) and wine tasting is just one of the awesome activities that attract in-the-know travelers to this bucolic corner of America.
What's that you say….you never heard of it? Well, I suspect everyone has been trying to keep it a secret for themselves. Come along as we discover what makes this region a fun and "spirited" getaway destination well worth discovering.
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What could be more inviting than walking the streets of New York City, stopping to sample delicious ice cream along the way. Come with us as we take a walking tour along the sweet streets of NYC.
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July is almost here when all thoughts turn to lazing at the beach with friends. In major land-locked cities across the globe, temporary beaches are popping along river banks to give city-dwellers and visitors a bit of sun and sand fun. City beaches are not a new idea but, when Paris brought in sand and palm trees to line the banks of the Seine River in summer, the world took notice. Paris Plages become an immediate passion for Parisians who couldn't escape to the Med for a beach vacation. You just can't keep a good idea from spreading and soon pop-up urban beaches were being created in major cities across the world. So grab you flip flops and beach chair and head to one of the world's most popular pop-up city beaches!
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The Changing Faces of The Ramblas, Barcelona's Most Famous Street
The Ramblas: the changing face of Barcelona's most famous street.
I remember the first time I walked down the Ramblas well. It was February 1998 and Barcelona's most famous street was full of tourists and locals alike. There were silver-painted human statues, stock still until a coin clattered into their collection boxes, buskers of varying degrees of talent, and card tricksters keeping a keen eye out for the first sign of the law. Whether taking a stroll, people watching, or on their way elsewhere, the street was bustling with activity as people went about their business.
DIY Walking Tour of Sherlock Holmes' London Neighborhoods
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Join the team from the London Pass on a Sherlock Holmes self guided walking tour across central London.
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In the mood for magic and romance, I watched a million of videos of carnival and loving couples sailing in gondolas. I had made a nice plan (as I thought), packed all my fancy dresses and a few pairs of peeps. I thought I would fit the place perfectly. If I only knew how wrong I was!
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Brews With Spectacular Views – Epic Northwest Brew Trail
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We continue our journey through the Cauldrons Calendar feast/festival/holidays.
Festival of Mut
|Mut Precinct, showing the Isheru, Karnak.
Captured and edited by Luana on Wikimapia
The specifics of this festival, referred to by some scholars as the 'Great Offering' are unknown but it was also referred to as the 'Sailing of Mut', the Lady of Isheru. During the New Kingdom a statue of the Goddess was placed on a barque (boat) and sailed around the Isheru. The Isheru was a horseshoe shaped lake that was associated with different goddesses who took the role of Daughter of Re. In the temple of Karnak, Mut was associated with Re as his daughter, coming to be known as the Eye of Re and this festival is to honour Mut in that aspect.
Held in Thebes each year, as with other feasts of the Solar Eye, this festival was likely to have been accompanied by music and lot of singing, dancing and drinking. Sternberg-el Hotabi stated, in her 1992 work Ein Hymnus an Hathor, that this type of celebrating was to pacify the furious Eye of Re on her return to Thebes from Nubia.
There are several references to the Sailing of Mut in documents originating from Deir el-Medina, an ancient Egyptian village where many of the artisans who worked on the tombs in the Valley of the Kings lived. There have been inferences taken from some of these documents that some form of the festival may have taken place in Deir el-Medina, as the royal artisans were given time off work during the 'Sailing of Mut'. It is likely that the feast rituals in Deir el-Medina would have included offerings of flowers and ointment to pacify the furious returning Goddess.
Mut is the mother of Khonsu and the wife of Amun at Thebes. She was depicted as a woman with a vulture skin on her head as well as the crown of upper Egypt. She can be traced back to the middle kingdom, but it is likely that she was worshipped earlier.
|Pentecost by Jean II Restout
Pentecost is also known as Whit Sunday, Whitsun, or Whit. It is celebrated seven weeks after Easter Sunday. Sometimes considered similar to Shavuot (where God gave the 10 commandments at Mount Sinai) Pentecost commemorates the birth of the Christian church by the giving of power of the Holy Spirit.
This is one of the most ancient feasts of the church even been included in the Acts of the Apostles (20: 16) and St. Paul's first letter to the Corinthians (16: 8).
The acts of apostles recounts the story of the original Pentecost.
Now when the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a mighty wind coming, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them parted tongues as it were of fire, and it sat upon every one of them: And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they began to speak with divers tongues, according as the Holy Ghost gave them to speak. [Acts 2:1-4]
Pentecost is called Whit Sunday due to an old practice where some churches would baptise some of their converts on Pentecost. The newly baptised would wear white robes.


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This is the final book of the Riley Covington thrillers. Riley is a former special ops turned pro football star but when the woman he loves is taken hostage by a terrorist group he forces his way back to his special ops friends where he comes up with a plan to get her out. I have read the first novel in this series "Monday Night Jihad" so I had some background on how these novels began. I haven't read the second or third so I have missed some of the thrills and the growth of Riley and Khadi's relationship but you get the gist of it throughout the book. I enjoyed the suspense in the book but I have to say it irritates me when it takes half the book to set up what you know from the back cover description is going to happen. Aside from that, i thought it was well written and keeps you engaged for the duration of the book. I would start with book one so you can enjoy the whole series.
I received this book free from Tyndale in exchange for my review.


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Kirsten Elizabeth Gillibrand (née Rutnik; /ˈkɪərstən ˈdʒɪlɪbrænd/ ( listen) KEER-stən JIL-i-brand; born December 9, 1966) is an American attorney and politician serving as the junior United States Senator from New York since 2009. She previously held the position of U.S. Representative for New York's 20th congressional district from 2007 to her appointment to the Senate by Governor David Paterson. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the state's second female U.S. Senator.
In December 2008, President-elect Barack Obama nominated second-term incumbent U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton as United States Secretary of State, leaving an empty seat in the Senate. Gillibrand was required to run in a special election in 2010 for the permanent position after her inauguration, which she won with 63% of the vote. She was reelected to a full six-year term in 2012 with 72% of the vote, the highest margin for any statewide candidate in New York.
|Kirsten Gillibrand
|United States Senator
from New York
|Assumed office
January 26, 2009
Serving with Chuck Schumer
|Preceded by
|Hillary Clinton
|Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 20th district
|In office
January 3, 2007 – January 26, 2009
|Preceded by
|John E. Sweeney
|Succeeded by
|Scott Murphy
|Personal details
|Kirsten Elizabeth Rutnik
December 9, 1966
Albany, New York, U.S.
|Political party
|Jonathan Gillibrand (m. 2001)
|Dartmouth College (BA)
University of California, Los Angeles (JD)
|Senate website
Kirsten Elizabeth Rutnik was born in Albany, New York, on December 9, 1966, the daughter of Douglas Paul Rutnik and Polly Edwina Noonan. Both her parents are attorneys, and her father has also worked as a lobbyist.[1] Her parents divorced in the late 1980s.[2] Gillibrand has an older brother, Douglas Rutnik, and a younger sister, Erin Rutnik Tschantret.[3][4] Her maternal grandmother is Dorothea "Polly" Noonan, a founder of the Albany Democratic Women's Club, as well as a leader in Albany Mayor Erastus Corning's powerful political machine, which lasted for more than 40 years.[1][3][Note 1] She has English, Austrian, Scottish, German, and Irish ancestry.[5]
During her childhood and college years, Gillibrand used the nickname "Tina." She began using her birth name of Kirsten a few years after law school.[2][3] In 1984, she graduated from Emma Willard School, an all women's private school located in Troy, New York,[6] and then enrolled at Dartmouth College.[3] Gillibrand majored in Asian Studies, studying in both Beijing and Taiwan. While in Beijing, she studied and lived with Connie Britton.[7][8] Gillibrand graduated magna cum laude in 1988.[9] While at Dartmouth, she was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.[9] During college, Gillibrand interned at Republican U.S. Senator Alfonse D'Amato's Albany office.[10] Gillibrand received her J.D. from UCLA School of Law and passed the bar exam in 1991.[11]
In 1991, Gillibrand joined the Manhattan-based law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell as an associate.[2] In 1992, she took a leave from Davis Polk to serve as a law clerk to Judge Roger Miner on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Albany.[4][12]
Gillibrand's tenure at Davis Polk is best known for her work as a defense attorney for Philip Morris during major litigation, including both civil lawsuits and U.S. Justice Department criminal and civil racketeering probes.[13] She became a senior associate while working on Philip Morris litigation.[14] While this time in her career has proven controversial, Gillibrand said her work for Philip Morris allowed her to take on multiple pro bono cases defending abused women and their children, as well as other cases defending tenants seeking safe housing after lead paint and unsafe conditions were found in their homes.[4]
While working at Davis Polk, Gillibrand became involved in—and later the leader of—the Women's Leadership Forum, a program of the Democratic National Committee. Gillibrand states that a speech to the group by First Lady Hillary Clinton inspired her: "[Clinton] was trying to encourage us to become more active in politics and she said, 'If you leave all the decision-making to others, you might not like what they do, and you will have no one but yourself to blame.' It was such a challenge to the women in the room. And it really hit me: She's talking to me."[2]
Following her time at Davis Polk, Gillibrand served as Special Counsel to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Andrew Cuomo during the last year of the Clinton administration.[6] Gillibrand worked on HUD's Labor Initiative and its New Markets Initiative, as well as on TAP's Young Leaders of the American Democracy, and strengthening Davis–Bacon Act enforcement.[15]
In 1999, Gillibrand began working on Hillary Clinton's 2000 U.S. Senate campaign, focusing on campaigning to young women and encouraging them to join the effort. Many of those women later worked on Gillibrand's campaigns.[1] Gillibrand and Clinton became close during the election, with Clinton becoming something of a mentor to the young attorney.[4] Gillibrand donated more than $12,000 to Clinton's senate campaigns.[16]
In 2001, Gillibrand became a partner in the Manhattan office of Boies, Schiller & Flexner, where a client was the Philip Morris parent company Altria Group. In 2002 she informed Boies of interest in running for office and was allowed to transfer to the firm's Albany office. She left Boies in 2005 to begin her 2006 campaign for Congress.[4][13]
Gillibrand considered running for office in 2004, in New York's 20th congressional district, against the three-term Republican incumbent John E. Sweeney. However, Hillary Clinton believed circumstances would be more favorable in 2006 and advised her to wait until then.[4] Traditionally conservative, the district and its electoral offices had been in Republican hands for all but four years since 1913, and as of November 2006, 197,473 voters in the district were registered Republicans while 82,737 were registered Democrats.[17] Sweeney said in 2006 that no Republican could ever lose [the district].[18] Using New York's electoral fusion election laws, Gillibrand ran in 2006 on both the Democratic and Working Families lines; in addition to having the Republican nomination, Sweeney was endorsed by the Conservative and Independence parties.[19]
During the campaign, Gillibrand got support from other Democratic Party politicians. Mike McNulty, a Democratic Congressman from the neighboring 21st congressional district, campaigned for her, as did both Hillary and Bill Clinton; the former president appeared twice at campaign events.[20] Both parties poured millions of dollars into the respective campaigns.[21]
Many saw Gillibrand as moderate or conservative. The American Conservative stated after her eventual victory, "Gillibrand won her upstate New York district by running to the right: she campaigned against amnesty for illegal immigrants, promised to restore fiscal responsibility to Washington, and pledged to protect gun rights."[22]
Gillibrand's legal representation of Philip Morris was an issue during the campaign. Her campaign finance records showed that she received $23,200 in contributions from the company's employees during her 2006 campaign for Congress.[23]
The probable turning point in the election was the November 1 release of a December 2005 police report detailing a 9-1-1 call by Sweeney's wife, in which she claimed Sweeney was "knocking her around the house." The Sweeney campaign claimed the police report was false and promised to have the official report released by State Police, but did not do so.[20] The Sweeney campaign did release an ad in which Sweeney's wife described Gillibrand's campaign as "a disgrace."[24]
By November 5, a Siena poll showed Gillibrand ahead of Sweeney 46% to 43%.[25] She won with 53% of the vote.[19]
Following Gillibrand's win, Republicans quickly began speculating about possible 2008 candidates. Len Cutler, director of the Center for the Study of Government and Politics at Siena College, said that the seat would be difficult for Gillibrand to hold in 2008, noting Republicans substantially outnumbered Democrats in the district.[20]
Gillibrand won her bid for re-election in 2008 over former New York Secretary of State Sandy Treadwell by a 62% to 38% margin.[26] Treadwell lost by that margin despite significantly outspending Gillibrand and promising never to vote to raise taxes, not to accept a federal salary, and to limit himself to three terms in office.[27] Campaign expenditures were the second highest in the nation for a House race.[28] Democrats generally saw major successes during the 2008 congressional elections, credited in part to a coattail effect from Barack Obama's presidential campaign.[29]
Gillibrand's legal representation of Philip Morris was again an issue. Her campaign finance records showed that she received $18,200 from Philip Morris employees for her 2008 campaign, putting her among the top dozen Democrats in such contributions.[30] Questioned during the campaign about her work on behalf of Philip Morris, Gillibrand stated that she had voted in favor of all three anti-tobacco bills in that session of Congress. She said that she never hid her work for Philip Morris, and she added that as an associate at her law firm, she had had no control over which clients she worked for.[23] The New York Times, reporting on this issue, said that Davis Polk's official policy was that associates were allowed to withdraw from representing clients about whom they had moral qualms.[30]
Upon taking office, Gillibrand joined the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of moderate to conservative Democrats. She was noted for voting against the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008,[22] citing concerns regarding insufficient oversight and excessive earmarks.[31] She opposed New York's plans to issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, and voted in favor of legislation that would withhold federal funds from immigrant sanctuary cities.[32][33]
After taking office, Gillibrand became the first member of Congress to publish her official schedule, listing everyone she met with on a given day. She also published earmark requests she received and her personal financial statement. This "Sunlight Report", as her office termed it, was praised by a New York Times editorial in December 2006 as being a "quiet touch of revolution" in a non-transparent system.[34][35] Regarding the earmarking process, Gillibrand stated that she wanted whatever was best for her district and would require every project to pass a "greatest-need, greatest-good" test.[36]
While in the House of Representatives, Gillibrand served on the following committees:[37]
On December 1, 2008, President-elect Barack Obama announced his choice of Hillary Clinton, the junior U.S. Senator from New York, as Secretary of State. Clinton was confirmed by a vote of 94-2 on January 21, 2009. Just hours before being sworn in as Secretary of State, Clinton resigned her senate seat, effective immediately. Obama's December announcement began a two-month search process to fill her vacant Senate seat.[38] Under New York law, the governor appoints a replacement. A special election would then be held in November 2010 for the remainder of the full term, which ended in January 2013.[39]
Governor David Paterson's selection process began with a number of prominent names and high-ranking New York Democrats, including Andrew Cuomo, Fran Drescher and Caroline Kennedy, vying for the spot. Gillibrand quietly campaigned for the position, meeting secretly with Paterson on at least one occasion. She said that she made an effort to underscore her successful House elections in a largely conservative district, adding that she could be a good complement to Chuck Schumer.[3] Gillibrand was presumed a likely choice in the days before the official announcement.[40] On January 23, 2009, Paterson held a press conference to announce Gillibrand as his choice.[41]
The response within New York to the appointment was mixed. The upstate New York media was generally optimistic about the appointment of an upstate Senator,[42] as one had not been elected since Charles Goodell left office in 1971.[43] Many downstaters were disappointed with the selection, with some media outlets stating that Paterson had ignored the electoral influence of populous New York City and downstate on state politics. One questioned whether Paterson's administration was aware of "[where] statewide elections are won and lost".[42] Gillibrand was relatively unknown statewide, and many voters found the choice surprising.[6] One source stated, "With every Democrat in New York ... angling for the appointment, there was a sense of bafflement, belittlement, and bruised egos when Paterson tapped the junior legislator unknown outside of Albany."[3]
Gillibrand was sworn in on January 26, 2009; at 42, she entered the chamber as the youngest senator in the 111th Congress.[3] In February she endorsed Scott Murphy, who had been chosen by the New York Democrats as their nominee for her now vacant seat in the House of Representatives.[44] In April, Murphy won the seat against Republican Jim Tedisco by 399 votes and succeeded Gillibrand in the House until 2011.[45]
Gillibrand had numerous potential challengers in the September 14, 2010, Democratic primary election. Some were obvious at the time of her appointment. Most notably, Long Island Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy was unhappy with Gillibrand's stance on gun control,[46][Note 2] but McCarthy ultimately decided not to run.[47] Harold Ford, Jr., a former Congressman from Tennessee, considered a run but ultimately decided against it in March 2009.[48] Congressman Steve Israel was also a potential contender but was talked out of it by President Obama.
Concerned about a possible schism in the party that could lead to a heated primary, split electorate, and weakened stance, high-ranking members of the party backed Gillibrand and requested major opponents not to run.[48] In the end, Gillibrand faced Gail Goode, a lawyer from New York City,[49] and won the primary with 76% of the vote.[50]
Despite what was initially expected to be a heated race, Gillibrand easily prevailed against former Republican congressman Joseph DioGuardi in her first statewide election.[51] By the end of October, a Quinnipiac University Polling Institute poll showed Gillibrand winning 57-34%.[52] Gillibrand won the November election 63–35%, carrying 54 of New York's 62 counties; the counties that supported DioGuardi did so by a margin no greater than 10%.[51]
Gillibrand's special election victory in 2010 gave her the right to serve the rest of Clinton's second term, which ended in January 2013. Gillibrand ran for a full six-year term in November 2012. In the general election, Gillibrand faced challenger Wendy E. Long, an attorney running on both the Republican Party and Conservative Party lines.[53][54] Gillibrand was endorsed by The New York Times[55] and the Democrat and Chronicle.[56] She won the election with 72.2% of the vote;[57] in so doing, she surpassed Schumer's 71.2% victory in 2004 and achieved the largest victory margin for a statewide candidate in New York history. She carried all counties except for two in western New York.[58]
A member of the Democratic Party's relatively conservative Blue Dog faction while in the House, Gillibrand has been seen as moving her political positions and ideology increasingly leftward toward that of a more liberal progressive since her appointment to the Senate. In both cases, her views were significantly defined by the respective constituency she served at the time[59]—a conservative congressional district versus the generally liberal state of New York, especially as defined by New York City. For example, although she had been quiet on the U.S. military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy when she was in the House, during her first 18 months in the Senate, Gillibrand was an important part of the successful campaign to repeal it.[60]
On April 9, 2009, a combined Schumer–Gillibrand press release said that the two strongly supported a Latino being nominated to the Supreme Court at the time of the next vacancy. Their first choice was Sonia Sotomayor.[61] The two introduced her at Sotomayor's Senate confirmation hearing in July 2009.[62]
During the lame duck session of the 111th Congress, Gillibrand scored two substantial legislative victories: the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell and the passage of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act. Both were issues she had advocated for during that session. In the aftermath of these victories, many commentators opined that these victories marked her emergence on the national stage.[63][64][65]
In March 2011, Gillibrand co-sponsored the PROTECT IP Act, which would restrict access to web sites judged to be infringing copyrights,[66] but ultimately announced she would not support the bill as-is due to wide critical public response.[67]
In 2012, Gillibrand authored a portion of the STOCK Act, which extended limitations on insider trading by members of Congress. A version of the bill, merged by Senator Joe Lieberman with content from another bill authored by Senator Scott Brown,[68] was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama in April.[69]
In 2013, Gillibrand proposed legislation that would remove sexual assault cases from the military chain of command; the bill was cosponsored by Republican senators Rand Paul and Ted Cruz.[70] Gillibrand's bill failed to gain enough votes to break a filibuster in March 2014; however, her efforts likely improved her standing as a lawmaker in the Senate.[71]
In 2014, Gillibrand was included in the annual Time 100, Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people.[72]
In 2015, Gillibrand invited campus activist Emma Sulkowicz to attend the State of the Union Address. Her invitation was intended to promote the Campus Accountability and Safety Act, a bill Gillibrand co-sponsored.[73] However, Families Advocating for Campus Equality and others have criticized this decision, and Gillibrand's public description of Sulkowicz's accused assailant as "her rapist," pointing out that both a university hearing and a police investigation had cleared the man of the allegations; critics of Gillibrand's decision have accused her of disregarding due process and maligning a man's reputation in order to gain support for a political objective.[74][75]
Gillibrand has been less deferential to Senate seniority protocols and more uncompromising in her positions – such as repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" and combating sexual assault in the military – than most freshman senators, traits which have sometimes caused friction with her Democratic colleagues. Republican Charles Grassley of Iowa has contrasted her approach with other New Yorkers of both parties, saying she is distinguished by "her determination and knowledge and willingness to sit down one on one with senators and explain what she is up to". Her fund-raising ability – almost $30 million from 2009 through 2013 – helped her become a mentor for female candidates nationwide during that period.[76]
Gillibrand is currently a prominent advocate for the criminalization of 'boycotts,' particularly any attempts by individuals or groups seeking to express a disapproval of the actions taken by the Government of Israel.[77] Gillibrand's advocacy against protests and 'boycotts' has prominently included her co-sponsoring S.720, coined the "Israel Anti-Boycott Act." Gillibrand's co-sponsored legislation would federally criminalize, punishable by a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, any political 'boycotts' intended to protest actions by the Israeli government.[77][78][79] Many legal theorists and political critics view S.720, Gillibrand's co-sponsored proposed law, as an overt violation of the free speech protections guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and Gillibrand has publicly modified her position in direct response to criticism. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), for instance, denounced S.720, claiming its provisions seeking to "punish U.S. persons based solely on their expressed political beliefs" are "inconsistent" with First Amendment constitutional protections.[80] Gillibrand has since responded to criticism from the ACLU directly, and stated that she intends to advocate for changes to the bill. Gillibrand argued that the bill does not "...have any relevance to individuals at all," and insists she plans to "...urge them to rewrite it to make sure it says...'This is only applying to companies.'"[81]
Kirsten Gillibrand was named as part of the "Hell-No Caucus" by Politico in 2018, along with Senators Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders, given she voted "overwhelmingly to thwart his [Trump's] nominees for administration jobs", such as with Rex Tillerson, Betsy De Vos, and Mike Pompeo; all were considered potential 2020 presidential contenders at this point in time.[82]
While in the Senate, Gillibrand has served on the following committees:[83][84][85]
In 2017, Gillibrand said that she would be running for re-election to the Senate in 2018.[87] She had been mentioned as a possible Democratic nominee for President in 2020, but, when asked about the race, she said she was "ruling it out."[87]
Gillibrand's positions on many important issues have changed. Her supporters describe this as an "evolution" of responding to broader constituents as she moved from representing her district in the House to representing all of New York State in the Senate. Her detractors describe this as flip-flopping.
In the House, she was known as a conservative Democrat[59] or centrist,[88] representing a highly conservative electorate in an upstate New York congressional district.[59] She was a member of the Blue Dog Coalition, a caucus of fiscally conservative Democrats.[89]
In the Senate, she is known more as a populist-leaning liberal, representing a heavily Democratic state centered around the heavily liberal and Democratic metropolitan area of New York City. At the time of her appointment to the Senate, a Salon.com editorial said that Gillibrand's reputation in the House was as "a hybrid politician who has remained conservative enough to keep her seat while appearing progressive enough to raise money downstate."[59]
On social issues, Gillibrand is generally liberal, supporting abortion rights[90] and legalization of same-sex marriage.[91]
Gillibrand received an 8% rating from the American Conservative Union in 2007,[96] a 70% rating from Americans for Democratic Action in 2008,[97] and 90% from the American Civil Liberties Union.[98] OnTheIssues.org rated Gillibrand as a "hard-core liberal" in 2009.[99]
Gillibrand met her husband, Jonathan Gillibrand, a venture capitalist and British national, on a blind date. Jonathan planned to be in the United States for only a year while studying for his Master of Business Administration at Columbia University, but he stayed in the country because of his relationship with her. The two were married in a Catholic church in Manhattan in 2001.[2][3]
The Gillibrands had their first child, Theodore, in 2003,[4] and their second son, Henry, in 2008. She continued to work until the day of Henry's delivery, for which she received a standing ovation from her colleagues in the House the next day.[4]
Gillibrand lives in the town of Brunswick with her husband and their two sons. Because of the requirements of her office, the family spends most of its time in Washington, D.C.[4] In 2011, the Gillibrands sold their house in Hudson and purchased their home in Brunswick to be closer to Kirsten's family in Albany.[100]
In 2014, Gillibrand published her first book, Off the Sidelines: Raise Your Voice, Change the World.[101] The candid memoir was notable in the media upon release due to whisperings of a future presidential run[102] as well as revealing a culture of sexism in the Senate,[103] including specific comments made to her by other members of Congress about her weight and appearance.[104] Off the Sidelines debuted at number 8 on the New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover nonfiction.[105]
|New York's 20th Congressional district election, 2006
|Kirsten Gillibrand
|John Sweeney (inc.)
*Gillibrand was also nominated on the Working Families line and Sweeney was also nominated on the Independence and Conservative lines.
|New York's 20th Congressional district election, 2008
|Kirsten Gillibrand (inc.)
|Sandy Treadwell
*Gillibrand was also nominated on the Working Families line and Treadwell was also nominated on the Independence and Conservative lines.
|U.S. Senate special Democratic primary election in New York, 2010
|Kirsten Gillibrand (inc.)
|Gail Goode
|U.S. Senate special election in New York, 2010
|Kirsten Gillibrand (inc.)
|Joseph DioGuardi
|Cecile Lawrence
|John Clifton
|Rent is Too Damn High
|Joseph Huff
|Vivia Morgan
|Tax Revolt
|Bruce Blakeman
*Gillibrand was also nominated on the Working Families and Independence lines and DioGuardi was also nominated on the Conservative line.
|U.S. Senate election in New York, 2012
|Kirsten Gillibrand (inc.)
|Wendy Long
|Colia Clark
|Chris Edes
|John Mangelli
*Gillibrand was also nominated on the Working Families and Independence lines and Long was also nominated on the Conservative line.
|U.S. House of Representatives
|Preceded by
John Sweeney
|Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 20th congressional district
|Succeeded by
Scott Murphy
|U.S. Senate
|Preceded by
Hillary Clinton
|United States Senator (Class 1) from New York
Served alongside: Chuck Schumer
|Honorary titles
|Preceded by
Michael Bennet
|Baby of the Senate
|Succeeded by
George LeMieux
|New office
|Honorary Chair of the College Democrats of America
|Party political offices
|Preceded by
Hillary Clinton
|Democratic nominee for U.S. Senator from New York
(Class 1)
2010, 2012
|Most recent
|Current U.S. order of precedence (ceremonial)
|Preceded by
Michael Bennet
|United States Senators by seniority
|Succeeded by
Joe Manchin
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Parmy Pasta:
Angel hair/ Spaghetti
1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
1/4 bread crumbs
1-2 garlic cloves
4 tbs butter
This recipe came together one night while I was making dinner. I felt like I was a side dish short, and needed to come up with something that I could throw together quickly.
This dish is totally customizable to you and your family. I only used a half a pound of pasta because there is only three of us, you may want to use the whole pound to feed your whole family or company.
Bring water to a boil, salt water heavily. Throw in dried pasta. I always break mine into thirds since I have a smaller mouth to feed. (Colby's not mine, we all know my mouth is anything but small)
Boil pasta to package directions, about 7 minutes. Drain pasta, reserving about 1/4-1/2 cup of pasta water.
In your saucepan, add butter, melt, then add mined garlic. Saute for about 3 minutes, be careful not to scorch garlic. Return noodles to saucepan, toss with butter and garlic. Once noodles are coated evenly, toss in bread crumbs and parmesan cheese. The amounts for the bread crumbs and cheese may vary depending on how much pasta you are making. Keep in mind I only made a half pound. Start with this amount and eyeball the amounts to what looks yummy to you.
If you are serving from the pan, like we did, then throw in the parsley and toss. If you are serving in a platter then sprinkle your parsley on top, for color and prettiness : )