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MANILA, PHILIPPINES -- As 90 members of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) gather this week ahead of the semiannual plenary assembly Jan. 28-30, they are trying to stay clear of the impeachment trial of Philippines Chief Justice Renato Corona, which has captured the attention of the nation.
The bishops' conference isn't keen on issuing a statement about the controversial trial, which opened Jan. 16, and the bishops would prefer to see the matter settled by the impeachment tribunal and lawyers, conference permanent council members and commission secretaries told NCR in late January. They would prefer that discussion of the trial be limited during the assembly, they said.
For the first time, impeachment proceedings were brought against the country's chief justice. About a third of the members of the House of Representative verified complaints of "betrayal of public trust, culpable violation of the Constitution and graft and corruption" against Corona.
Corona must defend himself against eight charges, including his protection of former President Gloria Arroyo by lifting a travel ban that would have allowed her to leave the country for medical reasons and possibly escape prosecution for plunder and poll fraud.
He is also accused of failing to disclose his personal assets and account for judiciary funds as well as partiality in decisions involving Arroyo, her administration and officials. Arroyo appointed him a Supreme Court justice in 2002 and chief justice on May 17, 2010, just over a month before new President Benigno Aquino III was to assume office.
Aquino's spokespersons have said the impeachment is vital to the administration's fight against corruption.
Corona has denied the charges and said the Aquino administration and Aquino's Liberal Party conspired to impeach him to create a Supreme Court favorable to the president and the executive branch. He said the chief justice cannot be held accountable for decisions made by the court as a collegial body.
He said Aquino's public attacks against him grew "virulent" and House verification of its impeachment complaint came soon after the high court issued its decision last November ordering the distribution of Hacienda Luisita, a tract of land owned by Aquino's family, to thousands of farmers. The distribution is part of a long-standing land reform program.
The bishops remain a powerful voice in this predominantly Catholic Southeast Asian nation despite last year's controversy over acceptance of donations from the government's sweepstakes office and criticism of a few bishops' support for Arroyo.
Days before their plenary assembly, bishops, who were meeting in small workshops, were not of the same mind on the impeachment.
Cardinal Ricardo Vidal said he sees the impeachment as part of a "rift" between Aquino and Corona. Vidal has reportedly tried to set up three meetings between the two, but the president did not show up. Vidal said in December he would stop trying to mediate.
Retired Archbishop Oscar Cruz and other clergy have supported Corona's opinion that the impeachment is retaliation for the Hacienda Luisita ruling and a warning after the administration's attempt to subjugate the judiciary. Lawyers have petitioned the court to halt the trial, but Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile told the court and the president's office in a radio broadcast not to interfere. He said only "military might" can stop the trial.
Hacienda Luisita beneficiaries have echoed Archbishop Cruz's concerns.
"We feel very worried about the possibility of an [Aquino]-controlled Supreme Court and we are grateful to have the force of CBCP-NASSA [CBCP's National Secretariat for Social Action, Justice and Peace] behind us," Rodel Mesa of UMA farmworkers union told NCR.
Fr. Edwin Gariguez, executive secretary of CBCP-NASSA, said the bishops' commission is "outside of the fight of [Aquino] and Corona." He said the commission supports hacienda beneficiaries because "we are pro-social justice and the common good."
Archbishop Jose Palma of Cebu and Bishop Leonardo Medroso of Tagbilaran said they recognize the impeachment trial as part of a larger effort to probe allegations of corruption and anomalies of public officials and to hold accountable those responsible. The bishops have expressed support for efforts to stop corruption as long as they are kept fair and just.
Palma, president of the bishops' conference, said the impeachment trial is already under way, and amid the ambivalent reality, "can we see beyond it and just hope and trust that the proceedings will uncover the truth about alleged corruption?"
"All of us [bishops] still believe in the separation of church and state, and that means all the bishops respect the rights of the state to run the country in regards to temporal matters," Medroso said.
Basic Ecclesial Communities for evangelization
Whether the CBCP plenary issues a statement on the impeachment trial or not, it is inarguably urgent that dioceses activate Basic Ecclesial Communities (BECs) for evangelization, said Redemptorist Fr. Amado Picardal, executive secretary of the CBCP Committee on BEC.
BECs are small groups of Christian neighbors who regularly gather for Bible sharing and the Eucharist. The grassroots communities, which are united with pastors but ministered to by lay leaders, share a sense of responsibility for one another and integrate liturgy with reflection and action on socioeconomic concerns of the community, Picardal said.
"We have a split-level Christianity," he said, citing anonymous government workers who are "very religious, like Arroyo and Corona," but who have confessed to him about accepting bribes and kickbacks and their participation in other anomalies.
"A lot of corruption happens in the local level, and BECs can and have been able to stop these by monitoring the use of [community] and provincial government funds and money for road and other construction projects," Picardal said.
In 1987, a BEC he worked with in San Fernando, Bukidnon, fought to stop illegal logging that was causing flooding and droughts in the southern Philippines town.
"Even if Corona is found guilty and is ousted, it doesn't mean corruption will end if people, the culture and bureaucracy will not reform," Picardal said.
An acquittal will also mean people need to be vigilant because it will leave a lame-duck court of careful justices who have seen that people disadvantaged by their decisions could have them removed, University of the Philippines Law professor Prospero de Vera said.
Picardal was scheduled to report to the bishops after a Jan. 24 presentation of a university research on BEC and implementation of plans from the 1991 Second Plenary Council of the Philippines.
"Growing secularism" today is the reason the church is looking into evangelization, Medroso said. In the Philippines, "we see people going to church, but the vital question is, How much does their faith influence their important decisions in life? Are God and his commandments still important to them?" Medroso asked.
If there were to be another church-inspired "people power," it would be through BEC, which the bishop said was a timely pre-plenary seminar topic. He told NCR deepening the faith BEC "is our way to evangelize our people."
For the local church, getting BEC running in as many dioceses as possible would help address challenges to its work of evangelization. These challenges include institutionalized corruption and reported widespread use of church-banned artificial contraceptives in a country where 81 percent of the almost 86 million people are Catholics.
In Mindanao, southern Philippines, Permanent Council member Bishop Guillermo Afable of Digos cites the challenge to evangelize people deprived of justice and peace and suffering from calamities resulting from abuse of the environment.
[N.J. Viehland reports from Manila for NCR.]


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So you are developing with the Nortel SCE and want todo integration testing. Theres no support for it in the framework itself. So we think and think. The SCE communicates via voicexml or VXML towards the MPS. This happens over http protocol, that means the we can use Jmeter to sniff the communication between MPS and SCE (JBOSS / struts). So in practice to make this work you need to setup the http proxy on jmeter and then go into the SBClient.cfg located here : C:\Program Files\Nortel Networks\SelfService\PERIvxml\config\ on a standard installation , edit these two lines:
client.inet.proxyServer VXIString localhost
client.inet.proxyPort VXIInteger 9000
Proxy server are the machine where you have jmeter running and port are the one you specified when setting up the proxy, id recommend using 9000 since the default 8080 clashes with the SCE Jboss port. After changing the parameters you need to restart the MPS service.
So there are two was of recording, on your local machine using the mock interface provided with SCE / eclipse ( execution view / WVADS ). Or on your test facility where you actually can dial in as normal, and record the scenarios. Just remember when you end Jmeter the proxy goes down aswell, meaning the MPS & SCE can no longer communicate, just comment out the 2 lines in sbclient.cfg to get it working again.
- Remember to switch recording controller in jmeter between scenarios. And one more thing this will only record the dialog between SCE and MPS, not the audio server.
- If you add appropriate listeners to your jmeter scenario when you replay you can even see the vxml responses.
Heres how a scenario from a very simple application looks (Just playing a couple of prompts):
After recording the scenarios they can now be replayed at wish for example as part of integration test. In the next part I'll try to digest howto put in test coverage with coberatura, so we get some metrics on how much of our code actually are tested with this approach. Now sadly since SCE does a lot of auto generation I think the process will be partially manual, so we cannot employ a building server like Hudson for this:( If you have any ideas on howto run the SCE auto generation as a MOJO from maven or something please do not hesitate to write. As always comments are more than welcome 🙂
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Aggressive Real Estate Agent Pushes Home Purchase
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What Real Estate Agents Should Do Before Listing a House
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Know your rights if you have a complaint about your real estate agent. If your real estate agent has broken a law, you can file a complaint with your state's regulatory agency, the Better Business Bureau, and the National Association of Realtors. If your real estate agent has committed a criminal act against you, contact the police. But make sure you have a true complaint against your real estate agent and not just a minor disagreement or frustration because your property has not been sold.
Real Estate Agents: What's Dual Agency?
A real estate agent typically represents either the buyer or the seller. But if a listing agent brings the buyer to the table, that real estate agent is now a dual agent. What is dual agency? How can you protect yourself if you find yourself working in a dual agency situation. Check out this new ExpertRealEstateTips video for the answer.
Questions To Ask A Real Estate Agent
Don't be afraid to ask real estate agents questions before you hire them. Which real estate companies have they worked for and for how long? Do they hold an agent's license or broker's license? What is their specialty and can they provide references? How do they market real estate on the Internet? What real estate have they sold? This Expert Real Estate Tips segment tells you what questions to ask your real estate agent.
Your Real Estate Agent May Know You Best
Real estate agents sometimes have a sixth sense for what a buyer wants. Is space, price range or style most important? How does a good agent discover what her client needs and wants? View this Expert Real Estate Tips segment for insight into how real estate agents figure out what their clients really want to buy and to learn why exposure to properties is key in finding out what you want in a property.
Real Estate Research Can Save You Money
How can you protect yourself from costly mistakes when buying and selling a home? How can you save money when you're looking at real estate? Educate yourself on the process, do research on your property and find a good agent to represent you. Real estate research in all areas of the real estate process can save you money.


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Bridge books: Using select picture book titles to connect interesting story with the new reader's vocabulary demands.
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Book: The Faithful Friend by Robert D. San Souci
Set in Martinique, this beautifully illustrated retelling of a traditional West Indies tale tells the story of inseparable friends, the power of love, and Caribbean magic.
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Destination: Jupiter by Seymour Simon
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Pueblo Storyteller by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith
"Love You Forever" by Robert Munsch" – This quirky book provides a touching look at the bonds between parents and children through their lifespans.
"Yertle the Turtle" by Dr Seuss" – With classic Seuss rhyming, this book addresses issues of rights within a political system.
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Spirited performances and magnificent sound characterize this vibrant, 40-member community-based ensemble. Through its 4-part Concert Hall series, the Etobicoke Community Concert Band showcases outstanding Canadian talent, and thrilling programming runs the gamut of musical periods and innovative themes. In concert with its acclaimed spin-off ensemble, the Etobicoke Swing Orchestra, the band produces an informal summer series of "al fresco" programs and is a major performing partner in charitable events and community causes.
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The Etobicoke Philharmonic Orchestra is an award-winning community orchestra of 60-plus talented musicians that has been performing great classical music in the area for 57 years.
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Based at Martingrove Collegiate Institute, 50 Winterton Drive, with the festive and children's event venue at Humber Valley United Church, 79 Anglesey Boulevard, the full-performance concerts offer free parking and ease of access.
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Because weekends always make me feel old these days, I'm feeling a need to connect with the past. And do something with having finally finished Breaks of the Game—yes, I read slow, rarely finish books, and don't hesitate to canonize them prematurely. I blame all of this on the Internet, somehow.
So the open-ended post that will be up here all weekend, unless LeBron leaves Team USA to go fly a fighter plane for his new pals in Russia, is this: Who from the game's fairly distant past should all this site's readers be aware of? Let's assume we all lived through the 1990's, and most of the 1980's. And not bother explaining why Dr. J, Elgin Baylor, or Oscar Robertson help our cause in various ways. I'm talking about cult figures that spread mayhem and left us all wondering. Such as. . .
Jack Molinas: I was hell-bent on writing a screenplay about his life, until I found out that Spike and Tuturro have been on that for years. Everyone knows that he was a great Jewish sportsman, the original talent-squanderer, and a criminal mastermind. But what makes him amazing to me is what Hubie Brown said about him in Charley Rosen's Molinas bio:
"Molinas was a perfect player. And by that I mean he wasn't a specialist. He could handle and pass, play defense if he wanted to, and reobound if a crowd if he wanted to. He had an assortment of head fakes and ball fakes. He was a savvy player with great timing, and his extra edge was his phenomenal hook shot the best hook shot ever. There was nothing Jacki Molinas couldn't do on a basketball court."
And later:
"Flat out, Jack Molinas was one of the greatest players to ever play the game of basketball."
So there, the original Positional Revolution player was a Jew who liked playing on Black courts and had too restless a mind to content himself with just being the best. And whose compulsive gambling was far more neurotic than macho. Sidenote: I've always found it fraught that, however accidentally, Molinas seriously screwed up the career of Connie Hawkins, another player whose game seemed to know no bounds and knock over all the chairs in the room.
Marvin Barnes: An absolutely no-brainer. Lots of you have read Loose Balls, so you know the stories. But Barnes was like Tarpley times ten million, and with a swagger that 1980's degeneracy was sorely lacking. While I've never seen clips of him, I get the sense that he was a power forward who could drop 50 on anyone while nodding off on the bench, then charm everyone, then pop back in and score 30 more once the game had already ended. Barnes also set the tone for those Spirits of St. Louis lovingly memoralized in multimedia, grab-bag fashion by Remember the ABA and this dude. There even appears to be a jam band named after the most absurd Marvin Barnes anecdotes, which probably hurts my cause (if not his). Oh, and I truly believe that Bob Costas is how he is because he spent too many formative years around Barnes.
Billy Ray Bates: I'm going to let Halberstam take this one away—even if, as with "Marvin Barnes Time Machine," it might do some far-reaching damage to the FD brand:
There was, on that day in Portsmouth, a young black kid from Kentucky State named Billy Ray Bates, and he had been dazzling, a player of awesome, almost completely undisciplined talent. The crowd had immediately adopted him as its favorite. He seemed to go up for dunks and hang in the air, and then hang some more, and then dunk over much taller players. He touched something deep in [Blazers assisstant] Buckwalter, who could look at him and instantly see all the natural ability and then, with his practiced eye, see all the things the young man had never been taught, all the things other kids with better luck would have learned by their second year at Indiana or UCLA or North Carolina. Bates was to Buckwalter terribly poignant, a stepchild on the court. He felt a sadness that so much talent was being wasted, and then, secondly, a coach's fascination, for Billy Bates was everything a coach could want in a player, at once so terribly untutored and so talented.
Bates came up in abject, sharecropping poverty in rural Mississippi, was sheparded through high school by a coach who refused to lose with him, got D-1 offers but wanted to stick around his area, finally agreed to attend Kentucky State, dominated but made scouts suspicious. Cut from the Rockets, after his agent stupidly demanded guaranteed money for the fourth-rounder, and beyond an illustrious on-again, off-again stint with the CBA's Maine Lumberjacks—LOCAL LEGEND. Signs with Rockets, gets cut but paid, back to Maine, Blazers take a chance on him during a lost season and he becomes a star.
Then everything falls apart, so he heads abroad.. . to the Philippines, where he's reborn as "Black Superman."
If I were Ricky Davis's agent, this is the career path I would've recommended. Minus the part where, after retiring, Bates does time for armed robbery of a TEXKKKACO station. He's out now and, according to Wikipedia, "living in the Camden and Trenton areas of New Jersey. He and former 76ers guard Earl Harrison are trying to start a basketball skills coaching clinic." Also, Marvin Barnes is supposedly clean and kind of together.
Other suggestions? I'm planning to invite them to our book events.
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Helping Animals Find Homes and Helping Support Local Shelters
Helping your local animal shelters doesn't start in the shelter. It starts first with your love for animals and heart to want to help animals. That is the first step towards helping the animals in the shelter.
I have volunteered many times in local shelters and just helping with all sorts of things. I have washed the animals, cleaned the kennels, helped with on location events. The most important part is showing the animals love during the temporary stay at the shelter. Letting them know your heart is for them and helping finding their forever homes.
Familiarizing and connecting with the animals helps make the connections with the families to be. I work in an office in corporate America to support myself. I do volunteer work as a passion. People who display and have energy behind their passion become known just for that. I display it in my cubicle with pictures. I forward emails weekly of animals new to the shelter and those in turn are forwarded reaching a huge audience.
For example, I have loved and shared the love of my animals. I connect with people through stories of my dogs and then they share theirs. After ten years at the same company and many different departments, I find myself receiving emails from my past co-workers saying they are looking for a new dog. I advocate shelter dogs and let them know after collecting what they are looking for the animals available. I am now the pet matchmaker at work. I love that people come to me and I can help the animals be connected to wonderful homes.
I have also recently been receiving emails with the down economy about people having to adopt their own pets out. They are losing their jobs and networking these emails to help find dogs homes so they will not end up in shelters. People connecting with people will help with the overcrowding at shelters.
Helping shelters is really just helping the animals…advocate for them. Build them up and share the wonderful joys of animal companionship. If you show how much an animal means to you it can shed new light on someone who might not have had the experience you can share. Animals can offer a bond like no other.
A final note is to advocate spay and neutering. There are so many animals without homes and I know the little puppies are so cute. But with large over breeding that leads to more animals without homes. Everyone unite for the love of animals.


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At Atrium Medical Center we know cancer patients often find comfort in the support of others who know what they are experiencing.
Connect with other women facing cancer while learning to cope with the appearance-related side effects of chemotherapy and radiation. Through the American Cancer Society's Look Good…Feel Better program, a trained cosmetologist teaches skin care and make-up techniques, as well as how to pencil in eyebrows, position wigs and utilize head wraps and hats.
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Butcher Boy was bred by Frank Fitwater. He was born in Irving, TX on June 4, 1967. Norman Hooten obtained Butcher Boy at 6 weeks of age by trading $50.00 worth of horseshoeing to a man who knew Frank and had a litter of pups, but said that Frank would not sell a dog to a stranger or to anyone who did not come with references.
The man introduced Norman to Frank, the deal was made and he picked up his pup, or rather he picked him since he was the only one that came up to him and grabbed him by the pants legs and started shaking like a true bulldog. Frank and Norman became close friends and remained the same until Frank's death.
Butcher developed rapidly and later proved to be an outstanding dog. He was first rolled at 12 monthsof age against his littermate brother, Weaver's Mike. It was at this time that Norman knew that he had a special dog as he went deep into the shoulder and left holes like a 12-gauge shotgun. When scratched, he went low, hard and very fast with power like a fullback. Mike, who was owned and campaigned by Ed Weaver, went on to become a champion in his own right at a lighter weight than Butcher Boy, winning three and losing one. The one loss was because he went blind during the match adn couldn't find his opponent in time to beat the count.
At 16 months of age Butcher Boy was rolled into Carver's Rastus. This roll was better than many contracted matches witnessed by Norman. Maurice picked Rastus up at the :20 minute mark, stating that Butcher Boy was just too big for him, which he was. Norman believed that it was at that roll that Maurice start to take a real interest in Butcher Boy, though he was still doubtful about his gameness. Rastus went on to prove his greatness in his loss to the Tater dog i California in a match that went over 2 hours. Rastus proved beyond a doubt that he was indeed "dead game".
Danny Burton conditioned and handled Booger Red for this match. For the first :20 minutes both dogs had been fighting even, when Butcher Boy threw Booger Red and took a killing chest hold, cutting a artery, causing blood to spurt. After working this hold a few times, it was visible that Booger Red was in trouble. Red got to his feet, but could no longer fight even with Butcher Boy. A turn was called on Red at about the :30 minute mark. Red made agood, hard scratch, but was put down by Butcher Boy. A pickup and Butcher Boy went fast, knocking Red down and shaking hard. At about the :45 minute mark Red had about all he was capable of taking, when he was released he was unable to stand…he fell on the floor too weak to move. Butcher Boy the winner in :46. Booger Red took his death without a whimper.After a three dog test, Norman and Maurice started looking for a match and Maurice finally called and asked if he wanted to match into the 2X winner, Kennedy's Booger Red. He agreed and the match was made, set for the Oklahoma Convention.
It was in Butcher Boy's 2nd match, in 1969 in Mississippi, against Edward's Luke, a 2X winner, that Butcher Boy scratched into Luke so hard that he actually knocked Luke's handler completely OUT of the pit at least 5 times. At :15 minutes, a turn was called on Butcher Boy. Edwards was having a hard time holding his dog in the corner. :18 Luke scratches good with Butcher Boy meeting him in the center, hard. :21 Butcher scratches like a jet. The next 7 scratches came almost once every minute until Luke goes down in his corner and takes the count at :33 minutes, making Butcher Boy a 2X winner.
Butcher Boy's dam, Womack's Big Liz was also on the card for this convention winnig in :28 minutes.
The "Day of the Upsets" was in 1972 and that was day that Butcher Boy won his championship match over Corn's Smokey, a son of Bullyson. He was the only favorite to win his match, which went :18 minutes as Smokey just could not take what Butcher Boy had for him and quit cold. On this same card Bullyson was defeated by his son Benny Bob.
Shortly after his win over Smokey, it ws determined that he had heartworms adn was subsequently treated twice for the deadly parasite and retired from combat.
His true test came in 1973 at six years of age when he was brought out of retirement, after being treated for heart worms twice, to go into the 2X winner, Stinson, Glover & Co's Sampson. Sampson, Carver bred dog had beat a dog of M. Carver's at 56 lbs and was in his prime at 30 months of age. Because of Butcher Boy's age and the fact that it was known that he had been treated for heart worms twice, he was a 3 to 1 underdog going in. But, he beat Sampson by biting him down in 1:45 minutes in a classical match. Both, Sampson and Butcher Boy died after this great match. Butcher Boy was awarded Best of Show for his dead game , hard biting efforts.
Of the four contract opponents that faced Butcher Boy in the pit, only one survived- Corn's Smokey and he curred out in :15 minutes.
Champion Butcher Boy was a great dog and has been touted by many longtime, top dogmen who witnessed all his matches as perhaps the greatest 57lb. dog of the century, and most certainly the best 57lb. dog of his time. He was, truly, a once in a lifetime dog.
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Brexit dominates as May election lead narrows
British Prime Minister Theresa May said she would walk away from divorce talks with the European Union without a deal if she had to, but her rival in next week's election, Labour's Jeremy Corbyn, said he would make sure an agreement was reached if he won power. Ivor Bennett reports on how the two campaigns are fairing as May's lead continues to narrow.
She said she called the election to get a stronger hand in Brexit negotiations. No wonder then, as the polls continue to narrow, Theresa May is reminding voters what's at stake. (SOUNDBITE) (English) BRITISH PRIME MINISTER THERESA MAY SAYING: "We want to build a special, as I said, that deep and special partnership with the European Union that remains, because we're leaving the EU but we're not leaving Europe. And we will continue to co-operate on issues like security and defence because that's important for us all." The comments were a response to Angela Merkel's recent suggestion the EU could no longer rely on Britain. Also perhaps, to allay any concerns following a live televised interview barely 12 hours earlier, in which the Prime Minister reiterated, no less than five times, that no deal would be better than a bad one. (SOUNDBITE) (English) UK PRIME MINISTER THERESA MAY SAYING: "We will be there to negotiate the right deal but what I have said is no deal is better than a bad deal...we have to be prepared to walk out." Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's stance couldn't be more different. Saying, in the same event, that if he won power, he'd make sure an agreement would be reached. (SOUNDBITE) (English) UK LABOUR PARTY LEADER JEREMY CORBYN SAYING: "There is going to be a deal." Interviewer: "There is going to be a deal. Would you leave Europe without a deal?" "We will make sure there is a deal." Corbyn was trailing by as much as 18 points two weeks ago. But one poll published on Tuesday morning cut that to just 6. SOUNDBITE (English) JUSTIN URQUHART STEWART, HEAD OF CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT, SEVEN INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, SAYING: "The more that there's a weakness in poll leads then you'll see a weakness also potentially in sterling. And so that that's not what the market actually wants to see. They want to see a clear sensible clear victory for a majority for a government to be able to enact its policies." For whoever wins, Brexit is likely to be first on the agenda. Talks with Brussels begin just 11 days after the election.


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WEDNESDAY, July 20, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Alzheimer's disease may affect people's ability to recognize when they are in pain, a new study shows.
Undetected pain may allow underlying health issues to go untreated, leading to serious complications, such as organ damage, researchers from Vanderbilt University in Nashville cautioned.
For the three-year study, the researchers tested two groups of adults who were aged 65 or older. One group was made up of people diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, which affects thinking skills, memory and intellect. Members of the second group did not have the progressive neurological disease.
The study used a device to subject participants to different heat sensations and asked them to report their pain levels. After the tests, the researchers analyzed self-reported pain.
"We found that participants with Alzheimer's disease required higher temperatures to report sensing warmth, mild pain and moderate pain than the other participants," said study first author Todd Monroe, an assistant professor at Vanderbilt's School of Nursing. "What we didn't find was a difference between the two groups in reporting how unpleasant the sensations were at any level."
Participants with Alzheimer's were less able to recognize when they were in pain, but their pain tolerance was not diminished, the study found.
"While we found that their ability to detect pain was reduced, we found no evidence that people with Alzheimer's disease are less distressed by pain nor that pain becomes less unpleasant as their disease worsens," Monroe said in a university news release.
More studies are needed to explore pain perception among those with Alzheimer's disease, the researchers said. They added that doctors should use a variety of methods to evaluate patients' level of discomfort, including pain scales, behavioral changes and nonverbal cues, like facial expressions. This is particularly important once Alzheimer's patients begin having problems with verbal communication, the study authors said.
"As people age, the risk of developing pain increases, and as the population of older adults continues to grow, so will the number of people diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease," Monroe said. "We need to find ways to improve pain care in people with all forms of dementia and help alleviate unnecessary suffering in this highly vulnerable population."
The study findings were published recently in the journal BMC Medicine.
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Political Empowerment of Afro Descendent Women
If you follow the politics and you are quite involved in the story, then you most likely know, or you have at least heard about the terms like gender equality or political empowerment of women. Well, even if you don't follow the politics, you will bump into some gender equality articles online because that is a huge topic that is very popular because it is about a very important message and that is we are all equal no matter out the gender. In the politics, there was always a larger number of male politicians than female and the reason for that is because people have been treating women differently than a man. In society, it was always the situation that the man goes to work, and the women stay home to raise children.
Well, just like anything our society has changed and quite drastically because nowadays there far more women who work than there are housewives. When it comes to politics the situation is still somewhat different and the tension between female and male politicians can be seen, especially when it comes to afro descendent women. So, this has started from being just a gender thing to a color thing. Of course, nowadays, all of that is getting sorted and these issues are a part of the past.
Increasing Numbers
One of the greatest thing that we could see in politics lately is that there has been a significant increase in the numbers of women who are involved in politics. Of course, this is a great thing because there should be a gender equality even in the politics. We cannot just rely on the male ideas, we need to have another side some other perspective from women who can say freely what is exactly what they want and need. Having a different colored skin shouldn't represent any difference especially in politics. Unfortunately, there will always be people who will be against that, but we can do something about that.
People like that should be considered politicians because a color skin has nothing to do with politics. The only difference it makes is when someone is a racist and doesn't allow other races to participate in politics. As mentioned above the numbers of female politicians has been increasing rapidly in the past few years and that is a great thing.
If we want to further increase the political empowerment of afro descendent women, then we have a very simple job to do and that is to promote gender and race equality. Just like with anything else in the world if you want something to succeed, you have to promote it and bring it to people all around the world. People need to head the truth and that way maybe things will change for the better. That's why some of the female politicians are constantly promoting gender equality, even if it has become a boring subject to some people, they still continue to do it because they believe that is the key to success.


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Electric eels pack a formidable, high-voltage punch that they use for both hunting and defense. A new study shows that a predator doesn't even have to be fully submerged to get shocked: electric eels will leap from the water to directly electrify threats. Read all about the new. . . Read More
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Reaction: New York Senate Votes Against Marriage Equality, 24-38
I had no idea whether the Senate would pass this measure, but I'll bet everyone was surprised by the lop-sided margin by which it went down to defeat. So all of these months of wrangling and wondering whether the bill would even come to a vote end with…a thud. Very disappointing, especially since eighteen of the twenty-four supporters spoke during the debate, as compared with only one opponent.
To me, the opponents' silence says: "We know we don't have arguments that are compelling, and we don't want to stand against these many real-life stories of how the denial of equality affects our fellow New Yorkers. But we're afraid of the political ramifications of a "yes" vote."
It looks like NOM's threat to campaign against any Republican who supported the measure had some effect, but it's too simple to blame it all on that. There's still the matter of the Democrats who voted against it, some of whom appeared to have been supporters. What happened? How much of this is attributable to the voters' reaction to legislatively conferred marriage equality in Maine? And how will it affect the vote in neighboring New Jersey? (Prediction: Now, I'd be surprised if the matter even came to a vote. And if it does, expect another defeat.)
Is the glass filling, or emptying? 2009 has been an up-and-down year for marriage equality (and in that order, too — first "up" with results in Iowa, New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont; and then "down," with the California decision upholding Prop 8, the voter repeal of marriage equality in Maine, and now this). The year's not over, of course, as D.C. looks poised to enact marriage equality before year's end, so things may yet end on a positive note. But overall 2009 is ending on a down note.
More broadly, though, nothing will stop this movement. I know and believe this.
To end on a practical note: All the N.Y. Senate has done is to make getting married more of a challenge for New Yorkers: The state recognizes same-sex marriages from other states, and today's action didn't change that. Yet the legislature was unwilling to make life easier for gay couples: They still have to go to Massachusetts, Connecticut, or Canada (to name the three adjoining jurisdictions that recognize gay marriages) in order to marry.


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text: Quoted from review @ http://misscz.wordpress.comThe horn has long been the tool of the ErlKing, used to call his pack to the Wild Hunt. The Erlking and his pack would steal and destroy the souls of fallen warriors meant for Valhalla. The last victim of the Hunt was a Valkyrie. After her death, the ErlKing disappeared and the Hunt was no more. Now, someone is using the horn, and the Valkyrie — guardians and keepers of the souls at Valhalla — are determined to get the horn and stop the Wild Hunt forever. The only problem: they can't hear the horn. Their plan: follow the hellhounds and spy on them.Venge Leidolf is a hellhound, formerly bound to the witch, Lusse. Life in Lusse's kennel was horrible for her pack, particularly for Venge, who was brought into existence to be used against Risk, her pack's alpha and Venge's father. Venge has known only rejection, humiliation, and torture. Even when he was made aware of the fact, Risk had little choice but to show no interest in the fate of his son. He wanted Venge to live and eventually be free of Lusse, and he couldn't allow Lusse to use that weakness against him. With this background, it is no wonder that Venge cares for nothing and no one, with only one goal in life: killing Risk. Venge goes from place to place among the nine worlds, not caring if he lives or dies, acquiring skills and weapons he hopes will help him achieve his goal. When he hears the horn's call, Venge answers it more out of curiosity than anything else and sticks around just in case the horn can be of use in his quest to commit patricide.Geysa is half-Norn, half-Valkyrie. Norn are fortune-tellers, but Geysa's never shown talent in that area like her sister, Runa. Though she has the inborn talent of the Valkyrie, the ability to lure men's souls, Geysa doesn't feel much like a Valkyrie, either. To complicate matters more, the luring ability has an unexpected effect on the hellhounds, so Geysa must keep her emotions shielded. In an unguarded moment, she snares Venge.Venge frustrated and confused by Geysa. One moment he's irresistibly drawn to her and can smell her emotions, and the next — he still finds her attractive and her scent compelling, but he can't read her at all. Venge still finds himself falling for her, something he's never felt for anyone else, and is afraid to admit those feeling or dare to hope that the feelings are returned. For her part, Geysa feels guilty for entrapping him, not realizing that his desire for her — after the shields are back in place — is real. Geysa's mother was the last prey of the Hunt, so her hatred for hellhounds is more personal than the general enmity between the two races — yet she still wants to be with Venge, even if it means never returning to Valhalla.I really enjoyed this book. The world building, based on Norse mythology, is fun. I have to say, hellhounds are not very observant — I mean, they weren't a teeny bit suspicious of the fact that only Nordic warrior women seemed to live in the town. ;-) I loved the ending, and it seems that Lori left a few plot lines open for her future books. I think we haven't seen the last of Sigurd or the Valkyrie.


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Once upon a time credit was something that people turned their nose up at. People bought what they could afford and saved for what they coudn't. Today we seem to have gone the other way, we are constantly seeing news articles about people living beyond their means and getting into trouble over debt and several … [Read more…]


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Debbie Reynolds was yukking across the stage in a silver Afro wig ... to the tune of "Sgt. Pepper," from the golden trumpet of Harry James.
It was the older kids, mostly 10 and up, and I took her because it's fun to watch dance shows in a great, restored old theater and she wanted to see her own dance teacher and kids she knows from the school. So:
--Streisand. Jesus. Are you fucking kidding me, two different Streisand numbers? And of course one of them was the worst song in the history of recorded music ("Send in the Clowns," obviously). Un-fucking-BEARABLE.
--Tap looks like so goddamn much fun! I'm serious, I hated tap back in the day -- I was a ballet purist -- but I've reconsidered now that I'm old. That one Louis Prima number, particularly, was a blast.
--Some of these gals ... ah. How to say. Some of them could use a little womanly guidance in re: the art and science of chestal support garments. This fact made me actively cringe, because I know the girls are only preteens or teens, but take it from someone who's been stacked like Mamie van Doren since fourth grade: You're gonna dance, you're gonna need a real bra.
--The song "That's Life!" has been permanently ruined for me by the Howard Stern Show. Thanks to the parody song about Baba Booey, "Those Teeth," I could barely even deal with them dancing to it, for the laughing-on-the-inside going on in my head as I overlaid the lyrics with "Those teeth! (those teeeeeth!) They are green and / they are grey, his breath's so horrendous / his dentist passed away!" etc.
--Similarly, "Luck Be a Lady" -- hilarity-ruined by Krumholtz's a cappella version in Slums of Beverly Hills. We actually called Krumholtz "Luck Be a Lady" (with utmost appreciation, mind) for years before we learned his name, up here in the Gleemonex household.
--None of those gals would think it was funny if I added a strangled, hooting "Puh-in on 'e Riiiiiiz!" into their cool jazzy dance to the hybrid Astaire/Taco version of that song. They would think there was something really wrong, and sad, about me, is what, especially if I kept laughing for like three days about it the way I am actually doing right now.
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Hey guys I'd just come to the end of a book and it's like coming to the end of the road. In Alice Munro's stories, typically you get a sense of a full life lived. The characters' fates are intertwined, and really you get a sense of how their lives were by the persons whom they settle down with and the persons who had crossed their paths and then leave. And the strange twists of fate that meet some characters. You get a sense of poignancy when a partner dies, for instance, or when a daughter abandons a mother. Like all the props changed, know what I mean, and you become a different person almost. Transformation…that's what life is about. So that's what your poem's about.
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It's been a while. My mind's focusing elsewhere obviously. Yet I do return. Why? For clarity, for discovery, for connecting. Is that what writing does? Does writing serve that kind of purpose? Yes obviously. It clarifies the mud, even if the proposal is …mud itself. Yes. If you're not muddy you're not being real. If you're downright dogmatic, you're…a stick in the mud. But clarity is a wonderful thing, is it not? Like for days, for years, for decades you're stuck in some quagmire, and then one day you feel lucid, and the sun is sparkling. It's a little exaggerated perhaps, but maybe you're discerning what I'm talking about. And writing? Perhaps it's a bit like that. That's something for your poem to address.
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So what has been obsessing you these days? Surely there is something you're obsessed with? Like what do you keep thinking about? I confess, I have a new obsession with instagram stories. It's kind of like following different characters as they go about their daily lives. The locations are all over the globe. So there's Iceland, Paris, London, etc etc…and these stories unfold as things happen. Is it a waste of time you ask? You can of course answer it both ways. But I like that the stories take place elsewhere, and you get to see intimately what these characters see and experience, even if it's just an instagram moment. I was just talking about stories in the last prompt and these seem to be the real, undramatic stories that happen everyday to everyday people. Cinematic in their own way. So like say, you'revisiting a new place, how would you document it in your poem? Or if you're at home, what kind of moments do have you in a day?
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So I took my mind off poetry for a bit. It's like a reprieve. The pressure's off, isn't it, till it's back on. Back on? Who says? What gives this inner compulsion to write fiction? What gives, you tell me. Is it like having to say what you're thinking or feeling, in a story form? Check out this quote: "After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world." ― Philip Pullman. Think about storying in your poem.
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May 13 was the centennial celebration of Fatima. Three shepherd children had seen the apparition of Mary in the spring of 1917, whom they called Fatima, and received three prophecies. They then saw her a couple more times, a total of six, between then and 13 October 1917. On 13 October, a large crowd had gathered at the Cova da Iria, in Fatima, Portugal, and witnessed a sun dance.
"According to accounts, after a period of rain, the dark clouds broke and the sun appeared as an opaque, spinning disc in the sky. It was said to be significantly duller than normal, and to cast multicolored lights across the landscape, the people, and the surrounding clouds. The sun was then reported to have careened towards the earth before zig-zagging back to its normal position. Witnesses reported that their previously wet clothes became "suddenly and completely dry, as well as the wet and muddy ground that had been previously soaked because of the rain that had been falling" (Wikipedia)
On 13 May 2017, Pope Francis canonized two of the children, Jacinta and Francisco. They died at age 9 and 10 respectively. The third child, Lucia, lived till age 97.
In your poem, reference the supernatural. You might want to use the words provided by The Sunday Whirl.
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Hey you guys, how do you write? Do you do research, for instance, or do you wait for some kind of trigger? Do you extemporise? I do that a lot. Maybe it's all of the above. I was just watching Ellen DeGeneres do it.
And decided to do a "thinking out loud" poem. It's kind of being naked in your thoughts. And aren't we humans interested in that, "what were you thinking?" Do you dare think out loud?
Prompt for RWJ, Prompt 287
If you've lived long enough you might notice your own karma. Who do you attract? What patterns of relationships did you go through? It's as the saying goes, if you do not learn from history you're doomed to repeat it. So it's an endless cycle. When you shift, the universe also shifts. In Buddhist terms, it's called samsara. To be released from samsara is the ultimate spiritual goal. It's the state of nirvana. Pure bliss, pure emptiness–wahoo! I'm too steeped in stuff to even aspire to such a state, or even think such a state desirable. It's too ethereal for me. But shifts are possible. It is desirable to shift to another level of reality. That's what dreaming does. What art does. Do that in a poem.


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Amee - the Avoiding Mass Extinction Engine - has built up a loyal following since it launched in 2005, its strategy of developing a "Wikipedia for carbon data" approach hitting a very distinct need among government and big business alike.
The site, which has grown from 2.5 staff at the start to 12 today, has scored seven-figure funding from O'Reilly Alphatech Ventures, Tag Venture, and Union Square Ventures, one of the investors behind Twitter.
Most of the money will be spent on new staff, chief executive Gavin Starks told us, to build up expertise in the data and science teams and on the business development side, where Amee wants to expand many more partnerships.
Starks estimates Amee has calculated the carbon footprint of 1 million people. Will the recession make it tougher for these kind of socially minded sites? Quite the reverse, he says.
"As Tim O'Reilly said, people want to work on stuff that matters. The budgets for sheep-throwing applications will dry up first, but there are two more drivers. Firstly, people wants to save money and we can help with that by making consumption more visible, and secondly we can help particularly with a reduction in footprints and consumption."
David Miliband, no less, signed off the site when it launched in 2005 to support the government's Act on CO2 programme, and since then the roll call has extended to the UK and Irish governments, Google UK, Radiohead and Morgan Stanley.
The site harvests data from all manner of sources, both public and private, to help monitor and analyse the world's energy data. That data has also been used at several hack days, including the Guardian's last month and at BBC Mashed in June.
Footprint. Photograph: Frames-of-mind/Flickr/Some rights reserved


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What's the Best Title for This Wacky Listing? No, it's not attached to land.
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What's the Best Title for This Wacky Listing? No, it's not attached to land.
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Largest e-commerce Transaction of Any Kind. Ever.
The $96 online purchase of the Manhattan Towers office buildings in the Manhattan Beach area of Los Angeles, CA late last month was the single largest e-commerce transaction of any kind ever, and was confirmed by Guinness World Records.
Z57 real estate agents and brokers see an increasingly higher % of real estate marketing being done online in the past 10 years, and now some types of real estate transactions are being done completely online. The $96 million Manhattan Towers purchase was an auction for a commercial property, which makes it much different than a traditional residential real estate deal. And while this trend is growing most residential transactions will never be 100% online. But any record-breaking real estate deal is always great to hear about!
Read the full real estate article here.
Colorado Vacation Towns Now Calling it a Housing "Crisis"
Employees of resorts and other tourist-support businesses are having a hard time finding housing in Colorado's vacation towns, according to a new report by the ski industry. Property managers are even seeing potential renters offer higher than the monthly rent just to compete for the limited housing on the market.
Home owners' use of websites like AirBnB and Homeaway may be a major contributing factor. The vacation towns of Breckenridge and Durango are already responding with new policy and regulations.
Read the full housing article here.
Forms are Good News for Buyers, but N.A.R. Says Add 15 Days to House Contracts…
The 2 new "Know Before You Owe" federal mortgage forms replace 4 existing forms, and their use will be required starting October 3. Experts across both the real estate and mortgage industry agree that these forms provide additional clarity on the mortgage terms, which should help protect home owners from surprise charges.
Though actually a simplification and reduction of current mortgage application forms, the change over will likely cause a delay for many home purchase closings (at least temporarily). N.A.R. recommends real estate professionals add 15 days to contracts to accommodate for the delay.
See the Fed's official comparison of the old forms and the new "Know Before You Owe" forms here: http://www.consumerfinance.gov/knowbeforeyouowe/compare/
So Goes All U.S. Real Estate? Not Quite.
The ever-popular "Home in the Hamptons" just got cheaper. A lot cheaper, because a 7% discount off a $1.6 million house isn't pennies. Real estate in the Hamptons, NY dropped a steep 7% in value in Q2 2015, and the transaction volume plummeted by a whopping 16%.
Is this the beginning of the end for the U.S. housing recovering and boom? Is this the first of many bubbles to pop? The media and elite who traipse through Hamptons parties each summer would have you believing so, but they have also historically over-emphasized the importance of celebrity real estate moves in this exclusive market.
Real estate lifestyles of the rich and famous are more media market perception than actual market indicators, so this may just be "market bubble-popping" talk over popping the bubbly.
Read the full real estate market article here.
25% of All Jobs Created in Orange County, CA!
Contributing to new economic growth across the U.S., jobs related to the real estate industry are also a major factor in the recovery of local economies.
New jobs data shows a whopping 1 in 4 of all new jobs created in the past 5 years in Orange County, CA were in the real estate trades. This includes jobs created in real estate firms, as well as construction, lending, building services, architecture and engineering.
Read the full article on Orange County's real estate jobs impact here.
What's the Best Title for This Wacky Listing? Yes, it's actually on wheels.
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Learn from Brand Experts and the Stars of HGTV's "Selling New York"
Solid advice on defining what your real estate brand has to offer, the specific home buyers and sellers you're trying to reach, and then of course it's all about the relationships. Following the example of Kleier Residential, stars of "Selling New York", learn 6 great brand building tips that will help you focus on the right parts of your real estate business.
Mortgage Rates Back Up, and Purchases are up 32% from 1 Year Ago!
Good news for the real estate market from last week's mortgage rate data, as reported by the Mortgage Bankers Association. Not only did mortgage application volume bounce right back after rates dipped, but applications for new purchases are actually up 32% compared to 1 year ago!
Read the full mortgage news article here.
The Homes Are Actually Free, but It's 3 Stories of Reno
Everyone wants a free vacation, and a free vacation home… What could be better? The Italian mountain village of Gangi is giving away hundreds of homes for absolutely free, with 1 catch: These fixer uppers must be renovated to be livable within 4 years. And there may be some century-old animal smells lingering; the first and second stories of these 3 story farm houses (called pagglialore) were traditionally occupied by donkeys and chickens.
Good thing "rustic" is in, as this may be the perfect time to get your own authentic, rustic vacation home in Italy.


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It's always been folly to try to predict the many twists and turns the political machinations on Veep will take. But if there was any doubt about whether new show runner David Mandel would be able to keep up with Armando Iannucci, they went out the window in this week's episode, "Thanksgiving," when out of absolutely nowhere Jonah Ryan (Timothy Simons) found himself running for congressman of the state of New Hampshire. No one could have seen it coming, and yet it somehow makes complete sense.
Jonah's powerful uncle Jeff is a figure who has been often referenced but never seen in five seasons of the show. In a stroke of casting genius, Veep tapped Peter MacNicol to pack all of that Ryan family fury into a much smaller package. "Seeing the shortish Peter MacNicol screaming and bullying Jonah, we were biting our hands not to make noise," Mandel told The Hollywood Reporter.
It didn't take long for MacNicol to make an impression in his very first episode. But according to Simmons, MacNicol's character has been informing his all along. Explaining Jonah's teflon-like status, Simons told Variety last year:
Well, he is kind of a cockroach in that way. Nothing keeps him down. He is one of those people who was told he was very special at a young age and he believes that. In spite of all evidence to the contrary, he was told that he was going to do great things. That confidence never wavers even in the face of all of his failures and his lack of skill and talent. I think, also in the back of his head, he knows he's protected because of his (high-ranking) uncle Jeff. That blind faith in himself is what helps him get through it.
An exquisite childhood portrait of Jonah on his mother's living room wall paints an even better, silent picture of Jonah's privileged background.
Jonah will take that bravado into his own election storyline with plenty more of uncle Jeff and, I hope Richard (Sam Richardson) by his side. And even though his uncle is setting him up as a straw candidate, there's a very good chance Jonah could win this election based on thee confidence alone. "The one thing you can say about Jonah and the way Tim plays him: he does not lack confidence in his ability to get in somewhere and burrow in like a tick," Mandel says. "Like a lot of these guys you meet in D.C., he's got an 80-part plan, he's already writing his autobiography and this is just one of the many steps in his rise to power."
The long view on this Jonah Ryan election plot? It could mean Selina will have to curry favor with him. "In a tied election with the country split down the middle, this could be the vote," Mandel explains. "You can hate Jonah, but he could be the vote. This is the most important thing in the world."
And just like that, Jonah Ryan of all people becomes an important piece on the chess board. We learned enough in this episode not to take our eyes off Tom James (Hugh Laurie), but it will be fun to watch Jonah flail while waiting for the other James shoe to drop.


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April 7, 2012
Varutharacha Kozhi curry / Chicken in roasted coconut gravy - Easter special
20 comments:
The recipes handed down by generations are always the BEST. Your chicken curry sounds delicious. Totally mouthwatering :).ReplyDelete
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Have a wonderful weekend.
Yummy and spicy curry for rice. Looks so tempting. Happy Easter!!!ReplyDelete
yummy chicken curry....super...Happy Easter...ReplyDelete
Omg, ur chicken curry makes me hungry..ReplyDelete
Mmmhhhh... Looks so spicy n yummyReplyDelete
Awesome recipe dear...bookmarked..happy Easter.ReplyDelete
looks so inviting.....;)ReplyDelete
Delicious gravy.. Very tempting..ReplyDelete
luks just hot hot hot...have a happy weekend dear..ReplyDelete
Very tempting chicken !! looks yummy !! Bookmarked !!ReplyDelete
Ongoing event
CC:Spring Seasonal Food
wow yum yum...love the coconut curry chicken....mouth watering!ReplyDelete
Very delicious n yummy yum chicken curry..I too have posted a chicken recipe,same pinch:-)ReplyDelete
Happy Easter :-)
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cant wait to taste now..awesomeReplyDelete
Tasty Appetite
Delicious chicken curry.loved the colour.ReplyDelete
I love all your recipes. They are always well selected and look so delicious. The chicken recipe looks so flavourful and scrumptious.ReplyDelete
Delicious and tempting gravy..Bookmarked it!!ReplyDelete
hi ramya, this is the attraction- there's so many ingredients especially spices that makes this dish very flavorful- i am sure it is. bookmarked with thanks. have a nice dayReplyDelete
It is really mouthwatering... love it..ReplyDelete
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Looks delicious and great clicks:)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 21, 2013 at 4:24 PM
Going to try this tonight, will let you know the result.ReplyDelete


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I am smitten with Korean-style fried chicken wings. I've tried a few of the popular ones and keep coming back. So you can guess it's only a matter of time before I try my hand at making my own, right? During one of her mad Korean chicken wing cravings, my friend Cla found herself trying a recipe she found online and discovered it to be successful.
Curious, I tried it myself and found it pretty good. I tweaked it a bit to suit my own preferences but it's mostly a winner. The sweetness is just right, complementing the ginger and garlic flavors without overpowering. I did a spicy version relying on gochujang (I skipped the chili flakes and tabasco from the original recipe) which tasted wonderful, too.
Korean-style Fried Chicken Wings
v. 8 November 2011
Fried Chicken
- 12 chicken wings, split into two pieces
- 1 Tbs rice wine
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp peppercorns
- 4 garlic cloves, pounded whole
- 1 small onion, halved
- enough cornstarch to dredge the chicken wings
- enough oil to deep-fry the chicken
- Clean the wings in cold water. Soak in cold water, drain and repeat twice. Leave it soaking in cold water, draining only right before you boil it.
- In a pot, bring to boil enough water to cover the chicken. Add the rice wine, salt, peppercorns, garlic and onion.
- Once the water is boiling, add the chicken. Boil for about 10 minutes.
- Drain the wings, rinse with cold water and drain again.
- Place the wings in a bag with cornstarch. Toss around until the wings are lightly coated.
- Fry in hot oil until crisp. Drain then glaze.
Chicken Glaze
- 2 Tbsp soy sauce
- 4 Tbsp rice wine
- 4 garlic cloves, minced finely
- 1 tsp grated ginger
- 3 Tbsp honey
- 1 Tbsp brown sugar
- For the spicy version: 3 Tbsp gohchujang (Korean chili paste)
- Mix all the glaze ingredients. Simmer until the sauce thickens to a maple syrup like consistency—it should still be runny, otherwise, it won't glaze your chicken evenly.
- In a roomy covered container, add a few pieces of chicken. Drizzle some glaze on top. Cover and shake until the chicken pieces are evenly coated. Use the glaze sparingly, add just a teaspoonful at a time until you find the right amount. Serve and enjoy!
If like me, you enjoy alternating between the soy-garlic and spicy wings, simply mix all the soy-garlic glaze ingredients, then split it between two containers. Add 1 1/2 Tbsp gochujang to one container. Then, simmer the two sauces separately—first the soy-garlic, then when it's done, the spicy one. Whatever you do, always do the steps for the non-spicy first (simmering, glazing) so you don't accidentally spike the soy-garlic with residual gohchujang.
While I find the flavors spot-on, I'm still planning on revising this recipe—mostly with the parts involving the chicken. Next version will probably be full-on double fried for maximum crispiness that stays crispy even a couple of hours later. But as to the glazes, I'm already more than happy with this version.
If you try this recipe and make revisions, please let me know how it goes. Looking forward to hearing from you guys!