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Editor's note: Below is chapter one of Nancy Grace's new novel, "'Death on the D-List" published by Hyperion. Nancy anchors "Nancy Grace" on HLN nightly at 8 and 10 p.m. ET.
The flight up from Atlanta to Manhattan had been pretty painless. Of course, the security lines and hassle of traveling through the Atlanta Airport were hell on earth, but that was a given.
Once Hailey Dean stepped off the Delta 757 and onto the jetport connecting the plane to the terminal, suddenly so much came rushing back. It had been a little over a year, but walking through LaGuardia past Nathan's Hot Dogs, the magazine and newspaper stands, down the escalator and to the taxi stand outdoors, it felt like she'd never left. It felt the same as before.
Before two of her favorite clients were murdered at the hands of a man who was once her courtroom adversary, a man who not only passed as an upstanding and highly successful member of the Georgia State Bar, but before that, as an Atlanta beat cop. For just a moment, Hailey felt Matt Leonard's hands around her neck again.
Hailey shook the sensation off and moved forward a couple of steps in the taxi line. After a few moments, the next cabbie approached and she hopped in the back seat. Although brusque as expected, he hoisted her only bag into the car trunk, slammed it shut and slid into the driver's seat in front of her.
"Where to?" The cabbie didn't turn around, just directed the question towards the rearview mirror.
She'd learned long ago not to speak too many words to New York cab drivers. With what was left of her Southern accent after living in Manhattan, they could hardly understand a word she said.
"Fifty-fourth Street. Manhattan." She clipped it out short and firm. Less words to misunderstand. It all came back to her without even thinking. The cabbie said nothing, just gunned the motor as dirty-gray snow churned up from the tires and out to the sides of the car.
Hailey buckled her seat belt and leaned back against the seat of the cab, looking out as Queens raced by outside her window. The row houses jammed together along short streets visible from the Long Island Expressway, diners, apartment buildings, billboards ... it all blended together ... not particularly beautiful, but strangely familiar and somehow reassuring despite the fact that it wasn't really her home. The Southland was home and always would be. But New York was part of her now, and she didn't realize she'd missed it until she saw it and smelled it and breathed it again. In that very moment, there in the back of the cab, she was glad to be back.
They exited the FDR just before the UN rose into view, turned right, and careened around the corner and lurched to a stop. Hailey gave the driver cash, declined a receipt and pulled her own bag out of the taxi's deep trunk. Hailey always traveled light, so it wasn't tough to yank it out and let it drop to the curb. She turned and looked all the way up to the top of her apartment building to where its roof met the sky. Way up there, thirty-one flights above, was Hailey's cottage in the sky.
Taking the steps up as quickly as she could while pulling the bag behind her, she wondered briefly if the flowers would start up again now that she was back in Manhattan. Ever since two of her patients were brutally strangled, followed by her own false arrest for the murders, the arresting officer, Lieutenant Ethan Kolker, had tried to make amends. As best he could, anyway.
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It started small with the old standby, a dozen roses. When she'd promptly had the florist pick them up as a "return," another dozen came, and then, another. When those too were returned, more thought was put into the order. Kolker tried it all, violets, calla lilies, somehow even finding her favorites, stargazers and Cherokee Roses. They too had gone straight back from whence they came, to the florist ... every last petal.
Although they were beautiful, flowers never impressed Hailey. In fact, flowers made her feel guilty, that such beautiful creations were cut and pulled from the fields (or hothouses) where they flourished, for the fleeting whims of a human. Hailey never responded verbally or in written form to the flowers from Kolker, nor did he ever include any written apology or explanation of his thoughts.
Then came the chocolates. A succession of edible treats, also including no communication of regret, sorrow or epiphany, arrived and were returned as well, this time directly to Kolker's precinct in downtown Manhattan ... no note attached.
Kolker could always tell the boxes had been opened, then carefully repacked and returned with no comment whatsoever, always returned in the boxes in which they'd been sent, a new mailing address placed directly over Hailey's own home address.
Sure enough, when Hailey pushed through the heavy glass revolving door into her building's lobby, Ricky the doorman came from around the front desk to give her a big hug.
"Where you been? I missed you! Way to keep in touch ... Not!" He ribbed her a tiny bit. Hailey had seen him graduate from college and doggedly follow his dream to become a sportscaster. She hugged him back tightly but before she could respond, he said "And hey! You've already got a package. Let me get it for you." He bounded back to behind the front desk and into a storage area behind an open side door where the doormen stashed deliveries.
This time it was a box, wrapped, as usual, in plain brown paper. One look at the handwriting and Hailey knew it was from Kolker.
"How'd he know I was coming back?"
"Who's he? The dentist again?' He didn't give up yet?"
Ricky had no problem getting up in her business. He was referring to Adam Springhurst, the dentist who practiced in an office beneath Hailey's down in the Village. They'd had a fleeting relationship around the time of the murders, but it left Hailey with the feeling she was cheating on Will by even considering dating again. Her heart wasn't in it, and she'd disengaged as best she could, sure she came off as cold and uncaring. It was actually just the opposite: She couldn't afford to care. It could hurt too much.
In any event, because Hailey ended up applying Adam's dentist drill, whirring at full force, into the temple of the defense lawyer who'd stalked her and murdered her two friends, things between them had been on hold, for lack of a better term.
"No, not the dentist ... the cop."
"What cop? Not the one that arrested you? He's the only cop that's ever been here ..."
"That's the one. How did he know I was coming back?" She repeated the question.
His eyes got wide to display innocence. "I don't know ... it wasn't me! Ask the morning shift. You know how Julio is ... He'll tell anything for a hundred bucks!"
"Don't you worry, I'll do just that."
"Don't tell him I told you! Hey, you need help with that box? It's kind of big. Want me to carry it up?
"No. Thanks, though, I can manage." Hailey glanced at the clock sitting on the counter of the front desk. "Wait, on second thought, let me just dump my bag here. I've got to get across town. I'll pick them both up tonight. You hold it for me? The box and the bag?"
"You got it, sunshine."
Hailey turned and headed back out. She hurried down the steps and up the sidewalk to First Avenue. Looking into oncoming traffic and holding her right arm up high, Hailey quickly hailed a cab. She slid into the back seat with nothing but her purse and her pad of handwritten notes.
"West side, Sixth Avenue and 59th." Hailey rolled the window down to catch the breeze and the driver began inching through traffic across town to the West side. All the television networks were there, HLN and CNN in the Time Warner Center looking down on Central Park and Columbus Circle. Fox there on the corner at Avenue of the Americas, with American flags flying out front, CBS, NBC, ABC ... They all made their homes here.
Hailey was glad she stopped at her apartment, vacant for nearly a year now. But after the murders of Hayden and Melissa, not to mention her own near-strangulation, she needed to leave the city. She wanted to go home and see the red dirt, smell the azaleas' perfume in the air, feel the hot afternoons heavy with humidity, see her mother and father.
The apartment sat there during it all, quietly waiting for her to come back. She paid Ricky to water her plants and crack the windows an inch or two every couple of weeks. Her mail had all been forwarded to a post office box in Atlanta. Not that she ever read it. It was all bills and catalogues and flyers. She paid all her bills online, and as for shopping, she'd rather be beaten with a stick than set foot in a shopping mall, much less spend her free time thumbing through a catalogue.
When she left the courtroom years before, the need for new business clothes to wear in front of juries no longer existed. No more long-sleeved black and navy dresses, black pumps, hose. In fact, she hadn't forced herself into a pair of pantyhose in years and the clients she counseled in her psychologist's practice would suspect something very amiss, even downright wrong, if they saw her in anything but her favorite pair of worn jeans and scuffed brown cowboy boots. Living in Manhattan where everything was cement, she'd already had the boots resoled twice, but there was no way she'd break down and buy another pair. These fit just right.
Sights and sounds of the city glided past as she looked out the backseat window. Throngs of pedestrians at every corner waiting to flood into the crosswalks, vendors cooking God knows what. Hailey called it "street meat"; she never really knew what it was, but it sure smelled good. Makeshift carts selling knock-off purses, watches, pashminas, scarves, and jewelry. The big avenues going north and south, up and down. The island floated by ... First Avenue, Second and Third, Lexington, Park, Fifth, Sixth ... before she knew it, the cabbie hit the brakes in front of GNE, Global News and Entertainment.
With her purse on her shoulder and her notepad clutched to her chest, Hailey wove through the people milling in front of the towering skyscraper that housed GNE. She'd never been in the building before, although she'd jogged by it many times in the past en route to Central Park. She rarely detoured off her regular jogging path up and down the East River. To get to the park from the East side required ducking through hundreds of cars, thousands of pedestrians and way too many exhaust fumes. Whenever she did do it however, she was always struck by the park's beauty. The first time she ran through it forever stuck in her mind.
It was a brilliant Sunday morning and she'd been running over an hour when she unexpectedly came upon the park exit leading to the Plaza Hotel. At a distance, she saw a gold-plated statute, high up on a pedestal, shiny and glittering in the sun. It was one of the largest around. Wondering who deserved such glory, she stopped running and walked up to see it.
It turned out to be a shrine erected to William Tecumseh Sherman, the Union General responsible for literally burning a wide, sweeping swath of a path through the South, including the city of Atlanta, during the Civil War. The destruction of country so beautiful -- carried out not to win the war, but out of pure joy at the South's devastation -- remained a dagger in the hearts of many Southerners to the present day.
"Driver's license, ID" An old, gray GNE security guard repeated the phrase by rote without looking up from behind a long, glossy bleached wood counter.
Fishing through the deep leather purse hanging on her shoulder, Hailey pulled out her old District Attorney's badge, cased in an old worn wallet holder. From behind the shiny gold badge, she pulled her Georgia driver's license and held it over the counter for the guard to inspect. He took it from her hand and began copying the information down on a sign-in sheet. Looking around, Hailey noticed several well-dressed security guards strategically placed throughout the lobby. They all wore blue sports coats with grey pants, with nearly invisible earpieces in their ears.
"Hailey Dean, Hailey Dean. That name rings a bell." He looked up at her and then lowered his glasses to peer at her over their upper rims. "Right. I remember you. I read all about you in the Post, saw you on the TV too. That nut-job lawyer almost did you in, but you got him good. Right in the head. Dentist drill, right? Man I'd like to do it to my lawyer. Made my divorce worse than the old lady did. Almost called the divorce off just to get rid of the lawyer!"
The last thing she wanted to talk about was the night she was nearly murdered. She remembered the feel of Leonard's hair, slicked back as always, when her hand, clutching the buzzing dentist drill, slammed into his temple. She never remembered actually turning the thing on.
Funny how little details like that can bug you for the longest time.
Hailey managed a smile, telling herself the security guard's heart was in the right place.
"Yep. Hailey Dean. Right in the head with a dentist drill. Wonder if the dentist used that drill again. He shoulda framed it. Right?"
Before Hailey had to come up with a response, she heard her named screeched out across the large expanse of the GNE lobby floor.
"Hailey! Hailey Dee-e-an! You made it! You're so much smaller than you look on TV! I thought you were at least five feet ten! I just love it!"
From "Death on the D-List" by Nancy Grace. Copyright ©2010, Toto Holdings LLC. Published by Hyperion. Available wherever books are sold. All rights reserved.
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Mongolia holds National Consultation on Legal Empowerment of the PoorMar 27, 2013
Legal empowerment of the poor is an internationally recognized concept which aims to tackle underlying causes of poverty that are related to legal framework, including both the actual laws and the way the laws are implemented. While this may sound reasonable, it is still general and abstract, and does not help much in changing legal and policy environment for the poor.
The National Consultation on Legal Empowerment of the Poor held on 27 March 2013 brought this concept to local context and rediscovered it through life experiences of ordinary people and small business owners as well as policy makers who attempt to reduce poverty but face various challenges.
A 30 minute drama played live on the stage of the meeting hall was quite a surprise to everyone. Preceding formal opening speeches, the drama set the tone of the meeting and conveyed the key messages. A young rural woman running a small eatery struggles to get a loan to expand her business, but encounters barriers related to unrealistic high criteria, dubious procedures, and bureaucratic red tape. Soon she receives an order from the village administration to close the business, again with no justification other than "complaints from citizens". Unable to overcome these hurdles and social pressure against a woman running her own business, she gives up and decides to move to the city.
The National LEP consultation had four parallel sessions: Access to justice, labour rights, property rights and business rights. Each of the sessions was full of stories and evidences where individuals or groups are unable to escape poverty because of certain provisions of laws or certain procedures that had been adopted to implement laws:
"My name was spelled wrong in the civil registration database, the reason for not being able to get my social welfare payments. I am an elderly person who also takes care of my orphan grandchildren".
"I am a judge and I have to keep neutrality, but I see that stamp duty for civil cases really affects access to justice by the poor. Poor people do not get proper legal service. As a result, they fail to submit all necessary documents which may significantly affect the outcome of court decisions".
"If we enforce all the standards, the majority of small businesses would need to be closed".
The National LEP consultation was co-organized by the Ministry of Justice and the National Human Rights Commission of Mongolia, and attended by representatives from the Ministry of Labour, General Authority for Civil Registration, General Police Department, trade unions and employers' association. One of the key conclusions of the meeting was that some policies and programmes designed for poverty reduction actually benefit medium and large businesses and wealthy herders. Instead of protecting the poor, some laws and procedures actually exclude them.
Recommendations of the consultative meeting will be presented to the Parliament of Mongolia and will be used in policy advocacy, both at national and local levels.

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Ellen Page accuses Brett Ratner of 'outing' her on X-Men set
Actress Ellen Page has accused filmmaker Brett Ratner of exposing her sexuality on the set of X-Men: The Last Stand before she was ready to 'come out' as a lesbian.
The Juno star recalled the alleged incident as part of a lengthy Facebook post on Friday (10Nov17), when she detailed how widespread sexual harassment is in Hollywood, based on her own experiences.
Page claimed her reported encounter with Ratner occurred during a "meet and greet" for the cast and crew of the 2006 superhero movie, which he directed.
"He looked at a woman standing next to me, ten years my senior, pointed to me and said: 'You should f**k her to make her realize she's gay,'" Ellen recounted. "He 'outed' me with no regard for my well-being, an act we all recognize as homophobic."
The actress, who only went public with her sexuality in 2014, was too shy to say anything at the time, and noted no one else around her dared to address the inappropriate comment either.
"I was a young adult who had not yet come out to myself," she continued. "I knew I was gay, but did not know, so to speak. I felt violated when this happened. I looked down at my feet, didn't say a word and watched as no one else did either."
After Ellen shared her story on social media, her X-Men: The Last Stand co-star Anna Paquin backed up her claims via Twitter, writing, "I was there when that comment was made. I stand with you @EllenPage".
Meanwhile, elsewhere in her Facebook post, Page also revealed she had suffered other instances of alleged sexual misconduct, including having an unidentified director grope her leg during a dinner meeting when she was 16, the same year another filmmaker urged her to sleep with an older man and tell him all about it.
At the end of her piece, Ellen celebrated the fact so many victims of sexual abuse and harassment are finally finding their voices in light of the Harvey Weinstein controversy, after the movie boss was accused of inappropriate behaviour by a string of women in an initial New York Times article in early October (17).
"What are we afraid to say and why can't we say it?," she mused. "Women, particularly the most marginalized, are silenced, while powerful abusers can scream as loudly as they want, lie as much as they want and continue to profit through it all.
"This is a long awaited reckoning. It must be."
Ratner's representatives have yet to respond to requests for a comment.
Earlier this month (Nov17), he issued a firm denial after six women, including actresses Natasha Henstridge and Olivia Munn, went public with sexual harassment and assault allegations against Ratner in a Los Angeles Times expose.
His lawyer Martin Singer issued a statement at the time, declaring, "I have represented Mr. Ratner for two decades, and no woman has ever made a claim against him for sexual misconduct or sexual harassment…"


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Stark County law officers have responded to a few crashes Tuesday morning ahead of an expected winter storm that could bring more than a foot of snow.
As most eastern Ohioans brace for a winter storm, Stark, Carroll and Tuscarawas counties are under a National Weather Service-issued "winter storm warning" that could bring up to a foot of snow to parts of the area.
Ohio Highway Patrol troopers from the Canton post responded to three or four crashes overnight, but no serious injuries were reported, a dispatcher said about 7:45 a.m.
At the time, troopers were on the scene of wrecks at Faircrest Street and Sherman Church Avenue SE, and at Orchardview Drive SE and Trump Avenue SE, but no one was seriously injured in those crashes, she said.
Jackson Township police were called at 4:06 a.m. Tuesday to a two-vehicle crash in the 5400 block of Frank Avenue NW. One person was taken to an area hospital, but the crash remained under investigation and few details were available early Tuesday.
Sgt. Mark Maskaluk of the Stark County Sheriff's Department noted that county road crews evidently had been working throughout the night in preparation for the storm.
"They've been putting salt down all night long and we're in pretty good shape," he said, adding that "tomorrow might be a different story."
The National Weather Service issued the winter storm warning to be in effect from noon Tuesday through 4 a.m. Thursday.
The weather service's website said the local forecast of 6 to 10 inches of snow could grow to up to 16 inches in areas that typically experience lake-effect snowfall.
"Most of the widespread accumulation will occur from Tuesday afternoon through daybreak on Wednesday," the website said.
At 8 a.m., the temperature at the Akron Canton Airport was 30 degrees under overcast skies with a windchill making it feel more like 22 degrees and winds out of the southwest at 9 mph.
The temperature was expected to rise to 33 degrees during the day with a 90 percent chance of snow growing to 100 percent Tuesday night, when winds could be expected out of the north up to 17 mph, the weather service said.
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KITTERY — Police responded to the Kittery Trading Post on Monday for a shoplifting incident that turned violent.
While en route to the call, responding officers were informed the loss prevention staff at the business were in a physical altercation with the suspect.
Upon the officer's arrival they took female suspect into custody.
During the investigation it was learned that the woman had attempted to exit the store with more than $300 worth of stolen merchandise and when the loss prevention staff attempted to block her exit the suspect is alleged to have punched a loss prevention employee in the head.
During the altercation a second loss prevention employee sustained a minor injury to his hand.
Christina Moore, 29, of Somersworth was charged with robbery, a Class A crime.
Maine law states that a person is guilty of robbery if the person commits or attempts to commit a theft and at the time intentionally inflicts or attempts to inflict bodily injury on another.
Kittery police state that additional charges may be added at the time of indictment as they report the suspect provided false identification during the booking process. Likely charges are to include aggravated forgery.
Kittery police have also charged Moore as a fugitive from justice, resulting from an outstanding warrant in New Hampshire for violation of a court order stemming from narcotic offenses.
Moore is being held at York County jail on $10,000 cash bail.
She is to be arraigned at York County Superior Court at 8:30 a.m. Oct. 29.
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KITTERY — Police responded to the Kittery Trading Post on Monday for a shoplifting incident that turned violent.


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The New Year is coming… be cheerful and celebrate! The Year is coming to an end, and as you say goodbye to 2014 let yourself discard old, worn-out energies, habits, and feelings. With the New Year you will invite a fresh perspective, and the motivation to begin again.
Transition into the New Year free of all negative energetic cords. Energetic cords are the links that have been created between you, and another person, place thing, or idea. This link creates a two-way line of energy allowing you to feed-off of, or giveaway your energy… and vice versa.
If these energetic cords are attached to something negative… you will feel drained, apathetic, depressed, and stagnant.
Let yourself have time for introspection to evaluate your energetic cords, and investments. Go on a journey to find what you are giving your energy to. What things have you invested in over the past year? Have your investments yielded positive results? Does your spirit feel nourished?
Take at least 15 mins to a half hour of time to meditate. Contemplate where your energy has been going through the last year. And then shift yourself into where you would like to invest that energy in 2015. What seed would you like to sew?
Get to the heart of these issues and call back you energy… so that you can consciously manifest what you want out of life!
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Mr. Speaker, I know that in opposition we can often have it both ways. We can demand that the government spend money and then criticize it when there is a deficit.
I would just caution members not to be shrill on the issue of the $56 billion deficit when in fact just months ago we were demanding that the government bring in a stimulus package. Then, when it brought it in, we said it was not big enough and it should be larger.
In opposition we have a responsibility to not only criticize the government for deficits when they exist but also to offer suggestions as to how we should deal with the deficit, such as raising taxes. That is just one of the problems of being in opposition.
I know years ago in Manitoba a Conservative opposition member said, "Well, you know, in opposition, we can have it both ways; we can demand you spend money on a new bridge one day and the next day we can criticize you for increasing the deficit on that same bridge". It is something that we have to be a little careful about when we are criticizing.
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ubstations facilitate the efficient and reliable transmission and distribution of electricity.
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FACTS (Flexible Alternating Current Transmission Systems) technologies provide more power and control in existing AC as well as green-field networks and have minimal ...
The competitive energy market requires innovative and reliable solutions for effective integration of power from conventional and renewable generation plants, and ...
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Analyzers for process and laboratory applications improving performance, quality and productivity.
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Wir produzieren Motorstarter.
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Die Kleinschütze B6 und B7 sind für Leistungen von 4 kW und 5,5 kW AC3 / 400 V ausgelegt. Weiterhin steht eine kompakte Wendeschützkombination zur Verfügung. Sämtliche ...
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Tuesday November 30 1999 12:00:00 AM
Session's Rate:
Wind direction: No wind
Wind Strength: Glassy
Nb waves ridden: 100
Length of the surf session: 360 min
Surfboard ridden: 6"1, squash tail,
Weather and water temp: perfect
Waves height: 2.5m-3m / 8ft-10ft
Waves Quality:
- Powerful
Waves Shape:
- One peak
It was on december, in this beach the wave brakes a lot into the sea, so you have to paddle a lot to get to the point.
Once i got to the point the waves were like 8ft to 1ofts perfect conditions. in the firts wave I rode, my brother yelled me from the inside not to go, cause it was a 10 feets peak. I didnt listen to him and I rode the whole wave, form the peak to the shore.
Most of the waves were rigths, but you can also ride lefts. The rigths were longer thna the lefts.
It was very funny and full of adrenaline tooo, cause you had a confortable take off, an easy bottom turn and a complete wall to bust whatever you want and never close out.
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About This Camp
Are you brand new to the game or coming back after taking years off? Get Golf Ready is the program for you. Get Golf Ready is a program created by the PGA of America. Through extensive research by the Boston Consulting Group, the PGA has created a proven method to get you on the course and playing! It is an affordable way to learn the game for beginners. Through a series of 5 lessons, taught by our Head Golf Professional Chase Wells, you will learn the basics on putting, chipping, sand shots, full swing, and how to keep pace. Rental sets are provided free of charge.
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Movie Reviews
'Dead Man Down': A Gang-War Drama That's Practically DOA
Dead Man Down
- Director: Niels Arden Oplev
- Genre: Crime Drama
- Running Time: 110 minutes
Rated R; graphic violence, including torture, profanity, sexual situations
Language: English, French, Hungarian, Albanian and Spanish with English subtitles
With: Colin Farrell, Noomi Rapace, Dominic Cooper
Dead Man Down is the first American film from Niels Arden Oplev, director of the original Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, but it's not very American. This twisty existential thriller is set in a New York City that's as sun-deprived as Stockholm in January — and one in which nearly everyone speaks English as a second language.
The principal players are Victor, a ruthless thug portrayed by Irish actor Colin Farrell, and Beatrice, a scarred beautician embodied by Hispano-Swedish actress Noomi Rapace, the original dragon-tattoo girl. Victor is supposed to be Hungarian-born, while Beatrice is so French that her mother is played by Isabelle Huppert. (Seriously. Isabelle Huppert.)
The story gets going at full speed, as two tough guys — Victor and his earnest pal Darcy (Dominic Cooper) — are summoned by their boss, Alphonse (Terrence Howard). One of their cohorts has just turned up iced in a freezer, and the elegant but excitable Alphonse wants revenge.
So the well-dressed, carefully pomaded gangster leads a raid on a rival drug lord, who's Jamaican. Cue heavy patois, heavier gunplay and a nearly naked hooker's quick exit. Only then does Oplev get around to rolling the opening credits.
Dead Man Down is a tangle of plots and counterplots, propelled by surprises that are — sometimes — actually surprising. The plot can't be summarized without doing major damage to the experience of watching the movie .... well, of watching the movie lurch, whirl and tease its way to the inevitable climactic shootout.
Let's just say that Victor (the title's "dead man") and Beatrice are both fixated on revenge, and while their causes are entirely separate, they eventually come to overlap. And that both live in a world where justice is available only to people who seize it. There is some talk of cops, lawyers and judges, but all major disputes are finally settled by warring clans or obsessed loners.
Ethnically, the battle pits a polyglot New York gang against an Albanian one against a lone Hungarian with a Magyar support group led by F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus' Salieri). Armand Assante takes a quick spin as a Mafia type who has some sort of supervisory power over Alphonse. The Jamaican drug dealers are included mostly as cannon fodder, and so the score can feature some thumping dance-hall reggae.
J.H. Wyman's script is grim and fairly audacious, without anything so goofy as the silliest stuff in Dragon Tattoo. The story involves some Grand Guignol violence, but its wildest notion is that a suicide-mission plot might somehow yield a happy ending.
Among Dead Man Down's attractions are vigor, panache and — if you like that sort of thing — a bracingly sour worldview. Drawbacks include a palette so dark that viewers will be tempted to clean their glasses or scan the theater for a contrast knob.
The movie's biggest problem, though, is that it just isn't very much fun. The filmmakers recognize that the premise is fairly absurd and try to show they're in on the joke with some comic relief involving cookies, a lucky rabbit's foot and Isabelle Huppert. (Seriously. Isabelle Huppert. As comic relief.)
The shtick seems extraneous, however, and it fails to ease the movie's severity. This is a tale about the sacred obligation of vengeance, and watching it is a bit of a chore.


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Thule 934PRO 4-Bike Hitch Rack
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The 934PRO is Thule's most popular and user-friendly hitch rack. Dual arms with protective cradles secure up to four bikes for safe and stable transport. Tilt-away design gives you easy access to the rear of your vehicle. Fits most frame sizes and designs.
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Community Cinema ~ Beauty Is Embarrassing
- Library Hall
Bud Werner Memorial Library and the Steamboat Springs Arts Council present a free screening and discussion of the PBS Independent Lens documentary Beauty Is Embarrassing, a film by Neil Berkeley.
Beauty Is Embarrassing is a funny, irreverent, joyful and inspiring documentary featuring the life and current times of one of America's most important artists, Wayne White.
"A future perennial favorite on the order of Crumb." — Austin Chronicle
"Zippy… Delightful… The doc exudes the relieved good vibes of a narrowly-averted tragedy, and has a broad enough appeal to draw arthouse audiences from both high-falutin' and punk-rock constituencies." — The Hollywood Reporter
"Frantic, sentimental, surreal and very funny." — Wired
The screening will be followed by a discussion moderated by SSAC's Artistic Director Park Myers, leading local artists and the audience in the thematic direction of arts as common arena in which every person (self titled artist or not) can see themselves as a participant or recognize that 'art' actually spans and intervenes in life more than its traditional notions.
About the film
Raised in the mountains of Tennessee, Wayne White started his career as a cartoonist in New York City. He quickly found success as one of the creators of the TV show, Pee-wee's Playhouse, which led to more work designing some of the most arresting and iconic images in pop culture. Most recently, his word paintings, which feature pithy and often sarcastic text statements crafted onto vintage landscape paintings, have made him a darling of the fine art world.
Beauty Is Embarrassing chronicles the vaulted highs and the crushing lows of a commercial artist struggling to find peace and balance between his work and his art. Acting as his own narrator, Wayne guides us through his life using moments from his latest creation: a hilarious, biographical one-man show. The pieces are drawn from performances at venues in Tennessee, New York and Los Angeles including the famous Roseland Ballroom and the Largo Theater.
Whether he's parading a twenty foot tall puppet through the Tennessee hillside, romping around the Hollywood Hills dressed in his LBJ puppet suit, relaxing in his studio pickin' his banjo, or watching his children grow up much too soon, Wayne White always seems to have a youthful grin and a desperate drive to create art and objects. It is an infectious quality that will inspire everyone to find their pleasure in life and pursue it at all costs. At its core, Beauty Is Embarrassing is a reminder that we should all follow our passion. It is those creative impulses that will lead us to where we need to go.
About the speaker
Park Myers, originally from The Woodlands, TX is the Artistic Director for the Steamboat Springs Arts Council. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and has worked in Marfa, TX and New York, NY. In addition to independent curatorial work in contemporary art Myers is also apracticing artist.
RUN TIME: 91 min.
Community Cinema is a groundbreaking public education and civic engagement initiative featuring free monthly screenings of films from the Emmy Award-winning series Independent Lens and other PBS presentations. Community Cinema is on location in more than 95 cities nationally, bringing together leading organizations, community members, and public television stations to learn, discuss, and get involved in key social issues of our time.
The Independent Television Service funds, presents, and promotes award-winning documentaries and dramas on public television, innovative new media projects on the Web, and the Emmy® Award-winning weekly series Independent Lens on Monday nights at 10:00 PM on PBS. Mandated by Congress in 1988 and funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, ITVS has brought more than one thousand independently produced programs to date to American audiences. www.itvs.org
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Signature Rose slide now permanently remembered with statue
CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Aside from the Major League record 4,256 hits and running to first base after a walk, if there was one thing that signified why Pete Rose was called "Charlie Hustle," it was his headfirst slide. Now that image is officially memorialized in the form of a bronze statue outside Great American Ball Park.
The statue was unveiled on Saturday afternoon on the Crosley Terrace outside the main gates with Rose and numerous other members of the "Big Red Machine" on hand for the ceremony, including Baseball Hall of Famers Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan and Tony Perez.
The Rose statue is the eighth at Great American Ball Park - all sculpted by local artist Tom Tsuchiya. The Rose statue joins those commemorating Joe Nuxhall, Frank Robinson, Ernie Lombardi, Ted Kluszewski, Bench, Morgan and Perez. Tsuchiya worked with the Cincinnati Reds, the Reds Hall of Fame and Rose to create the sculpture.
- Click here for a photo gallery of Tsuchiya's early work on the statue
- Click here for a photo gallery of Tsuchiya making progress on the statue
- Click here for a photo gallery of the science behind what it took to make Rose "fly"
- Click here for a story from Local 12's Joe Webb on the making of the statue
The first 30,000 fans in attendance for Saturday's Reds-Dodgers game received a replica of the new statue.
Last year the Reds retired Rose's uniform, number 14.
The statue ceremony may be the end to honoring Rose's career after it was reported on Thursday that the Baseball Hall of Fame Board of Directors in late December upheld a ban preventing Rose from appearing on the Hall of Fame ballot due to his being on MLB's permanently ineligible list.
That means the 76-year-old Rose has basically run out of options for earning a spot in the Baseball Hall of Fame.


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Significant numbers of teachers said they were deprived of adequate training and development, according to a 2015 YouGov poll we commissioned.
UK education is facing a crisis that we truly believe we can help solve, but we need your support.
In 2007 we conducated a joint survey with British Council for School Environments (BCSE) conducted of 530 teachers on school buildings. This report summarises our findings and the subsequent recommendations we made to make building investment even more beneficial for schools.
In 2014, new legislation gave education staff new responsibilities for identifying and reporting signs of radicalisation. At Education Support Partnership we want to ensure you are fully supported with this new responsibility.
In December 2014, we carried out a poll of 804 individuals looking at the impact inspections have on the wellbeing. The poll also reveals insights into how inspections can be improved for everyone involved.
This literature review, undertaken by us in partnership with The Work Foundation, focusses on the relationship between teacher health and wellbeing and student educational outcomes.


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Owner of Palmer casino site seeks to depose Mohegan officials
Attorneys for the landlord suing Mohegan Sun over its failed pursuit of a $1 billion casino project in Palmer, Mass., are seeking to take sworn statements from more than a dozen representatives of the Mohegan Tribe, including the nine members of the tribe's governing body.
The sworn statements, or depositions, would be taken later this month and in April in connection with Northeast Realty Associates' breach-of-contract suit against Mohegan Sun, a Northeast spokesman said Monday.
A Mohegan Tribe official said the Mohegans would not comment on any aspect of the pending litigation other than to say they intend to "rigorously defend ourselves."
Mohegan Sun had pursued the Palmer project in western Massachusetts before voters there rejected the plan in a Nov. 5 referendum. At some point, Mohegan Sun shifted its focus to Greater Boston, where it has proposed a $1.3 billion project on land the Suffolk Downs thoroughbred track owns in Revere.
Mohegan Sun continues to control the 152-acre casino site in Palmer through a long-term lease.
In a lawsuit filed Feb. 20 in Hampden Superior Court in Springfield, Northeast alleged that Mohegan Sun had violated an "exclusivity agreement" that prohibited it from pursuing a Massachusetts casino license anywhere but in Palmer. The suit also alleged that Mohegan Sun officials began discussions with Suffolk Downs prior to the Palmer referendum, a charge Mohegan Sun has repeatedly denied.
During the upcoming depositions, attorneys for Northeast will be searching for evidence of such talks.
The closeness of the Palmer referendum prompted a Nov. 26 recount that affirmed the outcome. Mohegan Sun and Suffolk Downs announced the next day that they had reached an agreement on the Revere project.
In a letter late last week, Andrew Dennington, an attorney for Northeast Realty, informed an attorney for the tribe that he was seeking to take depositions of Kevin Brown, chairman of the Mohegan Tribal Council; the eight other members of the council; Mitchell Etess, chief executive officer of the Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority; and Kevin Conroy, an outside attorney for Mohegan Sun.
Dennington, in another letter, also provided notice of his intention to depose Suffolk Downs officials, Revere officials and representatives of other Mohegan Sun partners and associates.
In late January, Dennington sought copies of Revere officials' email and voicemail records of communications between them and Mohegan Sun and Suffolk Downs officials. In response, the Revere city solicitor wrote that a search of the records of Mayor Daniel Rizzo and his staff "failed to produce any records responsive to your public records request."
Northeast has also requested copies of communications between the gaming commission and Mohegan Sun and Suffolk Downs officials.
Mohegan Sun's Palmer, Mass., landlord alleging breach of agreement


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Alaska has all sorts of strange things happening. Besides the errant volcano or earthquake here in Anchorage we get what are called "bore tides."
A tidal bore occurs when you have a large body or bay of water (such as Cook Inlet, which you can see on the map here) and smaller inlets such as Turnagain Arm (also seen on the map in smaller letters south of Anchorage).
Instead of the tide coming in gradually like it does in other self-respecting places the enormous tides here push the water so quickly up the inlet and down into Turnagain Arm that it gets squeezed through the narrowing gap between the mountains and forms a wall of water 10-12 feet high. As it moves up the Arm and on toward the town of Portage southwest of Anchorage the water can reach speeds of up to 10-12 knots (which is roughly about 10-12 miles per hour. Roughly).
Bore tides aren't really what you'd call a rare occurrence, from what I understand there are about 60 different places around the world where they can form but what makes Anchorage's bore tides different is that first, the tidal variance here is so large (27 feet) that the show becomes pretty spectacular. Second, mountains surround Turnagain arm right down to the water's edge making for a beautiful backdrop. Third, you don't see bore tides very often in the north, let alone this far north and fourth, this particular tidal bore is easily accessible so anyone can see it.
The Seward Highway runs southwest from Anchorage along Turnagain Arm down past Portage and besides the beluga and humpback whales you can see the bore tides from your car as you zip along--if you happen to hit the right time of day.
They're best seen right around the new or the full moon, they're better in the spring and fall around each equinox, and of course they're better right after an extreme low tide.
While the water in Cook Inlet is usually just above freezing it's not uncommon to see crazies out there surfing (my own uncle, a California transplant, used to don his dry suit and head out there from time to time). It's definitely not for the novice surfer because besides the water being a lethal temperature it's very silty and perfect for dragging you down. Then of course the tides and currents can kill you and then there aren't any soft sandy beaches on which to land should you get thrown around a bit--nothing but jagged rocks where the mountains meet the water.
It just seems to me that there are so many better ways to die than frozen to a surf board in Alaska as an h'ors d'oeuvre for a wandering beluga (Kidding! At least about the beluga part--they don't eat humans, just salmon).
So here's a clip of what the bore tides look like, including some surfer showing off his stuff.
Just one more strange yet interesting thing about living here.
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Colorado Avalanche vs. Anaheim DucksNHL.com @NHLdotcom
GAME: Colorado Avalanche (16-8-5-1) at Anaheim Mighty Ducks (10-12-4-5).TIME: Friday, 10:30 p.m. EST.
Paul Kariya's wrist injury is going to prevent the main attraction from taking place Friday at the Arrowhead Pond.
While Teemu Selanne will return to Anaheim for the first time in a Colorado Avalanche uniform, Kariya will not play against the Anaheim Mighty Ducks when the teams meet for the second time this season.
Kariya spent his first nine NHL seasons with the Mighty Ducks, serving as team captain from 1996-2003. He holds virtually every offensive team record, including goals (300), assists (369), points (669) and games played (606).
It came as a shock to the Mighty Ducks and the rest of the NHL when Kariya decided to take less money from the Avalanche so he could play with good friend Teemu Selanne on the same team again. Kariya's one-year, $1.2 million contract keeps him under the league average and allows him to be a free agent again next year.
Selanne and Kariya had been friends since they first met as teammates with Anaheim in 1996, and played five seasons together before Selanne was traded to San Jose in 2001.
Friday was expected to be Kariya and Selanne's first game in Anaheim as Avalanche teammates, but Kariya hasn't played since spraining his right wrist against Dallas on Nov. 15. Colorado's next scheduled game at Anaheim is Jan. 30.
The Avalanche have been playing very well without Kariya, but had an eight-game unbeaten streak snapped Wednesday with a 3-2 loss to Minnesota.
Captain Joe Sakic scored twice for Colorado, 4-1-4 in its last nine, but winless in three (0-1-2).
"I think we were very flat and you can't play like that, no matter who you are playing," Avalanche coach Tony Granato said. "No matter when it is in the season, you can't come out and get caught flat like that."
Sakic has six goals and 11 assists in his last 11 games and is among the NHL leaders with 34 points.
Anaheim lost for the fifth time in seven games Sunday, 3-2 to Edmonton.
Jean-Sebastien Giguere, last season's playoff MVP, had his personal winless streak extended to seven (0-5-2). Giguere got the start after a three-game benching.
"It felt better than the last two I played," Giguere said. "There were a lot of positives in my game and I was seeing the puck a little bit better, but in the end, a loss is a loss."
Two of Anaheim's top defensemen -- Keith Carney and Sandis Ozolinsh -- could return Friday. Carney has sat out two games with back spasms while Ozolinsh has missed four with bruised ribs.


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Having caught the speed bug, I'll be doing some more sprints and hillclimbs next year.
Just wondered if there was any chance of some MX-5 competition?
There's several venues in Scotland including: Kames, Forrestburn, Doune, Alford, Golspie, Fintry, Boyndie and Lossiemouth.
Looks like there won't be a sprint at Knockhill next year but there's going to be a double header at East Fortune in May.
Costs are around £60 per event (£35 for novices at Wigton MC events) and you don't need to do anything special to your car - you just need a timing strut (which I can help you with) and some yellow tape for your battery (which Douglas can source ). No requirement for a roll cage or fancy seatbelts.
You will need to have the following:
MSA licence (£36)
Overalls (£70)
Helmet (£70+)
Scottish MSA club membership (£10-£20)
I'll be concentrating on events north of the Border to keep my travelling costs to a minimum. In theory, this means I should be able to do more events.
If you're worried about damaging your pride and joy, that's understandable but my view is that it's probably safer than your average trackday because you only have to worry about yourself. There's no other drivers to push you off line, crash into you or cut you up.
So, come on - have a go at the oldest and (in my view), purest form of motorsport.
If anyone is interested and has any questions - just ask here or PM me. I put off getting into this for 5 years because I wasn't sure about how to fit a timing strut (DOH!).


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Opening the Dior
Added: February 19, 2013 - 14:22
Dr. Alexandra Palmer, Senior Curator, Nora E. Vaughan Fashion Costume Curatorship opens a package from Dior. Inside is a stunning couture dress commissioned by the ROM. See it on view for a limited time in BIG until Fall 2013.


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In the ESPN.com/USA Softball Collegiate Top 25 Poll the Lady Bisons are ranked 31st with 13 votes in the final poll. The USA Today/National Fastpitch Coaches Association's poll rates the Lady Bisons 33rd nationally with 13 votes, only two votes behind Long Island in the 31st position.
The Lady Bisons finished 36th in the final NCAA Women's Softball RPI for 2010.
The Lady Bisons finished with a 50-13 overall record. They won both the Atlantic Sun regular season championship and the A-Sun Tournament championship.
Lady Bisons' coach Kristin Ryman calls the recognition a tribute to the team, especially the seniors _ Kellie Sirus, Lauren Dortwegt, Abby Keese, Christy Grisham, Alaina Jacobson and Christen Campbell.
"I think it shows how far this team has come," Ryman said. "The class that just graduated saw the full transition of this program. "That is kind of cool for me. When they came into this program we had won 14 games the season before. By the end of their careers we won 50."
Ryman stresses that the success of the Lady Bisons this past season, which ended in the NCAA Tuscaloosa Region championship game with Alabama, shows what a small Division I team can accomplish.
"Finishing in the mid-to-upper 30s in almost every poll shows what this program is capable of," Ryman said. "There are a lot of people out there who haven't heard about us, but I think people are starting to pay more attention.
"We are a program that is going to be recognized not just for a quality education, a Christian environment or a good softball program, but a program where you can get into the postseason. We can make a regional or a super regional."
Ryman, the 2010 Atlantic Sun Coach of the Year, and assistant coach Lexi Myers will be out on the recruiting trail this summer. The recognition this season will be a plus when meeting recruits.
"Lipscomb is such a great place," Ryman said. "We always have the conversation about whether or not you can win at small Division I Christian school. We have proven that you can. Volleyball has proven that you can.
"We will be less of an unknown in recruiting. Having an All-American on our team in Whitney Kiihnl grabs the attention of people. A lot of people might not know where we are, but a lot more people have heard of Lipscomb now."
Ryman's goal is to make the program even better next season which will be a challenge because of the players she has lost. However, she still returns Kiihnl, Atlantic Sun Player and Pitcher of the Year; and A-Sun First Team All-Conference selections Mollie Mitchell, a catcher; and Courtney Billington, a shortstop.
"We have gotten to a good point with our program," Ryman said. "I don't think we feel 100 percent comfortable staying where we are. We want to get a shot at going to a super regional.
"Realistically, we graduated a key class… a record-breaking class. Did that hurt us? I'm not going to say that it didn't. But I feel like we return quite a bit too. The group that we lost was so important to the success we have had the last four years, but the group that returns has also experienced that success. We have another really good foundation to build on."
Kiihnl, Billington, Mitchell and outfielder Caroline Mason all made key contributions this season.
"The sophomore class stepped up so huge this year," Ryman said. "Courtney made the transition from second to shortstop and was able to do so much hitting-wise. Mollie did so much behind the plate and in the batter's box. What she did from a leadership standpoint was huge for us.
"Obviously Whitney helped propel us into postseason on the mound, but she also had a great year hitting-wise. Caroline Mason is back on the upward swing. She will continue to get better."
Outfielder Mackenzie Tucker, who will be the sole senior on the team, was a major factor in postseason for the Lady Bisons.
"Mackenzie is capable of doing what she did in the tournaments," Ryman said. "For Mackenzie it has always been a matter of consistency. She has proven that not only can she get the big hit once or twice, but that she can consistently hurt teams.
"UAB's coach (Marla Townsend) is a good friend of mine. One of the people they pointed out was Mack and how she gave them headaches every time she came up to bat. I see her every day and know how I feel about her but to hear that from an opposing coach tells me she is at the point where the consistency has kicked in."
Ryman also believes that her program can offer things that other programs can't.
"Just because we are not a big name school doesn't mean we can't compete and doesn't mean we don't have good facilities and good people," Ryman said. "One thing that can definitely separate us from some programs that are maybe more well-known is that we 100 percent have good people here.
"They have a coaching staff that genuinely cares about them. We have a group of players that are close and are good friends on and off of the field. They look out for each other. The faculty, administration and the support staff provide an environment that is so different than you might get in a lot of places."
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Election Wrap-up
Abbas Wins District 20
Democrat's election is certified by the state
Talking Cents
Salary increases for New Mexico teachers leave support staff behind
It isn't a secret that public school teachers are some of our lowest paid public sector employees. In New Mexico, it would be particularly hard to keep such knowledge under wraps, considering the average salary for a first-year teacher barely hovered above the poverty line less than a decade ago. For years, state salaries for teachers have lingered among the lowest ranking in the country—and only recently increased to the 44th highest. This rather dismal reality explains why local educators complain of an exodus, or brain drain, of qualified teachers to other states and other vocations at an alarming rate.
News Feature
Albuquerque's Toxic Legacy
Area groundwater hosts an array of hazardous chemicals resulting from years of industrial contamination
One night in May 2003, ConocoPhillips spilled nearly 40,000 gallons of unleaded gasoline fuel at one of its fuel storage facilities along Broadway between Gibson and Rio Bravo, only 8,000 of which were recovered; the rest seeped into the ground. This spill, which was the result of human error, was one in a string of South Valley spills dating from the mid '80s, and is an example of the type of hazard and potential extraneous industrial pollution that South Valley residents fear to this day.
The Real Side
The Party of Marty
Mayor flip-flops his image to compete for GOP votes
Mayor Martin Chavez is running to the right of his Republican challenger, City Council President Brad Winter. Chavez has so isolated himself from large segments of Democratic voters he has no choice but to chase Republican votes. He was reminded of this imperative when he was creamed in a recent Democratic Party straw poll that saw his leading Democratic rival, City Councilor Eric Griego, far outpace everyone else.
Ortiz y Pino
War Without End
He spun and he spun but President Bush got nowhere with his ballyhooed speech on the Iraq War last week. All his mighty spinning went for naught. He should have saved his breath.
Odds & Ends
Dateline: Korea—The Korean Baseball Association has ruled that players can no longer wear frozen cabbage leaves. "The KBO rules and regulations committee on Tuesday reached a decision that cabbage leaves should be considered as odd materials," a KBO spokesman told the Australian Free Press. The committee investigated the use of cabbage leaves by players after the cap of pitcher Park Myung-hwan of the Doosan Bears fell to the ground during a game against the Hanhwa Eagles on Sunday, revealing a frozen cabbage leaf. Park said he began using cabbage leaves last year after hearing from a local TV station that U.S. baseball great Babe Ruth had used them to cool off.
Rich men getting richer by bilking the government during a war. Same as before. The end is in sight. Same as before. It's making us more secure. Same as before. Young Americans dying in a distant country without a proper plan or necessary support. Same as before. We can learn from history or we can listen to "W." It is time to learn.


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Sin The Saint - Ostentatious (Starring Courtney Ayana) [Prestige Film Works Submitted]
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Check out the new commercial for the NBA —
They are using "super-glued" as a verb — love it!
Here you go:
"Don't ever let your foot off the gas — stay 'super-glued' — never forget every play is BIG" Sticktoitiveness makes a difference for sure! 😉


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With these cold winter days upon us, I decided to make some homemade shrimp gumbo for my weekly clients to enjoy. Add some Cajun rice to the bottom of a bowl and top with the gumbo for a delicious and satisfying meal.
Shrimp Gumbo
For the shrimp stock:
2 pounds unpeeled medium shrimp
8 cups of water
1 teaspoon peppercorns
4 garlic cloves, crushed
3 large celery stalks, chopped
3 bay leaves
3 medium carrots, coarsely chopped
1 large onion, coarsely chopped
For the gumbo:
1 cup grape seed oil
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 chopped yellow onion
1/4 cup chopped celery
1/4 cup chopped green bell pepper
1/4 cup chopped red bell pepper
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 cup fresh okra, sliced
3 cups shrimp stock (recipe above)
2 cups bottled clam juice
1 cup chopped canned tomatoes with juice
3 bay leaves
1 tablespoon fresh or dried parsley flakes
1 tablespoon Cajun seasoning
1 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
1 teaspoon dried basil leaves
1/2 teaspoon finely ground black pepper
1 1/2 cups cooked smoked turkey sausage, sliced diagonally
2 pounds shrimp, cleaned and deveined
Cooked Cajun rice (recipe below)
For the stock: To prepare the stock, peel and devein shrimp, reserving shells. Cut each shrimp in half lengthwise; cover and refrigerate. Combine reserved shrimp shells, 8 cups of water, and next six ingredients in a large Dutch oven, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer for 1 hour. Strain mixture through a sieve into a bowl; discard solids. Set aside 3 cups stock; keep warm. Reserve the remaining shrimp stock for another use.
For the gumbo: In a large, heavy saucepan over low heat, melt 1 cup of grape seed oil. Add the flour and cook on low heat until the roux is dark brown, about 30 to 45 minutes, stirring constantly.
Add the onions, celery, peppers and garlic and sauté until translucent.
Mix in the remaining ingredients and simmer over medium-low heat until thick, about 1 hour. Before serving, remove the bay leaves. Serve over Cajun Creole Rice.
Cajun Creole Rice
2 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons Cajun seasoning
1 14-ounce can diced tomatoes with juice
3/4 cup celery, diced
3/4 cup green onion, diced small
3/4 yellow onion, diced small
3/4 cup red bell pepper, diced small
2 cups brown rice, raw
3 1/2 cups water
Sauté vegetables in butter over medium heat until soft. Add the other ingredients and stir well. Bring to a boil, reduce the heat and cover. Cook for 25 minutes.
Sources: Recipes adapted from pauladeen.com, myrecipes.com and Food.com.