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The White chayote is a stark white compared to the lime green conventional chayote. It is shaped a bit like a pear but slightly larger with deep indentations that meet at is flower end. Its skin is smooth with subtle creasing. Some varieties of White chayote have spines on their skin, similar to that of the prickly chayote. Beneath the skin of the pale summer squash lies a mild white flesh and a solitary soft seed. White chayote borrows flavors from fellow members of the gourd family, mild and fresh similar to that of zucchini and cucumbers.
White chayote squash has a peak season in the fall and occasionally late spring.
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The White chayote squash, botanically known as Sechium edule, is a perennial squash and a member of the Cucurbitaceae family. The White chayote variety is extremely rare and is thought to be the result of a recessive gene or mutation. The entire chayote plant is edible including its fruit, seed, vines, blossoms and root. Though not a commercially successful variety White chayote squash can be found growing today in the United States in Louisiana.
Nutritional Value
White chayote squash is very low in calories, void of cholesterol and high in dietary fiber, a combination which makes them ideal for those on weight control or cholesterol lowering diets. It also is rich in B- complex folates and vitamin C and offer some potassium and antioxidants as well.
White chayote can be used in both raw and cooked applications. It can be utilized as a substitute for potatoes, cucumbers and squash. Raw chayote can be shredded or sliced thin and added to salads and slaws. The texture of the pear-shaped squash works well in soups, curries and gumbos. Cut in half and stuff with seafood or vegetables. To prepare, the skin should be peeled and the flesh rinsed in water to remove the sticky sap exuded when sliced or peeled. The White chayote's mellow flavor will take on the flavors of any dish. Complimentary textures and flavors include melon, chile peppers, tomatoes, soft and hard cheeses, garlic, almonds, cumin, butter, pork, shellfish and poultry. To store, keep White chayote squash at room temperature and use within two weeks.
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In the United States the White chayote is also known as Mirliton and was renamed Ishreal Thibodeaux variety Mirliton in 2013. It was given the name in honor of a man in Louisiana who successfully grew the rare variety for many years and worked hard to revitalize the growth of it and other chayote varieties in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina.
Chayote is believed to have originated in Central America and Mexico and was first cultivated during the time of the Aztec Empire. Though there is no definitive evidence it is believed that the White chayote variety as well as green and prickly all share the same historical origins. In the United States, specifically in the Deep South prior to the 1900's there were numerous types of chayote squash grown including White chayote. The Civil War devastated much of chayote production in the South and though attempts were made to revitalize it efforts failed except in Louisiana where it has long been a staple in home gardens and an important ingredient in American cookery since the state was founded. Like the green chayote the White chayote vine once established is highly productive and can produce upwards of 50 to 100 chayote fruits per season provided they are given adequate sunlight.
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UNION — Liberty Hall Museum participated in Hurricane Sandy relief efforts by running a food drive for The Food Bank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties. Organized by museum educator and Kean University alumni Anna Cafasso, Liberty Hall collected items such as toothbrushes, cleaning supplies, non-perishable food, baby supplies and much more. Donations came in from all over the area as well as out of state.
A touching care package, addressed simply to the "People of New Jersey," came all the way from Pentucket Regional Middle School in West Newbury, Mass., located approximately 30 minutes north of Boston. Pentucket teacher Shawn MacDonald and his seventh and eighth graders had organized their own relief drive, collecting personal hygiene items for residents of New Jersey devastated by the storm, as well as a number of handwritten "get well" cards and other personal messages of solidarity and support.
Between the donations from West Newbury, Mass. and the local donations, Liberty Hall collected over 700 lbs of items for families in need.
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The Tasmania Sustainable Yields Project has developed an assessment of the current and likely future extent and variability of surface water and groundwater resources in Tasmania.
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Pfizer said that two subsidiaries of Pharmacia reached separate settlements with the US Department of Justice to address charges stemming from the off-label marketing of human growth hormone medicine Genotropin and the inappropriate use of a vendor contract to increase the sales of other Pharmacia medicines. Both settlements cover activities that occurred at Pharmacia before the company was acquired by Pfizer in 2003. The subsidiaries have agreed to pay fines totaling $34.7 million.One subsidiary — Pharmacia & Upjohn Company Inc. — will plead guilty to a single count of offering to an outside vendor remuneration in the form of an award of a contract to manage a Genotropin patient assistance program as an inducement for recommending the purchase of Pharmacia medicines. The contract was awarded in 2000. The subsidiary, which has no operational role in Pfizer today, was assessed a fine of $19.7 million and will be disqualified from participation in government healthcare programs. The disqualification will have no impact on current or future Pfizer medicines approved for use in the US and will not affect the continued marketing of Genotropin. A second Pharmacia subsidiary — Pharmacia & Upjohn Company LLC — has entered into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) that includes a fine of $15 million to address the improper promotion of Genotropin, which Pfizer discovered and self-reported to the Department of Justice, the FDA and the Office of the Inspector General within the first month following completion of the Pharmacia acquisition. Under the agreement, no criminal charges will be filed against Pharmacia in return for compliance with the terms of the agreement. Novo Nordisk announced new diabetes self-management tools are now available on its updated Web site, ChangingDiabetes-us.com. These resources were developed in response to findings from the DAWN (Diabetes Attitudes, Wishes and Needs) Study, a 5,426-patient global survey commissioned by Novo Nordisk, and are designed to individualize and help optimize patient care. The new tools may be useful for people in every stage of diabetes. Visitors to the newly enhanced site can utilize the interactive diabetes care plan to help identify personal barriers to diabetes care and help alleviate fears about advancing to insulin therapy. By registering at the ChangingDiabetes-us.com Web site, diabetes users can immediately access critical information about diabetes, utilize the online tools, and receive regular e-mail communications on timely diabetes-related topics. GlaxoSmithKline has been fined $156,000 for misleading advertising after two New Zealand high school science students found the company's black currant soft drink Ribena contained no detectable vitamin C, the Associated Press reported. The company admitted to 15 charges of misleading advertising between 2002 and 2006 in a suit filed by the Commerce Commission, a consumer watchdog, after a 2004 school science project exposed the false claims. Ribena has long been sold in the UK, Australia and New Zealand as a healthy drink based on advertisements that black currant juice has more vitamin C than orange juice. Its New Zealand ads claimed Ready to Drink Ribena had 7 milligrams of vitamin C per 100 milliliters (0.25 ounce per 3.4 fluid ounces). In 2004, high school students Anna Devathasan and Jenny Suo, then 14, found the drink contained almost no trace of vitamin C after testing it as part of a science based project. Auckland District Court Judge Phil Gittos fined GlaxoSmithKline and ordered the company to run corrective advertisements, in addition to a message on its Web site. Sanofi-Aventis and UK gene-therapy developer Oxford BioMedica, have announced a joint-collaboration agreement to develop and market the pipeline cancer treatment TroVax. Under terms of the deal, Sanofi-Aventis will pay Oxford BioMedica, the owner of TroVax, up to $690 million if all development and registration targets are met for certain uses, the companies said. Additional payments will be made to Oxford BioMedica if regulatory milestones are achieved in other cancer types. Oxford BioMedica will receive an initial payment of $39 million and further payments of $25 million as targets are reached TroVax is Oxford BioMedica's main cancer immunotherapy. Early research suggests TroVax has potential for applications in a wide range of solid tumors, including renal, colorectal, lung, breast and prostate cancer. A Phase III trial in renal cancer is ongoing. Both companies will co-fund the renal cancer study, while Sanofi-Aventis will fund all future research, development, regulatory and marketing. Oxford BioMedica has an option to develop TroVax for other cancer types in exchange for enhanced financial returns under terms where Sanofi-Aventis would keep all commercial rights. Avanir Pharmaceuticals announced that it has ended two drug development collaboration deals -- one with AstraZeneca and one with Novartis -- and is exploring the sale of certain assets. Novartis, which was developing inflammatory disease treatment AVP-28225 with Avanir, will further develop the compound on its own. Avanir will receive a milestone payment if the compound reaches the next stage of development. Avanir also said it would return to AstraZeneca the drug the companies were co-developing for cardiovascular diseases. Avanir would also return all related rights to AstraZeneca, Avanir said in a statement. Additionally, Avanir said it plans to exit its San Diego research facility later this year and move clinical development and support resources to its Orange County, CA, headquarters. Avanir is also evaluating options including sale of several investigational compounds and its schizophrenia drug FazaClo, which contributed $6.3 million to Avanir's sales in the first quarter. An Illinois jury last Tuesday ruled Merck's withdrawn painkiller Vioxx was not responsible for causing a 52-year-old woman's fatal heart attack and awarded no damages in the case. Plaintiff Frank Schwaller sued Merck after his wife, Patricia, took Vioxx for 20 months for shoulder pain before dying from a heart attack in August 2003. Schwaller's lawyers alleged that Vioxx was defectively designed, inadequately tested, dangerous to human health, and lacked proper warnings, which subjected users to risks of heart attack, stroke and other illnesses. 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FRANKFORT — A bill to strengthen Kentucky's human trafficking laws and provide more services to victims is headed to Gov. Steve Beshear's desk to be signed into law.
On Tuesday, the House voted 97-0 to concur with minor changes to House Bill 3 made by the Senate. The measure's passage brought House members to their feet in a standing ovation for the bill's main sponsor, Rep. Sannie Overly, D-Paris. A similar proposal stalled in the Senate last year.
"I think this takes the existing law on human trafficking, broadens it, and provides additional tools that police and prosecutors need to identify and convict those who would choose to sell our children," Overly said after the vote.
The measure would provide more training for law enforcement on human trafficking, allow police and prosecutors to seize assets of those involved in human trafficking and earmark money from the seized assets to pay for victim services. The bill also allows human trafficking victims to receive treatment rather than jail time, a provision sometimes referred to as a safe harbor protection.
Since Kentucky passed its first human trafficking law in 2008, more than 100 victims of human trafficking have been identified, but fewer than 20 of those cases have been prosecuted. In February, Overly told the House that the vast majority of those cases involve Kentucky teens — mainly girls — who had been trafficked for sex by a relative.


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Author and mother, Christina Hunter had so many questions when she was pregnant with her first child. Even with thorough research, there was a personal element missing in the information she gathered. Christina wanted to hear how she might feel, how long a certain phase might last, and what myriad of thoughts could possibly consume her when in the midst of it all. These were all questions she knew many other women must be wondering as well.
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BigTongue posted a blog entry in BigTongue's BlogWell here goes with my 1st blog entry. Haven't posted much recently because I've been having loads of hassle with my internet. BT Yahoo are a bunch of inept w*nkers. 2 months of constant breaks in connection, download speeds similar to 512k dial up when I'm meant to be on 6.5meg & their lack of response to numerous emails ended in me cancelling my direct debit to try and speed them up. Result – an invoice telling me to pay up the rest of my contract by today. Don't know if there is an 'or else', will just have to wait and see. This is actually being written on Word so I can copy/paste it without fear of my connection freezing in the middle. So, Happy New Year. Except it wasn't. Over a year ago, the company I work for, cashline machine makers NCR, said they were going to open a new production plant in Hungary that would compliment the Dundee factory in the expansion into Eastern Europe/Russia. NCR already have production plants here, Canada, USA, Brazil, China & India. We immediately started questioning the company about the future of Dundee. 'Don't worry' they said. Speculation had been building up towards the end of last year with our weekly production totals tumbling as Hungary took more & more of the orders and the company refusing to comment to the workers, union, local councillors & MSPs/MPs about fears. This led to a rather tense Christmas/New Year and culminated in last weeks events. Last Tuesday the company gave us a meeting telling us they were going to issue a statement telling us when they would issue a statement telling us when they would be having a meeting giving a statement of what was going to happen to the company. WTF!!!!! So last Thursday a mass meeting took place. 650 shop floor workers & about 150 office/management. Did the bigwig CEO come to talk to us? NO! He sent a video telling us how sorry he was that he couldn't be there personally and gave the usual corporate bullsh*t about restructuring & changing markets. A minion, sent on the CEO's behalf, then gave a PowerPoint slideshow telling us how many job cuts there would be. Even the minion wouldn't verbally tell us. 650 job losses in Dundee, made up of roughly 550 shop floor & 100 office/management. Canada, USA & Brazil all effectively closing with about 500 jobs lost. Don't yet know who exactly is going but to be honest I don't see the company being in Dundee for much longer so I think its time to get out. My first thought? I'll be luck to get to 1 festival this year, let alone the 3-4 I was planning. Aye, Happy New Year. So what am I going to do now? I'm not going to get a job anywhere near my current salary without having a major skill. I was a plumber's labourer for 3 years and know the basics so doing a plumbing course to get a certificate is a serious thought. I've worked in bars & a hotel so that's a fall back. I'd like to get into the building/renovating property market but would need a lot of capital. I quite fancy finding out about midwifery (NOT for the reasons, those of you that know me, might think!). The most radical idea is to sell my flat, pay off all my debts and go travelling. My redundancy won't be great as I've only been at NCR for 7 years. I reckon after paying the mortgage & credit cards I would have a substancial amount left, not that I would want to use it all. Would I be running away from finding a job or using this opportunity to do something I've always wanted to do? Who knows? It's been an emotional weekend so the mind may be a bit cloudy and any decisions will have to be seriously thought about. Time will tell. Anyway, until I see you in a field or at a meet, enjoy. Phil


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MCLEAN, VA--(Marketwire - Jan 31, 2013) - ControlCase, Inc. is pleased to announce that Société Générale, one of the largest European financial services groups headquartered in Paris, France, has selected ControlCase to provide Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) support and certification services to 34 of its subsidiaries in more than 30 countries.
Société Générale chose ControlCase to certify its compliance with PCI DSS because ControlCase provides a unique, reliable Compliance as a Service (CaaS) platform that provides a comprehensive managed solution with continuous monitoring at a significant cost savings. Additionally, with ControlCase's global presence in more than 40 countries, extensive experience with banks, and recognized industry thought leadership in PCI DSS best practices, ControlCase was a natural fit for the organization's needs.
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Dell XPS 14zThe high-end Dell XPS 14z is an attractive, powerful 14-inch laptop built into a 13-inch body, with plenty of configuration options, including decent graphics.
-Hi, I'm Dan Ackerman, and we are here taking a first look at the Dell XPS 14z. Now, this guy looks a little bit familiar that's because it's virtually a clone of the XPS 15z, which out earlier in the year except of course they said the 14-inch screen even more interesting. They kind of shrunk down the footprints. This is a 14-inch display, although the actual length and width of the laptop is more like that of the 13-inch. They basically took a big 13-incch body and shove in a 14-inch screen, meaning that you open the lid, you really see more screen and less of anything else and that's really impressive. Now, Dell says, this is the thinnest fully featured 14-inch laptop on the planet. Actually, as the thinnest fully featured laptop on the planet, there's an asterisk that goes with that. They basically mean a laptop with a discrete graphics card and an internal optical drive. So, if you put all that together, they are certainly seems like a pretty thin machine, but it's in the 13 size body and especially compared to a lot of the ultrabooks and other 13-inch laptops that we've seen over the last month or 2, it kind of looks a little thick and chunky when compared to those. It's almost a victim a timing in a way with all these really thing, really capable darn fast ultrabooks coming out at exactly the same time. That's it. This system is in a little bit of a different category. This guy has an Intel Core i7 cpu, has got NVIDIA 520m graphics card, has got an 8 gigs of RAM and you can get anything up 750 gig hard drive or even 256 gig solid state drive. And of course, you have an optical slot loading drive built in, an HDMI and display port out and USB 3. So, you have lot of high end extras here. It starts at $999, but for that, you only get a Core i5 and you don't get the discrete graphics. You got to trade up to one of the more expensive versions. This is a 1299. There's also 1599, one that's got the big solid state drive and when you get to that price point, you're kind of looking at things like the MacBook Pro, some of the higher end versions of HP's MV 14 and other kind of premium laptops, but that's where Dell always position this XPS system. They're all bunch of really cool features that we like on the XPS 14z, one of course is the backlit keyboard, really one of the brighter back light ever seen on the keyboard, really big touch pad, but they still find to have separate left and right mouse button rather than kind of building them into the pad and Dell gets super extra bonus point for something that we hardly ever see anymore and that is a battery meter right here on the outside of the case. You just press this little button here and it will show you how much battery life you have left. Even Apple took that out of the MacBook a couple of years ago and it's really useful if you just wanna look at your laptop to see if it's ready to go or if you have to plug it in for a while. You put all that together, you got a really fully feature powerful laptop. It's perhaps not as thin still and sexy and Dell would like you to think, but if you are a power user who wants to cram along the stuff into a small footprint, it's pretty good deal. I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the Dell XPS 14z.


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Pa. Nat'l Guard tests mass-casualty readiness
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FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. — With the aid of dozens of actors playing casualties, members of the Pennsylvania National Guard's Homeland Response Force on Thursday conducted a mass-casualty exercise to test their readiness.
The scenario of the exercise, which began Wednesday and continues today, was a bomb with a possible chemical element detonating at a football stadium.
"Our unit has been called to provide mitigation of human suffering and life-saving decontamination to the civilians that were casualties in that incident," said Lt. Col. Fred Tady, commander of the Pennsylvania National Guard's Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, High-Yield Explosive Enhanced Response Force Package, or CERF-P, which is a part of the Homeland Response Force.
The exercise included dozens of actors hired by a temp agency who wore makeup to simulate injuries, some of them gruesome. While a majority of the Guard members set up medical and decontamination tents, the actors harassed other Guard members who were providing security and not letting the casualties inside the clean area.
Once the casualties were let in, they were triaged, decontaminated in showers, given clean clothing and blankets and treated for their injuries. The casualties who could not walk were placed on backboards and rolled through decontamination and medical tents on a conveyor system.
Another phase of the exercise involved a search-and-extraction team rescuing casualties from a rubble pile that simulates a collapsed structure.
Maj. Mark Thomas, who recently relinquished command of the CERF-P to Tady, said exercises such as this one are important.
"This is the key means that we have of training the soldiers and giving them the closest thing we can to a real-world experience," Thomas said.
In addition to treating the casualties of the imagined explosion, the Guard members also had to decontaminate their own, said Air Force 2nd Lt. Joann Kennedy, a nurse from the 111th Medical Group from Willow Grove. After being decontaminated themselves, the soldiers and airmen were evaluated, and if they don't pass muster, they can't go back in, she said.
"We can't have our own going down inside, because then we'd have to send more to go in and get them," she added. "So we have to take care of our own soldiers and airmen."
Kennedy, who is an intensive-care unit nurse in Philadelphia, said exercises such as this are crucial.
"It's important for us to get all this down so if something were to happen, God forbid, there is no doubt in my mind that we could be up and ready in less time than they give us," she said.
Among the actors portraying casualties was Mark Dietrich of Harrisburg. An Air Force veteran who now works for the Navy in Mechanicsburg, Dietrich said he participated neither for the $8 an hour the actors were paid nor the opportunity to be outside for several hours in the cold and rainy weather.
"I feel it's a valuable tool for them to practice," he said. "Even though they don't pay you a whole lot, it doesn't really matter to me."
"Help them get experience, find their flaws so they can retune themselves to make sure then when there is a real incident, they can perform properly," he added.
Dietrich said he actually had fun harassing some of the Guard members earlier in the day before the casualties were let in to be decontaminated and treated.
"Trying to get into their heads and mess them up, give them some good practice so when they run into the scenarios they're ready," he said.
Thomas said the civilian role players add a sense of realism and urgency to the exercise.
"If we respond to an incident, there are going to be casualties there that need our immediate care, but at the same time, we have to ensure that the system is set up so we can properly protect our own troops so they can continue on with the mission," he said.
Although Thursday's cold and rainy weather made things a little sloppy and miserable, Thomas said the weather was no hindrance for the exercise.
"We're assuming we're going to go into the worst conditions possible," he said. "By the time we arrive, local responders - volunteer fire departments, paid EMS services - they've already been on site for possibly several days, so the conditions you see around us, the mud the rain, that's probably what we're going to be going in to."
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Participatory Budgeting update from Maggie Tobin of the Streets & Sidewalks Committee:
Monday evening, November 6th, the budget delegates from the 39th District all met at P.S. 230 in Kensington to kick off the long and arduous (but truly fun and fascinating!) process of deciding how we would like to spend a million dollars from Councilmember Brad Lander's discretionary funds in our collective community. It was a very interesting evening, especially because I met so many new people from all over the district, each with wonderful ideas on how we can improve our neighborhoods.
The first part of the meeting was spent discussing what makes a capital project eligible for consideration. In a nutshell, the project must cost at least 35,000, have a "useful life" of at least five years, and involve the construction, reconstruction, acquisition, installation or be a physical public improvement. We played PBNYC Jeopardy (my team got creamed) to help us identify what sort of projects might be considered.
Following the introduction to the PB process, we broke into several groups: Streets and Sidewalks, Transit, Education, Parks and Recreation, Environment, Public Safety, Public Health and Sanitation, and Culture and Community Facilities. All of the groups had a facilitator to ensure that each budget delegate was able to participate in the discussion. I chose to be in the Streets and Sidewalks group as I would personally like to see some beautification projects underway along the beleaguered Church Avenue.
In Kensington, we do not have a park or community center to call our own. We are a very diverse and somewhat segregated population in desperate need of a place to gather and have the opportunity to interact with one another. I would love to see a few small plazas (rather grandiose word for a smattering of benches) in the vicinity of Church Avenue. Two places in particular would be in front of Walgreens, the other would be an addition to our little green triangle at 35th and Church. Our main shopping area is in need of a complete makeover but any little help could get the ball rolling in the right direction.
Someone else in our group suggested we get some old fashioned street lamps (like those in Ditmas Park) for the Church Avenue/ McDonald area. Others mentioned more trees, perhaps in planters as the underlying subway has prevented the city from planting any along McDonald Avenue.
One neighbor felt that all of the beautification was putting the cart before the horse as the poor conditions of our streets and sidewalks in that area make it very difficult to walk around without the threat of breaking one's ankle. Another neighbor who was wheelchair-bound expressed her concern about the dangers of fast moving traffic signals (especially on Ocean Parkway) and inaccessible sidewalks due to the high curbs. Suggestions from other neighborhoods included beautifying the Carroll Street Bridge area by the Gowanus Canal with benches and lamp posts and the installation of bike racks all around the district.
All in all, it was a very fun and productive meeting. I am thrilled to be part of this process, especially at this time when there is so much distrust/discontent with the way our government typically does their business. I really appreciate the courage and hard work Brad and his team have put forth to make this all happen and look forward to seeing the fruits of our labors throughout the district!
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The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work for war-purposes: calmly plotting the destruction of the world! Such explosives in men's hands, while their moral and intellectual status is declining, is about as useful as giving out firearms to all inmates of a gaol and then saying that you hope 'this will ensure peace'. But one good thing may arise out of it, I suppose, if the write-ups are not overheated: Japan ought to cave in. Well we're in God's hands. But He does not look kindly on Babel-builders.
One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor by means of botany and soil-science; but it grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mold of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps. No doubt there is much personal selection, as with a gardener: what one throws on one's personal compost-heap; and my mold is evidently made largely of linguistic matter.
And so it was settled. Sam Gamgee married Rose Cotton in the spring of 1420 (which was also famous for its weddings), and they came and lived at Bag End. And if Sam thought himself lucky, Frodo knew that he was more lucky himself; for there was not a hobbit in the Shire that was looked after with such care. When the labours or repair had all been planned and set going he took to a quiet life, writing a good deal and going through all his notes. He resigned the office of Deputy Mayor at the Free Fair that Midsummer, and dear old Will Whitfoot had another seven years of presiding at Banquets.
I remember nothing about it except a philological fact. My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could not say 'a green great dragon', but had to say 'a great green dragon'. I wondered why, and still do. The fact that I remember this is possibly significant, as I do not think I ever tried to write a story again for many years, and was taken up with language.
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Top 1990s Teen Movies on Netflix Streaming
This post in my Netflix Streaming series is a part of 90s Month.
Click the film titles to be taken directly to the film on Netflix.
Scream is, of course, the classic 90s movie by horror director Wes Craven that simultaneously manages to both be sarcastic about and in love with the horror genre. It's a self aware teen slasher flick. Between this and The Craft all of us young ladies managed to fall like a ton of bricks for Skeet Ulrich that year. The film also stars Neve Campbell, Matthew Lillard, David Arquette, Jamie Kennedy, Courtney Cox, Rose McGowan, Drew Barrymore and Liev Shreiber. You can also catch the parody of this flick, Scary Movie, on Netflix. (Note: Scary Movie was Scream's original title).
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (seasons 1-7, the full series) (1997) (Available Until April 1, 2012)
I've mentioned my love of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie before but I haven't mentioned the series. I was a latecomer to the series (season 4) but then I quickly caught up and got into it. Buffy is just your normal teen girl who has to, uh, kill vampires and demons, no biggie. She also ends up falling for some of them like Angel (above). I'm actually a bigger fan of the Angel spin off but Buffy is, of course, a great show too. Plus there were so many great supporting characters who grew into their own as the show progressed (Willow in particular). The talented cast of this Joss Whedon series includes Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Anthony Stewart Head, James Marsters, Emma Caulfield, Michelle Trachtenberg, Charisma Carpenter, David Boreanaz, Amber Benson, Seth Green, Marc Blucas (who I hate on here but love in everything else), Danny Strong, Adam Busch, Tom Lenk, Juliet Landau, Mercedes McNab, Clare Kramer, Alexis Denisof (Hannigan's real life husband) and Camden Toy. You can check out some pics of the cast and I at an Angel convention I went to years back here. Although the Buffy conventions have seemed to die down many of the cast still do the con circuit.
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"I'm pulling off the biggest scam of all time. I've entered into their world" "Ooh, did you leave bread crumbs?"
I'm a big fan of this movie. I had already been a fan of Melissa Joan Hart for years because of her sitcoms. In this movie though she plays a popular girl. Using someone who is usually so nice really works when you try to show things from their POV. Between this and The Adventures of Sebastian Cole I fell for Adrian Grenier years before Entourage. This movie is about a trouble making outsider (Grenier) who pretends to date the popular girl (MJH) to make their exes jealous. I will never forget that eerily perfect video that shows that most of the student body are comparable to the Nazis who just blindly followed orders.
SLC Punk! (1999) (Available Until March 1, 2012)
"To be an anarchist in Salt Lake City was certainly no easy task, especially in 1985. And having no money, no job, no plans for the future, the true anarchist position was in itself a strenuous job."
SLC Punk is a fantastic dramedy that you don't have to be a punk to love. Anyone who is an outsider can definitely get into it. The movie is about friends Stevo (Matthew Lillard) and Bob who are teens in Salt Lake City, UT in the 1980s. After high school Stevo's dad wants him to follow in his footsteps and become a lawyer but Stevo just wants to hang out and be a punk instead. This is often particularly shocking to the squares in their area as Salt Lake City is known for being particularly repressed. The film was even shot on location. You can read about the SLC locations here. Of course they end up getting into dangerous situations. The film costars Devon Sawa and Jason Segel as friends of theirs and Christopher McDonald as Stevo's dad. So good! For more on the film visit the Official SLC Punk site which is from the film's release (Quicktime clips!, so old & nostalgic). For tons of pictures and gifs from the movie visit the Fuck Yeah SLC Punk tumblr.
I'm definitely a fan of this adaptation of the Susanna Kaysen novel about a depressed young woman. She ends up in a mental hospital during the interim between high school and college. The film stars Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Brittany Murphy and Jared Leto. The film is set in the 60s but since being young & misunderstood is universal and it was released in '99 I'm including it.
The Craft (1996) (Available Until January 1, 2012)
If you were a preteen or teen girl in the 90s I'm pretty sure that you, like my friends and I, watched this film repeatedly. I remember a gaggle of us going on my 13th birthday. The Craft is about a new girl in school (Robin Tunney) who meets and becomes friends with a group of outcast girls (Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell and Rachel True). It turns out that they are practicing witches and when they find out that she is a natural witch they get together and start casting some powerful spells. Girl power! This movie not only introduced young girls to witchcraft but also to the hotness of Skeet Ulrich. Christine Taylor and Breckin Meyer costar.
Fear (1996) (Available Until April 1, 2012)
Ah, Fear when Reese Witherspoon wasn't anorexic but was likable, Alyssa Milano was slutty and Mark Wahlberg was buff and hot (well some things don't change). Witherspoon is an average teen girl who falls for Wahlberg who is controlling nutjob who fingers her on a roller coaster. What's not to love? William Petersen and Amy Brenneman costar. I recommend this fun review of Fear at the Bad Movie Art Blog.
Romeo & Juliet (1996) (Available Until February 1, 2012)
"What satisfaction canst thou have tonight?"
"The exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine."
"I gave thee mine before thou didst request it!"
I was a huge fan of William Shakespeare as a little girl (what, you weren't?, xd) and all of us loved Leo back in the day. So I freaking loved Baz Luhrmann's young, hip version of the classic play. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Romeo and Claire Danes stars as Juliet. The film is loud, gorgeous and romantic. It costars John Leguizamo, Paul Rudd, Jamie Kennedy, Jesse Bradford, Pete Postlewaite, Paul Sorvino and Brian Dennehy.
Empire Records (1995) (Available Until January 1, 2012)
"It's Rex Manning Day!"
Empire Records is just an awesome movie. Yes, I was one of those people back in the internet dark ages who petitioned for them to put out the Special Remix DVD edition with deleted scenes because we love it so much. It's about a bunch of teens who work at a record store (If you ask me what that is you are getting smacked.) for a laid back boss. One of them is a bit off and decides to borrow money the boss had earmarked to prevent a takeover buy a big chain store. So they have to find a way to raise a ton of money, put up with a washed up singer (Maxwell Caulfield as Rex Manning), deal with a shoplifter and their personal issues in a day. It has great music, compelling characters and a ton of teen angst. It is the only film I've ever found (and believe me I spent time looking over the years) in which Anthony LaPaglia and Rory Cochrane are certifiably hot. It also introduced the world to a ton of other great actors including Ethan Embry, Liv Tyler, Renee Zellweger, Johnny Whitworth, Brendan Sexton the 3rd and Robin Tunney. I recommend reading Reel Sex: The Slacker Sex God which mentions Rory in Empire Records.
Hackers (1995) (Available Until January 1, 2012)
So much has been written in the last few years about the tech inaccuracies in Hackers but I don't give a shit about that. It's a movie. Movies are about escapism. None of us really knew what the net had in store for us back then and wouldn't it be cool if you were a teen who was smart enough to bring down big corporations? Fuck yeah. Plus it has the super sexy combo of the then totally young and hot (and later married, in a bloody wedding, for a short period of time) Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie. Jonny Lee Miller stars as a super hot computer hacker who meets a group of like minded kids (Angelina Jolie, Matthew Lillard, a very young Jesse Bradford) at his new school in New York City. Of course because it's the 90s they get to wear fucking amazing cyber clothes while rollerblading. Since they are hackers they end up tangled in a big mess that they have to hack their way out of. Fisher Stevens (always amazing, why isn't he in more stuff?) is their main nemesis. Well theirs a cop too but he doesn't know how to use a computer so he's not really threatening. Check out Geek Bliss's cool etsy shop for Hackers lip balm.
The Doom Generation (1995) (Available Until January 1, 2012)
"You are a life support system for a cock."
Doom Generation was the first Greg Araki movie that I ever saw and it's an understatement to say that I was blown away. In Rose McGowan's first real role (she had a tiny part in Encino Man) she plays a hot, tweaking teen on a bizarre road trip with her boyfriend. The movie costars Johnathon Schaech (yum), James Duval and Parker Posey. I'm so glad that there was a big video store a town over when I was young that had stuff like this or I wouldn't have seen it. I recommend checking out Agent Lover's Getaway Girl Style: The Doom Generation.
Technically Mallrats is about two guys who have graduated high school but they are drifting. They haven't decided whether to go to college or get jobs yet. They are basically trying to extend their teen years by being mallrats. So I think that it fits here better than in my Top 1990s Movies about Twentysomethings on Netflix Streaming post. This great Kevin Smith flick stars Jeremy London, Jason Lee (during his hottest phase), Claire Forlani, Joey Lauren Adams, Shannen Doherty & Ben Affleck.
My So Called Life: The Complete Series (1994) (Available Until March 1, 2013)
I've already mentioned My So Called Life which focuses on the realistic teenage emotions and rebellions of Angela Chase (Claire Danes) so I'll just let you gaze at these hot pics of Jordan Catalano (Jared Leto).
NOTE: Clicking most of the hyperlinks of actors' names will take you to their official twitter profiles.
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Do you remember that classic 1982, R-rated movie about a deeply troubled Vietnam veteran who goes clinically insane after being brutally tortured by a corrupt rural police department, and murdering as many people as his skills in forestry would allow?
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Hi. It's been about a month since my last update. John, my contractor, has left the building. He did a fabulous job completing this expansion project over the summer. I am delighted with the end result. Thank you John.
Once John finished, I began working on the interior space. I continued the electrical wiring from the old shop, into the new, making sure to include plenty of receptacles, including some up in the "ceiling" area. For lights, I decided on four 2 ft. by 2 ft. troffers. Then it was on to insulation. I put R-19 between the trusses along the roofline. In order to do so, I had to build out the 3 1/2" truss to 7". I used the R-13 wall insulation that John kept from the old wall and bought the additional insulation required. I have also started putting T-111 on the walls.
Regarding heat, I was planning (hoping) to buy a new heating unit (Hot Dawg or similar) for the shop but a plumber ran the numbers and determined that my shop calls for 11,000 btu and my family room calls for 16,000 btu. I was hoping for the opposite but my family room has lots of glass. We needed an update to the heating unit in our family room and I was planning to move my 8,800 btu unit from the shop to the family room. So, since there is a call for higher btus in the family room, we bought a unit for that space and I am going to make the 8,800 btu unit work in my shop. I got the heat going about 2 weeks ago but did not use it until I finished the insulation.
Here are a few shots of the shop showing insulation, electricals and the heating unit:
Today there was much warmth in the shop. I don't speak of the kind you operate via a thermostat. No, this was in the form of four northeastern LJs visiting my home/shop. Ellen (Ellen35), Lorna (moonls), Lisa (Dustbunny) and Gary (GBlock66) joined me today for a tour of the shop, shop talk and lunch. We had a great time and I enjoyed the company immensely. I asked for opinions on tool placement, dust collection, workbenches (I need to build one), etc. and these folks offered plenty of good advice/opinion. They even diagnosed the noise I have been hearing when I use my bandsaw. Thank you folks for tolerating my many questions of how you would use the space, where you would place tools and what type of workbench you think is better. By the way, I am glad you preferred to have lunch in the shop. That was my preference too.
Here is a photo of us during lunch:
Left to right it's Gary, Lorna, Ellen, Lenny and Lisa
Here's another shot of folks standing outside the shop, next to a picnic table I recently completed. I will be posting it soon:
A thanks to Gary for thoughtfully bringing 5/4 cherry shorts for our taking. Given the current contentious political environment, I am proud of how democratically we took turns selecting pieces. Once again, to Lisa, Lorna, Gary and Ellen, I enjoyed your visit!
Oops, almost forgot…the shed. Here's a photo of the completed shed. Well, except for doors which I have started on. Thanks again for checking in on me.
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Jeff: Dave, what would you say are the basic fundamentals of being an entrepreneur?…Dave: Well certainly, it's the areas where a lot of times business owners neglect,…things like finance, money.…You know, what are your numbers?…I ask business owners a lot of times, you know are you winning or are…you losing?…And that's sort of how I view the financials in a business. It's not that money is…the most important thing; it's that money is the score.…It lets us know how well we are doing.…How can you know whether or not you are winning or losing a basketball game…without a scoreboard?…Well, we want to know what our wins were, our scores in terms of income, and we…want to know what our losses are.…
But if an entrepreneur isn't generating financial reports on at least a monthly…basis and reviewing those reports, they're really sort of flying blind.…So that's one of the basics that they need to have in place.…Another fundamental of being an entrepreneur is management--is learning what it…means to manage other people, learning what it means to truly delegate, and how…
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Yandel and CNCO Concert at Altos de Chavón
HERE, HERE! Casa de Campo has announced their end of summer concert! Sooner than we expected, we will be able to enjoy once more all of the timeless hits by Yandel and for the first time in Altos de Chavón the "boy band", CNCO! Read more here.


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Student insanity
The spring semester has come and gone. I survived – barely. In the interim the wife and I took a mini-vacation get away (that was so rightfully deserved).
Summer semester has begun and the wave of anxiety and fear is ruling my mind and my world. Why is it that the beginning of every semester starts out the same:
- Read class outline
- Panic!
- Read class syllabus
- Panic even more!!
- View required reading material
- Choke back the tears and try not to regress to an infantile state~!!
- View exam schedule
- Barely save yourself from passing out after you have hyperventilated enough to fill a hot-air balloon!!!!!!!
*RINSE – AND- REPEAT the following experience for each individual class you are taking*
The start of the semester includes trying to figure out how you can extend the amount of hours in one day because 24 hours is just simply not enough time to complete all that is required.
Also, you begin to bargain with your subconscious and your body as to how much sleep you REALLY need.
The rationing of food and water is optional since all you really need is your favorite choice of caffeine (and in my case that would be coffee).
Oh, did I mention I just purchased a new coffee maker?
Yes, the summer semester has started like a drag race. No easing into it – let's just leap forward at Mach 1 and see if we can hang on for dear life.
I for one think the summer semester is the TOUGHEST of them all because you have to figure out a way not to be influenced by the oh-so beautiful weather.
Am I the only one (nursing student) that thinks this way? I have been accused of being quite the odd bird.
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I actually need a new coffee maker =/
This is SO true. I just finished spring semester…we're on break now. You described the first days of class so well! The last two semesters were that way and I figure the last one will be too.
I agree, summer semester of nursing school was the pits. I had to take 16 weeks of Med/Surg, Pharm, and Mental Health in 10 weeks.
On the plus side, I'm graduating in 2 days, so I guess it wasn't THAT bad.
Hehehehe! That is exactly how I feel at the start of each Semester as well. I am a MSN student and I feel like the academic standards went from the moon to Saturn. I don't start Summer session for another week, but I am already reading the first few chapters, so maybe I won't hyperventilate on day 1.
@ Milakaa I love my new coffee maker with an insulated carafe!
@ Cristy Heh heh, thanks for validating my craziness
@ Alex Congratulations! I have another year of grad school to go.
@ Chris Yep! I've done that too, it helps to only postpone the insanity. LOL
Insulated carafe is the only way to go! Grab the carafe and the backpack and head out the door! Hot coffee all the way to school – and home!!!!
@ Karen You got that right!
That is so funny! I remember that exact feeling at the beginning of every single class! I have been considering starting my masters and a good friend of mine asked me "the sting of Nursing has finally went away?" hahaha What a nice reminder!
@Tara – I will have to remember that line. I like it. LOL. Best of luck when ever you do decide to advance your degree.


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BAKER, SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY --Traffic was backed up for miles on the northbound 15 Freeway near Baker in San Bernardino County following a fatal collision on Saturday.
According to San Bernardino County Fire officials, a pickup truck crashed into a tour bus near Zzyzx Road just after 10:30 a.m.
Authorities say it appears the truck may have crossed the median and collided with the bus.
The driver of the truck was killed and six others were injured. Five of those injured suffered minor injuries.
Traffic was backed up for miles heading to Las Vegas. Officials closed the 15 Freeway at Afton Road for several hours. Caltrans said the scene was cleared as of 7 p.m.


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On September 12th, Detroit's brave Democratic Mayor Dave Bing and Michigan's pragmatic Republican Governor Rick Snyder agreed to refurbish Belle Isle Park, a neglected cultural gem in the shadows of a once great city. The magnificent two-mile long refuge in the Detroit River between the U.S. and Canada was laid out by Frederick Law Olmsted and is even larger than his masterpiece, Central Park in Manhattan.
As Detroit over the past decade sank closer to dysfunction and fiscal calamity, the city was unable to properly maintain the park. Crime and security concerns deterred visitors while Belle Isle's conservatory, zoo, aquarium and nature trails either closed or decayed. Under the Bing Snyder deal Belle Isle will become a state park with non-city Michigan residents having to pay the annual $10 fee that gives access to all state parks.
In signing the accord Snyder said that establishing Belle Isle as a state park, "provides needed financial relief to Detroit without it relinquishing ownership and brings long overdue restoration to the park." Bing said it "is a win-win situation for the city and the entire state, by preserving a historic destination in the city of Detroit."
This budding partnership between Bing and Snyder is a marriage of convenience as the mayor and governor have come together primarily to avoid a Detroit bankruptcy, an outcome dreaded by both. Last April they agreed to transfer final say on the city's devastated finances to a financial officer and advisory board. With default on Detroit's $10 billion debt looming, the consent agreement forestalled the harsher alternative of the governor appointing an emergency manager, as has happened in Flint, Pontiac and Benton Harbor.
Bing, a 68-year-old former NBA star who succeeded disgraced mayor Kwame Kilpatrick in 2009, had run out of choices. "From my position," he said, "I had two options: Sign the consent agreement or let an emergency manager come in. We opted to sign the agreement."
Detroit's financial stabilization agreement requires a balanced budget, something it hasn't had in 10 years. With its credit rating cut to double C this year Detroit can't sell bonds to cover deficits in its general fund. For the fiscal year that began July 1 the city's overall budget is $2.6 billion, a 16% cut from 2011/12. Assistance from the state is projected to rise slightly but is down substantially from 2000. Pummeled by continuing economic decline, the city's other revenue sources -- taxes on income, gaming, and property -- are all down.
To narrow the deficit, Bing in July announced that city workers -- including firefighters and police -- would take a 10% pay cut. Bing defended the measure as tough but necessary. Since Detroit can no longer borrow, he said, "without action the city will shut down."
Bing also plans to cut city employment by 20%, or 2,500 jobs. Last month he embraced a consultant's recommendation that the bloated water and sewerage department cut its work force by 80%. Detroit's powerful public service unions are enraged and mounting legal challenges.
For his part the governor says the state will help stabilize Detroit finances. Snyder, a venture capitalist who once headed Gateway computer, was elected governor in 2010 in his first bid for public office. Promising to reinvent government, Snyder has registered progress in turning around battered state finances. Aided by a recovering auto industry he says the same thing can happen in Detroit. "The city and state," he says, "must show outsiders they can work together to solve problems."
Detroit's financial disaster is the result of fiscal neglect while the city's tax base and population were falling precipitously. Detroit's finances have been hammered by the 40% downsizing of the auto industry, the loss of 300,000 jobs in southeast Michigan, and a home foreclosure rate that has been among the highest in the country.
Once the nation's fourth largest city, Detroit now ranks 18th behind Indianapolis, Columbus and Charlotte. Its population has slipped below 700,000 and demographers say as many as 1,000 people continue to leave each month. Detroit's population is down by two-thirds from 1950 and has fallen by a quarter of a million since 2000. While white flight accounted for the early decline, in recent years Detroit's black middle class has joined the move to the suburbs or out of Michigan.
The most alarming effect of the population exodus is the huge inventory of abandoned and derelict buildings stretched out over a city that geographically is larger than San Francisco, Manhattan and Boston combined. Entire neighborhoods are hollowed out. Detroit has from 40 to 70,000 abandoned buildings, many of which have become havens for drugs and other criminal activity.
Drive the 5.4 miles along Michigan Avenue from downtown Detroit to Dearborn and it's hard to find a single strip mall where city residents can shop. The vacuous corridor passes the empty lot where Tiger Stadium once stood and the derelict skeleton of what was the grandest train station between New York and Chicago. Amid the abandoned structures only the occasional filling station, bar or bodega peeks out from a gutted landscape.
How, one wonders, can this city be brought back to life?
Grim as the outlook appears, there are clear signs of turnaround. Downtown areas adjacent to Comerica Park, Ford Field and along the riverfront are becoming vibrant. Retail and residential activity increasingly radiates out from the core with rents rising and young entrepreneurs moving in.
A Whole Foods supermarket is under construction near the Art Institute and Wayne State University. On the northwest side 900 jobs are expected from a new shopping mall. Snyder has reached agreement with the Canadian government for a new bridge connecting Windsor and Detroit, promising many high pay construction jobs.
Bing, up for re-election next year, has boldly challenged city council militants who oppose any cooperation with a Republican governor. He has a fight on his hands to win approval for the 30-year Belle Isle lease to the state. Snyder, who sees himself as a problem solver, promises to be a supportive partner. Even more than his Democratic predecessor Jennifer Granholm, he seems committed to the city, recognizing that Michigan's recovery is incomplete if Detroit doesn't turn around.
An earlier version of this article appeared on marketwatch.com.
Barry D. Wood, raised in Michigan, has been writing about Detroit for two decades. A Washington based economics journalist, he is North American economics correspondent for RTHK radio in Hong Kong.
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Like a grape popsicle consorting with a parched tongue in the dead of summer, Vancouver's power-pop supergroup, the New Pornographers hit WFMU's airwaves yesterday during Brian Turner's show. Our studios were inundated with a much-needed blast of hand-clapping, tambourine-spanking tunes full of quirky hooks and satisfying harmonies bleeding with oohs and aahs: click to hear the performance in Real Audio or streaming MP3, or pretend like you were here by downloading a video clip (avi file, 44MB) of the set.
The band's line-up this time around has shifted just a bit, with 6 members present for their current tour, each individual a separate force to be reckoned with in the music world apart from their work with the New Pornographers: Carl Newman (vocal, guitar), Todd Fancey (vocal, guitar; also has a solo career), John Collins (bass, vocal; also in Canadia's goofy spazz band, Thee Evaporators), Blaine Thurier (keyboard, vocal; filmmaker by night), Kurt Dahle (drums, vocal; co-produced Fancey's album), and the debut of Carl's niece Kathryn Calder on vox (making her first radio appearance and second ever live performance with the band). Neko Case will be meeting up with the group later on the tour route.
In other Pornographer news, Carl Newman dons a WFMU t-shirt (Chris Ware design, same one as shown in photo above... c'mon, you know you want to be a copycat) in the band's new video for "Use It," which co-stars Vancouver rock icon and celebrity interpreter Nardwuar the Human Serviette and comedian David Cross. The clip should be available on Matador's site soon. Twin Cinema, the New Pornographers' latest album, will be released August 23.


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On Friday, Crystal Mangum, the woman most famous for falsely accusing members of the Duke lacrosse team of raping her in 2006, was convicted of second-degree murder. Mangum killed her boyfriend by stabbing him in 2011.
She received a sentence of 14 years minimum, up to a maximum of 18 years. Mangum stabbed Reginald Daye in the chest on April 3, 2011 during a fight at his apartment. She said she had killed him in self-defense after he dragged her out of the bathroom by her hair, but Daye, who originally survived the stabbing before dying of his wounds, told law enforcement that Mangum tried to attack him with knives repeatedly before stabbing him in the chest.
Mangum's original accusations against the Duke lacrosse players became a national story, egged on by an eager media. After prosecutor Mike Nifong brought a prosecution, the case fell apart based on lack of evidence; Mangum was found to be lying.


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By Kitty Y. Williams
The first time I met the lovely Karma aka The Diva of Hip Hop Blues, I was sitting off to myself observing the scene at the 2012 RedZone Ultimate Music Fest and Awards put on by Fiyaworks Entertainment and friends. There to accept an award along with several other movers and shakers in the independent music scene here in Houston, I remember this very pretty slender lady in pink who came and sat next to me, striking up a conversation out of the blue. I can't recall everything we discussed but remembered her having a very humble presence and beauty that stood out in the crowded room. Karma was performing that night and unfortunately I ended up missing it due to additional obligations that evening. Upon later discovering that she was the Headliner at Cole's of Houston for a Valentine's Day event the following year, my sweetheart and I made a point to go see her LIVE.
It's always refreshing to see a beautiful woman holding it down across multiple genres with a strong voice, energetic stage presence and classy sex appeal in an industry full of desperate individuals who are not always up to par on their craft. Karma opened up her set with a snazzy and sassy little piece called "I LIKED IT", an ode to the Bad Boys in our lives and the ups and downs that come with them. We all went crazy hootin and hollering when she started singing her rendition of "MISS CELIE'S BLUES" (watch her tribute video on YouTube) which took us all back, considering The Color Purple had just celebrated its 30 year anniversary that September 2012. Before the Entertainer had to run off and perform at another venue, the event organizer Jazzy Red requested Karma do her hit "COME HOLLA @ ME"; just a little ode to haters who like to run their mouths about nothing. Once again, we were all Jamming right along with her.
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had a crush on in high school and he said "I remember you always rapping and singing."
The INDIEgator: Did you have any memorable performances as a child that you would like to share?
Itz Karma: A middle school talent show, "The Lady T's" Stand Up! We were in the 7th or 8th grade and were killing it. My stage name back then was 'MC Playa'.
The INDIEgator: Ahhh ok. So were you influenced by any particular MCs and Artists growing up?
Itz Karma: When it came to me rapping, it had to be MC Lyte… Singing it was Whitney Houston hands down. Though as I began to mature in the industry I started running into incredible Singers, Musicians and Rappers. Some of my friends are more of an influence to me than most, because I see behind the scenes with them. They all have hearts of gold!
The INDIEgator: How would you describe your music in one sentence?
Itz Karma: My music will massage your SOUL!
The INDIEgator: One of my favorite music videos from you is "MISS CELIE'S BLUES (SISTER)" in 2012, in honor of the 30th Anniversary for film The Color Purple. Share with us in brief how your team came to put that together and how you felt when it was all said and done.
Itz Karma: I recorded that song years prior to recording the video. I've had several offers from Videographers to recreate the scene. However, I've always said I wanted to do that video in the back yard at my mom's house in her juke joint. So I called out the community, friends, family, etc., even my biological father showed up. My mom was in the kitchen frying chicken for everyone and when we were not filming, we were having a great time. My Makeup Artist was mad because the DJ kept playing "Drop It Like It's Hot" music.
The INDIEgator: Lol. Sounds like a party. In terms of newer projects, what was the inspiration behind the music on your 2014 EP Bold and Beautiful?
Itz Karma: My life. Everyone will find that I'm having a good time in life right now. I'm in a good place. It helped me to make good records!


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WASHINGTON — Only half as many muni advisory firms are registered with the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board compared to those registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, even though advisory firms are now required to sign up with both regulators under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
As of Monday morning, 878 muni advisers were registered with the SEC but only 442 had signed up with the board. Though the commission began requiring that municipal advisers register with it by Oct. 1, to coincide with the effective date of Dodd-Frank provisions regulating advisers, the MSRB gave advisers until Friday to register with their separate system.
However board officials contend there are explanations for the large discrepancy, which market participants previously attributed to confusion about the existence of dual registration. MSRB executive director Lynnette Hotchkiss said that the list of SEC registrations is not necessarily an indicator of who should register with the board.
"We have been informed that many firms registered with the SEC as a precaution until additional guidance was given," she said, adding that an adviser would not have to register by the MSRB's Friday deadline if it did not have active clients.
In addition, Hotchkiss said that the posting of MSRB registrants on its website may be delayed for one to two weeks because of "any number of factors including payment confirmation or follow-up issues."
"As such, the MSRB list shouldn't be dispositive of the advisers who have registered by the deadline," Hotchkiss said.
Though SEC registration is free, MSRB registration requires the payment of an initial fee of $100 as well as an annual fee of $500 per firm.
MSRB spokesman Jennifer Galloway said she could not provide a number of pending registrations because many are processing all the time. However, she said the board received a significant number of registrations last week.
Many advisers, faced with a crush of end-of-year business, said late last month that they had planned to sign up with the board when their workload lessened.
Under Dodd-Frank, "municipal advisers" are defined as businesses that advise municipal entities or conduit borrowers about muni financial products or the issuance of municipal securities.
They include financial advisers, swap advisers, and guaranteed-investment contract brokers.
The law also covers those who solicit certain types of business from municipal entities on behalf of unrelated dealers or advisers.
It exempts from the adviser definition dealers serving as underwriters, attorneys offering legal advice or providing "traditional" legal services, as well as engineers providing engineering advice.
Phone calls Monday to a handful of firms signed up with the SEC but not the MSRB as an adviser confirmed many of the reasons for delays cited by Hotchkiss.
Robert Stone, vice president of Androscoggin Savings Bank in Lewiston, Maine, said his bank's registration with the MSRB is pending until the check it sent to the board on Thursday clears.
Stone said that the bank, which is registered with the SEC as a solicitor, refers municipal borrower clients to a Massachusetts-based advisory firm.
Were it not for that firm, Androscoggin would not have known about the registration requirements.
"This is all new territory for us," Stone said.
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