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East Peoria Councilman Mike Unes officially kicked off his campaign for State Representative of the 91st Illinois House District on Saturday.
Unes was introduced to the crowd by retired East Peoria Police Officer Charlie Morgan and East Peoria Mayor Dave Mingus. Morgan, a lifelong Democrat, regaled the hundreds of supporters gathered at the announcement hosted at the Embassy Suites Hotel, with his story of how he came to know Unes from his East Peoria City Council campaign. "This old Democrat studies every candidate before voting, and Mike Unes will earn your vote, as he did mine in 2007," Morgan stated.
Mayor Mingus stated that he, "doesn't always agree with Mike Unes politically, but he does appreciate his thoughtful study of issues and his ability to be collegial despite tough debates."
Unes then took to the microphone to thank the speakers, the crowd, and to lay out his reasons for seeking this position. Unes said that he has, "profound disagreement with his [Mike Smith's] priorities as a legislator. I cannot sit back any longer. I cannot sit idly-by while he continues to support a Speaker of the House and bad policies that are ruining our state."
Unes stated that he also disagrees with Smith's voting record on raising taxes; Unes stated, "I have voted against raising taxes on our people. Raising taxes is the easy way of solving every budget problem but is the wrong choice because it is a terrible burden on our taxpayers and leads to a loss of business and a loss of jobs. I take the approach to government budgeting the same way my wife, Natalie, and I do with our household budget--with four children—well considered prioritization and careful management."
The last time the 91st District race was contested was in 2006. Many people remember the race taking a negative turn towards Election Day. Although Unes stated that he again expects this will be a top-tier race in 2010, he cast off any personal attacks on Smith, stating, "I want to be very clear, Mike Smith is a very nice person. I will not demonize or attack him personally in this campaign. But a campaign is the time for the people to review the performance of their government servants. And I intend to shed light on Representative Smith's record in an accurate portrayal, which I believe has contributed greatly to the mess our state is in."
The 91st House District includes parts of Tazewell, Fulton, and Peoria counties. Incumbent legislator Mike Smith is serving his 8th term in the Illinois House.
For further information regarding Mike's campaign for State Representative, please call Dan Pelphrey, Citizens for Unes, 309-472-8535 or visit www.mikeunes.com
Monday, December 14, 2009
Mike Unes announces candidacy for State Representative
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Friday, 4 January 2008
Mango mascarpone coconut cheesecake
With absolutely nothing to do on my holidays other than swim, eat, drink and sleep I bought myself a library of magazines to entertain myself. The Gourmet Traveller, had this cake on the cover. Had me at hello!
And, I had the perfect dinner party for which to make it.
We arrived back from our trip after a day of driving on Saturday evening. I rushed off to the supermarket to buy the ingredients and everything else we needed. I began preparing the cake. I didn't think would take me too long. Knee deep in mangoes I was informed we were already late for the concert we were going to that night. I put lids on everything and scooted out. I returned home later that evening, very tired and rather tipsy and continued where I left off. Finally I thought I was done and it was time for bed, when I realised it had to be refrigerated for 2 hours before I could pour on the final layer!
I went to bed and set my alarm for 2 hours later. Somehow I dragged myself out of bed and poured the jelly layer on to set overnight.
The following morning I was to scared too look. In my sleepy daze I recalled the last time I poured jelly on top (of the Strawberry Mirror Cake) and it seeped through and went everywhere, so this time I put the pan on a plate. That morning, I had visions of the springform being on the plate crooked and all the jelly pooled on one side. Tony eventually coaxed me into it and it was fine. More than fine in fact, it was a good looker and delicious!
190 grams butter, softened
110 grams brown sugar
110 grams (¾ cup) plain flour
110 grams desiccated coconut
Mango jelly
500 grams mangoes, coarsely chopped (3 – 4 mangoes)
100 grams caster sugar
20ml lemon juice
1 tsp gelatine
Mascarpone mousse
750 grams mascarpone
2 tbsp finely grated lemon rind
2 tbsp milk
¾ tsp gelatine
4 egg yolks
110 grams (½ cup) caster sugar
25ml lemon juice
Start with the mango jelly - combine mango with a 1 litre of water in a saucepan and bring to a simmer and cook for 30 minutes until pulpy and fragrant. Puree using a hand-held blender or food processor, and strain through a fine sieve. You need 400ml, discard the pulp. Combine liquid with sugar in a clean saucepan and stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Bring to the boil, remove from heat and stir through lemon juice. Sprinkle on the gelatine and stir to dissolve. Stand until cool.
Next the base - preheat oven to 180C. Cream 140gm butter and 80gm brown sugar until pale and fluffy. Add the flour and coconut and stir to the butter and sugar mix. Transfer to a baking paper lined oven tray and press out to approx 1cm-thick rectangle and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Bake this for 1015 minutes or until golden, and cool completely. Break the coconut biscuit into a food processor and process till finely ground. Melt remaining butter and add to food processor with the remaining sugar. Transfer to springform pan, lined with baking paper and press the mix to form the base and refrigerate for 1 hour.
The mascarpone mousse - combine mascarpone and lemon rind in a bowl, folding gently. Heat milk in a saucepan over low heat to just below simmering point. Sprinkle the gelatine on and stir to dissolve. Allow to stand for 5 minutes to cool, and add the to mascarpone mix. Whisk egg yolks, sugar and lemon juice in a heatproof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water for 5 minutes (until thick and pale) and carefully fold through mascarpone mixture. Spoon over crumb base, smooth top and refrigerate for 2 hours.
Lastly, pour mango jelly over mascarpone mixture and refrigerate overnight or until firm.
To serve, remove cake pan ring and scatter cake with shaved coconut.
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- Deborah said...
Wow - this sounds amazing!! I've never had a mascarpone cheesecake before, and this is the second one I've seen this week!
- Saturday, January 05, 2008
- The Baker & The Curry Maker said...
I'd never made one before either. Where did you see another one? It was yummy!
- Saturday, January 05, 2008
As the very lucky friend who visited for dinner this night, may i say how amazing this cheesecake was! The texture of the mascarpone filling was subtle and creamy and the mango layer had a beautiful sharp contrast. I don't have the biggest sweet tooth in the world so cheesecake is always a winner with me. I love the smooth creamy texture of it with the crunch of the biscuity base.
I can't wait to try this cake myself and only hope i can do half as well! Thanks Sathya for an evening of wonderful food, hospitality, great converstaion and most of all, lasting friendship. You are special xx
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Last night during dinner Lydia was very fussy!! Granted we were eating dinner at 8:20pm (church night) !! But when I got her out to put on PJs she was burning up, yep she had a temperature of 101.5. And it was about that time that Anna started fussing. I checked Anna temp. and it wasn't quite to 100. After giving Lydia some Tylenol she crashed her bed and fell fast asleep!!!! No peeps all night.
Anna's story was MUCh different. I stayed in her room with her for an hour getting her calmed down for bed.....reading her stories, rubbing her back..... She finally fell asleep about 10:30 or so (about normal). But then she came into our room at 3am complaining about her stomach. So we built her a little bed with blankets and a sleeping bag on the floor next to our bed and gave her a little medicine for pain (she was fussing so much about how much her stomach hurt). After much tossing and turning she FINALLY fell asleep.
She climbed into bed with me this morning a few minutes before 7. She didn't fell hot at all....yay! I asked her if she was feeling better and she said she was a little but her stomach still hurt. So we snuggled for a moment and she coughed and then threw up in my bed.....Good Morning, Mama !
Poor little dear hurting sooo much through the night knowing she might throw up! But maybe now she can start to feel better!!! Let's just hope no one else gets sick.
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Well, 20 weeks came and went without much pomp or circumstance. It was Hubby's birthday, but we even celebrated that two days early. Work is getting stressful, as it always does at this time of year, and that makes me a little neurotic.
I can no longer deny the fact that I'm feeling better, and it's annoying the hell out of me ;-) I managed to stay late to do a couple of experiments last night, not getting home until 9pm, and while I'm a bit sleepy today, I'm not much more nauseous than usual (which is to say, it's background, and I can pretty much ignore it while going about my business).
The one good thing about it is that I'm at a point where the first couple of months are becoming clouded by memory, and I can actually forsee going through this again ;-) Hubby and I would love for Bean to have a sibling, and for a while at the beginning, I was convinced Bean was destined to be an only child. How I would deal with the NVP the second time around might depend on my work situation, how old Bean is, and a billion other things, but I think I could swing it.
Now, if I can just get some good, productive work done before leaving on vacation, life would be perfect!
Here's to getting through the next two weeks, and celebrating with family for two weeks after that!
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
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Who said the frogs are a nation of socialist wimps, so pathetically to the left as to be pitied rather than emulated??
At least when it comes to France's Supreme Court, there is a hint that common sense and fairness are still alive (barely) and tolerated.
As reported at the reference, this is so because the high court has shot down the anti-success, discriminatory, unequal, punitive tax which is the hallmark of the tyrant Hollande :
President Francois Hollande's 75 percent millionaire-tax is unconstitutional because it doesn't guarantee equality for taxpayers.
Hollande's plan would have added extra levies of 18 percent on individuals' incomes of more than 1 million euros ($1.32 million), while regular income taxes and a 4 percent exceptional contribution for high earners would have been based on household income, the court said today in an e-mailed statement.As a result, two households with the same total revenue could end up paying different rates depending on how earnings are divided among members of those households, which runs counter to a rule of equal tax treatment, the Paris-based court said.
The tax, one of Hollande's campaign promises, had become a focal point of discontent among entrepreneurs and other wealth creators, some of whom have quit French shores as a result. Movie star Gerard Depardieu, 64, said he was leaving France "because you consider success, creativity, talent, anything different are grounds for sanction."
"Politically, this has an impact because it was a symbol for French public opinion, and was considered abroad as the emblem of French tax excess, of French tax hell," said Dominique Barbet, senior economist at BNP Paribas SA in Paris. "In deficit terms, it's truly negligible."
Might the French experience provide a teaching opportunity for Barack Obama and his Marxist pals in Congress?
Or is America doomed to replicate the idiotic mistakes of Hollande?
The sad fact is that Barack Obama is so consumed with hatred and a desire for revenge against those who have achieved success that America may be forced to repeat Hollande's misjudgment..
Ref http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-29/french-court-says-75-tax-rate-on-wealthy-is-unconstitutional.html


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A little time in some churches has given me the impression that some Christians are allowing their feelings and positions on a variety of significant national issues to be forged by conservative TV and radio personalities, rather than the Scriptures.
As a prime example David points to the issue of illegal immigration. After pointing out the missiological opportunities the American church has to reach these people, he concludes:
Instead of seeing this issue as an opportunity to reach lost people, we are forming and fueling strong negative feelings against immigrants by spending more time listening to unregenerate radio personalities than meeting actual people from all over the world, praying for them, and telling them about Jesus.
Shame on us.
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I met some of those new friends when they were waiting in line for the signing. And I'll confess, I was a bit shameless. You see for years, I've bribed people to come over to me at book signings and pretend they were as excited to meet me as they might be to meet…let's say, Nora Roberts. I bribed…er, encouraged my new friends to do the same thing. And that resurrection of my old ways led to this video.
You see...shameless. It gets worse. After that, I encouraged people to #omgHollyJacobs on Twitter. I went around the rest of the conference telling people I was trending. I mean, ten people hash-tagging you is a trend, right??
Now, I'll confess, I don't think Spielberg is worried about my new foray into movies. But I'll confess, I had a good time. And I've already got an idea for a new video to showcase my October book, Christmas in Cupid Falls. Hey, maybe Spielberg is getting nervous. I mean, if ten people can be a trend, then a one minute clip might have him worrying that next time I'll try for…two minutes!
There might be an #omgHollyJacobs2 soon. A bunch of friends (two or three people can be a bunch, right? I mean, if ten people can be a trend, I think that's about right!) asked if they could send a clip. I'll keep you posted! LOL
PS I also brought an extra book home from conference, Queen of Your Own Life. I'm giving that away, along with a new rerelease of mine, The Baby Gift (that contains Unexpected Gifts). Just like my Facebook Page/Post.


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Here's their list (summarized):
9. Not only are there are no magic software security metrics, bad metrics actually hurt.My Perspective?
8. Secure-by-default frameworks can be very helpful, especially if they are presented as middleware classes (but watch out for an over focus on security "stuff").
7. Web application firewalls are not in wide use, especially not as Web application firewalls.
6. Involving QA in software security is non-trivial... Even the "simple" black box Web testing tools are too hard to use.
5. Though software security often seems to fit an audit role rather naturally, many successful programs evangelize (and provide software security resources) rather than audit even in regulated industries.
4. Architecture analysis is just as hard as we thought, and maybe harder.
3. Security researchers, consultants and the press care way more about the who/what/how of attacks than practitioners do.
2. All nine programs we talked to have in-house training curricula, and training is considered the most important software security practice in the two most mature (by any measure) software security initiatives we interviewed.
1. Though all of the organizations we talked to do some kind of penetration testing, the role of penetration testing in all nine practices is diminishing over time.
0. Fuzz testing is widespread.
Now, probably because I'm coming from a security practitioners and consulting perspective, I'd didn't find them overly surprising - but at least they did some real interviews and have stats to back up their findings (which is great).
The most noteworthy "surprises" were (7) and (1), and I figured I'd briefly comment on those ones.
(7) I remember when vendors were first going around to their clients touting Web Application Firewall (WAF) technology back at the start of the millennium, and the trouble my clients had in understanding why their WAF hadn't stopped us during the penetration test. Within a year, most of the major client organizations had shelved their WAF's and become rather hostile to anyone that saught to sell them a new flavor of WAF. Over the last year or so, I've seen several organizations take a fresh look at the WAF technologies and redeploy smarter varients basically as IDS solutions tuned to a particular Web application they want to observe.
I think that most of the valuable security components of WAF's (such as the selective whitelisting and SQL/XSS Injection protection) have now been absorbed in to the standard commercial IPS boxes out there - i.e. WAF is (already) becoming a feature of IPS.
(1) While their analysis found that most organizations make use of external penetration testing consulting, they concluded that the role of pentesting is decreasing. In one sense I agree, yet in another I don't.
As major corporations have developed and matured their SDLC processes and adopted the use of standard automated testing tools (fuzzers and vulnerability scanners), they are catching many of the bugs that used to fill up the final reports issued by the external penetration testing companies. So, in that sense, I'd say that the role (and value) of traditional (i.e. "classical") pentesting has decreased in value.
However, the field of application security is particularly dynamic, and many of the major pentesting companies have become more boutique in their offerings and offer niche services that compliment an advanced SDLC strategy. So, in that context I'd say that the role of pentesting has increased.


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Was able to spend part of my weekend working with wood ... one of my favorite activities. This little guy came with us looking for treasures in trash pickup piles along the streets. I think he has it figured out!
"Nana ... You want this one?"
The boys lost access to a few places on Saturday. My wood piles may have to become their new stomping ground!
This evening the gas tank of my car is filled, my scrubs are clean and hanging ... and it is going to be a doozy of a week!
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The River Hill volleyball team found its form yesterday at a critical time.
Tied with No. 3 Dulaney at two games each and with the score 6-6 in the fifth game of a nonconference matchup, the No. 9 Hawks won nine of the next 10 points to earn a 16-14, 7-15, 15-8, 9-15, 15-7 win, knocking the visitor from Baltimore County from the unbeaten ranks.
With the state playoffs looming, the win felt especially good for the Hawks (10-3). River Hill coach Sybil Modispacher said her team showed a resilience it lacked in losses to Centennial, Glenelg and Mount Hebron earlier this month.


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The neighborhood corner storefront is a canonical Chicago building typology. This old butcher shop, just a block away from the client's current house, is one that they have a particular fondness for, having shopped at and driven by every day for the past 15 years. When it came for sale, the owner put an offer on it site unseen.
The design solution is to preserve the existing building and storefront just as it has been for 100 years to maintain the characteristic of the neighborhood. Instead of displaying groceries, the storefront will become a place of exchange, a changing gallery for the neighbors to interact with. Inside, the house will re-orient itself from the street to the adjacent empty lot which will become a modern courtyard and garden. Inside, heavy Douglas Fir timber beams and columns will divide the space into the primary public living areas, each with their own relationship to the courtyard, but all benefiting from the southern exposure and light.
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The other day we harvested the first vegetable of the season from our own garden. Or I should probably say, out of my hubby's garden. He's the one with the green thumb in this family. It was one solitary yellow squash. Hardly big enough to even amount to a veggie side dish, really. So what did I do with it?
I had the idea to use it in a risotto. Once you have mastered the basic concept of making risotto, there are really endless variations possible. Here is a good recipe, and then you can just substitute any number of vegetables, and any variety of liquids (broth and wine), and you can even add some cooked meat or seafood in the end. The important parts to keep, in my opinion, are the Arborio rice of course, and the parmesan cheese. Lots of cheese.I also like the concept of a red wine risotto. It adds some interesting color of course, and an earthier flavor. For me vegetables, I had the yellow squash, a red bell pepper, onion, garlic, and some parsley.
The wine I picked to put in the risotto as well as to drink with my meal is the 2009 Perrin & Fils Côtes du Rhône Réserve. Wines from this area in
Grenache is probably my favorite red wine varietal. Never had one I didn't like. And the Perrin & Fils Côtes du Rhône can basically be called my "house wine", as I always have it on hand and turn to it when I don't want to have to think too hard about which red wine to choose. One day I will just have to splurge and shell out some cash for a Chateauneuf-du-Pape, which is usually made from the same grape varieties, but from much more strictly defined vineyards.The wine has aromas of red berries, cherries and black olives. The taste is very smooth and earthy, with some herbal notes of thyme. It was a great match with the risotto, which is not surprising, as the same wine was used in the dish, of course. Always a fool-proof way to have a successful food and wine pairing: drink the wine you put into your dish. My personal addendum to that is: provided the bottle cost less than $12… And stay tuned for more dishes containing ingredients from our garden!


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Ok I know its been well over a month since I last posted but man its been crazy
FIRST The concert was freaking awesome... he was too cool.... then had fireworks afterwards...... THEN in the middle of July my husband and I were able to find a place to rent here in Lawton for only $425 a month yay! Then on July 21st I received a phone call from my friend Michelle........She gave me the worse news a wife could ever receive she had lost her husband in the war in Afghanistan :( my heart still breaks for her... She is strong though....The funeral was intense and sad...but beautiful... each one of his kids along with Michelle and his parents received a flag....
along side all of this I have started working at the Shoppette on the base,. My work hours are crazy but its ok. There is never a lack of action around the store lol
woohoo my kids start back to school on the 21st!! YAY!!
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I don't know what it is about this time of the year but I always am reminded of my bus driver when I was in school, George.
George was a gruff old man. He had a deep voice, was big, and drove a bus. I couldn't help but be intimated by George. But one day George didn't drive the bus that came to pick me up it was Sally, and then a man who transported his goats on his bus (we were all sure of this because the bus ALWAYS stunk like goats and goat poop). But back to George...he would always wait that extra minute for me to come running down the driveway when I was running late, he would smile while my mom forced me to have my first day of school picture taken buy his bright yellow bus, he was really a great man. I can't for the life of me remember his last name, he was just always George.
Every year at Christmas time he would cheerfully hand out brown paper sacks filled with his own little mini-version of a fruit basket. 1 apple, 1 orange, a nut, those yummy Christmas tree nougaty/minty taffy like things, a Christmas pencil and a mini-candy cane. At the time I remember thinking that it had to be the lamest of Christmas gifts I was going to get. I would rush into the house and eat up the candy, maybe use the pencil and then toss the fruit into my mom's fruit. But now that I am a bus driver and always contemplate what to give my bus kids, I am more appreciative of that sweet gesture. If you figure there were probably 40-50 kids on our bus and the cost and time that had to go into making those gifts, he went way above and beyond what some of the other drivers do.
Two years ago I gave out dollar bills to all my kids with a candy cane attached. When you figure that I have about 40 kids on my bus it's tough to squeeze out that extra $40 at Christmas time. But it was all made worth wile with one phone call. I had just one parent call and tell me that her son was so excited to get that dollar. He knew that he could go to the store and spend it however he wanted. On whatever he wanted. Unfortunately he lost that dollar and his mom had to give up one of her's but I was glad to know that I had made, if even just one, kid's day.
I always debate on giving out the money, and last year we just couldn't swing it. This year we can. I know a dollar doesn't buy much anymore, and the high schoolers probably think I'm lame but I enjoy seeing the smile and cheer on the younger kid's faces when they get that envelope knowing that there is money inside.
So this Christmas remember that it's the little things in life. The extra "Have a good weekend, Johnny" or the simple "How was your day, Suzy?" that means the world to some of these kids. Sadly enough some of the just don't get it at home.
Have a great holiday season, and a very Merry Christmas.
Saturday, December 5, 2009
I don't know what it is about this time of the year but I always am reminded of my bus driver when I was in school, George.
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- Staci said...
Very well said!!! Great post!
- December 5, 2009 at 5:32 PM
- Apple said...
I don't remember a bus driver ever giving us anything at Christmas. Of course we didn't give them anything either. I was floored the first time I received a gift from a student.
I struggle with what to give out too. I have over 100 assigned between the two routes and about 90 regulars. Some years I find something great at the dollar store, other years, like this one, I settle for candy bars.
Your dollar idea is very nice and I hope at least some of them understand just how nice.
- December 6, 2009 at 3:49 PM
- Edith said...
That is a good idea...I really struggle with Christmas gifts. A couple of years I've given pencils and candy...but the older ones only use mechanical pencils now so I just don't know.
Have a blessed day.
- December 7, 2009 at 10:31 AM
- Tracy Farr said...
That was a super-wonderful post! I never thought about giving my riders something for Christmas -- but I will from now on! Thanks!
- December 22, 2009 at 2:46 AM


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Some of the other things we talked about were:
- Astronomy Night at JMU on April 2nd
- Replacing bar codes using radio frequency identification technology and the possible replacement of cashiers
- Genetically enchanced muscle-trout and the troubles they might cause the ecosystem
- A mini-Ice Age that followed the last Ice Age that ended 13,000 years ago due to the melting of a glacier
- A small satellite using a solar sail not only for gaining momentum, as you'd normally expect, but also for a relatively gentle slowing down due to collisions within the extremely rarefied atmosphere
- Computer simulations of comets delivering glancing blows to planetary surfaces and, in turn, the possible generation of biochemical molecular precursors within the comets
- The discovery that identical twins don't have identical sets of bacteria within their intestines, a finding that resulted from the in-depth study of their fec. . . well, perhaps I've said too much.
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For 40 years, nothing worked. Promoters enticed the four aging musicians with big bucks. Fans asked. Friends encouraged. Nothing, it seemed, would get the 1960s rock band the Rascals — "Good Lovin,'" "Groovin,'" "Lonely Too Long" — to reunite.
"I was once quoted as saying, 'We'll get together for the Pope's wedding,'" laughs guitarist Gene Cornish, 69. "Well, I got news for you: the Pope got married!"
The Rascals not only reunited, they've taken their hybrid show — live rock concert by the four original members combined with the band's story — to Broadway in the spring and now on a North American tour. The Rascals: Once Upon a Dream will be at Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theatre from Aug. 13 to 25.
For the Rascals, it's sweeter the second time around.
"You see life differently when you're older. You appreciate things more," says drummer Dino Danelli, 68, on the phone from Boston, a tour stop. "We were really young the first time, our early 20s. It hit us like a tornado, a blur. We didn't squeeze out all the beautiful things happening. Now we appreciate it."
Credit goes to long-time Rascals fan Steven Van Zandt, an E Street Band guitarist. "We call him St. Steven," says Cornish.
Not so saintly, Van Zandt played pompadoured mobster Silvio Dante on the Sopranos. He made the boys an offer they couldn't refuse.
Actually, two offers. In 2010, he got Cornish, Danelli, singer Eddie Brigati and keyboardist/singer Felix Cavaliere to play a cancer benefit in New York City. Then he came up with the combined concert and biography concept, using archival footage, narration, and giant screens to tell the story of the band and the tumultuous '60s.
"That's what made it artistically valid for them. It wasn't just another reunion of an oldies group," says Van Zandt, 62, on the phone from Loch Lomond, Scotland, on tour with Bruce Springsteen.
"I felt it was important to do something big to communicate how important they were in the history of rock 'n' roll."
The Rascals, who started in New Jersey and were first known as The Young Rascals, thrived in the mid to late '60s with such hits as "It's a Beautiful Morning," "How Can I be Sure?" and "People Got to Be Free."
Van Zandt remembers being about 14 and with his girlfriend when he first heard "I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore."
"It was so amazing, I stopped, you know, sort of playing around with my girlfriend. I had to listen to that song," recalls Van Zandt. "The whole sound of the Rascals was new. They were the first blue-eyed soul group."
The successful group split up in the early 1970s. No one seems to remember exactly why.
"Nah, even if I did remember I wouldn't mention it," says Cornish, who was born in Ottawa but moved to the U.S. as a child. "It was a bunch of stuff: outside forces not taking care of business."
"There was no great falling out, no fights," says Danelli. "It was just time to end."
The members went their own ways, performing solo or forming new bands.
In 1997, Van Zandt inducted the Rascals into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Starting in the early 1980s, he'd broach them about a reunion every five or 10 years without luck, until the cancer benefit.
"That event made sense to all of us and the timing was right," explains Danelli.
When they played together at the benefit, they felt the good lovin'. "We sensed that this had to go on," says Danelli. "That it was time to do something serious together again."
Van Zandt wrote the script for the "bio-concert" and recruited visual designer and director Marc Brickman, known for his work with Pink Floyd, Paul McCartney and Springsteen.
With their stage lighting in the '60s, says Danelli, the band members couldn't see the fans, now the Rascals can watch the audience watch them.
"It's a tennis match of love," explains Cornish. "We bounce love to them and they bounce it back. I'm not hyping or trying to sell tickets. This is fact. It comes from the heart what I'm telling you."
Is the tour a hard slog for guys edging up to 70?
Fuhgeddaboudit. "It makes them younger, just like it makes the audience younger," says Van Zandt. "It's the fountain of youth."
Apparently so. Cornish recently got engaged for the first time in his life. "I've promised her another 50 years," he says.


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Is Jimmy Kimmel effing Richard Simmons?
Oprah dedicates an entire show to her late dog Sophie.
Cameron Diaz is too much woman.
Gisele is teh sexy
Ryan Phillippe has a few wounds to nurse
Mila Kunis is so complex.
Madonna's four minutes will never be up.
Dane Cook isn't funny
Inventive matchbook sign language
Marcia Cross takes her kids to the park
Ruffle madness strikes
Kanye West launches travel website
Isla Fisher gets some lovin'.
Britney's reuniting with her old manager.
Usher's new album, "Here I Stand," will hit stores May 12. The video for his first single, "Love in This Club," will debut on MTV Monday.
Justin Timberlake was photographed in a baseball uniform on the set of his new movie, The Open Road, filming in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Many thanks to Miley Cyrus and The Jonas Brothers, Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards drew a record 7.4 million viewers Saturday night. That's up 22% from last year's ratings!!
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News Commentary — August 30, 2014
This is an old routine sometimes referred to as a "limited hangout". In essence it's a disinformation ploy that amounts to an intellectual sleight of hand, in which an uncomfortable truth is acknowledged but only in part. So that while the public is focused on the partial revelation the bigger and uglier picture evades their attention.
In this case the partial revelation is that Qatar has been helping to sponsor Islamic State (often referred to as ISIS or ISIL) terror. What Fox News obligingly omits to mention however is that not only Qatar is alleged to have financed Islamic State, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are also alleged to helped finance Islamic State terror.
Not only were they helping finance Islamic State, Saudi Arabia and Qatar were allegedly even paying the terrorists monthly salaries.
Worse still, the U.S. has reportedly been involved in training Islamic State terrorists. Reuters was reporting as much over a year ago.
However, readers will note that the following focuses attention solely on Qatar as the guilty party. Thereby diverting attention from the other players involved like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and even bigger players like the U.S. and Israel.
The following article talks about "Qatar's two-faced foreign policy", well Alster's article is two faced journalism in every sense. We also note that Alster is based in Israel, meaning that this may be part of a broader Mossad disinformation campiagn.
Qatar's role as US ally at odds with claims it sponsors terror
Paul Alster — Fox News August 29, 2014
If the Middle East were one big room, Qatar would be the elephant, according to a growing number of regional experts who believe the oil rich emirate is propping up violent jihadists around the globe even as it poses as a U.S. ally and would-be broker of peace.
Israel has long complained of Qatar's alleged duplicity, accusing it of meddling, bankrolling Hamas in Gaza, exporting radical Islamic terrorism through its tight links to the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Nusra. And a German official recently suggested that Qatar may also play a role in funding Islamic State, the savage extremist group behind the beheading of U.S. journalist James Foley.
"You have to ask who is arming, who is financing ISIS troops? The key word there is Qatar – and how do we deal with these people and states politically?" German Development Minister Gerd Muller said last week.
In response, Qatari Foreign Minister Khalid bin Mohammed al-Attiyah unequivocally denied funding the Islamic State group.
"Qatar does not support extremist groups, including ISIS, in any way," he said in an emailed statement. "We are repelled by their views, their violent methods and their ambitions. The vision of extremist groups for the region is one that we have not, nor will ever, support in any way."
Indeed, Qatar was one of the first Middle Eastern countries to condemn Foley's murder, saying it was "a heinous crime that goes against all Islamic and humanitarian principles, as well as international laws and conventions."
Qatar hosts a U.S. military base, helped broker U.S.-backed peace talks between Israel and Hamas, helped free U.S. journalist Peter Theo Curtis from Al Nusra earlier this week and even played a role in the U.S. swap of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five Guantanamo Bay detainees earlier this year.
Yet previous statements from U.S. officials indicate that they know Qatar has a multi-faceted role in the region.
"Qatar, a longtime U.S. ally, has for many years openly financed Hamas, a group that continues to undermine regional stability," Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence David Cohen told the Center for New American Security on "Confronting New Threats in Terrorist Financing" in March. "Press reports indicate that the Qatari government is also supporting extremist groups operating in Syria. To say the least, this threatens to aggravate an already volatile situation in a particularly dangerous and unwelcome manner."
Qatar is a U.S. "frenemy," according to Jonathan Schanzer, of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. On one hand, it hosts the biggest U.S. military base in the Middle East at Al Udeid; invests tens of billions of dollars in the U.S and across the globe in a bid to make itself indispensable and acts as the 'white knight' intermediary in hostage negotiations.
On the other hand, Qatar is arming and funding Hamas in Gaza, brazenly fueling violent Arab uprisings including the brief and bloody reign in Egypt of the Muslim Brotherhood and is long alleged to be arming vicious rebel groups in Libya, Mali, Syria, Iraq, and Tunisia.
"Qatar is trying to cozy up to everyone," Meir Dagan, former head of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, warned the U.S. in a 2010 cable revealed by Wikileaks. "I think that you should remove your bases from [Qatar]. [The Qataris] owe their security to the presence of the Americans."
Noting that Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates have all recalled their ambassadors from Qatar, Mort Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, called for Qatar to be designated a state sponsor of terrorism.


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I enjoy your "captures" of the moments in your life. Thanks for sharing...and here's MY SATURDAY SNAPSHOT POSTReplyDelete
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Very interesting way to depict your life! Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
I just bought a new camera today - I should do a photo a day one month to learn to use it.ReplyDelete
OMG I need those Tim Horton ornaments! Tim Horton's has become a huge joke in our family because when we were in Toronto several years ago (Scott's first time there) he was constantly pointing out the TH's wanting to know the story from my dad. Now every time we see one it's a big joke--even when we were in Ireland.ReplyDelete
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Week 5 - Business models & advertising model issues
Hey everyone welcome to week 5, this week we are discussing the different types of business models found on the web.
Brokerage – Brings buyers and sellers together to facilitate transactions. Brokers play a frequent role in business-to-business (B2B), business-to-consumer (B2C), or consumer-to-consumer (B2C) markets. Usually a broker charges a fee or commission for each transaction. Examples of this could be Kogan or carsguide online.
Advertising – a web advertising model is an extension of the traditional media broadcast model. A website provides content and services mixed with advertising media, usually in the form of banner ads.
For example a portal such as google includes various data but has banner ads along the side.
Infomediary – Some firms function as infomediaries assisting buyers and/or sellers understand a given market. Information is collected carefully and analyzed and used to target marketing campaigns. This is useful to consumers when considering a purchase, such as flybuys – a customer loyalty program that provides incentives to customers such as redeemable points.
Merchant – Apple iTunes is a good example of a merchant model as it retails goods and services, the sales are based on a price list.
Or something like Dick Smiths that has a traditional brick-and-mortar retail establishment but also has a web store.
Manufacturer (Direct) – The web allows the manufacturer to reach buyers directly and thereby compress the distribution channel.
The consumer can purchase, lease, license and brand integrated content on items.
For example, Alien computers do this very well because you can order your personal, customized new computer and deliver it to your house.
Affiliate – Provides purchase opportunities where ever an individual is on the web including banners, pay per click and revenue sharing. It does this by offering financial incentives to affiliated partner sites, it is a pay for performance model if an affiliate does not generate sales, it represents no cost to the merchant, such as Amazon.com.
Community – based on user loyalty and the revenue is usually tied to advertising. An open content model such as Wikipedia was developed collaboratively by a global community or social networking services such as Facebook.
Subscription – where users are charged a periodic fee to subscribe to a service, they are usually incurred irrespective of actual usage rates and advertising models are frequently combined.
Online digital media providers like NBA.com and JB Hi-Fi online are good examples of this.
Utility – can also be named 'on demand' based on metering usage or a pay as you go approach. Unlike the subscription model the metered services are based on actual usage rates, for example electricity and water or websites such as wordpress.com where you can buy usage for a certain amount of time (Rappa, 2010).
Question Two – Spend some time looking at the Technology report, particularly the country profiles and rankings. Use some of the data analysis tools to answer the following.
1) What is the Mobile phone use /100 population – compare Australia, USA, China, India.
The mobile phone use of Australia was ranked sixth with a 53.1 value. United States ranked 8th with a value of 50.6. India was ranked 107th with a value of 0.1 and China ranked 82nd with a value of 1.8.
2) Internet use / 100 population – compare Australia, USA, China, India.
For individuals using the internet Australia ranked 19th with a value of 76.0.
The USA ranked 22nd with a value of 74.0, China ranked 76th with a value of 34.3 but India ranked the lowest, 124th with a value of 7.5.
3) Compare main strengths and weaknesses of Australia in the survey.
Australia ranked above 20 in each individual survey except for the mobile phone subscriptions making this a weakness.
One must consider that in the past in Australia much effort had been made to develop land line infrastructure.
Developing countries like India and China did not have the likes of national phone line infrastructure like the developed countries such as Australia and the U.S.
Therefore mobile phone subscriptions continue to grow due to the limited number of wired phone lines. (G Jenkins,2002)
Australia has many strengths in the area of data protection, compared to other countries, particularly when it comes to copyright law and protection. http://www.copyright.org.au/
4) What does the survey suggest to you about the Information Technology readiness of Australian business compared to Australian consumers?
The survey to me indicates that Australia's information technology readiness in business is about on the same level with Australian consumers.
The results of the survey indicate that the technology and the consumers are both ready.
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Rappa, M. (2010) Business models on the web. Retrieved 8 April, 2013 from http://digitalenterprise.org/models/models.html
Wilson R. F. (2009).The Four Basic Online Business Models. Retrieved 11 April, 2013 from http://webmarketingtoday.com/articles/marko-hurst-business-models/
Jenkins G. (2002). Observations from the trenches of Electronic Government. Published by Ubiquity. Retrieved 11 April, 2013 from http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=504686
Copyright Council, Australia. (2013). About us. Retrieved 11 April, 2013 from http://www.copyright.org.au/about-us/


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The Eternal Sea
Welcome to The Eternal Sea
So, this is going to be the homepage of our campaign. At the top of the screen are a few tabs you can use to access different features of the website, especially the wiki and character pages. Just be aware that we're still building this.


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Welcome to the website for the SPERM research project.
We want to learn more about male infertility by studying how sperm power themselves to swim.
This project is funded by the Medical Research Council. It is a joint collaboration between the Academic Unit of Reproductive and Developmental Medicine and Academic Unit of Radiology at the University of Sheffield (UK).
Fertility conference by the MerseyFebruary 2nd 2018 in the category Blog
With the Beatles – BC-ISMRM 2017October 6th 2017 in the category Blog, Events, News, Research
All aboard the Mobile UniversitySeptember 30th 2017 in the category Blog, Events, News
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On Saturday night, in his hometown of Milwaukee during UFC 164, Anthony 'Showtime' Pettis captured the Ultimate Fighting Championship lightweight title in a smashing defeat of former champion Benson Henderson. Pettis' win means Latinos now hold a stunning half of the UFC's gold, with the following titleholders:
Bantamweight: Dominick Cruz
Featherweight: Jose Aldo
Lightweight: Anthony Pettis
Heavyweight: Cain Velasquez
Pettis, who is of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent, has previously noted his grandfather anglicized the family surname of 'Perez' to 'Pettis.' During Saturday's post fight press conference, he also praised the sacrifices his mother made in order to put her three sons through Catholic school, an experience familiar to working-class Hispanic families.
Considering the heavy dose of Latino fighters and title-holders within the UFC, and Latinos' traditional attraction to combat arts, the sport is well positioned to make tremendous inroads in Latin America in the next few years.
- A.J. Delgado
With Anderson Silva looking to reclaim his middleweight belt this December, with Carlos Condit once again on the heels of the welterweight title, and with Joseph Benavidez as the flyweights' top contender, Latinos are poised to capture even more UFC gold. As mixed martial arts' popularity explodes in Latin America and amongst Latinos in the U.S., Latino stars in the UFC surely will not hurt the company's appeal in this burgeoning market nor the market's continuous draw to the sport.
Latinos' fondness for mixed martial arts has not gone unnoticed. A recent Daily Show segment with Al Madrigal jokingly noted that, while the interests of Latinos in the U.S. mirror those of other Americans, they do have an additional, unique interest: "pigeon racing" and "Ultimate Fighting." And the UFC itself is working on hosting its first card in Mexico (as UFC President Dana White recently noted to this writer via Twitter), possibly next year, as well as producing a season of the popular The Ultimate Fighter ("TUF") series in Mexico City, entitled TUF: Latin America – in Spanish and featuring fighters from a variety of Latin American countries.
UFC's Ronda Rousey Adds Another Blockbuster Role, Stirs Debate
Ronda Rousey's Mom Talks About UFC Champ's 'Expendables' Debut
UFC Fight Night: Shogun Rua Vs. Chael Sonnen
UFC 163: Jose Aldo Vs. 'The Korean Zombie' Preview
UFC World Tour: The Cain Velasquez Vs. Junior Dos Santos Trilogy
UFC's Hardest-Hitting Latino Fighters
In addition to the top-ranked Latino stars, many Latino fighters are found across the UFC's ranks. Mexican-born Erik "El Goyito" Perez, despite a split-decision loss at UFC 164, continues a rapid rise and an impressive 3-1 UFC record.
Considering the heavy dose of Latino fighters and title-holders within the UFC, and Latinos' traditional attraction to combat arts, the sport is well positioned to make tremendous inroads in Latin America in the next few years.
Latino audiences certainly won't mind one bit.
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Monday, October 26, 2009
Who are your heroes?
I was just reading this little article about an appearance by Jay Cutler in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Three things struck me: The first, which has nothing to do with the point of this blog post, was that it was cool that Cutler was doing an appearance at a gym just to help a buddy. The other two were about having our heroes. The article began by introducing Vernon Bradley, a bodybuilder from Halifax, Canada, who drove all the way to Rocky Mount, a 21-hour drive, just to meet Cutler. Then the article ends with Cutler saying he was inspired to become Mr. Olympia after seeing a picture of Chris Dickerson, winner of the Mr. Olympia in 1982. It makes you wonder: Who's looking at a picture of Cutler right now, and will they be standing onstage at the O in a few years, inspiring others?
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13 July 2017 | Christopher Diamond | Army Times
"The Army announced Wednesday plans to release a mobile application that would allow soldiers and civilians to rapidly alert first responders during an active shooter incident.
Army Training and Doctrine Command and TRADOC Capability Manager-Mobile (TCM Mobile) announced that a team of civilian employees from the Aviation Center of Excellence, Fort Rucker, Alabama, submitted the winning entry for a competition TRADOC held to develop an active shooter response mobile app.
Once the app is formally ready for release, it will be available in Google Play, the Apple App Store and other online app stores, according to the Army.
"If adrenaline kicks in and they forget what to do in the moment, all of that information is right there in front of them," said Matt MacLaughlin, a civilian employee at TRADOC Senior Mobile Training Development. "It should help everybody respond to that situation in the fastest manner possible."
The winning entry — which has yet to be officially named — allows users to walk through various steps for how to respond to an active shooter situation, and what to do and not do when law enforcement arrives on scene.
We're going to try to think for you," MacLaughlin said in an Army release. "Because there's situations where you won't have time to think."
In an emergency situation, users can tap open the app and tap another button to reach an emergency dialer to get in touch with law enforcement. There will also be a Spanish translation feature. The Army Provost Marshal's office is still reviewing final features of the application, according to MacLaughlin.
It is unclear if the app will feature any means of alerting law enforcement without having to speak on the phone. In an active shooter situation, it is sometimes dangerous to make an emergency call when in hiding.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's " Active Shooter: How to Respond" booklet says to remain quiet and silence your phone if the shooter is near. The booklet advises to try and call emergency responders and let dispatchers listen if it is unsafe to talk.
But because vital, timely information can be impossible to relay over the phone in these scenarios, many law enforcement agencies are implementing what are known as Text-to-911 services to allow for texting dispatchers. There are currently more than 1,000 law enforcement agencies nationwide that offer or are implementing Text-to-911 services, according to the Federal Communications Commission. The Army could not immediately confirm whether the app would feature a service similar to texting for communicating with emergency dispatchers.
In addition to instances of on-post shootings, there have been several attacks at military recruiting centers. It is unclear if the app will allow for service members off-post at recruiting centers to use the app to contact local authorities.
While the app has yet to be released, there is significant value in increasing access to first responders for Army personnel in the event of an active shooter. Since 2009, 32 people have been killed in mass shooting attacks on military installations and at recruiting centers, according to The Washington Post. An additional 52 have been wounded.
A soldier stands guard outside a mobile command post at Fort Hood, Texas, on Nov. 5, 2009 following a mass shooting attack by then-Maj. Nidal Hasan. Thirteen were killed and 32 injured in the attack.Photo Credit: ArmyThe Army is rapidly expanding its use of mobile apps as a means of keeping soldiers informed and safe.
"We have people all the time that want to have mobile applications created and they want it … as soon as possible," said Lt. Col. Joe Harris, TRADOC Capability Manager-Mobile. "Now that they have this capability down at the school level … decentralized creation lessens the work on this end to have the mobile application (available for use)."
The new active shooter app follows the development of the "We Care" mobile apps created for sexual harassment and suicide prevention. TCM Mobile has produced about 80 mobile apps for other purposes, according to the Army. These include apps for combat training.
TCM hopes to establish a pipeline of emergency mobile apps, according to MacLaughlin. It also hopes to establish servicewide infrastructure to oversee development and training of mobile apps.
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My primary place of worship has been Sephora. Certainly there have to be a million different ways to zap these in order to regain my youthful appearance, especially considering the price tag on some of this stuff? Uh, not so much. I remember the first time I brought home some official anti-wrinkle cream. I thought it was going to be some sort of magic potion that just "poof", would erase every last little wrinkle line. I had been a wrinkle cream virgin and just honestly didn't know how this stuff was supposed to work. I am here to tell you right now...do not believe the hype of these products because MOST of them do not work. I say most because I have found a few products that have been about as close to plastic surgery than I'm probably ever going to get without taking the plunge.
So...after about a year of taking out all our local Sephora's, I thought I'd share my favorites. The first product I must tell you about is Peter Thomas Roth's Power K Eye Rescue. Omg, this stuff is amazing and will take 10 yrs off your eyes. Just sayin...recently I found myself at an urgent care center and the doctor who took care of me asked me where I went to school. Now, I know I don't look THAT young, but GOD LOVE HIM!!...just sayin'. Well, not only have I been genetically blessed with oily skin, but also dark circles. This stuff has eliminated almost all of the fine lines around my eyes and has dramatically reduced the dark circles. When I ran out of this for the first time, I didn't replace it right away and after about a week I started wondering what in the heck was wrong with me. Everytime I looked in the mirror I saw someone who looked like they hadn't slept in a year and was constantly re-applying whatever I could get my hands on to try to minimize the dark circles. Then it hit me that I wasn't using the Power K Eye Rescue. Well, I rushed right out to get it again and haven't gone a day since without it. The only downfall to this product is that is is mucho dinero for simply 0.5 ounces. But trust me ladies, it's worth it.
You didn't think I could share all my favorites all at once, did you? So, come back to check out more at a later date. Besides, this day of shopping, ballet and the circus with a 3 yr old has me completely wiped out...the old lady must go to bed.


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Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Creole Red Beans
"It's a hobby, but it's almost a passion," a newspaper once quoted Cajun cook Fr. George Wiltz, SJ, as saying about cooking. "I read cookbooks like novels."
Fr. George Wiltz,SJ is the director of Montserrat Retreat House in Lake Dallas, Texas. As house director, he sees to people's spiritual needs. As cook, he takes care of other needs as well. Fr. Wiltz recalled recipes from his Creole upbringing in Louisiana when he was a young Jesuit drafted to cook at residences on Sunday nights or holidays. Here's one of his favorites.
* 2 lbs red beans
* 1/2 cup olive oil
* 2 lbs andouille sausage (turkey sausage works as well)
* 2 cups chopped onion
* 1 cup chopped green pepper
* 1 cup chopped celery
* 2 tbsp minced garlic
* 1/2 cup parsley
* dash of tabasco
* 1 tsp oregano
Soak beans in water overnight, keeping covered with water; drain and rinse. Put in a crock pot with the olive oil. Roughly chop sausage and sauté it, and then sauté the green pepper, onion, celery, and garlic as well (don't let the latter burn). Put all in crock pot and add the last ingredients. Pour in enough water to cover everything. Cook on high for approximately 4 hours for soft beans; cut back time for firmer beans. Leave cover of crock pot cracked a bit to allow for evaporation to bring out the flavor better. Serve over white rice. Serves 10-12.
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Monday, July 02, 2007
Dragonfruit Dessert Presentation
This is not a recipe post. This is a demonstration of the ingenuity and creativity of Filipinos. This dragonfruit desert was the final course in a luncheon in my honor, given by her excellency Ambassador Virginia Benavides, the Ambassador of the Philippines to Brunei. The cook is Filipino. The ice case was done by putting water inside a balloon and almost freezing it for 22 hours. The hollow portion was created by unfrozen water and a hot metal plate. Simply amazing!
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text: Critics Pick Top Flicks for '07 Juno , I'm Not There , and No Country take top spots By Neal Colgrass, Newser Staff Posted Jan 1, 2008 3:00 PM CST 0 comments Comments This photo provided by Disney shows Remy (voiced by Patton Oswalt) in "Ratatouille." (AP Photo/Disney, FILE) (Associated Press) View 4 more images (Newser) – Film critics offer their top picks for 2007, ranging from quirky dramedy (Juno) to drama (Michael Clayton) to foreign fare (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly). Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Juno No Country for Old Men Before the Devil Knows You're Dead Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: There Will Be Blood No Country for Old Men I'm Not There Richard Corliss, Time: No Country for Old Men The Lives of Others Killer of Sheep AO Scott, New York Times: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days Ratatouille There Will Be Blood and Sweeney Todd (tie) Click the links below to see the full lists, and explore "More top 10s" for other critics' opinions. View 4 more images


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Thursday, September 2, 2010
AFK for Awhile...
Hey, everyone! I know I haven't been on in a few days, so sorry. Unfortuneately, I have to take a break from posting/blogging and playing W101. Adjusting to my new school, and meeting new people is going to take up most of my time. Once, again sorry, I hope I can get back to blogging and playing as soon as possible. I'll post again when I'm back. Hopefully, I can have my video of Fairydust Manor(My Myth House) done by the time I get back. See ya'll when I see ya!
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Kool Inventions
which is the cooler invention by modern science?
A zero gravity roller coaster - AKA "The Vomit Comet" - based on NASA's KC-135A that is used to train astronauts:
Chaotic Moon Labs' Board of Imagination, which is controlled by brainwaves:
Actually, in the long run, the winner may Swiss designer Yves Behar for his solar-powered $100 tablet, which will open up the Internet and educational opportunities to the poorest in both industrialized countries and the Third World:
Awesome Quotes
"I am as ashamed as I possibly could be of our colonial past... I think they should be Argentinian."
Roger Waters of Pink Floyd on the Falkland Islands
"A big promise has been broken. You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses. You can't have a civilization where something is factionalized like this."
Bruce Springsteen
"Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser."
Vince Lombardi
Real Estate Porn
Dick Clark's Malibu estate, modeled after The Flintones' home, on the market for $3.5 million...
FeedBack: Turning America Into Pottersville
Excellent article. I try to remind people all the time of how the events of history got us where we are today - and should be examined for clues on the best direction to take for the future. Why would we want to go back to an era similar to that of prohibition with folk heroes like John Dillinger, Babyface Nelson, Al Capone, Bonnie & Clyde? The "guv-mint" and the rich elitists really need to understand - if we got nothing to lose, what's the point of following the law?
Ben & Jerry's Flavor of the Week
Taste the Lin-Sanity: A mix of Vanilla Fro Yo with swirls of Lychee Honey, served a waffle cookie. (Originally it included "fortune cookie pieces" but they were removed due to political incorrectness. Oh well.) Served only at B&J's Harvard Square shop...
"I love my job. I love fighting for what I believe in. I love having fun while doing it. I love reporting stories that the Complex refuses to report. I love fighting back, I love finding allies, and - famously — I enjoy making enemies."
Andrew Breitbart (1969-2012) from his book Righteous Indignation. He may have been a vicious SOB, but he was a very entertaining vicious SOB...
Davey Jones of The Monkees also passed away, a band that has never gotten the respect or credit it deserves. via YouTube, here's "She" - a gem that is rarely heard anymore:
RIP as well to highly influential fantasy artists: Star Wars conceptual designer Ralph McQuarrie, whose work helped greenlight what was then viewed as a highly dubious project, and Jean "Moebius" Giraud, who magazine Heavy Metal helped inspire movies such as Alien and Blade Runner. As film director Luc Besson put it, "Moebius is to comic books what Miles Davis is to jazz: the master." More RIPs: guitarist Ronnie Montrose, "Broken Windows" social scientist James Q. Wilson and founding Firesign Theatre member Peter Bergman...
Farewell to Peyton Manning as QB of the Indianapolis Colts and Dennis Kucinish in Congress, and tip-o-the-hat to the late great Wilt Chamberlain for his 100-point game turning 50, The Simpsons for broadcasting its 500th episode, Randy Moss returning to the NFL with Robalini's favorite San Francisco 49ers and Japan's own Takeru Kobayashi for eating 13 grilled cheese sandwiches in one minute in Austin, Texas...
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First Recorded Sighting http://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/LTkzODE4NTcxNA http://www.crystalinks.com/lochnessurgeon.jpg Surgeon's Photo The surgeon's photo was a confirmed hoax, based on the deathbed confessions of Chris Spurling. Spurling said it was actually a "staged photograph of clay attached to a toy submarine." http://www.crystalinks.com/nessierhomboid.gif In the early 1970s, a group led by
American patent lawyer Robert Rines
obtained some underwater photographs.
This vague image is argued to be
either air bubbles or a fish fin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXAs40Igti4 http://americandigest.org/060309_loch_ness.jpg Movies have been made about the Loch Ness monster which shows how popular Nessie is. http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRiciDFixftqqOvHbaAdd2XTgMGyTTmxAs8NRVusNX-_QPXYj66&t=1 This picture makes "Nessie" look as if it is an elephant's trunk. "The reason why we see elephants in Loch Ness is that circuses used to go along the road to Inverness and have a little rest at the side of the loch and allow the animals to go and have a little swim around," Clark told CBS News. http://www.lochnessexperience.com/images/spicersightingcartoonreduced.jpg Bedtime Story http://www.thepinkflamingoblog.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/channel-creature.jpg http://www.discoverynews.us/DISCOVERY%20MUSEUM/CreaturesFromTheDeep/CreaturesIMAGES/Plesiosaur_Body_2_large.jpg Unidentified animal caught in the net of fishing vessel off New Zealand.
http://www.foxnews.com/images/556196/0_61_320.jpg Jason Cooke spotted "Nessie" while browsing the Google Earth's satellite photos. "The shape seen on the surface of the 22-mile Scottish loch is 65ft long and appears to have an oval body, a tail and four legs or flippers." http://bighugelabs.com/lolcat.php Loch Ness monster Scotland F A C T o r F I C T I O N ? sightings p h o o t s evidence Be careful... The modern day myth of a Loch
Ness monster is always described
as a plesiosaurus. Loch Ness monster-like carcass
pulled up by Japanese fishing
trawler in 1977. http://www.splicetoday.com/vault/posts/0000/2865/dino_large.jpg?1290922215 http://0.tqn.com/d/paranormal/1/G/m/J/nessie1.jpg This may be the clearest photo of the Loch Ness Monster, taken in 1977 by Anthony Shiels. http://www.skepdic.com/graphics/fakeness.gif Works Cited
Carroll, Robert T.. "Loch Ness "monster" or "Nessie"." The Skeptic's Dictionary. N.p., 31 July 2003. Web. 11 Apr. 2011. <http://www.skepdic.com/nessie.html>.
Chamberlain , Ted . "Photo in the news: Loch Ness monster was an elephant?." Daily Nature and Science News and Headlines | National Geographic News. N.p., 11 Apr. 2006. Web. 15 Mar. 2011. <http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0309_0603009_loch_ness.html>.
Koster, John. "New Zealand Sea Creature: Basking Shark or Plesiosaur?." Missouri Association for Creation, Inc. - Articles, News, and Information on the Creation vs Evolution Controversy. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Apr. 2011. <http://www.gennet.org/facts/nessie.html>.
"Legend of Nessie." The Legend of Nessie the Ultimate Loch Ness Monster Site. Carus Internet, 1 Jan. 2010. Web. 11 Apr. 2011. <http://www.nessie.co.uk/index.html>.
"Loch Ness Monster - Crystalinks." Crystalinks Home Page. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Apr. 2011. <http://www.crystalinks.com/loch_ness.html>.
Owen , James. "Loch Ness sea monster fossil a hoax, say scientists." Daily Nature and Science News and Headlines | National Geographic News. N.p., 29 July 2003. Web. 11 Apr. 2011. <http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/07/0729_030729_lochness.html>.
"Scotland Loch Ness monster, the Scottish legend." Scotland tourist and travel information. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Apr. 2011. <http://www.scotland-calling.com/loch-ness-monster.htm>.
Wagner, Stephen. "What you need to know about... the Loch Ness monster." Paranormal phenomena. N.p., 1 Jan. 2011. Web. 11 Apr. 2011. <http://paranormal.about.com/cs/sealakemonsters/a/aa051203.htm>.
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For those who have the inclination and time, like Mumbai's blogging dog Bozo, there is so much to be learned and imbibed.
He doesnt talk too much about it, but simply gets on with it in his own way. In today's world, it may not be considered a "cool" thing, given that most folks react to music by rattling every bone in their body , shaking mindlessly.
But Bozo is an evolved personality, and has his own style.
There is something
to be said,
for lolling
next to the sofa
when Deepak watches TV,
or peering
over his shoulder,
as he
reads from his laptop
and books.
new learnings in old ages
keep your brain
so smart.
And so
when I think
no one is watching,
I practice silently,
vocal music
I observed and learned,
recalling all the arohas
and avarohas
of my life;
eyes wide shut
as I drift
through the
baby alaap years,
the teenage asthayee
and the
antaras of lovely memories.
But I get carried away
with the taanaas,
and I remember
folks I have watched on TV.
Like them,
eyes closed,
concentrating on
my life music
I don't notice
folks clicking me;
but unlike them,
I don't wave my front legs,
folks think I am yawning....
Kya Karein ?
We fellows are like that only....


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Snooki Shares the Top 10 Reasons to Buy Her New Book
Watch a preview of her 'Letterman' appearance.
Self-described Jersey Shore "guidette" Snooki takes a break from club to make an appearance on Monday's Late Show With David Letterman to help him announce the Top 10 reasons to be her new book, A Shore Thing. (No. 6: "Show me your receipt and I'll grind with you at any nightclub of your choice.")
Watch a preview, above.
Attracting more than 8 million viewers, the Jan. 6 third season premiere of Jersey Shore was MTV's highest rated series telecast ever.


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I robbed the Woods --
The trusting Woods.
The unsuspecting Trees
Brought out their Burs and mosses
My fantasy to please.
I scanned their trinkets curious -- I grasped -- I bore away --
What will the solemn Hemlock --
What will the Oak tree say?
Poet: Emily Dickinson
Poem: 41.
I robbed the Woods
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955
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The wooden structures were...borrowing a quote from the Russian figure skating coach in The Cutting Edge, "Legano...Illegano...Is grey area." I'm fairly certain the wooden ark didn't pass safety standards and regulations. How Alice didn't get her leg stuck, leaving her body flailing around, suspended between the levels in the ark is beyond me. But, it wasn't the play equipment that worried me.
A stones throw from the play area were the animals. Goats, horses, turkeys, geese, an emu, and a pig. The goats were innnn-sane! Vicious, child-eating goats, and one was loose running amok with the kids. Weaving in and out of the angelic children brave enough to try to feed the caged animals, his head down and his horns right at rib level. Again, I wasn't worried.
I was preoccupied with another matter entirely. We arrived at 11:00. We ate at noon, and by ate I mean whined, cried, and generally threw a tantrum for all to see, temporarily refusing to eat the horrible lunch I packed. And now it was 1:00. My mind was ruminating. It was eminent. Too much time had passed and she had ate and drank. As the saying goes, what goes in must come out. The facility was nice, but it was a fairly bare bones establishment. Public bathrooms were not going to be an option. I saw a line of 4 porta-potties when we walked in. I'm not sure if you've had the pleasure of taking a small child into one of these pristine enclosures, but I'm sure you yourself have been in one. It's never something anyone enjoys doing. I have a friend who, at a camping music festival, didn't shit for 3 days out of porta-pot fear. A decision had to be made, leave now before the urge hits her or pray for the best, knowing the inevitable was coming.
The decision was made for me.
"Mama, I have to go potty." ....wait for it.... "It's poop."
For a moment I contemplated what to do. I could ask her to hold it, but I remember how that turned out when Alice ended up shitting on the side of some back road off I95. I could take her to the car and use the in-case-of-emergencies-handy-dandy-portable-poop-in-a-bag potty. But then my almost 4 year old is pooping in my car in a parking lot. I guess it was time to suck it up and brave the porta-pot.
Armed with a pack of wipes, we walked over. Picking which door to open is sort of like Russian roulette. I chose door number one...mistake. As I opened the door I saw a sight common in the portable toilet sector, a man's back to me as he's standing there peeing. What is it with guys not locking the door? Men! Lock the freaking door! I have no desire to open door after door seeing you and your junk pissing. I said a quick "sorry" and let go off the door, dumbfounded as to why I was apologizing for walking in on him. Thankfully, Alice was in la la land and didn't notice.
Up next, door number 4. I opened the door and ushered Alice inside, laying down the ground rules. "Don't touch anything." I surveyed the scene. It wasn't pretty, but surprisingly, it didn't stink. Pee all over the toilet seat and dribbles on the floor. This was going to be tricky. I pulled her shirt up and tucked it under her chin as I mulled over whether to take her skort completely off or pull it down. All the while, she's talking.
"Mama? What's that? Why is the water blue? Why's there so much blue water? Why's there pee on the seat? What's that in the potty? Watch me, Mama."
"Alice just be still. Stop moving. Pretend your feet are glued to the floor. Don't touch your shoes, please, Alice."
In one fell swoop I pulled Alice's skort down and lifted her into the air. So far, so good. Step one done and minimal contact with urine. Holding her little bum over the potty, I told her to go for it. And go for it she did as pee started to flow. This was where things started to get dicey. She must have had to pee like a race horse cause the pee was flowing with some force and I could hardly see where it was going. Holding her entire body above the potty, I moved her around to aim the pee in the hole. It was trial and error, really. If pee hit the edge or splattered on me, I knew it was time to readjust. Step two done, with a bit more damage. Though, at least this time I was sure who's urine was on my toe. Note to self, remove skort completely next time.
"I don't need to poop, Mama. Poop's not coming," she pleaded.
"Alice, we're in here. You said you had to poop. You're trying." The last thing I wanted was to go through all that for her to demand a bathroom on the way home. Holding her a bit more firmly, I gave her no choice. A bit of grunting and a few pushes later, she was done. I thank the Gods, when the poop fell into the depths of the blue disinfectant it didn't splash back on us. Step three, check.
We were almost in the clear. All we had to do was pull her skort back up and we were home free. This step was definitely harder than I thought it was going to be. As I dropped Alice to her feet, I neglected to hold her flowery skort. I watched as it cascaded down around her Tevas. I saw the dribbles of pee scattered around her feet. I cringed at the thought. As fast as I could, I grabbed her skort and her Rapunzel undies and tugged upward. They got stuck at her knees. See, it was a hot day, things were sweaty. I was forced to drop the skort and work solely on the undies.
"Alice, help me out. Come on. Stop moving around and help me get your undies up. Stop! Your skorts getting in the pee! DO YOU SEE THE PEE?!"
It was obvious. She didn't care about the pee. She was walking around, her skort down around her ankles, skimming the disgusting, feces stained porta-pot floor. Her undies we rolling and sticking, refusing to go in place. I was forced to abandon the porta-pot. I grabbed her, opened the door and procedded to dress her outside. Step four, done. A little more urine and possibly trace amounts of feces rounded out the mission. All in all, a success.
Alice resumed playing like portable toilets were no big thing. And really, they're not. They are disgusting hot beds for germs and probably diseases I can't even name. But, when you've got to go you've got to go. I just worry about what I'm going to do when she's too big for me to hold over the potty and yet too small to hover feet on the floor. Do those kids actually sit their behinds on the porta-potty seat? I shudder at the thought.


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The big news yesterday was about the deteriorating rental market. A report out by broker TREGNY showed large increases in vacancy (although no precise vacancy rate). The report also alleges that some larger landlords may not releasing their entire availability lists for fear of showing their hands and further driving prices down. Sounds more like some conspiracy theory to me. I doubt that there is some widespread collusion going on to keep prices up. The reality is that rental prices have dropped, and incentives have increased dramatically. The shifts in the market have been dramatic. I detailed these shifts back on November 13th. While my observations were derided by some, they are being embraced 3 weeks later. You heard it here first.
How Many Vacant Apartments Does NYC Have? (Observer)
Hot Shills: Landlords Tempt Tenants (Curbed)
Plunge In Demolition Permits Signals Major Slowdown (The Real Deal)
Storied Apthorp Apartments Hit The Condo Market (Curbed)
Whopper Lawsuit Alleges Real Estate Deal Proceeds Go To NY Observer, And McGreevey's Boyfriend (NYDN)
How Tough Is It Getting For Trump? (The Improper)
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Tuesday Morning Links
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|Elephant Parade, London
November 24, 2014
Travel Theme: Colourful
When taking photos on my travels, I'm drawn to vibrant colours. And this week's theme gives me the opportunity to look back on some of my favourite shots. I've always been partial to the colour blue, so I especially liked this little fellow spotted while visiting London in 2010. The Elephant Parade was taking place across the city's parks and walkways to raise awareness of the endangered Asian elephant and raise funds for the World Wildlife Fund.
November 17, 2014
Naples and Campania
After two busy days spent exploring the great city of Rome, we travelled southward into the Campania region of Italy, the birthplace of pizza, Caruso and Sophia Loren. Before boarding a ferry to the next stop on our tour, the island of Capri, we visited the archeological site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Then we took a quick stroll through central Napoli, or Naples, the capital of Campania.
|Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius
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November 10, 2014
Travel Theme: Arches
Centuries ago the Romans perfected the arch, which allowed them to build mighty structures that survive to this day like the Colosseum in Rome.
|The Colosseum, Rome
November 03, 2014
A Taste of Rome on Piazza Navona
The highlight of my visit to Rome last summer was dinner on Piazza Navona, one of the city's most popular squares. Located in Rome's centro storico, historic centre, the square takes its oblong shape and dimensions from the Stadium of Domitian which originally stood here.
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There is so much to update, so I am going to have a list on here and cross it out/link to the posts over the next few
- Hannah's trip to see Dr. Pauli
- Hannah's birthday post
- Birthday party
- Hannah's first loose tooth
- Trip to the zoo/stroller
- Alexander's birthday post
- Face painting
Hmm, that is all I can think of for now. I know not much content on this post! It is a start though.


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Post before last, I threw in a little word riddle. Obviously you are all smarter then Dave and I because we couldn't get it. I should've had you raise your hand if you didn't get it!
The answer, of course, is that all the words are homonyms for animals...
Hoarse/Horse, Mousse/Moose, Guerrilla/Gorilla, Links/Lynx, Bare/Bear
Now, as I said, about five years ago, Dave and I were in the book store with this book of logic puzzles and we came across this one. We couldn't figure it out and we were laughing about it. We turned to the back of the book for the answer but we couldn't find the answer and that made us laugh even harder. We felt that if we couldn't even find the answers they gave to the puzzles, we should put the book of logic down and back away before we hurt ourselves!
Have you ever had something strike you as funny and you just can't stop laughing at it? That's what happened to us with this stupid little book.
We finally found the answer and said, "Of course!"
I said, "Even if I got some of them, the Links/Lynx thing would've thrown me because you don't often hear about that animal."
Dave said, "No, I got that one but what's a Bear?"
I was laughing so damn hard, I couldn't breathe but finally said, "A BEAR??!!" And then it dawned on him what he'd just asked about and we about died laughing.
We still use that line whenever one of us asks a bonehead question, "A bear?"
Just last week I was talking about a friend's pet and said, "She still needs to get it spayed." and Dave said, "She's buying it a shovel?"
I looked at him in confusion and he said, "Spayed. A Spade. You know... a Bear?"
It still makes us laugh!
I've always thought one of the best things about having an SO (besides someone to scratch that middle part of your back you can never reach yourself) is the little private jokes you share. It's so nice to be able to say something stupid and the other person totally knows what you're talking about and gets it. Gets you.
Off Bear-hunting, Ruth!
Monday, January 4, 2010
A is for Animals
Posted by 5elementknitr at 8:43 AM
Labels: Alphabet Soup
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- Yarnhog said...
Whenever one of us stumbles over something we're trying to say, the other one says, "Am." Long story, but yes, it's one of those inside jokes.
- January 4, 2010 at 10:02 AM
I frequently tell Smokey, "You keep thinkin', Smokey. That's what you're good at." (We specialize in movie quotes.)
- January 4, 2010 at 10:16 AM
- sophanne said...
one of ours is "which ocean is that?"
- January 4, 2010 at 10:20 AM
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My journey through psychiatry residency - Sometimes it's a bitch, Sometimes it's a breeze
Thursday, July 28, 2016
Grumpy Face...
Who doesn't love schlepping to work for an 8am appointment....only to find that said patient moved 1000 miles away...8 months ago....
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Friday, July 22, 2016
Patient's mom complaining that (among other irrational things) that her son isn't sleeping: I didn't give him the sleeping medication because it made him drowsy and I didn't like that. 😠😠😠
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Monday, July 18, 2016
Kvetching...Time flies when you're strung out
The last month or so has been a very stressful time for me. If I'm being completely forthcoming it's been longer than that, but I've been acutely aware of it for about a month. Quite a bit has contributed. I've been feeling in general unsettled and quite anxious for a few months now, much of which has to do with a personal situation--how ironic, no??
Professionally/academically it has also been challenging. During the course of the past six months, I have been in a different rotation every four weeks. And all but one of them was a new rotation. This meant that I had a constant back-and-forth with myself about feeling comfortable in the rotation and feeling like I've learned what is appropriate vs. taking vacation time and not getting admonished for not using my vacation days. Add to the mix Step 3, which was a month of studying following by two days of MCQ purgatory. Who wouldn't be excited?? Perhaps unique to me, I was annoyed about having to take the thing because more than 80% of the thing is related to medicine, and the management of medical patients...It may bear mentioning that I'm a psychiatrist. I haven't seen my stethoscope in months because I don't need it. I think it's buried in the trunk of my car. Yet I'm required for licensing purposes to be able to not only diagnose things like gallstones, but also recommend the appropriate intervention and treatment. For hell's sake...I'm a facking psychiatrist. I am not trained for surgery, much less licensed. Yes, in medical school a medical student has 8-12 weeks of required surgery rotation. What that ultimately means is you stand there and hold retractors in ergonomically unsound positions for three hours while an asshole surgeon (that may be redundant...) asks questions to which only he/she knows the answer. During intern year, I handled one, exactly one GI patient--and that, pardon the pun, was a shit show as soon after admission (on a senior-less Saturday morning, no less) Smuckers jam started exiting this poor man's rectum, and GI and the MICU experts assumed his care. So, fast-forward several years and the meshuganna psychiatry resident is taking Step 3 and being asked questions regarding patients he's never seen, and in reality would have deferred out to a consult service. But never mind. What is one to do about this? Could we have a separate board exam for each service? How fair would that be? Probably not very fair, or manageable. So, like many a psych resident before me, I did thousands of practice questions and faked my way through Step 3, which thank God I passed. Now, on to 3rd year and outpatient clinic!!
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Friday, July 1, 2016
Grumpy face
Can anyone come up with a reason why an attending who is barely a year out of residency would page a resident at 9am...about a note they wrote while clearly on overnight call?? Call the damn service pager!!
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More and more, it's beginning to look like the report that Sean Avery made comments concerning Jason Blake's cancer during a mini-brawl on the weekend is completely false. If this is true, then Avery has definitely been slandered unfairly and there should be consequences.
Not one Toronto Maple Leaf has confirmed Avery made the comments and Jason Blake himself claims that he never heard it. Here are some of the relevant quotes:
"I was standing there the whole time," Hollweg said. "I saw everything happen. I made sure I was nearby just in case anything happened.
"We all know who and what Sean is. But the accusations that were made are untrue. I don't even know why Blake was there to begin with because it had nothing to do with him - it was between Tucker and Avery. I saw Blake swing his stick first and then it all happened from there.
"So, if anybody is to blame, I'd say it would be Jason Blake."
"That's not true. That's absolutely not true and the Toronto players confirmed it," Shanahan told reporters yesterday. "The players who would have every reason in the world to accuse Sean of that, they've already confirmed to an outside source that that was never heard?I would sue the guy if I were him."
"That's not the worse thing that's been said and I don't know if he even said it," said Blake, who praised Avery's antagonistic playing style."