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Found the following info and link to the original German language article on Facebook. Apparently butcher shops in Cologne, Germany are being targeted by Muslims, mostly angry youth, who found the decorative cardboard pigs displayed in the shop windows offensive. The displays are used to advertise weekly deals. The shop owners have been subjected to taunts, curses, threats, and their shops have been vandalized. They have apparently removed the offending piggies.
Murat Kayman, board member of the DTIB (an organization representing over 800 German mosques) has criticized the young Muslim men, claiming they do not fully understand Islam. That even though Muslims are forbidden to eat pork, pigs are still God's creatures.
German language link here. You'll need a page translator.


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It's late and I'm tired – it's been a long day. An OK day, but halfway through it, at work, I realized I had a headache. Which is not normal for me. Gradually it dawned on me that the HVAC system was screwed up – the room I work in, and the break room, both fed by the same thermostat, were oxygen-free environments by mid-afternoon. I took myself out for a walk in the cold misty drizzle to inhale. I visited some thistle and black-eyed susan and regretted not having my camera.
Then I went to the gym to lift weights. Grrrr. Then tonight I had chorus. I still have a mild headache. Which I can tell by the number of grammatical errors I've been making. Oxygen: it's your friend. I'm currently undergoing Charlie Lap Therapy as I type – surefire way to get carpal tunnel syndrome. You try typing with a 12.5 pound cat draped over your forearms. See? I'm rambling. Medic!
Some leftovers from the other day:
European buckthorn. An invasive I typically ignore. Weird little naked fuzzy buds.
One Maggie. She is so sleek and glossy – much better than when she weighed 19 pounds and couldn't lick her own butt. Yes, you can tell my brain's not working – I just typed something about my cat's butt. Moving right along:
A failed milkweed pod. Dunno what happened. It should be a supernova of silky fluff. We've had beaucoup rain; it probably just got overwhelmed and said f^&* it.
Bittersweet nightshade. Apparently its purple leaves and fantastic flowers outweigh the fact it's an invasive, because this is a species I've been tracking all along. I'd never noticed this particular one before, though, even though it's climbed up to head height.
False Solomon's Seal. I had to really look to find this, as the whole plant has given up the ghost and the berries are almost covered up with leaves. This is the very same plant that I watched the sawfly larva going to town on.
I believe I have hot date scheduled now with best beloved. Buh-bye!

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The Conservative Party and the PM spent the weekend leaking election threats. On Saturday before the Conservatives election preparation school in Mississauga, the Party leaked this; Tory memo warns of snap vote
No they don't have a mole, this is party strategy tried and true , release your own memo, they did it last election as well.
It was followed up with this in the afternoon when Harper addressed the troops gathered. Election could come 'at any time,' PM says
But the polls say otherwise; Poll suggests federal parties at stalemate
While those that are wildly optimistic might take heart with this headline which uses the same poll numbers but suggests the glass is half full. Conservatives maintain lead in poll
The bottom line is that unless the budget is defeated there will be no election. ANALYSIS-Canadian govt survival hangs on Monday's budget
Why? Because Harper would not get a majority. Despite his desperate need to call an election.
Even his right wing allies at the National Post, voice of the Conservatives in print, are pointing out his flaws;Comment: Harper spends like it's 2005,
If there is no election, then his whole political platform since gaining office will come under scrutiny. And it won't be a pretty picture.
His childcare spaces and wait time priorities are failures. He has revived Liberal programs, Who's the real flip-flopper? His crime bill will pass, with amendments, and his Clean Air Act will come back with amendments and hard targets. In other words through out the next four months until the summer recess his government will have egg on its face.
Which can only help the opposition.
So besides the budget what could trigger an election that the Conservatives are priming us for? A strong showing by the ADQ and the Liberals in the Quebec election. The former gives Harper seats in Quebec, the latter makes the Conservatives look good in Quebec when they pay for the fiscal imbalance.
Election-ready budget
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23 hours ago
Much of the cash will be aimed at Quebec, but other provinces such as Ontario will wind up with more money for post-secondary education and similar ...
Will budget seal the deal for charest?
Montreal Gazette (subscription)
Analysis: Budget may add up to majority
National Post
Fiscal Imbalance: your questions answered
It's Texas Hold Em until then.
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Quiet man leaves City shouting from the rooftops
When Manuel Pellegrini reflects on a triumphant first season at Manchester City, he will be entitled to allow himself a wry smile.
Do not expect anything more, at least publicly. An end-of-season compilation of the most entertaining moments from Pellegrini press conferences would be particularly short. Impulsive displays of emotion are not his thing.
Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho will always be cunning and calculated not far below the charisma, while Brendan Rodgers was superbly emotive in ensuring the weight of history pushed Liverpool towards Premier League glory rather than hanging heavily on their shoulders.
Meanwhile, Pellegrini wore the occasionally weary look of a man who believed league titles were not won behind microphones. Now the quiet Chilean can enjoy a wonderful racket when City fans line the streets of Manchester on Monday to salute their heroes after being crowned champions on Sunday following a 2-0 win over West Ham.
Just do not hold your breath for a stirring speech
Aside from an astonishing run of form for November through to the end of January, when City's irresistible attacking talents laid waste to all before them, it did not always look like ending in this way.
A Yaya Toure-inspired comeback secured a 3-1 win over Sunderland in March's League Cup final but, by the time Pellegrini hoisted the season's first piece of silverware, City's swashbuckling mid-season form had subsided. A month either side of the Wembley triumph came damaging defeats to Chelsea and Liverpool.
Mourinho's tactical masterclass halted City's mid-season revelry, while an attacking outlook bordering on naivety prompted an unwelcome return of defensive howlers in a 3-2 Anfield defeat.
Both losses painted pictures of opponents being lifted by inspired managers, with Pellegrini a passenger at their mercy. When the biggest games come around next season, his credentials will be carefully examined once more.
But Pellegrini's approach is not that of the modern super-coach - he famously dismissed formations as "telephone numbers". He is a calming influence with a history of encouraging players to play with freedom and reach their potential. It is about them, not him
With the exception of an ill-judged and regrettable verbal attack on referee Jonas Eriksson following February's UEFA Champions League defeat to Barcelona, Pellegrini conducted himself with the utmost dignity. He provided the much-needed counterpoint to Roberto Mancini's successful but tumultuous reign.
"He's made it a happy place," Spain playmaker David Silva told reporters this week when reflecting on a superb individual season. "He's brought a joy and happiness."
It is testament to Pellegrini's coaching methods that Edin Dzeko, Samir Nasri and Aleksandar Kolarov - players many of the Etihad Stadium faithful would have been happy to see follow Mancini through the exit door last May - enjoyed unquestionably their finest campaigns in sky blue.
Similarly, Joe Hart and Martin Demichelis recovered from error-strewn periods to be rock-solid presences as City held their nerve during the run-in.
Leading performers also scaled new heights. Toure blasted through the 20-goal barrier and became a free-kick specialist, while Sergio Aguero made light of persistent injury struggles to net 17 times in 20 league starts.
Maximising the fine resources already available will be essential next term as UEFA's Financial Fair Play penalties reportedly loom ahead - another fraught situation Pellegrini seems ideally suited to tackle.
City supporters unfurled a banner paying tribute to the 60-year-old before the season's penultimate home match against Aston Villa, bearing the words "This Charming Man" after Manchester band The Smiths song. Once you're aligned with the city's proud musical heritage, you've truly arrived in Manchester.
Pellegrini is never likely to match the group's outspoken singer Morrissey when it comes to acidic quotes, but it is just as well. Without their manager's quiet charm, Manchester City would not be basking in the glow of their most successful season ever.


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We're in! Team 15 for the 2008 RBRR will be Sam & I, in the Yellow 2500S Estate.
Can't wait!
I cannot believe that all 120 places went within a week! It just goes to show what a wonderful event this is.
The charity for this year (RNLI) is an excellent choice.........Lets see how much we can raise!
Thursday, 6 December 2007
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I don't know why Eric Holder criticizes the Ferguson police when the Secret Service can't even keep the President out of harm's way and act like the Keystone Cops (silent film comedies).
"Learning that top-ranking Secret Service officials — including the second-in-charge of President Obama's own personal detail — went out drinking, then plowed their government car into a barrier at the White House, would ordinarily ignite shock among administration officials and lawmakers.
Instead, that news Wednesday led only to disappointed head-shaking in Washington, where scandals involving the agency now seem to appear regularly." CNN report
Interfered with a crime scene, and a supervisor wouldn't allow them to be tested for blood alcohol for sobriety. Then the story wasn't released for over a week.
"[Joseph P.] Clancy has told lawmakers he learned of the allegations Monday, according to people familiar with the discussions. That is five days after the incident, which involved two of his most senior agents, including a top member of President Obama's protective detail.
Lawmakers did not learn of the episode, however, until it was reported by The Post on Wednesday." Bomb investigation


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En Route Gambiers to Hao in Tuamotus
We left Rikitea around 11:30 and by 1:00 or so we had a nice 30ish pound 36" long Yelowfin Tuna on the sugar scoop being cleaned and broken down into 8 half loins (each a decent sized dinner). Last night was beautiful and today has been nice though the seas are a little rolly and it is quite hot unless you can get out of the sun and stay in the wind (hard as we are broad reaching which keeps the apparent wind kind of low). We are making about 7 kts in 15 kts of breeze at 140 degrees true wind angle with the reacher out on the pole and a double reefed main behind it (reefing the main helps the reacher get more breeze, keeps it more stable, and doesn't seem to slow us down any).
I continue to work on my french, but it is slow going (language was never my forte and it is hard to avoid speaking spanish to people after 9 months of doing so). Today we caught two small barracudas within seconds of each other, but we were able to clear them off the hooks (we don't really like eating baracudda) and hope to catch a wahoo or something to round out our meal options. I made Poison Crue this morning for dinner (including opening up a coconut and making coconut milk in the blender) leaving just enough tuna from the loin I opened up for a small sushimi & Avacado lunch mmm-mmm-good.
All for now, we should get into Hao fairly early on the 24th and I think they even have wifi there so maybe we can keep updating pictures. If you havne't looked lately, click on the web albums link to the right (======>) and take a look at the beautiful scenery we are sailing through.


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Got snow?
I do.
You may have heard about the little blizzard that struck the Midwest last week. How could you not hear about it? Meteorologists couldn't stop talking about it. They used their fancy schmancy weather maps and radar images to tell us that a blizzard was headed our way. But not just any blizzard. Oh no, we were in store for Snowpocalypse, Snowmageddon, SnOMG, Snowtorious B.I.G. Weather reporters had turned into Chicken Little: The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
Meteorologists in Chicago had predicted snowstorms in the past and had been completely wrong with their predictions. So, I wasn't convinced that we were actually going to get 20 inches of snow. Especially when the schools declared a snow day before the first few inches of snow even hit the ground. I figured that was a sure sign that the blizzard forecast would be way off.
Huh. The meteorologists were right this time. The sky was falling. Well, the snow was falling. And it kept falling and falling and falling.
Blizzard 2011 in a nutshell:
20 inches of snow
50+ mph wind gusts
2 snow days
And no Dairy Queen blizzards because Dairy Queen was closed due to the blizzard


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Honestly, virtually everything has been making me happy in my comics lately. I mean how many weeks do you get to see the Supercar ... twice? How often does a fellow blogger make a contribution to Green Arrow's Rogue's Gallery like the Hideous Closet Pastry?
Best moment of the week? Lots to choose from, but one hands-down winner:
I mean, unless the Phantom Stranger shows up with Vibe in tow, there's really no way anything gets better than that. Although later in the story, Speedy does manage to stop Dr. Polaris from hurling the earth into the sun, armed with nothing more than a stonehead arrow from Hawkgirl's bedroom and Booster's familiarity with the Battle of Agincourt. That's a close second to the yo-yo thing.
The story give us not only a Booster Gold who is a scholar/athlete but also a nice spin on Polaris's portrayal, an ingenius twist of his traditional dual personality. DC doesn't really need an "Ultimates" line, folks, just more of you buying its "animated" titles.
This month's Uncle Sam & The Freedom Fighters continues its patented brand of lunacy and I love every panel of it, like this one where Uncle Sam defeats his enemies armed with nothing more than the truth, the power of the media, and size 412 shoes.
Elsewhen, Palmiotti & Gray freshen up Jonah Hex with the introduction of a new character: Tallulah Black, the Woman Wronged. We like her. If Jonah's new spunky "sidekick" isn't enough, the story's also a bouquet of little moments like Xtreme FGM, dynamitic decapitation, little girls breaking men's necks, and shoe-shopping with Jonah Hex. Really, I don't why Western comics aren't more popular.
52 gave us the wonderful and long-brewing donnybrook between Lex Luthor and John Irons, representatives of the Worst and Best of humanity. We also get giant crabs (um ... in the story, I mean), Osiris's interesting quest, and a lovely reminder (so rare in comics) that you really can die from falling two or three stories, leaving you just as dead as if you'd been incinerated by a megarod.
I really like the new Sargon the Sorceror, even if he is rather a Starbellied Sneech. Using his haircut to evoke the original's turban is a darned clever design touch. And he has a nice sense of humor when it comes to killing people ironically. I mean, the Spectre's the master at it, but you just know he never really gets the joke. DC: I want to see Sargon again, please. If possible, on a shopping trip with the new Black Condor and the Phantom Stranger.
Do NOT miss the Annual of Action Comics. Not only it is full of little vignettes and stories that fill holes in the Superman storyline but also the kind of fun stuff that's been missing from comics too long, such as overviews of the Fortress of Solitude, Kryptonite colors, and Superman's rogues galleries. This comic is everything an Annual should be. Thank you, DC.
Shazam: The Monster Society of Evil is wonderful; do yourself a favor and buy it (which I only did because Devon made me). I understand now why Jeff Smith is so acclaimed. Somehow, it is both as terrifyingly creepy as Captain Marvel can be and as winningly innocent as Captain Marvel should be. Finally, a book I can read along with children; I simply must go and rent some!


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I see I have been upgraded to Hurricane status.
With maximum sustained winds of 85 mph (140 km/h), Richard was centred about 95 miles east of Belize City, said the US National Hurricane Center (NHC).
Watch and learn.
Richard is moving north-west at about 12mph.Not since I sold the Jawa, mate. Not since I sold the Jawa.


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Photos used, courtesy of Carabella Babii
A while ago I posted a blog piece about my sculpture Fire Dance. Funny how you can forget your own words. I reread that post and reminded myself of some things I learned. Dancing in flames is always a risk. I know this and dance anyway. I dance for myself. I dance to dispel fear. I dance to embrace life. I dance in blind faith. Faith, that love is real and is the only thing worth the dance. When happily ever after is just dust in the crease of the book binding, faith makes me turn the page and keep dancing. Am I an idiot to think that the dance itself is worth the risk of crash and burn? Maybe...(laughs) but I'm an optimist. I always turn the page. Ultimately, I do this for me. I have let fear rule me in the past. I will never do so again. Am I still scared? Of course I am. Sometimes I'm so scared I freeze. Then I remember that I am more than my failures, more than my mistakes and more than my fears. I guess it comes down to this: Live or let fear swallow me in an endless loop of doubt and regret. So...I dance. I play my music, dance and celebrate being alive. If I crash and burn, I think of the phoenix and I remember I will get up and dance again and again and again.....
I close my eyes
And see yours
I can reach out
Touch your cheek
In a moment
We never shared
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Last year we grew Table Dainty, a recommendation of the largely forgotten Wartime Gardener, Eleanour Sinclair Rhode. This glorious gardener in her book, Uncommon vegetables and fruits: How to grow and how to cook, recommends this 'for it is an ideal little marrow, the fruits attaining only about a foot in length'. Unlike a normal marrow that may only fruit one large marrow or two at a push, this wonderful plant last year gave us around 10-15 marrows per plant. It may not look much at the moment but this little plant will soon trail over the plastic surrounding it, setting flower, then fruit that will head straight to our kitchen and winter stores.
That wonderful radio gardener of the war, Mr Middleton says of marrows in Mr Middleton Talks About Gardening (1935):
'If you want a few really nice marrows for the show, a good idea is to train them over a sloping framework of some kind. An old gate, sloping from the ground near the plants, to a wall or fence or some other support, four or five feet high, does quite well. Tie the shoots here and there, and then let the young marrows hang under the gate. By this method you get them perfectly straight and evenly marked, and free from slugs or soil blemishes, and they will grow to quite a good size without breaking the stems.
Of course we don't all happen to have a spare gate, but l've no doubt you can fix up a contrivance of some kind which will answer just as well. But whatever you do, especially if you try this on an allotment, let it be something neat and inconspicuous. I should be very sorry to suggest anything which might encourage the use of old bedsteads and other worn out domestic appliances on the allotments. I should like to take this opportunity of appealing to allotment holders generally to be a little more considerate of the public point of view and try to keep the allotments a little tidier than they usually are. I have seen allotment fields recently which, from a distance, look like vast rubbish dumps rather than productive gardens. Surely this is hardly necessary? A little ingenuity and a coat of green paint can often cover up a multitude of eyesores.'
We're sure by the time war broke out, Mr Middleton changed his opinion on make do on allotments. He may have had a nervous breakdown on our plot, seeing us plant marrows into tyres but like the compost heap planting of last year this technique takes up little space and allows easy access to feeding the plant.
The sowing was incredibly easy, after a follower of our twitter feed adopted the same marrow this year for her allotment and planted the seed direct, covering with a bottle cloche. We did likewise and germination was quick in the recent heat. We plant a little later here, and though Mr Middleton recommends the sowing of marrows at the end of May for us Northerners, we left it to the start of June.
There are a number of recipes for Marrows from the war years including those who kept rabbits. The recipe here was simple, rabbit and marrow chips.
There was the more staple Marrow Pudding (we can hear your mouth watering now). Which involved boiling a small chopped marrow in water until soft, then strain through a colander. Then fill a pie dish three-quarters full with the marrow. Add a lump of butter and a little sugar and spice for flavouring, this tended to be pepper. Fill up the dish with milk and bake on an over tray for 45 minutes at 190C, 375F, gas mark 5. Serves 4. Those we doubt you'd get four people willing to eat it today.
There is the tasty spam stuffed in a marrow.
What most people do not realise is that marrow did take over a necessary role in the kitchen. It took over the role of fruit as it could be made to taste of anything it touched, forget mashed parnsips made to taste like bananas, marrows could take on anything you threw at them. Something that has changed our ways in the kitchen is a desire to preserve our food as chutneys, jams and cans. Earlier this week we started to preserve our glut of strawberries, and Carol said something that made us think: 'I'm glad we can do this again because nothing beats homemade jam'. She's right, nothing beats homemade preserves, simply nothing, no shop bought, no independent jam maker, no niche jam club. The simple reason why is because you grew them, you preserved them and along the way you learnt a hell of lot more than you did scanning it through a supermarket till.
This leads us to our favourite marrow recipe, beyond stuffing it with spam.
Fills 7-8 500g/1lb jars
2kg/4lb 8oz marrow, weigh this after peeling, seeding and cubing.
3 lemons, grated rind and juice.
75g/3oz dried root ginger, bruise it hard. As Fanny Craddock said stabbing a turkey, it's best to think of someone you dislike while bruising the ginger.
2kg/4lb 4oz sugar.
Cook the marrow in a little water until tender. You can use the tip of a knife to test this, you want the marrow cubes to remain intact and not fall apart when pricking them. Drain through a colander and put in a large bowl. Add all the lemon rind and juice. Place the bruised ginger in a square of muslin tied shit and add to the bowl. Add all the sugar and cover with tea towel and leave in a cool place for 24 hours. After 24 hours removed the muslin and ginger, put the contents of the bowl in a pan and heat gently until all the sugar is dissolved and the marrow is transparent and the syrup thick. Place in sterilized jam jars and seal. If you want the marrow and ginger jam to be spreadable, mash the cooked before putting into jam jars. It should make a syrup like jam rather than a thick gooey jam.
In the garden:
Wartime Gardening comes to The Guardian
Seeds from the Past: Wartime Garden 1943 and all that
Gardening Pamphlet 1945
Women Gardening Under Fire
Our plans to dig for victory
Seeds from the Past: Wartime Garden 1943 and all that
Gardening Pamphlet 1945
Women Gardening Under Fire
Our plans to dig for victory
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Dig For Victory and Pre-War Films
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File"fish` (?), n. Zool.
Any plectognath fish of the genera Monacanthus, Alutera, balistes, and allied genera; -- so called on account of the roughly granulated skin, which is sometimes used in place of sandpaper.
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....was the simple message I got from Robert after telling you all that I didn't take any pictures of the change that we made to the table layout......cheeky so & so!
Anyway, attached to the message, short and sweet though it was were these two images. The first shows how we moved the tables forward at one end creating a sloping arrangement to try to keep the visitors away from all the ash that the charcoal was making.....which seemed to do the trick
The second shows Dave trying to get some feeling back into his toes during a quick tea break....thank heavens for central heating eh?
As for this last one, this is one I took.....shows you what happens when you take 2 tired interpreters, then add a long cold day, a bottle of booze and a box of chocolates with clear wrappers....
.....trust me, there is no "why" to this picture, just don't ask OK!!


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Having said that... meet Lee:
These are the only 2 pics you'll see of Lee. Not because I didn't want to take more, but just because it just never seemed to happen.
Saturday morning, we got up early and headed south. It was several hours, and we were on the north end of the Ozarks, right around the area where the rock starts to turn to a pretty reddish brown, instead of that boring grey I get to see every day.
We were going to see an old dear friend of Gene's, Lee. Lee has known Gene for gosh, probably over 20 years if not more (poor guy). Lee used to be Gene's boss when he was a manager of a glass shop a *really long time ago*. Gene was the manager, and Lee was the regional manager.
Lee has since retired from the business and has a new wife Debbie. (sorry, no pics of the beautiful Debbie - I wanted to get pics of them on their bikes, but it just never seemed the right time).
Debbie, however, has some beautiful kids, and beautiful grandbabies too.
She's wet in this photo because she was washing grandpa's Kubota. (in fact she calls Lee, "Grandpa Kubota"), then mom's car, then grandma's car, then she got bored and made an "umbrella" out of her garden hose.
It was cute, but I was too scared to get within 49 feet of a 3 year old with a garden hose holding a DSLR. Probably wisest move I made all weekend.
Along with a couple dogs, Lee and Debbie have about 1900 of these:
They have so many that they are almost like moths around a street light. ALMOST like a pest there were so many, and we could sit within a couple feet and they were not scared.
And that's when there were just around 15 of them. Debbie said they can have so many that they have to go inside because it's so loud they can't hear each other talk.
They have a pretty little house out in the middle of the woods with a cute little guest house attached to their garage. That's where we stayed. I'm kinda thinking we need a guest house now. So when our noisey/loud/stinky friends/family come to town, we can be at a safe distance :p
While we were there, Debbie told us about a great deal at the State Fair in Sedalia. 1000 thread count egyptian cotton sheets for $30! So we left a tiny bit early paid $12 admission and bought 2 new sets of sheets. That's it, I didn't want to walk all over the fair so we were there around 15 min. LOL.
We had date for lunch on Sunday. I met up with this handsome hunk of meat:
Bet you thought you were gonna see a guy didn't you?
We stopped to visit our friends Debbie (different debbie) and Duane again, and have lunch. Now, this not lunch. This is *luuuuunch*, mouth melting smoked brisket.
I have to say that the first time I met D&D, I kinda embarassed myself eating Duane's brisket. Later I said "omg, did I just do that?"
"Are there any leftovers?"
I'm trying to talk them into a BBQ place. I'm going to name it either Big D BBQ or Double D bbq (but I don't know if Debbie can really live up to that or not :p lolol).
We didn't get to stay as long as I'd like (after all there was BBQ left), but I was so worn out. Lugging around a peg leg makes you tired.


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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – If Shane Doan doesn't return to the Phoenix Coyotes, the Detroit Red Wings are one of the free-agent forward's destinations of choice, according to his agent.
Doan's first choice to remain in Phoenix and agent Terry Bross said he should know today if that's going to be a possibility.
"That's the reason we haven't entertained any offers," Bross said this afternoon. "We're trying to give the Coyotes a chance to get this stuff resolved with the city and allow him to stay home and finish his career where he started it.
"We should have some idea this afternoon whether that's going to be possible or not. Depending on how that goes, we'll start possibly entertaining offers as soon as tomorrow."
Doan set today as the deadline to strike a deal with the Coyotes, according to a story by the Arizona Republic. That coincides with the due date for signatures regarding a potential referendum on prospetive Coyotes' buyer Greg Jamison's lease agreement.
Bross said 14 teams have expressed interest in Doan, the Phoenix captain who has scored at least 20 goals for 12 straight seasons.
Detroit is apparently near the top of Doan's list should he leave Phoenix. MLive.com first reported July 4 that Bross had made several calls to the Red Wings beginning when free agency opened July 1.
"That's one of the teams he mentioned he was interested in playing for," Bross said. "I had some messages from Detroit. I need to return those calls. It's been a little hectic. I'm on my way to the Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
"Later this evening, I'll probably give (Red Wings general manager Ken Holland) a call when I land in Kansas City."
Holland said he doesn't negotiate through the media and wouldn't comment on the Red Wings' interest in Doan. But he also didn't deny it.
"I think there are 30 teams that would be interested in Shane Doan," he said.
Assistant general manager Jim Nill, who is also in Traverse City, said the Red Wings are waiting to see what happens today with the Coyotes.
"There's going to be interest in Shane Doan," Nill said. "But we don't know until we know what his situation is. He's a good player. You know as much as I know. Until he makes a decision, there's nothing we can do.
"It's just one of those situations. It's up to him to make a decision."
As for Doan's interest in Detroit, his agent said several things are appealing.
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Color Description: Raspberry is not only a great color name but it's also a great color description. Matte Raspberry is a blue-based magenta matte creme lacquer that brightens up with a topcoat (though not necessary).
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Slavic Studies
Studies in Slavic help students achieve their learning goals, whether they want to go on to use Russian to communicate with Russian friends, to engage in business with Russian partners, to work in government or in the media, or to study Russian culture. Courses offered include Russian Language, Russian for Business, and Russian Culture.
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Students interested in studying Russian can expect to take courses in Intermediate and Advanced Russian, Conversation and Composition, Writing with Russian Sources, Russian Culture, and Service Learning. Students may choose to further their study of Russian language, culture, and society by taking elective courses in Russian for Business and Travel, Echoes of Terror in Russian Culture, Pushkin, Short Story in Translation, Women's Voices in Russian Culture, and History of Russian Cinema. Check out some creative projects below from students in Olia Prokopenko's Russian Comedy course!
Russian provides students with the opportunity to pursue careers in many diverse areas. Former students of Russian are now working or have worked as engineers at NASA's Johnson Space Center with Russian cosmonauts training for the Space Shuttle, at banks operating in international markets, as professors of Russian literature at small colleges and large universities, in major accounting firms in Russia and in the US, in large and small law firms, in press offices in Russia, Europe and America, in the State Department and Commerce Department of the federal government, in the FBI, in the Peace Corps, as English teachers in Russian high schools, and for non-profit agencies such as the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the National Foreign Language Center, and the US-Russia Business Council. Some former Russian students have worked for the American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR) and the International Research and Exchange Board (IREX) both in the US and in Russia.
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Students have had the opportunity to intern at the Philadelphia branch of the Mid-Atlantic Russia Business Council in areas such as web design, communications, seminar planning, and general administration. Our Russian heritage speakers also had the opportunity to intern at the offices of state representatives from Northeast Philadelphia where they worked as liaisons with the Russian community.
Russian students also have the opportunity to participate in community service by working together with the Russian faculty to recruit students from local area high schools who participate in the annual Russian Olympiada. 2016 marked the tenth year for the Delaware Valley High School Olympiada of Spoken Russian. 92 students representing five schools from Pennsylvania and New Jersey registered to compete in 2 categories: Regular Learners and Heritage Speakers. For the second time, individual learners participated in the competition, alongside the school teams coached by their experienced Russian teachers: Marian Barnum, Vlada Jackson, Konstantin Lyavdansky, Amy Wojcik.
We thank all the teams and their teachers for the high oral proficiency level they demonstrated during the Olympiada. This year's winners are: Alphonso Gonzalez (4R, Vineland High School, NJ; Russian teacher: Vlada Jackson ) and Natalya Ter-Saakov (4H, Eastern High School, NJ; independent).
The FGIS department provides an annual award to exceptional students of Russian. Our students have also received support for study abroad in Russia from the American Council for Teachers of Russian (ACTR).
Student Awards
• Top Paper Award: Julie Seidman (CLA'15) received the James C. McCroskey & Virginia P. Richmond Undergraduate Scholars Conference Top Paper Award for research she presented at the 105th Annual ECA Convention. The paper grew out of Julie's capstone paper which she researched and wrote in Russian.
• Temple Library Undergraduate Research Prize Winner: Evan Hoskins (CLA '14) received the Library Prize for Undergraduate Research for his essay "Pigs in the Promised Land."
• Fifteenth Annual ACTR National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest: Three judges in Russia reviewed 1004 essays submitted from 58 universities, colleges, and institutions across the nation. Russian Student Cody Lake (teacher: Kathleen Meyerowitz) won Third Place and Edward Danyliuk won First Place.
• Julie Seidman (CLA '15) was named 2014 Post-Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate by the ACTR.
• Sergey Plaksin received the Fourteenth Annual ACTR National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest Results Gold Medal Award.
• Nika Zeitlin was named 2012 Post-Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate by the ACTR.
• Lauren Grayfer (CLA '12) won the 2011 National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest, sponsored jointly by the ACTR and the American Association of Teachers of Slavic & East European Languages.
• Daniel Klim (CLA '11) was named the 2011 Post-Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate by the ACTR and was accepted to the University of Virginia Graduate School for Russian Literature.
• Katherine Lane (CLA '12) was accepted to Duke University's Graduate Program in Russian.
• Russian majors Ryan Ellenbaum, Peter Mosko, Julie Seidman, Ching Huang were accepted to the ACTR 2012 summer program in Russia and studied Russian in St. Petersburg and Moscow.


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Today the Godfather of newsletter writers, Richard Russell, wrote about life during the Great Depression and the unknown but extremely important index that everyone needs to watch going forward: "The 30 Dow Industrial stocks portray the industrial capabilities of the US. But suppose there was an Index that portrayed the industrial capabilities of the entire civilized world? Happily, we now have just such an index. Dow Jones developed it, and they call it GDOW. It's made up of 150 major blue chip international stocks, and it includes all 30 D-J Industrial stocks plus over 100 other major international blue chips."
Richard Russell continues:
"I include a daily chart of GDOW below. You can see that GDOW has formed a pattern that is a potential head & shoulders formation. The base and the support for the formation come in at a value of 1700. This formation tells us where the world manufacturing and production stands, just as the Dow Industrials tells us where US manufacturing stands.
I intend to keep my subscribers abreast of the action of the important GDOW. Let me put it this way. As long as GDOW holds above 1700, we can rest assured that the world is all right. But if GDOW breaks below 1700, my instinct is to 'run for the hills.' We live in an international world today. All nations are now connected closely in a way that they have never been before in history.
This makes GDOW maybe the most important single index ever conceived by man. For this reason, I'll monitor it, and let my subscribers know just what is happening to GDOW. I might add that I don't like the fact that GDOW is in a potential head & shoulders formation. But when I say "Potential" it means that it has not happened yet."
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WASHINGTON, May 20, 2010 - BroadbandBreakfast.com on Thursday released, for FREE, the full-length video of the Broadband Breakfast Club event on May 18, 2010: "International Perspectives on the U.S. National Broadband Plan."
The event included key industry officials and was moderated by Lynn Stanton, Senior Editor, TR Reports. A keynote speech was provided by Pamela Miller, Director General, Telecommunications Policy Branch, Industry Canada.
The panelists included:
- Blair Levin, Senior Fellow, Communications and Society Program, Aspen Institute
- Pamela Miller, Director General, Telecommunications Policy Branch, Industry Canada
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More people believe in aliens and ghosts than in God, a new survey finds, according to a British newspaper.
The survey, however, was done by a marketing firm in conjunction with the release of an X-Files DVD, and details of how the poll was conducted were not reported in the Daily Mail. Survey questions, depending on how they are written, can greatly skew results, along with how subjects are sampled.
That said, the poll of 3,000 people found that 58 percent believe in the supernatural, including paranormal encounters, while 54 percent believe God exists. Women were more likely than men to believe in the supernatural and were also more likely to visit a medium.
Indeed, humans are prone to believing in things they can neither see nor find logical evidence for.
A survey of U.S. college students done in 2006 found 23 percent of freshmen had a general belief in paranormal concepts - from astrology to communicating with the dead. Interestingly, the number jumped to 31 percent among seniors and 34 percent among graduate students.
Researchers who have compared various human belief systems say our tendency to believe is deeply rooted.
"While it is difficult to know for certain, the tendency to believe in the paranormal appears to be there from the beginning," said Christopher Bader, a Baylor University sociologist. "What changes is the content of the paranormal. For example, very few people believe in faeries and elves these days. But as belief in faeries faded, other beliefs, such as belief in UFOs, emerged to take their place."
Religion and belief in the paranormal are not linked as one might imagine. A handful of surveys show just the opposite, in fact.
"Paranormal beliefs are very strongly negatively related to religious belief," said Rod Stark, another Baylor researcher. Some scientists think this is so because religions tend to discourage paranormal beliefs, and indeed most devout practitioners of a religion have been shown to be the least likely to believe in Bigfoot, ghosts or aliens.
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text: Police Chief Sean Huls "It adds another layer of accountability" By Lisa Johnson • Jul 13, 2017 West Midlands Police/Flickr UMD's Police department is testing the use of body cameras on two officers this summer. And Police Chief Sean Huls says it's not to monitor officers as much as to gather evidence and reinforce the trust-building in the community. Huls admits UMD is late to the game, body camera-wise, but he says the legislature didn't finalize data privacy rules - including when body camera footage can be released to the public - until last year.


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Everything I Consume: The Golden Compass
I was reading this book on the subway when a woman started talking to me about what a great book it was. She felt it was much better than Harry Potter and the writing was fantastic. No one had ever done that to me before but I think I would have done the same thing if I saw someone else reading this book.
I loved The Golden Compass. I've never been a big fantasy fan — I read the first Harry Potter and stopped there - but this kept me hooked from start to finish. I was even sneaking to the bathroom to sneak in some reading. It's the first part of the His Dark Materials trilogy and begins the story of Lyra, a twelve-year old girl in Oxford in an alternative universe where everyone has an animal daemon. She begins and epic quest involving disappearing children, talking bears, her mysterious uncle and an even more mysterious woman. The less you know, probably the better so forget I told you even that. Except that Iorek Byrnison is now my fifth favorite fictional character.
The writing is really first rate. The fictional world felt real to me and the action scenes were thrilling. There's a serious theme of the danger of organized religion and government's control over the truth. In fact, the controversy over whether this book is anti-religion was the first place I heard of it. I think this book is more about how any giant organization bends the truth and performs awful acts to support its own agenda but I have two books to go.
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"The scope of our failure": The real story of our decades-long foreign policy disaster that set the Middle East on fire
The brilliant Andrew Bacevich tells Salon why our massive march to folly in Middle East has to be seen as one warPatrick L. Smith
I first interviewed Andrew Bacevich, the soldier turned scholar, after he spoke at the Hope Club, an old-line gents' establishment in Providence, Rhode Island. That evening he outlined a dozen or so "theses," as he called them in honor of the 95 Luther is said to have nailed to the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church in 1517. He was in essence reading a rough outline of the manuscript then on his desk. It was a powerful presentation, and we met again in a Boston restaurant to talk shortly thereafter. This was roughly a year ago.
The book Bacevich was drafting, "America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History," is now out. And as impressive as his synopsis of its themes was last year, the "dissident colonel," as I like to call him, did not do this account anything close to justice. It is the first book to explain the Middle Eastern wars we have lived with for 36 years now as one unbroken conflict with many theaters. And it is scholarship of the best kind—carefully researched and referenced, but written with unscholarly grace—to put the point bluntly—and perfectly accessible to the intelligent general reader. You put it down thinking, "I understand a great deal more than I did when I started reading this."


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I wrote before about this competition when it was in the second round.
A lot of villains have been knocked out since then and we're getting closer to a victor.
I have to say that I'm disappointed that Darth Malak was knocked out. He was a great villain from one of the best single-player RPG's ever. However he lost to Diablo so I can't say I'm too surprised.
At this point I'm rooting for Kerrigan to win it all.
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Thursday, June 10, 2010
Father's Day Fun with "Handy Dad"
Looking for a fun little gift for Dad from the kids this Father's Day? Check out Handy Dad by Todd Davis, host of HGTV's show Over Your Head. This super fun book is filled with projects that dad and his "helpers" can make together. There are 25 projects in the book that range from the super easy to the super complex.
I love that each project has its own difficulty level and tells you how much time will be involved. Detailed supply lists are included and the illustrations are fabulous. There are 4 "easy" projects: lava lamp, paper airplane, water pressurized rocket & a good ol' fashioned slip and slide. The "afternoon projects" are a little more complex. These range from a rope swing to tie dying and a water balloon launcher. And then there are the awesome "weekend projects" which look to be pretty serious, but also completely do-able. My boys really want to make the zip line and the bike jump!
Since we are holding onto this book for Father's Day, my boys and I have been secretly checking out all of the cool projects. They've been asking me daily if they can give it to Dad early so they can get started on their slingshots! I know this book will be a hit and can't wait to see what projects they'll dive into.
Got girls? Don't you worry, there are plenty of projects for everyone. There is a great dollhouse project as well as a pattern for some really cute angel wings. I do have to say though, that most of these projects are very unisex and perfect for the whole family to be involved in.
Visit Amazon today and order your copy in time for Father's Day.
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Making doll clothes is a great way to add to any doll's wardrobe. Making doll clothes ensures the clothes will fit the doll and the doll owner's taste. Girls and their mothers or grandmothers often enjoy making doll clothes together as a fun craft or sewing project. Here are some basics when making doll clothes.
Pick a doll clothes pattern for making doll clothes. Patters range from those intended for specific dolls like American Girl doll dress patterns for making doll clothes for American Girl dolls, to generic baby doll clothes patterns.
Measure the dolls for their doll clothes to ensure the proper fit and to determine which size to make. Skip this step when making doll clothes from a pattern intended for your specific type of doll (Barbie doll clothes for a Barbie).
Choose fabric for the doll clothes. Be creative. Consider making doll clothes from a cotton nightgown or making doll clothes to match a bedroom quilt, for example.
Cut the fabric and embellishments (such as lace and ribbon) according to the doll clothes pattern instructions. Making doll clothes yourself allows room for creativity--you can add what you like to the doll clothes.
Sew the fabric pieces together as per the pattern instructions, making sure to follow notations for seam allowances. Making doll clothes requires some attention to detail since the pieces are all miniature.
Turn doll clothes right side out and press with a warm iron. Dress the doll in her new duds and congratulate yourself on you doll clothes-making skills.


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The Gaza Rules Vidctor Davis Hanson.
Proportionality. Intent. Culpability. Context. Victimization.
The world is a madhouse when clear distinctions cannot be made by supposedly rational adults. Hanson hits the nail on the head in this analysis.
Israel, Hamas, and moral Idiocy Christian Science Monitor
There is no moral equivilance here, folks.
Fight Fire with Cease-fire NYT
Speaking of moral idiots, I give you Exhibit A.
Israel Shakes Up the Information War Pajamas Media
Israel is trying to bypass traditional media which as noted above are moral idiots by using Twitter and You Tube.
Has Israel Learned Its Lesson? Boston Globe
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But it remains an open question whether Israel's leaders have learned the most critical lesson of all: that genocidal jihadists and other mortal foes cannot be wheedled, negotiated, bribed, or ignored into quietude. In a war with enemies like Hezbollah and Hamas and the PLO - enemies explicitly committed to Israel's destruction - goodwill gestures beget no goodwill, and peace processes do not lead to peace.
I do hope the current moderate gov't in Israel is not just trying to act tough for the election.
One of the most persistant foolish ideas floating about is that Israeli retaliation makes Hamas stronger. Sandy Tolan from CSM:
When the smoke finally drifts from Gaza, and the human rights investigations begin – into the death of schoolchildren in midday rocket attacks or the demolition of a women's dormitory – sober voices will ask why Israel has still not learned a fundamental lesson: By trying to crush your enemy, you only make him stronger
Poetic descriptions of collateral damage and the assumptions about 'human rights investigations' aside, her logic does not follow. Hamas is not made stronger by Israeli atacks. Hamas is made stronger by material support from Iran, financial support from the Arab world, the diversion of 'humanitarian aid' and charity to Hamas, smuggled weapons, and moral support from Europe and journalists.
Thursday, January 01, 2009
A few links on Gaza
The Gaza Rules Vidctor Davis Hanson.
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Dr. Francis Yao is a gastroenterologist and medical director of the Liver Transplant Program at UCSF Medical Center. He also is director of UCSF's Liver Transplant Outreach and Community Liaison Program. In his research, he is interested in liver cancer treatment, particularly related to liver transplants, and has contributed to important publications in this area. His other research interests include hepatitis B infection and outcomes for liver transplantation. Yao is a professor of medicine in the UCSF School of Medicine.
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The Health and Wellness Today's market actually knows very well what to cater for in this current trend, fad, and fixation. That is why weight loss programs are mushrooming all over. There are ready made diet pills that one can pop in the mouth, or appetite suppressants, available for losing weight. These are not strongly recommended, and the better bet is definitely any one of the natural weight loss programs available.
Natural weight loss programs work by increasing the rate of body metabolism. Anyone who genuinely wishes to lose weight fast, and wants to maintain the weight at that level, should consider ways to increase the rate of metabolism. Many weight loss programs are based on the principle of a low calorie diet. Low calorie diet requires lower food intake, which is bound to lower the metabolic rate. A low metabolic rate is not conducive to losing weight and whatever weight has been lost by the diet would be gained soon. Increased metabolism alone would ensure permanent loss of fat.
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When there is an exercise regimen together with a low calorie diet intake as well, body proteins tend to get depleted rather than fat. On such weight loss programs, water content of the body is also lost. This gives the illusion of weight loss. The basis of any successful and healthy weight reduction program has to be increased metabolism, by which food is converted to energy pretty fast. This prevents storage of fat and the food that is taken in gives more energy to the body. Then body proteins would not be lost as it happens in the case of weight reduction programs through low calorie diets. Proteins would be spared to do all their important job of muscle building. This is the ideal situation that a weight watcher should hope for. Thereby he would be free and feel energetic and would still lose enough pounds and all fatty deposits.
So, how does one increase the metabolic rate? One foolproof way of doing it is by eating more frequently. To lose weight, instead of eating three full meals in a day, one can, maybe eat smaller quantities five or six times. Quantity is very important here because a weight watcher surely cannot afford to translate the five meal freedom into gorging oneself with chips and cheesecake five times a day. Five time salads may be ideal though there is no need to go to that extreme. Divide the total quantity of food to necessary portions, being careful to balance the calories and nutritive value. The result would be a perfect triangle of losing weight on one side, being energetic on the other side, and being more active on the third side.
A person has to first get started on this weight loss method, and then he can improve the process from there. First step is to gradually bring down the calorie intake in your diet. Then a few light exercises are added to the program. This will speed up the process of weight reduction. In that combination, the body will get all the nutrition that it needs even with reduced calories. The body will gradually start becoming chiseled in front of one's eyes. With a great body a person would feel good, and it would further fuel the interest to stick to the program and maintain the weight.


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Title: Secret Santa
Author: Sierra Dean
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Series: Secret McQueen 2.5
Number of Pages: E book
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Source: My copy
It's the most wonderful time of the year. The season for mistletoe, Christmas lights…and a killing spree. When Secret's friend, Detective Mercedes Castilla, asks for help to solve a series of murders longer than a string of lights, Secret resigns herself to the fact her holidays will be anything but peaceful.It seems someone is killing New Yorkers in an unusually gruesome way, and as the bodies pile up faster than presents under the tree, the police are no closer to finding the killer than Secret is to finding the perfect present for one of her boyfriends, Lucas.Tracking down a monster in Manhattan the week before Christmas is almost as difficult as shopping for her ever-expanding collection of loved ones. When tragedy strikes close to home, Secret must do everything in her power to put an end to the horror in time for Santa to come down the chimney.Warning: Contains a less than merry McQueen with a sword and a reason to use it; a festive new use for mistletoe; and a promise that will haunt Secret like the Ghost of Christmas Future.
I enjoyed this Christmas novella immensely. I think the thing that I like most about the in between the numbers novellas by Sierra Dean is that we gain more insight to characters who don't otherwise get a lot of face time in the other books. For instance, this one mainly focused on the relationship between Secret and Holden. Even though I am not a Holden fan like Hanging with Bells is, I enjoyed the chemistry between them and how he forces Secret to think deeper about the relationship they have.
I really liked the fact that the mystery included Desmond's family. I just adore that wolf to pieces, lol. I love how he is always doing little things, like decorating Secret's apartment for Christmas, that makes her appreciate how different their relationship is from anyone elses. He makes her realize that some does really care for. However as much as I am a Team Desmond girl, I think that I would like Lucas if we ever got to see a bit more of him. I feel bad for him because he's a distant third behind Desmond and Holden in Secret's life.
Another fun thing about this mystery was the reappearance of Detective Novak from the .05 novella. He was the poor sap who got set up with a blind date with Secret. I liked how he kind of held a grudge against here, and I really hope we see more of him in book 3. It was also nice to see Mercedes, Nolan and Brigit in a different light. In this book they were all there to help Secret out. It was nice to see Secret mature and realize that there are people who care about her a lot in her life now.
All in all this was a fun read and made me like Holden a little bit more then I would have liked, and I can't wait to read book 3 in March!
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this might make sense. it's an experiment.
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- AnonymousMarch 25, 2010 at 10:24 AM
this is great. stupendous. marvelous. now my food stamp sans healthcare (too thick to be) starving artist ass doesnt have to be afraid that shell get into a vehicular accident and have to make a youtube video about NOT having healthcare and bleed out on camera.ReplyDelete
PS. Tete, i really love care bears. really tho. so thanks.
your friend "broke and nameless"
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Hi friends! I just found out I passed NCLEX today first and last try. I'm very happy and feeling so grateful. I have many people to thank. Thank God Almighty above all. Thanks!
Now, I have no experience working as a Nurse so I would like to ask for any suggestions where should I start looking for jobs in Los Angeles, CA. Is there any website you guys can recommend? I want to work in the OR eventually but I know I need experience. So I want to start in ICU, NICU...
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The bread and butter of public health on call is identifying contacts in the case of suspected meningococcal disease. On the whole this is straightforward but can occasionally cause difficulties. Most areas that I have worked in include several universities, and during October it is common to experience the problem of contact tracing in the student population.
There are two main problems. The first is how to define household contacts when the index patient lives in a hall of residence containing several hundred students. Finding the appropriate university protocol and not being too concerned about the different approaches adopted by neighbouring universities can reduce the number of sleepless nights. The second problem is harder. "Close kissing contacts" among 18 year olds who have been set free from parental control for the first time is a minefield. My experience suggests that it is best to assume there will be lots and that names and contact details will not necessarily have been obtained. By the end of a weekend on call, you will feel like a cross between a detective and an "agony aunt."
One year I volunteered to cover Christmas weekend in the belief that at least the students would be gone by then. I could not have been more mistaken. To add a further difficulty, the index patient presented to hospital on the night of the last day of term, and all contacts had already set off to the far reaches of the country. I could not believe my luck when the friend accompanying the patient produced both their mobile phones and confidently reassured me that between the two of them they would have the mobile numbers of all 15 "household" contacts. She was right, and in just over two hours all of them had been contacted.
There has been much coverage in the medical and popular press about the potential health hazards of mobile phones, and if these fears are realised the 100% ownership among this small sample of students is worrying. However, in terms of contact tracing for suspected meningococcal disease, mobile phones have potential health benefits not just for their owners but also for the mental health of public health doctors. Of course, this may not solve the "close kissing contact" problem.


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Last Thursday I ran the first race of my last year of my current age group; also the only group I've ever been in since I didn't run any races before the age of 25. As of last Monday, I've got one year left before advancing to the 30+ age bracket.
I ran the same cross country course I ran 2 weeks ago and managed to shave off about a minute, for an overall time of about 24:15. They called out times at the first mile and I was on par with where I ran last week; I heard the guy calling 7:56-7:59 so I was somewhere in there. For the second mile, I heard them call off 16:36-39 which was about a 20 second improvement over my last run. That mile included what has been nicknamed "Killer Hill." For my last mile, according to my Garmin I ran a 7:30 mile. I glanced at my watch only occasionally to check distance; I didn't wear my heart rate monitor, and I ran by feel.
I can probably attribute some of that improvement to the temperature being about 15 degrees less than 2 weeks ago and the lower humidity, but I've also been kicking my own butt running up lots of hills.
Sorry, no race pictures.
Probably going to be a negligent blogger for another week or so as I'm headed back to upstate NY to visit family and friends… wish me luck in the land of humidity!


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Wednesday is new comic book day with Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye #10 hittings real and virtual comic stores. The issue goes back to the past, before the TF civil war, to tell a story of Orion Pax and the hunt for a serial killer. Considering the Lost Light has one on board, those skills might be useful in the present. A preview of the issue can be found here.
Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye #10
James Roberts (w) • Alex Milne (a) • Milne, Nick Roche (c)
SHADOWPLAY continues! On pre-war CYBERTRON, Prowl and Chromedome realize they've got a serial killer on their hands, and Orion Pax receives a summons from an old friend that will change his life forever!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
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MPR Report on MVST Issue for Rural Areas
The concerns raised is about how passing MVST will put a hole in the general fund, and then cause a loss in Local Government Aid.
"Location, location, location means a lot of things," Kuntz says. "And we feel there is a strong benefit to have that highway completed all the way from New Ulm, all the way to Rochester."
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Tony Knauer
Kuntz says if Minnesotans vote yes on the motor vehicle sales tax constitutional amendment highway 14 will inch closer to becoming a four-lane highway. That would mean economic growth for Owatonna.
However, dedicating all of MVST's dollars to transportation would cut $300 million from the state's general fund over the next five years. The general fund pays for local government aid, or LGA. The legislature made cuts to LGA in 2005 and 2007. Kuntz says LGA remains an easy target to balance the budget. The legislature has no proposal to make up the money the general fund would lose in MVST money.
"We, for 2007 budget, took a $690,000 cut for LGA for city of Owatonna. I think that's the largest cut that any of the cities in the state of Minnesota received. That is a concern that if they have to make the $300 million up in some other places, one of the first things that get looked at is LGA, and we can't afford any more cuts on LGA," Kuntz says.
Still, dancing thoughts of a four-lane highway 14 led Kuntz and Owatonna's city council to take a neutral stance on the amendment. Even if state aid isn't cut, Owatonna still won't have access to all of the MVST dollars. The city doesn't have any mass transit. The amendment's language says at least 40 percent of the additional dollars would go to mass transit. No more than 60 percent would go to roads.
Rochester is also concerned:
Beyond the Twin Cities, mass transit mostly serves seniors and disabled people. But in Rochester transit administrator Tony Knauer says buses move 1.4 million people every year. Thirty years ago it was only a quarter million. Knauer says he hopes to expand bus service by 30 percent.
"We've got a lot of neighborhoods that don't have any transit service at all. And we're pretty conservative in our expansion. What we look at is that we're not going to start running 24 hour bus service out there," Knauer says.
He says additional MVST dollars would help pay for expansion. But Rochester has taken no position on the MVST amendment. And it is a member of the Coalition of Greater Minnesota Cities, which opposes the amendment.
Transportation lobbyist Holly Biron says the amendment's language doesn't guarantee any money will go toward roads.
"Essentially, the 'at least-not more than' language could put all of this motor vehicle sales tax revenue into transit, and that's a major concern for Greater Minnesota mayors, council members," Biron says. "Because while they're supportive of transit they're really concerned about their roads for economic development and safety issues."
MPR reports that Education Minnesota and the Farmer's Bureau also oppose the amendment.
I oppose MVST because this is something that should be done in statute, and not in the constitution. I'd oppose the Hunting/Fishing/Public TV/Arts constitutional amendment with dedicated state sales tax for the same reason.
The legislators and Governor who ducked this issue and sent it to the voters with MVST should be ashamed of themselves.


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36 things that should be in the ultimate Olympic Opening Ceremony
The folks behind the Olympic Opening Ceremony have managed to keep the show's contents under a tight wrap. All we've been told so far is to expect a verdant, pastoral scene containing real farm animals: 12 horses, 10 chickens and 3 cows among them. With so much left shrouded in mystery, we can't help but speculate what Friday night's spectacular will contain. Here's how we imagine it going…
The über-cute farm animals take the stage…
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…followed by zoo animals sliding into the stadium:
Out come London's famous passive-aggressive penguins:
And then, a short parade to honour the city's urban wildlife:
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Although foxes won't so much 'parade' as 'gaze menacingly at the chickens':
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Cheers Ken. After that downer, time for an epic fail to pick our spirits up…
And then BOOM! One Direction arrive on a bus, to prove that sometimes coming third gets you further than winning:
Who's this arriving on the 1984 Games' legendary jetpack?
It's Benedict Cumberbatch! Here to provide a violin accompaniment:
And he's brought Doctor Who with him – but what's that he's zapping with his Sonic Screwdriver?
CLERICAL ERROR: This section is accidentally directed by Frankie Boyle, consisting soley of unprintable remarks about Tom Daley:
Millions turn off their televisions in disgust and put the kettle on instead – oh yes, it's the quintessential British tea break:
Back in the stadium, Usain Bolt arrives – and it looks like it's Free McDonald's Official Provider of the Olympic and Paralympic Games London 2012 Happy Meals for all!
007 can't believe his luck:
On with the show. House lights down, because ladies and gentlemen, we give you… the Half-Hologram Beatles!
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And joining them live on stage, Coldplay's Chris Martin, dressed as an elephant, on a unicycle!
Now drop the bass, Your Highness:
Camera #3, close-up on the angry flower girl:
As the beat builds, Russell Brand takes the stage and puts his Game face on:
Thom Yorke represents the Olympic spirit through interpretive dance:
Susan Boyle's hips don't lie:
The atmosphere's electric – let's launch those scary Olympic missiles over the stadium:
Because surprise, surprise:
They're confetti missiles!
Release the balloons!
And release the puppies!
Bring up the lasers…
Get someone to walk away from an explosion without looking…
Send the Red Arrows over…
And GO fireworks GO!
Now even more colourful!
and more… Londony!
And finally, the entire back-up firework display, all at once!
Photo: Ben Baller
What a finale! And finally, live from the Olympic Park, British Stuff Correspondent Mary Poppins explains what it all symbolises:
Thanks Mary. And now it's back to the studio. [TRANSMISSION ENDS] Guy Parsons
Want to see what really happens? Check out our Opening Ceremony guide for big screens and venues showing the event, alternative parties and – of course – when it'll be on the TV.


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OKLAHOMA CITY -- Hefner Lake goers are on edge after a popular hotspot is the scene of an alleged sexual assault.
The victim said it happened at 11:30 p.m. about a week ago.
She said she was with her boyfriend in a parked car when they were approached by a man with a flashlight.
He said he was "Lake Security."
He asked her to get out of the car and pulled her over toward his vehicle.
She said he made some sexual suggestions then, according to OKC Police Sgt. Jennifer Wardlow, the suspect got physically aggressive.
"He tried to force her into his vehicle. She was able to fight with him struggle and get away. Fortunately she did not sustain any serious injuries."
The suspect hopped in his vehicle and drove away.
Oklahoma City released a sketch of the man.
They said he was white, about 6 feet tall, overweight and wore a dark hoodie zipped tightly around his face.
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Well, okay. I didn't make good on my promise to update you guys on what was going on as quickly as I'd hoped. But better late than never, huh? :) Brad and I left on Thursday, May 12 for a little mini-vacation. We knew in April that we had a small window of time to get out of town and that we wanted to go somewhere "new." Brad had never seen the mountains and I hadn't been to Colorado in years, so we decided to go to Colorado Springs. It was BEAUTIFUL and a much needed getaway for us.
We left at 7am on Thursday morning and had almost made it to Kearney, Nebraska when Brad got pulled over for going 8 over on the interstate. (Come ON! Everybody speeds on the interstate a little....dang it.) If you look closely at the ticket, you'll see that the lovely officer circled the damage. That's right folks, $73.00. Barf. He must have been really super bored. Anyways, enough whining.
The drive in was pretty funny - kind of eventful, actually. We had been told that Denver had been in the 90's all week (weather wise) and that it was supposed to be kind of warm. Having been to Colorado before, I know that it can get pretty cool at night and snow in May...all sorts of crazy weather. So, I packed everything from shorts and t-shirts to jeans and sweatshirts. Unfortunately, while I was worried about my own packing, I neglected my poor husband. I didn't ever tell him about the crazy weather changes, and having never been to the mountains, he was none the wiser. When we hit Castle Rock (between Denver and the Springs), it was snowing. I mean...heavy, wet snow. Needless to say, we stopped and bought Brad a sweatshirt.
We made it to Colorado Springs by about 3pm mountain time, but we were hungry. So, we dropped our stuff at the hotel and headed out to find something to eat. We landed at a little pizza shoppe downtown. By far, the best pizza I have had in a long time.
After dinner, we were pretty tired, so we stopped and got some local beer and went all "white trash" on our vacation. We laid around in our hotel, watched tv and hit the hay pretty early so we'd be up and ready to hit the town on Friday.
We both woke up pretty early (obviously, Brad was up, but even I was up this early!) and were ready to leave the hotel at 7am. We planned on making the most of our day and were ready to get started. We began at Garden of the Gods. It's beautiful - but nothing like I remembered from when I was a kid. So, it was just like a whole new experience. Brad was very excited to be in the mountains!
After we left Garden of the Gods, we headed to the Manitou Cliff Dwellings. They were built about 700 years ago and inhabited by the Anasazi tribe. (Impressed with my knowledge, eh?) They were pretty cool, just because it wasn't like a normal museum. You could go inside the dwellings and touch the walls.
We then went to Seven Falls. It is a natural waterfall and it's pretty. But that's about all I have to say about it. Not too exciting. Oh, but there were about 8 millions stairs you could climb to get to the top. Mixed with the high altitude and lack of gym time lately, I felt like there was an elephant on my chest. Brad, however, is the stair climbing master every morning at the gym, so it was quite a bit easier for him....
After Seven Falls, we stopped and ate our lunch we had packed in the cooler (Deli meat sandwiches, bananas and juice boxes! Note: I'm actually the only one that drank the slightly childish juice boxes - Brad drank vitamin water). We then headed for our tour of Pike's Peak. You can either drive up the mountain (which takes a long time and is slightly dangerous) or you can ride the Cog Railway. It only took about an hour and was actually pretty fun. When we got to the top, it is LITERALLY breath-taking. Obviously, the scenery was beautiful, but there is not an excess of oxygen when you get 14,000 feet in the air. We popped in the gift shop and got one of their world famous donuts. I must also admit that on the way down, I gave away Brad's donut. You know, the one that he was waiting to eat until later....the one that you can ONLY get at the top of Pike's peak and will probably never find another like it. Yeah. That one. I'm an idiot. When the lady across from us was saying she didn't have time to get a donut, I offered to give her our "extra." Moments later, I remembered that it wasn't an extra donut - it was Brad's donut. Luckily, Brad was very gracious and kind about it. Thanks honey. :)
After we got back from Pikes Peak, we stayed in Manitou Springs (the most adorable little town) and hung out, drank some beer, and ate chips and salsa at our favorite place there...The Keg.
We also found this cute little outdoor arcade that used nickels and pennies. It had apparently been around since the 1930's and had most of the original games. I unfortunately talked a lot of trash, but got my butt whooped at Skeeball. My husband has a lot more humility when it comes to skeeball. :)
We left Manitou Springs and went to dinner in downtown Colorado Springs at "The Ritz." I wish I had gotten a picture of my meal, because it was the BEST meal I have ever eaten. Oh my gosh - I could barely walk when we left...which was unfortunate, because we had parked several blocks away. :) That's all for now. I'll be back later with days 3 & 4!


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Friday, June 5, 2009
My Imaginary Life Through McQueen
For hosting my first socialite event:
If I ever were to get married:
When I win my first Oscar:
The Oscar afterparty (after I won):
Announcing my company has gone public:
Someone else's party, that I still need to make a serious appearance at:
God, what a great life I lead.
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