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It has been over three months since I took my "no new fabrics" oath. I have not bought any fabric since. It has been hard as I predicted. In February I took my Step-Dad and the Boyfriend out fabric shopping to another Phillips shirts sale. My Step-Dad bought the fabric and I bought him lunch so that doesn't count right? No new fabric was found but it was a lot better organised and there were a bunch of fashion people there. I thought I would show you what they bought as well as the fabrics from my last haul from the Spotlight boxing day sale.
Firstly the fabric my Step-Dad picked out. He saw The Brothers shirt and wanted one for himself. It is a really soft cotton. The event states cottons start at $5 but I was charged $8 by the sales person. Hmmmmmm.
The Boyfriend picked out a black pinstripe for a short sleeve shirt appropriate for casual events. Also a cotton, it was labelled "made in Japan".
I did not buy anything for myself and I felt good about that.
So in December I went to spotlight for top stitching thread and accidentally bought 9 meters of fabric at the sale. Sigh. This is why I needed to do something about my fabric buying habit. I found some more cotton/linen that I used to make The Brothers shirt. So I bought some more in another print to make him another shirt. Lets be clear, I had just finished his first shirt the week before, my selfless sewing track record is pretty bad, and his birthday is in September. Why did I think I would find the motivation to sew him another shirt? It is a nice print but still. When a sign says 40% off all rationality gets thrown out the window.
Last couple of months I have seen a lot of not horrible looking denim at Spotlight. I feel like this is a new development? I succumbed. Instead of a pair of Ginger Jeans this stretch denim looks like it wants to be a pair of Birkin Flares. I was worried at first that Birkin Flares wouldn't suit a curvy body type. The back pockets are almost unflattering in a flattering way. Then I saw Reyna Lay's pair. She is beautiful curvy sewing blogger and looks amazing in her Birkin's.
Last but not least. This stretch denim is my favourite. This is a cotton/wool/lycra blend. The right side looks like normal denim but the underside feels like a soft brushed wool. Winter jeans! yes it is white denim. Don't worry I am going to dye it. I don't really mind how it comes out of the dying bath, if they look even or if they look like Foonik's gingers I can't imagine being disappointed. My friends tell me I wear crazy pants anyway.


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Recipe: Chicken Breasts with a Tomato Wine Sauce
This recipe is an old one… from the Galloping Gourmet… remember him? Always cooked with a glass of wine in his hand… and was so funny… he got funnier as the show progressed and as the wine disappeared… My mother and I used to watch it when I got home from school. My best friend, Michele, lived three doors away … and used to come over to watch it… or we'd watch it with her mother…
My mother and I missed this episode but Michele and her mother caught it and gave us the recipe… it really is very good… and I know the ingredients are a little unusual… muenster cheese on the chicken instead of mozzarella… but honestly it really makes the dish stand out. The tomato wine sauce is similar to other ones I've posted… very easy and very good.
My mother always served it with spaghetti … I serve it with Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes… either one works really well.
I did make a few minor changes from the original recipe:
The original recipe says to mash the sauce… I don't... I leave it as is… I like the chunky tomatoes and carrots… you can do either.
I used ½ teaspoon roasted garlic… you can use 1 clove garlic, smashed as the original recipe reads.
The original recipe uses thin sliced boneless chicken breasts… I use thick boneless skinless chicken breasts.. I just happen to like them in this dish.
The original recipe only slices 1 carrot.. I use 1 cup of sliced carrots.
I use good quality grated Parmesan cheese when preparing the chicken.
The recipe didn't specify an amount or type of dry white wine.. I found 1 cup to be a good amount… and I use Turning Leaf California Sauvignon Blanc… you can use any other dry white wine you prefer.
This recipe makes enough sauce for 4 servings… if you want more servings.. it easily doubles.
This really is a terrific recipe… and old one from a very good chef.
Recipe: Chicken Breasts with a Tomato Wine Sauce
All you need:
To make the sauce:
1 cup sliced carrots
1 medium onion, sliced
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon butter
1 can (14.5 oz.) Del Monte canned tomatoes with Basil, Garlic and Oregano
1 cup dry white wine2 tablespoons tomato paste
1 tablespoon sugar
Salt and pepper to taste
To Prepare the Chicken:
4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
1 egg beaten with a teaspoon olive oil
About a ½ cup grated Parmesan cheese
½ cup flour seasoned with salt and pepper and ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons butter
8 slices Muenster cheese
Chopped parsley for garnish
All you have to do:
To make the sauce:
In a medium size pot, melt the butter with the olive oil.
Add the carrots and onions… sauté until carrots are translucent.
Add the rest of the sauce ingredients.
Lower heat and cook for 1 hour on a low simmer.
You can either serve the sauce as is (the way I do) or mash it.
To make the chicken:
Dip the chicken breasts in the egg mixture.
Then sprinkle to coat the chicken in grated Parmesan cheese.
Then dredge in seasoned flour.
In a large skillet, over medium high heat, melt 2 tablespoons butter with two tablespoons olive oil.
Fry the chicken until done… it should be golden.. if you find it browning too much.. lower the heat a bit.
About 2-3 minutes before the chicken is completely done.. lay 2 slices of muenster cheese on them and put the lid on the skillet until the cheese has melted nicely.
To serve, spoon the sauce over the chicken breast.
Garnish with chopped parsley.
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- Katy ~ said...
LOL I haven't thought of the Galloping Gourmet in ages. He was one of the very first TV chefs I ever watched.
I so love a new chicken recipe, and I like the idea of Muenster cheese. I think Mozzarella, as much as I like it, is overused, and for me can be too stringy to enjoy. This is a great recipe! Will have to try it soon!!
- June 26, 2010 at 11:53 AM
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Last year, I made a list of new year's resolutions here, and here's how I did on them:
- Showing more hospitality. I wasn't quite as consistent month-to-month as I wanted to be, but all in all, I'm pretty happy with my efforts on this one - we had several dinners with friends and family, and I opened my home to two big group activities, so I'd call this resolution one that I successfully kept.
- Running the race. Despite a few setbacks, I have stuck with running for another year, and I'm looking forward to logging more miles this year. Still nowhere near ready for a half-marathon, though.
- Becoming more purposeful. Argh. This is hard to do, and really hard to objectively measure. Some days were better than others, and I think I can say I put more effort into attempting to be truly purposeful and careful with my time. I still have lots of room for improvement, though.
- Becoming more prayerful. Wish I could say I nailed this one, but God knows this is one I struggle with. I think I struggle most with trying to do things on my own instead of giving them to Him to handle, which means I hold off approaching Him until I feel I've got everything under control (which doesn't always happen.) I don't know why I think He expects me to have (or even get) my act together - He knows me better than anybody else!
- Reading the Bible through. I am most disappointed in myself on this one, because I just plain didn't make this a high priority. I definitely need a do-over on this one.
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Monday, 4 July 2011
Who the heck are modern desktops for?
I am 24, my first desktop was Windows 3.11 (at school), then I grow up on Windows 95/98/2000 and Windows XP after finally switched to linux. I'm not that old to not be able to adapt, yet after years spent with linux I find the old Windows ineffective (just find something it the long non-categorized menu of theirs or try to run a few apps at once) and just recently I had to navigate Windows 7 with a touchpad. Let me tell you, it was a major pain in the ass. In my family everyone except me now uses Windows 7 on regular basis and they always complain about it. I haven't heard them ever complain about user interface when in Win XP or Gnome 2.
So why do the heck do we need the change that makes an assumption that presenting user with huge icons of every app installed instead of neat two-level categorized menu is more easy to use (it does not take a very bright person to tell that Movie Player would be categorized under Sound&Video)? Why do we need a change that makes an assumption that customization is a bad thing (I believe that different people have different needs and customizing a desktop to certain level can make it more effective to use for them)? Why do we need a change that effectively tells you that having more terminal windows open at once is a bad thing (yes, even though most common terminal emulators have tabs, I still find it more effective in certain cases to have three or four windows of terminal opened at once and nicely tilted on the desktop)? Why do we need a change that hides your favourite apps when not in "Activities" overview?
Who the heck is the modern desktop designed for? Honestly saying, not for me and not for anyone I know personally either.
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- cdamian said...
The gnome3 will not listen. Our only chance is to switch to something else.
Which is a pity, because I have been using gnome since it has been available.
- Monday, 4 July 2011 at 14:07:00 CEST
Not for me, either!
- Monday, 4 July 2011 at 14:25:00 CEST
That's 3 with me. I still don't understand it. If this is supposed to be a major play to attract non-daily linux users, it is really upsetting for the usual users.
BTW, this Gnome 3 menu style looks way like the new MS Windows 8 new user interface, which is supposedly touchscreen-user-oriented.
- Monday, 4 July 2011 at 15:51:00 CEST
I have been using computers since 286es, my first basic program deleted all of the files on the hard disk. I now write kernel drivers for living with the occasional reverse engineering project on the side.
Gnome 3 is written for me! I enjoy using my computer. I feel comfortable in being able to do what I need to do on my computer, work. Now Gnome Shell is by no means perfect, but it beats any of the other desktop interfaces I have used over the years (on windows (3.11+), *nix (CDE, enlightenment, etc...), and even some more obscure ones). I even moved back to KDE for a while before Gnome Shell came out.
Now I really am sorry that you and other people don't enjoy Gnome Shell as much as I do. But please, there are many silent users out there who truly do enjoy Gnome Shell, are looking forward to the (some much needed) improvements coming up in Gnome 3.2, and use it as out day to day desktops.
Please don't go around ignoring us and saying we don't exist. Say that Gnome Shell isn't for you, you hate it, you prefer the interface in the movie Swordfish, whatever. But don't claim that there are no users. The fact that we are silent doesn't mean we don't exist.
- Monday, 4 July 2011 at 19:47:00 CEST
- Martin said...
Anonymous: I didn't said that modern desktops are for no-one, but I just don't comprehend what user base are they targeting. Is it people who never used computer? Is it people who never used mouse in their life (I guess that people who have both their hands on keyboard and never use mouse to switch between apps, tabs, ... could like how gnome shell does things)?
It does not look like it's targeted on the middle ground of people who use keyboard to write, mouse to manage and are already used to work with computer (windows 7 is less radical than gnome 3, still there are lots of things that people I know don't like).
- Monday, 4 July 2011 at 22:01:00 CEST
I am also really fond if Gnome3 and gnome-shell.
There are some regressions, and obviously some bugs, but overall it is a joy to use.
I use both mouse and keyboard with GS and it works just fine.
- Tuesday, 5 July 2011 at 09:48:00 CEST
- nicu said...
I think the answer to all questions can be summed in two words: Apple envy.
The GNOME 3 design is originated from USA, where Apple means *something* (compared with the rest of the world, where it's market share is irrelevant).
So USA based designers look at the relative Apple success around them and try to copy it. How? By locking-down and dumbing-down.
There is also the category of Linux designers who conceded Linux does not have any chance to replace Windows as the desktop of choice for the so-called "power user" and believe it will be able to gain market share by attaching different niches: appliances, basic users, etc.
What happens is us, users of the "traditional desktop" are left in the dust in everyone's rush for appliance and mobility, where it looks like is the place to easily get market share.
- Tuesday, 5 July 2011 at 10:07:00 CEST
Right, because a software blog is the perfect venue to vent one's anti-Americanism.
That said, I knew going into Fedora15 that there would be major differences between it and F14 and for that matter all the previous Fedoras I've used. So imagine my dismay when I finally booted F15 and was presented with a barely functional desktop aka Gnome3 Fallback.
I stuck with it hoping it would stick with me, but it didn't. Then I switched to KDE, hoping for relief. KDE is pretty and full of eye-candy, but is barely usable for someone who just wants to do work.
Finally I installed XFCE and, even though it's barely functional compared to Gnome2, it's infinitely better than Gnome3. Plus, it's easier on resources and apparently runs faster.
I have grave doubts about the usability of desktop computers(or even laptops) being forced to function like super-large ipads. Where's the sense in it? We have these giant CPUs that have more cache on board than full-blown computers did in the 1980s and they're going to operate like my Galaxy S smartphone?
They'll have to pry the full-blown desktop from cold, dead fingers before I give it up.
- Thursday, 7 July 2011 at 19:02:00 CEST


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'How to be green? Many people have asked us this important question. It's really very simple and requires no expert knowledge or complex skills. Here's the answer. Consume less. Share more. Enjoy life.' Penny Kemp and Derek Wall
7 Aug 2009
Peru indigenous solidarity meeting 27th August
The main speaker will be Oscar Blanco, son of Hugo Blanco, the Peruvian revolutionary and publisher of Lucha Indigena.
Will be getting some proper publicity out soon but for now put it in your diary.
The ecosocialist struggle is stong in Peru but the government are very happy to beat, imprison and kill indigenous people who resist rainforest destruction.
Hugo Blanco will be speaking in Britain in June 2010 with support from members of Socialist Resistance, Green Left and the Green Party.
So several reasons to watch this space.
The Peruvian indigenous leader Santiago Manuin, despite his injuries seems to be slowly getting better, but Alan Garcia is still keen to repress him.
Right off to the Isle of Wight tomorrow for the Vestas workers rally....workers and the indigenous are showing the way on climate change at the moment...
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- Peter N. Jones said...
Thanks for the heads up on this. Would love to know more so I can post it on the Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources site and let our international readers know about it. Please send me an email if possible when you have full details pnj @ indigenouspeoplesissues.com
- 8:11 pm
- Derek Wall said...
Hi Peter,
all the details here http://another-green-world.blogspot.com/2009/08/public-talk-massacre-in-amazon-garcia.html
and have mailed you
- 8:51 pm
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The Krewe of Petit Caillou Carnival Club's parade is scheduled for noon Saturday in Chauvin.
Senior Center schedule: Bingo, 12:30 p.m. Thursday; center closed Friday because of Mardi Gras party in Houma; poker-keno, 9:15 a.m. Tuesday; one-stroke painting, 12:30 p.m. Tuesday; poker-keno, 9:15 a.m. March 2; lunch, 11 a.m. daily; and cards and billiards, 8:30 a.m. weekdays.
For information, call the center's manager, Arlene Levron, at 594-6741 or 594-8905.
Bingo: Ward 7 Citizens Club's bingo is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Thursday at its club home, 5006 La. 56, Chauvin.
Library news: The Chauvin Branch Library, 5500 La. 56, has several activities during February. Here are some of the activities planned:
n Members of the homemakers club are scheduled to meet for Mexican Train dominoes from 1 to 4 p.m. today.
All programs are free and open to the public. For information, call 594-9771.
Registration: Prekindergartner registration for Terrebonne Parish public schools is scheduled for today and Thursday at elementary schools in Terrebonne Parish.
Meetings: Members of St. Joseph Council Auxiliary are scheduled to meet at 6 p.m. Thursday at the council home, 201 La. 58, Chauvin. Members are asked to bring a covered dish. Rosary is scheduled for 5:30 p.m.
Members of the American Legion Post No. 380 are scheduled to meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the club home, 4990 La. 56, Chauvin.
Birthdays: Daniel Scott, Tammy Carrere, Todd LeBoeuf, Carolyn Ledet, Amy Naquin, Trent Ledet, Koen Shea Ellender, Michelle Authement, Feb. 23; Joy Boudreaux, Sheri Ledet, Melinda Bourg, Belinda Bourg, Andrew Falcon, Haley Pellegrin, Feb. 24; Gardeline Belanger, Michelle Fabre, Feb. 25; Jerome Soudelier, Msgr. Frederic Brunet, Kami LeBlanc, Jasper Redmond, Jamie Authement, Joan Domangue, Evelyn Domangue, Craig Authement, Feb. 26; Dudley Fanguy, Glynn Martin, Lorraine Thibodaux, Amanda Bergeron, Annette Fonseca, Melanie Foret, Lori Pellegrin, Feb. 27; Tina Theriot, Ryan Adams, Brenda Chaisson, Marie LeBoeuf, Dustin Pellerin, Blair Luke, Sarah Pitre, Feb. 28; Destiny Rose Plaisance, Feb. 29; Craig Gautreaux, Durey Blanchard and Justin Ledet, March 1.
Anniversaries: Melanie and Randy Boudreaux, Feb. 23; Debbie and Keith Cologne, Feb. 24; Darlene and Henry Davis, Feb. 25; Sharon and Wilson Cheramie, and Clara and "Cye" Neil, Feb. 28.
CHAUVIN: Chauvin parade set for Saturday
The Krewe of Petit Caillou Carnival Club's parade is scheduled for noon Saturday in Chauvin.


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WookieFoot's SnowBall
Minnesota's WookieFoot will perform to an area audience tomorrow night in Minneapolis at the Cabooze. The following weekend the group will open the local festival season in chilly climes with its three-day SnowBall at Lutsen Ski Mountain. The event will features music from Pert Near Sandstone and Trampled by Turtles on Thursday the 8th. Then on Friday, God Johnson, The Histronic and Gypsyfoot will take the stage. Finally on Saturday the 9th, WookieFoot and Heatbox are scheduled to appear. Along with these evening shows, daytime collective jams are pledged as well.


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Sunday, August 26, 2007
Buttercrunch Toffee.
I love toffee. Yesterday I used David Lebovitz's Recipe which turned out quite well.
I used a combination of toasted almonds and hazelnuts with a smattering of cocoa nibs and fleur de sel on top of 73% El Rey chocolate.
There's not much else I can say other than don't burn the sugar. Burnt toffee is a tragedy.
at 9:40 AM
2 comments:
- Patricia Scarpin said...
This is sinful, Lisa - I wonder how delicious they are. :D
- August 27, 2007 at 2:15 PM
- Lisa Campbell said...
It is very difficult to stop eating it once you start.
I love toffee. So much.
- August 27, 2007 at 2:38 PM
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Rare Spectacular Triple Planet Conjunction Wows World! – Astrophoto Gallery
Triple planets (Venus/Jupiter/Mercury) conjunction over Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandy, France on May 26. Credit: Thierry Legault –
Update: See expanded Conjunction astrophoto gallery below[/caption]
The rare astronomical coincidence of a spectacular triangular triple conjunction of 3 bright planets happening right now is certainly wowing the entire World of Earthlings! That is if our gallery of astrophotos assembled here is any indication.
Right at sunset, our Solar System's two brightest planets – Venus and Jupiter – as well as the sun's closest planet Mercury are very closely aligned for about a week in late May 2013 – starting several days ago and continuing throughout this week.
And, for an extra special bonus – did you know that a pair of spacecraft from Earth are orbiting two of those planets?
Have you seen it yet ?
Well you're are in for a celestial treat. The conjunction is visible to the naked eye – look West to Northwest shortly after sunset. No telescopes or binoculars needed.
Just check out our Universe Today collection of newly snapped astrophoto's and videos sent to Nancy and Ken by stargazing enthusiasts from across the globe. See an earlier gallery – here.
Throughout May, the trio of wandering planets have been gradually gathering closer and closer.
On May 26 and 27, Venus, Jupiter and Mercury appear just 3 degrees apart as a spectacular triangularly shaped object in the sunset skies – which
adds a palatial pallet of splendid hues not possible at higher elevations.
And don't dawdle if you want to see this celestial feast. The best times are 30 to 60 minutes after sunset – because thereafter they'll disappear below the horizon.
The sky show will continue into late May as the planets alignment changes every day.
On May 28, Venus and Jupiter close in to within just 1 degree.
And on May 30 & 31, Venus, Jupiter and Mercury will form an imaginary line in the sky.
Triple planetary conjunctions are a rather rare occurrence. The last one took place in May 2011. And we won't see another one until October 2015.
Indeed the wandering trio are also currently the three brightest planets visible. Venus is about magnitude minus 4, Jupiter is about minus 2.
While you're enjoying the fantastic view, ponder this: The three planets are also joined by two orbiting spacecraft from humanity. NASA's MESSENGER is orbiting Mercury. ESA's Venus Express is orbiting Venus. And NASA's Juno spacecraft is on a long looping trajectory to Jupiter.
Send Ken you conjunction photos to post here.
And don't forget to "Send Your Name to Mars" aboard NASA's MAVEN orbiter- details here. Deadline: July 1, 2013
Learn more about Conjunctions, Mars, Curiosity, Opportunity, MAVEN, LADEE and NASA missions at Ken's upcoming lecture presentations:
June 4: "Send your Name to Mars" and "CIBER Astro Sat, LADEE Lunar & Antares Rocket Launches from Virginia"; Rodeway Inn, Chincoteague, VA, 8:30 PM
June 11: "Send your Name to Mars" and "LADEE Lunar & Antares Rocket Launches from Virginia"; NJ State Museum Planetarium and Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton (AAAP), Trenton, NJ, 730 PM.
June 12: "Send your Name to Mars" and "LADEE Lunar & Antares Rocket Launches from Virginia"; Franklin Institute and Rittenhouse Astronomical Society, Philadelphia, PA, 8 PM.
Caption: Taken on 2013-05-23 from Salem, Missouri. Canon T1i, Nikkor 105mm lens. 297 1/4s at 1s interval. Images assembled by QuickTime Pro. Credit: Joseph Shuster
Astronomy, Astrophotos, conjunction, Juno mission, Jupiter, Mercury, MESSENGER, planetary conjunctions, Stargazing, Venus, Venus Express
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I've seen Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury out here in Alameda, California for the last few nights. The trio of planets above the horizon just after sunset has been simply spectacular!
We have too many trees here in Connecticut. I couldn't find an open spot where I could see the western horizon.
Try harder. there are spots. also try from roofs
I found this really great spot on a hill near my house, and soon realized the trio was going to set right ove the airport beacon! A fast dash down the road to a new site was in order. Fortunately, such events last about half an hour so we have time to move if we need to!
But from where did you take those photos? They aren't in Flickr Universe Today Group…
Gorgeous photos guys!! Great job and thanks for sharing.
In Atlanta at the Arabia Mountains I took a pretty nice picture of the triple conjunction!! Taken on a canon DSLR on 4sec shutter with a fixed lens.


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Before this football season began, Jim Karsatos of Ohio State said, ``I don`t think I can compare myself with Chuck Long, Jim Everett or Jack Trudeau.``
Karsatos made good sense. After all, Long of Iowa, Everett of Purdue and Illinois` Trudeau were mentioned as preseason All-Americans. Karsatos, in contrast, was the only quarterback in the Big 10 who was not returning to a regular job he had held the previous year.


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A Taste of Winter
Every year when we change our menu to celebrate the new season that lies ahead, we cannot help to think 'is it that time already?' Well, it sure is. A time of comfort and slow-roasted lamb, freshly baked bread and soup around the kitchen table, wine and cheese in front of the fireplace and a cup of tea in the one hand and a good read in the other.
Why not kick off your culinary tour through winter at The Roundhouse – our new winter menu is bound to get you excited for the chillier months waiting around the corner.
Our piece de resistance is the 24 Hour Lamb Neck, served with crushed green peas, red wine sauce and a fresh pine nut and preserved lemon gremolata for a perfectly balanced taste of winter.
Have a look at our new menu below – we cannot wait to share it with you!
- Dylan, Executive Chef at The Roundhouse


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Starcraft: The Dark Templar # 2: Shadow Hunters
Today arrived my copy of Pocket Books Fall 2007 Catalog from Simon & Schuster Publisher. The book description and book cover are shown in the catalog. The book cover shows an artwork from artist Glenn Rane featuring a similar theme with half-face of a woman and the other half of a female dark templar.
The novel is scheduled by November 27, 2007 and contains 384 pages. Author: Christie Golden.
The book description is as follows:
The second novel of an epic trilogy set in the world of Blizzard Entertainment's bestselling Starcraft video game.
Archeologist Jacob Ramsey has spent the last two years on a fruitless excavation. It seems like a miracle when he gets an invitation to join an elite group of archeologists in the excavation of one of the Xel'Naga artifacts that are suddenly appearing on various worlds. When Jake stumbles across a dying Protoss and attempts to revive him, the alien psychically and violently begins to "upload" its memories, essentially rewriting and rewiring Jake's human brain. Jake soon learns a terrible secret—one so important that the dying alien was willing to pass it on to an enemy in order to ensure that the knowledge survives. And what Jakes decides to do with the information will seal the fate of worlds throughout the galaxy.
This description is kinda similar to book one's. I assume it is a placeholder replacement. I will update if a new description is added in the upcoming months. And will provide the book cover image soon. The marketing info provided by the catalog says the novel will be showcased at BlizzCon 2007. Hopefully that means Christie Golden will be at the Pocket Books booth, book signing.


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Just read that the new Groove developer portal on MSDN has gone live.
This is a home for developers who want to learn more about Groove and how to develop solutions on the Groove platform. The site also links to relevant content on TechNet and Office Online, providing easy access to those materials.
This enables developers new to Groove to build a solid foundation of knowledge before taking Groove deployments to the next level by building a custom solution.
MOSSIG Meeting on Wednesday evening 28th March 2007
Don't forget that Marc Dimmick will be presenting part 2 of his Microsoft Office Groove 2007 presentation at the MOSSIG meeting on Wednesday evening, this month from a business scenario perspective. If you are wondering what the value of Groove can be for your business this is a must see presentation.


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What if Anne Boleyn have birth to a healthy boy in 1536? What if that boy, William, grew up to be King?
17 year old Will is on the cusp of taking over his Kingdom. His mother, Anne Boleyn, is still healthy and living, though his father died when he was 10. Will's reign is already being tested before it even begins. The French are trying to draw him into a costly war and treachery remains firmly entrenched in English soil. Will must use his older sister, Elizabeth, and his friend Dominic, and his mother's orphaned ward, Minuette. As the four try to discover the root of the plot against Will, Dominic and Will discover a mutual love. Love, war and politics threaten the next generation of the Tudors.
Full disclosure: I love Anne Boleyn. Laura Anderson takes us to a world where Anne triumphs and continues the Tudor Family. William is a perfect King. He has his mother's looks and scheming and his father's temper and impulsive nature. Elizabeth remains the same Elizabeth that history records. Dominic and Minuette provide balance to the two royals. Anderson's alternate history doesn't spare the drama either. Rochford and Seymour are play the political schemes with Tudor like accuracy. This book makes me wish that Will really had survived. I'm looking forward to the next two installments in this trilogy!
I received this book from Edelweiss. Thank you to the publisher!


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"The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease." — Helen Keller, 1911
This will piss off the Teabaggers: There is a terrific, short essay on Helen Keller's political activism over at Dorian Cope's always essential On This Deity blog. It's a "must read" and focuses on the parts of her life story that they don't teach us about when we learn about Helen Keller in school…But what the endless accolades and history books almost always fail to mention is that Helen Keller was a militant radical activist. Her views mirrored the likes of the era's most notorious dissidents – Emma Goldman and Eugene Debs – who were respectively deported and imprisoned for ten years. "I don't give a damn about semi-radicals," she infamously proclaimed; indeed, she leaned so far to the left that the FBI kept a file on her for un-American activities. She was a co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union; a lifelong socialist who campaigned for Eugene Debs' presidential candidacy; a member of the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World; a suffragist and crusader for birth control; an anti-fascist (the Nazis publicly burned her books); and a pacifist, who condemned America's imperialistic motives in both world wars. Having benefited from a privileged background, Helen recognised the social injustices facing those denied the same opportunities – and blamed industrialism and capitalism not only as the root of poverty but also disability-inducing disease. Her anti-capitalist and pro-worker stance was such that at the 1919 Hollywood premiere of a silent film about her own life, she refused to cross an Actors Equity Union picket line and joined the striking workers on their march.
In her lifetime, Helen Keller was one of the most recognisable women in the world, and those who flocked to bask in the radiance of her fame were positively scandalised by her beliefs. After publicly supporting the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, admiring the Russian Revolution, and fearlessly lambasting the powerful John D Rockefeller for his role in the Ludlow Mine Massacre ("Mr Rockefeller is a monster of capitalism"), Helen's radicalism became a source of extreme embarrassment to those who required her to be true to The Myth in order that they might gain:
"So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me 'archpriestess of the sightless', 'wonder woman', and 'a modern miracle,'" Helen bemoaned. "But when it comes to a discussion of poverty, and I maintain that it is the result of wrong economics – that the industrial system under which we live is at the root of much of the physical deafness and blindness in the world – that is a different matter!"
Read the entire essay at On This Deity and WATCH THIS AMAZING FOOTAGE:
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Money for Guns
- Hours after Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced a $250,000 gun buyback program on Monday, a downstate gun-rights advocate promised to come to Chicago to exploit it.
"We will be delighted to transact business once more with do-gooders in Chicago," John Boch, executive director of Champaign-based Guns Save Life, said Monday.
Guns Save Life used Chicago's 2012 gun buyback to embarrass city officials. That year, members said they turned in about 60 guns — some of them rusty and inoperable.
They received $100 MasterCard gift cards for each gun, which they used to buy ammunition for a National Rifle Association youth camp in Bloomington and bolt-action rifles to give away to campers.
Suburban Chicago gun dealers also took advantage of the no-questions-asked policy of the 2012 buyback to unload inventory worth less than $100 in exchange for the $100 cards, sources said.
At the time, city officials angrily accused Guns Save Life of abusing a program intended to take guns off the streets of Chicago and reduce violence. But Boch says the group was simply demonstrating the ineffectiveness of the program.
"Tell the mayor we need substance over symbolism," he said Monday.
UPDATE: Not so fast! Rahm is ready for so-called "scammers:"
- Mayor Rahm Emanuel says officials are ready for activists who want to thwart the city's gun buyback program, reports WBBM [...]
Mayor Emanuel says officials and community leaders will make sure that gun rights advocates don't scam the weapons buyback program by turning in worthless guns for gift cards. The Champaign-based group Guns Save Life has threatened to turn in worthless, inoperable guns.
"One of the things we did to redesign it is to work through our church leaders to make sure it's exactly taking guns that we think need to get off the street off the streets," Emanuel said. "I know where I stand. I stand with the residents, yesterday as well as last night, who want to see police on the street and getting both guns and kids off the street."
Are they going to discriminate against white people bringing in guns? Because we know lots of black people who belong to these groups. Are they going to only put the money in black neighborhoods? That might appear to be racist against brown and white people, after all, they're victims of crime, too. Oh wait...is Rahm only putting the quarter million in neighborhoods hardest hit by violence? Now we're getting closer to the problem that no one speaks about, but still claims is racist.
Give it up Rahm. One way or the other, you're going to give a bunch of this money to people who use it to educate people as to gun rights, sharpen their gun skills, or support gun camps for kids.
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Golden Calves
It's no secret that we're fairly large Wooden Wand fans around here but due to timing, RSTB's documentation doesn't span much further back than the Vanishing Voice days. Well now, thanks to Woodsist, the world's getting another chance to check into Toth's early days as Golden Calves. Money Band LP + Century Band 12" collects the early days of Toth's first LP recorded at a practice space called The Cave in Purchase NY. The album's got a noise/free folk strain running through it that recalls (admittedly by Toth) a debt to Jandek, Tower Recordings and The Godz. It's definitely the sound of someone enraptured by where music can lead a listener. It's full of underground echoes and tonal studies crusted with the lonesome whisper of noise shadows. The album caught the ear of quite a few underground critics and appreciators including Byron Coley, Clint Simonson from De Stijl and Thurston Moore; the latter of which Toth would release a three-way split with. This split is also included in the release and show's Toth pushing his boundaries even further.
For those as caught up as we are in the WW/VV axis and trajectory this remains as a key part of the puzzle finally available to fans but its just as enticing to any and all who've gotten hooked on Jandek or Tower Recordings over the years. This one's limited (though not as much as its original run, naturally) so best not to sleep on this one.
[MP3] Golden Calves - Mod Bacteria (for Fred Neil)
[MP3] Golden Calves - In The Centre Of The Ring They Are Torturing A Bear
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I've been procrastinating doing this layout - not knowing exactly where to begin. I feared not being able to do it justice in a classy vintage style. After taking the "heritage" plunge with Dad's sisters, I jumped into "Moriarty Girls" without looking back (no pun intended)!
Before I get into the details of the layout, I have to describe the telephone conversation I had two days ago with my 84-year-old mom Dorothy (pictured in the back row far right in the photo above). I had told her about the layout I did for the photo of my dad's sisters and told her that the next page I was working on was using a photo of her and her sisters. Without me going into much detail about the photo with her, she began to tell me this story:
"It was Easter Sunday and my sisters and I were at the (Lawrence) Common. Anna was wearing a large hat because Lance had accidentally closed a door on her hand and she had been crying so she wanted to hide her eyes. Mary was wearing a brown checkered suit that she had for a while, but the rest of us all were wearing brand new outfits. It was before your father and I got married so I was able to afford an expensive outfit. I really loved that one... the jacket came to a point in the back, almost like tails. Grace had her hair up in a rat's nest - that's what they called it back then, you know. It was like a roll with cotton batting in it that we would wrap our hair around. Joan was standing in front of her mother, Rosemarie was sitting next to Mary and Annemarie was sitting on Mary's lap. Lance took the picture and it had to be around 1946 because your father and I got married in '47."
WOW... all these details without having the photo in front of her. She actually went into more detail describing the colors of each of their outfits but I was blown away by her recollection of a brief moment nearly 64 years ago and didn't write it all down as I sat looking at the black and white photo.
These sisters were the strongest women I have ever had the pleasure of knowing. They endured hardship, suffering, health issues, as well as enjoyed good times all while remaining to be best friends throughout the years. My Mom is the only one left to tell these stories and I hope to document as many of them as I possibly can on layouts such as this to share with my family and relatives.
Here are the materials used in the layout:
Patterned papers: Hot Off The Press "Busy Scrapper's Solution Vintage Papers"
Inks: Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Walnut Stain, Pine Needles & Aged Mahogany
VersaMagic: Pink Petunia
Paper Roses: MyMoments (Pink)
Sheer ribbon: unknown
I used an Anna Griffin technique for the pleated border as well as the photo corner treatment.
The journaling was placed on top of more paper pleats and I used 3D foam dots to adhere it to the layout. The journaling was done on my computer using "American Typewriter" font. I also added additional 3D foam dots inside some of the pleats to give it more definition.
I hope that I did these remarkable ladies proud with this layout.
Thanks for stopping by. Let me know what you think by leaving a comment.
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The other day I bought these fine little tags at Maria Lunate - and even though I usually am a very patient person by nature, I always like to get things I buy or order fast...very fast.
That's excactly what happens when you buy something as a PDF file...no posting tiny parcels from some where in the world - in this case Argentina - and receiving it 10 or 14 days later. No, I only waited a few hours for the sweet tags to arrive in my email. And I can print it out as many times as I like....isn't that just fabulous??This lovely hat is another PDF file I bought a while ago at Mkccarroll. I can just imagine how wonderful this hat will be.....I might add a little something to it to give it a personal touch. But the pattern is so elegant that it can easily stand alone.
In the foresee-able future we are all going to replace our old 2008 calenders with new 2009 ones.....I will buy this one
that's for sure - but I think that this one
will be my next PDF purchase. The smart thing about this one from A little Hut is that you can choose your own background on the big letters....
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Album: All Kinds Of Crazy EP
Label: Broken Bow Records
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Kristy Lee Cook is set to release her first EP All Kinds Of Crazy on May 6, 2016 with Broken Bow Records. Cook is an authentic country girl whose passion for life, music, and love shine through in her music.
Cook was the seventh place finalist on the seventh season of American Idol. In 2005, Cook released her first album called Devoted. In June 2008, Cook signed to 19 Recordings and Arista Nashville. She released her post-Idol album, Why Wait, in September 2008. producing her first chart single, "15 Minutes of Shame", a Top 30 hit on the Billboard country charts.
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My rating: 4 of 5 stars
From the book cover:
Imprisoned by memories, Claudia Campbell lives each day in the shadow of a ten-year-old murder. Who can set her free?
On the way home from a football game, a decade earlier, a masked gunman opened fi re on a Texas school bus. Cheerleading coach B.J. Remington was killed, but her murderer was never found. Claudia, who had a close friendship with the young, spirited teacher, constantly relives the anguish of that day, caught in one moment in time. When her husband, the assistant district attorney, becomes determined to uncover the mystery of that tragedy, the secrets buried over the years threaten to tear their family apart.
Officer Casio Hightower will never forget the day his dreams were destroyed. A star quarterback with a promising future, Casio was on top of the world—until one bullet changed everything. He is eager to help Victor Campbell find B.J.'s killer, the man who shot him. Maybe solving the case will help silence the demons driving Casio to hurt the woman he loves.
As the Campbells and Casio teeter on the brink of losing everything, will they be able to discover that what begins at the crossing ends at the cross?
My review:
I have to admit, I was skeptical of this book. I mean I respect Serita Jakes as a minister... but as an author??? I wasn't so sure!
Needless to say I was pleasantly surprised. The book had a great story line, fantastic character development and really drew the reader in. I loved following the thought processes of the characters and trying to put myself in their shoes. Ms. Jakes is off to a wonderful start!
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Hello All, I'm glad to be back. I have been busy making cupcakes and have a few to show you. Also, I have been playing with Make The Cut. I love this program. It is easy to use and has inspired me to be more creative. I'm now creating cupcake wrappers for myself. First here are a few pictures of cupcakes I've made for my friends daughter for her confirmation
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By Mohd Razman Abdullah
GUA MUSANG, Sept 24 (Bernama) -- The South Kelantan Development Authority (KESEDAR) has set up a committee with the state government concerning land approval at a 960-hectare site in Rantau Manis to relocate 1,000 hardcore poor under the East Coast Economic Region (ECER) programme.
KESEDAR chairman Datuk Ramzi Abdul Rahman said discussions were being held with the state government due to the overlapping of rights to the land concerned.
"We will make an announcement when the matter is settled. Now we have set up a committee between KESEDAR and the state government to discuss the matter," Ramzi told Bernama here today.
"I do not want to explain further as the matter is under discussion. Later we will announce the results," he said.
A report last month said that KESEDAR was waiting for approval from the state government to relocate 1,000 hardcore poor at the 960-hectare site in Rantau Manis under the ECER programme.
The ECER is expected to attract investment worth RM112 billion over a 12-year period, starting from 2008 to 2020.
Apart from developing the region, ECER is also committed towards eradicating poverty by 2010 in line with the government's objective.
Ramzi said 10 houses had been built early this year as part of the pioneer agropolitan project while another 990 houses were awaiting land approval.
He expressed confidence that those participating in the programme would be able to earn more than RM1,000 each month. -- BERNAMA
KESEDAR And State Govt Discuss Land For ECER Programme
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On Friday 9th December 2011, again Lord Monckton must use the medium of Alex Jones TV, to reveal to the public at large, what really went on at the so called "COP 17 climate summit" at Durban, South Africa.
Infowars Nightly News brings an exclusive and damning look at the United Nation's climate talks in Durbin, which aims to put nations under carbon-based debt and commit genocidal policies against the poor. Alex is joined by Lord Christopher Monckton and Climate Depot's Mark Morano to discuss the latest attempt to build world government on a foundation of eco-fascism.
Specifically, Monckton writes that the summit aims include: "A new International Climate Court will have the power to compel Western nations to pay ever-larger sums to third-world countries in the name of making reparation for supposed "climate debt". The Court will have no power over third-world countries. Here and throughout the draft, the West is the sole target. "The process" is now irredeemably anti-Western.
Part 1 – Christopher Monckton
Part 2 – Christopher Monckton
Part 3 – Marc Morano
USA Senator, Jim Inhofe pronounces Epilogue for the UNIPCC
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"International Climate Court of Justice" would force western nations to pay "climate debt"
by Paul Joseph Watson, editor and writer for Prison Planet.com
Bureaucrats at the UN Climate Summit in Durban have outlined plans for the most draconian, harebrained and madcap climate change treaty ever produced, under which the west would be mandated to respect "the rights of Mother Earth" by paying a "climate debt" which would act as a slush fund for bankrolling an all-powerful world government.
Even as the tattered shreds of whatever credibility global warming alarmists had left evaporate in the aftermath of Climategate 2.0, the monstrous bureaucracy behind ManBearPig continues to lurch forward.
Lord Christopher Monckton's extensive report breaks down the key aspects of the current draft text.
"Here – and, as always, you heard it here first, for the mainstream media have conspired to keep secret the Madness of King Rajendra and his entire coterie of governmental and bureaucratic lunatics worldwide – is what the dribbling, twitching thrones and dominions, principalities and powers of the world will be asked to agree to," he writes, adding that actual climate science has not been a topic of debate at the summit.
– The treaty calls for the west to achieve a 50% CO2 emissions reduction within the next eight years, a feat that would completely bankrupt the global economy and spark a new great depression, as well as a "more than 100%" reduction by 2050, which presumably could only be accomplished by killing billions of humans to prevent them from exhaling carbon dioxide.
"So, no motor cars, no coal-fired or gas-fired power stations, no aircraft, no trains. Back to the Stone Age, but without even the right to light a carbon-emitting fire in your caves," writes Monckton.
– The text calls for a 2 degree Celsius drop in global temperatures, which as Monckton points out "would kill hundreds of millions" and herald a new ice age.
– The reduction in CO2 concentration the text calls for would actually begin to kill all plant life and trees on the planet because they need levels of carbon dioxide above 210 ppmv to survive.
– All military forces would be abolished because they contribute to climate change. Presumably the United Nations would then take on the role of world army to police the globe.
– The process will be enforced by an "International Climate Court of Justice" under a bureaucracy of world government that will force western nations to pay "climate debt," as well as reparations to third world nations to pay for carbon cuts that wouldn't be as drastic. The burden of "historical responsibility" has been applied to industrialized nations, implying they are guilty for whatever the weather decides to do and must be punished for it.
– All the money will be collected by the UN and whatever is left after they have taken their considerable cut will be doled out according to the wishes of UN bureaucrats. "As a senior UN diplomat told me last year, "The UN exists for only one purpose: to get more money. That, and that alone, is the reason why it takes such an interest in climate change," writes Monckton.
– Environmental enforcement arms of the UN will be given the power of a global government in the name of fighting climate change. "The draft "agrees that common principles, modalities and procedures as well as the coordinating and oversight functions of the UNFCCC are needed" – in short, global centralization of political, economic and environmental power in the manicured hands of the Convention's near-invisible but all-powerful secretariat. No provision is made for the democratic election of key members of the all-powerful secretariat – in effect, a world government – by the peoples of our planet," writes Monckton.
– This world government will mandate that western nations submit reports every two years on their progress and then implement the measures demanded by the world government.
– The UN will create several new slush funds from which to enrich its coffers, including a tax on shipping and aviation fuel, a new "green climate fund" and a worldwide cap and trade. Most of the costs will be handed down to taxpayers.
This merely scratches the surface of what the UN is trying to include in its "legally-binding treaty," which represents eco-fascism on steroids. Despite press reports that the text is once again likely to be rejected, Monckton points out that UN bureaucrats are confident they can get some form of deal rammed through on this occasion.
UN Draft Text Demands: The West will pay 'climate debt' because of its 'historical responsibility' for causing 'global warming'
by Marc Morano – Climate Depot Special
Lord Christopher Monckton reports from UN Climate Summit
Durban: what the media are not telling you
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley in Durban, South Africa
DURBAN, South Africa — "No high hopes for Durban." "Binding treaty unlikely." "No deal this year." Thus ran the headlines. The profiteering UN bureaucrats here think otherwise. Their plans to establish a world government paid for by the West on the pretext of dealing with the non-problem of "global warming" are now well in hand. As usual, the mainstream media have simply not reported what is in the draft text which the 194 states parties to the UN framework convention on climate change are being asked to approve.
Behind the scenes, throughout the year since Cancun, the now-permanent bureaucrats who have made highly-profitable careers out of what they lovingly call "the process" have been beavering away at what is now a 138-page document. Its catchy title is "Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action Under the Convention — Update of the amalgamation of draft texts in preparation of [one imagines they mean 'for'] a comprehensive and balanced outcome to be presented to the Conference of the Parties for adoption at its seventeenth session: note by the Chair." In plain English, these are the conclusions the bureaucracy wants.
The contents of this document, turgidly drafted with all the UN's skill at what the former head of its documentation center used to call "transparent impenetrability", are not just off the wall – they are lunatic.
Main points:
Ø A new International Climate Court will have the power to compel Western nations to pay ever-larger sums to third-world countries in the name of making reparation for supposed "climate debt". The Court will have no power over third-world countries. Here and throughout the draft, the West is the sole target. "The process" is now irredeemably anti-Western.
Ø "Rights of Mother Earth": The draft, which seems to have been written by feeble-minded green activists and environmental extremists, talks of "The recognition and defence of the rights of Mother Earth to ensure harmony between humanity and nature". Also, "there will be no commodification [whatever that may be: it is not in the dictionary and does not deserve to be] of the functions of nature, therefore no carbon market will be developed with that purpose".
Ø "Right to survive": The draft childishly asserts that "The rights of some Parties to survive are threatened by the adverse impacts of climate change, including sea level rise." At 2 inches per century, according to eight years' data from the Envisat satellite? Oh, come off it! The Jason 2 satellite, the new kid on the block, shows that sea-level has actually dropped over the past three years.
Ø War and the maintenance of defence forces and equipment are to cease – just like that – because they contribute to climate change. There are other reasons why war ought to cease, but the draft does not mention them.
Ø A new global temperature target will aim, Canute-like, to limit "global warming" to as little as 1 C° above pre-industrial levels. Since temperature is already 3 C° above those levels, what is in effect being proposed is a 2 C° cut in today's temperatures. This would take us halfway back towards the last Ice Age, and would kill hundreds of millions. Colder is far more dangerous than warmer.
Ø The new CO2 emissions target, for Western countries only, will be a reduction of up to 50% in emissions over the next eight years and of "more than 100%" [these words actually appear in the text] by 2050. So, no motor cars, no coal-fired or gas-fired power stations, no aircraft, no trains. Back to the Stone Age, but without even the right to light a carbon-emitting fire in your caves. Windmills, solar panels and other "renewables" are the only alternatives suggested in the draft. There is no mention of the immediate and rapid expansion of nuclear power worldwide to prevent near-total economic destruction.
Ø The new CO2 concentration target could be as low as 300 ppmv CO2 equivalent (i.e., including all other greenhouse gases as well as CO2 itself). That is a cut of almost half compared with the 560 ppmv CO2 equivalent today. It implies just 210 ppmv of CO2 itself, with 90 ppmv CO2 equivalent from other greenhouse gases. But at 210 ppmv, plants and trees begin to die. CO2 is plant food. They need a lot more of it than 210 ppmv.
Ø The peak-greenhouse-gas target year – for the West only – will be this year. We will be obliged to cut our emissions from now on, regardless of the effect on our economies (and the lack of effect on the climate).
Ø The West will pay for everything, because of its "historical responsibility" for causing "global warming". Third-world countries will not be obliged to pay anything. But it is the UN, not the third-world countries, that will get the money from the West, taking nearly all of it for itself as usual. There is no provision anywhere in the draft for the UN to publish accounts of how it has spent the $100 billion a year the draft demands that the West should stump up from now on.
The real lunacy comes in the small print – all of it in 8-point type, near-illegibly printed on grubby, recycled paper. Every fashionable leftist idiocy is catered for.
Talking of which, note in passing that Rajendra Pachauri, the railroad engineer who, in the topsy-turvy looking-glass world of international climate insanity is the "science" chairman of the UN's climate panel, has admitted that no one has been talking about climate science at the climate conference here in Durban. Not really surprising, given no real warming for getting on for two decades, no recent sea-level rise, no new record Arctic ice-melt, fewer hurricanes than at almost any time in 30 years, no Pacific atolls disappearing beneath the waves.
Here – and, as always, you heard it here first, for the mainstream media have conspired to keep secret the Madness of King Rajendra and his entire coterie of governmental and bureaucratic lunatics worldwide – is what the dribbling, twitching thrones and dominions, principalities and powers of the world will be asked to agree to.
"International Climate Court of Justice": This kangaroo court is to be established by next year "to guarantee the compliance of Annex I Parties with all the provisions of this decision, which are essential elements in the obtaining of the global goal". Note that, here as elsewhere, the bias is only against the nations of the West. However badly the third-world countries behave, they cannot be brought before the new court. Though none of what the draft calls the "modalities" of the proposed marsupial dicastery are set out in detail, one can imagine that the intention is to oblige Western nations to pay up however much the world government run by the Convention secretariat feels like demanding, just as the unelected tyrants of the EU demand – and get – ever-larger cash payments from the ever-shrinking economies and ever-poorer tribute-payers of their dismal empire.
The temperature target: At Copenhagen and Cancun, the states parties to the Convention arrogated to themselves the power – previously safe in the hands of Divine Providence – to alter the weather in such a way as to prevent global mean surface temperature from rising by more than 2 C° above the "pre-industrial" level. They did not even say what they meant by "pre-industrial". From 1695-1745 temperatures in central England, quite a good proxy for global temperatures, rose by 2.2 C°, with about another 0.8 C° since then, making 3 C° in all. The previous temperature target, therefore, was already absurd. Yet the new, improved, madder target is to keep global temperatures either "1 C°" or "well below 1.5 C°" above "pre-industrial levels" – i.e., well below half of the temperature increase that has already occurred since the pre-industrial era. The twittering states parties are committing themselves, in effect, to reducing today's global temperatures by getting on for 2 C°. This is madness. Throughout pre-history, the governing class – Druids or Pharaohs or Mayans or Incas – thought they could replace their Creator and command the weather. They couldn't. No more can we. But try telling that to the strait-jacketed ninnies of today's governing "elite". Speech after speech at the plenary sessions of the Durban conference has drivelled on about how We Are The People Who At This Historic Juncture Are Willing And Able To Undertake The Noble Purpose Of Saving The Planet From Thermageddon and Saving You From Yourselves [entirely at your prodigious expense, natch].
The emissions-reduction targets: The new target proposed by the staring-eyed global-village idiots will be a reduction of 50-85% of global greenhouse-gas emissions from 1990 levels (i.e. by 65-100% of today's levels) by 2050, with emissions falling still further thereafter. The West should cut its emissions by 30-50% from 1990 levels (i.e. by 40-65% of today's levels) in just eight years, and by more than 95% (i.e. more than 100%) by 2050. Alternatively (for there are many alternatives in the text, indicating that agreement among the inmates in the Durban asylum is a long way off), the West must cut its emissions "more than 50%" in just five years, and "more than 100%" by 2050. The words "more than 100%" actually appear in the draft. The Third World, however, need cut its emissions only by 15-30% over the next eight years, provided – of course – that the West fully reimburses it for the cost.
The greenhouse-gas reduction target: Greenhouse-gas concentrations in the atmosphere "should stabilize well below 300-450 ppm CO2 equivalent". This target, like the temperature target, is plain daft. CO2 concentration is currently at 392 ppmv, and the IPCC increases this by 43% to allow for other greenhouse gases. Accordingly, today's CO2-equivalent concentration of greenhouse gases is 560 ppmv, and the current lunacy is to cut this perhaps by very nearly half, reducing the CO2 component to just 210 ppmv, at which point trees and plants become starved of CO2, which is their food, and start to die.
The greenhouse-gas peak targets: Global greenhouse gas emissions, say the mentally-challenged Durban droolers, should peak in not more than eight years' time, and perhaps as soon as two years' time. Western greenhouse-gas emissions should peak immediately (or perhaps by next year, or maybe the year after that) and must decline thereafter. The greenhouse-gas emissions peak in third-world countries will be later than that of the West, and – no surprises here – will depend on the West to pay the cost of it.
"Historical responsibility": The nations of the West (for which the UN's code is "Annex I parties") are from now on required to beat their breasts (or at least their strait-jackets) and acknowledge their "historical responsibility" for increasing CO2 emissions and giving us warmer weather. The draft says: "Acknowledging that the largest share of the historical global emissions of greenhouse gases originated in Annex I Parties and that, owing to this historical responsibility in terms of their contribution to the average global temperature increase, Annex I Parties must take the lead in combating climate change and the adverse effects thereof." This new concept of "historical responsibility" – suspiciously akin to the "war-guilt" of post-1918 Germany, declared by the imprudent governments of the world at the Versailles conference, which was no small cause of World War II – further underscores the rapidly-growing anti-Western bias in the UN and in the Convention's secretariat.
Who pays? Oh, you guessed it before I told you. The West pays. The third world (UN code: "non-Annex-I parties") thinks it will collect, so it will always vote for the UN's insane proposals. But the UN's bureaucrats will actually get all or nearly all the money, and will decide how to allocate what minuscule fraction they have not already spent on themselves. As a senior UN diplomat told me last year, "The UN exists for only one purpose: to get more money. That, and that alone, is the reason why it takes such an interest in climate change." The draft says: "Developed-country Parties shall provide developing-country Parties with new and additional finance, inter alia through a percentage of the gross domestic product of developed-country Parties." And, of course, "The extent of participation by non-Annex-I parties in the global effort to deal with climate change is directly dependent on the level of support provided by developed-country Parties."
The get-out clause: One or two Western countries – Canada and Japan, for instance – have begun to come off the Kool-Aid. They have worked out what scientifically-baseless nonsense the climate scam is and have said they are not really playing any more. To try to keep these and the growing number of nations who want out of "the process" bankrolling the ever-more-lavish UN, an ingenious escape clause has been crafted: "The scale of financial flows to non-Annex-I parties shall be based on the assessments of their needs to deal with climate change." Since climate is not going to change measurably as a result of Man's emissions, any honest assessment of the needs of third-world countries "to deal with climate change" is that they don't need any money at all for this purpose and shouldn't get a single red cent. The UN is now the biggest obstacle to the eradication of poverty worldwide, because its pampered functionaries divert so much cash to themselves, to an ever-expanding alphabet-soup of bureaucracies, and then to heroically lunatic projects like "global warming" control. Time to abolish it.
World government: The Copenhagen Treaty draft establishing a world "government" with unlimited powers of taxation and intervention in the affairs of states parties to the UN Framework Convention fortunately failed. Yet at the Cancun climate conference the following year 1000 new bureaucracies were established to form the nucleus of a world government, with central control in the hands of the Convention's secretariat and tentacles in every region and nation. The draft "agrees that common principles, modalities and procedures as well as the coordinating and oversight functions of the UNFCCC are needed" – in short, global centralization of political, economic and environmental power in the manicured hands of the Convention's near-invisible but all-powerful secretariat. No provision is made for the democratic election of key members of the all-powerful secretariat – in effect, a world government – by the peoples of our planet.
Reporting to the world government: From 2013/14, the world government will oblige Western nations to prepare reports and submit them to it every two years. The format of these reports is specified in obsessive detail over several pages of the draft. The reports will describe the extent of their compliance with the mitigation targets imposed by the various treaties and agreements. The West will be obliged to to continue reporting "greenhouse-gas emission inventories", for which "common reporting formats and methodologies for the calculation of emission, established at the international level, are essential". Separately, Western nations will now be required to provide information on the financial support they have pledged to assist third-world countries in mitigating greenhouse-gas emissions and adapting to "the adverse effects of climate change". The world government also expects to receive reports from Western nations on their financial contributions to the Global Environment Facility, the Least Developed Countries' Trust Fund, the Special Climate Change Fund, the Adaptation Fund, the Green Climate Fund and the Trust Fund for Supplementary Activities". Western nations must also provide information on the steps taken to promote technology development and transfer to third-world countries, and on how they have provided "capacity-building support" to third-world countries, and on numerous other matters. The inexorable increase in compulsory reporting was one of the mechanisms by which the unelected Kommissars of the anti-democratic European Union acquired absolute power over the member states. EU advisors have been helping the UN to learn how to use similar techniques to centralize global power just as anti-democratically in its own hands.
Review of Western nations' conduct: Once the multitude of mechanisms for Western nations' compulsory reporting to the world government are in place, the information gathered by it will be used as the basis of a continuous review of every aspect of their compliance with the various agreements and concords, whether legally-binding or not. Teams of five to eight members of the Convention's secretariat will scrutinize each Western nation's conduct, and will have the power to ask questions and to require additional information, as well as to make recommendations that will gradually become binding. The world government will then prepare a record of the review for each Western nation, including reports of various aspects of the review, an assessment of that nation's compliance, questions and answers, conclusions and recommendations (eventually instructions) to that nation, and a "facilitative process" (UN code for a mechanism to compel the nation to do as it is told by people whom no one has elected).
Finance: One of the 1000 bureaucracies established at Cancun is the Standing Committee on Finance, which the draft says will have the power of "mobilizing financial resources" through flows of public and private finance, "mobilizing additional funding", and requiring and verifying the reporting of finance provided to third-world Parties by the Western nations through a new Financial Support Registry. Finance for third-world countries is to be scaled up "significantly", and Western countries will be obliged to provide "a clear work-plan on their pledged assessed contributions" from 2012-2020 "for approval by the Conference of the Parties". Taxpayers will be compelled to provide the major source of funding through public expenditure.
Green Climate Fund: Western nations are urged to "commit to the initial capitalization of the Green Climate Fund without delay", to include "the full running costs" and "the funding required for the formation and operating costs of the board and secretariat of the Green Climate Fund". Here, as always, the UN bureaucrats want their own pay, perks, pensions and organizational structure guaranteed before any money goes to third-world countries.
Worldwide cap-and-trade: The draft establishes a "new market-based approach/mechanism … to promote the reduction or avoidance of greenhouse-gas emissions" – once again for Western countries only. Also, "Ambitious, legally-binding emission reduction targets for developed-country Parties … are essential to drive a global carbon market". What this means, in the plain English that is almost entirely absent from the 138-page draft, is worldwide compulsory cap-and-trade, centrally imposed and regulated, imposed on Western countries only.
Patent rights: Under the guise of action to prevent "global warming" that is not happening at anything like the predicted rate, coded references to the extinction of patent rights in third-world countries are creeping into the text. For instance, "identification and removal of all barriers that prevent effective technology development and transfer to developing-country Parties"; and "the removal of all obstacles, including intellectual property rights and patents on climate-related technologies to ensure the transfer of technology to developing countries". As an inventor with patents to my name, I can predict what effect any such provision will have. It will prevent the establishment and development of patent offices in continents such as Africa, which – thus far – has contributed remarkably little to the world's inventions, not least because the structure for protecting and encouraging inventors is rickety or non-existent.
Shipping and aviation fuels were previously excluded from the scope of the Convention and are now to be included. International shipping and aviation are described as "a source of financial resources for climate change actions". More money for UN bureaucrats.
The new bureaucracies: As though the 1000 bureaucracies created at Cancun were not enough, another bureaucracy is to be created "to oversee, monitor and ensure overall implementation of capacity-building activities consistent with the provisions of the Convention". There will also be a new "International Climate Court of Justice" (see above). A "Financial Support Registry" is also to be set up.
The new special-interest group: Meet the "Parties that are alternative-energy-disadvantaged". No wind, no sun, no renewables – so, handouts from the West, please.
The new buzzwords: Welcome to the notion of "equitable access to global atmospheric space"; "Mother Earth" [I kid you not: it's in the draft]; "climate-resilient infrastructure" and "paradigm shift towards building a low-carbon society". These buzzwords are in addition to pre-existing buzzwords such as "climate justice" and "climate debt" – the latter being the notion that because the West has emitted more carbon dioxide than the rest it owes the Third World lots of money.
"Rights of Mother Earth": The draft burbles insanely about "The recognition and defence of the rights of Mother Earth to ensure harmony between humanity and nature, and that there will be no commodification [whatever that may be] of the functions of nature, therefore no carbon market will be developed with that purpose".
"Right to survive": "The rights of some Parties to survive are threatened by the adverse impacts of climate change, including sea level rise." At 2 inches per century? Oh, come off it! The Jason 2 satellite shows that sea-level has dropped over the past three years.
The science is at last to be reviewed in a manner that appears independent of the discredited IPCC. However, no details of the method of review are provided, and other parts of the schizophrenic draft say we must defer to the science put forward not by the peer-reviewed learned journals but by a political body whose reports are not peer-reviewed in the usual sense.
Legally-binding treaty: According to the draft, the aim is to create a "legally-binding instrument/outcome". This is UN code for an international Treaty. The US will sign no such treaty. Nor will Canada, Japan, France, India and many other countries. On the basis of drafts as in-your-face idiotic as this, no legally-binding climate treaty will ever be signed: which is just as well, because no such treaty is necessary.
War and the maintenance of defence forces and equipment are to cease because they contribute to climate change. Just like that. The UN draft text asserts: "Stopping wars, defending lives and ceasing destructive activities will protect the climate system; conflict-related activities emit significant greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere." A wave of the UN's magic wand and peace will reign throughout the Earth, the sun will shine (but not too much) the rain will fall (just where and when needed), and non-gender-specific motherhood and non-commodificated apple pie will be available to all. Ouroborindra, ba-ba hee! It does not seem to have occurred to the Druids of the UN that they have near-totally failed to prevent wars on Earth – the original purpose for which it was founded. Yet now, in their gibbering, spastic arrogance, they think to command the weather. Canute, thou shouldst be living at this hour!
Related Links:
Climate Depot Special Report : A-Z Climate Reality Check — Sub-Prime Science Exposé: 'The claims of the promoters of man-made climate fears are failing' — as Presented to the UN Summit at Durban S.A.
Greenwire features Climate Depot at UN summit: Morano:- 'This is now getting to the level of medieval witchcraft, where they think the UN can control the weather' — Morano: [World leaders & delegates] think the UN is somehow going to somehow be able to pass some kind of regulation that's going to control floods, hurricanes, tornadoes and droughts…We're here to deliver the message, because this is a vast echo chamber here where they never hear from the outside world — except essentially falsehoods about how the whole world is waiting breathless for some kind of agreement'
Irish Times: Deniers taunt UN:' The briefing was to launch a fresh denialist report The A-Z's of Climate Change, which is at climatedepot.com' – Irish Times: Climate Depot's Morano 'claimed that there were now 'more than a 1,000 scientists, including some IPCC members' — 'The scientific reality is that on virtually every claim – from A-Z – the claims of the promoters of man-made climate fears are failing and in many instances going in the opposite direction'
Hot Air Journal: Inhofe to UN climate conference: Nobody's listening any more — Inhofe praises Climate Depot's new A-Z report! – Inhofe: 'Marc Morano will be releasing his A-Z Climate Reality Check report. This report shows that on virtually every claim – from A-Z – the promoters of man-made climate fears are failing and the global warming movement is suffering a scientific death of a thousand cuts'
Firstpost – India: 'Hot air' activism and the war over climate change By Hardev Sanotra: "The IPCC's lies are no longer believed," says Christopher Monckton, an adviser to Margaret Thatcher's [former] government in the UK, and a vociferous critic of the IPCC. "People in several countries, including the UK, are beginning to question whether billions need to be spent to mitigate so-called climate disasters that are based on mere models, and which talk of fractions of a degree change."


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Comcast and Facebook team up on reality series.
Users can submit videos they create in Facebook or Comcast's Ziddio.com for a new reality-TV series, under a partnership between the two companies. Filmmaker R.J. Cutler, whose credits include "The War Room" and "American High," will sift through the video submissions to create the series, called "Facebook Diaries.
The companies will begin taking submissions next month but have not set a date for the series premiere.
Cutler said he will organize Facebook Diaries around themes such as "Heartbreak," or "Who am I?" for the half-hour episodes.
"You build these things with dramatic structure and flow," Cutler said. "They'll tell their stories and send them to us and we'll put together thematically driven episodes for the series, which will be featured on-demand as well as on the Internet."
Jupiter Research analyst Todd Chanko said the partnership could help Comcast build a new audience. With 24 million cable subscribers already, Comcast can't expect to add significant revenues by signing up more customers to watch television.
Both Comcast and Facebook executives said they were seeking ways to create content that will bridge the gap between the Internet and television. As popular shows have made repeats available for viewing on web sites and Internet content gains the attention of bigger media firms, companies are trying to stake a claim in both worlds.
Revenues will come from advertising, though the companies have not announced any sponsors or said how they will share those dollars.
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The solution isn't too difficult, Illinois coach Tim Beckman said as he detailed the plan for a successful 2014 football season.
"We have a very young football team again, but we've got to win more football games," he said Monday at a news conference before spring practices, which begin Wednesday. "We know that. We all understand we have to win football games."


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With his team in a bit of a slump, Medford Rogues head coach Josh Hogan needed someone to step up in a big way Saturday night in West Coast League baseball action at Harry & David Field.
Despite his status as the smallest starter in Medford's lineup against Cowlitz, no one was bigger than 5-foot-8 third baseman Parker Miles on this night in front of a crowd of 1,273.
The UC Santa Barbara product plated one run in the first inning to get his team off to a good start and then blasted a clutch two-out grand slam in the fifth inning that helped rally the Rogues to a 9-5 win over the Black Bears.
The come-from-behind effort allowed Medford (21-22) to snap a three-game losing streak and also extend its home winning streak to eight games. Cowlitz (20-20) led 5-2 heading to the bottom of the fifth.
"It was big for us to come out and get a win," said Miles. "We needed to get back on the winning streak and hopefully we can keep it going."
The second game of the three-game series begins at 5:05 tonight at Harry & David Field.
Miles' effort didn't lack for drama, mind you. The 198-pounder sent his shot into the teeth of an incoming wind from left field that allowed left fielder Derrick Salberg a chance at the ball. Salberg tracked the drive off Cowlitz starter Dominic Mazza and made a leaping effort at the fence that wound up glancing off his glove and falling just over the fence above the Batzer Construction sign.
"Parker really stepped up for us there," said Hogan. "I just wanted him to have a quality at-bat but he got a pitch that was elevated and he got on top of it and it hit off Salberg's glove and went over so I was pretty happy about that. It was nice to get a little break like that because we've had breaks not go our way this year."
The home run was the first of the summer for Miles, who entered the game batting .292 with only two extra-base hits. It was also the first grand slam in the history of the first-year Rogues franchise.
"(Mazza) went to my college so I know what he's got," said Miles of his homer. "He's got a really good changeup and I was sitting changeup the whole game. He made a mistake and I closed my eyes to swing as hard as I can and then watched it go over the fence. It felt good."
As good as it felt to hit the ball, Miles admitted there were a few moments of uncertainty as Salberg went up for the baseball.
"I wasn't sure it was out but I was definitely hoping," he said. "Once I saw it go over the fence it was all smiles from there. You always love a grand slam."
The big blast helped make a winner of Medford starting pitcher Bret DeRooy, who earned the win in Tuesday's WCL All-Star game, and moved his record to 2-2 for the Rogues with an unusual linescore. The starting left-hander pitched six innings and allowed five runs — but only one earned — with eight hits and three walks.
Chase Tokunaga and Hector Lujan combined for three scoreless innings of relief to preserve Medford's advantage and help rid the team of the bad taste left by three straight road losses to the Corvallis Knights leading up to Saturday's contest.
"We didn't play very good baseball at all up in Corvallis and that was frustrating after a good run that we had," said Hogan, whose team had won six straight prior to the series. "But we're just looking forward to the next game that's ahead of us every day and trying to take it one pitch at a time."
Rogues center fielder Spencer Smith extended his hitting streak to eight games with a first-inning double and finished 3-for-5 with one run and two RBIs for Medford, while Kevin Davidson was 1-for-3 with two runs and one RBI.
For Cowlitz, Salberg went 2-for-4 with one run and three RBIs, Paul Martinez was 3-for-4 and Corey VanDomelen and Danny Recio each had two hits.
The Rogues added three insurance runs in the eighth inning after reliever Billy Sahlinger walked three straight batters with one out. Corey Wynant supplied a sacrifice fly RBI thanks to a nice slide around the tag by Joe Chavez and Smith followed with a two-run single.
"Our thing is if we just take care of the baseball and throw strikes, we're pretty good," said Hogan. "But when we get those free bases going for the other team, that's when we struggle. Hopefully we can keep this rolling and limit those free bases."
Medford struck for a pair of runs in the first inning behind doubles from Spencer Smith and Kevin Davidson, a single by Jerad Casper and a fielder's choice RBI by Miles.
Cowlitz came right back in the second with two runs on RBI efforts by Martinez and Salberg, then opened a 5-2 lead in the fourth on a two-run double by the No. 9 hitter Salberg and an RBI single by Kyle Knigge.
In the fateful fifth inning for Medford, Wynant singled to open the frame and, with one out, Ryan Degner singled to center field and Davidson drew a walk to load the bases. Mazza was able to strike out Casper to slow the surge, but couldn't sneak a two-out changeup by Miles for the momentum changer.
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Knigge 1b 5 0 1 1 Smith cf 5 1 3 2
VanDomelen ss 4 0 2 0 Degner rf 4 1 1 0
Bolasky rf 4 0 1 0 Davidson 1b 3 2 1 1
Recio c 5 0 2 0 Casper dh 4 0 1 0
Aguilar dh 4 1 0 0 Miles 3b 4 1 1 5
Grebeck cf 4 2 0 0 Chavez 2b 2 1 0 0
Martinez 3b 4 1 3 1 Balta lf 3 1 0 0
Ness 2b 1 0 1 0 Sowers c 3 1 0 0
Salberg 4 1 2 3 Wynant ss 3 1 1 1
Totals 35 5 12 5 Totals 31 9 8 9
Cowlitz 020 300 000 —5
Medford 200 040 03x —9
E—Grebeck, Martinez 2, Ness, Davidson, DeRooy. LOB—Cowlitz 10, Medford 5. 2B—Salberg, Smith, Davidson. HR—Miles (1) SB—Chavez 2, Balta. CS—Grebeck, Martinez, Salberg, Chavez.
Mazza,L (3-2) 51/3 7 6 6 2 4
Sahlinger 22/3 1 3 3 3 1
DeRooy,W (2-2) 6 8 5 1 3 0
Tokunaga 2 3 0 0 1 3
Lujan 1 1 0 0 0 1
HBP—Bolasky. Umpires—Home, Jerry Ecklund First, Randy Horner Third, Greg Jaquette. T—2:47. A—1,273.
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With his team in a bit of a slump, Medford Rogues head coach Josh Hogan needed someone to step up in a big way Saturday night in West Coast League baseball action at Harry & David Field.


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Cookie is everyone's favorite "Empire" character. Sorry Lucious. The fiery character entered our living room 10 weeks ago and kept us entertained every step in her stilettos along the way.
Since Cookie's big debut, the woman behind the role, Taraji P. Henson, has been so busy trying to adjust to her new levels of fame she hasn't spoken much about the hit show…until now. Taraji sat down with Angie Martinez just in time for #WCW (Watch Cookie Wednesdays) and spilled the tea on her love life, keeping Terrence's male member at bay and what we can expect from the "Empire" finale.
"Every time we laid there, he kept talking to his male member," she revealed. "So I said let me help you. So every time he would get on top of me I would say 'Daddy, why are you on top of me. Where is mommy? Why is the door closed?' It worked."
Here's some other things we learned:
10. People chase down her car.
9. She's no longer Taraji, she's Cookie.
8. She hired an assistant for the first time
7. She chose Derek Luke to play her love interest.
6. She auditioned for the role of Olivia Pope.
5. She's currently single.
4. She wouldn't want to get into a fistfight with Oprah.
3. She needs her fame to be about her talent, not who's she dating.
2. She spoke in a baby voice to keep Terrence Howard from getting aroused.
1. The famous "booty cheeks" scene wasn't scripted.
Watch the full interview, below:
'Get My Shoe Porsha': Cookie's Best Moments On 'Empire'
'Get My Shoe Porsha': Cookie's Best Moments On 'Empire'
1. Cookie's Best Moments On "Empire"1 of 15
2. When She Called Out Kitty For Spying On Her2 of 15
3. When She Wore This Fly Ensemble3 of 15
4. When She Was A Young Tenderoni In This Flashback4 of 15
5. When She Fooled Lucious Into Thinking She Was Meeting With Her Parole Officer5 of 15
6. When She Wore This Hat To Bunkie's Funeral6 of 15
7. When Lucious Said He Loves Her7 of 15
8. When She Bumped Lucious Then Kicked His Car8 of 15
9. When She Tried To Fight Kitty In The Elevator9 of 15
10. When She Called Kidd 44 A "B*tch"10 of 15
11. When She Threw Her Shoe At Lucious11 of 15
12. When She Wore this Outfit12 of 15
13. When She Happened To Be On The Steps Of The Courthouse To Give A Comment13 of 15
14. When She Wore This Fierce Gown14 of 15
15. When She Kicked Porsha Out15 of 15
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Want To Know What's Coming On The 'Empire' Season Finale? Director, Rob Hardy Spills All The Tea! [EXCLUSIVE]
'Empire's' It Girl Reacts To Cookie's 'Boo Boo Kitty' Line: 'I Was Like Oh, She's Setting It Off' [EXCLUSIVE VIDEO]
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In this fifth-grade mathematics lesson, students solve a challenging,
open-ended problem by using their own prior knowledge, their investigations,
and classmates' findings.
Mathematical highlights include:
Problem-solving skills and habits of mind
Understanding three-dimensional geometric objects
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Eliciting students' prior knowledge
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About the Instructor: Akihiko Takahashi was an elementary
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teachers. During his elementary teaching career, he was nationally active
in mathematics lesson study and mentored 200 pre-service teachers. In
2002, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;
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