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Alcoa Foundation Partners with Clarkson University for Campus Recycling Initiatives
Clarkson University Receives 40 Recycling Bins in Support of RecycleMania
Alcoa Foundation is partnering with national nonprofit Keep America Beautiful and the College & University Recycling Coalition to provide 40 recycling bins to Clarkson University in 2013 as part of the Alcoa Foundation Recycling Bin Grant Program. Clarkson is one of 35 colleges and universities that are receiving a portion of more than 11,500 recycling bins.
The Alcoa Foundation Recycling Bin Grant Program is an effort to help schools boost their recycling results during the eight-week RecycleMania Tournament, and expand their recycling efforts throughout the year. RecycleMania is a friendly competition that aims to change behavior about recycling and raise awareness about waste reduction programs on college campuses.
Alcoa Foundation and Keep America Beautiful have awarded 35 grants to colleges and universities in the U.S. Clarkson University has received 40 bins to be used in the Cheel Campus Center. The program has enabled Clarkson to get additional recycling infrastructure where it needs it most in an effort to divert recyclables from the waste stream.
The Keep America Beautiful partnership further reinforces Alcoa and Alcoa Foundation's commitment to increasing recycling across America.
"Reducing the mass of solid waste we send to a landfill by 30 percent is among the critical goals for Clarkson's sustainability initiatives," said Susan E. Powers, the Jean '79 and Robert '79 Spence Professor in Sustainable Environmental Systems and associate director for sustainability in the Institute for a Sustainable Environment. "Providing adequate recycling bins and awareness programs is essential for meeting this goal. Alcoa and Clarkson have a long history of working together on programs that improve the environment and we're happy to have the foundation's support for this important initiative."
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Clarkson is participated in the benchmark division of RecycleMania for the tracking of food waste and the recycle rates of cans, bottles, and paper in the Cheel Campus Center. This pilot study gave valuable information about what recyclable are mistakenly thrown away that can be used to help direct future recycling awareness programs at Clarkson University.
"Alcoa Foundation has been a true leader in advancing recycling nationwide through its support of its bin grant and other programs," said Matthew M. McKenna, president and CEO of Keep America Beautiful. "Its involvement with RecycleMania and the College and University Recycling Coalition's webinar series has helped to increase recycling on campuses and instill a recycling ethic that college students will carry with them the rest of their lives."
Additionally, the College & University Recycling Coalition (CURC), in partnership with KAB, and the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), has announced the schedule for its 2013 series of educational webinars, sponsored by Alcoa Foundation.
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Alcoa Foundation is one of the largest corporate foundations in the U.S., with assets of approximately US$460 million. Founded 60 years ago, Alcoa Foundation has invested more than US$570 million since 1952. In 2012, Alcoa Foundation contributed more than US$21 million to nonprofit organizations throughout the world, building innovative partnerships to improve the environment and educate tomorrow's leaders for careers in manufacturing and engineering. The work of Alcoa Foundation is further enhanced by Alcoa's thousands of employee volunteers who share their talents and time to make a difference in the communities where Alcoa operates. Through the Company's signature Month of Service program, in 2012, a record 60 percent of Alcoa employees took part in more than 1,050 events across 24 countries, benefiting more than 450,000 people and 2,050 nonprofit organizations. For more information, visit http://www.alcoafoundation.com and follow @AlcoaFoundation on Twitter.
About Keep America Beautiful
Keep America Beautiful is the nation's leading nonprofit that brings people together to build and sustain vibrant communities. With a network of more than 1,200 affiliate and participating organizations including state recycling organizations, it works with millions of volunteers to take action in their communities. Keep America Beautiful offers solutions that create clean, beautiful public places, reduce waste and increase recycling, generate positive impact on local economies and inspire generations of environmental stewards. Through its programs and public-private partnerships, it engages individuals to take greater responsibility for improving their community's environment. For more information, visit http://kab.org.
About Clarkson University
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in five alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health sciences, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.
Photo caption: Alcoa Foundation is partnering with Keep America Beautiful and the College & University Recycling Coalition to provide 40 recycling bins to Clarkson University as part of the Alcoa Foundation Recycling Bin Grant Program. Above, Emily Ball, a graduate student in the Environmental Science and Engineering Master of Science Degree program and sustainability intern, who wrote the grant proposal, checks out the new bins.
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Membership fees for the 2012-13 Wood County Genealogical Society year are due by September 17; however, you may start mailing in your membership fee starting now.
As a reminder, the society voted last year for the first fee increase in over a decade to $25.00 a member or a multi-member family. There is no additional charge for a second or more members in the same household as there was in the past.
You may make your check or money order to Wood County Genealogical Society and mail it to Treasurer, Wood County Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 832, Quitman, Texas 75783 or pay at the regular society meeting Sept. 17.
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Donizetti's timeless opera L'elisir d'amore focuses on an Italian bumpkin called Nemorino (played in this revival by Roberto Alagna), who has fallen in love with a landowner, Adina. She however, couldn't care less; she's far too superior to reciprocate the affections of a lowly peasant.
But after hearing Adina read the story of Tristan and Isolde to some enrapt harvest workers, Nemorino turns to a love potion, peddled by the travelling Dr Dulcamara. Little realizing that the brew he's provided with is simply a bottle of cheap Bordeaux, Nemorino is disappointed when Adina presses on with plans to marry the pompous Sergeant Belcore. Things are not looking good for our likely lad.
At the wedding, Nemorino arrives late to find Adina annoyed that he isn't there. Depressed and desperate to get money to buy more of the elixir, Nemorino has enlisted in the army. The other girls in the village start to flirt with him, but only because they've heard that a wealthy uncle has left him a pot of cash. Adina is upset by this flirtatious display and, witnessing her upset, Nemorino sings the aria 'Una furtiva lagrima'.
In an opera about fake potions and feigned emotions, Donizetti invests this aria with considerable pathos. It is set in B flat minor, a dark key with often tragic associations. It is closely related, however, to the balmy key of D flat major, which became ubiquitous in operatic love scenes. It is to that warmer, happier key that the aria aspires. The aria begins in a darker mood with Harp arpeggios and a plangent bassoon solo showing Nemorino's compassion for Adina. A clarinet provides its own sympathetic echo, while the melodic line is littered with rising appoggiaturas, which provide brief harmonic crushes. And, as Nemorino realises that Adina loves him, the music finally moves into the major.
The second verse, although a repeat of the first, has greater emotional intensity. The flute now doubles the clarinet's compassionate response. But the most significant alteration is the eventual shift into a sunny B flat major. The strings move from tentative pizzicato to broad bowing and Nemorino, once feckless appears an ardent lover at last. His decorative run of notes before the final cadence displays overflowing happiness.
Like L'elisir d'amore as a whole, Nemorino's famous aria could seem sweet but inconsequential. Unwilling to shortchange his singers and audience, however, Donizetti invests such milestones in the story with pathos and panache. Seeing beyond the quacks and elixirs, Nemorino is a boy worth catching. So it's little wonder that Adina ends up confessing her love for him.
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2009-10 All-Big West Conference Honorable Mention
Thompson appeared and started 27 games for Northridge in senior season ... named All-Big West Honorable Mention after she averaged a career-high 9.1 points and 5.8 rebounds during the season ... led Matadors with 157 rebounds for the season ... also dished out a career and team-high 87 assists during the year, an average of 3.2 per game ... knocked down 37-of-91 3-pointers for the season, a percentage of .407, the seventh-best single season in school history ... concluded her career38-of-99 from behind the arc, a percentage of 38.4, the third-highest percentage in school history ... scored a career-high 19 points and seven field goals against UC Santa Barbara on Feb. 24 ... knocked down career-high five 3-pointers and five free throws on two occasions ... finished with a season-high 14 rebounds in CSUN's win over Cal State Fullerton on Jan. 16 ... dished out a career-high seven assists in two different games ... tied a career high with seven steals against Miami on Dec. 20 ... averaged 9.9 points, 6.5 rebounds and 3.4 assists during Big West season.
Thompson saw her role expand greatly during her junior season, as she played in all 31 games for CSUN and made 22 starts ... averaged career-high 7.5 points and 6.1 rebounds ... finished eighth among all Big West players in rebounding average ... also recorded a career-high 61 steals for an average of 1.97 per game, the fourth-best average in the conference ... recorded first four career double-doubles in four-game stretch during Big West play ... posted first career double-double with 15 points and 14 rebounds against Long Beach State on Jan. 17 ... had 10 points and career-high 15 rebounds at Cal State Fullerton on Jan. 21 ... finished with 15 points and 11 rebounds at UC Irvine on Jan. 24 ... posted 10 points and 10 rebounds against UC Santa Barbara on Jan. 28 ... scored a career-high 18 points twice, against Cal Poly on Jan. 31 and in Big West Tournament victory against UC Davis on Mar. 11 ... posted career-high seven steals against Columbia on Dec. 28 ... had 10 double-figure scoring performances during the year and led CSUN in rebounding on nine separate occasions ... dished out career0high 47 assists during year.
In her sophomore season, Thompson played in all 27 games for Northridge, making four starts ... finished with averages of 2.9 points, 3.5 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game ... finished season on a tear, averaging 7.0 points, 5.9 rebounds and 1.9 assists per game over last seven games of the season ... scored a career-high 14 points in Matadors win over Cal State Bakersfield on Feb. 21 ... pulled down a career-high 13 rebounds against UC Santa Barbara on Mar. 6 ... added 10 points and seven rebounds against UC Riverside on Feb. 16 ... finished fourth on the team with 40 assists, recording a career-high five dimes against Cal State Bakersfield on Dec. 19 ... also swiped career-high five steals against Cal State Bakersfield on Dec. 19.
Thompson appeared in eight contests for the Matadors, averaging 2.5 minutes and 0.8 points per game ... played a season-high six minutes against UC Irvine on Feb. 3, finishing with two points and one rebound.
Thompson was a two-sport athlete at Sylmar High School in Sylmar, Calif. ... was named first-team All-Valley Mission League as a junior and first-team All-City as a senior ... helped the Spartans to league titles all four seasons and an L.A. City runner-up finish in her freshman year ... was also a shot-putter on the track and field team three years ... was the L.A. City J.V. Champion in the shot put in 2003 and 2004 ... graduated in 2006 with a 3.75 grade point average.
Born in Panorama City, Calif. on May 2, 1988 ... parents are Barbara and Glenn Thompson ... has one younger brother, Cavanaugh ... favorites include the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars, basketball player Diana Taurasi, the movie "Finding Nemo" and actor Channing Tatum ... lists her greatest moment in sports as recording a quadruple-double during her senior year ... her best friend on another college team is Ayana Wrighster ... states the best thing about being an athlete is all the places you get to travel to, while the toughest thing is conditioning ... listens to music that gets the blood pumpin' as a pre-game ritual ... has met basketball players Magic Johnson and Diana Taurasi ... person in history she would most like to meet is Martin Luther King, Jr. ... would like to switch places for a day with P. Diddy ... her advice to young people is to always believe in yourself no matter what people say ... says no one knows how much she loves gummy bears ... majoring in kinesiology.


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A Letter to the Editor in the Jan. 17, 2012, Tomahawk Leader.
My name is Keagan and I am eight years old. I am very sad that the warming house at the outdoor ice skating rink was burned. The kids who lit the garbage can thought it was really funny, but to me it's not funny. The warming house is very special to me and to the whole community. I used the warming house a lot with my class at St. Mary's School and with my family. During Christmas vacation, I went there with my whole family and it was a lot of fun.
Keagan Brown
Note: The Tomahawk Police Department is seeking information on the fire at the warming house in Pride Park, reported about 11 p.m. Jan. 7. The fire appears to have originated inside a trash can by the door. Two males in their early teens were seen in the area and their identity is sought. If you have information, call 715-453-2121 or 715-536-3726. Callers may remain anonymous. The building was termed a total loss.
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Interop: Cisco CTO Says Video Will Quadruple IP Traffic in 2 Years
"We are now entering the new enterprise," said Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior in her opening keynote at the annual Interop show in Las Vegas this morning. Mobility, cloud services, and immersive collaboration are the "enterprise megatrends" driving this, believes Warrior, who is also senior vice president of engineering & GM enterprise business for Cisco. Issues such as security, IT productivity, and a need to be green are behind all of this as well.
Above: Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior
In a wide-ranging talk, Warrior outlined the history of technology and networking, which she said has evolved in four stages. First was the basic connectivity, which resulted in the Web browser, e-mail, and search. Then we had the "digital revolution" highlighted by e-commerce and IP telephony. Currently, we're in the "networked economy" stage, defined by social media, mobility, and the cloud. In the future, Warrior said, the "human network" will include an immersive data world and the emergence of the "Internet of Things."
She also gave a lot of statistics, citing the Internet will double in size every 5.32 years. Over the next three to five years, video poses the biggest issue, as it will quadruple IP traffic between now and 2014, with two-thirds of the world's mobile data traffic coming from video by 2015.
By the end of 2012, 70 percent of enterprises will be using some form of cloud technology. More companies will also be using virtualization, Warrior said, citing a study reporting that 56 percent of organizations want desktop virtualization. (Clearly, far fewer users are actually using this today.)
CEOs expect profitable growth and business agility, while businesses want service on demand and access to data anytime and anywhere. This is driving trends such as more collaboration, bring your own device, virtual infrastructures, and analytics.
Warrior said the new "intelligent network" has six major features; it is visible, aware (including such things as real-time analytics), secure, programmable, agile, and manageable (see below).
She went on to discuss software defined networking, where Cisco is investing heavily through its Insieme acquisition. In particular, she talked about Cisco's use of OpenFlow to separate the control plane and the data plane in the network, and its goal to provide access at multiple layers in the stack.
On cloud computing, Warrior said if you have more than 1,000 servers, a cloud-based data center can have a TCO (total cost of ownership) that is 50 percent less than a traditional data center. (It sounded like she was talking mostly about a private or hybrid cloud, focused on virtualization.) In June, Cisco will announce a "cloud connect" solution for securely connecting to cloud services.
Warrior noted how both individuals and applications are now collaborating and how the post-PC era has arrived with individuals bringing their own devices and choosing their applications. Servers will change as well, combining with networking, as in Cisco's Unified Computing Systems (UCS) offering.
Warrior concluded that it all comes down to empowering people, and enabling mobile, social, visual, and virtual experiences.


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Titanic Obamacare hits iceberg of reality
Overwhelmed, but by demand or ineptitude?
WASHINGTON – The first reviews are in, and so, far, Obamcare is a lot like "new" Coke. Few product roll-outs in history have had more problems.
Even some of its strongest supporters are the most scathing critics of the way Obamcare has been introduced to the public.
When President Obama and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius compared the Obamacare website problems to a glitch in an Apple product roll-out, Washington Post columnist Ezra Kelin responded, "But the Obama administration doesn't have a basically working product that would be improved by a software update. They have a website that almost nobody has been able to successfully use.
"If Apple launched a major new product that functioned as badly as Obamacare's online insurance marketplace, the tech world would be calling for (Apple CEO) Tim Cook's head."
Klein's column was titled "Obamacare's website is really bad."
The administration claims the website running the federal health-care exchange (serving 36 states that do not have individual exchanges) has been overwhelmed by demand and had 9 million visitors in its first four days.
But the administration refuses to say, or cannot say, how many people have actually enrolled in Obamacare.
That may be because the Wall Street Journal reported insiders and insurance-industry experts estimated only a few thousand people in the entire nation had signed up for Obamacare in its first six days.
It may be difficult to tell how great demand for Obamacare actually is, because it is proving next to impossible to complete an application on its website.
Information technology experts told the Journal the website "appeared to be built on a sloppy software foundation."
Monday night on "The Daily Show," Sebelius claimed "hundreds of thousands" of Obamacare accounts had been created. On Tuesday, she wrote in USA Today, "demand was so high, it exceeded even optimists' expectations."
But the Journal estimated only tens-of-thousands of people have even begun the application process.
USA Today ran an editorial alongside the piece by Sebelius calling the exchange launch an "inexcusable mess" and noted, "Even though the system was shut down for repairs over the weekend, Monday's early reports continued to suggest an epic screw-up."
Even Obamacare supporters are mystified that, with four years to design and build a website to handle enrollment, the government claims it cannot keep track of how many people are actually enrolled.
"We will release monthly data when it is available," a senior administration official told CNN.
Worse yet, Politico reported that Director of the National Economic Council Gene Sperling admitted: "The truth is, we don't have that information."
Sperling reportedly advised everyone to wait until Jan. 1 to consider enrollment numbers, and said the public should "stay tuned."
Perhaps not so coincidentally, when WND spent hours online and on the phone trying to get a cost estimate for an Obamcare plan, it was told to expect a quote by Jan. 1.
If the Wall Street Journal is correct, and actual applications are much fewer than expected, it is difficult to tell if the low demand is indeed because of processing problems, or if it is due to dissatisfaction with the product.
Anecdotal evidence on the government's own health-care Facebook page suggests both problems are significant factors.
A few users seemed simply confused, but the overwhelming number of comments were critical and many of those were scathing.
Complaints about the application process had three recurring themes: long waits, glitches and sticker shock. There was also much ridicule of the site's inability to handle "tremendous demand."
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Lance Link: "Why can't I see rates without giving all my personal info? I just want to compare things. Are the rates so horrible that you can't just show them?"
Barb Kaster: "Why was this site set up to require an account before being able to see the choices of plans? This is an awkward step before one can view the policy choices."
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Walter Whitfield: "I have been trying to register six times a day for three days. I have never been able to do it successfully. Seriously, you guys had three years to prepare for this. Whoever was in charge of setting this up needs to be looking for a new job."
Becky McElhaney: "I have wasted countless hours trying to create an account on this site. Something is very wrong that they are not prepared for the website to handle this kind of traffic or whatever the problem is."
Julie Harmon Thomas: "Good grief. Day 3 of trying and still can't get on this website. The government KNEW about this thing going live for two years. TWO YEARS! And this is the best they could do? I shudder to think what's going to happen once they are in control of my health care. They can't even get their website functioning properly. If my business had rolled out a piece of crap that worked like this I'd be out of business."
Bobby Boyer: "Healthcare.gov, you need to have a media blast 'notice' when all the kinks are worked out. I've been trying for a third day now, nonstop, and I'm officially giving up. Inform the masses via TV news outlets when the website is actually function[al], and you really should encourage Washington to expand the cutoff date for enrollment. At this rate, there [are] going to be A LOT of Americans who give up, somewhat like the government has this week!"
Troy Tyson: "You've cut the wait times by a third?! I've been trying to log in for over two hours! On the rare occasion that I'm able to get as far as logging in at all, it logs me out before it loads anything!"
John Perkins: "New personal best, I got to the security questions page and complete it, but then a screen pops up and says, 'Your account can't be created, system unavailable.'"
Elmer Shaw III: "Still cannot log in, and the one quote that I did get from my current provider is $186.70 more for the same coverage, so I am HOPING for some CHANGE on the healthcare.gov site."
Christine Brewer: "Cannot log in. Says that my user name or password is incorrect. Haven't changed anything. What a cluster!!"
Bill Wood: "I've been trying since day one to log on to Healthcare.gov with my user name and password, which the site says is invalid. After spending 30 minutes online, the rep told me that she could not tell me when this issue would be fixed. I find it absurd the Healthcare.gov wasn't better prepared for this. Heads need to roll! Totally unacceptable and frustrating as hell!!!"
Eugene Golden: "I cannot ever get past the log-in page. I am not even sure my log-in info is right now."
Colleen Cunningham: "I got in, but it can't verify my ID, and then I couldn't upload documents to prove my ID. I was so eager to shop but disappointed it can't ID me. I called, but they said there was nothing they can do to help."
Parag Shah: "STILL After three DAYS of verifying my email, and another two PRIOR days of trying to log in but UNABLE TO SIGN IN and access my account. THAT'S FIVE DAYS. Now I opened up another email verified account I've been trying to log in on two separate accounts because this poorly run website dose not allow me to log in. WHOEVER is contracted to maintain this website for our government is doing A HORRIBLE JOB. WASTE OF TIME, TAXPAYER MONEY AND lots of STRESS. I PRAY THIS is not how OBAMACARE is going to be run. I REALLY NEED AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE without the stress of trying to enroll due to all the glitches. I hope the prices won't be high."
Jeffrey Alman: "Sorry, but this is a cluster. I have registered yet cannot log in. On the off-chance that I did enter my username and password incorrectly, I re-registered using the same username. It accepted it, yet when I clicked on the link to verify my email, it said oops, you waited too long. I did it immediately! I wish someone would reply to this. IT DOES NOT WORK!"
Jeffrey Alman: "I still cannot log in, says username and password incorrect, and when I click on forgot username, no email comes."
Beth Burns: "Shame it still states that the two accounts we signed up with say invalid username and password information."
Stephen Pradier: "Day 3 and still not working, although I did get 173 emails from [email protected] via govdelivery. Must have been in a loop. Truly a horrible experience, and I wonder if I can get enrolled before December."
David Bensman: "If doesn't matter if you cut wait times in half if nothing works anyway⁄! Full of bugs and unlimited error messages. Every step of the way dead ends with a bug. Seriously ridiculously frustrating."
Melissa Saka Ginsberg: "Wish I could find these supposed people who were able to log on. Been trying for three days straight. What a joke."
Sticker shock
Marketa Winfield: "I have been a long-time Obama supporter, but it seems that that the only people who will be able to afford this are those who don't need it. There is something wrong here, folks."
Carole Pratt Ri DeCarlo: "I have had my own private policy that I will not be able to afford to keep once the rates triple per the letter I received from Humana. I'm not eligible for 'affordable' coverage on the exchange, don't qualify for subsidy. I am living, documented proof this is system will not work for me. No propaganda here."
Patti Gray: "So, these 'free' mammograms are costing me triple the premium costs, plus a HUGE new deductible and co-pay. Thanks Obamacare!!!"
Cheryll Quail Feather Hart: "Where the heck is the AFFORDABLE part of this???? $17, 000.00 per YEAR to insure my family of 4???? And no help from subsidies because my work offers ME and, yes, only ME, coverage????"
Jenn Tate: "Payments are more than we can afford. Sorry, my family needs to eat and keep a roof over our heads all year, not just at tax refund time."
Crystal Riggle Deans: "So, I have a family of five and we live 83 percent below the poverty line. We will be charged over $1,000 per month for insurance, and we are looking at $12,700 in out-of-pocket expenses, NOT including premiums. Hahaha, I haven't even paid my rent this month because we couldn't afford it. We have no car payments, no cable, no cell phones. We are not on welfare or food stamps."
Irene Waldron: "My daughter must pay $1,272 a year for an Obamcare policy with a $5,000-a-year deductible plan, or be hounded by the IRS to pay the penalty. She does not have an extra $200 a year, let alone $1,272. What an incredible scam. Obama lied.
Lynn Watson: "I just got a call from a friend in Texas. She is single and 62 years old. The plan she got information on will cost her $450.00 a month with $6,000.00 deductible. This is the silver plan. You call this the affordable health care bill."
Sha Sha Corbley: "Sticker shock is a huge understatement. We currently pay $1,158 PER MONTH for a personal policy. Closest choice to what we have now but not as good being offered in 2014, will cost us $1,937 PER MONTH, and we don't qualify for any subsidy."
Tremendous demand?
William Mittica: "No excuses. You guys should have been more prepared. You're giving Fox News all the ammunition they need. and you deserve every bit of it."
Greg Noblin: "There are tons of sites on the web that can handle more 'demand' than you can. And those site didn't cost $55,000,000 taxpayer dollars to set up."
Maven Dex: "So let's recap, the government has computing power to break almost all encryption systems, snoop on your Internet, snoop on your phone … design the Internet, have back doors built into almost all hardware and software available, but can't support this website because? 2 billion for a super computer facility for the NSA and health coverage sites gets what, used servers? Just an observation."
Stephen Harris: "Third day. System still down in NJ. I do not believe it is demand. It is a poorly architected[sic] application. If I were the programmers of this, I would be embarrassed. Or they should be fired. Third day and yet still fail????"
Jackie Trapp Price: "Nobody believes you! Facebook and Google can handle multi-millions of people at once, and they don't have these problems."
Frank Cormier: "Three days now, and I see the site is still down. Facebook, Google, eBay, Amazon, etc., handle millions of visitors a day. How screwed up is this government? They had years to set this up."
Tom Peranteau: "Over $300 million spent on their servers/Internet system, and they can't handle the traffic? Google handles more traffic than they are experiencing every minute!"
Paulin Soleyman: "As someone who's somewhat technically savvy, I can't help but ask: If you can't even manage to maintain your website code, servers, etc., so that the whole system doesn't crumble under the weight of heavy Internet traffic, how are you to be trusted to be able to keep your website safe from hackers, spammers and identity thieves? To me, all these 'glitches' spell nothing but disaster, and I will not trust this site with my personal info."
Katie Anderson: "I am able to log on just fine. It takes my username and password. However, it takes me to a blank website. It's white. What I don't understand is, if you were pretty sure that there would be so many people trying to sign up at once, [wouldn't you think] it would probably shut the site down and people would have problems? Why didn't you set it up so certain people can sign up on certain days? Like people with the last names beginning with letters A-F can sign up during the weeks of Oct. 1-7 and so on and so on. Don't you think it would have made things easier for all?"
From sarcasm to outrage
Todd Smith: "This website had a pre-existing condition."
Larry McLarry: "Can I raise my debt ceiling to pay for this?"
Amy Gobrecht Moffitt: "'Tremendous demand'? How about revealing how many people have actually signed up??? More like tremendous failure."
Shana Allen: "It's funny how they say people are overloading the system 'cuz it's so popular, if by popular you mean mandatory. Lol."
Michael Emerson: "There is NO WAY 7,000,000,000 were able to access this site. Jay Carney is a liar."
Todd Smith: "Government forces people to pay a new tax. People click on website to see how much this new tax will cost them. Website crashes in the first hour. Government calls it a huge success."
Amy Gobrecht Moffitt: "Looks like someone should've accepted the plan to delay it."
Jeff LoBalbo: "I just want to know one thing: How come all of the same people who are saying 'just be patient' on the Obamacare website would be screaming their heads off if Google, Amazon or the iTunes store would be down more than an hour. Think this is fun? Wait till they have to see a doctor, or God forbid a life-threatening emergency, if this is any indication."
Mike Apilado: "Millions of Americans on Facebook, and 200,000 like this page. Reality set in much? Truckers to shut-down D.C. is almost as popular!!"
Dwight F Roberts: "I went ahead and made accounts for Harry Reid and Barack Obama to help them sign up!"
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Walmart has been pretty dead in my neck of the woods too, though I recently picked up an Anakin Unleashed on for $11. It was mixed in with about a dozen Asajj's for the same price.Like others have mentioned I've seen ROTS basic figurs at Target for $2.38, and had the good fortune to pick up 3 Tac Ops. figures at that price. I've also seen the $28 Tie Fighters there. I have not seen any Lava figures or Shadow Troopers on clearance in my area.-Matt
Matt, what Target store are you hitting, finding all these goodies at?
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To maintain a sense of domestic decorum while on the road was a challenge. While Eliza McAuley has a good experience camping for the first time, Polly Coon's group is very much inconvenienced by it but is determined to make the most of the situation. Eliza McAuley also describes the curiosity of those not making their way West -- a "local" comes to look at McAuley and her companions as though they were an exhibit of some sort.
Frequently, a cow, if not a herd of cattle was taken along with the family. A cow provided milk and cream and women continued their chore of making butter and cheese during the journey. A churn may have been to large an object to include in the wagon inventory and, in any case, trying to churn while riding in a cramped wagon cannot have been easy. One way of accomplishing the job was to hang a pail of cream on the wagon and let the rocking motion churn the butter.
At night, the campfire would be covered to preserve live coals for starting the fire again in the morning. Matches were an expense to be avoided if possible. It was not uncommon the take a bowl and "borrow fire" from a neighbor if a family were unlucky enough to have their fire go out.
"The travelers carried their own bedding. In the summer it was an easy matter to spread a blanket on the ground and make a simple but hard bed there. On colder nights they often stopped near some settler's haystack and let the oxen eat hay while they made a mattress of 'prairie feathers.' This famous bed was made by spreading a thick layer of hay on the ground, placing two blankets over it and covering the blankets with another thick layer of hay. The traveler then took off his overcoat, for use as a pillow, and, fully clothed, wiggled down between the two blankets" (245-246) Polly Coon describes her experience with bedding down on the prairie.
Many of our narrators refer to a desire to keep Sunday as a day of rest even if they were not able to halt their Westward procession for a whole day. It was necessary, however, to stop occasionally for such chores as clothes washing, cooking for the next few days, repairs to the wagon, and care of the livestock. Eliza McAuley mentions stopping for such a day.
"Monday, April 12, 1852. Tonight we pitch our camp for the first time. Our campground is a beautiful little prairie, covered with grass and we feel quite at home and very independent."
"Camped this evening on the bank of a little stream. While we were eating supper a lady who lives close by came to see, as she said, how campers did."
"Sunday, May 30th. There is a very large camp here and most of them are remaining for the day."
Eliza Ann McAuley
"it is not so cold but what we live in our tent very comfortable. they say they have seen as cold as we shall see."
Martha S. Read
"we struck our camp for the first time, & found that we had truly left all comfort behind at least as far as the weather is concerned. But all are in health & spirits seeming determined to manufacture as much comfort as possible from what material we have."
"11th [May] Traveled near about 16 miles & camped again on a large Prarie [sic] near a beautiful spring which we consider a great treat After getting our tents pitched & supper nearly in readiness a heavy thunder shower struck us & we were nearly drenched but succeeded in keeping our beds tolerable dry."


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Author Notes: This chili uses new Mexican chiles, that can be bought frozen or dry. However, it can be made also with poblanos, jalapenos and serranos: I am giving you quantities for both options. New Mexican chiles may be hard to find outside of the Southwest of the US . If you can't find them in your supermarket you can either buy them online (Amazon carries them), or you can simply make this dish using more common green chiles, like poblanos, jalapenos and serranos. The flavors will be different, but it will still be a smashing good chili dish.
This recipe is not particularly difficult, but it is time consuming: so I recommend that when you make it, you make it in large quantities, so that you can freeze the leftovers or make other dishes with it (it makes an excellent sauce for flat breads...).
This chili should not be too soupy: the texture will be that of a stew, and the pork will be tender and will have started to break down (see photo). If you want, you can add more chicken stock, so that the concoction will become more liquid.
Also: I am giving you two options to make this, with or without a slowcooker. And remember: as with any chili, this will get better the next day, and the next day, and the day after next... —tuscanfoodie
Food52 Review: We were won over by the gorgeous aroma of cumin and peppers filling the kitchen. Browning the pork in bacon fat is a nice touch. The end result is a seemingly mild chili with a good spicy kick at the end. We opted for the 2.5 hour dutch oven method rather than the long slow cooker process. The pork wasn't quite falling apart after 2.5 hours, but we didn't mind because the flavors were so good. —favabean
Serves: 10
pounds pork shoulder, cut in 1/2 inch cubes, with some fat removed
thick slices of bacon
pound fresh tomatillos
yellow onions, finely chopped
garlic gloves, finely chopped
New Mexican green chiles, if available (dry or fresh)
poblano peppers (3 if the NM green chiles are unavailable), stemmed, veined and seeded and finely chopped
jalapeno peppers (4 if the NM green chiles are unavailable), stemmed veined and seeded and finely chopped
serrano peppers (4 if the NM green chiles are unavailable), stemmed veined and seeded and finely chopped
habanero pepper, stemmed, veined and seeded and finely chopped (optional, for heat)
cups chicken stock
2 1/2
tablespoons ground cumin
tablespoon sugar
cup of masa harina (or simple flour, if you don't find the masa) to dust the meat
tablespoon masa (or flour) to add to the concoction
salt and pepper
bunch of fresh cilantro
tablespoon Mexican oregano
Monterey cheese for garnish
- Bring some water to boil, and boil the tomatillos, husked, for 20 minutes, or until they are soft and they have changed their color to brownish. Once they are cooked, put them in a blender or a food processor to pure them with 1/2 cup of water. Remove from the food processor.
- If you are using dry peppers, reconstitute them placing them in hot water for one or two hours, or until they are soft (don't throw that water then, because it has a lot of flavor: add it to the tomatillos in the blender).
- Seed and vein all the peppers (the reconstituted ones and the fresh ones) and chop them. You can either chop them with a good old knife, or you can put them in a blender or food processor. I am weird, and I like chopping with a knife: it is time consuming, but it gives me peace of mind. But your choice.
- Coat the pork cubes with the masa harina: I put the pork cubes in a plastic ziplock bag with 1/3 cup of masa harina (or flour) and shake the bag, so that the pork cubes gets coated. But feel free to use your preferred coating method.
- Cook the slices of bacon in a large pan until they are crisp. Remove them from the pan and put them on a paper towel to dry. Chop them in small pieces. DO NOT remove the bacon fat from the pan.
- Sear the pork in the bacon fat, until all the sides of the pork cubes are golden brown. Depending on the size of your pan, you may need to do this in 2-3 batches. If the bacon's grease is not enough, you can add more if you have it, or melt some butter. Do not overcrowd the pork in the pan.
- Place the pork cubes on a paper towel to dry.
- In the same pan where you seared the pork, add the onions, the garlic and the cumin, and cook for 5 minutes or until the onions are translucent. Before you add the onions and garlic to the pan beware: you may have to melt some more bacon fat/butter.
- IF YOU HAVE A SLOWCOOKER: put the meat, the bacon the onions and garlic, the pureed tomatillos, the chopped peppers, the sugar in a slowcooker. Use 1/2 a cup of the chicken stock to deglaze the pan used for the pork and the onions, and then add the liquid to the slowcooker. Add the oregano. Add the remaining 1 1/2 cup of chicken stock and cook on low for 8-10 hours. One hour before the cooking is done, add 1 tbsp of masa (or flour) to the conction, stir and cook for an additional hour. Taste, and adjust for salt and pepper (if you want).
- WITHOUT A SLOWCOOKER: put the meat, the bacon the onions and garlic, the pureed tomatillos, the chopped peppers, the sugar in a dutch oven or a casserole with tall walls. Use 1/2 a cup of the chicken stock to deglaze the pan used for the pork and the onions, and then add the liquid to the dutch oven with the pork. Add the oregano. Add the remaining 1 1/2 cup of chicken stock, bring to boil, lower the heat and let it simmer for at least 2 1/2 hours, stirring now and then. 1/2 an hour before the cooking is done, add 1 tbsp of masa (or flour) to the conction, and stir. Taste, and adjust for salt and pepper (if you want).
- You can serve it with fried dough or with some corn taco tortillas, over rice with some monterey cheese or even with naan bread, if you don't care so much for the New Mexican traditional spirit. A squeeze of lime over it before serving it will perfectly complement its flavors.
- This recipe is a Community Pick!
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Chili
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The 9-2 Ravens don't really have the aura of a 9-2 team. They could move in that direction with the return of the man who wears No. 52.
Michael Silver of Yahoo! Sports reports, citing "more than a half dozen" sources, that Lewis could come back from a torn triceps by Week 15, when the Ravens host the Broncos.
"At the end of the day, you're gonna see Ray Lewis again," linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo told Silver. "For the greatest player in Ravens history to be able to return from this injury and come on this championship run with us? When he was said to be down and out? Man, that's critical mass. When he comes through that tunnel, that's gonna be the earthquake and the tsunami."
Lewis wouldn't give a timetable for his return. "You've got eyes — what do you expect to happen?" Lewis said. "I'm here to support my team."
The specific date could depend on the team's playoff positioning.
"He might not be back until we really need him," Ayanbadejo said. "Pittsburgh losing probably gives us more time."
Both G.M. Ozzie Newsome and coach John Harbaugh agreed that Lewis could be back sooner than expected.
Lewis was placed on injured reserve on Wednesday, October 17. He can return to practice on November 28, and he can return to game action in Week 15 at the earliest.
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From the Book: Jews in Latvia (Yiddish)
By: Mendel Buba
The Germans entered Dvinsk on 29 June 1941 after a heavy bombardment that demolished many of the houses and aroused panic, especially among the Jews. On 21 July 1941 an order was issued, directing all men up to age 60 to assemble in the market square. After being kept in suspense for a full day, they were taken to the central prison. Some were led straight from the square to the Strop Forest where they were slaughtered.
Those who were imprisoned were sent out to do various jobs, and some of them never came back from those tasks. The Latvian populace was as cruel as the Nazis, and cooperated with them in the slaughter of the Jews.
On the 15th of July the large synagogue was set on fire, as were the smaller synagogues and houses of study, afterwards. Only the House of Study of Rabbi Meir Simcha, which was turned into a warehouse for foodstuffs, and the Planover Minyan, which became an old age home for Aryans, remained standing.
On the same day, a decree was issued that ordered all Jews to wear a yellow badge on their chests and backs. Men were also required to put the patch over their left knee.
On the 26th of July all of the Jews were imprisoned in the ghetto in Riga, a city which is located on the other side of the Daugava River.
The ghetto was created in an ancient fortress from the days of the Tsars, the greater portion of which was a destroyed barracks and a stable for horses.
They also put the Jews of the smaller towns surrounding Dvinsk into that ghetto; in all they crammed in some 15,000 people, into a horribly overcrowded space with atrocious sanitary conditions. Supposedly to alleviate the overcrowding, the Germans ordered the preparation of a list of elderly people with the intention of moving them to a special camp.
The same thing was said about the Jewish people who had arrived from the surrounding area who had been expelled from their homes with nothing; they would be moved to a new camp.
The new camp was located not far from Dvinsk, about 8 kilometers, in a resort suburb called Pogolianka, where they took the poor souls and murdered them in a cruel and sadistic manner.
They were forced to undress and arrange their clothing neatly, then stand before holes which had been dug in advance and into which they fell after being cut down by machine gun fire.
We are the remaining, living memorial; we are the sons, and the sons of the daughters, of the murdered. It is our sacred obligation to perpetuate their memories, and to engrave their images upon our hearts, and to tell the sons of our sons the stories of the magnificent community of Dvinsk, which once was and is no longer.
Living institutions must be created, monuments of stone, books telling the stories must be published, to leave a reminder for the coming generations.
|By Moshe Amir (Beliach)
Only 400 Jews remained in the ghetto after its destruction on the first of May, 1942. On the same day, they wiped out the heads of the Judenrat, the hospitals and their doctors and nurses. Only Jews who were of use to the Germans remained alive. They were employed because of their trades and housed in their workplaces. Some were housed in the fort by the river.
In the ghetto, three women were killed according to the law; one was shot and two were hanged. The formal charges against them were:
One impersonated an Aryan, the second sold things in the ghetto, and the third was accused by a Lett homeowner of violating the law against defiling the pure race. The homeowner suspected that she knew about the vast property that he had stolen from the Jews and hidden away, and thus he got rid of the eye witness.
The death sentence was carried out in the presence of all of the ghetto's residents, from children to the elderly. In one case, the commander of the Jewish police was forced to execute the sentence. One of the women was left hanging for three days to serve as an example to the Jews.
On the 26th of October the final remnants of the Jewish population, 350 people, were taken from the ghetto and sent to the Kaiserwald concentration camp near Riga.
On 22 July 1941, World War II broke out.
On 29 July 1941 the Nazis gathered all of the Jews in the center of the city (opposite the Lett department store). They took the men away and sent the women and children home.
For a week we sat at home. Then they imprisoned us and our wanderings began. My mother, my sister, and I went by way of the Planover Synagogue. The prison in Dvinsk is where they murdered most of the Jews. Only a small group of 300 young men and women left the prison alive. They moved us to the Dvinsk ghetto, which was filled to capacity.
The ghetto was once a fortress for the Lett dragoons, well-fortified on all sides, earthen ramparts, wire, fences and swamps near the Daugava on the Grïva side. On the other side of the river on the ramparts were observers and policemen in their command posts. The ghetto was about half a kilometer long. In one corner of the ghetto was the office of the commander, who excelled at cruelty.
Just before this office was the exit from the ghetto, through which the workers went out. Most of the women and children stayed in the ghetto and didn't go out. Those who did work, like me, were gathered in the morning near the gate. The German soldiers would come and take us to work. Those who went out to work were young, healthy, and strong.
The Jews performed forced labor without recompense. The work was difficult and exhausting. There were also Jews who worked in their trades, like shoemakers, tailors, and carpenters who built garages for the heavy military equipment. They also needed female workers for cleaning, laundering and cooking. A group of men and women worked regularly in the military hospital; among them were Ichilov Sheinka (who moved to Israel from Australia), Sima Yaffa, and Isaac Yaffa (her brother, who currently lives in Ra'anana).
They always took me to work. My mother and sister didn't work. My brother Shaul worked in a military unit where a few dozen other Jews also worked. They built garages and did carpentry work.
Those who remained in the ghetto and did not work were subject to aktia. The first was the aktion of the elderly. The German commandant told the Judenrat whose members were Mowschensohn, Dr. Vaspi, and Dr. Gurwitz to provide 200 elderly people for a camp. Dr. Gurwitz volunteered to accompany the group.
The camp was called: The second concentration camp for the elderly and out of work.
Dr. Gurwitz wished to accept that summons, and went to check the conditions of
the camp; he set out with the group of elderly people and never returned.
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In this manner, the Germans deceived the Jews and the Judenrat. No one knew where the work camp was, or whether it even existed.
The Jews who had work permits were temporarily protected and were called useful Jews.
There were also Jews from the surrounding towns such as Dagda, Kãrsava, Preili, Zilupe, and Rakliani Krãslava in the Dvinsk ghetto. These were the Jews who, at the outbreak of the war, found temporary sanctuary in Dvinsk and were later killed in the ghetto. Among them there were also Jews from abroad, from France or Poland, who had come to visit relatives before the war, who were then trapped in the ghetto and killed.
It sometimes happened that Jews went to their deaths even with viable permits. They said they were tired of life, and preferred death.
In one of the aktia, we returned from work under the supervision of soldiers, for whom we had been working. In that unit were: the teacher Gurwitz, Bleich or Bleichman (from Eglaine her husband was a veterinary doctor), and me; there was one permit for all of us. As we got closer to the ghetto we saw that all of the Jews were standing in the courtyard, grouped together in families.
I, of course, immediately ran to my family and stood at the head of our group. With me were my mother, my Aunt Leah, and her children. Two children approached our group, one an 8 year old boy and the other a 7 year old girl. They told me, We will stand in your row, say we're part of your family. I added them to our family group.
A Gestapo man walked among the rows wearing a black tie and carrying a whip in his hand. He decided who would live and who would die. He approached my family and when he saw that I did not have a work permit, he began to beat me all over my body.
I didn't shout or cry, but simply said, I work in an army unit and have a collective permit with two other women; there they are. The Gestapo man looked at me, amazed by my audacity, and said, Where does this Jewess get the boldness to speak?
All eyes turned to us, then the teacher Gurwitz rushed forward with the permit. The Gestapo man checked it, and all of my group and my family were sent to the side of the living. We were lucky that time!
During a different aktion, I was in a room with my brother Shaul he rolled up like a ball on the bed and I covered him with a pillow and lay down so that I was hiding him. The Lett police went through the rooms, shouting and taking people out of the rooms to the yard and then onto trucks, to be taken no one knew where.
I, with my blond hair, seemed to take them by surprise What is
this shiksa doing here? Apparently they mistakenly thought I was a
non-Jew, and they never laid a finger on me or my brother.
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During the month of October I didn't work. All of my former classmates would gather and sit together on the benches from times of the Lett dragoons, and weave dreams for the future. In that group were Sheinka Gendel (killed) Hindake Levy (killed), Sima Yaffa (now in Riga), Isser Hyatt (killed). We would talk about the hoped-for liberation and the end of the war that perhaps, one day, would come.
Someone asked me, Rachel, do you think we'll be able to stay alive?
I answered, Of course we'll stay alive. See, the sun is shining and warming us, that's a good sign. Most of those sitting there never were liberated. Their bones are buried in the Bezia sands. In 1961, on those sands was built a big chemical factory.
The 7th of November came. My brother went to work, but I stayed in the ghetto. The ghetto was surrounded by a living chain of Lett policemen. Together, all the young people ran to the Judenrat and cried out, Help! but the people of the Judenrat were hopeless. At one in the afternoon, as I stood by the Judenrat a young woman I did not know approached and said, What shall I do? My friend went to work at the military hospital this morning and left me her work permit on the condition that I return it to her this afternoon. But I'm scared to go out; there are so many policemen around! What shall I do? Help me. I answered her, Give me the permit I will take it to her. The permit was in the name Bella Potsh (I learned later that she was from Chagda and didn't return to the ghetto). I took the permit and ran to say goodbye to my mother and sister. I told my mother that I was going to try to run away, and that she should hide under the pallet.
My mother parted from me with tears in her eyes, and told me that if I survived
I should tell the world how they murdered the Jews, and that I shouldn't forget
the address of Uncle Leib in America. I went out through the ghetto gate waving
the red permit. At that time, no one could leave the ghetto; only those who had
a permit in their hands and who knew the password, which was given out by the
German commandant. Everyone watched me as I went to the office of the
commandant. I waited in the yard for an hour and then left. The policemen
thought I had been with the commandant and not delay me. I passed through all
the guards. Only one was left. It seemed to me he had fallen asleep, but he
suddenly shouted a question at me: where was I going? I replied that I was
going to the military hospital and that I had a permit, that the doctor had
given me permission to come to the ghetto to see my mother, who was sick. The
policeman looked at me and said, Oh well, then say the password. I
answered, Mr. Policeman, I've forgotten it. I'm so worried about my
mother's illness, I've forgotten. The policeman gave me a look and said,
Go quickly, and God be with you! I quickly crossed the bridge and
entered a small forest. I removed the yellow Star of David and buried it in the
ground. I went to the place where my brother was working. He hid me in the
factory and in the evening left with the other workers and returned to the
ghetto. He never left there again. When he reached the ghetto the policemen
forced all of the Jews out of their homes and into the yard. On the steps, he
met our sister Sarah and together they and the rest of the Jews set off on
their final journey
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My mother, who had hidden under the pallet, was discovered by the policemen, and stabbed with a bayonet.
A bloodbath, she wallowed in blood as she fell in the yard. My brother Shaul was able to cover her with sand. I learned what befell my family later, from an eyewitness.
At eight in the morning my brother Shaul hurried to work. At the gate he was stopped by two detectives who knew him to have been an activist in the communist movement before the war. He went together with the teacher Steinman.
The head of the secret police, Motznik, who stood by the gate, pointed at my brother Shaul and said, That is the communist commissar Friedman from the high Soviet Lett council. The thing was, in 1940 when the Soviets controlled Latvia, they had elected as commissar 40 year old Feibish Friedman who had been an underground communist (he is now in Riga). The head of the secret police claimed that my brother was that Friedman, although he was only 22 and his name was Shaul, not Feibish. But why should he concern himself with such details as the proper name? It was obvious that Friedman was a communist, and after all the family name was the same.
I ran away to Breslau. The Jews of Dvinsk were exterminated on the 7th and 8th of November, 1941. The few remaining remnants were taken to the Dvinsk fortress, from which they were taken out to forced labor. Later, they moved them to Salaspils (not far from Riga), and from there to German and Polish camps.
Only a few individuals survived and returned.
I continued to run and to wander. Through the villages and towns, I came in contact with the partisans and joined them.
In February 1943 I crossed the front lines, and reached Moscow on the 14th of April. There I was received warmly. They listened when I told them of the slaughter of the Jews of Latvia and my city, Dvinsk. In Eretz Yisrael, I found my liberty.
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Lucretia Heart is a pen name. She shares her abduction and UFO related experiences on a haunting blog titled At Spiral's End. Her written work is a collection of deeply personal life events. To add to the strangeness, both she and her husband are both abductees, and their parallel experiences are profoundly bizarre. Just so y'know, two experiencers marrying each other is not uncommon.
As a writer, Lucretia has been extremely prolific, there is a huge volume of her experiences posted on her blog. But somehow, we mange to avoid re-telling too much. Our conversation and it's details is almost entirely composed of events that have never been shared on-line.


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Are you watching?
What are you watching?
What are you excited about?
Are you watching?
What are you watching?
What are you excited about?
Lias Andersson for #AJT2019
I hadnt watched anything until yesterday. I've watched random ski events, but nothing much. Avoiding curling because I get sucked up into that shit.
Lias Andersson for #AJT2019
Other than that I like the skiing and snowboarding stuff. I'll watch speed skating, preferably short track, its like roller derby haha. Obviously hockey.
Speaking of boarding, has Shaun White gone yet tonight?
The downhill skiing is crazy. They go way too fast. I freak out going down the bunny hill. I dont even like going 80mph in my car.
Lias Andersson for #AJT2019
this mens halfpipe - dude is getting ripped apart for a tiny bit of snow flying up when he lands a trick. Man, this sport has come a long way
Lias Andersson for #AJT2019
Winter Olympics are awesome. I'll watch all the cross-country skiing events, downhill skiing, ski jumping and biathlon. Unfortunatly without Johaug and Northug, but we'll still win almost everything.
Will obviously watch the hockey aswell, just sucks that the NHL are some mf'ers.
Im watching and switching between two channels of coverage - loving that remote back button.
Actually got to try curling in Lake Placid while at a government-business conference a few years ago. Really awesome! I came home wanting to bring the sport to my local ice rink. But man, those rocks are expensive. About $400 each if I recall. And talk about lugging heavy equipment in your car? Not happening.
Find a curling club. Hockey and Curling ice are completely different.
It's a fun game, I suck at it, it's hard, but there's also a huge drinking culture attached to it, so if you lose you still win.
Yes I watch and I'll watch the hockey of course, speed skating, snow boarding and the down hill sking
"Meet me later in the gymnasium, next to the dumbbells... you'll know me, I got a hat on."
Sean White with an amazing final run for Gold! Huge air and super sweet tricks. Im speechless.
USA loses 3-2 to Slovenia on OT
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"Meet me later in the gymnasium, next to the dumbbells... you'll know me, I got a hat on."
Team USA chokes away the first game. I feel like I'm watching a pickup game with 3 on 3 on Olympic ice, dumb if you ask me.
I woke up early to watch, they're up 2-0, see them give up a goal but have to leave for work, get into work to see them lose 3-2 in OT. what the shit.
What a heart breaker that game was. I don't like the 3 on 3 on the big ice.
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
Meat Heaven: Chi Spacca
It sort of seems like a no-brainer that the new Batali/Silverton/Bastianich project let by Chad Colby focusing on meats would be amazing, but it is. Located in what is fast becoming a Mozza mini-mall, Chi Spacca is a small space with amazing meat.
Charcuterie plates are beyond cliche these days, but Chi Spacca's sampler is extraordinary. There's copa, one of the best specks I've ever had, two salumis with gloriously large chunks of fat and, my favorite, two country style pates. One pate was pork with pistachios wrapped in bacon. It was smoky and ham-like. The other was a pork liver and kidney pate that was unctuous and livery. This was fantastic stuff.
But the tour de force on the menu I ordered was the beef and marrow pie. A small, but very deep pie of braised beef with a marrow bone stuck in the middle. The braised beef in this pie was black as night with a syrupy thick jus. It was the best of braised meat and soaked beautifully into the flaky, perfectly done pie crust. Eat some of the marrow by itself on bread, but then spread some on the beef and pastry to get an ultra-rich bite. (You may need to use the back end of the spoon to get all of the marrow out.)
There are lots of great things on this menu, including huge steaks and pork chops, that would have been better for a larger crowd, but don't miss that pie.
The wine program was also impressive. Rather than offering bottles, wine is offered from a limited selection by the glass or carafe. Alternatively, they offer three levels of wine pairings, selected to match your particular meal (even though it isn't a tasting menu). We ordered the cheapest one ($25 per person) and were delighted with the diverse choices, which included a sparkling red and a sour beer among the four selections.
If you're a meat lover, this should go on your must-try list.
Chi Spacca
6610 Melrose Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
(323) 297-1133
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Oh my. I need that beef and marrow pie in my life.
- May 20, 2013 at 11:46 AM
- SteveBM said...
Sweet fancy Moses! I gotta check that out next LA trip.
- May 23, 2013 at 9:42 AM
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In 2008, the Vikings justified sending a first-round and third-round pick to Kansas City for defensive end Jared Allen by looking at Allen as the first-round pick, and the third-round pick as insurance against the first-round pick being a bust.
That same reasoning could be driving the Buccaneers' interest in cornerback Darrelle Revis. Regardless of the extra pick(s) needed to get the deal done with the Jets, Revis essentially would become Tampa's first-round pick, and the additional picks would be the insurance against Revis being a bust.
A couple of different dynamics apply in this case. Revis has some bust potential, via his surgically-repaired ACL. And with the implementation of a rookie wage scale that greatly reduces the money paid to rookies, the money it will take to make Revis happy becomes glaring (especially with the veteran market tanking recently, too).
But it still makes sense, given the team's failed efforts in recent years to find cornerbacks in the draft. As Stephen F. Holder of the Tampa Bay Times points out, 2008 first-rounder Aqib Talib and 2010 third-rounder Myron Lewis would have been the starting cornerbacks this year. Neither worked out.
Revis, given his knee, may not work out. But his potential upside coupled with the inherent downside of a draft pick makes a decision to essentially make Revis the Bucs' first-round pick a good idea.


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Current Yellowstone National Park
In the past few years, the National Park Service has implemented many new rules regulating winter park use. Now, all snowmobiles entering Yellowstone National Park are required to be accompanied by a Professional Guide employed by an authorized Licensed Concessionaire. Additionally, all snowmobiles entering Yellowstone Park must meet new stringent guidelines drastically reducing emissions and noise set by the National Park Service. These new regulations allow for continued access to Yellowstone Park while protecting Park resources and values.
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A private snowmobile tour of Yellowstone National Park can be arranged, providing intimacy and destination flexibility. You may choose your private tour to start as early as 7:30am or as late as noon - but must return no later than 5:00pm. Private tours may have as little as one snowmobile or up to nine snowmobiles per guide with destinations and itineraries decided as the day unfolds or with a pre-determined route based on your party's interests and needs. Call for private tour rates.
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Our guided tours outside on the Gallatin National Forest and surrounding areas offer you the opportunity to have a professional licensed guide tour you through the woods and mountains we call home. You will have an opportunity to ask questions and see areas you might not otherwise visit. Our guides have years of experience and will be able to provide historical and geologic information along the way. CALL FOR RATES 406-646-7802.
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