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ATLANTA - The parents of Jasmine Benjamin first learned from a Facebook post that their daughter had been found dead in a study room at her dorm at Valdosta State University. Now, they hope that Facebook and other social media sites could help solve the death of the 17-year-old freshman shortly before Thanksgiving, which police are investigating as a homicide.
A family friend had forwarded the post to the Benjamins, marking the start of a still-unsolved mystery about how their daughter died, said A. Thomas Stubbs, the attorney for the victim's mother, Judith Brogdon, and her stepfather, James Jackson.
The family has hired a private investigator, and a new Facebook site has been set up in hopes that students and others might share tips.
While some Facebook comments have already been turned over to law enforcement officers, the family hopes friends, classmates or others who noticed suspicious comments will also alert authorities.
"Anything that reveals a little more information than what's publicly known about her death, those are the kind of comments police are looking for as someone who might warrant a closer examination," Stubbs said.
Also of interest are "unusual comments or unusually timed comments about her death," he said.
Police detectives have canvassed dormitories and interviewed several students on the south Georgia campus, about 250 miles south of the family's home in Gwinnett County, outside Atlanta.
Benjamin, who wanted to follow the career path of her mother and enter the nursing field, was found unresponsive on a couch in a common study area of her dormitory on Nov. 18.
Police say they're treating the case as a homicide, though autopsy results are not complete and they can't say for certain whether she was slain. There were no obvious signs of a crime when her body was found, but an autopsy raised questions, authorities have said.
"We're providing what resources are necessary to assist Valdosta State University police in solving this crime," Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokesman John Bankhead said. "The crime lab is expediting evidence from this incident."
Shortly after Benjamin's parents learned of her death from Facebook, Lawrenceville police officers knocked on the doors of the family home to inform them, officially, their daughter was dead, Stubbs said.
"As frustrating as that may be for the family to learn that way, they understand it's a different world," Stubbs said.
The family has yet to learn the possible timeframe of when their daughter died, and police have not shared any theories about how she was killed, Stubbs said.
"We know that they have looked at the phone records, video records that they can find in the school," he said. Beyond that, they've been going through legal procedures that are required to obtain records from Facebook Inc.
The family hired Martinelli Investigations Inc. of Lawrenceville to assist in the investigation.
Private investigator Robin Martinelli said Wednesday that any video near the scene, even if may seem insignificant, could prove helpful in the investigation.
"It wouldn't matter if it was two weeks before, two hours before or 20 minutes before," she said.
Martinelli said she's confident that police are working diligently to follow up on leads, but private investigators can often provide valuable assistance, she said.
"On any homicide, they're going to work around the clock aggressively every minute, and they're doing that," she said.
She said Jasmine Benjamin was a strong student who showed great potential. "Her favorite color was purple, her nickname was Jazzy," she said.
"She wanted to help people, plain and simple," her stepfather, James Jackson, told WSB-TV. "That was her goal in life. That's all she talked about since she was young - 'I want to be able to help people.'"
Valdosta State campus police, city police and the GBI were working together to conduct interviews and collect evidence, the university said in a statement Tuesday. University officials said they couldn't release any further information.
Martinelli hopes students away at college keep in touch with their parents - and give them the passwords to social networking sites and their cell phones in case anything happens.
"If you have passcodes to your computer, your phone, please tell your parents," she said. "Don't tell everybody in the world, but tell your parents your passcodes."
She said some of the best advice parents can give students is this: "They should listen to their gut," she said. "If they walk into a situation and it's not feeling right, leave."

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Career Coach: How to get partners to listen; escaping a career
Career Coach Joyce E.A. Russell answers questions from readers. Excerpts:
Q: I am a paralegal who has worked with the same three partners for more than 10 years. None of them exhibits any leadership skills, and they all blame everyone else for any shortcomings. They have developed only minimal relationships with lawyers in other offices around the country who could share work with us. Nor are they interested in hearing my suggestions and questions concerning business development. Short of leaving for a winning team, do you think there is anything else I could do?
A: Are they making money and still successful? If so, it will be hard to get them to think about doing things differently. In that case, you might share with them data on how law firms are collaborating more and gaining more clients this way, but it may fall on deaf ears. They need an incentive to listen to your ideas.
Q: How do you escape a career path that you have just started to hate? I have always been a writer, but the more I do it, the less I like it. I keep going from writing job to writing job (the last one was five years long) in government contracting because that's all I know. But I am getting quite jaded with contracting, and frankly, tired of the hours and the stress. I also really hate sitting in an office writing when I could be out and about, talking to people or working with clients. I think I need to get out of this back end of contracting and go into some other line of work, but I don't know where to start. All the career tests I have taken say I should be in media and writing, but I hate it!
A: Sometimes the career tests indicate a field is a good one and yet it could just be the industry itself is a good place for you. In other words, maybe working in a marketing or communications department is appealing while the actual writing is no longer interesting to you. Did you ever take the Career Leader? This is a good career tool that also looks at your interests and can help to map your interests with a variety of fields.
Q: I am a 53-year-old professional female who is planning to begin a combined graduate program in cybersecurity and business management this fall. I know that I will have to work until I am at least 70, and since there is a critical need for cybersecurity professionals, this will update my skills and knowledge base for the available career opportunities. Moreover, I enjoy learning and I am pretty tech savvy. So this a field that I am genuinely interested in and I have a real interest in performing this type of work. My question is this: Do you think that I might be too old at 55 (when I graduate) to start a new career in cybersecurity?
A: Let me start by saying that I do not think people are generally too old to start in a new field. Research shows that many of us will be working well into our 60-70s, so this is fairly common. It also shows that individuals change career paths numerous times over their lives, so we should expect this. You said you are pretty tech savvy, so I would say you should go for it.
Q: I'm an attorney looking to move into an industry in a practice sector in which I just received an LLM. How do I handle questions about leaving? Morale in my office is beyond low, work is nonsensical paper pushing and there is no upward mobility or opportunities for leadership. Plus, authorization for details are being denied by paranoid managers worried about losing resources . . . in other words, I'm miserable. Five of seven hires behind me are trying to get out, too. How do you spin that?
A: I would focus on what you see as new opportunities at prospective firms (when you interview) rather than focus on what problems are at the current firm. No one really wants you to focus on the bad aspects of your firm. They really just want to hear how excited you are about working at their firm. So do your research on the new companies, and then share with them your views about how you are looking forward to working at their company in order to fully contribute to their goals, mission, etc.
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Russell is the vice dean and the director of the Executive Coaching and Leadership Development Program at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. She is a licensed industrial and organizational psychologist and has more than 25 years of experience coaching executives and consulting on leadership and career management.


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This year's CEO Challenge Top 10 report was in its final stages when the financial crisis exploded in September, so we asked the participating CEOs, chairmen, and presidents to revise their responses to the survey. This special Financial Crisis Edition highlights differences between the original responses and the updated responses, and compares results between the United States, Europe, and Asia. The responses show CEOs are focused on survival issues and effectively executing strategy in this new normal. Three new challenges were pushed into the Top 10 list: global economic performance; financial risk, including liquidity, volatility, and credit risk; and business confidence.


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Those plucky survivors in zombie games always make killing zombies look easy. But just how easy is it to nail headshots against a wave of ravenous flesh-eaters when the guns are real?
In this video, part of Rooster Teeth's great Immersion series, two men with firearms experience show that if you already know how to handle a gun, then yeah, it's pretty easy. They even make it look easier than a game.
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some weeks ago i found an old Netgear WG111v2 with RTL8187L and, running BT5 with Parallels, i did some test with aircrack ecc.
After few minutes the connection goes down and i remembered what was the problem, the disconnections that makes the adapter useless.
After some research on Google i didn't find a real solution.
This problems sounds like a overheating problem (fixable) or some buffer problem (hope that netgear's eng. not so stupid :D).
So finally i fixed it in this way (luckly was an overheating problem!):
Now this adapter works up to 48h and the sink is really hot, but all work great.
Hope this is usefull for all of you that have this adapters that works great with BT (now!) :)


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WASHINGTON (AP) � President Bush, standing before Congress one last time, urged the nation Monday night to persevere against gnawing fears of recession and stay patient with the long, grinding war in Iraq. He pressed Congress to quickly pass a plan to rescue the economy.
WASHINGTON (AP) � President Bush, standing before Congress one last time, urged the nation Monday night to persevere against gnawing fears of recession and stay patient with the long, grinding war in Iraq. He pressed Congress to quickly pass a plan to rescue the economy.
"We can all see that growth is slowing," Bush said in a blunt acknowledgment of rising food and gas prices, increasing unemployment and turmoil in the housing and financial markets.
He cautioned against accelerating U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq, saying that would jeopardize progress achieved over the last year.
"We have unfinished business before us, and the American people expect us to get it done," Bush declared. It was his final State of the Union address and he faced a hostile, Democratic-led Congress eager for the end of his term next January.
With his approval rating near its all-time low, Bush lacked the political clout to push bold ideas and he didn't try. He called on lawmakers to urgently approve a $150 billion plan � worked out with House leaders � to avoid or soften any recession through tax rebates for families and incentives for businesses to invest in new plants and equipment.
"The actions of the 110th Congress will affect the security and prosperity of our nation long after this session has ended," the president said.
Senate Democrats want to expand the economic stimulus plan with rebates for senior citizens living off Social Security and extensions of unemployment benefits for the jobless. Bush said those changes "would delay it or derail it and neither option is acceptable."
He also pushed Congress to extend his tax cuts, which are to expire in 2010, and said allowing them to lapse would mean higher tax bills for 116 million American taxpayers. For those who say they're willing to pay more, Bush said, "I welcome their enthusiasm, and I am pleased to report that the IRS accepts both checks and money orders."
Before speaking, Bush turned to shake hands with a smiling House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Dick Cheney, seated behind him. Bush's wife, Laura, and their twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna, sat in a VIP box. His speech lasted 53 minutes, interrupted frequently by applause, most often by Republican lawmakers.
Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the war has been a main topic of Bush's annual addresses to Congress. He said Monday night the buildup of 30,000 U.S. troops and an increase in Iraqi forces "have achieved results few of us could have imagined just one year ago."
"Some may deny the surge is working," Bush said, "but among the terrorists there is no doubt. Al-Qaida is on the run in Iraq and this enemy will be defeated."
Still, Bush said, "The mission in Iraq has been difficult and trying for our nation. But it is in the vital interest of the United States that we succeed."
He made no commitment about withdrawing additional troops from Iraq, and he said Gen. David Patraeus, the top U.S. general there, has warned that pulling Americans out too quickly could undermine Iraqi forces, allow al-Qaida to regroup and trigger an increase in violence.
"Members of Congress: Having come so far and achieved so much, we must not allow this to happen," the president said.
Bush said U.S. adversaries in Iraq have been hit hard, though "they are not yet defeated and we can still expect tough fighting ahead."
There are 158,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, a number that is expected to drop to 135,000 by July. There are 28,000 in Afghanistan, the highest number of the war, which began there in October 2001. Congress, despite repeated attempts, has been unable to force troop withdrawals or deadlines for pullbacks, and Iraq has receded as an issue in Washington.
Aides had said Bush would not use the address as a summation of his time in office. But he did, turning to the phrase "over the past seven years" when talking about some of the most-prized efforts of his administration: tax relief, federal involvement with religious charities, the global freedom agenda and increased funding for veterans.
He spoke of trust in people � taxpayers, homeowners, medical researchers, doctors and patients, students, workers, energy entrepreneurs and others � to drive their own success and that of the country. The unspoken message: Government isn't the answer.
"In all we do, we must trust in the ability of free people to make wise decisions, and empower them to improve their lives and their futures," Bush said.
A major challenge for Bush in his address was simply being heard when many Americans already are looking beyond him to the next president.
His speech came hours before Florida's presidential primary election and just eight days before Super Tuesday when voters in more than 20 states go to the polls on the biggest day of the primary campaign. Republicans running for president rarely mention Bush, preferring to focus on conservative hero Ronald Reagan instead.
Before Bush arrived, his would-be successors and their well-wishers clogged the center aisle.
Sen. Barack Obama came first, followed closely by his new patron, Sen. Edward Kennedy. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton entered the chamber a few minutes later, equally mobbed by well-wishers. She reached out and shook Kennedy's hand. Obama, nearby, turned away.
Bush will turn from Monday's speech and plunge into politics, raising money for Republicans from Wednesday through Friday at events in California, Nevada, Colorado and Missouri, sandwiched around other appearances to tout themes from his speech.
As for the Democrats, Clinton said, "Tonight is a red-letter night in American history. It is the last time George Bush will give the State of the Union. Next year it will be a Democratic president giving it."
Delivering the official Democratic response, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius urged Bush to work with Congress and help the U.S. regain global standing lost because of the war.
"The last five years have cost us dearly � in lives lost, in thousands of wounded warriors whose futures may never be the same, in challenges not met here at home because our resources were committed elsewhere," she said. "America's foreign policy has left us with fewer allies and more enemies."
Bush called for an effort to crack down on the pork barrel practices of Congress, saying he will veto any spending bill that does not cut in half the number and cost of congressional pet projects, known as earmarks.
The president planned to issue an executive order Tuesday ordering federal agencies to ignore earmarks that aren't explicitly enacted into law, erasing a common practice in which lawmakers' projects are outlined in nonbinding documents that accompany legislation. The move is aimed at making doubly sure that lawmakers have the opportunity to strike earmarks during floor debates.
However, Bush's plan leaves untouched the more than 11,700 earmarks totaling $16.9 billion that Congress approved last year.
He also said he would send Congress a budget that terminates or substantially reduces 151 "wasteful or bloated programs" totaling more than $18 billion.
He renewed a proposal to spend $300 million for a "grants for kids" program to help poor children in struggling public schools pay for the cost of attending a private school or a better public school outside their district.
On two issues that were centerpieces of State of the Union addresses past � Social Security and immigration � Bush passed the buck back to Congress, which had ignored the president's earlier proposals. Contending that entitlement spending is "growing faster than we can afford," he said, "I ask members of Congress to offer your proposals and come up with a bipartisan solution to save these vital programs for our children and grandchildren."
The president also:
� Announced a White House summit on inner-city children and religious schools.
� Said that his annual meeting with the leaders of Mexico and Canada will be held this year in New Orleans, to show off recovery efforts.
The president planned to issue an executive order Tuesday ordering federal agencies to ignore earmarks that aren't explicitly enacted into law, erasing a common practice in which lawmakers' projects are outlined in nonbinding documents that accompany legislation. However, Bush's plan leaves untouched the more than 11,700 earmarks totaling $16.9 billion that Congress approved last year.
He prodded Congress to extend a law allowing surveillance on suspected terrorists, renew his education law and approve free-trade pacts with Colombia, Panama and South Korea.
He also recycled ideas on alternative energy, affordable health care, housing reform and veterans' care. Bush also renewed his ideas on climate change and stem cell research.
Bush made only one mention of Osama bin Laden, who remains at large more than seven years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. There was no reference to North Korea. In his 2002 address, Bush caused a stir by warning that Iraq, Iran and North Korea constitute an "axis of evil." The United States and its allies are pushing North Korea to abandon its nuclear programs.


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>>> What's up with the Google bot and the Yahoo bot always logged in here snooping around? Rather creepy!
>> I think that might be inevitable, with the way search engines work in this day and age. They might have been poking around without our knowledge, and now that they are tracked we get creeped out. (Crept out?)
> Yup, they crawl blogs and bulletin boards pretty frequently. Want proof? Just do a Google search for posts from yesterday!
Wanna be spooked google just your eplaya name.
I have no problem with Google. Last I checked, this a publicly accessible BBS, and even with phpbb upgrades Google still makes for a better eplaya search engine. It would creep me out more if eplaya and other semi-public BBSs blocked access for no good reason. The whole point is to present a public face for the bunringman.
The You may embed only 3 quotes within each other business is really bugging me, as is the lack of true threading. Even tribe.net can manage crude threading of discussions. In the big picture, most users won't care, though.


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Kwame Kilpatrick Sentenced to 28 Years in Prison
The former mayor of Detroit was sentenced today after being convicted for public corruption.
By Tresa Baldas, Jim Schaefer, Gina Damron and Tammy Stables Battaglia
Seven months after his historic conviction for public corruption, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds today to serve 28 years in federal prison.
"The government has asked for a sentence of 28 years," Edmunds said. "I believe that is in fact what his sentence should be."
Kilpatrick ran what the government called a money-making racket out of city hall that steered millions to himself, his family and his friends while the impoverished city hobbled along.
Edmunds said she will recommend Kilpatrick be sent to a prison in Texas, where his family lives. She told Kilpatrick he could appeal.
As she issued his sentence, Kilpatrick stared at her, blinking slowly. Edmunds said restitution will be determined later and a hearing would be held within 90 days.
Before issuing the sentence, Edmunds said it was important to her that Kilpatrick was not just convicted on extortion, but on other counts of fraud. She said text messages and witnesses bolstered allegations that his relationship with friend and co-defendant Bobby Ferguson was at the heart of the criminal activity.
She said the seriousness of Kilpatrick's crimes are compounded by the involvement of city officials and others. Thirty four other people have been convicted in connection with the public corruption case.
"One thing is certain," Edmunds said. "It was the citizens of Detroit who suffered."
After the sentencing, U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade said the judge sent a powerful message to the people of Detroit "that this type of betrayal will not be tolerated."
The government had asked for a minimum 28-year prison sentence, while the defense said Kilpatrick should be sentenced to no more than 15 years.
"Twenty eight years -- a very, very powerful sentence, equal to the highest sentence ever handed out in a public corruption case, but appropriate for the type of staggering corruption we saw in this case," McQuade said.
The overarching issue in the case, she said, is that public officials are responsible to the citizenry.
Edmunds said he made sure Ferguson, who was convicted on charges of running a racket out of the mayor's office, was included in lucrative city contracts.
The judge said Kilpatrick took bribes, misused nonprofit funds and "used his power as mayor ... to steer an astounding amount of business to Ferguson."
Edmunds listed witnesses who testified, including people from his own administration. The testimony, she said, showed "a pattern of threats and pressure" from Kilpatrick and Ferguson. Kilpatrick, the judge said, lived the high life, hosted lavish parties, accepted cash tributes and loaded the city payroll with friends and family.
Despite his speech in court today -- in which Kilpatrick asked for a fair sentence and said he accepted responsibility -- Edmunds said the former mayor has largely shown little remorse.
Kilpatrick's defense team wanted Edmunds to consider his accomplishments as mayor -- responsibilities Edmunds said he was elected to carry out.
"He chose to waste his talents on personal aggrandizement and enrichment," she said.
Before being sentenced, Kilpatrick, addressed U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds in a soft voice, his eyes directed down at the podium much of the time. He said he respects the justice system and the jury's verdict, though he disagreed with it.
He said he accepts responsibility and asked for a fair sentence.
Kilpatrick said he lied about having an affair with his former chief of staff, Christine Beatty. People, he said, lost faith in his leadership.
He said he believes "that I really, really, really messed up."
Kilpatrick, whose wife and children are not in court, said he was sorry to those he let down, including his wife, children and parents.
"I want the city to heal," he said. "I want the city to prosper. I want the city to be great in the end. I want the city to have the same feeling it did in 2006. when the Super Bowl was here. ... Everybody felt like this was their town."
Margaret Raben, one of Kilpatrick's attorneys, had objected earlier today to the calculation of the sentencing guidelines related to the $9.6 million the government estimates the conspiracy cost the city. She argued the sources for that figure are unsubstantiated.
Raben argued Kilpatrick's guidelines exceed what someone else might get for a violent crime. She said the calculations lead to "absurd results. ... The guidelines pile on. And in this case, they pile on, pile on and pile on."
After going through each of the contracts that were illegal, Edmunds said she would calculate the sentencing guidelines based on a figure of $4.6-million.
Edmunds had discretion to go above or below what either side has requested and the discretion to go above or below the sentencing guidelines, which in this case, set the maximum sentence at life in prison.
McQuade said she hopes the sentence sends a message to others about the future of Detroit.
"This case is not so much about punishing people from the past, but about shaping our future," she said. "With a message like this it is very clear that public officials will be held accountable in the city of Detroit. And we hope it would deter people from abusing their public office, and encourage good and honest people to seek public office."
She said she felt Kilpatrick contradicted himself in his statement before sentencing. "I heard him apologize to the citizens of Detroit, but I also heard him deny stealing from the people of Detroit and deny stealing from the citizens of Detroit, which is in direct contradiction of what the jury found in this case," McQuade said.
Before the sentencing, Harold Gurewitz, Kilpatrick's attorney, said the sentence advocated by the government -- 28 years in prison at a minimum -- "goes beyond what's necessary."
He said he was hard to describe the amount of publicity in the case, adding that it has been a distraction and has made Kilpatrick a scapegoat for the city's sins for the past 50 years.
Gurewitz said Kilpatrick improved the quality of life for people in Detroit and wanted to see the city become more vibrant and viable.
Gurewitz said his client's accomplishments have been over looked, including development of the Riverfront walkway, economic development projects and refurbishment of sewer lines that led to sporting events like the Super Bowl and All-Star Game.
"There was no questions that all these things were accomplished," Gurewitz said. "But they are now overshadowed by the events that we are here for today."
Kilpatrick has already been locked up three times. Gurewitz said he knows the impact and meaning of incarceration.
"It is the clang and the echo of the door on that cell for the first time, and the feeling of loneliness," that has an indelible effect on a person, Gurewitz said.
He highlighted other cases, where public officials got lesser sentences, including former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was sentenced to serve 14 years in prison on corruption convictions in 2011.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Chutkow said "this is one of the significant cases of public corruption" across the country and it occurred when Detroit was vulnerable.
"Mr. Kilpatrick systematically exploited his public office," Chutkow said. "There has been no acceptance of any responsibility. ... No contrition.. No remorse."
In his statement, Kilpatrick said all he ever wanted to be was the mayor. Months into the job, he said, he hated it. He said managing a city "is the hardest thng you can imagine." He wrapped up his comments at about 12:30 p.m.
"I'm usually a good speaker, but this is not met," Kilpatrick said. I've never been here before. I don't want to be here again. ... I'm incredibly remorseful."
McQuade said she hopes the sentence sends a message to others about the future of the city.
"This case is not so much about punishing people from the past, but about shaping our future," she said. "With a message like this it is very clear that public officials will be held accountable in the city of Detroit. And we hope it would deter people from abusing their public office, and encourage good and honest people to seek public office."
She said she felt Kilpatrick contradicted himself in his statement before sentencing.
"I heard him apologize to the citizens of Detroit, but I also heard him deny stealing from the people of Detroit and deny stealing from the citizens of Detroit, which is in direct contradiction of what the jury found in this case," McQuade said.
Talking about his father, Bernard Kilpatrick -- convicted on a single charge and facing prison time -- Kilpatrick, getting choked up at times, said his father is a good man.
"He's a real good man," Kilpatrick said. "Typical Detroit north end guy. Talk a lot of stuff. But he's not a criminal."
Kilpatrick said his parents divorced when he was 10 years old. Bernard Kilpatrick, he said, told him he would be there for the rest of his life, and he was.
"I'm a great dad because of him," the former mayor said.
Kilpatrick also talked about Ferguson, who he said had a lucrative business before he became mayor. He said he was proud of his friend. He said the pair didn't become close until after 1988.
Kilpatrick said that if he could do things differently, he would not have had the conversations they were having, which he said blurred the lines of propriety.
He said he would never put a contractor or friend before the people of Detroit.
Ferguson, Kilpatrick's co-defendant and convicted partner in crime, received more than $127 million in contracts while his friend was mayor, according to the government. Of that, at least $76 million in contracts were illegally obtained through extortion, the government said. Ferguson will be sentenced on Friday.
The government is seeking a maximum 28-year prison sentence for Ferguson, calling him the key player in the pair's extortion scheme, which involved elbowing competing contractors out of deals and shaking down others to cut Ferguson in on deals.
The defense says Ferguson should get no more than 10 years, arguing the government is unfairly trying to hold Ferguson and Kilpatrick responsible for all of Detroit's financial woes, and punish them for crimes that were never proven at trial.
Ferguson's attorney, Mike Rataj, was at the federal courthouse this afternoon.
"Bobby's doing fine," he said. "Bobby Ferguson just didn't drop out of the sky. He dug Comerica Park He dug Ford Field. He was responsible for a lot of the buildings in and around here downtown even before Mr. Kilpatrick became mayor. He employed people. They contributed to the economy. He took care of people. He fed poor people. And we hope that the judge takes all that into consideration tomorrow when it's time for sentencing."
He declined to discuss what he'll say to the judge on Friday. He also declined to discuss whether he felt Ferguson got a fair trial.
"I think this trial in many respects was media driven," he said. "That's for the appellate courts to decide, and it's not for me to say. Those kinds of arguments will be made in the appellate briefs."
A key bone of contention for the defense is a $9.6 million figure the government came up with. That's how much the government says Ferguson made in illegal profits stemming from crooked contracts that Kilpatrick helped steer his way.
That figure was never introduced at trial, the defense argues. And there is no proof that Ferguson ever made that kind of money, or shared it with Kilpatrick.
But the government convinced jurors that Kilpatrick benefited from these crimes, introducing evidence that showed he had more than $840,000 in his bank account that his mayoral salary could not cover. They also introduced text messages between the pair in which Kilpatrick discussed steering contracts to Ferguson and holding other deals up, saying things like, "Lets get you some." Ferguson corrected him, texting back, "Us."
(c)2013 the Detroit Free Press


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South Beach Diet Phase One Recipes Round-Up for November 2009 (Low-Glycemic Recipes)
Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Pecans and Gorgonzola
(You can use the label Low-Glycemic Recipe Round-Ups to see all the posts like this one.)
Phase One Appetizers and Condiments
Crunchy Roasted Garbanzos from AskGeorgie.com
Thick Yogurt Tahina Dip with Herbs from A Life (Time) of Cooking
Hummus with Roasted Garlic and Truffle Salt from Home With Mandy
Simple Tahini Sauce from Chocolate and Zucchini
Roasted Kale Chips from Eat Real
Kale Chips from Simply Sugar and Gluten Free
Phase One Salads and Salad Dressings
Caponata (Eggplant Salad) from Lime Green Kitchen
Tri-Color Pepper and Lentil Salad from The Creative Pot
Spinach, Feta, Sun-Dried Tomato, and Toasted Seed Salad from Cook Sister!
How to Make French Vinaigrette from David Lebovitz
Baby Spinach with Warm Olive Oil and Walnuts from In Good Taste
Japanese Aubergine Salad from Gourmet Traveler (replace sugar with Splenda)
Phase One Soups, Stews, or Chilis
Leftover Turkey (or ground turkey) and Pinto Bean Chili with Lime and Cilantro from Kalyn's Kitchen
Escarole and White Bean Soup from Phoo-D
Tom Yum Kung (Thai Hot and Sour Soup) from Manali and Terry (use Splenda in place of sugar)
Black Bean and Ham Soup from Daily Unadventures in Cooking (leave our carrot for phase one)
Slow Roasted Tomato and Roasted Red Pepper Soup from Two Peas and Their Pod
Spicy Prawn Tom Yam Soup from Gourmet Traveler
Turkey White Chili from Simply Recipes
Phase One Vegetables or Side Dishes
Roasted Brussels Sprouts and Pecans (with or without Gorgonzola cheese) from Kalyn's Kitchen
Shredded and Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Toasted Almonds and Parmesan from Kalyn's Kitchen
Green Beans with Caramelized Red Onions from Andrea Meyers (use Splenda in place of sugar)
Mushrooms with Bacon and Sage from The Purple Foodie (turkey bacon would be best for South Beach, but this recipe uses a very small amount of bacon even if you used the real thing)
Asparagus with Feta Cheese from Souvlaki for the Soul
Barlotti Beans with Asparagus from Italian Cooking Recipes
Super Simple Shredded Sauteed Brussels Sprouts from 5 Second Rule
Quick Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Lemon and Parmesan from Farmgirl Fare
Marinated Eggplant with Tahini Sauce from The Purple Foodie
Stir-Fried Kale with Garlic (Chinese Style) from Teczcape – An Escape to Food
Simple Roasted Brussels Sprouts from Daily Unadventures in Cooking
Parmesan Roasted Broccoli from The Purple Foodie
Brussels Sprouts Dijonaise from Seriously Good
Caramelized Brussels Sprouts with Lemon and Olive Oil from The Naptime Chef
Phase One Meat, Chicken, or Fish Entrees
Salmon Confit from Nami Nami (replace sugar with Splenda)
Grilled Swordfish with Lentils from Stephen Cooks (omit carrots and corn for phase one)
Peppery Chicken Curry from Kayotic Kitchen
Slow Cooked Salmon from Sticky Chewy Creamy Gooey
Phase One Vegetarian or Meat-Free Entrees
Cannellini Beans with Garlic and Sage from Perry's Plate
Mushroom Bhaji (Mushrooms in Tomato-Onion Sauce) from The Perfect Pantry
Slow Cooker Pinto Beans from Nourishing Days
Phase One Breakfasts
Scrambled Eggs with Tomatillos from Simply Recipes
Did I Miss Your Phase One Recipe?


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Could someone add the date the Merit Badge requirements were last changed. Its nice to know the requirements came out of the 2007 merit badge book but it would also be helpful to know when the requirements were last revised. For those of us that have been doing this for a long time and don't buy a Merit Badge Requirements book every year, it would be nice to know the date the requirements were last revised. This would be a clue we need to revise or standard program.
I found requirement #2 a bit of an Easter Egg hunt. -- particularly with the link to www.mypyramid.gov in the merit badge pamphlet. Therefore, I created an addendum to the worksheet as guide to the boys as to where to find the information for requirement #2. It is in MS Word format.
The addendum is located here: http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/0/05/Cooking_Merit_Badge_-_Food_Pyramid.doc
Below is the text version of this addendum.
Cooking Merit Badge – Food Pyramid – Requirement # 2
This is an addendum to the Cooking Merit Badge Worksheet. It provides additional details on completing Requirement # 2. Read "Get to Know your Food Groups" (pp 48-57) of your merit badge book.
2a. On the web, go to: www.mypyramid.gov, click on "MyPyramid Plan" (left-hand side), fill in the form, click submit, and print out your "MyPyramid Plan."
2b. Explain why you should limit your intake of oils and sugars – see last paragraph in the "Oils, Fats, Sweets Group" sub-section in your merit badge book.
2c. Right on your "MyPyramid Plan"
2d-e. From "MyPyramid Plan", click on "Inside the Pyramid", clink on "Grains".
Now for each food group, click on "What's in the _____ Group" (Req. 2d) and "What counts as a/an cup/ounce". Click on next food group and repeat. Print out the results and attach to your worksheet or copy the information onto your worksheet.
2f. Requirement 2f is not well explained in your book. Key preparation techniques for more healthful and nutritious food are:
- Avoid deep fat frying, minimize the use of oil
- Minimize the amount of water you cook vegetables in, consider steaming
- Cook vegetables with their skins on (like potatoes & carrots)
- Eat raw fruits and vegetables with their skins on (were it makes sense)
- Avoid adding lots of fats (butter, cheese, many sauces), sugars (sugar, syrup, honey, catsup, BBQ sauce), and salt to your food
--Art 14:19, November 26, 2009 (EST)


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I hate receipts. Not just hate them, I loathe them. They are nothing more than pocket clutter—an anachronistic holdover from an analog age that I can't wait to disappear. I can envision myriad ways that mobility can improve upon the lowly paper receipt. Electronic payment seems like the obvious answer. Simply walk up to the register, tap/scan, sign, and you are done. No fuss, no muss, and most importantly, no receipt. But, as much as I detest receipts, the current experience of electronic payment is massively underutilizing the platform's potential. It is akin to using a tower crane to pick up a penny. Mobility must drastically alter the experience or it risks being a waste of time and resources.
I live in Seattle, home of the famed coffee juggernaut Starbucks. Here you can find a Starbucks coffee shop on every corner in downtown, and sometimes two or three. So I was pleased when I learned that Starbucks was partnering with Square Wallet to accept mobile payments. I thought my afternoon coffee experience was going to leap into the future. After the much-publicized bumps in deployment were worked out, I was disappointed to find that there wasn't much difference in the payment experience. Instead of pulling cash or card out of my pocket I had to pull out my phone. I didn't have to sign anything but I did have to select the location and slide to pay. Yes, it was a mobile experience, but it had not really made a difference in my life.
Simply replacing the existing process with same process done via a mobile device usually yields no benefit. Yeah, it's slick and sexy, but it's only managed to change which piece of plastic we pull out of our pocket. Instead of grabbing a debit card, I grab my phone. In terms of the steps, the experience is basically the same. It lacks innovation, is tied to the way it has been always done, and only puts a fresh coat of paint on an old outhouse.
Besides the fact that you are not improving the approach, you are missing an opportunity to alter the experience, to find efficiencies in the overall process that only a mobile platform could afford. I pick on this aspect of consumer tech to make a point. However, enterprises are no better off. They are making the same mistakes, or worse, in their approach to mobility. In fact, many enterprises aren't even making it sexy, it's just the same bad process displayed in a much smaller window. They mistakenly think they are "going mobile" by offering a mobile interface when all they've really done is gone small.
You can see where the enterprise would get it wrong. It is too easy a trap for an engineer or analyst collecting business requirements to just ask how the end user is currently doing such and such a task. From that point it just gets coded that way. This is how processes become entrenched. Along with that, many end users worry that efficiency and improvement mean elimination. They are concerned that their job might be cut and don't realize they might get to work on higher-order problems.
Luckily, the current Starbucks mobile payment experience isn't the final word. In fact, their mobile payment partner, Square, actually has further functionality that is not yet implemented at Starbucks. Square allows users to set frequented merchants for Hands-Free Checkout. This means you can walk into the store, select what you want, simply say, "Put it on John Smith," and walk out. Your purchase is then applied to your credit card. Now that is a change in experience. I don't have to pull anything out of my pocket, I don't have to sign anything, I don't have to bother with a receipt. I get what I need and am on my way in a much more efficient manner.
Enterprises should take their cue from this approach to a change in the experience and efficiency. Some enterprises get it and leverage mobility as an opportunity and excuse for a business process re-do. Others only use mobility as a facade. The trick is to stop spending time looking at how we work and start looking at what we are working on. It is easy to get stuck in the "how" rut. This narrows the field of vision to intermediate steps. It restricts our approach to the tactical. But enterprises need to think like Square and look for strategic changes that re-imagine the work experience based on the capabilities of the platform rather than the way the process currently works.
Enterprises must take the time to look at what the end objective is. The resultant change may be bigger in scope than imagined. It may involve business process, it may involve new infrastructure, it may even involve an org change. But to wholesale just swap out the current process to fit on the screen of a mobile device is a waste of resources and, most importantly, opportunity. Those that get it will soar; those that don't will sink. You will gain very little through porting the same tired process from the PC over to mobile. Stop wasting your time with mobile. If you can't do it right, don't bother. You are better off with your existing processes. Like a paper receipt, at least people will know how to ignore it and toss it aside.
Benjamin Robbins is a co-founder at Palador, a mobile strategy and application consultancy located in Seattle, WA. He can be followed on Twitter @PaladorBenjamin.


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Little Caesars Location Closed After Mouse Droppings Found in Pizza Crust
A Little Caesars in Indianapolis, IN has been shut down by health inspectors after a couple found mice or rat feces baked into the crust of their pizza.
Johnathan McNeil said that after they purchased the pizza from the chain, his girlfriend noticed little black flecks on the crust that didn't look normal.
"She looked at the pizza and realized there was like doo-doo looking stuff on the pizza," McNeil told FOX 59.
McNeil says he immediately turned around and headed back to the chain for a refund and an explanation, but employees said they didn't know what it was.
"All of them were looking at my pizza dumbfounded as if they didn't know what's going on," said McNeil, "I said 'That's mouse doo-doo on the bottom of my pizza.'"
McNeil said he called police, who, when they arrived at the restaurant, recommended he call the health department and report the violations. After an emergency inspection was conducted of the restaurant, the business's license was suspended, and the location closed. According to the inspector's report, multiple violations were found, including the presence of pests and/or rodents in the facility, faulty equipment, and dirty food racks.
A follow-up inspection the next morning found the location had corrected the problems.
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As has been widely reported, the company is in a spat with China over censorship and hacking. Google entered the market in the communist country a few years ago, presumably looking to score big in an emerging market made up of hundreds of millions of new customers. But that necessitated having to compromise with the Chinese communist police state. As part of that compromise, Google agreed to censor search results delivered by its Google.cn service. As a result, the search giant came under fire for its apparent failure to live up to its "Don't be evil" motto. For its part, Google argued that "While removing search results is inconsistent with Google's mission, providing no information (or a heavily degraded user experience that amounts to no information) is more inconsistent with our mission."
This compromise became increasingly uncomfortable after the 2008 Olympics for Sergey Brin, co-founder of the dominant search engine and Internet technology company. After that, he recalled, the issue of "China was ever-present.... One out of five meetings that I attended, there was some component specifically applied to China in a different way than other countries."
It's no surprise that that might trouble Brin. Now 36, Brin spent his first years, until age 6, behind the Iron Curtain in Soviet Russia. For those too young to remember, or who have conveniently forgotten, the Soviet Union was a communist nation and a thorough police state. It imprisoned and tortured those with whom it disagreed. Millions alternately died (see my article here on the Ukrainian genocide) or were sent to the Gulag to be "reeducated through labor."
This is, of course, foreign to the American experience. Could a government really tyrannize people as the Communist governments are reputed to have done? Certainly for many decades, uncounted numbers of Americans have chosen not to believe in the reality of this level of evil. And yet, it is absolutely real. A few years ago, I had the good fortune to meet with and interview a survivor of the Soviet Gulag. Pastor Peter Rumachik came to the U.S. after the fall of the Soviet Union to raise money to build new Baptist churches in Russia. But before that this small, soft spoken man had endured decades in the Gulag system, for the crime of being a Christian. Listening to him speak of his ordeal was both horrifying and uplifting. Horrifying because of the terrible realization that the evil of communism is a tangible reality, and uplifting because Pastor Rumachik's survival is a testament to the triumph of courage and faith over darkness.
How much more real is such tyranny to one who has seen it first hand? That experience reportedly was behind Sergey Brin's change of heart. According to the Wall Street Journal, Brin "said he was moved by growing evidence in China of repressive behavior reminiscent of what he remembered from the Soviet Union. Mr. Brin said memories of that time—having his home visited by Russian police, witnessing anti-Semitic discrimination against his father—bolstered his view that it was time to abandon Google's policy."
If only more Americans could see the importance of standing for principle; but apparently insulated from evil, they are unable to make an appropriate estimation of the threat it presents. As a result it becomes easy to rationalize engagement with repressive regimes like that in China, and this pragmatism begets profit.
Google again serves as the example. What Brin ultimately saw clearly as problematic in Google's courting of China, company CEO and advisor to the Obama administration Eric Schmidt apparently missed. The controversy at the company over its China policy finally came to a head after the cyber-attack on the search engine firm launched by the Chinese government in 2009. According to the Journal, "After the cyberattack a heated debate ensued in the company about whether to cease censoring, say people familiar with the matter. Mr. Brin and other executives prevailed over Chief Executive Eric Schmidt and others who felt Google ought to stay the course in China, say people familiar with the discussions."
While Google is to be commended for taking a stand, others aren't so sure. Says the WSJ: "few large companies have come out pledging their support. Privately, some Silicon Valley executives say they are confused by the reversal based on moral arguments alone." Of course they're confused: Their experience of evil has only been academic.
This failure to grasp and understand the tangible reality of evil has consequences, both in the U.S. and abroad. Overseas, for instance, the cooperation of U.S.-based tech firms with China's police state keeps the repressive Communist government in power. That has concrete ramifications for the billion or so citizens subject to that government. But there are also consequences at home. Failure to understand the dangers inherent in the concentration of political power that socialism entails puts everyone at risk. Congress and the President are eager to expand Federal power, not just in health care but in a multitude of areas. Democrats want cap and trade to control industry, and they want a national ID Card to track the movements of citizens. And it's not just the Democrats — for eight years under the Bush administration the Republicans eviscerated the Constitution with glee, even to the point of getting the telecom companies to participate in helping the government eavesdrop on American citizens.
The Founding Fathers, by creating a government of three branches, balanced against the states and the people respectively, sought to prevent the accumulation and centralization of power. But the walls they built are gradually being torn down, often with the unwitting help of business people who ought to know better and who ought to understand the danger of too much power. Alas, it seems that Lord Acton's truism about absolute power has been forgotten.
Whether it is with regard to China, or in connection with policy closer to home, American business has turned a blind eye to the cause of freedom and justice, at least in part because of a failure to see the reality of evil for what it is.
At least Sergey Brin appears to understand somewhat, at least for now. And one other company, Internet firm GoDaddy, has likewise decided to scale back business in China. Small steps, perhaps, but good news nonetheless. Hopefully, it portends a change for the better.
Dennis Behreandt is a contributor to The New American magazine. Visit his blog and archives here.


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Next week the new "Godzilla" opens, and while we must wait to discuss it (other than to say it's really good) it's never too late to pay tribute to the 1954 film that made it possible.
The original Japanese "Godzilla" has returned in a Rialto Pictures re-release for a weeklong Music Box Theatre run, in a crisp digital edition, with fresh, idiomatic English subtitles and extra-crispy sound. And what sounds! To mangle Shakespeare, they give delight and hurt plenty in director Ishiro Honda's grave classic. Under the stark opening credits, and throughout the picture, Godzilla's fantastic roar was created by using a contrabass (double bass) with loosened strings, manipulated by a musician wearing leather gloves. That sound was recorded, then played back at an eerie, slower speed for maximum effect. Godzilla's concrete-shattering footsteps, meanwhile, were made by using the first few milliseconds of a recorded explosion, with the recognizable bomb-blast sound removed.
There's grim aptness in that second sound source. Made by Tokyo's legendary Toho studio, "Godzilla" unleashed its fury on an eager moviegoing public nine years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Images of screaming children and a devastated, irradiated populace recur with startling frequency in Honda's film. The premise of "Godzilla" pulled an idea from "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms" released a year earlier. Godzilla literally is the bomb — awakened by atomic tests in the Pacific, fed by the power of humankind's latest and worst form of mass destruction.
If you've seen the version of "Godzilla" featuring Raymond Burr, you've seen the American release edition with all the frivolous additional English-language footage. This is not that version. This is the one to see. It was called "Gojira" in Japan, because in early planning stages the prehistoric creature was described as a cross between a "gorira" (a gorilla) and a "kujira" (a whale). The Americanized handle, Godzilla, sounded happily inevitable and the rest was history, the stuff of many sequels, many remakes, too many fleeting, jokey references to count.
This is one of the 20th century's key post-atomic pop artifacts. (Throw in Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" if you like, since that play's anxious vaudeville near the abyss could not have been possible in the pre-1945 period.) Today, "Godzilla" works because its makers took the story seriously. The year Honda's film came out, Mickey Rooney starred in a truly bizarre comedy called "The Atomic Kid," about a schmo who survives an atomic blast but goes a little haywire in the process. Godzilla was the real atomic kid, however, and he's no joke.
It will take more than the '54 version's handy "oxygen destroyer" to rid the planet of its most karmically generated adversary.
"Godzilla" - 3 1/2 stars
No MPAA rating
Running time: 1:38; in Japanese with English subtitles
Opens: Friday at the Music Box Theatre; musicboxtheatre.com.


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Vietnamese Sweet Potato and Shrimp Tempura
In Vietnam, there's a sweet potato and shrimp dish, khoai lan chiên tôm, that is served on many street corners. Three match-sticks of sweet potato are dipped in a tempura batter and then a whole shrimp is adhered to them. A little more tempura batter is drizzled on the sweet potato / shrimp combination and then the whole thing is deep fried.
This dish may not at first glance be considered Thanksgiving-friendly, but I think it's an excellent option. Tradition may have become synonymous with Thanksgiving, but the very first Thanksgiving was really a celebration of a fusion of cultures through food. So if you're searching for an alternative to the traditional Thanksgiving preparations of sweet potatoes, perhaps it's time to look east. To the Far East, that is.
Yields: 2 dozen1/4 cup rice flour, freshly ground
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup corn starch
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
3-1/2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon black pepper, freshly ground
1 teaspoon cayenne powder
2-2/3 to 3 cups seltzer water (see tips)
8 ounces crushed ice, (1-1/2 cups)
2 pounds large shrimp
2 cloves garlic, finely minced
3 sweet potatoes
1 quart peanut oil (or regular vegetable oil), for deep frying, as needed
For the tempura flour:
Combine all-purpose flour, corn starch, turmeric powder, baking powder, 1/4 teaspoon of sugar, red chili powder and 2 teaspoons of salt. Sift all the dry ingredients.
For the tempura batter:
Divide the seltzer water into 2 measuring cups: one with 2-1/3 cups and another with 1/3 cup.
Add 2-1/3 cups of seltzer water and crushed ice to the tempura flour until incorporated. Do NOT over-mix; it's okay if the batter is still lumpy.
In another bowl, dissolve the rice flour into 1/3 cup of seltzer water.
Combine the two mixtures and stir to even them up. Once more, do NOT over-mix in order to get an airy result! The consistency of the tempura batter should be similar to pancake batter. Add the remaining seltzer water if necessary (I didn't).
Allow to rest for about an hour.
For the shrimp:
In a bowl, combine 1-1/2 teaspoons of salt, 3/4 teaspoon of sugar, 1/2 teaspoon of cayenne powder and pepper.
Use fresh, good looking shrimp. If using frozen shrimp, it's not necessary to thaw them. Remove and discard the head of the shrimp if it's still attached. Carefully shell and de-vein the black part of the shrimp using a sharp hook-like paring knife. Make sure to leave the tip of the tailon, if possible. Rinse the shrimp under cold running water and pat dry using a paper towel. There should be as little water as possible. Repeat the same procedure for each shrimp. This step is tedious but essential for a good result.
Spread the shrimp on a large tray. Generously coat the shrimp with garlic. Sprinkle the shrimp with the spices from the seasoning bowl. Add about 2 teaspoons of oil. Toss well. Plastic wrap and let the shrimp marinate for 15-20 minutes in the refrigerator.
For the sweet potatoes:
Peel and cut the sweet potatoes into 1 to 1-1/2-inch matchsticks (to your liking). Place them in the tempura batter. Add 2 teaspoons of oil.
Assembly time:
Layer a cooling rack, previously lined with paper towels if you like, on top of a baking sheet (for easy clean-up of the drained oil).
In a large Dutch oven (or any regular deep-fryer), heat the oil for about 2 minutes over high heat. There should be at least a 2-inch-high level of oil. Wait until the oil is slightly bubbly (not too hot).
Test the oil by dropping a teaspoon of tempura batter into the hot oil. It should float but not swell.
Using a spatula, gather 3 sweet potato match-sticks. Dip a shrimp into the tempura batter to coat completely. Allow the excess batter to drip back into the tempura batter bowl. Place a shrimp on top of the 3 match-sticks. Drizzle an additional teaspoon of tempura batter over the shrimp to ensure that it adheres well to the sweet potatoes and place in the hot oil.
Fry in batches. Make sure the shrimp fritters don't touch each other. Lower the heat to medium. Deep fry for 2-3 minutes per batch. The fritters will start to pop and increase in volume. Use a splatter screen to prevent the oil from jumping everywhere . Flip each piece using a spider skimmer and cook for about a minute until golden on all sides. Remove each fritter, draining as much oil as possible and transfer them on the cooling rack. Continue with the remaining shrimp.
Serve immediately. You can eat the shrimp fritter simply as is or wrapped in lettuce filled with Thai basil, cilantro and Vietnamese mint.
I used seltzer water. You can also use club soda but in that case, do not add more salt. Another option is to use beer, which was Maman's (my mom's) option.
Sifting dry ingredients helps get rid of nasty lumps of flour and aerates the mixture when liquid is added.
I only add a small amount of turmeric powder so as not to alter the flavor of the batter. It's used as a natural food coloring to make the shrimp fritters look more vibrant.
The traditional way to eat these shrimp fritters is by rolling them in a lettuce leaf as a salad roll and dipping them in fish sauce (nước mắm chấm).
You can buy rice flour at the store but I prefer grinding my own though (use jasmine rice). That way I know all the nutrients are preserved. I use the Nutrimill brand mill. I got it several months ago and it's very useful to make any kind of flour. It's a great help for people with gluten allergies as well.
For optimum results when heating the frying oil, the thermometer should register 350°F to 375°F. Heat the oil over medium to high heat.Published By: on November 16, 2009.


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Accidents reported
150th Road east of Goldenrod Road
Angela Leiker, 26, 131 Colby, Valley Center, struck a deer driving west on 150th Road at 6:10 a.m. Nov. 1. Larry Pawloski Jr., 29, 218 S. Ash St., Hillsboro, was a passenger in the vehicle. Leiker was driving her 2001 Dodge passenger car.
900 block of Sunflower Road
Justin Chrisjohn, 35, 144 N. Roosevelt St., Marion, struck a concrete bridge railing before settling in a dry creek bed at 12:03 a.m. Oct. 24. The left front tire of the vehicle, Chrisjohn's 1998 Toyota passenger car, failed, causing the accident. No injuries were reported as a result of the crash.
Briarwood Lane southwest of Grandview Court, Hillsboro
Kenneth Carlson, 59, 413 N. Ash St., Hillsboro, struck Albert Reimer, 86, 410 Briarwood Lane, Hillsboro, backing up while picking up trash on Briarwood Lane at 11:20 a.m. on Oct. 31. Edward Richert was a passenger in the heavy truck registered to the City of Hillsboro. Reimer was driving his 2011 Ford sport utility vehicle. No injuries were reported in the accident.
Milepost 96 of U.S. 77
Robert Riddick, 47, 508 Cedar, Wakefield, struck a deer driving north on U.S. 77 at 9:49 p.m. Oct. 27. Riddick was driving his 2006 Ford passenger car.
Milepost 101 of U.S. 77
Nathan Oliver, 33, 1915 Central Ave., Winfield, struck a deer driving south on U.S. 77 at 6:50 p.m. Oct. 28. Oliver was driving his 2006 Nissan passenger car.
Milepost 296 of U.S. 50
Marisah Henderson, 24, 801 Cross Timbers Drive, Double Oak, Texas, struck a deer driving east on U.S. 50 at 10:02 a.m. Oct. 29. Henderson was driving a 2003 Toyota passenger car registered to Wendell Henderson, 8501 Lathrop Ave., Kansas City, Kan.
Milepost 309 of U.S. 77
Ricky Belongie, 20, 1810 Caroline Ave., Junction City, struck a coyote driving south on U.S. 77 at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 26. Belongie was driving a 2009 Nissan passenger car registered to Matthew Workman, 1011 10th St., Clay Center.
U.S. 50 east of Wagon Wheel Road
Charles Asbury, 61, 18 Hawthorne, Valley Center, struck a deer driving west on U.S. 50 at 9 p.m. Oct. 23. Asbury was driving his 2001 Ford sport utility vehicle.
U.S. 56/77 north of 290th Road
Darlene Hadden, 76, 812 Church Ave., Manhattan, fell asleep driving south on U.S. 56/77 when she went into a ditch and flipped over with a ¾ turn at 1:18 p.m. Oct. 27. Hadden was transported by Tampa ambulance to Herington Municipal Hospital by 2:30 p.m. Hadden was driving her 2006 Chevrolet passenger car.
U.S. 77 south of 140th Road
Richard Mounts, 43, 426 170th Road, Hillsboro, struck a deer driving south on U.S. 77 and rolled his vehicle, a 2004 Ford sport utility vehicle, one and a half times at 11:30 a.m. Oct. 28. Gina Mounts, 43, same address; Jace Hett, 13, 2729 Mustang Road, Marion; and Tristen Hett, 16, 2729 Mustang Road, were passengers in the vehicle. Richard Mounts and Gina Mounts were transported to St. Luke Hospital, the former by Florence ambulance by 12:15 p.m. and the latter by Marion ambulance by 11:52 a.m.
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American Shakespeare Center stages Twelfth Night
Friday, March 8, 2013 2:00 AM
Pittsburg, KS
Area residents will have an opportunity to see Shakespeare as a Renaissance audience might have seen it when the American Shakespeare Center (ASC) presents "Twelfth Night," at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 14, in Pittsburg's Memorial Auditorium. The performance is part of the 2012-2013 Pittsburg State University Performing Arts and Lecture Series.
By re-creating Renaissance conditions of performance, the ASC strives for both a better understanding of Shakespeare's iconic works and of the history and future of theater.
According to the ASC, their performances focus on expert acting, beautiful costumes and some small set pieces, rather than elaborate sets and electronics. The performance is designed to allow the audience to feel a sense of community similar to what audiences may have experienced in Shakespeare's original Blackfriars Playhouse in London, according to the ASC.
The ASC began touring in 1988 and since that time has given hundreds of performances across the U. S. In addition to performances, ASC conducts numerous workshops.
For their PSU visit, the ASC will offer two workshops. The first, "That's a Certain Text," will help participants learn the basic steps involved in analyzing verse. Students in the workshop will explore tools of rehearsal that help take Shakespeare's words from the page to the stage.
The second workshop, "If This Were Played upon a Stage Now," uses scenes from Shakespeare's and his contemporaries' plays to learn about early modern theaters, staging conditions, and how to find staging clues in the text. Students will apply these lessons in a final presentation.
The workshops will be conducted at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Thursday, March 14, respectively. Enrollment is limited and registration closes at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, March 13. To register, visit the Campus Activities Center in the lower level of the Overman Student Center, 620-235-4795.
Tickets for "Twelfth Night" are $12 for the general public and $7 for PSU faculty and staff and persons 65 and older or 17 and under. PSU students are admitted free. Seating on the floor is reserved. Seating in the balcony is general admission.
Tickets are available at the PSU Ticket Office, 137 Weede (620-235-4796), online at www.pittstate.edu/tickets, or at the door one hour before the event, based on availability.


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Quality of Life grants, conceived by the late Dana Reeve, are awarded to programs or projects that improve the daily lives of people with paralysis, with some emphasis on but not limited to paralysis caused by spinal cord injuries. She started the Quality of Life grants program to recognize and support organizations that help disabled individuals, their families and caregivers in ways that increase independence, day-to-day happiness, and access.
Funding is awarded twice yearly to nonprofit organizations that provide critical life-enhancing and life-changing programs and services that improve physical and emotional health. Funded projects offer a diversity of services and approaches: improving access; providing education and job training; sponsoring organized sporting opportunities; and more to individuals living with paralysis and their communities.
Quality of Life grants are funded through a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Award #1U59DD000383-1).These grants are awarded to nonprofit organizations that address that needs of people living with paralysis caused by spinal cord and other injuries, diseases and birth conditions, including (but not limited to) stroke, spina bifida, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and amyotrophic lateral scleroses (ALS).
In addition to completing an online application (mostly basic information needed for our database), the following documentation must be attached with all applications:
Completed Quality of Life Grant Application IRS 501(c)(3) Letter of Determination
Program Timeline
1st Cycle online application submission period opens January 2
1st Cycle application submission deadline on about March 1
1st Cycle decisions announced (and checks mailed) in June
2nd Cycle online application submission period opens July 1
2nd Cycle application submission deadline on or about September 1
Decisions announced (and checks shipped) January
The online application is activated on the first day of the grant cycle and deactivated at 11:59 pm CST on the last day of the cycle. No applications are accepted after the deadline.
The Reeve Foundation awards Quality of Life grants up to $25,000 to nonprofit organizations that provide services to individuals with paralysis.
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December 02, 2011
Naked. Again.
Don't worry, it's nothing scandalous. But just in case you didn't already know, Urban Decay has new palette out. And guess what's it called? Naked2.
And it looks beautiful.
(Note: All photos in this post are courtesy of Lipglossiping, which you should totally check out because she's got heaps more gorgeous photos of Naked2, including swatches and a thorough comparison against the Naked, the original.)
My heart did a double take when I first saw the palette online. It certainly looks beautiful. And being a proud owner of the original Naked palette, I can attest to the quality of Urban Decay's eyeshadows there. They're good.
(Naked2 compared against the original Naked palette at the bottom.)
Yes, you might wonder, "How many neutral palettes does a girl actually need?". Truthfully, one palette might be all I need, but you see, this is an issue of wants. Not needs.
I'm also definitely liking the look of the new packaging. It looks sleeker, and more hardy compared to the cardboard box of its predecessor.
From what I've read, it will be released in the UK on Jan 1, 2012, and hitting the US "soon". As of now, no idea on when it'll be arriving in Malaysia though. Keep your fingers crossed, ladies.
So. What do you think? Are you wanting Naked2? Because I certainly do.
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- Askmewhats said...
I saw this from Jenn of "From Head to Toe" last night on youtube and I don't have Naked 1 so I'm lemming for this because of the "tin" packaging! hehehehe :)
- 2 December 2011 at 09:51
- Syen said...
Nikki: I have Naked, the original, and I'm still lemming for this now! LOL.
- 2 December 2011 at 12:15
- Eli said...
I have been stalking Naked 2 (it DOES sound like the sequel of a bad porno movie, doesn't it) since pics came out and I don't think I'll get it. Am quite fond of Naked and the only colour which intrigues me in Naked 2 is Pistol.
- 2 December 2011 at 14:26
- Syen said...
Eli: That makes you.. The Naked stalker? Ok, lame. Lol. Just as I've been telling Kahani as well, YDK is a goorgeous colour, btw. Don't just diss the palette off just yet. =P
- 2 December 2011 at 22:14
- Luthien said...
Exciting news indeed! :D
But I have yet to get my hands on the original NAKED palette - was sold out at KLCC Sephora the last time I visited :(
- 3 December 2011 at 19:15
- Eli said...
Syen: Hey, there are lots of Naked Stalkers out there so I guess I am in good company. =P YDK is gorgeous but I am not a frosted finish fan. Will stick to MAC Satin Taupe. =D
- 3 December 2011 at 22:51
- Syen said...
Luthien: Oh dear, that's too bad. The few times I was in Sephora there were Naked palettes available. Try again? =P
Eli: LOL. Oh yes, MAC Satin Taupe is also gorgeous!
- 4 December 2011 at 15:36
- Connie De Alwis said...
As much as I enjoy my naked palette, I'll pass. The colors appear quite similar and there's a repeat even (Half Baked). The tin packaging looks classier tho
- 4 December 2011 at 16:57


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Patchwork Pumpkin Table Runner Pattern
Get ready for autumn with this cute harvest table runner!
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September 28, 2016
This was an easy pattern and uses several techniques. It has piecing, quilting, embroidery, and applique. The runner is nice for long tables. A nice addition to the table for fall. I like the pumpkins instead of Jack o lanterns so I can display it through Thanksgiving.
October 30, 2015
I made this table runner for my daughter's dining room table; it looks great on her dark wooden table and fit perfectly. It was easy to make with scraps of fall colored fabrics, and to give it a different look, I turned two of the pumpkins in opposite directions. Will have to make one for myself.
October 13, 2014
Made this table runner with left over fall and orange fabric that I had. It turned out great and looks wonderful on my dining room table. I have a large table so it fits perfectly!
August 6, 2014
Great Table Runner! I made this and I like a long table runner. I am going to fold it over a door hanger and use it on Halloween night. Then back to my table. I love the colors.
June 24, 2014
Very cute, although quite long. Next time I will only sew 3 pumpkins together with the middle one facing forward.


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Today's guest blog post is by the President of the American Anthropological Association, Monica Heller.
Nicholas Wade's recent book, A Troublesome Inheritance, is not one I would typically spend my weekends reading, as I don't have much interest examining theories of everything in this world and little patience for theories as misguided as those examined in his book. But as science editor at The New York Times Wade wields influence, and his book reserves a special role for the American Anthropological Association (AAA), an organization of which I happen to be the current President. Unfortunately, that role is of the bad guy in a narrative opposing two figures: benighted cultural anthropology and « politically incorrect » but scientifically accurate theories of cultural evolution.
Those scientific theories, he says, show that race is a central feature of human biology, and that it has a genetic basis, which then influences social behaviour, some of which is more « successful » than others – not surprisingly, the behaviour he characterizes as « well adapted » is characteristic of Caucasians, and especially of Western Europeans. But it's okay, he reassures us, the rest of us (well, you – I'm Jewish, and according to Wade astonishingly well-adapted, though the Sephardic bits might slow me down) can learn, and our genes can look Caucasian too! There are many problems with this argument, of course, notably the frequent confusion of correlation and causation, and the frequent omission of consideration of alternative hypotheses (for example, the equating of IQ measurements with an individual intelligence trait, as opposed to, say, the ability to write standardized tests). I will let my colleagues in biological anthropology address those that they are best-placed to discuss.
My own major surprise showed up on page 3. Using a single study of age of first reproduction on Isle-aux-Coudres (Quebec) between 1799-1940, Wade argues that a drop of four years over that time period is evidence of genetic adaptation with permanent consequences, and hence of contemporary evolution. Wade also uses such examples to argue that genetics are the basis of such social behaviours, while simultaneously arguing that genetic changes result from social conditions. I am from Quebec, as it happens, and have devoted years of study to francophone Canada. I've driven by Isle-aux-Coudres on many occasions (it is very pretty, you should go). I know a little about the political economy of reproduction in francophone Canada, enough anyway to know that (and why) it went from having one of the highest birth rates in the First World (and relatively low age of first reproduction) through to about 1960, to having one of the lowest in one generation – a rate which has subsequently persisted, with concomitant relatively high age of first reproduction. (And I know enough about l'Isle-aux-Coudres to know there is no reason to believe things would be different there.) And I'm not even a biological anthropologist.
Indeed, as President of the AAA, I could not help but notice that Wade portrays contemporary cultural anthropology as entirely represented by the American Anthropological Association (though admittedly, Wade doesn't always get the association's name right; let's hope his copy editors catch those errors). Next, he portrays it as entirely founded on the work of Franz Boas, as though no one has had an original thought or a critique of Boas in the last 100 years or so. Third, he portrays the association as entirely devoted to a particular form of cultural anthropology which Wade decries as refusing to acknowledge biology altogether because it is a victim of its ideology; this will likely surprise both cultural anthropologists and AAA sections like the Evolutionary Anthropology Society as much as it surprised me. I am sure such oversimplification and reduction is useful for a book hoping to make a single point to a general public, but it concerns me that it should come from the person responsible for the science section of the New York Times. The cultural anthropology character in Wade's book (that would be the one wearing a blindfold and erring in mists of its own creation) is not one I remember ever having encountered.
But what really concerns me, in the end, is the force of theories of race and cultural evolution. The fictive naturalization of what are fundamentally relations of power is, actually, terrifying. It would be lovely to think that they are too silly to waste our time on, but Wade's book shows that they are not going away any time soon, and that we need to redouble our efforts to show them up for what they are: attempts to justify inequality. It would be nice to have The New York Times on our side. We have a few black hats to share.


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*Figure Not Included*Figure Not Included (1997) - Dexter's Laboratory Cartoon Episode Guide by Dave Koch
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- Hanna-Barbera Productions, Cartoon Network Studios
- Animation Studio: Rough Draft Studios
- Distributed by: Cartoon Network
- Cartoon Characters: Dexter, Dee Dee, Mom, Dad, The Computer, Mandark, Agent Honeydew, LeeLee, Monkey.
- Voice Actors: Christine Cavanaugh, Kathryn Cressida, Kath Soucie, Jeff Bennett, Eddie Deezen, Frank Welker.
- Directed By Rob Renzetti.
- Produced By Davis Doi, Larry Huber, Buzz Potamkin, Genndy Tartakovsky, Sherry Gunther, Selma Edelman, Debby Hindman, Linda Simensky, Brian A. Miller; more Producers ...
- Written By Butch Hartman.
- Music: Thomas Jones Chase, Steve Rucker, Pamela Phillips Oland.
- Editor: Paul Douglas.
- First Aired on September 10, 1997.
- Originally Aired on Cartoon Network (USA).
- Running Time: 7 minutes.
- Season: 2
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Dexter is excluded from his friends because he doesn't have a Major Glory action figure, so he creates one after another.
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The Rev. Larry Shreve, pastor of Open Door Baptist Ministries, and Tom Sherman, celebrate recovery director, will be guest speakers on a ministry sponsored by Open Door Ministry Church.
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"When the Guest is being searched for, it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work."
To what are we really devoted? Happiness? Security? Love? If we're serious about living a contented life we need to answer the question: "Where, by being established here, are we always happy, always secure and always loving?" With-out answering this question, we may, like the proverbial dog, chase our tail for years and never wear, in the words of Kabir, "the face of satisfied desire."
My experience through the practice of yoga, meditation and the teachings of non-dualism and tantra, supports the understanding that we must first search for and realize the spiritual core of our Being before we can truly live in the world with satisfied desire.
All great searches begin with the suspension of the statements: "I know" and "I don't know." This orients us in an attitude of listening. In fact, yoga may be described as the art and science of listening, and silence is the ground in which listening takes root and blossoms.
This truth is embodied in the ancient process of yajña. Often taken to be an external ritual, the fire ceremony is actually a projection of the internal process of purification through awareness. During the fire ceremony objects, which represent the five elements such as butter, flowers, etc., are devotionally offered into the sacrificial fire. Symbolically, fire represents the purifying agency of awareness, flowers represent the distracting or flowering preoccupation's of the mind and ghee represents the mind as it is clarified of its outgoing tendencies which prevent realization of truth.
From the perspective of yajña, we place all that we take ourself to be-body, senses and mind-into the fire of awareness. We then, in the words of Heideger, "wait without waiting" to see what arises out of this process of purification.
Yajña is the process of meditation. This meditation, born out of listening, is a sacrifice wherein attention is constantly offered into the fire of awareness.
Living this attitude of listening, and waiting without expectation, brings a freshness and openness to our life. Our usual patterns of reaction, justification, comparisons, judgments and defense are observed and understood to be what they are: our refusals to be with what is arising in the moment.


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PELARGONIUM Apple Betty
Scented Leaf. Fresh, apple scented, trilobed leaves, rough to the touch. Branching stems of airy white flowers on long pedicels. Large rounded top petals, small lower petals, very dainty. Ht. 50cm. Sp. 30cm. Good structure for outdoor containers in the summer. One of Michael Loftus's favourite Pelargoniums.
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Supplied as strong 9cm potted plants or larger 14cm potted specimens. We do not offer plugs or seeds.
Plant Details: PELARGONIUM Apple Betty
Plant: PELARGONIUM
Variety: Apple Betty
Common name: Pelargonium
Family: Geraniaceae
Origin: S. Africa
Flower colour: White
Flower month: Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct
Foliage colour: Green
Hardy: Tender
Soil type: Well drained soil
Aspect: Sun
Evergreen: Evergreen
Height: 50
Spread: 30
Flower type: Single
Flower style: Dainty Foliage Habit
Leaf colour: Green
Container: Large Pots
Winter grow conditions: Heated greenhouse
Compost: Peat Based
Web rating: Woottens rating 10/10
Pot Size: 9cm
Foliage scent: Apple
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At the first ever KnickerBlogger Meet-Up, I had some posters to give away. Looking for a fair way to distribute them, I came up with the idea of a trivia quiz. Unfortunately my questions were a bit harder than I thought, especially without the help of the internet. So I ended up giving the winner of the quiz the poster (only 4 people got more than 1 answer correct), and the other by randomly picking names out of a hat. Thought I'd share them here for fun, see how many you can do without surfing the web. #1. In the …continue reading


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You'll find a sponge ball routine in almost every close-up performer's repertoire and in this volume, you'll discover a virtual encyclopedia of sponge ball magic. Routines from thirteen of the best sponge ball workers of all time have been collected in one place for the first time, making this DVD the most comprehensive reference work on performing magic with sponge balls ever produced. You'll learn many unique vanishes, moves and stratagems to build your own routine or to plug into the routine you already do.
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