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Do-It-Yourself Caja China Box Pig Roast via Saugatuck Craft Butchery
Ever wondered how to roast a whole pig at home? Well so did many of our readers who wrote in after Porktoberfest, looking for a recipe and instructions. If you can get your hands on a pig, it's not actually that difficult...
We asked Ryan Fibiger of Saugatuck Craft Butchery, if he could give CTbites some pointers on a do-it-yourself pig roast using the popular Caja China roasting box.
Here's what he said...
The instruction online and on the La Caja China website (http://www.lacajachina.com/whole-pig-worksheet_a/330.htm) are pretty good. I would use these as a starting point and amend with the following:
- A 40-50# pig will take ~4hrs, 50-60# ~5hrs, 60-70# ~7hrs, 70-80# ~8hrs, 80-100# (max) ~10hrs
- Craft always brines the pig and inject the larger muscles two days prior to cooking. We use the following ingredients in proportions that differ depending on the pit master: (salt, black peppercorn, garlic, oregano, cumin, chili powder, oranges and juice, limes and juice, lots of ice. Salt is key here, it should be slightly saltier than the ocean to taste)
- Always dry the pig completely (allow 2-3 hours out of the brine to temper and dry) and use a dry rub prior to cooking. Our rub is heavy on paprika, cumin and chili powder.
- Pick up an inexpensive meat thermometer with a digital display and a probe to give you both the box temp and the pig temp (insert into the largest muscle of the ham - the top round)
- Don't get fancy with the charcoal...use the cheap Kingsford stuff which burns fairly cool and consistently.
- When loading the charcoal, we deviate from the online advice. Start the charcoal before loading the pig so you can get the initial temp correct (no higher than 350). The most common mistake I see is burning the pig immediately with a very high box temp.
- Once you've stabilized the temp around 250, feed the charcoal consistently (not in large batches as prescribed by the company). This will avoid big temp spikes.
- You will need to remove the grate and clear the charcoal and ash every couple hours. This acts like an insulator and will make it hard to control the box temp. Make sure you have something safe to put the hot ashes into.
- If you want to slice the pig to serve, you want an internal temp of ~165. If you want to pull it (more common with the box), you want a 185 internal temp before you flip it over.
- Once you've hit the desired temp, load the box with charcoal (you may need to relight) and put it to the side while you deal with the pig.
- Flipping the pig is a two person job. It's going to want to fall apart at this point, so you'll want to do it quickly and get it back in the box with the skin side up.
- Score the skin at random into roughly bite sized pieces and season liberally with a coarse sea salt. This cracklin will be the chef's reward.
- Now you want the temp to spike quickly (>450 if possible). This step should be no more than 30 mins and you need to keep an eye on it. If parts of the skin are getting too burned before the other skin cooks, you can use aluminum foil to protect it.
- As for serving, forget the carving knife. Get a pair of thick rubber kitchen gloves and just start pulling.


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Thai floods to cost WD up to $275m this quarter
Western Digital resumes production at one hard drive plant, but warns of disruption until March and beyond
Western Digital has warned that flooding in Thailand will likely cost the company $225m to $275m in the December quarter, due to damages to its facilities and business interruption.
The company expects to file a property damage claim of at least $50 million and an additional claim for business interruption during the December quarter, but it expects operations to be impacted into the first calendar quarter of next year and beyond.
In a company statement, Western Digital said that it expects that only 120 million hard drives will ship in this quarter, across the industry, short of demand of 170m to 190m units.
The company has been able to resume hard drive production at one plant in Bang Pa-in (BPI) on 30th November, one week sooner than expected. The plant had been under six feet water from 15th October to 17th November.
The company's other Thailand hard drive facilities at Navanakorn are still submerged, but Western Digital expects to begin production in a new WD slider fab location in Penang, Malaysia, and at the BPI site, in the first quarter of next year.
Thailand accounts for some 40% of global hard drive production, and flooding hit several facilities belonging to Western Digital, Toshiba and other suppliers, although Seagate, which also has production facilities in the country, escaped any damage to its plants.
"The passion, perseverance, ingenuity and execution exhibited by the WD team has been extraordinary and enabled us to make substantial progress in partially restoring our operations in Thailand, well in advance of our earliest expectations when the floods hit," said John Coyne, president and chief executive officer of WD. "Much work remains to be done but we couldn't be more pleased with the effort and results thus far, including tremendous support from our supply partners and strategic customers."
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The flood in Thailand that produces over 40% of the HD production not only reflects losses to the manufacture but a big financial setback to the PCs and server manufacturer due to the constrained availability.
This is the right opporunity for alternate technologies to increase their market share and end users mindset.

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Teenage drivers are often mislabeled as high-risks motorists. If you happen to be a college student getting your first car, then expect to pay a lot for your car insurance. You might ask: how much is car insurance for college students? There is no definite answer to this question as car insurers have varying rates for teenage drivers like you. What you can expect, however, is the high-priced car insurance quotes that these insurers will give you.
Rather than getting all caught up on the car insurance fees, it would be better to shift your focus on how to qualify for lower insurance rates. While you cannot expect to get a vehicle insurance fee that is as low as your father's, there's a possibility that a car insurer will give you reasonable insurance premiums.
Defensive Driving
Car insurance firms love to insure motorists who have enrolled in a defensive driving institution. They charge them with lower car insurance quotes because they believe that they are low-risk drivers. Enrolling in a defensive driving school will make you a low-risk motorist in the eyes of a car insurer, and this should get your cheaper fees in the process.
Get Good Grades
Instead of wondering how much is car insurance for college students, concentrate on getting good grades. Insurance companies look into the grades of college students in assessing their insurance premiums. If you have a grade of B or better, then you are a prime candidate for lower car insurance rates.
Car insurers say that grade give them an idea on how responsible the college student is. The better grades you have, the more responsible you are and the better rates you'll get from vehicle insurers.
Drive a Small Car
Driving a sedan may not be what you imagined, but it could help you save on insurance costs. Car insurers tag sedans as low risk cars since these vehicles have smaller engines and thus are unlikely to zoom in a highway. It also means sedans are less likely to get involved in accidents.
College students like you who are about to apply for car insurance should face the reality that insurers charge high insurance rates on young drivers. So your question should not be how much is car insurance for college students, but rather: how can I save on car insurance?


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Scammers sued for impersonating Secretary of State
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan recently filed suit against a Michigan company that purported to work on behalf of the Illinois Secretary of State's office in an alleged attempt to con Illinois businesses into paying hundreds of dollars in unnecessary fees.
Madigan alleges Corporate Records Service sent direct mail solicitations to Illinois corporations in an attempt to collect a $125 per-business fee for an "Annual Minutes Records Form."
The company operated the scheme under a guise that these solicitations came from Secretary of State Jesse White's office, though Illinois does not require corporations to fill out such a form or pay any fee.
"These bogus letters may look official, but companies in Illinois that receive them should promptly put them where they belong: in the garbage can, because neither the form nor the fee are required by Illinois law," Madigan said.
Madigan and White's offices have received dozens of complaints and hundreds of calls from Illinois corporations about the scam. The lawsuit asks the court to ban the company from such solicitations and give refunds to any Illinois corporations that paid fees to the firm. Madigan's suit also asks the court to assess civil penalties based on violations of the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act.
Assistant Attorney General Cassandra Karimi is handling the case for Madigan's Consumer Fraud Bureau.
Businesses that have received the notice are encouraged to contact the Secretary of State's business services office at (312) 793-3380 or (217) 782-6961.


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BP's shale outlook shows misunderstanding
BP is certain energy demand will increase in the next 20 years and uncertain of the role of shale energy in and outside the U.S. In it's annual energy outlook, the global energy production major said that it has been repeatedly surprised by the strength of U.S. tight oil and shale gas. As an example of its surprise, BP pointed to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's production outlook for U.S. tight oil in 2013. Production expectations issued by the EIA then showed tight oil production in the U.S. would reach 3.6 million barrels per day by 2030. In 2014, those production volumes were reached. "The continued growth of tight oil and shale gas in the U.S., and the spread of shale outside North America, are key uncertainties in our Outlook," BP said.


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***As an assignment for my Food Writing class, I will be incorporating my learnings from my previous "Field Trips in Food Studies" class into an ethnographic culinary landscaping of New York City. First stop: The Lower East Side
To be in the 'Bowery' was to be down in the dumps. The imprints of expired tenements and rectangled buildings now home to 'hip' and 'hipster' establishments preserve the structure of what used to be the homes and businesses of newly emigrés — those of the Jews and Eastern Europeans.
A trip to the Lower East Side is a trip to the 1800s and beyond.
A walk through the Lower East Side for my Field Trips in Food Studies class was actually a trip to my past. I remember driving up and down the Bowery as a child with my mother, as she sought after supplies from the hundreds of restaurant vendors that line the street. Bari was particularly memorable for me. I can't forget about the gold coffee machine that was always displayed on their fogged-up window. It looked like it had been there for 90+ years, but there was nothing old about it.
I learned that Allan street used to be a giant latrine. That – as China Town gets bigger, so does NYU, in an unspoken battle to take over the LES.
Anyhow, back to what we came for: food. Here's the list of places we went to on our first tour, along with a bit of what I could gather from my lovely professor.
STOP 1: Doughnut Plant — another one just opened on 23rd street – owned by the grandson of a Jewish baker who took recipe it and modernized place — succeeded first in Japan and now this new one in Manhattan
STOP 2: Kossar's — sell Bialys — difference between a bagel and a bialy = a Bialy is just baked vs. a bagel, which is boiled and then baked — they come from Bialy, Poland; associated with Jewish food — it can't be frozen so this is a reason why bagels became more prominent and bialy's died out after the Post-Modern Era. Kossar's has just reopened in Manhattan after a 6 month renovation period!
STOP 3: The Pickle Guys — Essex street – only sell pickles – completely kosher – pickled veggies and fruit too i.e good mangos
STOP 4: Essex Street Market — for me, where east meets west – "the Turkey of NYC"; lots of small-scale, but good quality food vendors
STOP 5: Economy Candy — Candy and drug stores used to be the same thing, which is what this was in the early 190ss; I had a halva there
STOP 6: Il Laboratorio del Gelato – next to Katz's — made fresh-daily; a scientific-approach to gelato
STOP 7: Katz's — when Jewish left — rebranded the place as a hip place where politicians should come and hang out; to this day, newly elected politicians need to come and take a pic with a pastrami sandwich; used to send some of their salamis to soldiers at during WWII; they have iconic New York egg creams here
STOP 8: Russ and Daughters — Jewish owned — as Jews left the LES, Puerto Ricans and Dominicans began working as butchers, slowly but surely integrating them into the ethnographic landscape of the LES
STOP 9: Yonah Shimmel's Knish Bakery — they sell sort of a "Jewish Empanada"


text: The Armoury Chamber in the Red Square. Website: http://armoury-chamber.kreml.ru/en-Us/armoury-chamber-museum/ Source: Kreml.ru The Armoury museum building, included to the Grand Kremlin Palace Complex on the project of architect K.A. Ton, was erected in 1844-1851 on place of the dismantled in the XVII century Stables Court. The architecture of the Armoury Сhamber is close to the Grand Kremlin Palace. The two-storeyed construction is placed on thick basement of variable height. Details styled in the XVII century manner were used in the façades' décor, but in contradistinction to the XVII century style they are free of coldness and meagreness. The main adornment of the façades are white-stone carved columns with juicy vegetable ornament. However, the sameness of the silhouette make the palace ensemble rather inexpressive. The composition of the Armoury with symmetrically located exposition halls and the front entrance with a staircase in the eastern flat end of the building is rather unexpected. The enfilade of display halls closes with half-round halls in flat ends. In the center there is a round hall bossed into the yard. The unusual system of high floor vaults, bearing against exquisite columns, creates an impression of constructions' aeriality and a feeling of interior amplitude and magnificence. The present-day exposition was created in 1986. Nine Armoury halls exhibit Russian and Foreign jewelry articles of the XII-XIX centuries, armoury and weapons, State regalia, royal carriages, garbs and other artware. Since 1967, the ground-floor of the building houses «The Diamond Fund» exhibition. #russia #moscow #architecture


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Beaumont refinery considering multi-billion dollar expansion
Exxon Mobil could start construction on a multi-billion dollar expansion at its Beaumont refinery within the next year, a company official said, which would make it the largest by capacity in the country.
The expansion, which is expected to double the Beaumont facility's capacity, has been under consideration for several years.
At an analysts' meeting last week, senior Vice President Jack Williams said a final investment decision on the project should be made this year.
The refinery's current capacity is about 365,000 barrels per day. Motiva's Port Arthur refinery is the largest in the U.S., with a capacity of 600,000 barrels per day.
"Exxon Mobil is evaluating potential expansion of light crude refining capacity at its Beaumont refinery," spokeswoman Ashley Alemayehu said. "No decisions have been made. If the project proceeds, construction would begin in 2019, followed by unit startup in 2022."
Speaking about upcoming refining projects, Williams said the proposed Beaumont light oil expansion project is "perhaps my favorite example on integration."
"It's going to leverage a lot of on-site infrastructure that's available to us at Beaumont," he said. "Intermediate products" from the refining process would be used at plants in Baton Rouge and Baytown, he said.
"Although the project is located at Beaumont, it's really a full Gulf Coast upgrade," he said.
The proposed expansion is fueled by "confidence" in production in the Bakken Formation in Montana, North
Dakota and Canada, and the Permian Basin in West Texas and New Mexico, Williams said.
The company announced in January that it plans to triple its production in the Permian by 2025, which will supply its Gulf Coast refineries.
Beaumont Mayor Becky Ames said the city is working to show Exxon Mobil that it supports the expansion and the jobs that it would bring.
Alemayehu said the project would create up to 1,850 construction jobs and between 40 and 60 permanent jobs.
"It's important for us to help anyway we can," Ames said.
The expansion would be done within the refinery's existing 2,000-acre facility, Ames said, so the city would likely modify existing tax abatement agreements, rather than create new ones.
Exxon Mobil is "always having conversations" with the Greater Beaumont Chamber of Commerce, according to Ana Pereda, Vice President of Economic Development.
"They have plans," she said, but she declined to comment on the status of those discussions.
Jefferson County Judge Jeff Branick said the proposed Exxon Mobil project is part of "millions of dollars of expansions" he's anticipating in the petrochemical industry in the county.
"Every project feeds other potential developments," he said, including pipeline development and other growth.
"I'm always excited about job-creating projects," Branick said. "We need to obviously work on training up our people to fill those jobs. I'm glad that we have LIT and the process technology program at Lamar State College-Port Arthur to help us with that."
Ames said that during conversations with companies about growth and expansion, the city makes it known that they "prefer" hiring locals, but said having a trained workforce available has been a challenge.
"Workforce development is just as important as economic development," she said.
Branick said the county's abatement agreements require companies to give locals the opportunity to bid on projects and to submit reports on local hiring and purchases.
"We're certainly an attractive place for development," he said, because "it's easier to get permits to build at plants in Jefferson County" than in the Houston or Dallas areas.
In 2016, Exxon Mobil announced a $450 million expansion to the refinery, increasing its capacity by 17 percent. Construction is also ongoing at an expansion of the company's polyethylene plant on U.S. 90.


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The aurora borealis dances above Robert Bruce's smokehouse on a cold autumn night on the Porcupine River in Canada's Yukon. When Bruce was seven years old, his parents taught him how to butcher the caribou and smoke the fish that sustain the Vuntut Gwitchin people—among the last in North America to meet most of their nutritional needs through hunting and gathering—through the long Arctic winters.
See more pictures from the February 2014 feature story "Yukon: Canada's Wild West."
Learn what drives Paul Nicklen to protect the polar regions of the world »
See full article on NationalGeograhic.com


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Hey friends! Welcome to Girls' Night!
Our guest for today's episode is my dear friend, Emily Tuttle. Emily is an humanitarian videographer and producer, an artist, and an advocate for people whose voices aren't being heard. She's just amazing, I can't wait for you to meet her.
In our conversation today, Emily and I are going to be talking about how to show up and make a difference in our messy, broken, beautiful world, and here's what I mean by that.
You guys know this, but all you have to do is turn on the news or go on Facebook for 2.5 seconds to see that there's a LOT going on in our world these days. It seems like there is a new problem, a new major issue every single day, and it feels like our country disagrees more than ever about how these problems should be solved.
I don't know about you, but I feel overwhelmed by this all the time. I feel overwhelmed by the amount of information that's out there, I feel overwhelmed as I hear angry arguments on either side. I feel even more overwhelmed when I do understand at least part of what's going on, because then I realize I have no idea what to do next. This terrible thing is happening and I have no idea how to help!
When I'm feeling bowled over by the brokenness of this world, overwhelmed by information, and at a total loss for how to help, there's one person in my life that I always reach out to first, and that's my friend Emily.
Emily is engaging in the conversations that are going on today in such a beautiful way. And she's not just engaging in the conversations, she's taking action. I love this about her, and I know that the world needs more of us to follow her example.
So today, Emily is going to help us figure out how.
She's going to help us figure out how to keep up with current events without being swallowed by them, she's going to help us figure out how to have hard conversations with people who disagree with us, she's going to help us figure out how to help (and she'll break right through the lie that we're not equipped or smart or strong enough to help) and that's just the beginning.
Now, I want to say, in a way, the things we're talking about in today's episode are a bit political. But, I want you to know, this is not about taking one side or another. We're not fighting here or taking any sort of stand.
This episode is about figuring out what we personally believe, and then figuring out what to do with that belief. We're talking about how to make the world a better place in a way that only we can.
I'm so excited for this episode.
With that said, you can listen to this episode in a few different ways. You can search "Girls Night with Stephanie May Wilson" in your iTunes Podcast app (Don't forget to subscribe and leave a review while you're there!), or you can listen in the media player below! You can also find it on the app, Stitcher and Spotify!
I can't wait to dive in. You ready? Me too!
Welcome to Girls Night!
A free download of Stephanie's book, The Lipstick Gospel
Emily's Etsy Shop, Consider The World
Preemptive Love — the organization Emily's Etsy shop supports
Euro Relief — The organization Emily went to Greece with
An organization Emily worked alongside in Greece (and really respects!) is International Rescue Committee
Casa Bernabé/Friends of Children Everywhere — The organization & children's home Emily is involved with in Guatemala
Gary Haugen quote:
"When our grandchildren ask us where we were when the voiceless and vulnerable in our era needed leaders of compassion and purpose, I hope we can say that we showed up, and we showed up on time."
Church of the City's "Holy Discontentment" series
Habakkuk 1:5
"Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe even if you were told."
Something God is teaching Emily these days is how much He knows the bigger picture
Something Emily is loving is her new niece, Ava
A woman inspiring Emily is LaTasha Morrison, founder of Be the Bridge and her Facebook group
Our sponsor for today's episode is Hello Fresh. For $30 off your first week of Hello Fresh, visit hellofresh.com/stephanie30 and enter promo code STEPHANIE30.
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P.S. We asked Emily for any other recommendations of people we should follow, people doing great things around the world, or places where we could get involved, and this is the list she sent us:
Some good accounts to follow on social media to learn more about what's going on with the refugee crisis and how to help:
@refugees (the UNHCR's account)
@refugecoffeeco (This is an organization in Atlanta that employs refugees to run a coffee company)
@matt.willingham (He does communications for Preemptive Love, lives in Iraq, and shares awesome stories.)
@thejcourt (He founded Preemptive Love.)
Some other accounts I love following related to caring for orphans or children in crisis:
@meredithtoering (She runs an organization in China called Morning Star Foundation that helps kids with heart problems get medical care and find adoptive families. She's a wonderful storyteller and shares a lot about the difficult but beautiful sides of adoption and caring for kids in crisis.)
@thearchibaldproject (This is an organization focusing on storytelling about adoption. The couple who runs it are also adopting themselves right now.)
@graceandsalt (This couple adopted two kids from Uganda a couple years ago, and their story is a great one to go back through and read.)
@showhope (This is an organization in Nashville that raises money to help fund adoptions.)
@orphanalliance (This is Christian Alliance for Orphans, and they run really solid yearly conferences for adoptive families, people interested in adoption, people involved in global orphan care, etc.)
@athentikos (They are an art ministry that uses art and creativity to work with children in crisis in Guatemala)
Other accounts I just love following:
@beabridgebuilder (This is the organization I mentioned at the end called Be the Bridge that focuses on racial reconciliation in the US.)
@latashamorrison (She founded Be the Bridge.)
@walkthruthebible (My dad runs this organization in Atlanta that focuses on getting people around the world access to biblical resources.)
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year end performance is going to be held on this Friday 6/12.
The location is at Chelmsford Center for Arts (http://www.chelmsfordarts.
com/), the address is:
1A North Road, Chelmsford, MA 01824
which is the intersection of Rte. 110, Rte. 4, and Rte. 129 in Chelmsford center.
Please arrive no later than 6:45pm, and performance starts at 7pm sharp, with intermission around 8:30pm.


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The Horsewomen of Las Vegas by BadGoose, Hedone (AttackPlatypus), LiteratureLocker, RileySavage7, ThatBohoFemme
Fandoms: WWE, World Wrestling Entertainment, World Championship Wrestling, Impact Wrestling | Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, Extreme Championship Wrestling
21 May 2019
A police/organized crime AU where the WWE's Four Horsewomen all live in Las Vegas
Bayley: A good cop and detective in the rampantly corrupt LVPD investigating a series of brutal crimes. Best friend to Sasha Banks.
Sasha Banks: A hard working ICU nurse caught between two worlds even as she works to find her own place in them.
Charlotte Flair: Scion of the powerful Flair Crime Family, has newly relocated to Vegas as part of an ambitious plan.
Becky Lynch: A mid-level member of Las Vegas' Irish Mob. Working hard to climb the ranks but struggling to make progress.
The Horsewomen are joined in this story by many other familiar faces from the world of WWE and wrestling in general.


text: Love the new weetabix advert from BBH London agency, where a nine year old girl performs an amazing street dance routine after eating her cereal, and is surrounded by breakdancing bears! I found this behind the scenes video of the shoot and was really surprised to find out the bears were actually filmed in life size costumes with break dancers inside! There were also smaller puppets filmed in the same green screen technique. Altogether I think its edited really well, and is an effective advert portraying their 'fuel for fun' campaign. BBH also produced the new british airways brand campaign and the very funny sequel advert for yeo valley - Live in Harmony, boyband. Two other really great adverts on tv right now. http://www.bartleboglehegarty.com/#!/europe


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E. Drew Cheney, CPA, JD, LL.M.
A principal in the tax practice at Baker Newman Noyes, Drew specializes in serving employee benefit plans and tax-exempt organizations of all sizes. He has been with the firm since its founding in 1995. In addition to serving clients, Drew provides leadership to the firm by serving on our management committee. He is a regular author of the BNN Employee Benefits Blog.
Drew earned a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College, a juris doctor from Cornell Law School, and a Master of Laws in taxation from Boston University School of Law.
Business Activities
- Member, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
- Member, Maine Society of Certified Public Accountants
- Member, Maine Bar Association
- Member, New Hampshire Bar Association
- Member, Maine Employee Benefits Council
- Member, Maine Estate Planning Council
- Member, Healthcare Financial Management Association
Volunteer / Service Activities
- Preble Street
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Drew enjoys reading and running. He is married and has one son and one daughter.
- New Guidance on Tax Reform's Impact on Parking: A Summary for Tax-Exempt Employers
- New Guidance on Tax Reform's Impact on Parking: A Summary for Taxable Employers
- Tax Deductibility of Meals and Entertainment Expenses
- How Compensation and Benefits are Changed by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
- Bank Private Foundations—An Overview
- The March 31 Deadline for the Individual Health Insurance Mandate Is Fast Approaching
- Obama Administration Announces One-Year Delay of Employer Mandate Under Affordable Care Act
- New Proposed Regulations under Section 501(r) for Tax-Exempt Hospitals
- Qualified Charitable Distributions from IRAs: Limited Window of Time to Obtain Tax Benefit for 2012
- Taxability of Employer-Provided Educational Assistance
- IRS Launches New Online Tool for Obtaining Information Regarding Exempt Organizations
- IRS Announces Two-Month Suspension of E-Filing for Form 990 Filers and Offers Automatic Extension
- IRS Introduces Section 409A Document Correction Program
- Employee Cell Phones Generally Are Now Nontaxable
- IRA and SSA Release 2012 Inflation Adjustments


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Denis was a missionary to Paris and he became the first Bishop of Paris. He had enemies and was imprisoned by Roman governor. Denis was martyred and legends quickly grew around his torture and death. One story recounts the body of Denis carrying his severed head away from his execution site. He was beheaded at Montmarte (mount of martyrs) and his corpse was thrown in the River Seine, but was recovered and buried later that night by his followers.
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Los Angeles isn't my favorite place. However, since Mike and I have friends who call it home, and I have a job that sometimes requires my presence out there, we find ourselves in L.A. from time to time. I'll admit though, I get a TINY bit jealous of my West Coast comrades when they tell me how they went hiking during their lunch hour, and it was 80 degrees out. I can't compete with that.
Fall has sucked here this year. Instead of changing colors, the leaves in NYC just decided to turn brown and die. It's been freezing, then randomly hot, and now its pouring. Because of that, I thought I'd take a look back at the home of Housewives, Kardashians, and juice cleanses. Enjoy!


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Yep, it's true. Marco has sold yet another of his popular projects, The Magazine, but rather than going with a 3rd party, he sold it straight to its executive editor, Glenn Fleishman.
Glenn, who is rumored to possess olympian-level tweeting abilities[1] and is a past Jeopardy champion, has done excellent work in his role as editor of The Magazine[2] and I have no doubt he will do equally well in the role of CEO.
My congrats go out to Marco and Glenn, and I look forward to what they each have in the pipeline.


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Simple Chicken & Dumplings – 9 Weight Watchers Points Plus Value
Chicken & Dumplings happens to be one of my husband's favorite dishes.
For some reason, I don't think to make it very often.
I guess I've always thought that it was too time consuming and complicated, especially when making the dumplings.
I was wrong.
The Perfect Comfort Food
This particular recipe is very simple to make and the epitome of comfort food.
My initial reason for making chicken & dumplings was not only because I hadn't made it in a while and my husband loves it, but also because we had some thawed out chicken breasts in the refrigerator for a couple of days.
If I didn't do anything with them on this particular day, I would have had to throw them out.
I thought, I could make some sort of soup, or stew……..oh yeah! Chicken & Dumplings!
And I happened to have all of the ingredients on hand.
I made it and my husband fell in love with me all over again.
The way to a man's heart TRULY is through his stomach!
A Great Go-To Recipe
I decided to make this recipe again about a week later because I thought it would be a great dish to bring to a very sick friend whose family is in my prayers and in need of some help with meals.
Simple Chicken & Dumplings Recipe
So, here is the recipe for Simple Chicken & Dumplings:
Simple Chicken & Dumplings – 9 Weight Watchers Points Plus Value
- - 1 32 ounce container chicken broth
- - 4 skinless boneless chicken breast halves, cubed, or more as needed
- - 1 onion chopped
- - 1/2 16 ounce package baby carrots
- - 2 stalks celery chopped
- - 1 bay leaf I omitted this, but if you like bay leaves, go for it
- - Salt & ground black pepper to taste
- - 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- - 3 t. baking powder
- - 1 1/2 t. white sugar
- - 3/4 t. salt
- - 1 1/2 T. butter
- - 3/4 cup milk
- Combine chicken broth, chicken breast cubes, onion, carrots, celery, bay leaf (optional), salt, and pepper in a large pot; bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover pot, and simmer until chicken is no longer pink in the center and the vegetables are tender, 20 to 25 minutes.
- Stir together flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt in medium size bowl. Cut in butter until crumbly. Stir in milk to make a soft dough.
- Drop the dough by spoonfuls into simmering stew. Cover and simmer 15 minutes without lifting lid.
- Enjoy!
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To read in writing that this recipe was very good, totally does it an injustice.
You seriously have to try it yourself to really know how good it is.
It's so simple, it's almost ridiculous, but it creates heaven in a bowl.
I couldn't wait to eat the leftovers the next day for lunch.
Only 9 Weight Watchers Points Plus Value
Another great thing that I realized after calculating the Weight Watchers Points Plus Value, is that each serving totals up to only 9 points.
That is pretty darn good for a nice size bowl of Chicken & Dumplings.
I just figured that it would be too fattening.
But the only fattening part of this dish is the dumplings, which is probably the bulk of the 9 points per serving.
Inexpensive to Make
An added bonus to making this dish is that it's relatively inexpensive too.
I know, nothing is cheap these days and grocery store prices are skyrocketing, but in the big scheme of things, this meal is so much cheaper to make than other meals you could make.
AND, if it makes your husband so happy that he gazes at you adoringly after he eats it, then all the better!
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The easiest way yet to share content across the Internet?
Ever wanted to enable access to your computer files from another PC? Yes, there are thousands of programmes which already offer such functionality, but Opera has found perhaps the most simple way yet…
Today the company launched 'Opera Unite', an alternative version of Opera 10 which allows users to effectively create a web server through their web browser. How it works is simple: you download the new version, select which folder(s) you want to share, choose a name for the PC you are using and that shared content and Opera generates a custom URL.
From here three access levels are available: public, limited and private. One note of caution, any folders selected automatically include content from their subfolders while obviously the PC sharing the content will need to remain both on and connected to the Internet.
Services initially available through Opera Unite are:
- File Sharing
- Web Server (host websites)
- Media Player (MP3 access)
- Photo Sharing
- 'The Lounge' (self contained chat rooms)
- 'Fridge' (an environment to securely exchange notes)
Further services will be rolled out as the platform matures.
"Today, we are opening the full potential of the Web for everyone," said Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner. "Technology moves in distinct cycles. PCs decentralized computing away from large mainframes. Opera Unite now decentralizes and democratizes the cloud. With server capability in the browser, Web developers can create Web applications with profound ease. Consumers have the flexibility to choose private and efficient ways of sharing information. We believe Opera Unite is one of our most significant innovations yet, because it changes forever the fundamental fabric of the Web."
Opera Unite is available now. A brave new world, or a niche service? Only time – and perhaps user imagination – will tell…
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Happy G.O.O.D Fri....Saturday everyone. Mr. West present us with another new track for this week's G.O.O.D Friday titled "Don't Look Down (The Phoenix Story)" featuring his newest labelmate Mos Def, Big Sean and CRS buddy Lupe Fiasco. Kick off your weekend right and take a listen to this newest banger and grab the download to go.


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Chicago's popular summer event, Cine en el Parque, returns this year with films from across Latin America and the U.S. playing in parks all over Chicago. There's one every week - just bring a blanket and show up! They even provide free popcorn.
Highlights include:
La Fórmula del Doctor Funes (Dr. Funes' Formula), Mexico
July 8, Calumet Park
July 15, Piotrowski Park
Based on Francisco Honojosa's bestselling children's book. Through his telescope, Martín Poyo witnesses Dr. Funes' discovery of a formula that will turn adults into young people. Hoping to be turned into a twenty-year old, Dr. Funes tests the formula but is instead turned into a twelve-year old kid. The formula then falls into the hands of Funes' archenemy, Dr. Moebius.
Septimo (The Seventh Floor), Argentina
August 5, Loyola Park
Two children disappear without a trace while going down the stairs from their seventh floor apartment, leaving their father to search desperately for them.
Brought to you by the Latino Cultural Center.
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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Patriotic buying? Panic selling? Hold for the long-term? Just what will investors do when the equity markets re-open Monday after being closed for nearly a week following Tuesday's terrorist attacks.
There's been much speculation over the last few days and it's starting to look like investors will be staying the course.
"There's definitely been a pick-up in calls coming in which is indicative of the level of concern investors have," said Rick Malone a senior vice-president and regional broker Ferris Baker Watts. Right now, however, Malone said none of his clients were looking to sell when the markets open.
About 5 to 10 percent of clients, Malone said have indicated interest in buying stocks to spur on the market Monday.
Another broker, at Salomon Smith Barney, a unit of Citigroup C, +1.31%, said clients across the board are accepting the firm's guidance that any sharp downturn would be a short-term phenomenon and that long-term stocks historically have moved up after these types of events.
None of his clients, he said, were looking to step in and buy on Monday but there also were no sell orders.
Charles Schwab SC.H, +0.00% spokesman Greg Gable said trade order activity has been light at the brokerage as investors wait out the developments of the week. Customer calls and Web site visits also were running light, he said. Some investors who had entered orders at the beginning of the week cancelled them.
"People are waiting to see how the market reacts," Gable said.
Datek said it wasn't accepting orders yet due to concerns about communications reliability and so could not comment on which way it thought investors would go. However, the broker said it would be fully operational Monday.


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by Nathan Villasenor
It may be old news now, especially with the developments in Peterson's case, but Rice has been reduced to nothing more than a memory in his association with the NFL. The 27 year old athlete was cut from his organization on September 8 after a video released by celebrity news website TMZ showed him deliver a knockout punch to his then-fiancé inside an elevator at a New Jersey casino. Rice was initially suspended for a mere two weeks after the news had first surfaced, but the video released by TMZ all but secured his termination from the league.
The fact that Rice was terminated only after the video of the punch was released is one that should be examined here. I suppose the true insult to everyone's ethics is that Rice was only suspended for two weeks after the initial news broke out; why wasn't stronger disciplinary action taken earlier? This concern leads to another morally provocative question, one that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has had a difficult time answering convincingly: Are Ray Rice and (to a lesser extent) Adrian Peterson gone because of their actions, or because they have been PR disasters?
The disciplinary action against these two men seems even more ridiculous when compared to the one-year suspension that Cleveland Browns wide receiver Josh Gordon received after testing positive for marijuana earlier in the year. The residual message that the NFL seems to be sending is that smoking marijuana is a more serious offense than abusing your wife or child.
What may be even more alarming is the fact that the NFL has had 90 player arrests due to domestic violence or sexual abuse charges since 2000, according the Chicago Tribune. Again, this statistic is only valid for those who have been arrested; there have been even more who had charges dropped or unreported.
The typical job description for NFL players includes aggression. In a sport where bodies routinely get smashed and consequently broken, violence is seemingly promoted. However, does the association with such a hard-hitting game as football guarantee violent tendencies? Folsom Lake College Social Psychology Professor Christina Aldrich says, "Research in social psychology has shown that engaging in aggressive behaviors (such as football) actually has a tendency to increase aggressive behavior. Despite the general belief that some people hold, that engaging in aggressive behaviors can have a cathartic effect (as was proposed by Freud), research does not support this proposition…Overall, research on aggression suggests that the more aggressive acts we engage in, the more likely we are to display aggression in our everyday lives."
In summation, there does seem to be a positive correlation between aggressive sports and reflected aggression at home, reflecting this trend that we have seen from NFL players. Despite what the research suggests, Aldrich did go on to offer a disclaimer, stating that "this is not to say that all football players will be aggressive off the field, it simply suggests that because of the aggressive behaviors they engage in on the field they are more likely to engage in aggressive behaviors in other areas of their life."
While it is true that football is a contact sport with a unique tendency for aggressiveness, the fact we must all consider is that these players are people who are subject to the same standards that any other person is subject to. Superstar status and the expected role of aggressiveness for an hour of play should have no effect on the actual persona of these individuals. To simply expect an unnecessarily violent personality from an NFL player is the same as expecting an actor who plays an addict in a movie to truly be addicted to the drugs.
These individuals are accountable for their actions; the temporary roles they play for the good of the game are to be just that: temporary. If the roles are not temporary, the careers of these athletes most certainly will be.
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Its Christmas Eve and I have three days off to complete four orders so best not hit the Baileys as hard as I do usually at this time of year. I'm not having a big Christmas so having a good few things to make is ideal to fill up the time. Its not that I don't like Christmas, I really do and I'd love to have a big family Christmas but (don't bring out any violins) but I've never had one of those and its never going to happen so here I am surrounded by yarn but no tinsel.
Anyway, one of the things I've been asked to make is a black version of my knitted chain scarf. Click here for an example in my Etsy shop. Goodness knows why I haven't made a black one before because if I say so myself its coming along brilliantly.
If you take a close look at this first picture you'll see in the background my 'to-do' list notebook. I love a good to-do list and I have a lot of things I should be getting on with, there are just under 300 items on my list which I think is verging on the out of control end of things.
I've tried knitting the links using the magic loop method and I just don't get on with it, I don't mind dpns too much and the fantastically loud metallic clattering sound they make when I drop them on my faux wood floor must surely make my downstairs neighbour sing with joy.
I bought a rotating yarn stick thing at Unravel this year, its hand-turned oak and cost about £28 I think; it's quite a nice thing in itself but not really necessary and the feller that made it used some sort of bearings in a roller contraption to make it turn so that's quite noisy too especially if I stand it on the floor. I should have bought a yarn bowl like I intended but the wooden stick chap was nice and we got chatting and one handspun mitten kit turned into another and there I was with a spinning yarn stick/kitchen roll holder thing to lug home. You can see it a bit here and in the final pic.
When I started knitting this scarf I was reading Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn, I haven't read one of her's before and I did really enjoy it, I wasn't expecting it to be quite so 'Forever Amber' so that was a nice surprise, I thought I was in for some kind of Wuthering Heights slog. My copy is really tatty and yellowed with age so I can't donate it to a charity shop, if anyone fancies reading it leave me a message here and I'm happy to post it to you. I'm now reading Dude Where's my Country by Michael Moore and I've remembered about 100 pages too late that I can't stand Michael Moore.
This is my lovely ladybird row counter, that I wear on a cord around my neck. Its perfect for knitting while you commute and many is the time I've caught some city type giving me a bit of a funny look as I march across London Bridge with this still bouncing off my chest. It is quite big. Again it is fairly noisy so apologies to everyone else on the train that thinks I'm cracking my knuckles every couple of minutes. Nice though isn't it? I like a ladybird, though I did a stint as a PA at Ladybird books and that was not a positive experience. I've also worked with a woman that was terrified of ladybirds – that's got to be a pretty unusual phobia hasn't it? Anyway, my row counter was a freebie from one of those magazine subscription stands at the Knitting and Stitching show at Olympia this year. I was nearly tempted to sign up for a subscription on the strength of the gift but thankfully remembered in time that I never actually read the magazines when they arrive and quite often can't even be bothered to open the wrapping. Have a closer look at the last picture below and you'll see the mini mountain of magazines and boring paperwork I have yet to find any interest in.
So here we are with the current state of play, its just under a 1.5m long now so there's still a fair way to go before it's ready to list on Etsy for my customer but I think I can get it finished before the post office reopens on Tuesday.


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Well, that's it - after tonight, no more dinners to cook (well, for the Agriturismo at least) until the start of next years season in March! The great thing about this job is every year there are a number of points where you have that old school end-of-year feeling (even if not looking forward to 6 weeks of summer holidays at the beach as when young!). There really is a day when the Agriturismo winds-down,the last guests for the year leave & the house reverts to our home. The harvest & wine-making really do have an end when the wine is safely tucked-away in the cellar & winter's chill has descended upon the vines. And at the end of winter the time comes to leave all that & revert to the Agriturismo, the first guests arrive & so the cycle goes on!
Last evening a very violent, fast-moving thunderstorm passed over us. Its fury was disconcerting & the amazing thing was that a beautiful, sunny & clear morning revealed almost no damage!
Today, Monday 17 September, was the first day since March when we have found ourselves at La Faula without any guests.
We passed from running the Agriturismo full tilt to harvesting the grapes with nary a second's break. It seemed, at the time, that it would all be rather impossible to pull-off: due to the warm winter past & the very hot June & July, the grapes' maturity was advanced by about a month but the night's thunder-storms of August & consequent humidity gave us concern about the risk of the grapes rotting away on the vine.
The Agriturismo was fully engaged until 15 September but on 10 September, with the forebearance of the guests, we began the harvest of the white grapes. The early harvest & harvester's family difficulties left us short of grape pickers at this time & it took some fortitude to keep pushing on.
We began by harvesting Sauvignon blanc, the grapes of which have a fine skin & so are prone to rot. It was necessary, therefore, that the harvesters clean the bunches of grapes, where there was rot, to remove the bad grapes. This was unbelievably time-consuming & was pretty tough on those few pickers as it seemed that the lines of grapes were endless & that closure would never be reached. After a week, however, the sauvignon was all in the canteen & the quality of the grapes left was superb. They were extremely rich in sugar & taste. I think, though, that we probably lost around 35% of the harvest.
Fortunately, the weather held: hot, sunny days with warm drying afternoon breezes.
We moved on to harvesting the tocai - some of the grapes had the 'noble rot', a kind of fungus that absorbs moisture from the individual grapes leaving the remaining juice, with its sugars & aromas, rich & concentrated.
Finally, we harvested the Pinot Bianco & Chardonnay, finishing the later today. These last grapes were perfect & could not be bettered.
All the wines are now bubbling away in the canteen / cellar & seem to be very good.
Tomorrow, the rain is due - at least it will allow us to sleep-in without a bad conscience!!!


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Flaky biscuit with chile cheddar chive butter (from carla hall of the chew)
hi fans, last night I made a batch of homemade biscuits and ohh my they were the best since I was 16 years old. its been a while since high school so I decided to whip some up recently. it turned out excellent my family loves it and approves this recipe. I hope you also do to. so please give it a try tonight or any night of the week. yum!
Flaky Biscuits
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (plus more)
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 stick cold butter (thinly sliced, plus 2 tablespoons melted)
1 cup cold whole milk (plus 2 tablespoons)
Cayenne Cheddar Chive Butter
2 sticks unsalted butter (room temperature)
1/2 teaspoon cayenne (we used chili powder)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup extra-sharp, cheddar cheese (grated)
2 tablespoons chives (finely chopped)
For the Flaky Biscuits: preheat oven to 450ºF. Grease baking sheet with butter.
In a large mixing bowl, sift the flour, sugar, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Add the pats of butter and use your fingertips to pinch it into the flour mixture to form small, pea sized pieces.
Lightly coat your work surface with nonstick cooking spray, then flour. (The spray keeps the flour in place.)
Add the milk and mix until the dough forms a shaggy ball and there are no dry bits of flour left. The dough should be slightly sticky.
Transfer dough to the prepared work surface. Lightly coat your hands with flour and gently press the dough with the heels of your hands to form it into a smooth flat disc, 1/2-inch thick. With a floured 3-inch biscuit cutter, cut out dough rounds. Flip the rounds over so that the smooth sides that were against the work surface face up and place on the prepared pan, 1-inch apart. Stack the scraps and press and cut again. Refrigerate until cold, about 10-12 minutes.
Brush the tops of the biscuits with melted butter. Bake until the tops are golden brown and crisp, about 10-12 minutes. Let cool 5 minutes. Serve with a smear of the Cayenne Cheddar Chive Butter.
For the Cayenne Cheddar Chive Butter: in a large mixing bowl, add the butter, cayenne, salt, cheese and chives. Mix to combine. Transfer butter to a ramekin and serve at room temperature. To store, transfer butter to a sheet of plastic wrap. Using the plastic wrap, form butter into a log, seal the ends and store in the refrigerator or freezer.
Helpful tips:
- Freeze the butter then grate on box grater before incorporating into the flour mixture.
- Make sure baking soda and baking powder has not expired.
- Use the scoop and level method to measure dry ingredients. Do not pack them into measuring tool.
Flaky Biscuits
- Freeze the butter then grate on box grater before incorporating into the flour mixture.
- Make sure baking soda and baking powder has not expired.
- Use the scoop and level method to measure dry ingredients. Do not pack them into measuring tool.


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Do not feed your child products that can harm their teeth. Sugars and food particles are capable of damaging young children's teeth and cause baby bottle tooth decay. Baby bottle tooth decay is a disorder in young children caused by dental erosion attributed to sugars and other harmful products that eat away at their precious teeth.
Listed below are a few reminders regarding baby bottle tooth decay:
– By the time your child is roughly 6 months old, their first teeth will begin to appear above the gumline and appear in their mouth for the first time, at which time they must be cleaned and cared for daily to ensure decay does not occur.
– Baby bottle tooth decay is most normally caused by flavored water, which is given to children in their baby bottles, as it can erode their tooth enamel and can pool in their mouths while they sleep.
– If you share any utensils, cleaning products, bottles, or other objects from your mouth to your infant's, contamination will occur, which will introduce new bacteria and oral health care threats to their mouth.
– Baby bottle tooth decay can be caused by flavoring or coating the lid to a bottle or a pacifier with a sugary ingredient intended to get the child to use the product, such as honey.
– When using toothpaste for your young child's teeth, use a drop about the size of a rice grain, and make sure it is fluoride free and approved by your dentist or features the ADA Seal of Acceptance.
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Knesset Speaker Yuli-Yoel Edelstein met Pope Francis in Rome Sunday evening. Edelstein thanked the pope for his contribution to the strengthening of Jewish-Christian relations and requested that he stress in his homilies that Israel is the Holy Land.
"Your call for pilgrimages to the Land of Israel is extremely important," the Knesset speaker told Pope Francis. "It will certainly bring massive tourism that will contribute to Israel`s economy- for the benefit of Jews and Arabs alike – and this may lead to stability and calm."
While in Rome, Speaker Edelstein also met with the President of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy, Laura Boldrini, and asked that she work to prevent the scheduled visit of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to her country, particularly in light of Iran`s plan to hold another international Holocaust cartoon contest.
During the meeting on Friday, Edelstein said "a man who denies and mocks the Holocaust is not worthy of entering the gates of Europe."
Edelstein and Boldrini during meeting in Rome
Boldrini noted that Islamophobia was on the rise in Europe, particularly after the recent incidents in Cologne. "The effect was strong," she told Edelstein, who said in response that "Many countries will have to learn how to strike a balance between being free countries with liberties and respecting the uniqueness of the migrants."
During a meeting with European Parliament President Martin Schulz in Berlin Thursday evening, Edelstein said, "Countries and people in Europe cannot say they oppose anti-Semitism and in the same breath be anti-Israel. Israel will survive the labelling of products (manufactured in the West Bank, the Golan Heights and Jerusalem). Those who will not survive are the thousands of Palestinian families who work shoulder to shoulder with their Jewish friends and have a shared life there. It will hurt their economy, their lives and their families, and it will destroy the seeds of peace that exist in those employment zones."
"Wines from the Golan are being boycotted in Europe. I am willing to cede the Golan. Just tell me, to whom? To Syria? To ISIS?" Edelstein stated.
Edelstein (L) meets with Schulz (R)
Edelstein also addressed a clip that was broadcast on Channel 2's Uvda program last week, which showed an activist working for the NGO Ta'ayush bragging on a hidden camera that he turns in Palestinians who sell land to Jews to the Palestinian Authority to be tortured and killed. "The European Union should be careful not to fund organizations that send people to be executed," he said.
Schulz said "the relations between Israel and Germany are good, in contrast to the relations between Israel and Sweden. The growing anti-Semitism should concern all of Europe. I oppose labelling products from the territories. It will mainly hurt the Palestinians, who make an honest living there."


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Most of the Mexican Riviera cruise pictures are up. This one is one of my favorites. The ship really churned up a lot of water during its passage.
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Wow, The devils icebox is cool. (literally and figuratively)
Thanks. I though the story was really interesting.


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I had quite a scare this evening. After eating some dinner I sat down at my computer and brought it back from hibernation. I noticed that Thunderbird was sluggish to "come back to life," and that whenever my mouse pointer was anywhere over the user interface, it displayed as an hourglass. After 25 seconds or so, I was presented with a pop-up alert from my virus scanning software, Norton AntiVirus, notifying me of a virus that had been automatically removed from my computer. Having seen these types of messages before, I wasn't all that concerned, even when a second pop-up appeared immediately after closing the first.
I noticed, however, that after the two messages had gone away that Thunderbird was still unresponsive. I decided to close it down and try a restart. When I did, Thunderbird launched without a hitch. It didn't take long, though, for me to realize that two of my three main inboxes were completely empty. This concerned me quite greatly, as information pertaining to projects I've been working on and several emails I had yet to reply to had completely disappeared. Almost immediately my thoughts turned to those two virus notifications I had received, and I immediately opened up the Norton AntiVirus interface to see if there was anything I could do about my missing inboxes.
After a little hunting, I came to the conclusion that Norton AntiVirus's solution to "repairing" the viruses it had found was to delete the inbox (in my case, inboxes) that the virus was found in. As you can imagine, this is not very desirable. Luckily, I was able to find the Quarantined Items management panel in the Reports section. From here it was possible to restore any folders or files that Norton AntiVirus had removed during its "repairs," and it didn't take long to spot my two Thunderbird inboxes, which I subsequently restored to their original locations. Since nothing ever goes smoothly the first time around, I then launched Thunderbird, and watched as my inboxes were immediately "repaired" yet again. Having learned from my mistake, I restored the folders again, disabled Norton AntiVirus temporarily, relaunched Thunderbird, removed the two obviously infected emails (which were the same for both email accounts), and enabled Norton AntiVirus. I then breathed a big sigh of relief, as I have my Thunderbird inboxes back.
The irony of it all is that I've specifically set Norton AntiVirus up to ignore any and all email, and to scan only files on my computer. Now I suppose, in the grand scheme of things, emails are actually files on my computer, but I assumed Norton AntiVirus would be smart enough to recognize that Inbox files in my Thunderbird application folder are email related files. I guess I was wrong. I now think that when telling Norton AntiVirus to abstain from scanning emails, you're really just telling it to stay away from Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Outlook Express. If that is the case, it's a real shame, because Thunderbird is quickly becoming a popular email program, and it's certainly worth its weight in gold when compared to Microsoft's email products.
It's a real shame that this kind of thing can happen to any computer user who has done things to protect his or her computer (like installing an antivirus program or using an application like Thunderbird that is so much safer than the Outlook variants). I think a majority of users wouldn't have been able to recover their inbox(es) and would have resigned to the fact that their inboxes had been lost for good...
...Just appeared as I was writing this entry.
Its funny only because that "Virus" is an MSIE-only thing....
Oh, the irony! ;)
I ran into the exact same problem...
Once I recovered my file I then configured Norton to exclude scanning the inbox file from Thunderbird. The following link helpped a lot.
Hello Bernie,
Perhaps what happened to you is what happened to me. I have been in a dither the past weeks scouring the net for a way to get my e-mails back. When my pc became sluggish I initially thought that Norton was the problem, but I never suspected it ate my mail and Thunderbird settings. I thought that Norton was running hard becasue I had some type of virus that it could not detact and/or kill.
So I updated my Norton and ran a complete scan. it found nothing. Then I made sure my Spybot Search & destroy was updated and ran it. I made sure my Ad-aware was updated and ran it. I ran my Spyware Doctor. Nothing more was found. I always use my Zone Alarm Firewall so I went online to look for more security. I found 'Panda Online" and used it. It found 8 spywares and deleted them. I called it a night.
The next day that I log on to get my mail my Thunderbird asks me to set up an account. All three of my accounts, mailboxes and local folders had disappeared. After I literally cried, I pulled my self together and wrote to the Thunderbird form (3 times to date and I have gotten no response yet) I searched the Mozilla Knowledgeebase and found a way to check to see if my profiles was in tact and it seems to be.
Now after finding your post during my search a light bulb went off and I guess Norton quarantined my mail. But I don't see anything that looks
like my mail in the quarantined folder ... only files with numerical names.
Can you or anyone reading this please help me out of my misery? I just want to get my mail back. Once I do. I will delete Tbird and try out Eudora. I got Tbird because I thought it would be more secure that OE.
Guess I Was wrong.
God Bless.
SonDan, I believe you're in the wrong for blaming Thunderbird and not Norton. Norton isn't "smart" enough to realize the infected inbox is actually a repository and not a file, and is therefore quarantining the whole thing. It is a bit unfortunate that Thunderbird stores entire email folders in a single file, but still, if you follow the steps I took above and then use the link Alon provided to prevent the issue from occurring again, I think you'll find smooth sailing with Thunderbird from that moment on. Best of luck to you.
Hi everyone. I too have just (today) had Thunderbird zap all my mail folders and inboxes. But they are all still there on my hard drive in the Documents and Settings section of my main hard drive partition (C:). I don't use Norton but Kaspersky and they have not been quarantined. Is it at all possible to tell Thunderbird that it should look at those folders and mailboxes again? Some very important messages there. I have no idea why it happened. Those messages are not, therefore, lost but Thunderbird cannot see them. But I, of course NEED THEM! HELP!!
Help! I may seem alittle computer illiterate but it happened to me today. I shut down computer. When I rebooted thunderbird was brand new asking me to set up new profile. I have found the email accounts in a folder but they seem empty and I have no idea how to restore them or if it even can be done and if it is done will the emails be there? Help!
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Day 31
Our patron Shelby White spent a second day in the field with us today. In Grid 38 she helped excavate a metal tool with a bone handle.
In Grid 51 work continued as Kate tried to find parallels for the scarab they discovered today.
In Grid 44 the Islamic/Crusader material was fully exposed and tomorrow more walls should come down.
Grid 38 continued to work on interpreting the relationships between the Egyptian wall and Philistine material.


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Some riding at Woodman Point (Perth).
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fettes video:) … !! wann bist du wieder in Spanien??
Danke! Bin seit vorgestern wieder in Spanien, heute war fetter Wind!
nice video! i love the first part! this was cut by you?
hey. Looks nice and good action. I can see you like bindings. Then you gotta try the concept. It's build for bindings and it just work for that. Thomas alsbirk got a 139, that we tried last week. It's was my first time on bindings in perfect condisions. It was fun and I liked the huge slack on the lines after edging really hard and the power you can handle with the bindings on. http://www.xboard.dk/kite/?show=view_article&id=3888&subtype=1
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Nice Pics Peter, looks freaking cold! Bindings are super sick for massive pop and blind landings, will try the Concept for sure, but anyway I love the versatility of the Recoil, its sick for straps and great for bindings, also its very fast, so with light wind Im still able to compete with Strap riders, who have much less weight to carry around…
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Review: James Gallery collection reveals complex works painted with wax
Painting with encaustic, or hot wax, is a popular art medium; it dates as far back as 800 B.C., when shipbuilders used beeswax with pigment to paint the hulls of their vessels.
So it's no surprise to find an exhibit currently at James Gallery that features the work of 10 contemporary artists working with the medium. But what is a surprise is the wide variety in which each artist employs it.
"Each artist has their own process, technique and visual vocabulary, so the end results vary," James Gallery director Paul Cicozi says. "What I like about a survey exhibit like this is, it allows the viewer to see how each artist can incorporate that material in their own way, with dramatically different end results."
Heat is used at every stage of encaustic painting. The paint consists of beeswax melted with pigment and a small amount of resin to impart hardness. It requires working quickly, because the wax begins to harden the moment it leaves its heat source. Light passes through the encaustic paint, creating a captivating, luminous effect.
That's obvious in works like Karen Freedman's encaustic on panel piece "Ruche 0352.20," which explores symmetrical repetition and the potential to manipulate patterns with color.
An artist from North Wales, a suburb of Philadelphia, Freedman says all of her pieces on display are part of her "Kaleidoscoptical" series, which grew out of an entry into an exhibit for which the theme was the honeybee.
"With that, I decided to interpret the exhibition's theme by using a hexagonal repeat, which was inspired by the beehive and its internal structure of cells, the honeycomb," she says. "Even the title of each painting reflects this inspiration. Ruche is the French word for beehive."
The remaining artists employ a wide range of additive and subtractive techniques, including pouring, fusing, inscribing and embedding.
For example, Shadyside artist Stephanie Armbruster's piece "Signs & Premonitions" is a large-scale semi-abstract work made of encaustic on birch panel. Part of her most recent series, "The History of Walls," it features two portraits of the same person who is part of a small cast of characters who occasionally make a repeat appearance in her work, each with their own purpose and mythology.
"I have no idea who the gentleman in the photos is, which is why I've chosen to protect his identity. I refer to him only as 'The Guy,' and he seems to be an agent of change, always appearing in my work at times of conceptual or physical transition," Armbruster says.
With much of the rest of the work having subtractive qualities, this piece is largely about acts of interpretation, anonymity and authorship. To that end, it is built from about 15 layers of translucent wax, hinting at the presence of language, but intentionally leaving the piece otherwise devoid of context, anonymous and open to interpretation.
Similarly elusive, Christine Aaron of Larchmont, N.Y., displays "Vestige," a lithographic monoprint in encaustic on patinated steel.
Addressing themes of memory, and the passage of time, the piece is one of a series that uses tree imagery as symbolic of the human experience of memory.
"Trees mark time," Aaron says. "They serve as a metaphor for the cycle of life, symbols of dormancy and growth, strength and renewal. Trees hold the record of their lives in their rings. These inner marks remain hidden from view in the way that humans hold the physical, mental and emotional marks of personal experience within."
Aaron says the use of encaustic in combination with other materials enables her to embody these concepts. "Printmaking and encaustic allow me to develop through layering much the way human perception and memory is formed, and conveys a visual sense of the archeological act of recollection," she says. "'Vestige' is on steel, which I have 'aged' and rusted so that time itself becomes an integral part of the piece."
Nature is evoked, as well, in "The Space Between," a triptych by Jane Guthridge of Denver. An encaustic and archival inkjet print on translucent mulberry paper, the piece is meant to evoke the experience of nature, Guthridge says. "Not so much how it looks, but how it feels," she says.
"In these works, I use encaustic and the language of abstraction to try and evoke the experience of nature," she says. "Encaustic has a unique optical effect on light and color that allows me to create a contemplative experience."
Catherine Nash of Tucson, Ariz., shows the only three-dimensional pieces in the exhibit. Her "Eclipsis Lunar," for example, is a mixed-media assemblage and encaustic painting in an antique box that includes a chalk drawing of a lunar eclipse diagram.
"This is a work inspired from witnessing a full lunar eclipse," Nash says. "I first made a cabinet out of an old box and wooden panels using vintage hardware. Encaustic was painted into the bottom of the box and the constellation scragfitto (scratch drawings) were filled with white oil stick, the surface wiped clean."
Pages of handmade paper painted with walnut ink on the inner doors add a finishing touch. And cut branches were fitted into the box and painted with encaustic. To top it off, Nash created two versions of a lunar eclipse cut from mica sheeting and adhered them inside a removable, antique compact case. "Finally, using white wax pencil and chalk, I copied a circa 1552 diagram of a lunar eclipse on an old school slate," she explains. The result is alchemical, a truly transformational piece.
No less unusual in terms of materials, Philadelphia-based Lorraine Glessner's "Under the Pink" is a real standout for its inclusion of horse and human hair. Investigating the "volatility and vulnerability between the earth and humankind and between humans themselves," Glessner says this piece contains "liberal sexual undertones" within the colors and imagery that are "an investigation into romantic relationships — the freshness, romance and obsessiveness in the beginning of the relationship and the ups and downs, trials, breakups and reconciliations throughout the remainder of the relationship."
Finally, Santa Fe artist Paula Roland's "Language of Beauty VII," an encaustic monotype on Shikoku paper, is about the most free-flowing and organic piece in the exhibit.
"I purposely use processes that are slightly out of my control," Roland says. "With encaustic monotypes, there is an aspect of performance. Acting, creating marks and shapes using dancelike whole-body movements, and reacting — accepting and utilizing the fluid wax and pigment forms that are often a surprise. The molten-wax monotype provides a connection between intuition and cognition."
"The process never fails to get me to a deeper place, to reveal my innermost feelings and interests without being didactic. In this case, the revelation was beauty, accepting beauty, and mapping and deciphering its personal language for me as I worked. It has been a journey that requires the acceptance and relevance of beauty as an important element in my art, defining for myself what it is and what it is not."
Kurt Shaw is the art critic for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at [email protected].


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A new phase of construction to turn the M62 in West Yorkshire into the region's first managed motorway starts this weekend when gantry installation work moves to Junctions 26 and 27.
The £150m managed motorway scheme will cut congestion through the use of variable mandatory speed limits and by opening the hard shoulder as an extra running lane.
The scheme covers a 15.5-mile section of the M62 between Junction 25 (Brighouse) and Junction 30 (Rothwell) used by an estimated 140,000 motorists a day.
From this Saturday through to September work will focus on Junctions 26 and 27.
This weekend's work to install a single cantilever gantry will require a closure of the eastbound exit slip road.
David Pilsworth, Highways Agency project manager, said: "Work on this scheme is progressing very well. The Highways Agency has dedicated a significant amount of time and expertise to planning this phased approach to the managed motorway scheme to cause the minumum amount of inconvenience to road users.
"Using overnight closures gives us full access to the motorway and means we can install the gantries, signs and signals safely and as quickly and efficiently as possible.
The first phase of work to install gantries and signing began in March between Junctions 27 and 28 and entailed a carefully-planned series of overnight weekend closures to allow for installation of nine overhead gantries and two variable message signs.
A total of 36 new overhead gantries – some weighing over 30 tonnes – are required along the new managed motorway section. A further 16 existing gantries are being upgraded to take new signage. The gantries will house signs used to display variable speed limits to manage traffic flow and reduce congestion.
Work to convert the M62 to a managed motorway started in October. The scheme is scheduled to open to traffic in 2013-14.


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John Wick: Chapter 2 is a worthy successor to the ball-shattering original, even if it doesn't have quite the same impact.
In 2014, John Wick, like the character himself, came out of nowhere and blew a lot of peoples' brains out with its brutal gun-fu action. It was a breakthrough for directing duo Chad Stahelski and David Leitch, who masterfully crafted a colorful action film that is exciting, tense, and fun. It was also a career-high for the already awesome Keanu Reeves, who brings the character a level of badass gravitas that makes him genuinely intimidating, but also endearing in that signature Keanu "whoa" kinda way.
Following up a home run like that is no small task, and with Chad Stahelski directing it by himself, it seemed like it could go either way. Thankfully, Chapter 2 is a properly good sequel, continuing the story in a satisfying way while expanding on all the things that made the first film so good. Picking up a few days after the events of the first film, Wick is dragged back into the assassin-ing game after a crime lord (Santino) shows up at his house to cash in on the Marker he swore Wick to. A blood oath, basically.
It's a solid setup that twists and turns over the course of two mostly relentless hours of savagery perpetuated by Keanu Reeves. The story is not quite as gleefully satisfying as the first one (world-class assassin avenges his dog), but it works the way a sequel should. The shadowy organization teased in the original plays a larger role this time around, and we dig a bit more into the neat mythology screenwriter Derek Kolstad has conjured up for this series. We learn a bit more about Wick and the people he works with, and it all happens pretty organically. There are a few slower scenes here and there, but they never pause the action to explain what's going on through clunky dialogue.
Like the first Wick, Chapter 2 is a visual feast, and is heavy on eye-catching locations that are on par with those in the first film. One of the later sequences takes place in a hall of mirrors, which I don't know how the fuck they shot, but it looks as awesome as it is disorienting. The rest of the fight scenes also deliver in abundance. They don't feel as fresh this time around, but Keanu still turns a shocking number of henchmen into bullet-ridden cadavers, and that's really all we care about.
If you liked the first Wick, there's no reason not to see the second one. The first Wick could have stood by itself, but I'm glad it found the success it deserved, because the sequel is fun, and with any luck, the final installment that it nicely sets up will also be fun. It's a solid action film elevated by its terrific production values, electric lead, and impactful fight choreography. Kick back and watch some people die violently.


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HappinessA side benefit of Merdeka Madness 2005 was that I stumbled across Eyeris' blog or, rather, tripped badly and PocTaiKai over it. And I still PocKai daily. I also self-tag on memes from time to time (OK, maybe once before).
Put the two together...
Happiness is dancing in the rain (traffic permitting).
Happiness is getting up again after falling down while dancing in the rain.
Happiness is a steaming caramel macchiato after said dance.
Happiness is the three Rs: Reading, wRiting and Rhyming.
Happiness is seeing you again.
Happiness is finding out that old clothes from year X still fit!
Happiness is going to the gym and getting checked out. One day, this will happen....
Happiness is Misai's Brew.
Happiness is finding the last parking space at 1Utama, right next to the entrance.
Happiness is family.
Happiness is hanging out and messing about, then doing some of the things from above.
Happiness is tea and cakes with you, then running away to the gym to work off the calories.
Happiness is a good book, a comfy sofa and an endless supply of cappucino.
Happiness is when the Good Guys win.
Happiness is when the Hero and the Heroine go off into the sunset together.
Happiness is also when the Bad Guys kick some idiotic sidekick ass.
Happiness is pointing out the cliches in the script and predicting the storyline from said cliches.
Happiness is coming home to you.
Happiness is coming home to a well-stocked kitchen.
Happiness is making dinner in said well-stocked kitchen, but not the washing up that follows. *sighs*
Eyeris, this is all your fault.
Thank you.


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Emily & I stopped by the Nashville fairgrounds today to see how the humane society was doing with 84 horses that were seized from a farm in Cannon County Tuesday. I spoke with a woman from Indiana who is a volunteer. She said the horses are doing better than expected. They are eating a mixture of sweet feed and senior feed spread out over several hours. Someone donated 100 salt blocks and I saw square bales and shavings piled next to the barn. The flea market is going on this weekend so for right now, they have no place to store donated feed until Monday.
In a few weeks, the out of town volunteers will be wanting to go back home and that is when they will be needing help from local people. The horses will eventually be up for adoption. For status info and adoption info go to: http://www.vea-tnhorserescue.org/
The other thing we discussed were the Tennessee laws that protect horses and how inadequate they are. She said the law would only change if hundreds of us called our representatives and told them how outraged we are. The owner will only be subject to a misdemeanor in this case. He could also go right back to buying horses. Horses are simply treated as livestock here and not protected like dogs and cats. I think this is wrong and intentionally starving horses should be in the same category as fighting dogs, abusing dogs and cats and other companion animals.
A few weeks or a month and that's when they are really going to be needing the help. If you can and want to do something contact tennessee horse rescue next week sometime and let them know. 84 horses need whatever we can do for them right now. It's hard to change the world but we can do something in our little corner of it.


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The Working Men's College
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The Working Men's College is the oldest adult education college in Europe, and is based in Camden its purpose designed building dating from 1904, which is Grade 11 Listed. Subsequent extensions and alterations in 1936 and 1968 introduced significant complexity in its layout and circulation.
We prepared a masterplan to create more appropriate and flexible teaching spaces and to address way finding, legibility, DDA access. The challenge was also to create a new social space or heart to the College, which it presently lacks.
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Once lauded by John Lennon as his "favorite group," singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson had a long and rewarding music career marked by such hits as 1969's "Everybody's Talkin.'" Now, for the first time since it was recorded in 1967, Nilsson's cover of the Coasters' classic "Searchin'" is seeing the light of day. Nilsson's version trades the classic R&B vocals for a slightly faster-paced rock delivery, accompanied by guitar, bass, drums and lively piano.
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"Searchin'," along with other previously unreleased songs, will appear on the new Harry Nilsson box set The RCA Albums Collection, available July 30th on RCA/Legacy Recordings.


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If you follow the CDC/FDA/Big Pharma vaccine schedule, in the first 6 years of life your child receives the following:
• 17,500 mcg 2-phenoxyethanol (antifreeze)
• 5,700 mcg aluminum (a known neurotoxin)
• Unknown amounts of fetal bovine serum (aborted cow blood)
• 801.6 mcg formaldehyde (carcinogen, embalming agent)
• 23,250 mcg gelatin (a variety of ground up animal carcasses)
• 500 mcg human albumin (human blood)
• 760 mcg of monosodium L-glutamate (causes obesity & diabetis)
• Unknown amounts of MRC-5 cells (multiple male and female aborted human babies cells)
• Over 10 mcg neomycin (antibiotic)
• Over 0.075 mcg polymyxin B (antibiotic)
• Over 560 mcg polysorbate 80 (carcinogen)
• 116 mcg potassium chloride (used in lethal injection to shut down the heart and stop breathing)
• 188 mcg potassium phosphate (liquid fertilizer agent)
• 260 mcg sodium bicarbonate (baking soda)
• 70 mcg sodium borate (Borax, used for cockroach control)
• 54,100 mcg of sodium chloride (table salt)
• Unknown amounts of sodium citrate (food additive)
• Unknown amounts of sodium hydroxide (Danger! Corrosive)
• 2,800 mcg sodium phosphate (toxic to any organism)
• Unknown amounts of sodium phosphate monobasic monohydrate (toxic to any organism)
• 32,000 mcg sorbitol (Not to be injected)
• 0.6 mcg streptomycin (antibiotic)
• Over 40,000 mcg sucrose (cane sugar)
• 35,000 mcg yeast protein (fungus)
• 5,000 mcg urea (metabolic waste from human urine)
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How many micrograms of toxic material does that add up to? You cannot seriously believe that is good for any human body, do you?


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