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By: Scott Day, Assistant AD for Athletic Communications (Media Relations for Men's Basketball)
It's been over two weeks since the final buzzer sounded April 2 at Reliant Stadium, and as I sit in my office in the VCU Sports Medicine Building, I'm still not sure if I'll ever grasp what took place during the month of March for the basketball program that I've traveled with over the past two seasons.
I can remember early in the year a time when I sat at team meal with Strength and Conditioning Coach Daniel Roose, Video Coordinator Matt Fleming and Graduate Managers Donny Lind and Timmy Lawrence, and we all commented on how the chemistry was different with this team.
Am I trying to say we knew the Final Four was coming? Definitely not. But we all felt like this team and this program was more of a family than ever before, and when everything clicked, something special could happen (See: March 16th-Apr. 2nd).
Much like everybody around the program, I was frustrated after a tough month of February, but knew all of that could change during three days inside the ninth wonder of the world, the Richmond Coliseum.
On March 1, Lawrence scampered into my office looking for a desk calendar with the month of February. After moving piles of paper, empty soda cans and CDs of pictures out of the way, I reached my desk calendar, ripped off February and handed it to Lawrence, who jetted out of my office.
Days later I heard about Coach Smart lighting my poor desk calendar on fire, but in the end it was all worth it when I saw Jamie Skeen hit the game-winner against Drexel, Bradford Burgess lead the Rams past Mason and an unbelievable second-half comeback that came up just short against the hated Old Dominion Monarchs in the CAA Tournament.
As I stood in the back hallway by VCU's locker room at the Coliseum, all I could think was about how hard those 25 guys (players and coaches) worked to accomplish something and how much it stung to come up just short. None of us knew what would lie in the days ahead, but at that moment, it was the worst.
Fast forward six days to March 13, a day that I spent trying to find every errand in the world just to keep my mind off of the NCAA Selection Show. It wasn't until about 5:30 p.m., when on the way home picking up dinner, my wife turned to me and said, "You think you're in, don't you?"
Maybe it was Joey Rodriguez texting me all week telling me that we were in since CBS's Jerry Palm had us, but for some reason, I couldn't get it out of my mind that our dream would become reality.
Still, I found out while watching the selection show on my couch, just like everybody else in Richmond. When I saw "UAB/Clemson" pop up in the bracket, I dropped my head in defeat. About 15 minutes later, that all changed when I saw "USC/VCU" scroll across the screen and I let out a scream that probably could have been heard in Washington, D.C.
After a euphoric celebration with my wife and dog, I tried to organize some media stuff for our guys later that night at the Siegel Center. Was I happy to be going to the NCAA Tournament? Yeah, I was, but more than anything I was overjoyed to be able to spend more time with everyone that made up the VCU basketball program.
As the whole country watched, analysts from across the country criticized our beloved Rams. I watched Joey, Jamie, Ed, Brandon and Brad all stop their interviews to listen to what was being said. It was as if you could see the chip on the shoulder get bigger and bigger.
For some reason this team played its best basketball this season when outsiders criticized them or disparaged the program. The selection Sunday criticism was the most we had seen all year, if I only knew what would have resulted, I probably wouldn't have sent ESPN's Jay Bilas that email.
This trip was different than anything we had taken all year. New life had been breathed into the program. It was a second chance for this group of guys to prove just how much they loved playing basketball with each other.
Off to Dayton we went for a 59-46 win over USC and an unbelievable quick turnaround to Chicago for a date with Georgetown. For me, it was great because I've always loved the Windy City, and I was happy to be going back, but for our guys, it never felt more than just a business trip.
Sure there were cameras out when our guys walked into the United Center for the first time, but the focus never went off track from the ultimate goal, and it was evident after a 74-56 beatdown of Georgetown.
With a couple more days in Chicago, you would think our guys would get to enjoy the city some more, but no. The only stops they really made were to Niketown and nearby fast food restaurant Johnny Rockets, who must have sold a million milkshakes between our players and coaches.
On to the Purdue game, and it was the same story. In fact, at one point in the second half when the Rams were up at least 20 points, I stood up during a media timeout and took in the scene inside the United Center, trying to grasp what I was watching.
Another blowout win, and the Rams were in the Sweet 16. The celebration in the locker room and on the bus were something I thought I'd never see again (boy was I wrong).
Back home to Richmond for a brief trip that incorporated media, media and more media. It was crazy, but it sure beat the alternative. The amazing part to me was that no matter how many phone calls or texts I sent to the players, I never got one attitude. They did what I asked, but yet the focus remained the same. I was watching something special here, and I was finally beginning to understand this team's capabilities.
Off to San Antonio we went for Bradford Burgess' heroics against Florida State and the unforgettable takedown of the top-seeded Kansas to earn the Final Four berth. One of the moments I'll remember forever is in the final two minutes of the win over the Jayhawks when the always eccentric Craig Sager walks over to me and just looks at me. He stood there for an awkward minute and said, "I'm speechless, this team is unbelievable."
I had promised some of the guys that if we won the regional I would "cook" with them in the locker room on camera, but I was able to wiggle my way out of there thanks to the 60+ media members that I had to hoard in a controlled manner around our locker room.
Everyone has talked about the early morning arrival at the Siegel Center, but I have to mention it because it's the moment that I'll always tell my future children about. I tried to get ahead of the team to truly take in the entrance into the arena and it was an unbelievably electric moment. It was 2 a.m. and I couldn't calm down my nerves, I kept hugging unsuspecting co-workers and just wanting to celebrate the moment with a bunch of guys who worked so unbelievably hard every step of the way.
Back to Richmond for an even crazier week with the media (over 500 requests in two days) and then off to Houston for the Final Four. There were a couple moments that are etched in this big dome of mine forever.
One would be pulling up to Reliant, seeing the giant banners hanging off the arena and taking in the fact that on that banner hung the VCU Rams logo. The second was walking into the arena with the guys for the first time. It was an open practice and there sat over 13,000 fans screaming for our players.
The final moment came a couple hours after the Butler game when I got a text message from a number I didn't recognize, it read, "Scott, please tell your players and coaches thanks for a tournament that I'll never forget. What a great program. Steve Kerr." That's the best three-pointer shooter in NBA history, a guy who played with Jordan and a guy who has five NBA championship rings, so I think he knows a little bit about basketball.
From stop to stop, we traveled, and I always got the same comment from the television and radio crews, "Boy, you guys are a lively bunch." That's who we are, and that's what this coaching staff wants the program to be. You want to know why America fell in love with the Rams? Try watching any one of our games and not love the hustle and effort that Joey plays with, or the enthusiasm that Brandon Rozzell shows or just the pure skill and ability of guys Jamie Skeen and Bradford Burgess.
However, the one guy who I think epitomizes this team's run in March is Ed Nixon. Maybe it's because Ed granted me the privilege of a specialized pre-game handshake, but how can you not love this guy? All year long he battled all sorts of injuries from shoulders to ankles to cramping, you name it, Ed had to deal with it. Not once did he complain, he strapped up his laces every time and did anything and everything his team asked of him, without once getting the credit he deserved.
To me, that's exactly what happened to this team during March. At some point in the locker room, those 14 guys looked around at each other and knew that they didn't want to stop playing with each other and would do anything it took to keep it going, no matter who got the credit.
So as I sit here in my office, I look around at the piles of paper that have grown, the empty soda cans that have multiplied and the cases of CDs that have tripled and can't help but realize how blessed I was to be granted the chance to be a part of the family that is VCU basketball.


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For decades, financial carpetbaggers have pulled the wool over the eyes of the citizens of Borrego Springs, the unincorporated desert town of 2600 full-time residents in northeast San Diego County. Now Borregans hope that a financier closer to home, Encinitas's Russell Geyser of Geyser Holdings, will clean up the scummy residue, including delinquent taxes, back homeowner association fees, and defaulted water bonds at the town's gated housing development, Montesoro Golf & Social Club.
Montesoro "has had so many messes," concedes Linda Haddock, executive director of the local chamber of commerce, who stands to gain personally from the cleanup attempt. But she understands why scarred residents are so skeptical.
Borrego "has had a real run of very bad luck or bad ownership with poor vision or strategy," says San Diego hotelier Jack Giacomini, who has been looking at one property there. Borrego Springs lacks a nearby expressway for easy access. "Investors think it is too remote." And it has been afflicted by speculators "trying to buy inexpensive land and sell expensive lots" — in short, fast-buck real estate flippers.
Late last month, Geyser Holdings, which has a portfolio of $400 million in real estate assets, closed escrow on the 3100-acre Montesoro for an undisclosed price. Beginning in the early 1980s, under the name Rams Hill, this was planned as an 800-home, largely upscale development with a championship golf course. But it was beset by one scandal after another, and much of the land went undeveloped.
Geyser is initially focusing on selling 140 finished lots at a discount of around 65 percent. The lot buyers will pay the back taxes and homeowner fees, but Geyser expects to absorb those costs, in effect, by slashing the prices. He says, "We may end up accepting offers much lower; prices may be discounted 75 to 80 percent. One way or another, the back taxes and [homeowner association] fees will be paid. I was picked to stave off the bondholders," who could try to take over the place. Geyser has already cured bond delinquencies on some of the lots and is negotiating with the company representing the bondholders.
He expects that a Borrego resident will buy the golf course, now closed, along with other leisure amenities such as the clubhouse, tennis courts, and swimming pool. The purchase of the sports properties is "pretty much of a done deal," although escrow has not closed, says Rick Vesci, who is spearheading the Montesoro sales effort. Another local resident is negotiating to buy the adjoining resort, formerly named Casa del Zorro. It is now shuttered. That purchase is "not a firm deal" now, says Vesci.
"Montesoro is a tough project" to sell, allows Vesci. He gave his pitch unsuccessfully to such developers as Del Webb, Shea Homes, and the Trump Organization. (The Donald sent one of his vice presidents.) Nobody was interested until Geyser stepped forward.
One reason may be the stench of past shenanigans. In the early 1980s, the Di Giorgio Corporation, then based in San Francisco, had grand plans for Rams Hill. But Di Giorgio had too much debt, along with other troubles, and sold out to San Jacinto Savings Association, a unit of Southmark, a Dallas conglomerate. That was disastrous. Southmark and affiliates were financed with junk debt from Michael Milken's machine. Southmark purchased everything it could get its hands on through subsidiaries such as San Jacinto. Southmark did business with characters such as Charles Keating of Lincoln Savings & Loan and the late, notorious Morris Shenker, lawyer for mob-financed deals in Vegas — and also one who provided tainted money for San Diego's growth. Southmark went bankrupt, and San Jacinto was seized by the federal government, which also charged a Southmark founder with racketeering and other sins.
Rams Hill was bought by Western United Life Assurance, which was placed under receivership by the state of Washington. The Borrego property filed for bankruptcy in 1994 and again in 2002. Then it went into receivership. In 2004, Sherman Oaks–based GH Capital and a group of its investors bought Rams Hill and, in 2007, the adjoining Casa del Zorro, which had been losing $5 million a year under the ownership of former San Diego newspaper publisher David Copley.
The swashbuckling investors made other purchases around Borrego Springs. They changed the name of Rams Hill to Montesoro and Casa del Zorro to Borrego Ranch Resort & Spa, paying $14.5 million for the two properties and plunking $25 million into them. In early 2010, at the height of the tourism season, the ranch and golf operation closed down, each losing more than $200,000 a month, and went on the market. So did other projects that the GH investors had pushed. People were laid off. Unemployment soared. Tempers flared. "We have been through it all," sighs Katherine McHenry, who has lived with her husband at Rams Hill/Montesoro since 1986.
The bitterness escalated as one developer after another wouldn't touch Montesoro or the ranch/resort. Then this spring, Geyser sprung on the scene. Initially, the homeowner association thought any new buyer would pick up delinquent dues — which are $250,568 on the properties Geyser purchased. Then the association was surprised to learn that payments were to be made incrementally as (and if) the lots sold. "[Geyser] says he will [pay the arrears], but we have no assurance," says Blythe Cavanaugh, treasurer of the homeowner group. "I have seen owners come and go. I could not begin to predict what will happen."
This summer, discounted build-ready lots will be offered to developers and Borrego Springs residents. Until the end of July, the Borrego Springs Chamber of Commerce gets 10 percent of sales. Haddock, the chamber's manager, helps sell lots for Vesci, who doubles as the chamber's treasurer. Some cock an eyebrow at that arrangement, but Haddock says she has a license and everything has been fully disclosed. "In small towns people wear a lot of hats," says David Schaack, president of the Montesoro homeowner association.
Borrego is not a high-income town, and many people doubt that locals will line up to buy the Montesoro lots. Haddock thinks at these low prices, developers will. One long-range problem is that no homes can be built on undeveloped lots until a new fire station is built, says John Hardcastle, local fire chief. The ready-to-build lots don't have that problem.
The Borrego resident who is said to be a potential buyer of the resort is Patrick Meehan, who bought the Borrego Sun, the local newspaper, from Copley in 2009. Ten years earlier, Meehan had been the major buyer of the United Kingdom film producer HandMade plc, which had been formed in 1978 by former Beatle George Harrison and his business partner. In its early years, the company financed Life of Brian and other moneymaking films, but it began running into financial trouble around 2006. Last year, Meehan stepped down from the board and from the post of cochief executive to pursue business interests in the United States.
He became a part-time Borrego resident in 2007. He could not be reached for comment.
More from SDReader
- More stories by Don Bauder
- Borrego Springs– no there there — Nov. 11, 2019
- Borrego: build a home, lose a farm — Oct. 22, 2014
- In Borrego, Prices Are Low, Anyway — May 30, 2012
- Borrego Springs Water District: Less Water Flows In, More Money Flows Out — Sept. 8, 2010
- Borrego Springs – a town left dry — Feb. 10, 2010
Significant real estate bargains abound in overbuilt Las Vegas, Riverside County, Phoenix, Palm Springs. An associate of mine just paid over $3 million for an18 hole golf course in Palm Desert.
Borrego properties have no value and lenders won't touch it
Would that be Palm Desert Country Club Golf Course?? That's the only one I know of in the area that might be available at that price. It fell into bankruptcy about two years ago.
Don't ask me. I'm not in the market for a golf course. Best, Don Bauder
True enough. There are all kinds of deeply discounted real estate assets in similar places that are near expressways. That is one explanation for the Montesoro homes being priced so cheaply. Best, Don Bauder
Great article, Don;
Can't say I am sympathetic to the situation investors and speculator find themselves in out there. I would prefer less development as I only go to Borrego for recreational hiking and camping trips, and it seems more development just brings more development. I'm glad the area is primarily surrounded by the Anza Borrego State Park, which will contain potential sprawl.
I think the mistake made in Borrego Springs is the developers thought people would be willing to make the long drive from a major freeway and be satisfied with golf, a spa, one grocery store, a few small gift shops, and occasional grapefruit stands on Christmas Circle. Compare that to Palm Springs and it is easy to see why property sales are a challenge, to say nothing of the association fees and back taxes. Unless you are a hiker, photographer, or just a naturalist with an appreciation for southwest flora and fauna, and cultural history, there's just no there there.
Incidentally, I just have to comment on that sentence you wrote,"Then this spring, Geyser sprung on the scene." I loved it. There are writers, and there are wordsmiths, and you Sir, are the later.
Keep up the great work. Always enjoy your column.
Some people prefer to have a home in a remote location not near a freeway. But commercial interests, of course, want a nearby freeway. It's an eternal battle between quality of life and greed. Best, Don Bauder
There you are. That's the there that's there, and there never will be more than that there. So there!
Re: Javajoe25 12:17 p.m., Jun 29, 2011
I can think of a number of towns and cities where there is no there there. The words were first applied to Oakland. Author was Gertrude Stein. Best, Don Bauder
It would be interesting to get the water bills for those golf courses. I'll bet that they use more than five million gallons of water PER ACRE, per year or more.
Both Dorian Hargrove of the Reader and I have written on Borrego's water problems. Best, Don Bauder
Have either of you confirmed or refuted numbers in that neighborhood?
I looked into how much water Montesoro used, but I don't remember if I put it in last year's column. And I don't remember whether Dorian touched on Montesoro's water use specifically. Best, Don Bauder
I'm not suggesting that y'all's reporting is flawed, only that the relevance of the amount of water poured onto golf courses is humungous and rarely considered. Most people simply cannot believe that such outrageous numbers are real, but they can be verified or refuted (and reported correctly) by getting meter records. If the meter(s) for the golf course are not separate, there are standard "indoor" usage numbers that can be subtracted from the total. Five million gallons per year per acre is about two million gpy/ac more than the maximum potential evapotranspiration would seem to "require," so that would be the amount "needed" to properly maintain the golf course. That's over 100 inches per year, or about 36 times the average annual rainfall (guessed at about three inches--which mostly evaporates). I haven't double-checked the records on any of this, but it should be in, if you will excuse the expression, the ball-park.
Water is the major limiting factor, and when the tap runs dry and the water prices go sky-high, what would the experts conclude in the realm of economics then? But then which economists ever consider such "minutiae?" I suspect they think it's irrelevant to their predictions or projections.
Any interns want a project?
There is a website devoted to Borrego Springs water issues. You should be able to find it online. Local resident Dennis Dickinson is active in water matters. The electric and water bill for Montesoro is about $1 million a year. I had that in a 2010 column. Best, Don Bauder
for every 100 cars going down the freeway, one gets lost and ends up in Borrego. The occupants fall in love with this place and call it home. It will never be a Palm Desert, Vegas or Scottsdale and that's why the people love it, even with its "faults"!
Precisely. As I said above, some people prefer a town that is NOT accessible by freeway. What happens when a resort community is accessible by freeway? Merchants, particularly restaurants, raise prices. Pretty soon everything is more expensive. Then rich Texans, New Yorkers and other scum come in and build homes that they occupy only a couple of weeks out of the year. The homes initially provide construction jobs and property taxes, but not sales taxes. All kinds of things go wrong. Developers consider Borrego's remoteness a disadvantage. If I were a resident, I would consider it an advantage. Best, Don Bauder
It is too bad that Borrego could not keep such things as a good supermarket or the former Casa del Zorro afloat. Borrego is a nice, low-key place, and if the Casa had been operated properly could still be viable. There are at least three golf courses in Borrego and a couple of them seem to be fairly busy. But it will only be only about so busy and will only attract a limited number of visitors. Maybe the place ran for years on the strength of a persistent deficit at the Casa and at Ram's Hill (now Montesoro.) All of the local booster talk has ignored the water shortage that is going to persist. Pumping huge amounts of water from the aquifers to keep golf courses green and to irrigate grapefruit groves in the valley is not a sustainable strategy. Until they solve the water issue the place will languish.
Exactly. Dorian Hargrove and I have written extensively on Borrego's water problem for the Reader. Yes, Casa del Zorro priced itself out of the market. Best, Don Bauder
The Borrego Valley is not likely to "solve" its water problems; imports will go elsewhere. As prices go up, the unsustainable golf-courses and those wonderful grapefruit groves will wither, whether or not we--or "they," like it. They will keep their heads in the sand until it's all gone.
You may be right. Borrego could lose its fruit groves as well as golf courses. Best, Don Bauder
Don, I'm not hung up on the water issue alone nor am I all that concerned about the goof-courses and grape fruits; I simply believe that it's a major elephant in the room. I am especially puzzled that it continues to be given little consideration when it's relevant.
Re: dbauder 8:13 a.m., Jun 30, 2011
Borrego's water, golf course and fruit concerns certainly have not been given short shrift by the Reader. I did a major column last year and this year, and did a bunch of blog items while the old Rams Hill and Casa del Zorro were collapsing and being sold. Dorian Hargrove of the Reader staff has also done pieces on Borrego. That's a lot of coverage for a town of 2600. Best, Don Bauder
Don, it's not those specific items, but their place in the "equation" that have not, to my knowledge, been factored in by anybody in terms of numbers and analysis. I do remember reading an excellent piece you did some time ago, but have not read anything by Hargrove (Is there a lesson here somewhere for the web designers? Don't tell me to talk to them; I have looked high and low for a way to do so and have found nothing. The Reader website is designed primarily for administrative convenience, not, primarily, for the user.).
Moreover, I am interested in the generic issues much more than this particular case, but this case provides the kinds of extremes that illuminate the principles quite well. And, it is not the numbers themselves, but their proportion and relevance to the other factors that interest me. In other words, this tiny community could be a canary for the San Diego coal mine, not to mention broader and larger examples. The case is useful precisely because the issues are exaggerated.
In any case, it is your option, not your obligation, to follow the commenters' points. I'm not trying to make waves.
Re: dbauder 7:03 a.m., Jul 3, 2011
Don't worry about making waves. That's what we are here for. The more waves the merrier. If you go to the Reader search box and put in bauder + borrego you will find the two columns and a number of blogs I did. If you put in hargrove + borrego you will find the work Dorian did. I agree that this community could be the canary in the coal mine. Best, Don Bauder
All levels of government, from HOA's and similar principalities, to the federal government, should post, in an easily-accessible form, a chart SEQUENCE, with numbers and reference to TRENDS, showing inputs and outputs over time, with links to supporting evidence. All technology should be FULLY integrated and PUBLIC, except for information that actually affects the security of the PEOPLE (not the corporate interests). This IS the 21'st century, not the 18th. We are not living under George III (gulp!) YET.
Yes, but the principles of information freedom have taken steps backward in both the Bush II and Obama administrations, despite all the rhetoric. Best, Don Bauder
Yes, but, but, but, but . . .
Your call for open disclosure is right on target. But don't bet the house on it happening. Best, Don Bauder
If we keep letting them get away with it, it will get worse and worse--until it's all gone . . .
I am all for disclosure, but it's no panacea. Lawyers are paid big bucks to bury the "disclosure" in legal Latin that is indecipherable. Ditto for accountants. Then the cozeners can claim that they "disclosed" their scam. Best, Don Bauder
Well, yeah. But ain't this revelation a disclosure itself?
So forearmed, is it not important to call them on it?
Trouble is, not enough people understand this revelation. That's why contrived complexity is the essence of white collar crime. Best, Don Bauder
Thanks to you, Don, a lot more do. If they will only link their friends to your pieces. HEAR ME, all you fellow commenters? Then, when they link their friends and they link . . . Get it?
I've spent much of my life exposing crooks. But, like the preacher who inveighs against adultery, I will never proselytize so many folks that I will work myself out of a job. Greed ye shall always have with ye. Best, Don Bauder
Wasn't Brandes involved in this at one time to race cars out there?
Yes, an enormous home there was built for Brandes. Auto racing was part of the equation. I believe this may be the same deal in which the previous Borrego developers began building a track through government property and ran into trouble. It's in my 2010 Borrego article. Best, Don Bauder


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- Cleanliness. This another human responsibility, and again, the cat will definitely let you know if you're falling down on the job. Remember, their noses are only inches away from the litter–that gives them the right to be picky! Clay and pelleted litters needs to be dumped and replaced every few days. Clumping litter should be scooped daily, and the whole box emptied and washed at least once a month.
- Pleasant texture. Since they have to walk on it with their very sensitive paws, most cats prefer the soft texture of scoopable/clumping litter over clay or pellets.
- Sufficiency. There should be plenty of boxes in a multi-cat home (experts recommend 1 box per cat + 1). Sometimes you can get away with less (my 5 cats shared one enormous box for years–until one day they didn't!), but if litterbox issues develop, adding more boxes in more places is one of the main ways to solve such problems. But just lining up a bunch of boxes in the basement won't do. There should be a box on every floor; this is especially important for older cats for whom stair-climbing may be uncomfortable.
- Comfort. This means that the box should be big enough for the cat to easily turn around in (large plastic storage bins work well). Also, overweight, arthritic or declawed cats may be especially sensitive not only to the texture of the litter, but also its depth. If there's too much litter in the box, the cat could feel like it's sinking into quicksand. About 1-1/2 to 2″ of litter is plenty.
Now, within this framework, we can make certain choices. Automatic litterboxes work very well in many households, but some cats just won't use them; the only way to know is to try, and it's a potentially expensive experiment. Hooded boxes may be acceptable if you're diligent enough about keeping them clean, but in a multi-cat home the "ambush factor" can discourage their use. High-sided storage bins are great for preventing litter from being kicked all over the room; but they may be too difficult to get in and out of for very young and very old cats.
Then we're back to the choice of litter. Most litters are made from clay of some kind, often bentonite (which swells and clumps when wet). However, clay has some serious drawbacks. For one thing, it's dusty. The dust contains silica, which can contribute to kitty and human lung diseases. Asthmatic cats (and people) should consider alternatives, since scooping the litter stirs up quite a bit of dust. (My own asthma virtually disappeared when we switched to World's Best.) There have also been scattered (but largely unconfirmed) reports of intestinal blockage from cats ingesting the litter. Young kittens (who don't know to avoid the wet spots), and cats with a lot of fur between their toes can get quite a bit of litter stuck on their feet; and of course they clean their paws by licking and will swallow whatever is on them. A natural cat litter made from corn or wheat does not carry this risk, as the body can break those materials down.
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Your NYC St. Patrick's Day Irish Food Itinerary
St. Patrick's Day is coming up on March 17th, which means that whether or not we actually have Irish ancestry, we get to pretend to be Irish anyway. One of the best parts? Planning where to eat. We've looked back at our favorite pot pies, fish and chips, and corned beef—traditional Irish and otherwise—to tell you where to get the best.
Irish Breakfast
Let's start off the day with a classic Irish breakfast, which typically consists of fried eggs, bacon, sausage, white pudding (sausage), black pudding (blood sausage), toast, and fried tomato. It's just what you need to fortify yourself for that Guinness later.
Stop Inn: This tiny diner in Woodside offers a full traditional Irish breakfast.
Butcher Block: If you want to make breakfast at home instead, head to this Irish specialty grocery to stock up on Irish ham, boiling bacon, and black pudding.
Shepherd's Pie
Shepherd's pie is classically made with lamb or mutton (since shepherds deal with sheep) but in America you're more likely to find a beef filling.
PJ Horgan's: The shepherd's pie at this Queens Irish pub has a buttery potato topping crisped under the broiler. Once you hit the beef filling, it's savory with just the right amount of rich brown sauce, peas and carrots.
Bliss Street Station Restaurant: This old-school pub's shepherd's pie is a simple but satisfying rendition—the salty gravy is balanced out by the smashed potatoes on top.
Chicken Pot Pie
Molly's Pub: This classic Irish pub serves a great chicken pot pie, topped with golden puff pastry and delivered piping hot.
Tea & Sympathy: This dainty British tea shop boasts over 30 kinds of tea as well as classic British dishes, including one of our favorite chicken pot pies in New York.
The Green Table: This one comes packed with chicken and veggies and topped with an especially buttery crust.
PJ Horgan's: Here the crust is a wide dome over a creamy sauce with peas, potatoes, carrots, and large chunks of chicken breast.
Fish and Chips
For a primer on what fish and chips mean across the Atlantic, hit up this guide to our favorites. Here are the most St. Patrick's Day-friendly:
A Salt & Battery: This British chippery that serves our favorite fish and chips in the city.
ChipShop: This chippery is shortly behind A Salt & Battery, and they even serve plaice, a rare fish in New York but common in the UK.
Jones Wood Foundry: This Upper East Side pub prefers golden slabs of haddock with excellent chips.
Donovan's Pub: The classic Queens pub with a very respectable fish and chips.
Corned Beef
Corned beef is more Irish-American fare than it is purely Irish, but that won't stop us from enjoying this salt-cured beef on its most popular day stateside, especially corned beef and cabbage, the Irish expat's version of back bacon and cabbage. We've also included some our favorite corned beef overall, which comes from Jewish delis as much as Irish pubs.
McSorley's: This iconic East Village pub's corned beef hash is salty and sweet without being too greasy.
Ben's Best: This Rego Park deli has been serving more than 180 pounds of corned beef the same way every day for 61 years. They definitely have got the goods.
Second Avenue Deli: One of the city's best spots for corned beef.
Katz's Delicatessen: Short of the pastrami, corned beef is a must-order here.
Soda Bread
Soda bread is a quick bread made with baking soda in lieu of yeast and studded with raisins and caraway seeds (mostly an American innovation). It's ideally served warm (it takes well to reheating) and is best slathered with butter.
PJ Horgan's: Every entree here is served with warm soda bread—soft, moist, caraway-and-raisin-studded, it's sweet but not overly so, and even better when spread with butter.
Bouchon Bakery: Thomas Keller's soda bread is fancier than most, individually wrapped in pretty paper and without the misshapen edges typical to most soda breads.
Amy's Bread: The soda bread from one of New York's best all-around bakeries is dense with a glossy top, nearly sconelike, and not too sweet with a real caraway punch.
Tom Cat Bakery: Without a retail location of its own, you can find Tom Cat Bakery's goods in the city at Murray's Cheese Shop, among other places. Tom Cat's soda bread is like a classic loaf of bread, with a light texture and crackly crust. Great plump raisins are embedded in the slightly sweet bread, with just the faintest hit of caraway.
More Irish Bites
Want more? Here's an assortment of more Irish goodies for you.
Sausage Rolls at Stop Inn: The sausage rolls at Stop Inn are well worth the wait: fresh out of the oven, the crust is buttery, flaky and tender, with a white sausage link tucked inside.
Pot roast at Butcher Block: Butcher Block's specials change daily, but the pot roast (served on Tuesdays) is particularly noteworthy. The meat's so tender it doesn't need gravy, but it doesn't hurt.
Bangers and mash at PJ Horgan's: Four sweet sausages, smothered in mushroom gravy, resting on a mound of buttery smashed potatoes make the bangers and mash here a hearty and satisfying meal.
Ham and leek pie at the Dog and Duck: Try the Dog and Duck's creamy, ultra-rich ham and leek pie. Thick cream sauce blankets chunks of pink ham and leeks, and comes topped with a thin, two-layered crust.
Boxty at Chipper Truck: New York's only late-night Irish food truck serves up many Irish classics, but our favorite is their boxty, an Irish potato pancake, served with eggs and beans.
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25,000 bureaucrats, factota, hangers on, and representatives of various environmental organizations have just converged on Copenhagen for the UN's latest "Conference of the Parties (COP) to its infamous 1992 climate treaty. Expect a lot of heat, not much light, and a punt right into our next election.
President Obama says that the US will agree to a "politically binding" reduction of our emissions of carbon dioxide to a mere 17% of 2005 levels by 2050. This will allow the average American the carbon dioxide emission of the average citizen in 1867. Obama's pronouncement has stepped all over the toes of the US Senate, which really doesn't want to vote on similar legislation this election year. Jim Webb, a democrat heretofore very loyal to the President recently wrote Obama a very tersely worded note reminding him that the power to commit the nation to such a regulation lies with the Senate, not with the Commander-in-Chief.
The UN's own climate models show that even if every nation that has obligations under the failed Kyoto Protocol (which is supposed to be replaced by the Copenhagen Protocol) did what Obama wants, that only 7% of prospective warming would be prevented by 2100. The world's largest emitter—China—was exempt then, and won't agree to these reductions now.
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Since there's no way that India and China will agree to large reductions, the real result of Copenhagen is that the climate can will be kicked down the road to the next COP, which begins on November 8, 2010, right down the road in Mexico City. That's six days after our Congressional election, guaranteeing that cap-and-tax will be on the voters' minds when they close the curtain on the current Congress.


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The optimism was a far cry from the footage from last week's rehearsals (shown on Monday's show), which revealed a heated argument between the pair, prompting Tony to say "I quit" and walk out of the studio.
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When we were introduced to Rachael Yamagata, we thought, "who is this stunning girl?" We were intrigued. Well, it turns out she's a singer-songwriter with a captivating voice and quite a repertoire of collaborations with names like Jason Mraz, Ryan Adams and Ray Lamontagne. Her sound is upbeat and catchy, reminiscent of Adele or Norah Jones with a little Carole King and Stevie Nicks thrown in. And, she's pretty funny, too. Meet Rachael Yagamata.
Tell us about your new album "Chesapeake." What do you hope listeners take with them from this particular work?
Hmm, I find it a cool "drive as you listen" experience. So perhaps, I'd wish a good road trip for the listener. The content feels fresh and spontaneous to me, more joyful than some of my past records, and yet still with layers of heartbreak. That said, I always hope that my songs can somehow purge the emotions people feel and yet can't put into words themselves.
What is behind your newfound optimism and hopefulness, as the mood of this album has been described?
It's almost the laughter that rides the line between carefree wisdom and when you start to go crazy. I've had such a roller-coaster ride of life and career that I got to a point where you experience the liberation of "nothing left to lose." The big picture of releasing expectations and a certain hold over results made for a return to inspiration and hilarity.
What was your favorite part of making "Chesapeake" and why?
I loved the do-it-yourself nature of it all. There was something so gratifying about seeing every idea come to fruition without any "regime" to pass through. I came down to the studio/house and started washing windows and mopping the porch before the musicians got there. I booked the flights and blew up the air mattresses and gathered a crew I really believed in. It all felt so tangible to me. It was rewarding and empowering to set it up and just let the music guide us. Because it was DIY, we were so much more free as musicians to just follow our collective "muse" every day.
Tell us a little bit about PledegeMusic--seems pretty incredible to see fan support in such a concrete way.
It was amazing and there is no way I could have pulled off this record without their [my fans'] support. I love that PledgeMusic bridges the gap between fan and artist and it allowed me to include them [fans] in the behind-the-scenes aspects of what goes on. I had no idea if people were still listening or checking my site. The response was immediate and reassuring, to know people were willing to support whatever I was doing.
What do you love most about touring and what do you dislike the most about it?
I love the travel part of it. I'm a huge fan of waking up in a new city, experiencing new people and environments and always being on the go. The lack of physical space to spread out and the fatigue… not so great.
Who are some musicians you most admire?
Anyone who keeps on going...
If I weren't a musician, I would be a ___________.
spy or interior decorator
Tell us one thing people might be surprised to know about you.
I have stage fright.
What is your favorite late-night bite?
Philly cheese steaks
What is your favorite thing between two buns?
This seems like an X-rated question. I'm scared.
What is your favorite dessert?
Anything between two buns.
What is your favorite hotel and why?
Anything haunted, keeps me on my toes.
"Chesapeake" is available now. Watch her video for new single "Even If I Don't" below.


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This week brings us the very cool PROMETHEUS Blu-ray release, and some crazy/intriguing news about the film's sequel. Clearly, we ain't done with director Ridley Scott's PROMETHEUSverse yet.
Our friends over at Titan Books are offering Aint It Cool readers a chance to snag one copy a their very lovely PROMETHEUS: THE ART OF THE FILM books, which I first wrote-up HERE.
Here's my previous description of the book:
PROMETHEUS: THE ART OF THE FILM is 191 pages of beautifully re-produced photographs, artwork, and designs chronicling the creation of Sir Ridley's much-anticipated, somewhat controversial, visually dazzling return to the horror/SF genre after an absence of three decades (if counting from BLADE RUNNER).
Scott provides a Foreword for this Mark Salisbury authored book, and contributes a generous amount of subsequent insight and context alongside Production Designer Arthur Max, Set Director Sonja Klaus, Guy Pearce (Peter Weyland), and Special Make Up Effects Supervisor Neal Scanlan.
So. This is your chance to win a copy. But what makes this copy extremely cool and very, very special...is that it's autographed by Sir Ridley Scott. And it'll go to one (1) lucky AICN reader.
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** I've already pre-selected ONE time of day between today (Thursday) and Sunday. The person who e-mails me at (or closest to) this time will receive 1 (one) copy of the PROMETHEUS: THE ART OF THE FILM book, autographed by Ridley Scott. NOTE: I've been asked this before, so...for clarity...I'm using whatever time is stamped on the Yahoo mailing address established for this contest as the determiner. I'm in Central Time USA, so I guess that's a CST time stamp (?).
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Three years after battling breast cancer, Christina Applegate is glowing with motherly love.
In a People magazine interview debuting pictures of her newborn Sadie Grace, the "Anchorman" star said that her new motherhood has completely "healed" her.
"I felt my heart literally open up for the first time and like wrap itself around her. It was profound," the 39-year-old actress told People. "And I'm more in love with her every minute of the day."
The movie star's new daughter, born Jan. 27, paved the way for a new chapter in her life. Applegate famously overcame breast cancer with a double mastectomy in 2008 and said she looking forward to being a mother.
"I've had to talk about that word [cancer] more than I've ever had to talk about a word in my life," she said. "After a while you're like, 'There's got to be something else to me.'...Yeah, now I'm Mom. She's healed me in so many ways. She's just made my life so much better. She's opened my whole soul"
Applegate is raising her baby with fiance Martyn LeNoble in their Los Angeles home. She got engaged to the rock star and founding member of the 1990s rock group Porno for Pyros last year on Valentines Day.


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The font size on Koji Uehara's name grew every time he set down a batter.
Since July 9, he had retired 37 straight. It was like watching a pitcher throw a no-hitter (and then some) in one-inning episodes.
The run was four shy of the streak of untouchability that Bobby Jenks (41) went on in 2007, the longest by a reliever in history.
With the Sox knotted at 2-2 with the Orioles going into the ninth, Uehara came on looking to inch closer to the mark.
After firing two fastballs at designated hitter Danny Valencia — pitches Valencia could only foul off — Uehara was a strike away from making it 38.
Then, in a blink, the streak snapped.
The chest-high fastball Valencia chased barely grazed the outside part of the plate.
"It was probably a little bit higher than I wanted," Uehara said. "But location-wise, I didn't really miss the spot, but a little bit high."
But with two strikes, Valencia was committed to hack at it.
Valencia sent it gliding into deep center field, and even though Shane Victorino had chased down a similar ball the inning before, the best he could do was get a glove on it and watch it bounce in for a triple.
"He made a good pitch," Red Sox catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia said. "I think Valencia took more of a defensive swing. He's got good pop and was able to put out there and Vic couldn't get to it."
Suddenly, with the go-ahead run 90 feet from the plate, Uehara's streak was less important.
Matt Wieters launched a fly ball to right field to score pinch runner Alexi Casilla and give a late lead to an Orioles team fighting for a playoff spot. It was the first run Uehara had allowed in 30⅓ innings.
The run gave Baltimore a 3-2 win that not only moved the Orioles 2½ games behind Tampa Bay and Texas for the final wild-card spot, but kept Boston from clinching its first playoff berth since 2009.
That mattered more to Uehara.
"I'm not disappointed that the streak ended," Uehara said. "Of course, I'm disappointed that we lost. But streak-wise, no disappointment."
As the outs piled up, Uehara said, he never felt pressure building with them.
"Not at all," he said. "When I was pitching, I didn't think about the streak at all. All the disappointment is that the team lost."
But with the season Uehara's put together, manager John Farrell couldn't find it in himself to be disappointed in his closer.
Before the game, he looked back.
His Plan A at closer, Joel Hanrahan, struggled before going down for the season with Tommy John surgery.
His Plan B, Andrew Bailey, was inconsistent before a right shoulder strain ended his season.
Uehara, Farrell said before the game, "was a godsend."
That didn't change after Uehara's first loss of the season.
"At the time of the game, that's the difference in it," Farrell said. "But Koji's been so good for us and even after the run allowed he continued to pitch as he has. Didn't faze him. He finished out the inning."
Going 0 for 4 with runners in scoring position was more costly for the Red Sox. The Orioles' three double plays were like tripwire at the end of every scoring opportunity.
Dustin Pedroia didn't hesitate to put the Red Sox on the board, leading off the night with his ninth home run, snapping a 176-at-bat stretch without a homer.
But after that, the Red Sox squandered scoring chances, including a bases-loaded situation in the second and a two-on, two-out situation the fourth.
"Just a number of missed opportunities early on," Farrell said. "I thought we did an excellent job of putting ourselves in position to have people in scoring position. The three double plays they turned were key."
Between Manny Machado's error fielding a Saltalamacchia one-out ground ball in the outfield with the shift on, Scott Feldman's walk to Stephen Drew, and Nate McClouth muffing Xander Bogaerts's sacrifice fly to left, the Orioles did everything they could to give the Sox a run in the fifth.
But it only cost them one run — Saltalamacchia coming across on Bogaerts's fly ball.
And even though he issued six walks in his five innings of work, Feldman managed to put a muzzle on a Red Sox offense that had scored 100 runs and hit 24 homers in their 14 games in September (both major-league highs).
Altogether, the Orioles used six pitchers to hold Boston to three hits.
It spoiled a strong outing from Ryan Dempster, who went six innings, giving up two runs on three hits and four walks. He used his sinker, splitter, and fastball to notch five strikeouts but left the mound without factoring into the decision.
He gave up deep home run to straightaway center to Chris Davis to lead off the sixth. It was the 21st solo homer he had allowed this season, but against a player with 51 of them, he wasn't upset.
"He's strong, man," Dempster said. "He just lifted that ball and got it up in the air — way, way up in the air — and it just kept carrying."
If anything, Dempster was sad to see Uehara's streak come to an end.
"When did he give up a run, like in spring training?" Dempster said. "It feels that long ago. To go out there, whether you're a reliever or a starter, to go out there that long without allowing a baserunner, what he's done has been unreal."
Almost as unreal as not seeing him do it again.
"He's human," Saltalamacchia said. "He's still consistent for us, still our guy."
Having pitched a 1-2-3 inning in a tight spot in the eighth, Red Sox reliever Craig Breslow wasn't worried about Uehara, either.
"I'm pretty confident Koji will start another streak tomorrow," he said.
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Bizarre racer Blur gets first screens
The first shots of Bizarre Creations racer Blur have been released. They're on Edge. There's an interview with Bizarre bosses Martyn and Sarah Chudley there as well. Acti Blizz is putting out full-year figures tonight, so expect to hear more on it then. For now, look away. It's out at the end of this year.
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Speaking to VG247 at Develop today, Bizarre Creations head Sarah Chudley said that Activision, and not Microsoft, bought the Gotham developer as Microsoft's "internal structure probably wasn't in the right place to buy things at the time." "Obviously as the publisher they had to know what was going on, but their internal structure probably wasn't […]
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The office of Lyon King of Arms dates from the 14th century. The position may incorporate the much older Celtic office of royal Seanchaidh or of King's Poet with responsibility for keeping the royal genealogy and attending the inauguration (later coronation) of the King.
The Lord Lyon is the sole King of Arms in Scotland. He is Head of the Heraldic Executive and the Judge of the Court of the Lord Lyon which has jurisdiction over all heraldic business in Scotland.
On ceremonial occasions the Lord Lyon is accompanied by Her Majesty's Officers of Arms, all of whom are members of the Royal Household. They are at present Rothesay Herald, Snawdoun Herald and Marchmont Herald, Ormond Pursuivant, Dingwall Pursuivant and Unicorn Pursuivant.
The Officers of Arms may be consulted on matters of heraldry and genealogy by members of the public and may represent their clients before the Lyon Court.
An Act of the Scottish Parliament of 1592 gave the Lord Lyon responsibility for prosecuting as a criminal offence anyone who uses unauthorised Arms. The Court has its own Procurator Fiscal, an independent official prosecutor.
In 1672 a further Act of the Scottish Parliament authorised the creation of the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland. This Register is maintained by the Lyon Clerk and Keeper of the Records and contains an official copy of every Coat of Arms granted in Scotland since 1672.


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Founded in 1785, the the University of Georgia is one of the nation's oldest public universities, and its first state-chartered university. As proof of its academic excellence, UGA produces a high number of students receiving prestigious academic awards, such as the Rhodes scholarship. That's not to say they're all work and no play, however--the school shows special dedication to its teams, the Bulldogs, with a special lineage of real bulldogs serving as mascots alongside "Hairy Dawg" (the more traditional guy-in-an-animal suit mascot).
Athens is a beautiful little town to live in. So beautiful, in fact, that only 27% of UGA undergrads actually live on campus. You'll find that apartment rentals are generally very affordable and centrally located, and because campus is right in town, you could walk from your apartment to class to downtown. A good way to get started on your apartment hunt is with our convenient apartment guide. If you're also interested in day-to-day life, check out our posts oncollege life in general.
If you have your student ID, you can ride the Athens City Transit buses for free. Also, the University of Georgia has its own special fleet of buses to shuttle you from building to building and around the huge campus. Owning a bike might speed things up. As you settle in to your new apartment in Athens, one easy way to get to know the town is to check out the official homepage of the town and surrounding county. Art galleries, farmers' markets, easy bike rides, even a symphony—a huge, diverse range of activities await once you leave the classroom.


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can any one guide me how pictures are drawn in different papers, i mean as we see different cycles ,(virus life cycle), how an author draw it, i have sketch in my mind but only "paint"cant give me satisfactory picture.
what advance techniques i can use.
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Everyone who thinks that the Chinese economy is in a big bubble that is about to burst, better think again, especially after the country's central bank cut reserve ratios on Wednesday. China's big red bubble is ahead of us!
China's central bank actions replicate those of Japan's central bank in the aftermath of the Plaza Accord in 1985, which added fuel to the country's ongoing asset bubble at that time, helping it blow for another five years. But unlike Japan's bubble that was accommodated by government policies, China's bubble is directed by government policies. It is fueled by the systematic efforts of Beijing and provincial governments to preserve the old system of central planning, through massive construction and manufacturing projects for the purpose of employment creation rather than for addressing genuine consumer needs. Major Chinese cities are filled with growing numbers of new buildings that remain dark in the night, because they are vacant. They were built under the mandates of the Communist Party to provide jobs for the hundreds of thousands of people leaving the countryside for a better life in the cities, rather than to house genuine business tenants.
China's real estate bubble is multiplying like a contagious disease from the eastern cities to the inner country. It extends beyond real estate to the other sectors of the economy, from the steel industry to electronics and toys industries. Provinces rush and race to copy each other, especially those of the inner country, where local corporate managers have no direct access to world markets, and end up following the policies of their peers of the coastal provinces. This practice became more evident in the aftermath of the Asian crisis, when economic growth slowed-down considerably and it became increasingly difficult for State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) to maintain staff levels or to provide employment for newcomers. Government bureaucrats became obsessed with massive infrastructure projects, commercial construction, and duplicate factories as a quick source of growth. This means that they are too many steel companies, too many electronics companies, and too many toy companies, created for the purpose of providing to excess labor rather than genuine products to serve real consumer needs.
By and large, China's bubbles are financed by state-owned banks and investment trust companies, which operate as government departments, within a central planning environment of controlled interest rates and government mandates, promoting the welfare of the "people" rather than true banks operating in a market system and promoting the interests of their depositors and stockholders. Appointed by CPC-controlled boards, Chinese bank managers lack the freedom, the expertise, and the incentives to evaluate investment alternatives. They, therefore, confine themselves into routine and predictable business, simply collecting deposits and financing government decided real estate projects and SOEs-providing the fuel for the next bubble, rather than searching for creditworthy clients.
State bank financing could explain why the Chinese bubbles have yet to burst. Banks have the direct backing of taxpayers and depositors (often workers required to deposit a certain percentage of their salary with state banks). This means that non-performing loans to real estate developers and near bankrupt corporations are financed directly by depositors and taxpayers. The Chinese Treasury Secretary doesn't have to ask for legislative approval to help the banks with these loans, as is the case in the USA, that's why the Chinese bubble has plenty of room to grow before it bursts—a bullish prospect for energy and resource suppliers.
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My laundry pile is slowly getting back to normal after our great trip! If only the rain would stop and we could finally attend our boys' baseball games. So many have been cancelled!
Monday is the Anita and Kelly Dance Challenge! I haven't taped mine yet.... I had better get my game on and DANCE! Person with the most comments wins (can comment on both) and Anita, I mean, the other person puts $ in the kitty for a charity! ;)
Also, a big thank you to those of you who have given me a blog award recently!! Your thoughtfulness is appreciated (even though I don't always follow the blog award rules!).
I read three books in the last few weeks (fast for me!): The Dark and Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan, The Liar Society by Lisa and Laura Roecker, and Earthling Hero by Anita Laydon Miller (only 99 cents at Amazon or Smashwords!). I highly recommend all three! They kept me turning the pages to see what the heck was going to happen next!
My sixth grader J-Man and I headbanged together at a concert last night. We headed to ROCKford to hear one of our favorite bands, Avenged Sevenfold, along with another great band - Three Days Grace. It was the fourth time I've seen Avenged and third time I've seen 3DG.
Picture me and a male mini-me with short hair screaming at the top of our lungs to metal songs and throwing our fists up to the beat. Yep, that's us.
A clip of my favorite song of all time - Unholy Confessions
Best guitar duo ever: Zacky Vengeance and Synyster Gates (no, those aren't their given names :) I think the biggest reason I love A7X so much is because of their unique, manic guitar solos.
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Speed up hemming, embroidery and hand sewing.
Clamp attaches to table. Holds fabric taut for even stitching.
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This third hand is a life saver and saves a lot of time. It's hard trying to hold on to something while trying to braid or whatever I need a third hand for. My work looks a lot better because it holds my work while I'm using both hands to braid or hold onto my work
April 30, 2014
About 20 years ago I purchased one of these handy tools from Clotilde's. After moving to another country, I was unable to find my Third Hand anywhere; I guess I lost it! After retiring, I have picked up my hobby again, quilting and sewing garments. It is time to purchase another Third Hand and I am happy to see that Annie's has this very useful tool still in stock. Thank you Annie!


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Vanilla-butterscotch cupcakes
These are the nicest cupcakes ever: rich in taste, sweet, smooth and creamy, thanks to the fluffy buttercream and luxurious butterscotch surprise. Who would've thought that it's also one of the easiest recipes ever? ;-)
French toast
I believe in food recycling, i.e. when something is still edible, and there is a delicious and healthy way to eat it, then why not? We should never let our food spoil, even when there's overabundance of it! :-) Enjoy these delicious, savory French toasts, which make a perfect weekend breakfast.
Coffee cake
My first real cake, made with delicious coffee-flavored buttercream. It was really good, and simple! Because this cake doesn't require leveling, you can simply bake two layers separately, then stack them — a perfect recipe for beginners! :-)
I made my cake with normal instant coffee, but you can also use decaf coffee for same taste, but caffeine-free cake! :-)
When you make your own pasta, you will always end up with some scraps, even more if you make ravioli. You can easily recycle this leftover pasta to make maltagliati, meaning "poorly cut" in Italian, which was traditionally meant as food for the poor. We are way past that, and today you can enjoy rich texture and amazing flavor of your pasta without the social stigma ;-)
Meringue hearts
Let this special someone know you've got your eye on them with a cute, delicious, sweet meringue heart. You only need a couple of eggs, and some sugar, and of course red coloring. These are irresistible and will make an everlasting impression (because everyone loves the person that brings sweets, right?).


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The EU is to begin an ambitious top-to-toe overhaul tomorrow of Mali's ragtag army, which is far from ready to take the place of foreign troops to defend the West African nation against fresh attacks by Islamist insurgents.
As France prepares to withdraw its 4,000 troops after routing militants from Mali's northern cities, the first of four Malian battalions begins training with battle-hardened European instructors tomorrow as part of a wider effort to bring the Malian army up to scratch as quickly as possible.
"Objectively, it must be entirely rebuilt," said French General Francois Lecointre, who heads the EU Training Mission in Mali (EUTM).
Underpaid, ill-equipped and riven by divisions, Mali's armed forces fell apart last year when well-armed Islamist extremists seized the country's vast northern reaches, imposing Shariah law and terrorizing locals.
Today, no one knows exactly how many Malian soldiers are left, probably about 6,000 — about half of which will train with the EUTM over the next year.
"The Malian authorities are well aware of the need to reconstruct the army, very aware that Mali almost disappeared due to the failings of the institution," Lecointre said.
Class is at a dusty green-shuttered military academy 60km from the Malian capital, Bamako, its grounds now packed with rows of EU-supplied troop transport vehicles, a field hospital, tents and trunk-loads of equipment.
After 10 weeks of training, the first 670 Malians are expected to be ready for combat by the of end June, early July and deployed to northern Mali, where French and Chadian troops are still on the lookout for pockets of jihadist fighters.
The French are to hand over to an African force of 6,300 likely to come under a UN mandate in the coming weeks. However, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon last week said that up to 11,200 troops were needed as well as a second "parallel" force.
While mission commander Lecointre expects the last batch of Malian soldiers to graduate early next year, he says that the EUTM — running on a budget of 12.3 million euros (US$15.8 million) — may have to be extended.
Speaking in Bamako, Malian Minister of Defense Yamoussa Camara deemed the 15-month mission "too short," but said it "will enable the training of a core of instructors who will be able to continue training others."
A major issue is the army's poor and "heterogenous" equipment, made up of material donated by richer nations over two decades, Lecointre said.
"Mali accepted equipment from any country offering, but it doesn't function as a whole and often can be either obsolete or over-sophisticated," he added.
EU nations were ready to donate equipment, but too often "are inclined to give equipment they no longer want, whilst we are seeking above all to avoid receiving a patchwork of weaponry," he added.
However, the bigger problem is the army's lack of a clear hierarchy and chain of command, with no esprit de corps.
"The army is very unstructured," Lecointre said, with soldiers more often than not banding together for one-off missions and not training.
A total 23 EU nations are taking part in the 550-strong EU mission, including 200 trainers, a protection force of 150, another 150 providing medical and logistical support, and 50 administrative staff.
France, which sent troops to its former colony in January to block an advance on the capital by the extremists, is the lead country in the mission, followed by Germany, Spain, the Czech Republic, Britain and Belgium. Lithuania is taking part in such an operation for the first time.


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Jan Mikulášek, Marta Ljubková
Stage director: Jan Mikulášek
Dramaturgy: Marta Ljubková
Sets and Costumes: Marek Cpin
Light design: Pavla Beranová
The acclaimed film adaptation by Juraj Herz of the novel by Ladislav Fuks (1923–1994) only treats part of the literary work. The story of Karel Kopfrkingl, a former soldier who had served in World War I, now a crematorium employee, an exemplary husband and father, is not just a horror comedy and drama that gives a burlesque account of a personality breakdown. The set of figures, seen by the author as a freak-show, keeps returning in various situations, so as to cast doubt on our conventional view of the world. It is ridiculous indeed – and tragic as well – to watch how the yearning for personal comfort and security can turn a man without opinion and spine into an active tool of destruction. Fuchs may have warned against World War II, while today his message can be interpreted in far more general terms.
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Understanding the body
'De humani corporis fabrica' by Vesalius, published Basel, Switerland, 1555
Circulation of the blood
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Since ancient times the study of medicine has focused on one deceptively simple question: how does the human body work? While some medical traditions focus on ideas of balance and energy in the body, the European tradition has been very concerned with anatomy.
Religious questions
Most early anatomical knowledge was discovered because of religious or philosophical questions. The Babylonians dissected animals in order to make predictions based on what they found in the organs. In Egypt belief in the afterlife meant that people wished to have their bodies preserved. This was done through a process called embalming, to create a mummy. Most organs were removed and stored in canopic jars. The heart was returned to the corpse, as it was considered to be the most important organ in the body, and the home of the soul.
Galen and the use of animals to understand the body
Questions about the location of the soul were also important in Roman and Greek anatomy. For Aristotle and Plato, anatomy was part of philosophy, trying to discover where the soul resided in the body. The most influential work relating to the structure of the body was done by Galen. Galen spent the majority of his working life - the 160s and 170s CE - in Rome, where dissection of the human body was not permitted. He recommended that students use the apes which are 'most like man' (now known as Barbary apes) in order to study anatomy. For Galen, anatomy demonstrated that the functions and structure of the body were not determined by chance. Understanding more about the body therefore meant learning more about nature and the purpose of life. In Europe, Galen's medical ideas were considered as the highest authority until the Renaissance.
The new tradition of examining dead human bodies
The idea that finding out more about the body was an important way to learn about humanity's place in the world continued in the Islamic Empire and medieval Europe. However, these two cultures had a shared discomfort with the idea of dissecting corpses. This meant that the number of bodies available for study was often highly restricted. Instead, scholars relied on texts, such as those by Galen. One of the great shifts in medical knowledge and practice during the Renaissance was the development of a new tradition of dissection. Andreas Vesalius's book De humani corporis fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body), published in 1543, broke with tradition. Lavishly illustrated, it relied on direct observation based on dissections, and demonstrated that existing texts were often inaccurate. It was immensely influential and opened the way for a new fascination with the anatomy of the body and its representation.
Advances in surgery
Other innovations during the Renaissance included advances in surgery and a greater understanding of the role of the heart. William Harvey's 1628 description of the movement of blood through the heart was based on experimentation. He showed that blood was being circulated through the body via valves that controlled its movement. Blood was pumped from the heart through the arteries, and flowed back through the veins.
The importance of the heart - Ibn al-Nafis
Harvey was not the first person to identify the role of the heart in blood circulation. Ibn al-Nafis in 1242 and Michael Servetus in 1553 had made similar observations. However, these were not widely available in Europe.
The first microscopes
The development of the microscope from the 1590s allowed the study of the body at a deeper level. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, who produced many of the earliest microscopes, was able to describe the role of capillaries in the circulation of blood. This would have been impossible without the ability to magnify the tissues of the body many times.
Changes in the body caused by disease
The study of the organs, tissues and cells of the body made possible by microscopes prompted the rapid development of pathological anatomy from the late 1700s. Pathological anatomy looks at the changes in the body's organs and tissues caused by disease. Thus, symptoms are explained in terms of anatomical changes in the organs and tissues observed after death. Linking physical changes in the body to disease marked a move away from models of the body based on humoral theories. The move towards more materialist and mechanical models of the body is an example of the increasing importance of science to the practice of medicine. It is also a sign of the shift towards understanding patients' symptoms through physical changes in the body, rather than how patients themselves explain their illness.
Medicine, science and surgery - the discovery of X-rays
In the 1800s and 1900s, medicine, science and surgery became far more closely linked. New technologies opened up the body in different ways. The discovery of X-rays in 1895 made it possible to see inside the body without surgery. X-ray machines quickly became central to medical diagnosis and treatment.
Has medicine become impersonal?
Over the course of the 1900s, biomedicine's close links with technology made it an immensely powerful way of understanding and treating the body, increasingly working at a microscopic, and from the 1960s a genetic, level. However, for some, biomedicine has become too mechanical, and it is argued that the patient as a person has disappeared. Those in search of a more holistic vision of the body may turn towards other medical traditions for explanations of health and disease.
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K Arnold, Picturing The Body: Five Centuries Of Medical Images, Exhibition At The Wellcome Institute The History Of Medicine (London, Wellcome Trust, 1993)
J Clair, L'ame du corps: arts et sciences 1793 - 1993, RMN (Réunion des Musées Nationaux), (Gallimard: Électa,1993)
A Cunningham, The Anatomical Renaissance: The Resurrection Of The Anatomical Projects Of The Ancients (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1997)
N D Jewson, 'The Disappearance of the Sick-Man from Medical Cosmology, 1770-1870', Sociology 10 (1976), pp 225-244
M Kemp and M Wallace, Spectacular Bodies: The Art And Science Of The Human Body From Leonardo To Now (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000)
T V N Persaud, Early History of Human Anatomy: From Antiquity to the Beginning of the Modern Era (Springfield, IL: Charles C Thomas, 1984)
B Rifkin (ed.), Human Anatomy: Depicting the Body from the Renaissance to Today (London: Thames and Hudson, 2006)
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