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The University of La Verne football squad concluded its season on a winning note as it defeated Occidental College by a 36-24 verdict in SCIAC action Saturday at Ortmayer Stadium.
La Verne (4-5, 4-3 SCIAC) trailed 24-23 before closing with a pair of fourth quarter touchdowns from Matt Biggers to seize victory. The win secured the Leopards' first winning mark in conference play since the 1999 season.
Biggers scored the go-ahead touchdown from 14 yards out with 12:34 to play to give La Verne a 29-24 lead, and he later iced the game with an electrifying 94-yard scamper with 2:10 remaining to provide the Leopards with a 12-point cushion to close the scoring. The junior running back totaled 226 yards on 27 carries to post his third game of at least 200 yards this season.
Early in the fourth quarter, Occidental (2-7, 2-5 SCIAC) drove 55 yards on 10 plays to reclaim the lead from the Leopards as Samuel Crizer scored from a yard out with 13:10 remaining to give the Tigers a one-point lead.
The Leopards responded on the ensuing possession on just three plays covering 67 yards. The score was set up by a 38-yard run from Biggers and subsequent personal foul on the Tigers to reach the Oxy 14. Biggers found the end zone on the next play, darting through several defenders to give the Leos the lead for good at 29-24.
Oxy did not go away quietly, and took advantage of a fumbled snap of a La Verne punt to gain possession at the Leopard 25-yard line with 6:51 remaining. After six plays, the Tigers faced a fourth-and-one at the La Verne 6-yard line. The Leos would hold, as Ky Dorsey stopped Crizer for no gain to seize possession.
Biggers then took a handoff from Travis Carter and sprinted past the Tiger defenders untouched for a 94-yard TD to put the Leos up 36-24.
La Verne trailed much of the first half but led 20-17 at intermission.
The Leos took the opening kickoff and marched 56 yards on 12 plays, reaching the Tiger 3-yard line before settling for a field goal of 22 yards from Alex Miller for a 3-0 lead.
That advantage was short lived, as the Tigers scored on their first play from scrimmage, courtesy of a 60-yard touchdown pass from Tommy Edwards to Matthew Tuckness to lead 7-3.
The two teams traded field goals before the Leopards blocked a Tiger punt to retake the lead. Joey Smith spiked a punt attempt from Marc Kuzbari and recovered at the Occidental 20. Four plays later, Carter scored on a quarterback bootleg to give the Leopards a 13-10 edge with 3:59 left in the second quarter.
Occidental countered on its next possession, covering 82 yards on eight plays. The drive culminated with a second scoring strike from Edwards to Tuckness - this time from 22 yards out - to push the Tigers back on top at 17-13 with 52 seconds to play.
That was just enough time for the Leos to strike again, as it efficiency moved 65 yards on six plays in the less than a minute. At the Oxy 5, Carter connected with senior Oscar Bauman for the touchdown with a second remaining to help the Leos enter halftime on top by three at 20-17.
The tandem of Edwards and Tuckness, the SCIAC leaders in passing yards and receptions, respectively, lived up to their billing as Edwards threw for 322 yards and a pair of scores while Tuckness hauled in 16 passes for 234 yards, both game-highs.
Carter finished with 155 yards through the air on 17-of-23 passing with one touchdown while also adding 53 rushing yards on 12 attempts.
Biggers concludes the season with 1,397 rushing yards and moves into fifth on the Leopard career rushing list with 2,014 yards through two seasons.


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Inspiration for tonight's dinner: just good food. A steak, medium-rare please, and some tangy, goat cheesy mashed potatoes. A meal that sticks to the ribs and pulls no punches. It comes together fast, too, and boy oh boy does it leave a person feeling fed. Tuck in, folks.
As always, less than 60 minutes stands between you and tonight's dinner. This one is especially easy -- just a quick stop at the store for some nice fresh steaks and you're golden.
Broiled New York Steak by coffeefoodwritergirl
Mashed Potatoes With Caramelized Onions and Goat Cheese by Sonali aka The Foodie Physician
The Grocery List (for 2 big steak eaters, or 4 dainty ones)
2 pieces New York steak (2 1/2 inches thick) 3 pounds Russet potatoes 3 ounces goat cheese1 1/2 cups half-and-half
We assume that you have in your fridge and cupboards 2 onions, olive oil, salt, pepper, dried mustard, powdered garlic, butter, 1 clove of fresh garlic, 1 bay leaf, and a pinch of sugar. If not, add those to your list!
The Plan
1. The steaks represent almost no work, so just leave them out to come to room temp, and don't worry about them.
2. Potatoes! Caramelizing the onions will take about 30 minutes. You'll need to keep a lazy sort of eye on them, and stir them with some regularity. While you do that, season the steak, peel and chop and, finally, boil the potatoes.
3. Pop the steaks under the broiler. Warm the cream and butter mixture for the mashed potatoes.
4. Pull the steaks from the oven. They will rest for 10 minutes.
5. Finish up the potatoes while the steaks rest. Top the potatoes with a handsome pile of those caramelized onion threads. Dig in!
Aside: A very simple green salad on the side wouldn't hurt. Neither would a nice glass of red wine, for that matter! You deserve it. Why? Because dinner is served!
A New Way to Dinner, co-authored by Food52's founders Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, is an indispensable playbook for stress-free meal-planning (hint: cook foundational dishes on the weekend and mix and match 'em through the week).
See what other Food52 readers are saying.

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Health Services
Plymouth State's Health Services offers students many of the services they find at their local doctor's office. The Counseling Center provides students with an opportunity to talk about personal, academic or career concerns.
Safety Services
Student safety is a top priority at Plymouth State. The University employs a police department whose staff consists of full-time and part-time police officers and student public safety officers who patrol the campus 24 hours a day


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Intel®, well known for processors & chipsets, a market leader in many application fields and one of the most innovative companies, brings things together that formerly were existing in different worlds.
These things, that needs to get connected to each other or to be able to transfer date through networks to cloud servers for generating new values out of its data, can now be based on Intel® technology from the sensor node over all steps up to the cloud server.
Intel®, not only a chip manufacturer, it's a provider of ideas, visions and new innovative technologies, that leads us into the world of IoT, Cloud Computing and its Big Data.
Please check the Intel® portfolio of solutions for each single step in the data processing cue, from sensors over gateways to servers, from single bits to the thousands of terrabytes in the world of Big Data. If you need to process and calculate data, if you need to transfer data or if you need fast and reliable storage space for it, Intel® is the provider of the technologies, you are looking for.
Harness the full power of your Intel® technology investment by tapping into the businessbuilding benefits available to you as an Intel® Technology Provider partner.
Intel® Partner Marketing Studio is our one-stop online destination for marketing assets, ready-to-use campaigns, and demand-generation tools. All are available in more than 13 languages.
Check out the Intel® YouTube channel for more videos.
Just slightly bigger than a credit card (94.5 x 55 x 5 mm), but it's ready to power anything from entry-level to full featured devices. The modularity and flexibility of this computer on a card allows compute integration via card slot into devices like digital signage, kiosks, smart TVs, appliances and more.
The Intel® NUC is a powerful 4x4-inch mini PC with entertainment, gaming, and productivity features, including a customizable board that is ready to accept the memory, storage, and operating systems that you want. These NUC7 systems are based on the latest 7th and 8th Generation Intel Core Architecture are ideal for digital signage application and are qualified for 24x7 operation.
The Intel Atom® processor E3900 series is based on the Goldmont architecture, utilizing Intel's industry-leading 14 nm process technology and are extended temperature qualified. These new SoCs empowers real-time computing in digital surveillance, advancements in industrial, new solutions for retail and medical, and more.
The Intel® RealSense™ Depth Camera D400-Series uses stereo vision to Calculate depth, USB-powered and Consist of a pair of depth sensors, an RGB sensor, and an infrared projector. They are ideal for developers to add depth perception capability to many applications.
The Intel® E 5100s is a low power storage device that offers superior durability, lasting data integrity, and manageability across a variety of semi-industrial and embedded solutions. Available in capacities as low as 64GB, the E 5100s meets high quality and reliability standards to deliver outstanding value.
The Intel 545s consumer SSD is the first product in the market which features the newest 64-Layer 3D NAND TLC flash technology. The new 64-Layer 3D NAND technology enables the production of higher capacities while at the same time reduce the price per GB dramatically. This makes the 545s a cost-effective and reliable replacement for traditional HDDs. Get reliable storage with the new Intel SSD 545s, delivering uncompromising value and performance. With performance noticeably faster than a hard disk drive (HDD), you will get quicker boot and faster application load times.
The S4500 and S4600 – the newest member of the 2nd Generation Intel 3D NAND SSD family – are a storage inspired SATA SSD optimized for read-intensive workloads. Featured with a new Intel-developed SATA controller, innovative SATA firmware, and the industry's highest density 3D NAND, the Intel SSD DC S4500 and DC S4600 Series will enable data centers to optimize legacy infrastructures and help your business to reduce costs, increase server efficiency, and improve data reliability.
Rutronik One-Stop Shopping & Support: Choose the Latest Intel® processors and the latest Fujitsu main boards which fits your application best.
Processors / CPU
LAN-Cards & Raid-Controllers & Phi™ processor & RealSense
NUC Mainboards / Server & Workstation Mainboards
NUC Systems / Server Barebones / Compute Card
Solid State Drives (SSD)- Integrity, Reliability and Performance
Wireless LAN / Bluetooth Modules
Network Chips / CHD
Intel® processors offer a wide range of performance and can be used in uncountable different applications. From the Intel® ATOM™ processors for entry level applications like gateways, simple automation controllers or HMIs over the multicore & multithread processors from the Intel® Core i™ processor families up to the latest server processors from the Intel® Xeon™ series, a wide range of different solutions offers always the best fit and a huge scalability.
If the application needs less power consumption at an average performance level with even a good graphics performance, an Intel® ATOM™ processor can be used to build up entry level to midrange solutions.
When an application needs higher performance, Intel® Core i™ processors can be the best fit with its outstanding integrated graphics core, the ability to use the latest DDR4 memory technology and high speed I/O, like PCIe 3.0, SATA 3.0 or USB 3.0. Combined with the related chipsets, Intel® Core i™ processors can be used in many applications and with the right pair of processor and chipset, Intel® offers as well ground-breaking remote administration technologies, such as Intel® AMT & Intel® vPro™ Technology.
A lot of technologies for the world of Cloud Computing and Big Data are combined in the Intel® Xeon™ processors which are for different use cases. With the Intel® Xeon™ E3 processors for entry level servers or workstations, Intel® offers a solution at a price level, that allows the usage in simple industrial applications with demand for ECC memory and server management over IPMI. It offers as well a good solution for medical workstations and critical applications. For workstations and servers with up to two sockets per system, the Intel® Xeon™ E5 processors offer much more cores per socket, a much broader memory interface and enlarges a lot of former bottlenecks. With up to 22 cores per socket and Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology, in a two socket system, impressively 88 threads can run at the same time. With up to 40 PCIe 3.0 lanes per socket, at a dual socket board the Intel® Xeon™ E5 processors can be combined with Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessor cards to build up a High Performance Computing system for Cloud services and the world of Big Data. On top the Intel® Xeon™ E7 processors for systems with up to 8 sockets enables system builders to integrate processing performance at the edge. With up to 24 cores and 48 threads per socket, an impressive number of 384 threads can run at the same time at just one machine. This enables opportunities for massive parallel computing or even the partitioning of systems for many different operating system instances running virtualized in parallel. Therefor Intel® offers with the Xeon™ processors also technologies in hardware that makes virtualization more efficient, like Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x), Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d) and Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT).
Rounded up with Intel® Data Protection Technologies, like Intel® AES New Instructions and Secure Key, as well as Intel® Platform Protection Technologies, like OS Guard, Trusted Execution Technology and Execution Disable Bit, Intel® implemented as well state of the art security features to take care of the demand in secure data processing for the whole world of IoT.
To cover the needs for a state of the art system solution, sometimes it's necessary to implement add-on cards in the system design. With such accessories Intel® offers the possibility to extend the number of available Ethernet ports as well as the number and features of available storage ports.
With Intel® Ethernet Adapters for different use cases the field of possible designs is huge. From the entry level with Intel® PRO/1000 GT Desktop Adapter up to the latest technologies at the Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapters, a broad range of solutions is available. With the support for SMF cabling and a range of up to 10km, Intel® network adapters stand always for the edge of technology and sets standards in the market.
Another state of the art technology is Intel® QuickAssist that provides crypto-acceleration and compression acceleration with support for IPsec & SSL in hardware to assist with the performance demands of securing and routing Internet traffic and other workloads such as compression and wireless 3G/4G LTE algorithm offload, thereby reserving processor cycles for application and control processing. With Intel® QuickAssist adapters for the PCIe 3.0 bus, Intel® offers solutions for the IoT network security.
When it comes to Cloud Computing and Big Data, a lot of data has to be stored. To extend capacity, availability and reliability of storage solutions, Intel® RAID Controllers set standards for additional controller cards to build RAID arrays up to level 6 or 60. With BBU batteries and up to 8 ports SAS/SATA ports, these PCIe 3.0 controllers, combined with the latest sever chipsets and Intel® XEON™ processors, this combination is giving the best hosting throughput for cloud systems.
For massive data processing in parallel threads for Big Data analysis and calculation, Intel® offers High-Performance-Computing adapters, based on the Intel® Xeon Phi™ processors. With these add on cards for the PCIe 3.0 bus, it gives the additional level of performance for getting results faster.
The Intel® RealSense™ D400 series depth camera uses stereo vision to calculate depth. The stereo vision implementation consists of a left imager, right imager, and an optional infrared projector. The infrared projector projects non-visible static IR pattern to improve depth accuracy in scenes with low texture. The left and right imagers capture the scene and the (vision) processor calculates depth values for each pixel. This technology extends host processor systems with the possibilities for facial analysis, hand & finger tracking, objects measurement and provides depth information for robotic control systems.
As a Technology leader, Intel® develops and define form factors for the IT, like mainboard form factors, such as the well-known ATX standard or the NUC form factor. Based on their own combined Technologies for chipsets, processors, peripherals and interfaces, Intel® offers complete Servers, Workstations and board solutions.
The Intel® NUC boards (size 4"x4") come with a soldered-on low power processor and an integrated cooling solution in a variety of performance levels and many standard I/O configurations. The NUC boards are designed for applications like Content Creation, Digital Signage, Thin Client, and Gaming and provide powerful Video Security.
The Intel® NUC Mini PC re-imagines the desktop PC into a pint-sized package so that you can work, play, create, entertain, and inspire in any room. The Intel® NUC kit includes a customizable board and chassis that are ready to accept the memory, hard drive, and operating system of your choice. Optional there are specific NUCs with preloaded Windows 10 operating system. The NUC kits are designed for applications like Content Creation, Digital Signage, Thin Client, and Gaming and provide powerful Video Security.
The Intel Compute Stick is a tiny device the size of a pack of gum that can transform any HDMI-TV or display into a complete computer. Available with a range of Intel processors, it is everything you love about a desktop computer in a device that fits in the palm of your hand but what is inside is incredible: a quad-core Intel Atom™ processor that gives you balanced performance for work or play.
Intel® Compute Card is just slightly bigger than a credit card (94.5 x 55 x 5 mm), but it's ready to power anything from entry-level to full featured devices. The modularity and flexibility of this computer on a card allows compute integration via card slot into devices like digital signage, kiosks, smart TVs, appliances and more.
Intel® entered the storage market roughly over one decade ago and has since developed into a market leader that delivers solid state drives with reliability, uncompromised data integrity and consistent performance where it matters.
Across the entire SSD consumer, professional, data center and embedded product family Intel® covers all major form factors and interface solutions. A large offering of form factors and interface solutions allows you to select from a multitude of options and choose the right product for your application.
|Available form factors -
|Interface solutions
|• 1.8" x 7mm
|• SATA 3.0 6Gb/s
|• 2.5" x 7mm
|• PCIe 3.0 x2
|• U.2 x 15mm
|• PCIE 3.0 x2 x2
|• PCIe 3.0 x4
|• PCIe 3.1 x4
|• Ruler
Lasting integrity and uncompromised quality
Drive quality, reliability and performance are important criterion in critical applications when it comes to selecting the correct drive for your application. Fulfilling these criterions is especially important in critical environments such as data centers. With more than 1000 configurations, 5000 workloads, 1 million power cycles and subjecting their solid state drives to neutron radiation to look for bit flips to ensure protection from silent data corruption Intel® goes beyond the JEDEC standard in order to validate their solid state drives. This rigorous validation process enables Intel® to offer 5-years of warranty on solid state drives.
Besides ensuring quality through extensive testing and validation Intel® offers complete in-house design solutions for their data center product line. Whereas other suppliers partially outsource their design to other manufacturers, Intel®'s Data Center solutions have an n in-house design for their media, controller, firmware and software, all of which further delivers integrity, reliability and quality.
Manageability and security features
Regarding manageability Intel® offers the Solid State Drive Toolbox - a drive management software that allows users to view SSD information. The visible information includes firmware, drive health and more. Moreover, the Solid State Drive Toolbox offers integrated support for future software and firmware updates as well as export system configuration capabilities.
In terms of security Intel® offers a multitude of security feature sets, which help to keep the customers critical data safe.
Security features are available across the entire Intel® SSD portfolio. The number of available security features varies across the Intel® Series and respective product categories. The table below includes a list of all the available security feature sets:
|Value Vectors
|Feature Name
|Secure the data
|AES XTS 256 Encryption
|Opal 2.0
|Enterprise SSC
|Pyrite w/ Encryption
|Format NVM (Crypt & block erase)
|ATA Security* / Secure erase
|NVMe Sanitize
|Secure the SSD / Secure the platform
|FW Auth. on download
|SSD Secure boot
|Debug port protection
3D NAND TLC 64-Layer Technology
Intel® is the first company to market the new 3D NAND 64-Layer technology. The technology behind this is just as it sounds - 64 layers of storage stacked on top of each other. Intel®'s 3D NAND uses a 'floating gate' architecture, which is manufactured on a high-volume process. This architecture is capable of the best areal density and provides room for scalability in the future. It works by using a smaller cell size and placing control logic under the memory array. By having better areal density, Intel® can scale to larger capacities by delivering more gigabytes per wafer. As a result of this innovative technology Intel®® can produce Solid State Drives with capacities that go all the way up to 16TB. While those capacity numbers do not set any new benchmarks, the price to performance ratio is the key advantage of the technology. The Intel®'s 3D NAND TLC 64-Layer technology architecture delivers consistently more performance, uses less power, and offers more reliability over time. Overall, a cost effective and technological upgrade that does everything right.
Intel® Optane™ with 3D-XPoint Technology - Ground breaking flash memory innovation powered by Intel®
Intel®'s latest innovation is the 3D-XPoint Flash technology, which is exclusively available in Intel®'s Optane SSD product range. 3D-XPoint is a unique constellation of advanced materials with a cross point structure that resembles a three dimensional chess board and does not include a single transistor. In terms of structure and memory 3D-XPoint draws parallels between 3D-NAND and SLC (single layer cell) technology. The structure consists of multiple layers of flash cells while being able to store one bit per cell. Just like a skyscraper can shelter more people in comparison to a single story house, so too can a 3D-NAND flash cell store more data than a 2D flash cell.
Moreover, 3D-XPoint functions as a cache system for your primary storage drive, storing necessary data, similarly to RAM, but holding on to the data between restarts. The booting of programmes and software is as fast as a DRAM while at the same time having the feature of saving data permanently like a SSD and HDD. In essence, 3D-XPoint offers the best of both technologies: Permanent storage (non-volatile memory) and fast working memory (volatile memory).
With the right solution from Intel, your Wi-Fi performs just as remarkably as you do-easily keeping pace with your entertainment, business, and super-connected lifestyle. For instance, a PC equipped with Gigabit Wi-Fi achieves speeds up to 1733Mbps. That's nearly twice as fast as 802.11ac 2x2 with speeds of 867Mbps
Intel® mobile modem solutions deliver the speed and agility to keep you intelligently connected, across town and around the world. Designed for smartphones, tablets, PCs and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, Intel's low-power modems and system on chips (SoCs) are among the industry's most compact and cost-effective mobile solutions.
Rutronik can offer all the 2G, 3G and 4G SoC based products through our 3rd Party Module Maker Telit®.
Intel provides a broad portfolio of Ethernet devices for LANs (Local Area Networks) - industrial automation, motion control, security and factory automation applications.
In today's network environment, service provider equipment is spread across homes, businesses, base stations, central offices, and data centers. A large number of base stations and central offices may utilize traditional network appliance equipment housed in standard proprietary chassis.
Thunderbolt™ 3 offers an unprecedented level of connection and consistency, bringing the speed and versatility of Thunderbolt™ to USB-C.
A single compact port can now do it all – connect to Thunderbolt™ devices, any display, and billions of USB devices – all while supplying power.
Thunderbolt™ 3 doubles the bandwidth of its previous model and transfers data at 8x the speed of a USB, making it unrivaled for new uses.
Plus, for the first time, you can run data, video, and power over a single cable, thin enough to fit today's ultralight PCs.
Now, just one compact port can enable lightning fast data transfer, support two 4K UHD 60 Hz displays, 2 and even quick notebook charging. It's the most advanced, efficient, and versatile single-docking solution available.
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Admin Token
In a default setup Package Drone always has an
admin user which is not registered but
built in. It has the role
ADMIN but not
MANAGER. Which allows it
to configure the system, but not play around with artifacts.
admin token is the password for the admin user. Since it is normally
randomly generated, it is called
token instead of
There are two ways how this password is being generated. The default setup will create a
new token on every startup of Package Drone. It is printed on the console and written to
the file
~/.drone-admin-token with limited read permissions.
The second way is to provide the token externally, through a system property or environment variable.
It is also possible to disable the
admin mode completely or change
the admin user name.
See the documentation for this.
You have to know how your system is configured. Because if you don't know, it probably is not your system.


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Beijing lifts military service allowance this year by 28,000 yuan ($4060.32) for a candidate of an enrollment university student or a graduate, according to the conscription meeting of Beijing.
The municipality's conscription work continues targeting university students as its major population in 2017. Youth with a higher degree or graduating university students will be approved preferentially. Statistics show last year, college students and graduates account for 73.6 percent of the total enrollment.
A bachelor or bachelor candidate will be compensated at least 214, 000 yuan in his or her two-year service period.


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Hi everyone! These moments before the arrival of the New Year I think we all just love to stay warm near the fireplace or get closer with the people we love the most. So we delayed a little our new post... For the outfit now, I chose an interesting plaid cardigan and i added gloves and my beloved knit beanie! This look plays more with different textures, like leather, knit, suede, and less with colors (only B&W). Hope you like it!
Plaid Morning
A Big Thank You!
Hi everyone! These pics show the celebration we hosted for completing our first steps in our fashion dream! So, thank you for 3.213 followers on Facebook, 1.000 on Instagram and 1.017 in Chicissimo! We couldn't be more happy, glad and grateful and we wish you were there with us too!
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#CosmopolitanChic Glam in Las Vegas!
Hi everyone! Today we have a special post for all of you who wonder what to wear in different occassions during a day. So, with help from Cosmopolitan, in Las Vegas, we tried to show you some ideas! these outfits work for christmas celebrations as well!
So, for a quick casual brunch, you can invest in comfy garments and some cool accessories. The Wicked Spoon in Cosmopolitan offers a calm beautiful place to talk and relax with friends or family. For easy mornings, we picked a long cardigan, statement earrings and boyfriend ripped jeans.
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Hi everyone! Today I think I made the perfect look for casual cold days, as well as for winter activities, like skiing and hiking. This pretty chaki parka offers style and comfort in the same time. It's really a practical and versatile piece to wear. Here, I combined it with Ray-Bans, black jumper and leather leggings and an oversized bag. Hope you like it!
Look of the Week #5 (Red Wine)
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Christmas Wishlist
Ετικέτες H&M, Inspiration, Michael Kors, NARS, New Look, River Island
Gloomy Gray Day
Hello! For today I prepared a cozy winter look, in shades of gray. I paired a gray swaeter with leather leggings and knee high boots and I added a gray coat. I wanted to keep it casual, so I chose a laconic black clutch and no jewelry at all. These frosty days are perfect for soft oversized swaeters and boots. Hope you like my idea!
Ετικέτες knitwear, leather, Outfits, streetstyle, Tsakiris Mallas, winter, ZARA
Christmas Feeling
Ετικέτες decor, Inspiration
Loose & Luxurious
Hi! How are you today? This time I chose a casual but feminin look, with different fabrics and textures. I adore this type of swaeters, so I decided to leave everything else simple. I added leather pants, chelsea boots and a neautral oversized bag. I think this look is so comfortable for errands and everyday chores. Kisses!
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Apple, pear & walnut crumble
Nutrition and extra info
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal686
- fat36g
- saturates13g
- carbs86g
- sugars30g
- fibre10g
- protein10g
- salt0.36g
- 500g apple, peeled, cored and cut into large chunks
Grown in temperate regions, apples are one of the most widely cultivated tree fruits. There are…
- finely grated zest 1 lemon, juice of ½
Oval in shape, with a pronouced bulge on one end, lemons are one of the most versatile fruits…
- sprig rosemary (optional)
Rosemary's intense, fragrant aroma has traditionally been paired with lamb, chicken and game…
- 2 tbsp light muscovado sugar
- 500g pear, peeled, cored and cut into large chunks
Like apples, to which they are related, pears come in thousands of varieties, of which only a…
- custard or cream, to serve
Fresh unpasteurised milk quickly separates and the fat rises to the top. This fat layer is then…
For the crumble topping
- 100g pack walnut
Walnuts are one of the most popular and versatile of all nuts. When picked young, they're…
- 175g granary or wholemeal flour (or plain white)
- 85g butter, diced
Butter is made when lactic-acid producing bacteria are added to cream and churned to make an…
- 85g caster or light muscovado sugar
Heat oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. Put the chopped apples, lemon zest, rosemary, if using, and sugar in a saucepan. Add the lemon juice and cook for 3-4 mins. Tip in the pears and cook 2-3 mins more, until the fruits are just beginning to soften. Spoon the fruits and juices into a 1.7 litre pudding dish and flatten slightly.
For the crumble, finely chop half the walnuts in a food processor until reduced to the consistency of ground almonds. Add the flour, butter and sugar and continue to blitz to a coarse or fine crumble mix, whichever you prefer.
Roughly break the remaining walnuts with your fingers and stir into the crumble. Scatter the crumble mix on top of the fruits and bake for 20-25 mins until golden brown. Serve warm with cream or custard.


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The week before Christmas, Mayor Michael Bloomberg was the featured speaker at an awards ceremony honoring members of the New York City Law Department. The ceremony took place at City Hall, in the Council Chamber—a room made briefly famous last summer when a council member was shot to death there—which seats more than five hundred people. Not a single chair was empty when the Mayor arrived, accompanied by the head of the Law Department, Michael Cardozo. "When I walked in, I said to him, 'Who are these people?' " Bloomberg began, nodding in Cardozo's direction. "He said, 'Oh, they're all lawyers,' and I said, 'Ugh, my worst nightmare!' I never had any interest in going to law school, so if you stay out of my business I will stay out of yours." The crowd laughed.
"Let me point out to you that this is the third event I've been invited to by the Law Department, but it's the first one I've made," the Mayor said. "Now, I did cancel out on a picnic, I remember that. There was something else—two picnics? It wasn't because I didn't want the food or drink. I forget what it was, but I had good reasons. But yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, and to the extent that I'm it, here I am, in flesh and blood." The crowd laughed again, with noticeably less enthusiasm.
"My job tonight is to congratulate all those of you who are receiving awards," he continued. "Some of you have been recognized for continuous service for twenty-five or thirty years. I can only tell you that at my last job—no, two jobs ago—had they not fired me I would have made thirty-plus years. My next job, after twenty years I decided I would fire myself. And now, based on my polls, the public wants to fire me. Hey, you know, things happen."
Bloomberg, who recently turned sixty-two, has just passed the midpoint of his first term as mayor. He is, up close, surprisingly short, with a long face, graying hair, and brown eyebrows. All joking aside, he is not very popular. Documenting the degree of his disfavor has by now passed from the realm of social science almost into sport. Last summer, the Times declared that Bloomberg had scored the lowest approval rating ever—twenty-four per cent—in the history of its mayoral poll. A few months later, Quinnipiac University pollsters did the Times one better, reporting that only twenty-three per cent of New Yorkers wanted to see him reelected. The university's pollsters also asked New Yorkers to imagine having Bloomberg over for Thanksgiving dinner. More than sixty per cent said they'd prefer not to. ("Well, that's good," the Mayor quipped. "Because I have plans with my family.") In January, in an obvious attempt to reverse this trend, the Mayor promised city homeowners a rebate on their property taxes, and his ratings did improve. Nevertheless, in the latest public-opinion survey, once again by Quinnipiac, only twenty per cent of respondents said that the Mayor was "warm and friendly," while sixty-six per cent called him "cold and businesslike." The list of politicians who, having looked at the numbers, are considering challenging Bloomberg next year includes not only Democrats, like City Council Speaker Gifford Miller and the former Bronx borough president Fernando Ferrer, but also, more ominously, Republicans, like Congressman Vito Fossella, of Staten Island, and the former City Council minority leader Thomas Ognibene. "I don't think he's provided effective leadership," Ognibene told me recently. "His attitude is 'Look, I believe this is the right thing to do; if you don't like it, get used to it.' "
Bloomberg's travails have all the makings of a morality tale. In this version of "Arrogance O'erthrown," a rich man uses his wealth to have his way, only to get his comeuppance. (The seventy-two million dollars Bloomberg spent on his mayoral campaign was more than anyone else had ever spent seeking that office by nearly a factor of five.) But what this story, however edifying, omits is Bloomberg's actual record. In an alternative telling—more of a black comedy—things run as follows: Residents of a battered city elect a man with no relevant experience to lead them out of a crisis. He does a far better job than they have any right to expect, and for this they punish him. Either account would be troubling to most people; Bloomberg, though, is not the sort to dwell on unpleasantness, which is doubtless a continuing factor in his difficulties. As he told the members of the Law Department, in between lawyer jokes and unself-conscious allusions to his wealth, no matter what happens two years from now, he'll still be way ahead of everybody else: "I always say that my Plan B is better than the other guy's Plan A."
Traditionally, mayors deliver the State of the City address at City Hall; Bloomberg favors more far-flung sites. Last year, it was the conservatory at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden; this year, it was Silvercup Studios, in Long Island City, where "The Sopranos" and "Sex and the City" are shot.
The theme of the address was "our New York," and Bloomberg began, as he often does, with a string of figures. "Our New York," he informed the audience—mainly politicians and community leaders—consists of "eight million citizens, three million immigrants, 1.1 million schoolchildren, and seventeen hundred beautiful parks." He then listed some encouraging statistics—"Unemployment is at a twenty-month low. . . . In November alone, twenty-nine thousand New Yorkers found jobs. . . . Residential property values are fifteen per cent higher than they were a year ago"—in the process knocking "a lot of self-styled experts" who, he said, "were ready to write New York off" just two years ago.
"The naysayers, the doom-and-gloom crowd, those who have attempted to gain personal publicity or political advantage by trumpeting bad omens and embracing negative thinking, have been proved wrong once again," Bloomberg declared. "Perfect we're not. But who would want to live elsewhere?"
Bloomberg hates whiners. This is the central theme of his rhetoric (if someone who has so little interest in public speaking can be said to have a rhetoric). He once told me, "There are people who just want to complain, and I don't ever want to go home and look in the mirror and say I just complained."
Between the World Trade Center attack and the collapse of the stock market, Bloomberg took office, on New Year's Day, 2002, at something very close to the worst possible moment. Before he had moved—or, rather, not moved—into Gracie Mansion, the city was already facing a budget gap of nearly five billion dollars. Nine months later, the gap had grown to six and a half billion dollars and was on the same scale as the deficit that brought the city to the edge of bankruptcy in 1975.
Instead of bemoaning the problem, Bloomberg acted as if it were no big deal; indeed, he warned the "naysayers" and "the doom-and-gloom crowd" that the real danger lay in overreacting. First, he borrowed two and a half billion dollars. Then he uncomplainingly cut spending by three billion dollars. Finally, just as cheerfully, he raised taxes by three billion dollars. At every stage, Bloomberg declared that what he was doing was the only sensible course, even when it contradicted what he had declared the only sensible course a few months earlier. (Raising taxes would "scare people away," he said at one point. "I don't believe that people will leave this city because of higher taxes," he said at another.) In the middle of all this, he also decided to ban smoking in restaurants and bars. The move may well have made sense on public-health grounds, but in terms of public relations it was a disaster, furthering the impression of Bloomberg as an élitist and earning him the nickname "the nanny Mayor." (Last month, after the Times reported that Bloomberg had attended a dinner at the St. Regis, where, in clear violation of the law, some of the city's top financiers had lit up cigars, the Post opined that "public puffing" was apparently O.K. with the Mayor as long as "you're a fellow gazillionaire.")
By Bloomberg's upbeat logic, the way the city has come through its difficulties more than justifies his decisions as mayor and, in a broader sense, his whole approach. The city is poised to end the current fiscal year with a significant surplus, and recently two of the major bond-rating agencies—Moody's and Fitch—changed their outlook on the city's finances from "negative" to "stable." The logic of politics, however, is more perverse. It runs something like this: serious problems produce crises; therefore problems resolved without a crisis can't have been very serious. When Bloomberg levied a surcharge on the sales tax, when he doubled fines for parking tickets, and when he raised everyone's property taxes by nearly twenty per cent, he may have seen himself—justifiably—as averting a citywide disaster. All many members of the public saw, though, was that, at nearly every turn, he was making their lives more difficult.
Marc Shaw, the city's Deputy Mayor for Operations, described the Mayor's predicament to me this way: "At some level, people don't quite appreciate how dire the city's situation was, in part because he was so successful in dealing with it." I met a carpenter in the Bronx who told me that he hadn't been able to afford Christmas presents for his kids because he'd had to put all his available cash into paying off parking tickets. He characterized Bloomberg's position somewhat differently: "He's a rich man and he don't give a shit about anybody else."
In the summer of 2001, while campaigning for mayor in Crown Heights, Bloomberg ran across a leaky fire hydrant. When he asked an aide how a problem like this could be reported, he was told that someone would have to call the designated number at the city agency responsible for resolving it, and that, in the case of the leaking hydrant, this was the help line at the Department of Environmental Protection. Bloomberg, according to the aide, was appalled. "That's crazy," he declared.
Not long ago, I went on a tour of the city's new 311 call center, which Bloomberg created to replace the help line at the D.E.P., along with every other question-and-complaint line in the city. The center, on Maiden Lane, in lower Manhattan, is run by Gino Menchini, the commissioner of the city's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications. A genial man with a round face and a fringe of brown hair, Menchini recalled being introduced by the Mayor at an event in the spring of 2002 as "Gino Menchini, who will not be here next year if 311 is not up and running." The center accepted its first calls in March, 2003, and now receives an average of thirty-five thousand a day.
Menchini showed me around several cavernous rooms filled with rows of identical desks on which sat identical phones and identical computer screens. Every few seconds, someone would answer one of the phones with the identical greeting: "Thank you for calling New York City." One call I listened in on was from a man who wanted to dispose of a sofa. (He was told to put it on the sidewalk on the next trash-pickup day.) A woman wanted an order of protection against her ex-husband, who kept showing up at her apartment. A second woman wanted the number for a Jil Sander store. (Apparently, she had meant to call 411.) Calls to 311 are summarized daily on a four-color chart—a record, in effect, of everything that has gone wrong over the previous twenty-four hours.
The Mayor is very proud of the new system and likes to call in himself to complain, usually about potholes he has ridden over. A few months ago, as he was driving around the city, Bloomberg was struck, unfavorably, by the amount of garbage he saw on the streets. He asked Menchini to break out the figures involving the Department of Sanitation, and now each week gets a special chart chronicling the number of calls about such unpleasantnesses as missed recycling pickups (more than fifteen thousand so far this year) and dead animals on the sidewalk (nearly four thousand). "This allows us for the first time to manage the system," Menchini told me. "If you're looking for accountability, this is it."
Bloomberg's passion for management and systems—and, one is tempted to say, even rationality—sets him apart from other elected officials. "The Mayor focusses on efficiency, getting the most out of your resources," Ray Kelly, the police commissioner, told me. "It's more like a business than any administration I've ever worked for." Not only does Bloomberg believe that sensible management will solve New York's problems; he seems to believe that everyone else can be made to believe it, too. (One prominent city official described this habit of mind to me as the Mayor's "Don Quixote complex.") On more than one occasion, this Harvard Business School version of idealism has got him into a great deal of trouble.
Consider, for example, last year's firehouse controversy. Over the past quarter century, the number of fires in New York has declined by nearly sixty per cent, but the number of firehouses has remained essentially constant. Bloomberg decided to shut three of the city's least utilized firehouses and reduce staffing levels at three others.
Reaction to the Mayor's plan ran the gamut of emotions from outrage to apoplexy. In Williamsburg, where Engine Company 212—known locally as the People's Firehouse—was slated for closure, residents hung banners out their windows with messages like "Budgets Slashed, Brooklyn Burned" and set up a twenty-four-hour-a-day vigil in a tent pitched outside the station. One community group claimed to have calculated that Bloomberg's proposal showed he valued the lives of people in the neighborhood at less than the cost of "a cup of coffee or yogurt." The battle over the Mayor's plan raged for months, during which time virtually every other politician in the city weighed in against it. Even Hillary Clinton got into the act, calling firehouse closings "totally unacceptable." When it finally ended, last May, the Mayor succeeded in closing most of the firehouses on his list, including Engine 212. A few weeks later, while attending a hundredth-anniversary celebration for the Williamsburg Bridge, he was booed, thereby acquiring, courtesy of the News, the sobriquet Mayor Booberg. All together, the closings will save the city about eight million dollars a year, a sum that even some of the Mayor's advisers concede—privately, at least—wasn't nearly worth what he paid for it.
By far the largest management challenge Bloomberg has taken on is the public school system. He has relocated the system's administrative offices from downtown Brooklyn to the Tweed Courthouse, right behind City Hall; instituted a uniform curriculum for students in kindergarten through eighth grade; and, what's most significant, eliminated the city's thirty-two community school districts, which were run—sort of—by thirty-two independently elected school boards. As Bloomberg more or less openly acknowledges, he has no particular educational philosophy. "Do we have the right solution?" he asked in a recent speech, referring to his reorganization plan. "Is there a solution? No, probably not." Instead, the changes he has made all reflect, once again, his abiding belief in the power of a flowchart. The schools are now divided into ten regional districts. In each of these districts a regional superintendent oversees ten instructional superintendents, and each instructional superintendent oversees, roughly speaking, ten schools. The so-called 10-10-10 plan has very clear lines of authority, which is also to say of accountability, all of which lead directly to the Mayor. When, in December, police had to quell a near-riot at a Queens high school and a teacher was beaten up at a junior high school in the Bronx, it was Bloomberg who took responsibility, saying, "Plain and simple, we haven't done a good job."
In the long term, it is quite possible that Bloomberg's efforts to systematize the school system will lead to significant improvements. In the meantime, however, it is the political risks of the endeavor that are most apparent. During the weeks leading up to last November's election, Bloomberg pressed for a change to the city charter that would have made mayoral races nonpartisan. He spent more than seven million dollars of his own money trying to rally support for this initiative, but it was still voted down—embarrassingly—by a margin of more than two to one. The measure's defeat was widely attributed to the opposition of the city's municipal unions, led by the teachers, who campaigned hard against it. No sooner had the votes been counted than the chairman of the state's Democratic Party, State Assemblyman Herman (Denny) Farrell, announced, "The campaign to replace the Mayor begins tonight."
Among the potential challengers to the Mayor, Bill Thompson, Jr., the city comptroller, is considered by many in City Hall to be the most formidable. This is owing partly to his personality (he seems fairly to radiate calm) and partly to demographics (he is black). "There are a number of things I give the Mayor a positive grade on," Thompson, a Democrat from Brooklyn, told me recently. "He's hired a very talented group. He's run city services well. He's approached things in a balanced fashion. He's improved the tone in New York City, so things aren't so hostile.
"But the mayor is not just a C.E.O.," Thompson went on, offering what is—in political circles, at least—the standard critique of Bloomberg. "The mayor is an emotional leader, an inspirational leader, and in that regard I don't think he's done nearly as good a job. You just went through a period of tax increases and budget cuts. Well, why? I don't think that was ever explained. There was no engagement, no discussion."
Former Mayor Ed Koch made much the same point to me: "I think Bloomberg's done a terrific job and is vastly unappreciated. And, in my judgment, it's because he doesn't explain adequately what he's doing. He's got to appear more where people can see him and hear him." Tradition has it that the mayor hold so-called town-hall meetings in neighborhoods around the city, at which ordinary citizens can speak to him directly about local concerns. Both Koch and Giuliani held such meetings at least monthly; although he sometimes speaks to community groups, Bloomberg has yet to hold a single one. "If I were him, I would plan a campaign—I'm not talking about the actual campaign—of access, meaning town-hall meetings," Koch told me. "He doesn't like them. You know, so what? Occasionally you do something you don't like."
Bloomberg refused repeated requests to be interviewed for this article, because, I was told, he hadn't liked an earlier article of mine. When I met him at the annual Christmas party for the City Hall press corps, though, he was cordial. Apropos of nothing in particular, he told me a joke, an updated version of the old Ivy League fund-raising quip:
Q: What's the best way to find Osama bin Laden?
A: Send a million-dollar pledge to the Princeton development office in his name and leave the return address blank.
The politicians' critique of Bloomberg as a weak communicator is, in a certain sense, the inverse of the average voter's: it's not that the Mayor is arrogant and unfeeling; it's just that he comes across that way. "Have you ever been with him to a funeral?" one prominent elected official asked me. "He says some of the right things, but he just can't say it like he means it, even though I think he does mean it."
Bloomberg's extraordinary wealth allowed him to become mayor without having to accommodate himself to the humbling facts about democracy, one of which is that in the course of representing people one is often obliged to say and do things—call it coalition-building, call it pandering—that one doesn't entirely agree with. ("I'm supposed to say 'Ho, ho, ho,' " the Mayor told the crowd at the Christmas party for the press. "So 'Ho, ho, ho.' ")
I spoke to the leaders of half a dozen civic organizations and lobbying groups who, on the basis of the Mayor's agenda, should have been his allies. They all had similar stories to tell. Whereas previous administrations put a great deal of effort into trying to line up support for their initiatives, Bloomberg, they said, simply announces his.
"The point is people like to feel they're participating," the head of one civic association told me. "They like to be asked. Mike's always been someone who never asks for help, and the result is he gets himself isolated from political supporters." This isolation affects more than just Bloomberg's own standing. Last year, for example, the Mayor proposed a commuter tax, which would have required the approval of the state legislature. Lawmakers in Albany never even made a pretense of considering it. Although Bloomberg has been generous in his backing of Governor George Pataki—he personally donated more than a million dollars to various Republican state committees during Pataki's reëlection campaign—the Governor has done almost nothing in return, either for him or for the city. In fact, Pataki has sued to prevent the city from getting five hundred million dollars in state aid promised to it by the legislature. Recently, Bloomberg travelled to Albany to testify on Pataki's latest proposed budget, under which an increase in city school aid would be financed through a new form of state-sponsored gambling: video lottery terminals. The Mayor voiced his criticism of the proposal so politely—or blandly—that afterward, in a private meeting, the Governor thanked him for his nonconfrontational approach. As one civic leader who deals extensively with both men put it to me, "I'm sure Pataki loves Bloomberg, because Bloomberg is so politically inept."
Recently, on a bitter-cold evening, Bloomberg went out to Brooklyn, to an area on the border between Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights, to address a group that calls itself the United Neighbors Association of Fort Hamilton Parkway. It was the last event of what had been a long and trying day. NY1, the city's cable news channel, had caught the Mayor on tape calling Robert Atkins, the late diet doctor, "fat" and insinuating to a group of firefighters that Dr. Atkins's death had somehow been weight-related: "I don't believe that bullshit that he dropped dead slipping on the sidewalk. Yeah, right!" (Bloomberg had also volunteered to the firemen that the food at a fund-raiser he'd attended at the doctor's home had been less than savory: "I took one appetizer, and I had to spit it into my napkin.") In the way of such things, the story threatened to become all-consuming. That morning, at an induction ceremony for police recruits at which the Mayor had clearly hoped to showcase his impressive record on crime—it has dropped ten per cent during his tenure, even though the N.Y.P.D. is operating with several thousand fewer cops than it did under Giuliani—he had to spend most of his time fending off questions on nutrition. ("You are what you eat," he volunteered wanly.)
The United Neighbors were holding their meeting at a V.F.W. Hall on Fort Hamilton Parkway, in a narrow room still strung with Christmas lights. By the time the Mayor got there, it was nearly eight o'clock, and the small hall was packed. The crowd—about fifty people—greeted Bloomberg unusually warmly. "I figured a man with all that money would come off high and mighty, but he comes across very down-to-earth," a retired policeman I was standing next to told me. Everyone listened intently as the Mayor, in no particular order, ran through some of the topics that were on his mind: "Turns out right now the streets are as clean as they've been in thirty years. . . . If you see trash on the streets, just pick up the phone and call 311. . . .The Fire Department's doing a good job. I moved some resources around—that was very controversial." When Bloomberg described his latest policy initiative—his plan to hand out the property-tax rebate to homeowners—a hearty cheer went up.
If approved by the City Council and the state legislature, the Mayor's tax-rebate plan will deliver checks to six hundred and seventy thousand homeowners sometime over the summer. According to City Hall's own estimate, this munificence will cost New York roughly two hundred and fifty million dollars. (No checks will go to commercial real-estate owners, who actually pay the lion's share of the city's property taxes.) As an example of both bad tax policy and bad fiscal policy—Diana Fortuna, the president of the Citizens Budget Commission, a watchdog group, immediately gave it a thumbs-down—the Mayor's rebate would be hard to beat. But in this case, finally, Bloomberg shows a clear grasp of the political situation.
There are still almost two years to Bloomberg's term, and it's impossible to say what direction he's headed in—whether it's along the high, self-punishing road of closing unneeded firehouses and banning smoking, or along the lower, better-travelled road of mailing out tax rebates. Just in the past two months, the Mayor has quietly dropped plans to overhaul the city's cabaret law and to revamp its system of property-tax assessment—in both cases, it appears, in order to avoid controversy. As a Democrat turned Republican in a mostly Democratic city, Bloomberg is, in the abstract, vulnerable from both sides; as a practical matter, any candidate prepared to shell out seventy-five million dollars heads into a municipal election with a large presumptive advantage. Whatever happens, it's been an interesting experiment, even if one that only confirms what City Hall insiders knew all along—that when voters say they don't like politicians, they don't know what they're talking about.
After Bloomberg had finished his spiel to the crowd in the V.F.W. Hall, he took a few questions, some of which he knew the answers to and some of which he acknowledged, quite frankly, that he did not. As he was making his way back to his car, several people asked him to pose for a photograph, and a few others asked him for an autograph. People were obviously flattered that the Mayor—or, what is perhaps more pertinent, a billionaire—had taken the time to meet with them, and they kept thanking him for having driven all the way out to their neighborhood. Bloomberg kept insisting that he was happy to be there.
"You don't understand," he said to one woman who was particularly vociferous in her gratitude. "I like this!" ♦


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- Nicholas Brooks is convicted of killing Sylvie Cachay in December 2010
- Her bruised body was found in a bathtub in Manhattan's Soho House
- Cachay's luxury line of swimwear was a celebrity favorite
- Brooks faces up to 25 years in prison
The boyfriend of a swimsuit designer found dead in a bathtub at a chic New York hotel was convicted of her murder Thursday and faces up to 25 years in prison, the Manhattan District Attorney's office said.
A jury convicted Nicholas Brooks, son of "You Light Up My Life" composer Joseph Brooks, in New York Supreme Court for strangling and drowning Sylvie Cachay in December 2010, the office said in a statement.
"Domestic violence victims all too frequently become homicide victims," District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said. "Sylvie Cachay suffered a terrible death at the hands of a man who claimed to love her."
Cachay's bruised body was found submerged in water in an overflowing bathtub at the Soho House club and hotel on December 9, 2010, police said.
A guest staying on a lower floor of the hotel reported to hotel management that water was leaking through the ceiling of that guest's room, according to court documents.
A hotel employee investigating the source of the leak entered Cachay's room and discovered her body, the documents say.
Her death was later ruled a homicide.
Authorities said they relied on interviews with hotel employees and surveillance videos from the location to charge Brooks.
Cachay's body had bruising on the neck and bite marks, police said. An autopsy indicated the designer suffered injuries consistent with neck compression, court records show.
Cachay had internal hemorrhaging, injuries to her scalp and cuts to her lips and mouth, the documents say.
Brooks is expected to be sentenced in court July 26 and could face up to 25 years to life in prison.
Calls to his attorney, Jeffrey Hoffman, were not immediately returned Thursday.
"Sylvie Cachay was one of those rare individuals who truly sparkled when she spoke," said publicist Kate Godici. "She will be deeply and painfully missed, yet celebrated, honored and never forgotten."
After heading the swimwear team at Victoria's Secret, Cachay debuted her own luxury line of swimwear in 2006 to rave reviews. The collection became a celebrity favorite.
Brooks' father, Joseph Brooks, 73, committed suicide in May 2011, New York police said. The Oscar-winning songwriter was facing 11 rape and sexual assault charges, New York Police Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne told CNN.


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Blues? Stewart aims for bounce-back seasonby Dave Lozo
Jason Arnott is no longer on the roster of the St. Louis Blues, gone after one season in which the 37-year-old had 17 goals in 72 games.
Chris Stewart, who was expected to do big things last season after two consecutive seasons of 28 goals. Whether Stewart bounces back remains to be seen, but he has spent the offseason doing everything possible after listening to advice from Arnott.
"I talked to a guy like Jason Arnott, who really prides himself on his nutrition and who really takes care of himself," Stewart told reporters. "We talked about it during the year, but at the end of the year, we sat down, talked about it and he really said if I can commit myself to the gym this summer and come back here that I can be a difference-maker next year.
"You can't really read into the hype or the hoopla. Everyone's entitled to write what they want. I do see myself as a goal-scorer in this League. That's something I can do. I think this year was a learning experience and a good year learning how to be a pro and what you've got to do to be successful in this League and look toward next year."
The 6-foot-2, 230-pound Stewart is a mountain of a man who will be 25 years old in October. He was acquired at the 2011 trade deadline from the Colorado Avalanche, along with defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk, in exchange for defenseman Erik Johnson and forward Jay McClement.
Stewart made an immediate impact with 15 goals in 26 games. That performance raised expectations for the Toronto native the following season. But instead of reaching 30 or 40 goals or matching his output of the previous two seasons, Stewart found himself in a slump like never before in his career.
After scoring twice in the Blues' first two games, he went 10 games before scoring another goal. After that tally, he went another nine games before scoring his fourth goal of the season. Stewart had five stretches of at least six games without a goal and ended the nightmare season with zero goals in the final 13 games.
"When you do struggle a little bit, it starts to get your confidence," Stewart said. "You try to change your game or over-compensate. You can't really worry about it.
"I've got to be the player that I am. I've got to do the things that made me successful this year. I've got to get back to being Chris Stewart, just be me and playing my game. I got myself into this. I'm the only one that can get myself out of it and I'll do it."
"You can't really read into the hype or the hoopla. Everyone's entitled to write what they want. I do see myself as a goal-scorer in this League. That's something I can do. I think this year was a learning experience and a good year learning how to be a pro and what you've got to do to be successful in this League and look toward next year."
-- Blues forward Chris Stewart on his 2011-12 season
Stewart is hoping that trainer Matt Nichol, who has worked with Mats Sundin, Michael Cammalleri and Lee Stempniak, will have the tonic for what ailed him last season. Blues coach Ken Hitchcock believes it's a step in the right direction.
"I'm really excited because, to me, [Stewart] is starting to turn the corner we've needed him to turn," Hitchcock told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "He has elite skill, he's an elite athlete, but now he's followed it with a high level of fitness training. Like, we're talking high level. Where he's at, the people that he's working with, it's a real high level of fitness training. He's getting pushed hard every day and he's responded. So, he's started to figure it out, and he's starting to figure out that you can't just rely on your skill level."
"When you just rely on your skill level, you go through peaks and valleys. You score 30 one year, 10 the next. When you just rely on your skill, people you play against end up outworking you. [Stewart's] figured out that he wants to have a long career. It's not like he's suddenly found a trainer. What he's found is that he can only get so far himself doing the training. Now he's got somebody pushing him really hard every day. I'm really proud of him."
Follow Dave Lozo on Twitter: @DaveLozo


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Topic: Motorola
HP leads all 1.2M non-Apple tablets sold in US in 2011
11/22/2011, 08:11 am
The NPD Group on Tuesday offered a picture of how tablets that are not Apple's iPad are faring in the market in the U.S., revealing that Hewlett-Packard's $99 fire sale of the failed TouchPad gave it the largest unit share so far in 2011.
Motorola seen as 'likely' to win German patent suit against Apple's iCloud
11/18/2011, 03:11 pm
A German court appears poised to rule against Apple and in favor of Motorola over alleged patent infringement related to iCloud.
Briefly: Chinese App Store; Kindle Fire costs; Motorola stockholders
11/18/2011, 01:11 am
Apple is now accepting local Chinese bank cards as payment for iTunes App Store purchases. Also, a new analysis claims Amazon's Kindle Fire costs $202 to build. Finally, Motorola Mobility stockholders have approved Google's acquisition of the company.
Apple interest in Intel switch led to purchase of NeXT, return of Steve Jobs
11/13/2011, 10:11 pm
Apple's initial unsuccessful attempt to build a modern operating system in preparation for the switch to Intel processors led to the company's realization that it needed to purchase NeXT, a move that led to Steve Jobs' return to the company he co-founded.
Apple likely to get suspension of German injunction from Motorola, lawyers say
11/07/2011, 12:11 am
Several German lawyers polled about a recent preliminary injunction against Apple won by rival Motorola Mobility are in agreement that Apple is likely to win a temporary suspension of the order, though they did note that failure to do so could have an impact on its business in the country.
Apple the only phone maker to show US subscriber growth since June
11/04/2011, 05:11 pm
Apple was the only top-5 phone manufacturer to grow its slice of the U.S. mobile subscriber market during the third quarter while its share rose above 10% for the first time, according to a new report.
Motorola Mobility loses $32 million as Xoom sales collapse in Q3
10/27/2011, 06:10 pm
Motorola Mobility announced revenues of $3.3 billion in the third quarter on sales of 4.8 million smartphones and just 100,000 Xoom tablets that resulted in an operating loss of $32 million.
AT&T hedges iPhone 4S bet with 5 new Android devices
10/11/2011, 04:10 am
AT&T announced on Tuesday the upcoming release of the Motorola Atrix 2 smartphone and four other new Android devices, bringing the wireless carrier's total Android lineup for the year to 19, seven more than originally planned.
Adobe keynote coincides with Apple's 'Let's talk iPhone' event
09/30/2011, 10:09 pm
Adobe is planning to hold a keynote on Tuesday, Oct. 4, at 10 a.m. Pacific, the same date and time of Apple's highly-anticipated press event, where the company is expected to announce a next-generation iPhone.
Oracle seeking an injunction against Android as an "incompatible clone of Java"
09/22/2011, 05:09 pm
Oracle's comments in its infringement lawsuit against Google's Android platform has revealed that the company is seeking not just royalties, but a legal order stopping the distribution of Android entirely.
Apple's iPhone has 89% retention rate, next nearest hardware is HTC at 39%
09/22/2011, 11:09 am
A whopping 89 percent of iPhone owners have indicated they will stick with Apple for their next handset, dwarfing all other hardware makers, according to a new survey.
Motorola to take another stab at Apple's iPad with new 7-inch tablet
09/19/2011, 03:09 pm
Following up to the Xoom, which failed to make a a splash after the release of Apple's iPad 2, Motorola is now expected to release another tablet by the end of this year, this time with a smaller 7-inch form factor.
Motorola boss offered $66M golden parachute in Google purchase
09/14/2011, 10:09 pm
Google�s agreement to purchase Motorola Mobility includes a promise of $65.7 million in golden parachute compensation for Sanjay Jha, the chief executive officer of the Android device maker.
Google upped its bid for Motorola by $3B in one day to close deal
09/14/2011, 12:09 pm
In order to secure its purchase of Motorola and the company's collection of patents, Google outbid itself by 33 percent, or $3 billion, in a single day to reach an agreement.
Steve Jobs resignation has little effect on Apple product demand - report
09/13/2011, 09:09 pm
Consumer demand for Apple products is unlikely to be impacted by the resignation of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, says one of two new studies, while the other reaffirms that the iPad will continue �dominating� the enterprise tablet market for the foreseeable future.
Apple files to put Motorola suits on hold until Google completes acquisition
09/13/2011, 02:09 am
Apple has filed motions to temporarily halt two of its lawsuits with Motorola Mobility, arguing that the company gave up the authority to sue in its pending merger with Google.
Google plotted to give Motorola early advantage over other Android licensees
09/07/2011, 06:09 pm
In a bid to control the Android platform to derive the most value from it, Google privately outlined a series of policies, including giving early access advantage to Motorola and not developing Android "in the open."
HTC sues Apple for third time over patents it obtained from Google
09/07/2011, 06:09 pm
HTC this week used nine patents recently obtained from Google to up the ante in its high-stakes intellectual properly infringement war with Apple, slapping the iPhone maker with a third lawsuit while amending a previous complaint to allege broader infringement.
Google exec reiterates Motorola purchase not just for patents
09/02/2011, 12:09 am
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said his company bought Motorola Mobility for its products, as well as its patents, while noting that the current state of patents in the U.S. is a "terrible."
Apple accuses Motorola, Samsung of monopolizing markets with patents
08/30/2011, 08:08 pm
In its patent disputes with Samsung and Motorola Mobility, Apple is again calling attention to its competitors' use of "F/RAND encumbered" patents that have been declared essential to implementing open standards, noting that both companies are deceptively monopolizing markets to "harm or eliminate competition."


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"As the old saying goes, one thing leads to another, and five years later I have one bad #@@ '64." —Rick Zeitlin
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Owned by: Rick Zeitlin, Las Vegas, Nevada
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- Engine: If you're going to build a '64 Dodge, what fits better than a 426 Hemi? Rick's version isn't the one that came with his car, but is an Indy Cylinder Head Legend. The Legend features a 4.250-inch bore, and a 3.750-inch stroke mandated by the Eagle connecting rods and crankshaft. It runs on pump gas, thanks to its street friendly 10.25:1 compression ratio. Although that is a nice trait for a street engine, Rick changed the pistons to JE's. The heads are by Indy, and feature 2.25- and 1.94-inch valves. The camshaft is a Comp Cams unit with .574 and .551-inch of lift, and 242- and 248-degrees of duration at .050-inch lift. Up top is an A&A reproduction magnesium cross ram intake with twin 770 Holley carburetors. Ignition is by MSD. Finally, a set of tti headers with a 3-inch exhaust and Flowmaster mufflers let you hear him coming.
- Transmission: Stirred by a Hurst "round stock" handle, this one is an aluminum TKO 600, Perfect for long-distance cruises.
- Differential: Stock 8 3/4 design with an r.p.m. inducing 4.10 Sure Grip
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- Suspension: While the front suspension utilizes stock components, the rear carries a set of Super Stock springs.
- Brakes: A set of Wilwood binders with cross-drilled rotors, and a hydro-boost system brings it all to a screeching halt, really quick.
- Wheels and Rubber: A set of 15 x 7-inch Torque Thrusts support the 245/60/15 T/A radials on the front, and adding to the nostalgic look are a pair of steel 15 x 8-inch wheels painted body color, wearing 275/60/15 drag radials by BFG.
High Impact
- Body: Unchanged from original, except for the addition of the fiberglass Max-Wedge style scoop.
- Paint: A friend of Rick's, Mark Kaufman in Las Vegas, handled the spraying of the gold hue over the sheetmetal.
- Interior: Stock/restored by ABC Discount Upholstery of Las Vegas. The A-100 truck seats and other pieces are covered by beige leather, and Grant steering wheel adds a nice touch. The gauge cluster was restored by Redline Gauge Works, and features all-new, updated senders and gauges.


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It depends on the type of surgery you've had, but you shouldn't go swimming until:
Generally, after your stitches have been removed or have dissolved and your wound has fully healed, you should be able to swim in the sea or a swimming pool. Once a wound has healed, the risk of infection decreases.
Stitches can usually be removed within 7 to 10 days of surgery, although it depends on the type of wound. Absorbable stitches can take longer to dissolve.
You should avoid swimming for longer if you have another condition that increases your risk of infection or delays healing. You shouldn't swim if you have open wounds.
You should also avoid swimming if you're wearing a plaster cast or you have an external fixation device, until your surgeon advises that it's safe to do so.
Depending on the type of surgery, you may need to avoid swimming for some time, even after your wound has healed.
Below are some examples, but you should always check with the healthcare professionals treating you before swimming.


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The salmonella outbreak that has affected a small percentage of the nation's egg supply once again has painted American farmers as a bunch of bad eggs.
The public should rightly shun contaminated eggs. But should an outbreak of salmonella from one Iowa county necessitate even more government power over agriculture?
The Food and Drug Administration claims that it lacks sufficient authority and resources to inspect high-risk facilities, trace outbreaks, and issue mandatory recalls. They are arguing for passage of Senate Bill 510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act.
However, Washington already possesses enormous oversight, divided among some 15 agencies, including the FDA and the Food Safety and Inspection Service. Is the problem really a lack of resources? Or is it more that there are piles and piles of resources, so dense, that the agencies have become inert?
I would argue that a free market led by consumer choice does more for food safety than greater government regulation.
Have you met a mother of three who finds out-of-date eggs in her refrigerator, much less in a grocery store? American consumers vehemently reject foods that fail to meet their standards; and mothers have long memories. The grocery retailers and food producers who wish to remain in business will respond with voluntary food safety controls.
What happened with the recent salmonella outbreak is a travesty because it undermines consumer faith in agriculture; but one bad egg should not spoil the entire refrigerator. We need to let the consumer and free market do what they do best - allow food producers who are willing to go the extra mile to rise above the rest.
We do not need more government oversight for a couple of bad eggs.
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December 29th, 2011
WA State Enacts New Rabies Vaccination Law
PULLMAN- Effective January 1st, 2012 Washington State law will require that all dogs, cats and ferrets be currently vaccinated for rabies. Most municipalities within the state, such as the City of Pullman, have local laws that mandate dogs and cats have current rabies vaccinations. This new state law supersedes the current city code by making it a criminal offense.
It will be a misdemeanor offense for pet owners to not have proof of current rabies vaccinations for all dogs, cats and ferrets. A misdemeanor offense is punishable by a jail sentence of not more than 90 days, a fine of not more than $1,000 or both.
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Coil Coatings Give Manufacturers an Edge
Coil coatings provide metalformers a competitive edge. Here's a general roundup of what's new in specialty coatings, provided by the National Coil Coating Association, Cleveland, OH.
For automakers, coil coatings allow manufacturers to provide extended corrosion warranties. Many of these warranties are based on the use of steel strips with specialty coatings applied on both sides prior to forming. Automakers that form parts with these coil-coated steel strips can guarantee corrosion protection for inaccessible cavities or flange sections of automotive parts.
For appliance manufacturers, coated coils provide a manageable to develop new products with specialty finishes. These include antimicrobial coatings, fingerprint-resistant coatings and designer finishes such as metallic coatings.
Antimicrobial coatings kill 99 percent or more of the bacteria that comes into contact with an appliance. Unlike post-painting operations, the coil-coating process coats the entire surface, reaching difficult-to-access areas such as part interiors, hemmed edges and tubes. Additionally, the primer and paint, either of which could contain the antimicrobial additive, are tightly bonded to the sheetmetal and often are applied to both sides of the sheet. Some antimicrobial coatings even include metallic pigment to improve heat-exchange properties for HVAC applications.
Fingerprint-resistant coatings also find favor by appliance OEMs, and can be applied during the coil-coating process, eliminating the need for end users to continually wipe off smudges from appliances.
Metallic coatings provide stainless-steel and rubbed-copper appearance, and also can be applied at a coil-coating facility. These can be combined with antimicrobial and fingerprint-proof coatings to add value and product differentiation.
For building-products manufacturers, coil coating is the method of choice for finishing sheetmetal with aged, weathered looks for products such as wall panels, roofing tiles and shakes. Available finishes include copper patina, clay, weathered wood and rusted metal. Also, coated coils can improve the energy efficiency of building materials. Solar panels, for example, are made with aluminum prepainted with absorbent coatings.National Coil Coating Association: 216/522-0100; www.coilcoatinginstitute.org
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'Weird Al' Yankovic Talks the Origin of His Name + More in 'Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction'? [VIDEO]by Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
Ever wonder if what you read on Wikipedia is true? Well, 'Weird Al' Yankovic sat down with Diffuser.fm and separated the truth from the lies in a game of 'Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction.'
The 'First World Problems' singer dished on everything from the origin of his name to the subliminal messages in his music to his incredibly awkward run-in with Prince at an awards show. Check out some of the highlights below, and watch the full video above!
On his full name being Alfred Matthew Yankovic: "That is in fact my full name. My freshman year in the dorm… There were at least one or two people calling me 'Weird Al'. I don't know why," he revealed about earning his nickname, putting on a mock sad face. "People are cruel."
On his "beef" with Coolio: "This was close to 20 years ago, this is water under the bridge," Al said about the fact that Coolio didn't want him to parody 'Gangster's Paradise'. "Coolio has publicly said he's made too big of a deal about it and he's sorry. … It's fine."
On receiving a telegram from Prince's entourage saying not to make eye contact with the singer while seated next to him at an awards show: "That sounds like a joke, but that actually happened. … But I did send Prince back a telegram later that day, saying, 'Please don't establish eye contact with me, either. It goes both ways!'"
On the subliminal messages in his music: "This is true. I've done backwards masking twice," he revealed. "My friend [comedian] Paul Scheer tells me a story about how his mother actually smashed my 'In 3D' album because it had backwards masking on it, thinking it was evil and Satanic."
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The end.
The part of me that died held within it the only remaining impetus for continuing to write this blog.
The part of me that died was the part that against everything else, against my cynicism and occasional descents into outright misanthropy, convinced the rest of me that on the whole, most people, in this country at least, are decent, upfront and kind. The part that convinced me so many years ago it wasn't that the readers of tabloids shared the views of the owners, the editors, the columnists, it was they just wanted something quick and simple to read in the mornings. The part that even after the vote to leave the EU, after the Conservative victory of last year, felt this was an aberration, a howl of protest, rather than something more organised, more spiteful, more nasty, a true reflection of where it is we're heading.
You could call it my naivety. My stupidity. My belief that it was possible to make things right even if in the most oblique of ways.
I'd like to thank all of you for reading. Special thanks must go to Sunny Hundal and Tim Ireland, both of whom saw something in my writing that prompted them to host it elsewhere and give it a larger audience. Thanks also to Flying Rodent, John Band, Left Outside, tychy and anyone else I've forgotten who more recently has sung my praises and linked to my posts on Twitter.
It's been quite the 11 years. We've had some good times, bad times, awful times, fun times. But it's time to go. The blog will stay online, at least for the moment. How long it does, or if I pull the plug on septicisle.info as a whole remains to be seen.
Take care everyone.
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The trial began Tuesday against a 12-year-old boy accused of executing his neo-Nazi father as he slept on the family's living room couch, in what prosecutors call "a case that shocks the conscience."
Last May, the boy, then 10, allegedly fatally shot his father Jeff Hall, a white supremacist leader and the west coast director for the National Socialist Movement.
Attorneys for the child, who has admitted to the killing in his Riverside home, blame the murder on the neo-Nazi environment. They also say the boy's stepmother encouraged him to pull the trigger.
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But prosecutors argue the "cold, calculated murder" was totally unrelated to neo-Nazism.
Before he was a white supremacist, Jeff Hall was a construction worker in the Inland Empire. Family members described him as "loving" and a "good father" at that time.
His son, who would later kill him, was not loving or good, according to prosecutors. They pointed out that officials kicked the boy out of as many as nine elementary schools for bad behavior. He allegedly stabbed a teacher with a pencil once and choked another with a telephone cord.
Prosecutors say the boy told his younger sister he would shoot their father two days before he did. She will testify later in the trial.
In a taped interview between the boy and a detective shown in court, the boy can heard saying that he killed his father because he'd had enough of his father's abusive behavior.
Attorneys expect the trial to last two weeks.
If convicted, the boy could be jailed until he is 23. He has pleaded not guilty by reasons of insanity.


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President Obama used his weekly address Saturday to recap the events of this week's G20 Summit in Pittsburgh, telling American citizens that he and the rest of the world's leaders reemphasized a commitment to economic, financial, and political unity during the conference -- and that the world would unite against policy violators like Iran and North Korea.
The G20 nations worked to move forward in stabilizing the global economy, avoiding financial abuses and promoting international responsibility to avoid setbacks like this year's recession, Obama said. The nations also worked toward climate change reform, including an agreement to phase out $300 billion worth of fossil fuel subsidies, according to Obama.
The president also referenced his meeting with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, saying he and the two warring nations' leaders moved "fowrad in the journey toward a just, lasting and comprehensive peace." Obama ended the address with a call on Iran to move toward disarmament of its nuclear weapons, repeating his condemnation of their secret nuclear reserve and warning the Iranian government that it would face "isolation" if it failed to comply.
Obama recorded the weekly address on his way back from the Pennsylvania summit.


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Now imagine Pumpkin Bread in the form of a cookie - and that is what this recipe gives you.
To start, heat your oven to 350 degrees.
Now in a good sized mixing bowl, put the following...
5 c all-purpose flour, 2 tsp baking soda, 2 tsp baking powder, 2 tsp cinnamon, 1 1/2 tsp nutmeg and 1 tsp salt.
Stir them all together, and set aside.
Now in a large mixing bowl (or stand mixer bowl) - you need 1 cup (2 sticks) butter.
Add 2 1/2 c sugar, and mix until creamy.
Now add 2 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
and two cups of solid packed pumpkin (a standard can)
Mix well, and then begin adding your dry ingredients, a cup or so at a time. Blending well.
When all of your dry ingredients are mixed in, stir in 1 cup of chopped nuts - I used pecans.
Now, using a medium-sized scoop, or a tablespoon and spatula, place the dough on a parchment paper, by rounded tablespoons. Smooth the top as best you can. I really recommend the parchment paper, because these are soft cookies. If you don't have parchment paper, you will need to lightly grease your cookie sheets before adding the dough to them.
Bake for 18-20 minutes or until done. Cool completely. This makes about 5 dozen cookies.
Now for the finishing touch. This step is optional, but really makes these cookies super special.
In a small mixing bowl, cream together 4 ounces of soft cream cheese, 1/4 cup soft butter, and 1 tsp vanilla.
Add in 1 cup powdered sugar, mix well.
Now spoon the frosting into a frosting applicator, or into a ziplock bag.
Press out all of the air, and close the bag, squeezing it down towards one corner.
Now using a pair of scissors, snip off the very tip of the corner.
Tadaaa! Instant decorator bag, with no mess to clean up!
Now squeeze a little frosting onto each cookie. You can do this any way you like, circles, squiggles, dots, whatever. You could even spread it on with a knife if you want. I just put a little squiggle of frosting on each cookie.
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A car fire in the parking lot of New Jersey's largest mall terrified shoppers who thought they'd heard gunshots, sparking a scare that brought a massive police presence to the scene and forcing an evacuation of the building.
Panicked shoppers, diners and moviegoers at the Garden State Plaza mall in Paramus, N.J. began running and calling 911 after hearing loud noises that sounded like gunfire, according to multiple law enforcement officials.
Police and federal agents swarmed the mall and evacuated the building. They found no evidence of a shooting, and after an investigation officials determined that evacuees knocked over two large metal display stanchions, creating loud noises, which may have sounded similar to gunshots.
The Garden State Plaza was the site of a shooting last November in which the mall was locked down as a 20-year-old gunman prowled the building, firing his gun into the air. He was later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; no one else was hurt.


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Former University of Colorado men's basketball standout Burdette Haldorson was named today to the 2011 class of the Colorado Springs Sports Hall of Fame.
Among those joining Halderson in the 12th class are former Air Force quarterback Dee Dowis, high school basketball coaching legend Dan McKiernan, USA Hockey executive Dave Ogrean, disabled athlete Jeni Armbruster and the 1961 U.S. Figure Skating Team.
Formal induction will be Oct. 25 at the Colorado Springs World Arena.
Here is the bio of Haldorson supplied by the Colorado Springs Sports Hall of Fame:
Burdette Haldorson
Haldorson, a Colorado Springs resident for over forty years, left an amazing imprint in the University of Colorado basketball record book. The Austin, Minnesota, native still holds four school rebounding records some five decades after his CU playing days, including the most in a half (21), game (31) and season (346). As a senior in 1954-55, he led the Buffs to the Big Seven title by averaging 23.9 points per game, and was also named as a first-team All-American.
CU eventually went on to finish third in the nation, losing at the Final Four to eventual champion San Francisco and the legendary Bill Russell. Haldorson earned two gold medals in 1956 and 1960 as a member of the U.S. Olympic team, went on to have a brilliant career in the National Industrial Basketball League as a member of the Phillips 66ers, the team entry for Phillips 66, which hired him after his playing career. He moved to Colorado Springs to form his own gas and oil distribution business in the late 1960s. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame last summer with the 1960 Olympic Team, and is a member of the CU Athletic Hall of Fame and the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame.


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