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Brand New Energy ("BNE"), dietary supplement re-sale distributor, is recalling all lot codes of EphBurn 25. The recall was initiated on August 28, 2012, after notification by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to a third-party retailer which purchased EphBurn 25 that one lot of EphBurn 25 was sampled by the FDA and found to contain ephedrine alkaloids, making it an unapproved drug.
Ephedrine is commonly used as a stimulant, appetite suppressant, concentration aid, and decongestant, and it has been used to help aid in weight loss. The ephedrine alkaloids work mainly by increasing the activity of noradrenaline on adrenergic receptors. A number of adverse effects associated with ephedrine alkaloid-containing dietary supplements have been reported to the FDA. These include elevated blood pressure, rapid heartbeat, nerve damage, muscle injury, and psychosis and memory loss. More serious effects have also been reported, including heart attack, stroke, seizure and death. There have been no reports of adverse events associated with this recalled product.
This recall affects all lot codes and use by dates of EphBurn 25. The product is a 90-count bottle with red capsules and prominently displays the product name "ephBURN 25" in white letters on the front of a red label. There is no UPC code. EphBurn 25 was previously discontinued on or about May of 2012.
BNE is a reseller of nationally-known diet and energy supplements such as Zantrex 3, Trim Spa, Hydroxy Cut and others. The product subject to recall, EphBurn 25, was distributed to various retail stores nationwide, and the product was sold via the Internet from the period of time of approximately April 2010 through August 2012. No other products distributed by BNE are subject to recall.
Consumers who may have purchased EphBurn 25 should immediately discontinue using the product and contact their health care professional if they have experienced any adverse effects. Consumers can contact the distributor of the product at [email protected] or call 1-888-234-2595 (8 a.m. to 4 p.m. PST) to receive further instructions for returning the product or with any questions.
We sincerely regret any inconvenience to consumers. This recall has been taken voluntarily out of concern for the health and safety of consumers.
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Everyone seems to be in such a rush to get shacked up these days.
In normal times investors will look for "traction" before investing. We want to make sure we're in love.
This sometimes frustrates entrepreneurs who just want to "get back to running the business."
But if you understand it you'll see that it is perfectly rational and it should also influence how you form relationships with investors.
And remember, if we get married you're stuck with us, too.
The first time I meet you, you are a single data point. A dot. I have no reference point from which to judge whether you were higher on the y-axis 3 months ago or lower. Because I have no observation points from the past, I have no sense for where you will be in the future. Thus, it is very hard to make a commitment to fund you.
For this reason I tell entrepreneurs the following: Meet your potential investors early. Tell them you're not raising money yet but that you will be in the next 6 months or so. Tell them you really like them so you want them to have an early view (which is what all investor's want). When you're with them lower the bar by telling them, "we haven't shipped product yet, we have lots of decisions still to make, but we'd like to show you our prototype" or obviously if you're more advanced show what you have and what your roadmap looks like.
Most importantly tell them what you plan to achieve by the next time you see them. Hopefully by then you've made good progress. You'll be able to give them an update on key hires, pilot customers, key tech innovations – whatever. Keep these interactions low-key and short. Quick coffees, whatever. Swing by their offices to make it easy for them to say yes and promise not to take up more than 30 minutes for the update (and stick to it).
I spoke about this more in depth in these two posts: 4 things I look for in an investment & how to manage VC relationships. And don't allocate two months of each year to "hardcore funding activities" but allocate a regular amount of time each month to it like any other job function. Like it or not – finance is a major job function in any company – startup or public company.
The thing is, by the time I get to know you I start to see patterns. Note that "performance" on my chart is a loose term for my definition of perceived progress that can take the form of product, customer adoption, employees, investors, press or whatever. It is basically a perception that you are making progress in your business and not standing still.
All of these meetings don't actually require you to prove that you're "killing it" over night. It's a chance for us to build a relationship and for the investor to see how you think and how you respond to adversity. How can you prove tenacity, resiliency or ability to pivot in a single data point? I funded Ad.ly having seen Sean Rad perform over a 1-year period at Orgoo, which didn't succeed. I didn't invest in Orgoo but by the time he launched Ad.ly I knew his capabilities and knew I wanted to work with him.
I had 15 meetings or more with Evan Rifkin over a 2-year period of time long before I invested in Burstly. In fact, long before he had even founded Burstly. I knew he was one of the most talented entrepreneurs in LA and he has exceeded my expectations since I invested. Presumably during this interactions Evan also decided I wasn't a Dick so the meetings cut both ways.
I spent the past week in New York. The profile of one of the hottest companies I met was as per the graph below.
The deal is moving a bit too fast for me and is becoming frenzied with interest. But I really think this company has a good shot at becoming a monster. It's a killer CEO, great product, market ripe for disruption, experienced product team and great CMO who has relevant experience from her former life. I've been watching from the sidelines for 6 months and waiting to meet the team. Given a few more data points I would have liked to have invested but given the market speed it looks unlikely.
So here's the thing:
- Investors – The market is moving uber fast on deals. Investors are writing checks for dots. This is happening with both angels and VCs. If you invest in dots don't be surprised when the trend isn't in the direction you would have hoped. Pattern recognition requires a pattern. Dots produce bubbles. And some argue that bubbles have positive externalities for entrepreneurs - maybe. But many bubbles wreak more havoc than positive effects. And those of us who have lived through the past 2 funding bubbles saw all this at close range. And many I'm having the debate with are on their first time around.
- Lines vs. Dots – Over on HackerNews somebody cleverly wrote, "Surely someone will invest in the 'dot' and he'll miss the chance. He seems to assume there is no competition. Or maybe what is a dot to him was already a line to someone else (because they met earlier)" – this is my point exactly. If you're an investor looking at dots somebody else may be looking at lines. Meet entrepreneurs early and watch how they perform – maybe even at their previous startup. I always ask to meet people before they're officially fund raising – well before actually. It helps me spot patterns.
- Entrepreneurs – you might be pumped up with that super quick round done at a high price. But just remember that raising money is a bit like Ireland in the 90′s – no divorces allowed. I know VCs and sophisticated angels can be difficult, slow and price sensitive, but I also know that in tough times unsophisticated investors can be a right pain in the arse. For some companies – they become deal breakers on further funding rounds. By definition if somebody is investing in you as a dot (limited thought, limited due diligence, maximum price) they are a dot to you, too. You can't really know them in 2 minutes yet you're letting them own part of your business.
And we all know how Vegas weddings turn out.
This article originally appeared at Both Sides of the Table and is republished here with permission.

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Political Chaos in Egypt
What the latest upheaval tells us about the prospects for a democratic transition.
Entering this week, the political situation in Egypt already was tenuous, to put it mildly. The composition of a constituent assembly to write a new constitution was still contested and up in the air. The first round of a presidential election yielded what most observers considered the most polarized possible result, in which the remaining candidates were Ahmed Shafik, Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister and the presumed favorite of the military and counterrevolutionaries, and Mohamed Morsi, the official candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood. Then on successive days came two additional jolts. On Wednesday martial law was reimposed. On Thursday the constitutional court, while upholding Shafik's candidacy, invalidated the election of a third of the legislature and declared that the entire legislature must be dissolved. This double whammy, especially the dissolution of the parliament, seemed to be such a reversal of what had been accomplished in the prior sixteen months that observers inside and outside Egypt are talking in some of the most pessimistic terms heard since protests began early last year. It is reasonable to doubt whether what we are witnessing in Egypt can still be described as a transition to democracy.
Whether or not all of the pessimism is warranted, the second round of the presidential election is about to take place amid what has to be among the least propitious circumstances any country could have for selection of a head of state. In addition to all the polarizing tensions that already have been evident since the contest became one of Shafik versus Morsi, the winner will take office in the absence of a new constitution and thus not knowing what the powers of his office are supposed to be. Nor does anyone seem to know at the moment who, or what, will be exercising legislative power following dissolution of the parliament. It also is uncertain what effect, if any, the court's invalidating of the legislature will have on the status of the smaller constituent assembly.
The next near-term chapter of this story will hinge on the outcome of the second round of the presidential election. A victory by Shafik has the greatest potential to trigger an upsurge of unrest and violence, if many Egyptians come to see it as affirmation that a hoped-for revolution has been effectively reversed. There is some talk of Morsi perhaps being made prime minister under a Shafik presidency, although that would depend on understandings yet to be reached between the Brotherhood and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. Possibly a Shafik win would be a first step toward a power structure similar to that in Algeria, in which the president is an important player but has only partial autonomy from the military-dominated pouvoir, which more or less corresponds to what in Egypt is more often called the deep state. There would be less likelihood of violence and severe instability with a Morsi win, but that would be only the first stage in a long process of bargaining and maneuvering between the Brotherhood and the military.
As we watch this story unfold with confusion and fascination, we should bear in mind several general points. First, it would be foolhardy to base hopes or expectations, let alone policies, on any one prognosis of where Egypt goes from here. This past week alone was reminder enough of the fundamental unpredictability of what is happening there.
Second, we should not assume that the actions of the major players reflect coherent and firm strategies and objectives. The players are making up strategies as they go along. That is true of the SCAF, whose members probably are unsure of just what they want during the coming years beyond the more parochial interests of the military itself. It also is true of the Muslim Brotherhood, even without taking into account the differences of view within the Brotherhood.
Third, to the extent there is still any basis for hope for something that could be called a democratic transition, such a transition would be a very long-term process of developing a new political culture. There has been a surreal aspect to much of the discussion of recent events centered on legal reasoning and what is or is not constitutional—surreal in that what the constitutional order in Egypt ought to look like is part of what is uncertain and in dispute. A true transition would entail years of slowly developing new habits of trust and compromise.
Fourth, there is very little that anyone on the outside can do to influence the events in Egypt, notwithstanding the continued high importance that the coming political history of that country will have for interests of the United States and others. The most important thing for outsiders is to avoid missteps that would needlessly burn bridges to any of the major Egyptian political actors.
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Is Research in Motion, maker of the iconic BlackBerry, dead–or sick unto death? Some observers are calling it.
Jonathan Geller, founder of Boy Genius Report, is one of them. Indeed, he puts it more starkly than anyone:
"The RIM we know, is dead. The company has 12 to 15 months until it's either acquired, or broken into pieces and sold for parts. I'm not even sure why the company still plans to launch BlackBerry 10 smartphones at this point."
How did we get here? I've written about how RIM's new operating system seemed like too little, too late, and about how the company's new CEO sure had his work cut out for him. This past week, though, when RIM put out its most dismal quarterly report in five years–a loss of $125 million–may be the one we remember as the moment RIM turned the corner and didn't come back.
Bloomberg's take is a tad more sanguine: it frames RIM's predicament as a "risky survival plan." What course exactly is RIM plotting? Intriguingly, it's deciding to focus on the demographic that led to its rise to begin with: business users. (This goes hand-in-hand with the new CEO Thorsten Heins's professed interest in branding: RIM was never going to shake its association with enterprise.) That'll be tough to do, though, since, as we know, Apple and Android are already making inroads into enterprise.
Heins's own comments during a conference call with analysts smack of those of a captain just realizing how fast his ship is threatening to sink. When Heins took the helm in January, he said RIM didn't need to change drastically. Now he's singing a different tune, per Bloomberg: "The impression I had of RIM at day two of being the CEO is now pretty different from the impression, not the impression, from the facts I know after being 10 weeks the CEO…. It is now very clear to me that substantial change is what RIM needs."
During that same call, Heins admitted RIM was "late" in recognizing the threat posed by the tendency of employees to bring their own iPhones or Androids into work for business use. RIM is at least doing what it can to make the best of a business world increasingly flooded with iPhones and Droids. Today, RIM released a new version of its server software, Fusion, that would support even rival devices. "Fusion is a recognition that RIM is losing share in enterprise devices to iOS and Android, and that to remain relevant its server solution needs to support those platforms too," one analyst told the New York Times. "It does show that RIM's not standing still, and that it's trying to respond to the trends it sees in the market."
Another thing that hasn't helped RIM? That itty-bitty enormous service outage that briefly made paperweights of BlackBerrys throughout the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and the Americas. It wasn't just a public relations disaster (though it was that, too). It also translated into considerable financial losses: $54 million. Admittedly, that's less than one estimate that had been floated earlier, $350 million, but it's hardly chump change.
"BlackBerry cannot succeed if we try to be all things to all people," Heins has said, and he's right. The question is, for how much longer can it be much of anything to anyone?
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Spring or really summer has arrived to Virginia (we don't get a try spring just cold or warm not much in between) We normally go straight from using our heat to A/C and this year of course with our luck the A/C has been out the past 3 days. It has been about 85F (that's 29C) and not too too hot inside tho yesterday it was about 90F (32C) inside during the hottest time of the afternoon. My poor dogs!!! I was worried about them especially since it was in the 50's (10's) last week. This morning the part we have been waiting for came in so my husband got the A/C fixed (for now touch wood) I think the dogs are VERY happy about being more comfortable inside.


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Sunday, May 25, 2008
Some Thoughts on Utah Phillips
I wouldn't want to elevate anybody to inappropriately high heights, but for me, Utah Phillips was a legend.
I first became familiar with the Utah Phillips phenomenon in the late 80's, when I was in my early twenties, working part-time as a prep cook at Morningtown in Seattle. I had recently read Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, and had been particularly enthralled by the early 20th Century section, the stories of the Industrial Workers of the World. So it was with great interest that I first discovered a greasy cassette there in the kitchen by the stereo, Utah Phillips Sings the Songs and Tells the Stories of the Industrial Workers of the World.
As a young radical, I had heard lots about the 1960's. There were (and are) plenty of veterans of the struggles of the 60's alive and well today. But the wildly tumultuous era of the first two decades of the 20th century is now (and pretty well was then) a thing entirely of history, with no one living anymore to tell the stories. And while long after the 60's there will be millions of hours of audio and video recorded for posterity, of the massive turn-of-the-century movement of the industrial working class there will be virtually none of that.
To hear Utah tell the stories of the strikes and the free speech fights, recounting hilariously the day-to-day tribulations of life in the hobo jungles and logging camps, singing about the humanity of historical figures such as Big Bill Haywood, Joe Hill or Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, was to bring alive an era that at that point only seemed to exist on paper, not in the reality of the senses. But Utah didn't feel like someone who was just telling stories from a bygone era -- it was more like he was a bridge to that era.
Hearing these songs and stories brought to life by him, I became infected by the idea that if people just knew this history in all it's beauty and grandeur, they would find the same hope for humanity and for the possibility for radical social change that I had just found through Utah.
Thus, I became a Wobbly singer, too. I began to stand on a street corner on University Way with a sign beside me that read, "Songs of the Seattle General Strike of 1919." I mostly sang songs I learned from listening to Utah's cassette, plus some other IWW songs I found in various obscure collections of folk music that I came across.
It was a couple years later that I first really discovered Utah Phillips, the songwriter. I had by this time immersed myself with great enthusiasm in the work of many contemporary performers in what gets called the folk music scene, and had developed a keen appreciation for the varied and brilliant songwriting of Jim Page and others. Then, in 1991, I came across Utah's new cassette, I've Got To Know, and soon thereafter heard a copy of a much earlier recording, Good Though.
Whether he's recounting stories from his own experiences or those of others doesn't matter. There is no need to know, for in the many hours Utah spent in his troubled youth talking with old, long-dead veterans of the rails and the IWW campaigns, a bridge from now to then was formed in this person, in his pen and in his deep, resonant voice. In Good Though I heard the distant past breathing and full of life in Utah's own compositions, just as they breathed in his renditions of older songs.
In I've Got To Know I heard an eloquent and current voice of opposition to the American Empire and the bombing of Iraq, rolled together seamlessly with the voices of deserters, draft dodgers and tax resisters of the previous century.
In reference to the power of lying propaganda, a friend of mine used to say it takes ten minutes of truth to counteract 24 hours of lies. But upon first hearing Utah's song, "Yellow Ribbon," it seemed to me that perhaps that ratio didn't give the power of truth enough credit. It seemed to me that if the modern soldiers of the empire would have a chance to hear Utah's monologues there about his anguish after his time in the Army in Korea, or the breathtakingly simple depiction of life under the junta in El Salvador in his song "Rice and Beans," they would just have to quit the military.
Utah made it clear in word and in deed that steeping yourself in the tradition was required of any good practitioner of the craft, and I did my best to follow in his footsteps and do just that. I learned lots of Utah's songs as well as the old songs he was playing. Making a living busking in the Boston subways for years, I ran into other folks who were doing just that, as well as writing great songs, such as Nathan Phillips (no relation). Nathan was from West Virginia, and did haunting versions of "The Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia," "Larimer Street," "All Used Up," and other songs. In different T stops at the same time, Nathan and I could often be found both singing the songs of Utah Phillips for the passersby.
Traveling around the US in the 1990's and since then, it seemed that Utah's music had, on a musical level, had the same kind of impact that Zinn's People's History or somewhat earlier works such as Jeremy Brecher's book, Strike!, had had in written form -- bringing alive vital history that had been all but forgotten. With Ani DiFranco's collaboration with Utah, this became doubly true, seemingly overnight, and this man who had had a loyal cult following before suddenly had, if not what might be called popularity, at least a loyal cult following that was now twice as big as it had been in the pre-Ani era.
I had had the pleasure of hearing Utah live in concert only once in the early 90's, doing a show with another great songwriter, Charlie King, in the Boston area. I was looking forward to hearing him play again around there in 1995, but what was to be a Utah Phillips concert turned into a benefit for Utah's medical expenses, when he had to suddenly drastically cut down on his touring, due to heart problems. I think there were about twenty different performers doing renditions of Utah Phillips' songs at Club Passim that night. I did "Yellow Ribbon."
Traveling in the same circles and putting out CDs on the same record label, it was fairly inevitable that we'd meet eventually. The first time was several years ago, if memory serves me, behind the stage at the annual protest against the School of the Americas in Columbus, Georgia. I think I successfully avoided seeming too painfully star-struck. Utah was complaining to me earnestly about how he didn't know what to do at these protests, didn't feel like he had good protest material. I think he did just fine, though I can't recall what he did.
Utah lived in Nevada City, and the last time I was there he came to the community radio station while I was appearing on a show. This was soon after Katrina, and I remember singing my song, "New Orleans," and Utah saying embarrassingly nice things. I was on a little tour with Norman Solomon speaking and me singing, and we had done an event the night before in town, which Utah was too tired to attend, if I recall.
Me, Utah, Norman, and my companion, Reiko, went over to a breakfast place after the radio show, talked and ate breakfast. Utah did most of the talking, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that his use of mysterious hobo colloquialisms and frequent references to obscure historical characters in twentieth-century American anarchist history was something he did off stage as well as on.
I've passed near enough to that part of California many times since then. Called once when I was nearby and he was out of town, doing a show in Boston. Otherwise I just thought about calling and dropping by, but didn't take the time. Life was happening, and taking a day or two off in Nevada City was always something that I never quite seemed to find the time for. Always figured next time I'll have more time, I'll call him then. It had been thirteen years since he found out about his heart problems, and he hadn't kicked the bucket yet... Of course, now I wish I had taken the time when I had the chance, and I'm sure there are many other people who feel the same way.
In any case, for those of us who knew his music, whether from recordings or concerts, for those of us who knew Utah from his stories on or off the stage, whether we knew him as that human bridge to the radical labor movement of yesterday, or as the voice of the modern-day hobos, or as that funky old guy that Ani did a couple of CDs with, Utah Phillips will be remembered and treasured by many.
He was undeniably a sort of musical-political-historical institution in his own day. He said he was a rumor in his own time. No question, one man's rumor is another man's legend, but who cares, it's just words anyway.
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- May 25, 2008 at 9:37:00 AM PDT
hi David,
I hadn't heard of Utah Philips prior to reading this, but anyone who has influenced you is bound to interest me. very beautifully written.
- May 26, 2008 at 1:01:00 AM PDT
- Robyn said...
freaking spammers...
The night Bruce died, I was working a show at a folk venue in Denver.
Our "godfather", Harry Tuft walkd in and said, "Utah's gone."
He told us the known details an d presed that we should have a memorial concert for him.
We will.
After that show, I was off to a different venue for the end of a Dylan birthday tribute, and lo and behold, there's Harry, singing his heart out for Bruce Utah Phillips.
He might have been the only person in the room with a deep knowledge of the man, they were lifelong friends, and a handful of folkies who even knew who this old fart was talking about.
So what are we to do? Keep Singing!
- August 12, 2008 at 1:03:00 PM PDT


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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A federal court jury has ruled that selling gasoline that has not been adjusted for its temperature does not violate the Kansas Consumer Protection Act.
The jury returned the verdict Monday in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan. The issue is whether customers are shortchanged when buying gasoline that is over 60 degrees in temperature. The plaintiffs had sued gasoline retailers including QuikTrip, 7-Eleven and Kum & Go.
The case was consolidated from 26 cases filed across the country.
The Kansas City Star reports the plaintiffs argued that customers get less fuel for the price as the gasoline heats up.
However, the jury ruled that selling gasoline over the 60-degree industry standard does not constitute deceptive practices under the consumer protection law.


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Marriage: Do More Than Give It Your Best Shot
"We gave it our best shot" was the only recourse for why the famed couple filed for divorce citing the all too often and repugnantly repeated reason termed "irreconcilable differences."
Blond, Blond and Facebook
Florida girl Kelly Katrina Hildebrandt and Texas boy Kelly Carl Hildebrandt, we'll just call them Katrina and Carl, had one thing unusually in common – their first and last names.
Sure, amidst the Mideast turmoil, loss of religious freedoms and onslaught of ungodly gay marriage coming against all things moral in America, the universe didn't explode over this revelation of shared names, but it seemed to for this cute couple.
He was blond-haired and handsome; she was beautiful, blond and bubbly. Facebook played a hand in destiny, so it seemed, and helped bring these two together. Seemed like an ordinary FB romance that went from emails to a full romantic wedding; this average couple hit the jackpot with instant fame and was featured, believe it or not, on People magazine and even the Today show!
They could not have more going for them! So what happened to tear this star-struck, good-looking couple apart? Something horrible? Adultery or tragedy or even a life of lies? We don't know. But one thing we do know is that they were interviewed by NBC 6 and had few words to say, one being, "We gave it our best shot."
Your Perspective in Your Beginning Tells a Lot About Your Destination
The Bible says in Proverbs 23:7, "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee."
Honestly, we know of couples and stories of couples that have overcome tremendous obstacles – both in their personal lives and in their marital life. Even those who started out wrong have come to a place of power, love and a strong marriage.
It's not so much how you start that dictates your end – it's more of "why" you started that affects future direction.
Till Hard Times Do Us Part
It's simply amazing to us how many times "irreconcilable differences" is cited as the force and thrust behind ripping apart what God has joined together. But it's true, nevertheless.
Couple after couple skim right over the "till death do us part" only to let go of commitment and promise because of things that once was deemed irrelevant. Hard times, failure, no success, poverty, misunderstandings, conflicts – all secondary to the main focus – marry for a lifetime.
Carl summed up their immature lack of commitment to NBC 6 when he said, "She's a Florida girl, and I'm a Texas guy."
So what? Culture should never pull apart a marriage. Marriage must always override pride, culture, and self to always amalgamate to unity within the bonds of marriage.
If culture and other external influences are biting at your marriage, get rid and let go of those things. Your marriage is more important than anything, or anyone else.
And that's the words that should have been said by Carl and Katrina. "We almost lost our marriage to being pulled apart, but we held on to each other."


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Michael Muser is a restaurateur, a loudmouth, and not a genius. But he and his friend Pat Kiely do know people who have figured out how to create brilliant businesses and artistry in the culinary world and beyond. Every week they interview creators from chefs to comedians to find out what makes them tick, with a healthy dose of humor along the way.
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The Tampa Bay Times reported Wednesday that Marie Keeney was planning a ceremony to renew her vows with her husband of nine years. Her 8-year-old son, Braden, had asked them to do it so he could be part of the ceremony.
But the planning came to a halt last year when she took the wedding dress out of the storage box and realized it wasn't hers. She was devastated and canceled the ceremony.
"It made me cry," she said. "And I never cry."
But Keeney, 45, began investigating.
She contacted the dry cleaners that did the preservation and was told the task had been outsourced to a New York company, Wedding Gown Preservation.
She felt her dress was lost but wanted to get the dress she had back to its proper owner. She posted photos on Facebook and contacted the media, in hopes that the owner would learn about the dress. But no one came forward.
Then Wedding Gown Preservation found Keeney's dress and shipped it back to the dry cleaners.
"I think it's a miracle," Keeney said. "I can't believe I got my dress back."
An invoice that was also found showed that the other dress belonged to a Katherine Stephenson. The Times tracked down Stephenson living three miles from Keeney. Stephenson had long accepted that her dress had been lost. She picked it up last week.
"Several people at that wedding are not with us anymore," Stephenson said of the 2001 ceremony. "It will be really nice to have something special from a time when they were all in our lives."
Meanwhile, Keeney has rescheduled her renewal ceremony for her 10th anniversary in November. And the dress still fits.
"They say it's bad luck to wear your dress twice," Keeney said, smiling. "But I don't believe any of that."


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History of the Eastlake Police Department
The first police chief for the Village of Eastlake was Richard Taylor. He started as chief in 1949, working for no pay and using his own car to patrol the village streets.
The village officially became a city in 1955. Chief Taylor and his part-time policemen worked out of the first police station, a small building at the intersections of Roberts Road, Beachpark, and Lakeshore Boulevard. The police station consisted of a small room that contained a desk, two chairs, and two file cabinets. The rest of the building was the city hall and clerk's office. The building later became Steve's Barbershop.
The second police station was a little larger room in a concrete building that also was used as the city hall and clerk's office. This station had its first prison holding cell, a steel cage constructed in a section of the Hinkle service garage. The location of this building was known as the Hinkle Block and it is located across from the Subway shop on Lakeshore Boulevard.
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HOUSTON — As Texas residents expand their homes and businesses into alligator country, encounters between these normally shy reptiles and humans are increasing. And late spring through summer is alligator mating and nesting season, when gators are more likely to be visible. "Springtime is when alligators are most active," said Monique Slaughter, a TPWD biologist who helps run the alligator program out of the J.D. Murphree Wildlife Management Area in Port Arthur. "Courtship and mating begins in late spring and continues through early summer. April-July are peak months for nuisance gator calls." Texas Parks and Wildlife Department game wardens and biologists stress education rather than over-reaction as a first step in dealing with gators and suggest a "live and let live" approach whenever possible. In recent years, there's been a steady rise in alligator complaints logged by the communications center at the TPWD Law Enforcement Division office in La Porte, many of which are not true "nuisance" alligators. In 2004, the office reported 690 calls, about half of which required no game warden action. Most of these calls came from five counties: Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Harris, and Liberty. "We now have procedures in place where we can educate callers that alligators are not normally aggressive, and if you leave them alone they'll leave you alone," said Inez Tipp, who has been TPWD's communications supervisor in the Houston area for the past seven years. "When you have an aggressive alligator there's no doubt, but a lot of the calls are from people who just have no idea that there are alligators here and have never seen one before." In Texas, no fatalities have been do*****ented due to alligators. In the past 15 years, there have been 17 reported injuries due to alligators statewide, none life threatening. Slaughter said alligators dig dens known as gator holes in levees and banks along bayous, sloughs, or other secluded areas. During the winter, these dens offer protection and cover. In mid-summer, females build nests near these sites. When hatchlings hatch out, they stay close to the gators holes for safety. During drought periods, these holes may be the only water source for alligators and other wildlife. Slaughter also said that TPWD estimates there are 286,000 alligators in Chambers, Jefferson, and Orange Counties, but no statewide population estimate exists. Alligators currently are found in 120 of the 254 counties in Texas. Hunting statistics for the past 15 years show the average adult Texas gator is seven feet long and weighs 60 pounds. In 1969, a state law that preceded the federal Endangered Species Act of 1973 protected the alligator. A combined effort by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and state wildlife agencies in the south brought the alligator back, allowing it to rebound in many areas where it had been depleted by unregulated hunting and loss of habitat. The alligator was removed from the endangered list in the 1980s. Since 1984, sustainable hunting has been allowed in Texas and Louisiana. In October 2003, it became a Class C misdemeanor punishable by a fine of $25 to $500 for any person who intentionally feeds a free-ranging alligator. Use of bait for legal hunting by licensed hunters or nuisance alligator control hunters is not interpreted as feeding. Alligator experts say the most important rule for the public is to never feed an alligator or allow it to get food. Once an alligator loses its natural fear of people it must typically be killed, since if relocated it would only seek people to find food and become a problem somewhere else. People should keep a safe distance from gators of 30 feet or more. Besides never feeding wild alligators, these tips should reduce the risk of an alligator conflict involving you or your pets: keep your pets on a leash or in a penned enclosure, don't get too close to or swim in areas where alligators are commonly observed, don't harass or agitate an alligator, never approach an alligator nest or a pod of young alligators that a female alligator might be guarding, remember that alligators are most active at dawn and dusk in the warmer months of the year, and always treat them with the respect they deserve as wild animals. Teachers will soon be able to educate their students on alligators and other reptiles and amphibians in the Harris/Galveston County areas. The TPWD Urban Wildlife Biologists in the area are working on an educational tool, (the "Reptiles and Amphibians in the City" trunk), and it can be checked out as early as August by schools, Boy Scout groups or other organizations. The trunk, in developmental stages now, will contain demonstrative tools such as an alligator skull and a small alligator head, pop-up books and power point slides to help identify key species of local reptile and amphibian. "We have a series of trunks that we let schools or other people use," said Keith Crenshaw, a biologist with the project. "It helps when we use the trunk to help educate kids." Information about alligators, including safety tips for Living with Alligators, research reports and basic natural history, is on the TPWD Web site.
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Music review: Gentle Giants: The Songs of Don Williams
Williams' long time producer and friend Gareth Fundis created the album and featured an all-star line up of artists including Dierks Bentley, Garth Brooks, Brandy Clark, Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires, Alison Krauss, Lady Antebellum, Keb' Mo', Pistol Annies, John Prine, Chris and Morgane Stapleton and Trisha Yearwood.
The 11-track album will also benefit a USA charity and Williams paid tribute to his friends by saying: "It was a very emotional and humbling experience to hear you all perform these songs which have been such a part of my life. Fantastic. I loved every performance and your interpretation of the songs. All I can say is, what an honour this is from such an esteemed group of artists. Some of you I have met, but all of you I greatly admire and I hope the fans will enjoy hearing this as much as I have.''
Gentle Giants: The Songs of Don Williams, www.slatecreekrecords.com/gentlegiantsTwitter: @EmojiAdventurer


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Appcelerator, whose Titanium platform is used to develop cross-platform apps for smartphones and tablets, has opened Open Mobile Marketplace, a store where developers can download modules to expand the functionality of Titanium and more easily add features to their apps, the company said on Monday.
The store is available to any developer or business that wants to publish a native or HTML5 mobile module, application template, or mobile cloud service for Apple's iOS, BlackBerry OS or Android-based smartphones. Appcelerator also offers self-serve tools for publishers to upload content.
"We have always had a marketplace idea in our mind … The only way a platform truly gets scale and critical mass is if at some point becomes open to others that are able to build a business inside that ecosystem," said Scott Schwarzhoff, vice president of marketing at Appcelerator.
Today, the company has 1.5 million developers in total, and 200,000 of them are registered mobile developers. Titanium can also be used to develop Windows, Mac OS and Linux desktop applications. About 25,000 applications in Apple's App Store and Google's Android Market are powered by Appcelerator's tool.
The smartphone software sector is a very fast moving market, and new capabilities have to be added to Titanium constantly. It uses a modular software development kit, which allows any native extension to be added to the platform, according to Schwarzhoff.
"We actually used this ourselves when we added, for example, the Facebook SDK," said Schwarzhoff.
For Appcelerator and third-party vendors, Open Mobile Marketplace becomes a virtuous cycle, according to Schwarzhoff. Appcelerator helps grow their businesses by making services available to a larger audience and in turn they add features and capabilities to Titanuim, which makes the platform more attractive.
"It is all about leverage. It is leverage for us, because we don't have to build all these capabilities ourselves. It is leverage for the third-party providers, because they can tap into our developer base, and ultimately it is leverage for our customers who are able to continually raise the quality bar of their own applications without having to build everything from scratch," said Schwarzhoff.
Mobile software solutions available at launch include: PayPal, mobile advertising network AdMob, cloud-based storage Box.net and Salesforce. Modules on the Open Mobile Marketplace can be free or paid, with a 70/30 revenue share agreement available for the latter. They can also come with a revenue share agreement, which are used by, for example, ad networks.
Appcelerator expects to see two main themes among the most popular modules: ones that allow developers to make money, including advertising and in-app purchasing, and modules that encourage repeat usage, including Urban Airship, which allows for push notifications and will also be on the market from day one.
But Open Mobile Marketplace will also be stocked with design modules. Appcelerator thinks those will be really popular because most developers aren't designers, and may not have access to someone that can help make their applications look good, according to Schwarzhoff. It will also be interesting to see how the cloud-based services will be used, he said.
"At the end of the day, the ultimate success is the end-developer who is able to build a better app," said Schwarzhoff.


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What Does Arkham City's Director Think Of Move, Kinect, And 3D Gaming?
Rocksteady Studios' Sefton Hill shares his thoughts on the upcoming technology from Sony and Microsoft.
When we visited Rocksteady for our Batman: Arkham City cover story, everyone had just returned from E3 where Move, Kinect, and 3D were the big talk of the show. While Hill wouldn't say one way or the other if the upcoming Batman sequel would include any of these features, he did offer his opinion on all of the technologies:
"I think 3D is cool - I don't think we're announcing or saying anything about it at the moment - but I think that it's interesting for games."
"My own personal opinion is that I think they're both interesting. I think Move might be a bit more applicable for hardcore gamers from what I've seen mainly because I can play it lazing on my sofa -- my number one requirement. I think Kinect seems interesting. I'd like to see more games for it definitely. They haven't really shown too much so I'd like to see what I'm actually going to be able to play with it apart from Dance Central.
"I think Move will integrate quite cleanly with a lot of existing titles like Resident Evil 5 where they're doing patches and stuff like that. It's definitely an interesting area. How that relates to Batman, who knows? But those are for quite a different experience as well, so i don't think they're going to supercede existing games. That's going to be a totally different experience.
"Certainly Kinect as well. You buy those games. You play your Kinect experience. You're not going to be doing that instead of playing your hardcore games, your Call of Duty or whatever. I don't see that these games are sort of stepping on that. I think it's another audience that they're bringing in myself."


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Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Economy Block Quilt Progress Report
25 comments:
Wow! What a GORGEOUS quilt! I just can't stop looking at it, it is so lovely. What talent!ReplyDelete
Looks just great! Colours work together very well!ReplyDelete
How do you sew and watch tv at the same time? I think I could never do so.
dang! you are fast! i'm still trying to resist....ReplyDelete
Just beautiful! I love it! A day of just sewing sounds wonderful... I have to sneak my time in when the 4 little ones go to bed.ReplyDelete
I am falling in LOVE with these blocks! A great classic, but so fresh, updated & cute!ReplyDelete
I was thinking about a new Project. It Looks as if I have found it ;-)ReplyDelete
Gorgeous! Totally getting involved.ReplyDelete
Beautiful and so happy it really pops just love itReplyDelete
I'm having so much fun with mine, yours is turning out beautifully!ReplyDelete
Wow! I LOVE all the fussy cut pieces and vibrant colors!ReplyDelete
I am seriously in love! I could use this cheerful quilt in my home! Pure happiness,ReplyDelete
This quilt is so much fun! I love all the colors and patterns and the pictures that are fussy cut! I want to make one, I just don't know if I have all the patience to do all that cutting!ReplyDelete
This is a favorite! Can I say that again and again about your quilts?ReplyDelete
I love the " I spy " feel of this quilt...I am thinking that picking out and fussy cutting the center blocks would be the one thing that took the most time... Like weeks, months, hey even years to collect all those little motifs.ReplyDelete
You where watching a show I love to listen to audio books when quilting... driving...weeding the garden! I get a lot more done and can cover 1000 miles a day driving when I need to with an audio book going.
I love your work....you make color selection look flawless!!ReplyDelete
So, so gorgeous! Brilliant colours.ReplyDelete
wow I love this! the COLOR is so vibrant! just wonderful : ) maybe I'll use this theme for my bee block request. thinking it would make a fabulous "I Spy" for a little one!ReplyDelete
Love it. This is such a happy quilt!ReplyDelete
Super-900 pieces. I am glad my chair has arms or I would have fallen out of it when I read that number. However, it's certainly a fine quilt and you have reason to be proud-Again of your creations. Congrats on another winner.ReplyDelete
So fun!!!!! Love it:))ReplyDelete
you have one this so quickly a lovely set of blocks. Least said about the cricket here in the UK the better, At least I can now sleep through the night instead of listening to it on the radio!ReplyDelete
It's beautiful! I love all the polka dots. Yay to Australia winning the Ashes!ReplyDelete
So many lovely block you have sewn. I must put these block to my to do list. Thanks for sharingReplyDelete
Completely stunning and inspiring, thank you for sharing! Sarah xoReplyDelete
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Memorial Day Weekend is filled with all sorts of fun events and festivities at Virginia Wineries in Northern and Central Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley. Take advantage of the long weekend. Get out of the city and spend time at a lovely outdoor setting, listening to good music and sipping fine Virginia Wines. Consider one of the following activities, then book a room at a nearby Virginia Bed and Breakfast and let the fun begin. [caption id="attachment_7307" align="alignright" width="237"] Enjoy a glass of Virginia Wine, live music, and fun at one of these Memorial Day Weekend events.[/caption] ValleyFest - the 11th Annual Shenandoah Valley Beer & Wine Festival on Memorial Day Weekend. Live music, crafts, and the finest Virginia Wine and Beer from the Shenandoah Valley. See ValleyFest for more details. Lodge in a Harrisonburg VA Bed and Breakfast or a Keezletown VA Bed and Breakfast. 249th Anniversary Celebration of American Wine Festival at the Philip Carter Winery. Featuring Vintage Virginia Wine tasting, historical reenactors, live music, and more. Saturday May 28th. More information available at Philip Carter Winery. Lodge in a Flint Hill Virginia Bed and Breakfast. Memorial Day BBQ and Concert at DelFosse Vineyards. Mediterranean BBQ served at the outdoor pavilion. Live music by The Honeybirds. Reservations required: see DelFosse Vineyards. Lodge in a Charlottesville VA Bed and Breakfast or a Scottsville VA Bed and Breakfast. Memorial Day Weekend Music at Casanel Vineyards. Steve De Vries on Saturday afternoon and Mike Bowers on Sunday afternoon. Wine tasting and gourmet snacks. See Casanel Vineyards for additional information. Lodge in a Manassas VA Bed and Breakfast or a Middleburg VA Bed and Breakfast. Festival of Wines. Some of Virginia's best wineries will offer tastings in support of Wintergreen Performing Arts. An afternoon of Jazz music, small plates, and wine tasting on Sunday, May 29 at the Wintergreen, VA, Evans Center. Find more information at Wintergreen Performing Arts. Lodge in a Nellysford VA Bed and Breakfast.


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Galactic spring-clean unveils missing quasars
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A team of astronomers might have solved one of the mysteries of astrophysics with the discovery of a clutch of quasars, hiding behind clouds of dust. The discovery was made using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, and could explain previously mysterious levels of cosmic background radiation.
Quasars are very distant, but very strong sources of radio signals. The working theory is that they are located in the central cores of very distant galaxies, where matter falling into a supermassive black hole is turned into a blinding torrent of radiation.
Astronomers suspect that all quasars are surrounded by a dusty ring, and that this hides about half of them from our Earth-based line of sight. However, the cosmic X-ray background, primarily made up of emissions from quasars, suggests that there must be many more of the voracious objects than could be accounted for by those currently known about.
Examining data from Spitzer, the team found 21 examples of these lost quasars, hidden behind both a dust ring, and the dust of the galaxy itself. The objects were confirmed as quasars by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Large Array radio telescope, New Mexico, and the William Hershel Telescope on La Palma.
Alejo Martinez-Sansigre from the University of Oxford noted: "We were missing a large population of obscured quasars, which had been inferred from studies at X-ray frequencies. This newly discovered population is large enough to account for the X-ray background."
The trick now, he says, will be to work out why there are more hidden quasars than unobscured ones. ®
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The Retired Racehorse Project (RRP) held its fourth annual Thoroughbred Makeover this past week, October 4-7, 2018 at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky. The 2018 RRP Thoroughbred Makeover had 23 Louisiana breds entered in the competition, more than double the number that competed in the 2017 event. This year Louisiana breds competed in Barrel Racing, Competitive Trail, Dressage, Eventing, Field Hunter, Freestyle, Ranch Work, Show Hunter, and Show Jumper disciplines.
Retired Louisiana bred thoroughbred racehorses showed up in the top ranks in many of the ten different disciplines represented with Interactif Spy earning the number one spot in the Show Jumper category. Interactif Spy, a 2013 gelding (Interactif—Runaway Spy, Mt. Livermore), was bred in Louisiana by D&F Horse Farms LLC, and ridden by Morgan Boyer, a professional from Stokesdale, North Carolina. On the racetrack, Interactif Spy started three times as a three-year-old, with one victory and a second place finish. He retired with racetrack earnings of $9,305.
While this year was Boyer's first time competing at the RRP Thoroughbred Makeover, she has competed in the Eventing discipline up to the intermediate level on a thoroughbred. She now works as a professional alongside her mother at Blue Line Farm, with plenty of customers who own off-the-track horses in training.
"Honestly I don't think they're for everyone because they're very forward thinking, but that translates very well to a working horse," Boyer said of off-the-track thoroughbreds. "It translates incredibly well to eventing. They're catty and athletic; they're cooperative. They just have the brain to try really hard. They're so, so smart."
Another Louisiana bred, Delightfully, a 2014 mare (Redding Colliery—Like a Lover, Pleasant Tap), earned third place in the Freesytle discipline. Delightfully was bred in Louisiana by Columbine Stable, LLC, and ridden by Amy Lent, a professional from Versailles, Kentucky. Delightfully was unsuccessful in her one bid on the racetrack and retired with earnings of $1,230.
An unplaced Louisiana bred gelding Bazillion Bells (Calibrachoa-Zada Rae, by Unbridled's Song), earned sixth place in the Eventing discipline for professional competitor Kaitlin Hartford of Callahan, Florida. Bazillion Bells was bred by Joseph Adcock.
Two competitors from Louisiana also made the trip to the Kentucky Horse Park. Brooke Miller, head trainer at Woodland Hills Equestrian Center in Carencro, La, competed Classy Clown in Show Jumping and Eventing. Classy Clown is a 2014 gelding by Tenpins– Lady Button Eyesby Belong to Me. He was bred by Ada K. White.
Sarah Alexis Rouse competed as a Junior on her Pirate Island in Show Jumping and Barrel Racing. Pirate Island is by Storm Day– Jaycor Pass, by Pikepass. The 2008 gelding's breeder is Maurice W. Smith.
The Louisiana Thoroughbred Breeders Association (LTBA) sponsored a $2,500 cash prize for the top-placed Louisiana-bred at the competition.
"The Louisiana Thoroughbred Breeders Association continues to make an investment in the future of our thoroughbreds by helping our former runners secure a beautiful life after their time on the racetrack is done," said Roger Heitzmann III, secretary-treasurer of LTBA. "We believe that by assisting the Retired Racehorse Project, former racers have the ability to show to others the true beauty of the Thoroughbred, as well as their continued usefulness."


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Anger, denial, bargaining, depression, acceptance.
Rachel Forsythe is trapped in the bargaining stage. Her daughter Jennifer is caught between life and death in a coma with no expectation of recovery. Family and friends lose hope, and Rachel turns to the cold comfort of God's Old Testament bargains when an even colder comfort arrives.
Milada Daranyi is no ordinary vampire. She's a master of the art of the deal who has put her centuries of youth to good use in pursuit of lucrative business acquisitions. But is she up for a wager with the most powerful dealer of them all?
A vampire story can't help but cover life and death and their relation to immortality and the supernatural. So one might ask how God fits into this picture, as Eugene Woodbury has done in his new novel Angel Falling Softly from Zarahemla Books. When tragedy strikes, mere mortals can't always expect a miracle, not even after heartfelt prayer and priesthood blessings. So is God still up for an Old Testament style wager, playing dice with His creations, so to speak? Or should we assume we humans are left to our own devices?
Woodbury gives both sides of this question a fair shake. On the Bible allusions side, he might have added a reference to "Jonah and the Whale" as another example of God's deals yielding zany results, but overall he makes a good case for the parallels between Bible stories and life. The classic deist perspective is represented by Rachel's brother Carl, who is something of a New Order Mormon. Milada (the vampire) is a jaded agnostic, but under her charred surface she's yearning for family, peace, and absolution.
There's more than just theology in this book, though. In Angel Falling Softly, as in his earlier novel The Path of Dreams, Woodbury captures human relationships with realism and depth of feeling. He also paints a warm and homey portrait of Utah Mormon culture as seen from a sophisticated worldly perspective. All of this is woven into a suspense-filled tale of a dangerous friendship as two women -- born lifetimes apart -- find the desperate courage to bet it all.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
God vs. the Vampire: Angel Falling Softly by Eugene Woodbury
Posted by C. L. Hanson at 12:42 AM
Labels: book review, mormon literature, zarahemla books
2 comments:
- C. L. Hanson said...
p.s. See also MoJo's review of this book.
Plus, the discussion following my post The Carnal Bite (about "blood lust" as a creepy substitute for real lust in the work of Stephenie Meyer) has moved on to talking about a bunch of other books, including this one. Join in if you have an opinion! :D
- C. L. Hanson said...
p.p.s.: You can order the book here.
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Gluten-Free Tomato and Arugula Pizza
I have a half-written blog post on weight loss, carbohydrate and fat metabolism, and mitochondrial dysfunction, but it's taking me some time to sort through the material and make it marginally readable. I want to share my findings with you, but it's a tough subject to make entertaining. I've discovered some interesting variables in my attempt to get back in shape and lose the weight I gained while co-writing (with endurance athlete Pete Bronski, founder of No Gluten No Problem) a book on gluten-free sports nutrition and training.
Yes, I do see the irony.
Anyway, I know you're dying to hear all about metabolic flexibility and why boosting the density of your mitochondria will help you burn calories more efficiently, but you'll have to wait until next week. This whole weight loss thing is not easy, at least not if you plan to keep it off FOREVER. That's the point, right?
But for now, although not exactly "diet" food, let's talk about gluten-free pizza. Yes, I know — I have an excessive number of pizza-centered posts here on my blog. Pizza is my comfort food and I'm not afraid of carbs (decent carbs), so I usually make some version of vegetarian pizza at least once a week. This was the "Friday night special" last week. I served it with a nice, semi-chilled glass of red wine. There's no reason a couple of slices of this pizza can't be part of a healthy eating plan, especially if you top it with low calorie, nutrient-rich vegetables.
As some of you know, I have a CSA share through Grant Family Farms. It includes organic veggies, fruit, pastured eggs, and micro-greens. I'm loving the micro-greens and have been experimenting with everything from mustard micro-green pesto to komatsuna salads. This recipe is for fresh arugula topped pizza.
Gluten-free tomato and arugula micro-green pizza
what you need
1 package (2 crusts) Udi's gluten-free pizza crusts (or, your favorite version)
1 to 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
2 cloves garlic, finely minced (more if you like garlic)
tomatoes, thinly sliced, juice and seeds removed *
sprinkling of cheese
fresh arugula micro greens, about 2 cups washed and dried
what you do
1. Brush the pizza crust with a small amount of olive oil. Don't use too much, but cover the crust with a thin brushing of oil.
2. Sprinkle with minced garlic and top with sliced tomatoes. I like to use a lot of tomatoes and cover the whole pizza with a single layer.
3. Top with shredded cheese. I used a small amount of freshly grated Parmesan cheese on this pizza, but any cheese is fine.
4. Bake according to pizza crust directions. I've been baking the pizza on the outside grill because it's been too hot to turn the oven on. The crust comes out nice and crunchy.
5. Once the pizza is cooked, top with fresh arugula.
* I slice the tomatoes and spin them in my salad spinner to de-juice them. Then I save the juice to add to homemade salad dressings.
Peace, love, and gluten-free pizza!
P.S. Stay tuned for mitochondrial density, movement, and weight loss.


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'Buckwild' -- CANCELED One Week After Shain Gandee's Death [Update]
'Buckwild' Canceled [Update]
8:22 AM PT -- A rep for MTV tells TMZ ... "Given Shain's tragic passing and essential presence on the show, we felt it was not appropriate to continue without him."
The rep adds, "Instead, we are working on a meaningful way to pay tribute to his memory on our air and privately."
MTV says ... this weekend, it will have a "day of programming dedicated to Shain in which we will air the entire first season of 'Buckwild'."
MTV is pulling the plug on "Buckwild" -- canceling the reality series that was rocked just 8 days ago by the death of cast member Shain Gandee ... TMZ has learned.
Sources connected to the show tell us MTV decided to stop production in the middle of the second season of the show ... which followed the lives of young people in a rural West Virginia town.
We're told MTV didn't give the cast and crew any specific reason for the cancellation. An official announcement is expected Wednesday morning.
Gandee died of carbon monoxide poisoning in his Bronco last week ... when the vehicle got trapped in mud during an off-road excursion.
There were other issues since the show debuted in January -- the arrests of 2 other cast members ... Salwa Amin for drug possession and Michael Burford for DUI.
According to our sources, 4 episodes of Season 2 were shot, but will not air -- however, a special that was taped 2 months ago is expected to air.


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Axum (AUXUME), a titular metropolitan see of ancient Christian Ethiopia. Its episcopal list, from about the middle of the fourth century to 650, is found in Gams (p. 462). Modern Axum is the capital of the Abyssinian province of Tigre, and nestles in a kloof, or valley, beneath a lofty peak of the Adoua mountains, at 7,545 feet above the level of the sea. Beneath it is a vast plain in which arise several streams tributary to the Nile. "The features of the place", says a recent traveller, "are very marked; firstly one comes across the large sacred enclosure, nearly a mile in circumference, thickly planted with trees and reeds, in the center of which rises the cathedral, surrounded by the monastic buildings and the residence of the Etchigeh, or bishop. This enclosure occupies nearly the whole of the entrance to the valley; beyond it on the hill slopes are the houses of the inhabitants, whilst running up the valley is the long line of stupendous obelisks and beyond is the ancient tank or reservoir from which the inhabitants still get their water supply" (Bent, The Sacred City of the Ethiopians).
The city is of great antiquity, and was, together with Adule (Adoua on the coast) known to the Greeks and Romans as the chief center of trade, with the interior of Africa, for gold-dust, ivory, leather, hides, and aromatics. The population is of mixed Ethiopic (negroid) and Arab origin, and is probably descended, in great measure, from an Arab colony settled on the coast at a very remote period. The numerous Himyaritic (Arabic) inscriptions in the vicinity exhibit the influence of Arabia; similarly the stone monuments with their evidences of sun and star worship. Moreover, it is well known that in the sixth century of our era the Kings of Abyssinia, then and long after resident at Axum, extended their sway over the Saban and Himyarite (Homerite) tribes of Yemen on the opposite Arabian shore. Greek influences are also traceable in the architecture of Axum and from a very early date, probably from the days of the Ptolemies of Egypt. In other words, this "sacred city of the Ethiopians" has been from time immemorial an outpost of ancient civilization against the mass of African barbarism. Axum became a Christian city in the time of St. Athanasius of Alexandria, who consecrated its first bishop, St. Frumentius, still honored as the great patron of Abyssinia; since which time (c. 330) the Abyssinian Church has remained in close dependency on the Church of Alexandria, and yet receives from Egypt its chief ecclesiastical officer, the Abouna. There is still extant (P.G., XXV, 635) a famous letter of the Emperor Constantius (337-361) to Aeizanes, the King of Axum, ordering him to send Frumentius to Alexandria to receive the Arian doctrine from the heretical successor intruded in the place of Athanasius. The other principal ecclesiastics resident at Axum are the above mentioned Etchigeh (Etchague), or principal bishop, always a native; the Nebrid, a kind of archdeacon or head of the priesthood and rector of the cathedral; the Lij .Kaneat, or judge in ecclesiastical matters, together with monks and priests of various grades. There are also many persons known as defteras, described as "lay assistants in all the services, acting as singers and performers in all the church ceremonies; the scribes, advocates, and doctors of Abyssinia and the most instructed and intelligent people of the land" (Bent, op. cit., 161).
Axum claims to hold in the innermost recesses of its cathedral the original Tables of the Law and the tabout, or Ark of the Covenant that the Abyssinians say was brought from Jerusalem to their ancient fortress of Ava by Menelek, the son of Solomon, and the Queen of Sheba, and transferred later to Axum. The palace of that famous Queen is also shown at Axum. Until 1538 Axum was both the civil and religious center of Abyssinia. In that year, it was captured by Mohammed, Prince of Leila, since which time the Negus resides at Gondar. The cathedral is a fine edifice, and was built in the sixteenth century during the period of Portuguese influence in Abyssinia, but on the substructure of a very ancient Christian church. It has a flat roof and battlements, and there is a corridor outside where the priests dance and sing. Around the cathedral are many large shade-trees beneath which are built smaller churches or treasuries, in which are stored valuables of all kinds. Its sacred enclosure is not only the center of ecclesiastical life, but also one of the most honored sanctuaries in Abyssinia, where any criminal can find shelter by ringing the bell in the porch and declaring three times in a loud voice his intention of claiming a refuge. Women are not allowed to enter it. Indeed, all Axum is practically a sacred, inviolable refuge, for which reason the people enjoy a condition of peace and tranquility unknown elsewhere in Abyssinia (Bent, 163).
Very interesting are the numerous stone pedestals that once bore metal statues of the pre-Christian kings of Axum, memorials of victory, and the stone monoliths and obelisks, fallen or standing, estimated by Bent at about fifty. The latter form "a consecutive series from very rude unhewn stones up to the highly finished and decorated obelisks, and it is highly probable that we have here the origin and development of the obelisk side by side" (Bent, 132). The only standing obelisk of the decorated kind, highly carved with sham doors and beam ends, in imitation of a many-storied edifice, is nine stories high, and ends with a semicircular finial, on which is still to be seen a representation of the solar disk. "In other words," says Mr. Bent (p. 185) "we have before us a perfect representation of the Beth-el or House of God terminating in the firmament, in which the Saban sun-god is supposed to reside." Altars for animal sacrifices were fitted to the bases of these obelisks; several of them are still visible. Mounds and rubbish heaps are scattered about the sacred enclosure at Axum that doubtless contain many objects of profane and ecclesiastical interest. Near the cathedral is a square enclosure with a pillar at each of its angles, and in the center twelve stones that Abyssinian tradition says were for the twelve judges of Prester John, but are probably the bases of ancient triumphal thrones of the Kings of Axum. Among the valuable Ethiopic manuscripts found in Abyssinia in modern times is the Book of Axuin, or Abyssinian Chronicles, brought back by the traveller Bruce. In 1805 the English traveller, Salt, discovered at Axum a bilingual inscription in Greek and Gheez (the religious language of Abyssinia) of which only the Greek (thirty-one lines) remains. It refers to the exploits of King Aeizanes, already mentioned. In 1833 the German traveller, Ruppell, discovered two other Gheez inscriptions, referring to the deeds of a monarch of Axum in the sixth century. These Gheez inscriptions are valuable for the history of the Semitic alphabet. Some Greek coins, older than the fourth century have been found there, also Ethiopic coins of a somewhat later date, bearing the title, "Negush Aksum", or King of Axum.


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Every year about this time, give or take, city and county officials oversee distribution of lodging tax revenue collected in their respective jurisdictions. And in every city hall or county chambers there is a greater or lesser degree of wailing and gnashing of teeth, as public officials haggle over amounts that typically make up a but fraction of their budgets.
The law allows for collection of a tax of up to 2 percent from hotels, motels and B&Bs to be poured back into the community to bring more "heads in beds." Under state law, citizen committees recommend how the money should be distributed to applicants. Lodging tax advisory committees are made up equally of those who pay the tax and those who receive the tax.
While the process sounds logical and equitable, recommendations of the committees and subsequent discussion by city councils or boards of commissioners can all too easily come off as a popularity contest or power struggle.
In Port Orchard, for example, the council's recent discussion of its LTAC recommendations grew heated at a meeting Sept. 18 when Councilman Jerry Childs, who chairs the council's economic development and tourism committee, presented a significantly different set of proposed numbers from those of the lodging tax committee.
Port Orchard's estimated lodging tax revenue for 2013 is $87,000. The council on Sept. 11 had already voted (but not unanimously) to set aside $10,000 as a reserve for yet-to-be-identified needs. Voting against the reserve were Fred Chang, the councilman who chairs the lodging tax committee in a non-voting capacity, Rob Putaansuu, who said he didn't like the idea of a reserve for an unspecified expenditure, and Carolyn Powers, who at the meeting the following week spouted off about the tourism committee's "wholesale" revision of the LTAC's proposal.
We should note that among the 17 applications for the city's lodging tax money, four were made by the city itself. The tourism committee wants to put directional signs in strategic city locations. The city's Festival of Chimes and Lights grows bigger every year and draws people from around the region. The city contributes to holiday and Sunday foot ferry service, and there's a need for police overtime to staff festivals.
Applicants' requests for funding totaled $151,786, compared to $77,000 available. The lodging tax committee's total for city-sponsored applications was $17,000. The economic development and tourism's total was $24,400. Child's said his committee's recommendations were more in line with "historic" distributions. He cited the LTAC's $16,460 allocation to the Port Orchard Bay Street Association as one that jumped out at him and fellow committee members, Cindy Lucarelli and Jim Colebank. The economic development committee recommends $6,750. And yes, Lucarelli is involved with Cedar Cove Days, another LTAC applicant.
Other applicants are community groups like Fathoms 'O Fun, the Saints Car Club and the Sidney Museum and Arts Association. Committee members who are part of an applicant group excuse themselves during discussion of their group's request.
"To me it warrants oversight. It warrants more than just a kick down the road," said Childs.
Powers blasted the economic development committee for putting its two cents' worth in before the council even had a chance to digest the LTAC proposal. She also dug in her heels over what she described as a radical departure from the LTAC figures.
"If we tweak one or two, I guess I could live with that, but I can't live with a wholesale change of everything the LTAC committee has recommended. That just doesn't seem right to me," Powers said. "We have all these groups that are working their tush off, as they say, and actually do all these great things for the city, and I just can't see us (the city) taking such a big chunk of it."
City Attorney Greg Jacoby noted that the council's relative interest in the LTAC process waxes and wanes. This council is particularly hands-on, he said. And, Jacoby added, council members are well within their rights under the law to be as hands-on as they see fit.
"What if each one of us brought in a whole list like this?" Powers asked.
"You could!" Jacoby replied.
"Then why even have the LTAC committee in the first place?" Powers said.
"There's a lot of people who wish the law was written differently. That's a good point," Jacoby said.
Lodging Tax committee member Don Ryan, speaking after the Sept. 18 meeting, said he and his fellow LTAC members had invested considerable time in four meetings over a two-month period to study the numbers and make thoughtful recommendations. Like Powers, he took exception to the economic development committee's rewrite proposal. Ryan, it should be noted, is president of the Port Orchard Bay Street Association.
Also at the center of the council's debate is how much the council should lean on LTAC funds for items like police overtime that aren't directly related to marketing the city and its attractions. A law allowing for the use of LTAC funds for operations (in addition to marketing) in festivals and special events is set to sunset in June 2013. Chang supports the sunset. Childs, Lucarelli, Powers and Putaansuu support a more flexible use of LTAC funds, so no sunset.
The council will take up lodging taxes again at its Oct. 16 work study meeting.
If you're in the hotel-motel business, or are part of a community organization involved in promoting tourism, would you make changes to the LTAC law? What if anything can be done to make the distribution process less likely to breed resentment?


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Roll up, roll up and gawp at Jack's victims
Yesterday, the local news reported that another young woman had been fatally stabbed in my home city of Bristol.
Today, another local news source – this time in East London – reported another story about violence against women and girls. Except this time, it's a story that celebrates? commemorates? explores as a historical curiosity? one of those things anyway, and it does it for a serial killer. I'm talking about the new Jack the Ripper museum that has opened on Cable Street.
Of course, in one way nothing links those two stories. It just hit me, rather hard. How at the same time that men are killing women at a rate of at least two a week, a museum has opened inviting people to gawp at, discover and explore the story of one of history's most notorious killers of women – exit through the gift shop if you please.
As if fatal male violence against women and girls is confined to history. As if it's nothing more than a historical curiosity. As if it's not happening today.
And it struck me how, across popular culture, across our society, over and over again the killing of women is just reduced to a cult story – not something that happens to us everyday, and happens to us today for the same reasons as it did in the 1890s. It happens because these are gendered hate crimes. It happens because some men hate women. Because some men believe women have no human feelings, have no right to humanity.
It's hard to decide what I'm most horrified by, when it comes to this Ripper museum. Is it the souvenir glass, that reduces women to a smudge of red blood whilst the killer is given a body, some movement, a sense of a personality? The logo, that once again reduces women to a smear of blood, whilst the killer is a full human being? Is it Mr Palmer-Edgcumbe explaining how the museum will look at 'how and why the women got into the situation in the first place'? (because that's how fatal male violence works, right? Women get themselves into these situations where men kill us. The men, well…let's not give them any agency in this one instance, how about it?)
Or is it the fact that this museum was originally designed to celebrate women's lives? That's right. It was supposed to be a museum dedicated to telling herstory – to coin an old phrase that could have featured in the museum. In a grotesque subversion of its intention, it has now become a gory re-look at the man who kills women. Instead of a celebration of what women do, we now have a museum reminding us of what some men choose to do to women.
Yes, I think it's that last one.
Imagine, for a moment, what that museum could have been. A look at the lives of London's women throughout the ages. Okay, I only did A-level history and so the gaps in my knowledge are woeful, but bear with me. We could have had information about the women who campaigned with the Chartists, the women who disguised themselves as men to fight in wars, the women who dared to write, to paint, to sculpt, the working class women whose history has been ignored and silenced, the suffragists, the women of Cable Street in 1936, the abolitionist women, the suffragettes, the anti-racism campaigners, the women who have worked and shouted and created and fought and demanded that all women are taken seriously. We could have had feminists across the waves and politicians and activists and writers and creators and workers and trade unionists. We could have had a real celebration of everything that women have done throughout history – everything that women have spoken out for and contributed to and built for their sisters.
And instead of women whose lives were defined by what they lived and did, we have women who – thanks to the actions of a violent man – have had that life stolen from them, so that they have become defined instead by their deaths.
We have women robbed of their lives, robbed of their humanity.
We have women who have become the sideshow to a man's story.
At the centre of it all, stands – quite literally – the man who killed them.
And we are reminded – once again – that as women, we're more historically interesting when we're a silenced, dumped body, than when we are raising our voices and campaigning for liberation.
And we are reminded – once again – that as women, we're only interesting when we are props in a man's story. Even better when it's a violent man's story.
Why celebrate women, after all, when you can celebrate a man? Why give women a space, a history, a voice, when instead you can celebrate the man who kills us?
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