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1. What's the difference between a solicitor and a barrister?
The simplest analogy is that of a GP and a consultant/surgeon. In the criminal defence context, your solicitor provides you with advice and representation in court for less serious (magistrates' court-level) matters, and will refer you to/instruct a barrister to represent and advise in more serious (Crown Court) cases. The solicitor is the client's first point of contact, handling the litigation (the administrative trial process, for want of a better phrase), while the barrister provides advice and courtroom advocacy. Due to recent structural changes, it is increasingly common for solicitor-advocates to appear in the Crown Court, and barristers can now in certain cases conduct litigation, so the distinction is blurring. Realistically a fusion of the professions isn't far away.
2. Who employs you?
Most barristers are self-employed. We operate out of "chambers" – essentially a collective of barristers sharing premises, staff, administration expenses and, most importantly, clerks. The clerks are responsible for getting in the work and distributing it among the barristers. Each barrister in chambers contributes to the running costs by paying chambers expenses and/or rent.
3. Do you prosecute or defend?
Both. Many criminal barristers prosecute (instructed predominantly by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), as well as other prosecution agencies such as HMRC and local authorities) and defend (instructed by defence solicitors), although there are particularly worthy chambers who will only defend, and some hardened types who solely prosecute. My two penn'orth is that doing a mix probably makes you better at both.
4. Do you wear a wig and gown?
In the Crown Courts, yes. They are expensive (I forked out £560 for my wig and £150 for my gown) and, particularly in summer, hot and uncomfortable.
5. Are you rich?
I am not, although I know people who are. These barristers are typically either (a) commercial/chancery practitioners; (b) from old money or (c) rode the crest of a generous legal aid wave pre-1997. Legal aid rates have been cut in real terms by an estimated 40% since 1997, and further cuts are likely. What is sometimes missed is that, being self-employed, barristers keep less than 50% of the fee for any case, once chambers expenses, staffing, VAT, travel and income tax is factored in. The median take-home income of a criminal barrister for 2012-2013 was around £27,000, so slightly more than a courier, but significantly less than a trainee manager on the Aldi graduate scheme.
6. But didn't the Ministry of Justice/ the Daily Mail tell us that the average income for a criminal barrister was £84,000?
Yes. Yes they did. And the Ministry of Justice, and then-Justice Secretary Chris Grayling in particular, had their bottoms spanked by the ONS. In January 2014, in response to threatened industrial action by the criminal bar, the Ministry of Justice rushed out figures for criminal barristers' incomes from 2012-2013, and hit the airwaves proclaiming the "average income" of a criminal hack to be £84,000. Their methodology involved removing all the low paid barristers from their calculations as they were deemed "unrepresentative", leaving in the highest earners, adding VAT (which is paid directly to the Treasury) and working out the overall mean (rather than the median). It's a bit like working out survival rates at a hospital by discounting all the people who died as "unrepresentative", adding in all the outpatients and declaring a resulting average 100% survival rate. Taking the median gross figure of £56,000, allowing a conservative 52% deduction for VAT, expenses and tax (my personal deduction is is 58%), leaves you with a take-home figure of £27,000.
7. But the legal aid budget is out of control and the most expensive in the world, right?
Proof positive that if you tell a lie often enough, people will start to believe it. Criminal legal aid cost the Ministry of Justice £912m in 2016-17 (out of a total MoJ spend of approximately £7bn, and a total governmental spend of around £700bn). So criminal legal aid costs 0.13% of all spending. And the cost is rapidly dropping, due to various factors including cuts/efficiency savings already made (and will in fact continue to drop even without the proposed further cuts). Nevertheless, the Ministry of Justice rarely tires of telling the public that we spend more on legal aid than all manner of progressive Western states, including France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden etc. What is not shouted as loudly is that the reason it appears expensive compared to other jurisdictions is that the comparators have entirely different legal systems, with the costs falling on other departmental budgets (e.g. the court budgets or the public prosecution budgets). It's like comparing apples with Caramac bars. When you adjust for these factors, the costs of the UK criminal justice system as a whole in fact fall below France, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. This was shown by a report commissioned by the MoJ itself in 2009, although strangely unavailable through the MoJ website. Happily it is still available here.
8. How do I instruct a barrister?
In most criminal proceedings – and certainly those where a defendant qualifies for legal aid – you will have to go through a solicitor. Some barristers are registered for "public access", meaning you can instruct them directly – however as the regulations governing this arrangement will not permit you to claim legal aid, you will be required to pay privately. Private fees, even for criminal barristers, are not cheap.
9. How can you defend someone you know is guilty?
Quite easily. If they tell me they are guilty, I will strongly advise them to plead guilty. If they refuse and insist on running a trial, as is their right, I am strictly limited in what I can say on their behalf. I cannot assert anything in court that I know not to be true. So in that example, I can "test" the prosecution evidence (i.e. point out holes or inconsistencies in the prosecution case and suggest to a jury that the prosecution has not proven its case beyond reasonable doubt), but I cannot positively assert something false (i.e. my client did not do X, where he has told me that he has). If the evidence against a client is overwhelming, but in the face of the evidence and all common sense they instruct me that they are not guilty, then I will fight their corner at trial. Finally, if someone has pleaded guilty or been convicted after trial, I can defend them by representing them at their sentence hearing and putting forward mitigation on their behalf.
10. What about sex offenders and paedophiles? How can you defend them?
Because they will be prosecuted by a state agency with an annual budget of £500million, an investigative squad of 128,000 police officers and an experienced, well-qualified barrister in the Crown Court. And fairness requires that people suspected, or even convicted, of offences, however grotesque, receive advice and representation from someone suitably qualified to defend their interests, particularly where their liberty is at stake. Perhaps most importantly, however, it's because a defendant, even where the evidence against him appears to be overwhelming, may be innocent. Not just "not guilty beyond reasonable doubt", but completely, totally innocent. History is littered with examples of miscarriages of justice where The Wrong Man has been imprisoned for years for serious criminal offences. Where often, the real, dangerous culprit has been roaming free undetected. If there is not a strong, fearless cadre of experienced, competent defence lawyers digging into the prosecution case, testing its strength and teasing out the flaws, innocent people will be convicted. And you can be darn sure that if it were you – if the police became convinced that you had committed a serious criminal offence, and you knew you were entirely innocent – you would want an accomplished defence lawyer in your corner. Someone whose role is not to judge you, not to form their own view on whether you've done it or what sort of person you are, but to act on your instructions, and, when you tell them you're innocent, fight to the bitter end to uphold your liberty.
As for the people who have been convicted of the most terrible crimes? Whatever they have done, they deserve to be treated fairly and lawfully. Just as doctors are still ethically obliged to treat whoever is in front of them, whatever that person has done, so barristers are obliged to represent and assist whoever needs our help. It's a mark of our civilisation of which we should be proud.
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- AnonymousMarch 15, 2011 at 8:15 PM
This so looks like something I would love to devour.ReplyDelete
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I've never had this flavor combination, I bet it was wonderful together.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 16, 2011 at 12:54 AM
that sounds so good, tomato with coconut good combo perfect for dosaReplyDelete
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i love this chutney, whenever i go to a restaurant i dont leave a bit in the plate.
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- AnonymousMarch 16, 2011 at 11:52 AM
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Tasty appetite
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Today's butterfly is a vote in the Slovakian National Council to approve or reject an expansion of the provisional plan to bail out several troubled European economies – Greece, Portugal, Spain and Ireland among them. How many of us have heard of Slovakia? Can name its capital? Find it on a map? Of Europe? A bit of digging reveals that it is a nation of some 5 million souls, most recently formed in 1993, and about the size of Vermont and New Hampshire, combined. It is a member of the EU and, crucially it turns out, the Eurozone currency union. (capital: Bratislava).
We need to care about Slovakia because jaws flapped and votes cast there will be felt on Wall Street. Everything is connected.
The Rube-Goldberg sequence begins with the fact that Slovakia's Council comprises 150 seats populated by several political parties -- a minor, 21-seat player in which holds the crucial votes needed to compose a majority. They are dubious on the bail-out. Eurozone members manage important elements of their finances in common, and each member has a veto over the expansion of the bailout fund. If the bailout plan is vetoed, then Greece, with a restive population unused to austerity measures imposed on it by others, might well default -- renouncing its debts, including those held by various major European banks. And as Greece goes, others may follow.
Still with me? While US banks have lent modestly to Greece, they have strong ties to those major European banks that ARE heavily exposed to a Greek default. Those ties are denominated in low trillions of dollars. Lots of zeros. If those Eurobanks fail, a strong breeze blows toward Wall Street.
It can get worse. Recall those too-clever derivatives and other shenanigan investment vehicles that brought us all to the brink in 2008 – leading to Bankbail 1? Wall Street has bets in various forms on such securities of European origin. We don't hear much about them in financial reports because, after all, they're "insured." But as we learned a few years back, insurance is only as good as the underwriter. The initials AIG ring a bell? If issuer stress collapses those markets, the breeze goes gale, and we may be looking at Bankbail 2: economic boogaloo.
Expansion of the Eurozone bailout fund can help contain the damage and its remedy mostly to the Continent, to be worked-out over time. That it all hangs on the slender whim of a libertarian minority party in a teenaged former Eastern bloc nation demonstrates that the interconnections of the global economy are terribly fragile, poorly understood, and woefully under-regulated.
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Paragon Studios has announced that effective immediately, all work on superhero-themed MMORPG City of Heroes will be ceasing, and the game will be shut down by the end of the year. In a post on the official City of Heroes site, community manager Andy Belford wrote:
In a realignment of company focus and publishing support, NCsoft has made the decision to close Paragon Studios. Effective immediately, all development on City of Heroes will cease and we will begin preparations to sunset the world's first, and best, Super Hero MMORPG before the end of the year. As part of this, all recurring subscription billing and Paragon Market purchasing will be discontinued effective immediately. We will have more information regarding a detailed timeline for the cessation of services and what you can expect in game in the coming weeks.
The team here at Paragon deserves special praise for all that we have accomplished over the last 5+ years. These developers are some of the most creative and talented people in the gaming industry. By now, we've all been given this news internally, but to anyone who may be reading this message after the fact; know that your hard work and dedication has not gone unappreciated or unnoticed. To any potential studios looking to grow your team; hire these people. You won't regret it.
Belford also concluded with a heartfelt thanks to the community, adding, "We couldn't have come this far without you. I implore you all, focus on the good things of CoH and Paragon Studios. Don't dwell on the "how" or the "why", but rather join us in celebrating the legacy of an amazing partnership between the players and the development team."
City of Heroes launched in 2004. I first saw it when its companion expansion City of Villains came along in 2005; I always liked playing the bad guys better. Sadly, this superhero game will soon be no more.
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It's no secret, Governor Chris Christie has done his fair share of trash talking over the years, and now in his own state of New Jersey, a new ban targeting high school students who talk trash at sporting events will be soon going into effect.
The office of the Attorney General of New Jersey along with the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) plan to enforce new rules that will make it clear that harassing conduct related to race, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religion will not be tolerated.
The "trash talk" ban will affect nearly 500 high schools, 250,000 student athletes and tens of thousands of coaches come this Fall.
Question is: is this ban really going to stop the trash talking that has become a pastime for most athletes.
"When dealing with athletes on a professional level, yeah I think a ban would work," Fort Lee High School senior Samuel Yeom told PIX 11 News. "But on a high school level, it shouldn't be done. It will be hard to regulate because we don't have refs with super hearing."
Meanwhile, Edgewater resident Joe Kim thinks the ban will do more damage than good when it goes into effect.
"Like you're taking a huge part of the sport away from the kids," he said. "They sometimes need that as motivation to work harder. How are they going to play with the intensity and all that stuff you need to get to the next level."
According to the NJSIAA, any student-athlete or coach who is cited before, during or after an interscholastic event for what is deemed "unsportsmanlike" misconduct will be disqualified from participating in the next two scheduled events.
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Winning Projects at Brookhaven Lab's 2012 Elementary School Science Fair — From 'Hot or Not?' to 'The Green Cupcake'
May 14, 2012
UPTON, NY — More than 540 science projects from 118 Suffolk County schools were entered into the 2012 Elementary School Science Fair, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory. The Laboratory's Office of Educational Programs coordinated the fair, which was held at the Laboratory on May 5. Brookhaven scientists as well as volunteers from Stony Brook University and local elementary school teachers judged the projects, which focused on topics ranging from "Hot or Not?" to "The Green Cupcake."
The first-place winners are:
Miss Brereton's Kindergarten Class, East Kindergarten Center, Brentwood School District, for the project "Hot or Not?"
Eva Scotto DiMaso, first grade, Fort Salonga Elementary School, Kings Park School District, "Can a Marble Ride a Loop-De-Loop Roller Coaster?"
Brooke Brown, second grade, John Pearl Elementary School, Connetquot School District, "Warming Up with Common Recyclables."
Hannah Fioramonti, third grade, Pines Elementary School, Hauppauge School District, "Salamander Style."
Luke Verity, fourth grade, Burr Intermediate School, Commack School District, "Naturally Green 'Repel-Ant.'"
Brendan Gregory, fifth grade, Raynor Country Day School, Private, "Which Wood Would? Which Wood Wouldn't?"
Sophia Kujawski, sixth grade, William T. Rogers Middle School, Kings Park, "The Green Cupcake."
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|Actual return reinforcement learning versus temporal differences: some theoretical and experimental results - Mark D. Pendrith and Malcolm R. K. Ryan - 1996
|AdaCost: misclassification cost-sensitive boosting - Wei Fan, Salvatore J. Stolfo, Junxin Zhang and Philip K. Chan - 1999
|Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems - J. H. Holland - 1975
|An adaptation of Relief for attribute estimation in regression - Marko Robnik-ťikonja and Igor Kononenko - 1997
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|Adaptive Neural Networks Using MOS Charge Storage - D. B. Schwartz, R. E. Howard and W. E. Hubbard - 1989
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|Adaptive probabilistic networks with hidden variables - John Binder, Daphne Koller, Stuart Russell and Keiji Kanazawa - 1997
|Adaptive Query Shifting for Content-Based Image Retrieval - Giorgio Giacinto, Fabio Roli and Giorgio Fumera - 2001
|An Adaptive Regularization Criterion for Supervised Learning - Dale Schuurmans and Finnegan Southey - 2000
|Adaptive Resolution Model-Free Reinforcement Learning: Decision Boundary Partitioning - Stuart I. Reynolds - 2000
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|Application of Multivariate Maxwellian Mixture Model to Plasma Velocity Distribution - Genta Ueno, Nagatomo Nakamura, Tomoyuki Higuchi, Takashi Tsuchiya, Shinobu Machida and Tohru Araki - 2001
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Seljuk Caravanserais on the route from Denizli to Dogubeyazit
The caravanserais, a new architectural type with social function developed in central Asia by the Karakhanids and Ghaznavids passed into Anatolian Turkish architecture. The institution of caravanserais has its most variations in Seljuk Anatolia, using the forms of Anatolian stone architecture.These buildings offering travellers in mountain and desert all the possibilities and comforts of civilization of the period each effectively a social fondation subject to an organized and continuous state programme, appear to present a typical characteristic of Turkish society, Denizli-Dogubeyazlt Route consists of about 40 Hans about which 10 are very well preserved. Some of these are Akhan, Ertokus Han, Saadettin Han, Obruk Han, Agzikarahan, Sultan Han (2), Oresin Han, Sikre Han, Mamahatun Caravenseria and Hacibekir Han.CARAVANSERAISCaravanserais were havens in which caravans could take shelter. They have their origins in the nomadic lifestyles of the Turkish tribes of Central Asia. At a very early period there existed a social institution called muyanl~k, a word that means "charity", "pious deed", and "kindsess." These were generally simple dormitories that offered travelers food and a place to sleep.By the 7 th centruy, these simple dormitories had developed into more complex establishments called ribat, a word that may be translated as "inn." There is evidence that hundreds of these ribats were built. The culmination of this line of development is the massive caravanserais that the Seljuks built in Anatolia.Caravanserais were huge accommodations, facilities that provided shelter, food and drink for a caravan's full complement of people, animals, and cargo and could also handle its needs for maintenance, treatment, and care. They were arranged along trade routes at intervals that were calculated in view of the amount of distance that a caravan could be expected to cover in a single day. This distance was called menzil in Turkish, a word that means, among other things, "journey" in its archaic sense of "a day's travel". On the basis of the examples remaining and other evidence, this menzil seems to have averaged about 30 kilometre the equivalent, under normal conditions, of a six-hour journey to which another two hours had to be added for arduous travel in regions like deserts. Caravanserais or their simpler cousins, khans, were always located to that a caravan could be sure of reaching one by the day's end.Architecture and functionArchitecture is always determined by climatic and environmental conditions but never more so than in the case of caravanserais, to which the problem of security had to be added.Caravanserais in the eastern part of Anatolia for example were built like small, square castles heavily fortified with thick walls of stone. as we move westward on the other hand, they tend to be U-shaped and built of masonry and even, on occasion, of mud brick, Other differences are also apparent in such details s the sizes of individual rooms, the width of doors and windows, and the units and functional divisions they contained.Nevertheless there were certain things that every caravanserai had to have. There were certain to be baths, a masjid, a cistern o fountain, an infirmary, a cookshop, a place for the storage of provisions, and shops. Among the personnel there would certainly be a wainman, a blacksmith, a money-changer, a tailor, a cobbler, a physician, a veterinary, and so on.About 250 Anatolian caravanserais are known. Of these, eight are called sultanhan (literally "sultanis khan") and were all built in the 13 th century. Those constructed in the early part of the century generally conford to a standard plan of a courtyard and enclosed arens covering the same amount of ground. Seven of these building bean identifying inscriptions and one does not. Some of them are still referred to by the name sultanhan who others acquired local names to distinguish them.Agzikara Han is probably one of the most important "ordinary" khans and the degree of its workmanship approches that of the royal khans. It is another of those caravanserais whose massive portal and rowers give it the appearance of a fortified castle. The double portal, free-standing masjid and domed hall, as well as the quality of its architecture, are all worthy of a true royal khan. The main portal is decorated with geometric patterns. Between the surmounting muqarnas and framing arches is a band of swastikas. The building was completed in 1237.Sultan HanOn the Kayseri-Sivas road is another caravanserai with the name Sultan Han. Covering 3,900 square meters, it is the second-largest of the buildings of the group. All the distinguishing features of the Konya-Aksaray caravanserai are repeated here. The massive walls and supporting turret-towers give the building the appearance of a fortress.


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For concreteness, I will work in the category of smooth manifolds, but my question makes sense in topological and PL category as well. Recall that a manifold $M$ is called open if every connected component of $M$ is non-compact.
Question. Is it true that for every $n$ there exists a compact $n$-dimensional manifold $N^n$ so that every open $n$-dimensional manifold $M^n$ admits an immersion in $N^n$? (In this context an immersion is just a local diffeomorphism.)
I think that the answer is positive and that the manifolds $N$ are connected sums of products of projective spaces of various dimensions.
Edit: Igor noted that real-projective spaces are not enough, one should include complex-projective spaces as factors in the products. (The reason I think that products real and complex projective spaces are the right thing to use is that real and complex projective spaces generate rings of unoriented and oriented cobordisms.)
Some background: As we know very well, not every manifold admits an open embedding in a compact manifold. For instance, the infinite connected sum of 2-dimensional tori does not. However, it is easy to prove that every open surface admits an immersion in ${\mathbb R}P^2$. Whitehead proved that every open oriented 3-dimensional manifold admits an immersion in ${\mathbb R}^3$ (and, hence, to any 3-dimensional manifold). I also convinced myself (although I do not have a complete proof) that every open non-orinentable 3-manifold admits an immersion in ${\mathbb R}P^2\times S^1$. More generally, every open paralelizable $n$-manifold admits an immersion in ${\mathbb R}^n$. This is a special case of the Hirsch-Smale immersion theory, which reduces existence of immersion from an open manifold to a homotopy-theoretic question about maps of tangent bundles.


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December 1st, 1988, was a Thursday. It was Day 336 of 1988. The decade was the Eighties.
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Let's take a stroll down memory lane!
The date is December 1st, 1988, and it's a Thursday. Anyone born today will have the star sign Sagittarius. The Christmas season of 1988 has begun.
In America, the song Bad Medicine by Bon Jovi is at the top of the singles charts. Over in the UK, The First Time by Robin Beck is the number-one hit song. Ronald Reagan is the President of the United States, and the movie Scrooged is at the top of the box office.
Margaret Thatcher is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. On television, people are watching popular shows such as "Dallas", "Night Court", "Who's the Boss?", and "Charles in Charge". In fashion, women are wearing sweater dresses, short skirts, small shoulder pads, animal print, long full wool coats, and bulky sweaters. Meanwhile, men are wearing tracksuits, sweatshirts, Nike Air Jordan shoes, and denim.
It's 1988, so the airwaves are being dominated by music artists such as Phil Collins, Bobby McFerrin, the Pet Shop Boys, Belinda Carlisle and Rick Astley. If you were to travel back to this day, notable figures such as Roy Orbison, Sugar Ray Robinson, Ruhollah Khomeini, and Mel Blanc would all still be alive. People are playing video games such as "Missile Command", "Paperboy", "Metroid", and "Altered Beast".
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"Rain Man" won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1988.
"The Endangered Earth" was named Time Person of the Year in 1988. The piece highlighted humanity's carelessness towards nature, pollution, and the depletion of the ozone layer.
The song "Don't Worry, Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin won a Grammy for 1988's Song of the Year.
A new elastic hair tie called the "scrunchie" became fashionable in the late 1980s.
The mini skirt became extremely popular. Shoulder pads became increasingly smaller. Popular clothing included reversible inside-out coats, bright-colored shoes with thin heels, berets, lacy gloves, rugby sweatshirts, sweater dresses, jumpsuits, capri leggings, bike shorts, and skirts worn with leggings. Colors included neon hues, plum, gold, and bright wines.
Waterbeds became a huge fad during the late 1980s. Although they were invented in the 1970s, they didn't reach their heyday until the 1980s. In 1986 and 1987, nearly a quarter of all beds sold were filled with water.
VCRs became a common household item in the mid-1980s. By that stage, prices had started to drop. This device gave people the ability to play VCR tapes and record TV programs and movies.
During the second half of the 1980s, the Nintendo Entertainment System became one of the most popular video game consoles in the world. Releases for the NES included Duck Hunt, The Legend of Zelda, and Super Mario Bros.
The Commodore 64 was dominating the home computer market.
Desktop computers were beginning to replace typewriters in offices.
Although TV remotes existed, many homes didn't have one. Infrared technology was still relatively new.
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Comedy TV show about a working class family called the Conners.
In the Heat of the Night
Drama series starring Carroll O'Connor as police chief Bill Gillespie and Howard Rollins as detective Virgil Tibbs.
The Wonder Years
A TV show that was set in the late sixties.
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Starring Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean‑Luc Picard.
Full House
Sitcom about a widowed man who looks after his three daughters.
My Two Dads
Sitcom about two single men raising a teenage daughter.
21 Jump Street
TV series starring Johnny Depp.
Married... with Children
Comedy series starring Ed O'Neill as Al Bundy.
Legal drama starring Andy Griffith.
TV show about a resourceful secret agent who can solve almost any problem using the mundane objects around him.
The Equalizer
Series about a retired secret agent called Robert McCall.
The Golden Girls
Television series about four mature women who live together in Miami, Florida.
Comedy-drama starring Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd as private detectives.
Charles in Charge
TV show about a 19-year-old student called Charles, who is played by Scott Baio.
Murder, She Wrote
Mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher.
Miami Vice
Starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas.
Who's the Boss?
Sitcom about a retired baseball player who relocates to work as a live-in housekeeper.
The Cosby Show
American television sitcom starring Bill Cosby.
Sherlock Holmes
Starring Jeremy Brett.
Kate & Allie
Comedy TV series.
Night Court
Sitcom about a night court in Manhattan.
'Allo 'Allo!
BBC sitcom starring Gorden Kaye.
Sitcom starring Ted Danson.
Family Ties
Sitcom starring Michael J. Fox.
Only Fools and Horses
British television comedy.
Magnum, P.I.
Starring Tom Selleck as Private Investigator Thomas Magnum.
Knots Landing
American soap opera.
1988 saw the introduction of cars such as the Buick Reatta, the Ford Probe, the Opel Vectra, the Honda Concerto, the Audi V8 and the Volkswagen Passat B3.
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Adventures of the Little Koala
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Married... with Children
Dennis the Menace
The Real Ghostbusters
The Flintstone Kids
Jem and the Holograms
Growing Pains
The Care Bears
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The Cosby Show
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The Ghostbusters Proton Pack
Koosh Ball
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Hot Looks (fashion model dolls)
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Laser Tag
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Mr Frosty
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Pogo ball / Lolo ball
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Turnin' Turbo Dashboard
My Little Pony (figures)
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The Big Wheel (tricycle)
Screwball Scramble
Cabbage Patch Kids
Speak & Spell
Water Ring Toss
Dungeons & Dragons
The Easy-Bake Oven
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Super Mario Bros. 3
Platform video game that was published on the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Gain Ground
Action-strategy arcade game.
Altered Beast
Beat 'em up arcade game.
Final Fantasy
The first game in the Final Fantasy series.
Mega Man
A platform game that was developed by Capcom.
Maniac Mansion
Graphic adventure game.
Action game that was based on the film of the same name.
Top Gun
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Action-adventure game that was released for the NES.
Double Dragon
Beat-em up game.
Action game where the player takes control of a paperboy.
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar
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Tile-matching puzzle video game.
Duck Hunt
Light gun shooter game.
Missile Command
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Dying to Be a Servant: A Parable - In Touch - June 9
In Touch with Dr. Charles Stanley
June 9
Dying to Be a Servant: A Parable
Once upon a time there were two grains of wheat lying on the floor of a warm and cozy barn. But one day, the farmer came in and told them, "I want to take you out of this comfortable barn and plant you in the earth. I'm going to place you in the cold ground and cover you with soil. It will be dark, and you will die. But I promise that you will multiply and become very fruitful."
The first grain of wheat turned down the suggestion. "No way!" he said. "Count me out. I like my comfort, and I don't want to die." But the second one, after carefully considering the pain and discomfort of dying, decided the promise of a future harvest was worth the sacrifice. So the farmer took him outside and planted him in the ground, while allowing the first grain of wheat to remain inside the barn.
A few days later, a small green sprout appeared over where the seed had been planted. Then it grew and became a tall stalk of wheat that produced one hundred more grains. For the next forty years, the farmer planted all the seeds that had originated from that first grain of wheat, and year after year, the harvest multiplied. However, the grain of wheat that stayed in the barn remained there by itself, never multiplying--but he was very comfortable.
Which grain of wheat are you? Are you playing it safe, or have you let Christ plant you in the world? The only way you'll ever become useful and fruitful in God's kingdom is to abandon your own selfish desires, get out of your comfort zone, and serve the Lord by serving others.
For more biblical teaching and resources from Dr. Charles Stanley, please visit www.intouch.org.
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The apostle's joy and praise for Philemon's steady faith in the Lord Jesus, and love to all the saints.
He recommends Onesimus as one who would make rich amends for the misconduct of which he had been guilty; and on behalf of whom the apostle promises to make up any loss Philemon had sustained.
Salutations and a blessing.
Verses 1–7
Faith in Christ, and love to him, should unite saints more closely than any outward relation can unite the people of the world. Paul in his private prayers was particular in remembering his friends. We must remember Christian friends much and often, as their cases may need, bearing them in our thoughts, and upon our hearts, before our God. Different sentiments and ways in what is not essential, must not make difference of affection, as to the truth. He inquired concerning his friends, as to the truth, growth, and fruitfulness of their graces, their faith in Christ, and love to him, and to all the saints. The good which Philemon did, was matter of joy and comfort to him and others, who therefore desired that he would continue and abound in good fruits, more and more, to God's honour.
Verses 8–14
It does not lower any one to condescend, and sometimes even to beseech, where, in strictness of right, we might command: the apostle argues from love, rather than authority, in behalf of one converted through his means; and this was Onesimus. In allusion to that name, which signifies "profitable," the apostle allows that in time past he had been unprofitable to Philemon, but hastens to mention the change by which he had become profitable. Unholy persons are unprofitable; they answer not the great end of their being. But what happy changes conversion makes! of evil, good; of unprofitable, useful. Religious servants are treasures in a family. Such will make conscience of their time and trusts, and manage all they can for the best. No prospect of usefulness should lead any to neglect their obligations, or to fail in obedience to superiors. One great evidence of true repentance consists in returning to practise the duties which have been neglected. In his unconverted state, Onesimus had withdrawn, to his master's injury; but now he had seen his sin and repented, he was willing and desirous to return to his duty. Little do men know for what purposes the Lord leaves some to change their situations, or engage in undertakings, perhaps from evil motives. Had not the Lord overruled some of our ungodly projects, we may reflect upon cases, in which our destruction must have been sure.
Verses 15–22
When we speak of the nature of any sin or offence against God, the evil of it is not to be lessened; but in a penitent sinner, as God covers it, so must we. Such changed characters often become a blessing to all among whom they reside. Christianity does not do away our duties to others, but directs to the right doing of them. True penitents will be open in owning their faults, as doubtless Onesimus had been to Paul, upon his being awakened and brought to repentance; especially in cases of injury done to others. The communion of saints does not destroy distinction of property. This passage is an instance of that being imputed to one, which is contracted by another; and of one becoming answerable for another, by a voluntary engagement, that he might be freed from the punishment due to his crimes, according to the doctrine that Christ of his own will bore the punishment of our sins, that we might receive the reward of his righteousness. Philemon was Paul's son in the faith, yet he entreated him as a brother. Onesimus was a poor slave, yet Paul besought for him as if seeking some great thing for himself. Christians should do what may give joy to the hearts of one another. From the world they expect trouble; they should find comfort and joy in one another. When any of our mercies are taken away, our trust and hope must be in God. We must diligently use the means, and if no other should be at hand, abound in prayer. Yet, though prayer prevails, it does not merit the things obtained. And if Christians do not meet on earth, still the grace of the Lord Jesus will be with their spirits, and they will soon meet before the throne to join for ever in admiring the riches of redeeming love. The example of Onesimus may encourage the vilest sinners to return to God, but it is shamefully prevented, if any are made bold thereby to persist in evil courses. Are not many taken away in their sins, while others become more hardened? Resist not present convictions, lest they return no more.
Verses 23–25
Never have believers found more enjoyment of God, than when suffering together for him. Grace is the best wish for ourselves and others; with this the apostle begins and ends. All grace is from Christ; he purchased, and he bestows it. What need we more to make us happy, than to have the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ with our spirit? Let us do that now, which we should do at the last breath. Then men are ready to renounce the world, and to prefer the least portion of grace and faith before a kingdom.
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Friday, July 13, 2007
BBQ Chicken Quesadilla
The last few days have been unbearably hot, with yesterday being one of the top 10 hottest days ever recorded here in Seattle. I was too lethargic to do get up and do anything other than lay on the couch and complain about the heat. Pardon the silence on this blog, as I haven't been cooking much or blogging. But like Jaden, there are so many old recipes I still haven't gotten around to posting, so now is a good time to do so.
BBQ Chicken Quesadilla was a very popular menu item at my favorite lunch spot near the UW, Honeybee's Cafe (which sadly closed two years ago). It's been a long time since I've had a Honeybee's quesadilla, but from what I can remember, the original quesadilla had grilled chicken, tomatoes, Monterey Jack cheese, tomatoes, green onions, and BBQ sauce in a tomato flour tortilla. This quesadilla is very flexible the only constants are: tortilla, chicken, your favorite BBQ sauce (Cook's Illustrated likes Bull's Eye Original), and cheese. The rest of the ingredients depend on what you have on hand. So here rather than offering an exact recipe, it's just a few tips on making a yummy quesadilla, which I learned from watching America's Test Kitchen.
Barbeque Chicken Quesadilla
Flour Tortillas
Chicken, cut up into large chunks (You can use grilled chicken, leftover roast chicken or bbq chicken, doesn't really matter)
Coarsley grated cheese (Cheddar, Monterey, Pepper Jack, or a combo)
Thinly sliced green onions or red onions
Fresh tomatoes or fresh tomato salsa, drained (if using this then omit the onions)
Corn (frozen is almost as good as fresh)
BBQ Sauce
Freshly ground black pepper
Few dashes of Tabasco if you like it hot
Lime juice, just a little bit (omit if using fresh tomato salsa)
- Toast your corn
Toasting the corn brings out a nice roasted, toasty flavor and evaporates the moisture so it doesn't leak into the quesadilla. This is an essential ingredient in all of my quesadilas now. (Frozen corn also doubles as a handy ice pack if you ever jam your finger in a door like Steven. :( Ouch!)
Heat a small nonstick skillet pan over high or medium high heat (no oil!) and add your corn. Shake the pan occasionally until you see the corn turn a dark brown in spots and pop out of your pan. Yes it will literally jump out of the skillet. Set aside for the filling.
- Make your quesadillas
There's a lot of flexibility here with what goes in so you can be the judge of that. Just don't make them too stuffed otherwise it'll be too hard to flip.
Also, rather than making the quesadilla with one tortilla on the bottom and one on the top and forming a sandwich (this is too hard to flip, stuff will fall out). Add your filling to only half the tortilla (leave a 1/2 in border around the edge) then you flip the other half over and make a half moon shape. This way, less yummy filling falls out. You can also cook two of these in a pan.
- Cooking the quesadilla
If you add the oil directly to the pan it won't evenly distribute to cover the entire quesadilla and sometimes you end up using too much oil leading to overly greasy quesadillas and oily fingers.
So instead, use a pastry brush and brush the tortilla a thin layer of vegetable oil. This ensures that the quesadilla will be evenly covered using the least amount of oil as possible. Optional step: sprinkle a little bit of salt over the oil so it will be even more crisp (I always forget to do this).
Cook the quesadilla over medium heat, oil side down, until the bottoms are crisp and golden brown, it'll will take a few minutes. Then brush the top of the quesadilla with some more oil and carefully flip them over. The second side will take less time because the pan will be hotter.
Slide them out and let it sit for 2 - 3 minutes for the cheese to set. Then cut into wedges and serve.
I'm not the only Seattleite who can't stand the heat, Pea made an absolutely drool-worthy ice cream.
17 comments:
- Janet said...
I love quesadillas. Your pictures are incredible!
- July 13, 2007 at 4:53 AM
- Meeta K. Wolff said...
Oh boy these really look yummy. Nice pics!
- July 13, 2007 at 5:40 AM
- Tart Reform said...
Sounds great, but I always find that tomatoes inside my quesadillas make them runny. I just resort to serving them on the side. Your quesadilla looks great and not at all runny. Great job!
- July 13, 2007 at 6:23 AM
- Deborah said...
Quesadillas have to be one of my favorite go-to meals. I love the addition of corn!
- July 13, 2007 at 8:00 AM
- Just some girl said...
Corn is THE BEST in quesadillas. (It's great with the addition of that spanish yellow rice, too.)
And the quesadilla ingredients also make GREAT pizza - we use bbq sauce instead of tomato and top with corn, tomatoes, green onions, sometimes black beans, and chicken, and then pepper jack cheese. It's SO good.
- July 13, 2007 at 10:12 AM
- SteamyKitchen said...
Love the pic - it looks so good that I want one now!
- July 13, 2007 at 11:40 AM
- Peabody said...
I don't think anyone wants to cook around here!
Those look mighty tasty. Too bad I never made it to that BBQ restaurant.
- July 13, 2007 at 11:54 AM
- Mandy said...
Amy, this looks so yummy!!!! i wish I could have some without cooking ;p
- July 13, 2007 at 12:00 PM
- Lydia (The Perfect Pantry) said...
We're having something much like this for dinner tonight! All I'm going to add is some Trader Joe's jalapeno-lime salsa; it's super hot and delicious.
- July 13, 2007 at 3:32 PM
- Amy said...
Aw thanks, I'm so flattered!
Your shots are always so gorgeous!
Tart Reform,
I find it really helps if you cut the tomatoes and set them aside in a colander to drain for 20 minutes. Salting them might help also but I think it may make them mushy.
For us, quesadilla is a favorite lunch or after-work snack. :) The corn tastes really great and it's entertaining to watch them pop.
Just some girl,
That sounds great! I'll have to make it as soon as the weather cools down a bit so I can fire up the oven again.
*blush* my pics aren't nearly as good as your sinful food porn shots! :D
Believe or not, I actually had to bake something later that day. It was torture. Bettina and I had to take turns mixing the batter because it was too darn hot and I hated turning on the oven! Ugh...
Thanks! :)
Yum that salsa sounds fantastic! I adore TJ's!
- July 13, 2007 at 7:28 PM
Looks almost like chicken pot pie filling wrapped in tortilla :p
- July 13, 2007 at 7:54 PM
- WokandSpoon said...
I love the photo of the oozing BBQ chicken - looks delicious! You're lucky you've been having hot weather...our summer has only just begun!
- July 14, 2007 at 12:16 AM
Those look so good. Those photos are mouth watering good!
- July 14, 2007 at 6:01 PM
I so envy your quesadilla, so nicely browned, yums !:)
- July 15, 2007 at 2:16 PM
- Patricia Scarpin said...
I'm glad I can find something similar to tortillas here in Brazil nowadays - this is delicious, Amy!
- July 17, 2007 at 10:32 AM
- Amy said...
Hehe that's a good way to look at it.
Wok and Spoon,
Our summer has been filled with atypical weather this year. :) Hope you enjoy your summer!
Aw thank you!
Brushing the oil on really helps!
- July 17, 2007 at 1:38 PM
- The BBQ Guy said...
Wow. Your pictures are incredible. I'm getting hungry just readinq your blog.
- August 5, 2007 at 5:52 PM


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An infographic on HighQ.com proclaims 2017 to be "the year of video marketing". It states that this year, online video will account for 74% of all web traffic. Here are a few other metrics from the infographic that make a compelling case for video content: 500 million people are watching Facebook videos every day Snapchatters watch 10 billion videos a day 82% of Twitter users watch video content on Twitter 52% of marketing professionals worldwide name video as the type of content with the best ROI In the blog post The Future of Social Media (And How To Prepare For It), author Ash Read provides the following takeaway from Buffer's research report The State of Social 2016: "Right now, video is hot and is standing out… But that won't always be the way. As video creeps up in popularity and more and more brands and individuals are sharing it, it'll be harder to get noticed." One way of getting your video content noticed is by using aerial tech – using drones to capture or stream your video from a novel point of view. And one product that is promising to make this kind of tech more accessible is Selfly.


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Houston, TX – Rice head football coach David Bailiff has received a three-year contract extension through the 2016 season.
Bailiff has engineered the Owls to a pair of bowl games over his six seasons and has compiled a 30-44 record in that span. In 2008, the Owls went 10-3 and beat Western Michigan in the Texas Bowl. Last year, Rice went to the Armed Forces Bowl as a 6-6 team and then topped Air Force.
"We are building something special here, something that every Owl can point to with pride," Bailiff said. "I have said over and over that I have the greatest job in the world because I have the chance to coach some of the greatest young men in America, and I look forward to what these young men will accomplish in their time at Rice."