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Jennifer Garner kept busy over the weekend, taking Violet to karate class on Friday and then ballet on Saturday. Violet and Jen rewarded themselves with a hearty breakfast with Seraphina and Ben following the dance class. Jen's been sticking to a healthy eating routine during her third pregnancy, and has been spotted stocking up on nutritious snacks for her loved ones.
The foursome are prepping to welcome a fifth member into their family soon! Jen and Ben skipped out on all the Golden Globes action this year and opted to hang at home. The pair are both already the proud owners of Golden Globe statues; Ben shares his with Matt Damon for their best original screenplay, Good Will Hunting, while Jen earned a best actress in a TV drama for her role in Alias. The power couple are shaping up to be possible contenders at next year's show, with Ben's still-untitled Terrence Malick project and his directorial effort Argo heading into theaters in 2012. Jen also has her own projects set for release, as her comedy Butter hits big screens March 16 and The Odd Life of Timothy Green is scheduled for an August premiere.


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WHO will be the first victim? Someone will soon go to jail for not paying a €3 toll fee on the M50. Come back, National Toll Roads, all is forgiven.
The smuggest AGM in Irish history will be held on Thursday. Tom Roche and Jim Barry of National Toll Roads will do a lap of honour in Dublin's Westbury Hotel.
First, the duo wiped the State's eye by buying the West-Link. Next, they crucified the M50 motorists. Finally, the Government took them off the pitch in an expensive buyout. Yet within weeks, the buyer has turned a triumph into a shambles. What a lucky escape for the NTR monopoly. The flak they took for so long has been deflected onto the State.
Did those of us who campaigned to dismantle the toll barriers win a hollow victory?
The National Roads Authority (NRA) has taken over the West-Link. Goodwill was waiting in abundance. It has been obliterated at the stroke of a pen. The new M50 rip-off regime threatens to eclipse the excesses, even of NTR. Ireland's drivers are no longer being mocked by opportunist businessmen. Instead, they are being scorned by the State.
I am thinking of heading to the AGM on Thursday. I still hold 100 shares in NTR, which I bought to cause maximum disruption for the guys fleecing motorists on the West-Link. I feel like apologising. NTR was a ruthless despot; but the State is worse.
At least NTR has the good grace to hold an AGM. Three years ago, when I took the podium as a tiny shareholder, chairman Tom Roche — with his hundreds of millions — gave me a polite hearing.
So our most promising route to halt the fresh farce at the West-Link should be the NRA AGM.
A small catch: the NRA holds no AGM. It is government-owned. No room for democracy there.
The NRA directors never come out to play. The crisis looming at the M50 toll bridge this weekend is a matter for them; but they are invisible and anonymous. The NRA board is, in theory, the choice of the Irish people. In reality, its composition would make Jo Stalin blush. It is stuffed with political appointees.
Last week I decided to find out a bit about the NRA directors. Not an easy task.
First, I turned to the NRA annual report. And there they were. Pictures of them all.
And their names too.
And that was it.
Not a syllable of information on their education, jobs, expertise or their pedigrees.
Not a whisper about their pay, which turned out to be €9,000 a year.
So I rang the NRA to ask about the board. The first reaction was stunning. "We have no public record of their backgrounds." A press officer told me that it was a matter for the Department of Transport. For all the NRA knew or cared, its own directors could have escaped from Mountjoy Jail last week.
Happily, a helpful NRA employee told me a bit about a few of them — from memory.
Chairman Peter Malone ticks a few appropriate boxes. He is a well-known hotelier — not an engineer — and was the boss of Jurys; but Peter is also a favourite of politicians. Apart from being parachuted into the NRA chair by ministerial patronage, he has served as chairman of semi-state Bord na Mona, was a member of the review body on higher public sector remuneration and chairs property company, CBRE Gunne.
What is interesting about CBRE Gunne is that they gave Fianna Fail generous donations in 2004 and 2005. The NRA annual report tells you none of this.
Nor does it tell you anything about Peter's fellow-director, Connie Ni Fhatharta. An interesting woman, Connie. Of most interest is that she is a Fianna Fail councillor in Galway and a defeated Seanad candidate. Nothing wrong with that. Just that we ought to know.
Nor does it tell you anything about Jenny Kent. By all accounts, Mrs Kent is an able woman. She comes from a topical place; currently she is president of the Laois Chamber of Commerce.
"Ahem," I hear you mutter. "Laois, eh? A protegee of Brian Cowen?"
Not so. Jenny is her own woman. But a few inquiries revealed that Jenny's husband is an Irish Farmers Association bigwig , a disciple of Tom Parlon — the former Progressive Democrat minister from the same Laois constituency. The PDs too are entitled to their share of the spoils.
Nor does the annual report breathe a word about director Raymond Potterton. A little digging reveals that Potterton was a business partner of Loman Dempsey, brother of none other than cabinet minister Noel Dempsey.
You want to know more?
Take a look at board member David Holden. A former Bank of Ireland spinner, Mr Holden is well qualified to advise the NRA about how to impose hidden charges on the motorist. But there is more than hidden charges to Mr Holden. He was a great friend and supporter of the late Fianna Fail minister Seamus Brennan, who appointed him to the board. David even delivered a eulogy at Seamus's funeral.
Plenty of political pedigree there. Not to mention NRA director and Thurles councillor Frances Boyle, whose father was a Fianna Failer and herself was regarded as a Progressive Democrat/government sympathiser — although elected as an independent. Frances runs a shop in Thurles.
Even NRA director Eimear McAuliffe, a nurse by profession, loyally flew the Fianna Fail flag as a candidate at the last local elections.
These are the people presiding over the farce that is the M50 this weekend. Political appointees are propping up a monstrous monopoly. A Fianna Fail nurse, a Fianna Fail county councillor, an auctioneer, a public relations spiv, a farmer and a shopkeeper all find themselves running Ireland's roads. They have one thing in common: political connections.
As I ended my board search I hit a major disappointment. Up popped a real live practitioner, a man who actually knows a bit about roads. How did he get on the board?
Wexford County Manager Eddie Breen, one of the finest public servants it has been my pleasure to encounter, is a director. How a man of such independence and expertise slipped through the political Stalinist test, it is difficult to fathom. But Eddie made it.
There should be an inquiry.
The NRA needs more directors like Eddie. The board is patently ill-equipped to deal with the current fiasco at the toll bridge.
The State monopoly has imposed a system of tags that would test Job's patience, a choice of charges that would challenge Einstein's intelligence, a penal fees structure that makes NTR look like Santa Claus, a work rate that would make Dublin Airport Authority seem dynamic. (It will take eight weeks to dismantle the barriers. Has the NRA never heard of a bulldozer?) And worst of all, the NRA has cooked up a punitive system of enforcement that would embarrass the politburo in old Albania.
Who will be the first to go to jail for failing to pay the €3 fee?


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Animals at Sydney's Taronga Zoo enjoyed an early delivery from Santa Claus this year and were treated to edible Christmas presents on 4 December. The chimpanzees, including babies Fumo and Sudi, woke to find gift-wrapped food treats prepared by keepers and volunteers, inside their enclosure, Taronga Zoo said in a statement.
Fifteen-month-old Fumo spent the day playing with Christmas paper and boxes, local media reported. Meanwhile, Esmeralda the Aldabra giant tortoise, the Zoo's oldest resident, enjoyed a festive treat in the form of watermelons carved in the shape of Christmas trees, the zoo said. The treats, while edible, were also educational in nature, designed to challenge and encourage the animals' natural skills, zoo officials added.


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Jennifer Maisel
Jennifer Maisel (2004) wrote DOUBLE WEDDING, a movie for Lifetime in 2010 and is currently working on screenplays for Mar Vista Entertainment and Contradiction Films.
Jennifer Maisel is an award winning playwright and television and film writer whose work has been hailed as "inventive and sophisticated," and "human and eternal" with a "formidable flair for the mysterious." Her work has been produced nationally and internationally. Her play, THERE OR HERE, recently completed a critically acclaimed run in New York, directed by Amy Feinberg. She and Wendy McClellan won the 2006 Women Working With Women Collaboration Award from the New York Coalition of Professional Women in the Arts and Media for BIRDS, produced by Rorschach Theatre in Washington, D.C. in 2007. Her GOODY FUCKING TWO SHOES was produced in the 2005 Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Jennifer received both the Charlotte Woolard Award for Extraordinary New Voice in American Theatre and the Fund for New American Plays Award from the Kennedy Center for THE LAST SEDER, which was produced at Chicago's Organic Theater, Theatre J in Washington, DC, and Ensemble Studio Theatre – LA Project in Los Angeles (Joseph Megel, director), and was published by University of Texas Press. The screenplay adaptation of THE LAST SEDER won Showtime's Tony Cox screenwriting award at the Nantucket Film Festival. Jennifer has written movies for ABC, NBC and MTV, worked on an animated feature for Disney, and was a staff writer on the WB drama, RELATED. She is working on a project for LIFETIME with Jaffe/Braunstein and is developing projects with M Films and Practical Pictures. Her screenplay, PRODIGAL SON, is being produced by Tule River Films, with Alex Graves directing. She is a member of the playwriting collective DogEar (dogear.org), as well as the Dramatists Guild and the WGA. Jennifer attended Cornell and received her MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.


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A curious frog leaves comfort behind to embark on the adventure of a lifetime, encountering big cities, new animals, and other wonders as she seeks the biggest pond of all—the sea.
All of the elements of a classic fairy-tale are present in this simple retelling of the Mozart opera.
This story opens with "There once was a man whose house was very small," and it continues, "It was cluttered with things from wall to wall." With a tiny, cluttered house, giggling children, and a snoring wife, the poor man can't get a good night's sleep. If only, he thinks, I had a big quiet house! He throws off his covers and goes to visit the wise old woman at the edge of the village. Surely she can help him solve his problem. And she does, but not without giving him some very unusual advice. Bring a chicken into your house, she suggests. And when that doesn't work, she has him add a goat, a horse, a cow, and even a sheep. The ending of the story proves, as so many ancient folktales do, that quite often, nonsense makes the best sense of all. Susan Greenstein's bold illustrations, white pencil on black surface with watercolor - carry the reader through the warm interiors and peaceful nights of the shtetls of Eastern Europe.
In this action packed folktale from Panama, a clever little rabbit and his Ta Mnica find ways to outwit a fox, a tiger, and a lion, all of whom want to eat him for lunch.
Turtle loves to dance and play the flute. But her exuberance puts her at risk when her music attracts the attention of a brave hunter who brings her home to make turtle stew. After she is caught, her only hope for escape is the hunter's children ... and her own wit. This folktale, first told by the indigenous people of Brazil, is now told throughout Latin America. Like the people of Latin America, Turtle always seems to survive any challenge by using her courage and wit. Beautiful watercolors radiant with the dense foliage and hardy wildlife of the Amazon rain forest, guides the reader through this timeless adventure story.
Have you ever heard the saying, Your eyes are bigger than your stomach? Well, Cat's stomach is bigger than a lot of things. He is always hungry, and living with culinary-inclined Mouse, who makes thirty-five pies in one day, just makes it worse. Fat Cat swallows everything in sight, including the washlady and her washtub, a troop of soldiers and their swords, even a king and his elephant! But when Cat swallows Mouse and her sewing basket, that's the last straw. Tiny Mouse cuts to the heart of the situation, taking an upside-down world and turning it right-side-up again. Greedy Cat learns his lesson and turns fat into fancy, fabulous, and fantastic. Margaret Read MacDonald's infectious energy combines with Julie Paschkis's folk-inspired gouache paintings to create a new retelling of a favorite comic cumulative tale.
A wise rabbi uses a pillow full of feathers to teach a gossipy villager a lesson on what happens when a person's reputation and trust are harmed by someone's negative, mean-sprited remarks.


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Two more names to add to the rumored cast list for J.J. Abrams' sci-fi epic "Star Wars: Episode VII" today.
Former "Spartacus" star Liam McIntyre has reportedly read for a Jedi role, while Ksenia Solo ("Black Swan") is apparently in contention for the role of Leia and Han Solo's daughter.
They join other rumored actors for the project including Rachel Hurd-Wood, Alex Pettyfer and Benedict Cumberbatch – though reps for the latter have since shot down the talk.
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The Le Printemps de Bourges festival pretty much marks the start of the French festival season for
the year.
It's also such a well-curated event that is gives a pretty good indication of the acts to watch over the coming months.
Some 30 of the acts on this years bill emerged last month, and the organisers have now revealed the final names.
Already announced were big names Jain, Placebo, Vianney, Renaud, Soprano et Boulevard des Airs as well as Fakear, Talisco, Vitalic, Yuksek and Mr Oizo.
Added to the listings are dozens of acts including François & The Atlas Mountains, Fishbach and Agar-Agar, along with Her, Paradis, Cléa Vincent and Juliette Armanet.
Covering hip hop, electro , indie and rock and all combinations of these, it's an event that casts a wide net and hauls in an interesting catch.
Le Printemps de Bourges runs from April 18 to 23.
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Hi! I'm Lynda and while I have been with Karleigh Sue since the beginning , this is my very first post on the Inspiration Blog. I am thrilled to now be on this team as well as the challenge DT. If you want to see a bit more of my work you can find my blog here.
Today I am sharing with you my take on Baby Bump Art.
I coloured this cutie with a combination of Copics and Promarkers. Unfortunately I can't share the colours I used as I coloured her up ages ago and didn't make a note (doh!), but she only made her way to a card today. I promise to do better next time!!
I kept the card simple, stamping a sentiment with alphabet stamps from Avery Elle and cutting an easel shape out of scrap card. I added some teeny little feet from my buttons box and a congrats banner to finish it off.
Thanks for reading. I can't wait to get cracking and share more Karleigh Sue projects with you over the coming months!
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- I would recommend placing a magazine or piece of cardboard inbetween the front and back before painting. This will keep the paint from bleeding through to the other side.
- Weigh down parts of the shirt that are not being painted. These anchors will keep the shirt from shifting around.
- Have fun with it. Try different cuts and styles. Paint whatever you like! There are so many possibilities!


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Hair Tip:The chemicals you use also have their particular say in your hair growth. Healthy hair experience lower hair loss and better re-growth. Choose the right hair shampoo and restorative for your type of hair if you wish to have healthy hair.
Even when you choose to course of journeys. Dry shampoo freshens up a Fancy Ponytails With A Bump , containing fallen smooth, and volumizing powder succeeds especially for medium hairstyles. Don't ignore to package a small brush, a spare scrunchy, and a couple further hair pins.
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Sunderland 1 Newcastle United – April 5, 1980
Almost 40 years on, it remains a memorable Sunderland day – the Stan Cummins-inspired victory over Newcastle which proved to be the last derby success at Roker Park.
The hard-fought 1-0 win in front of a season's best crowd of 41,752 proved pivotal in Sunderland's rise into genuine promotion contention, while signalling the beginning of the end for the Magpies' faltering challenge.
Ken Knighton's men – beaten just twice in their previous 16 matches – suffered difficult times and were far from their best.
Indeed, Newcastle had the better of the first hour, but Sunderland grabbed both points thanks to Cummins' 73rd-minute intervention – the second of three successive 1-0 victories which helped propel the Rokermen to eventual promotion as runners-up.
Both sides took their time to find their rhythm in a frenzied Easter Saturday atmosphere, which brought five bookings, and the first real chance came just after the half hour, with Newcastle close to opening the scoring.
Steve Carney made progress in midfield and found Tommy Cassidy.
The Irishman weaved his way through two tackles and, from the edge of the box, tried to chip Chris Turner only to see his left-foot effort just clear the bar.
Sunderland responded when Gary Rowell played a one-two with Pop Robson before setting up Cummins, but the shot was charged down and merely trickled through to keeper Steve Hardwick.
The visitors were closer still on 41 minutes after a good move featuring Peter Withe and Cassidy ended with Alan Shoulder curling his shot past Turner and just wide of the far post.
Sunderland started the brighter in the second half and Hardwick was forced to make an outstanding save on 47 minutes, tipping over a Kevin Arnott freekick from just outside the box.
Jeff Clarke enjoyed an excellent game in central defence and he showed his confidence by surging forward impressively and playing a one-two with Steve Whitworth before crossing to the back post, where Carney was alert to head clear as Cummins looked to pounce.
The hosts almost went ahead on 61 minutes, with Stuart Boam desperately clearing off the line to keep out Alan Brown's header, though the Magpies responded with Cassidy whistling an effort just wide, with Turner beaten.
Sunderland had a head of steam and, on 69 minutes, Cummins shrugged off a foul to get past two defenders and cross from the by-line.
Robson flicked it on first time, but the ball struck Hardwick and Terry Hibbitt cleared off the line.
The Wearsiders, though, finally made the breakthrough four minutes later.
Brown played a delightful ball through to Arnott, who cut in and centred.
Robson flicked on and Cummins had time to turn and pick his spot, firing home emphatically.
Brown gave Newcastle problems, ghosting past two defenders before chipping a cross in for Shaun Elliott, who was steaming in, but Hardwick got there first.
Newcastle had a couple of late flurries, but Sunderland held on to avenge their dismal New Year's Day defeat on Tyneside.
Knighton, though, was not getting carried away – especially given the paucity of much of Sunderland's play in the derby.
"There'll be no celebrations from me," he told the Echo's Geoff Storey.
"Not until we have played 42 games and we are promoted.
"We have won nothing yet, but the lads are now starting to believe that they are a good side and the team spirit is tremendous."
Sunderland: Turner, Whitworth, Hinnigan, Clarke, Hindmarch, Elliott, Arnott, Rowell, Brown, Robson, Cummins. Sub: Dunn.
Newcastle: Hardwick, Carney, Davies, Cassidy, Boam, Barton, Shoulder, Cartwright (Walker 79), Withe, Hibbitt, Shinton.
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AURORA, Colo.—Police say one man has died after an accident while trying to remove tree stumps in Aurora, and another is injured.
Police say a man was using a tow strap connected to a vehicle to pull stumps from the front of a house Monday when the strap disconnected from the stump. The tow strap's hook shot through the vehicle's rear window and struck the driver in the back of the head. The vehicle then traveled across the street onto a front porch, striking an elderly man who was sitting there.
Police say the driver was pronounced dead at a hospital. The man on the porch was taken to a hospital but is expected to survive.
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With fewer than two games separating the Celtics and Magic in the Eastern Conference playoff race, their April 18 matchup is sure to be a hot ticket when the two teams square off at the TD Garden.
Fans now have the opportunity to watch the showdown from Paul Pierce's personal suite — at a significantly reduced price. The Celtics captain announced Friday in a release that he is raffling off 18 tickets for the luxury box.
"I am thrilled that we are giving fans another chance to sit in my suite while helping to raise funds to support my Truth on Health Campaign," Pierce said. "It is critical for kids to understand that staying active and eating healthy are the keys to leading a happy and fulfilling life, and all of the funds we raise will help give kids the tools and information they need to live a healthy lifestyle."
Tickets for the raffle can be bought for $2 at www.netraffle.org until April 16, when three winners will be selected and awarded six tickets each (four regular seats, two standing room) to the suite.
All of the proceeds will go to Pierce's Truth on Health Campaign, which tries to raise awareness on how young people can lead healthier lifestyles.
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Healthy diet for mums-to-be
Eating the right foods plays a huge role in your fertility and conception. A balanced diet helps to regulate your hormones and nourishes your reproductive system. A good diet also helps to maintain a healthy weight, which is essential for making sure you ovulate regularly each month.
Fruit and Vegetables Ideally you should be eating at least five portions of fruit and vegetables a day, but don't forget you can eat them tinned, frozen, fresh or dried. And one portion is counted as fruit juice. Vary the colours of what you eat. Leafy green vegetables such as broccoli and spinach contain vitamin A, vitamin B and calcium, tomatoes contain good amounts of potassium, iron and vitamins A and B and yellow peppers are high in vitamin C, vitamin B6 and have antioxidant qualities.
Carbohydrates should make up the bulk of your diet, but stick to whole wheat bread and pasta, rice, potatoes and cereal.
Protein Include at least three daily servings of protein foods, such as lean meat, poultry, fish, eggs, beans and pulses.
Dairy To keep up your calcium levels try to eat cheese, milk and yogurt regularly.
Fish Try to eat at least two portions of fish a week, but don't have more than two portions of oily fish a week. (Oily fish includes, fresh tuna, trout, sardines and mackerel)
Eat small quantities of fat and food containing sugar. (No more than 0-3 portions a day)
Eat a wide variety of foods that come in lots of colours as these will provide you with ample minerals and vitamins.
Don't stress yourself out (and your bank balance) by buying everything organic, just make sure you eat foods that are in season and are as fresh as possible. This might mean doing a few shops in the week rather than one big one where the food and vegetables lose their freshness.
Don't forget breakfast, it is the most important meal in the day. Eat food like porridge in the winter as porridge is filled with oats that contain slow-release carbohydrates which should keep you full until lunchtime.
If you need to snack between meals - do! But stick to healthy snacks such as fruit, nuts, seeds or crackers.
Keep hydrated: Adults should aim to drink around 2 litres (just over four pints) a day and that doesn't include endless cups of tea!
Try not to diet. Ideally you shoud reach your ideal weight before conceiving - if you measure your BMI and it falls between 20-25 you've nothing to worry about. However if your MBI is higher than 25 or lower then 20 this may have an inpact on you getting pregnant. To find your BMI, divide your weight in kilos by the square of your height in metres.
Alcohol, cigarettes and other recreational drugs can have harmful affects on your fertility so you should stop taking these at least four months before you plan to conceive. Smoking can hinder ovarian function, and can reduce the success of what is safe and what isn't safe during pregnancy.
Fertility foods to get into your diet:
Food for your brain
When you are trying to conceive it's important for your brain to create the chemicals serotonin and dopamine which are essential in the production of hormones needed when trying for a baby. Eating foods that contain trytophan and tyrosine will help to improve your levels of serotonin and dopemine. Foods with trytophan in them include:
Bananas, parsley, dates, celery, sweet potatoes, dried apricots, carrots and almonds Foods with tyrosine in them include: cod, sea bass, sardines, oats and turkey
Foods to help your sex life!
Foods that are supposed to help your libido and work as aphrodisiacs have been used for centuries when people needed to boost their sex lives and fertility. Whether they really work or not, it's worth a try! Try foods such as, asparagus, oysters, garlic, figs, dates, avocados, bananas, and pomegranates.
See also our article on baby-making positions if you need help in the bedroom.
Look at our Recipe section for tips on healthy eating.
The information in this feature is intended for educational purposes only. If you have any concerns about your health, the health of your child or the health of someone you know, please consult with a doctor or other healthcare professional.


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The federal transportation safety investigators revealed that a Wal-Mart truck driver was speeding immediately prior to careening into a limousine, killing a man and seriously injuring Tracy Morgan, the famous comedian.
Right before the crash, the truck driver was reportedly travelling 65 mph in a 45 mph zone.
This incident highlights the difficult balance between allowing truckers to work long hours and how doing so impacts the safety and health of the trucker as well as other motorists.
The driver had been on the job for approximately 13 1/2 hours at the time of the crash. The law on the books only allows a truck driver to work a maximum of 14 hours in a day and only 11 hours behind the wheel.
Had the driver reached his intended destination, he would have been slightly over the 14-hour limit (presuming he would have been going the speed limit).
Currently, the Senate is considering passing a resolution that would expand the maximum work period for truck drivers to 80 hours per week.
However, as a result of this tragic incident, the Teamsters Union pushed Congress not to ease the laws limiting truck drivers from working 60-70 hours per week.
The President of the Teamsters, James P. Hoffa, noted, "The NTSB's preliminary findings in this case clearly show that truck drivers are pushing beyond the limits of the current hours of service rules."
Apparently, the driver had not slept in 24 hours before the crash.
No one can tell whether the Senate resolution will pass, let alone become law. However, one thing is for sure: as this nationwide debate rages on, it is crucial for you to remember the importance of driving safely and the frightening ramifications of failing to do so.
Remember, a truck driver is a CDL (commercial driver's license) holder and the penalties are dire for speeding when you have a CDL. Do not let fatigue or very long hours lead to a speeding ticket or a suspended license.


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We are packing up the robots and preparing for our first ever display at Disney's D23 Expo (https://d23.com/d23-event/d23-expo-2015/).
Michael Senna and I will have several WALL-E's on display, and will have a photo op for the fans all three days. We look forward to meeting you all and sharing our love for these robots.


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A veteran Sacramento County Sheriff's deputy was booked on suspicion of domestic violence over the weekend.
Chris Lee Bliss, 27, was booked into the downtown Sacramento County Main Jail on misdemeanor domestic violence charges Saturday evening. Bliss, who has worked with the department for six years, is assigned as a deputy to the branch jail, Rio Cosumnes Correctional Facility in Elk Grove.
Bliss was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence and battery against a person with whom he had a previous dating relationship. He was released from custody after posting bail, according to a press release from the sheriff's department.
Bliss was arrested by sheriff's patrol deputies after they responded Saturday evening to a call from a concerned neighbor.
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Bliss will be placed on leave, pending an investigation by the department's Professional Standards Division. His next court appearance on the charges is scheduled for Wednesday.
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Series: Vampire Academy
Author: Richelle Mead
Publisher/Publication Date: Penguin Group-Aug. 16, 2007
Source: bought, paperback, 332 pages
Goodreads Summary:
St. Vladimir's Academy isn't just any boarding school—it's a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They've been on the run, but now they're being dragged back to St. Vladimir's—the very place where they're most in danger...
Rose and Lissa become enmeshed in forbidden romance, the Academy's ruthless social scene, and unspeakable nighttime rituals. But they must be careful lest the Strigoi—the world's fiercest and most dangerous vampires—make Lissa one of them forever
My Feelings:
I picked up Vampire Academy way back in February not really sure if I was going to like it or not. It sounded like a really great story but I wasn't sure if I wanted to get sucked into another series about vampires and schools.
I am so glad I gave this book a chance because I really enjoyed it!
This story is much more than your typical vampire romance. There is strong emotions going on here and situations that, even though vampires are dealing with, many young adults go through even in real life.
Lissa and Rose are too pretty amazing BFFs. At first I thought it was going to be Lissa being childish and Rose always having to put up with her but again, I was wrong.
Rose is tough but she is gentle with Lissa who is almost more than her best friend, like a sister. Rose stops at nothing to ensure Lissa's safety, sometimes overlooking her feelings in the process, but definitely embodying what a true Guardian should be.
Lissa is adorable. She is such a sweet and angelic vampire. That sounds like a contradiction doesn't it? But Lissa does find her toughness and is able to pull through some pretty messed up situations.
I love how Mead is able to show us the absolute love they feel for each other. Everyone hopes for that best friend that can feel your emotions and with Rose and Lissa it is there.
The plot is intriguing too. I like how you have Mori- living vampires, Strigoi- the undead vampires, and Dhampirs-half human, half vampire guardians.
I love how Mead takes on these perspectives and weaves it in to create a unique story line.
This is a Young Adult paranormal romance but it is a dark one. There is cursing in it, sexual situations, and even some of the violence is harsh. But I feel like Mead wrote the story this way because it is harsh out there. Teens do curse and they do go through bullying in school and life.
Some of the problems that Lissa is dealing with I was able to connect with on a personal level, even though this is book about vampires. I feel like it is much more than that too.
Usually the author will write the vampire being much stronger than the human, but in this story the roles are reversed(for the Mori) and there is a symbiotic relationship between the humans and the vampires, physically and psychologically.
There were parts, though, that would get confusing when Rose would remember scenes from the past or get sucked into Lissa's mind. It would have been nice to have more of a warning when Rose would just drift off into the past.
I would have liked to see more of the Strigoi presence in this book but I guess Mead will give us more of them in the next books... I hope.
As I type I am itching to pick up the second book in the series right now... I cannot wait to see more of Dmitri in future.
I gave Vampire Academy four hearts.
Would you like to pick up a copy of Vampire Academy?
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These look like perfect traveling outfits to me! I could easily live in all of them for six months, and I think a few of those outfits would make the perfect island stroll attire for a weekend spent in Deià. La Garçonne always does it best.
I designed and ordered some business cards - mostly for aiding in the process of spreading the word about my print shop and this here blog. I've never had any before, and I'm not sure why I decided to finally get some right before leaving for so long. Perhaps a few of them will travel with me to Europe. Who knows, they may come in handy. I will say that when I finally have them in my hand I am sure I will suddenly feel like quite the grown up/professional. Although what I am a pro at I can't really tell you.
Speaking of the print shop and trying to attain some level of professionalism, I have to point out (wave, shout, jump!) that Anabela of Fieldguided so kindly included me in her Repository post (I'm number three) this week. What a huge compliment, to be admired by a lady such as she. I love her blog and am so grateful for the mention. Her kind words make me feel all glowy inside.
Thank you again, Anabela!


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Flickr photo by eron_gpsfsFriday: Guy gets my number.
Monday: He texts me, asking me out for the following Thursday night.
Tuesday - Thursday: We text back and forth the basics -- what we do, where we live, etc. And I get that silly grin on my face each time Adam ? From Bar lights up on my screen.
Thursday night: Date night. We have absolutely nothing to talk about now because we've already covered everything you talk about on a first date. And it's too soon to talk about fourth- and fifth-date subjects.
Lots of awkward silences later, date ends.
I do this all the time.
Why? Mostly because I'm more witty via text, which makes me seem way cooler than I really am. But then the adorable charm I worked so hard to create through words gets negated when we sit there, staring at each other over our calamari appetizer.
Maybe one day I'll learn. In the meantime, I have to answer this text from the guy I have a date with tonight ...
Do you text before the first date?


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Posted by TheShot on 24 Jun 2008 | Filed under: Consumer Trends, Roasting, Robusta
Today Condé Nast posted an general consumer article on what to look for in good coffee: Coffee Drinking Guide – Portfolio.com. However, it reads more as a quick guide to following what's "trendy" today — rather than as a guide to seeking good quality coffee experiences. (Not to mention that the article's title, "Eat Sheet: Coffee," takes on a whole other meaning with a Middle Eastern coffee grower's accent.)
For example, the pro-"light roast" movement is really just the flavor du jour. And after so many years of over-roasted and darkly roasted coffee, who can blame anyone? But as much as we tire of the ubiquitous wine analogy for coffee, the recent focus on light roasts isn't far off from all the people who are now drinking rosé wines again.
Once people get it out of their system, they'll be interested in darker roasts again. Just as when they get off single origin and single estate coffees, they'll come to appreciate well-crafted coffee blends again — and the merits of high quality robusta beans again. And just as we explore enough with Clover machines and vacuum pots, something like espresso becomes interesting again. Each has their merits, and there never has been one way to appreciate good coffee.
For example, it's true that lighter roasts exhibit better characteristics of certain beans. But for other bean varietals — such as those from Indonesian estates in Java and Sulawesi — a lighter roast is no better than darkly roasting a delicate island coffee: instead of the great body and lower acidity inherent to these beans, they come out tasting thin, bland, and even a little grassy at times.
Coffee is often best roasted to maximize the best, most unique qualities in the bean — and no bean is the same, really. And there is no one way to appreciate it all.
Posted by TheShot on 27 May 2008 | Filed under: Beans, Café Society, Foreign Brew, Robusta
One definition of "overly ambitious" is attempting to write an article about the relationship between coffee and a pluralistic nation of over 1.1 billion people. Compounding this is the nature of India itself — where not only can you find evidence of just about everything, but for everything you find to be true you will also find the exact opposite to also be true.
India is a mesmerizing country that can be quite a lot to take in at any given time or place. Life there seems so much more raw…and vibrant. Besides being a diverse country of contradictions, one seems to experience a 360-degree view of life there — in contrast with our much narrower perspectives of the world here. For example, destitute poverty lives side-by-side with optimistic, upwardly mobile hope for the future. But at either end of this wide spectrum, India is filled with people of great friendliness, joie de vivre, and spiritual centeredness. It boasts some of the best people-watching in the world, and we rapidly developed a great fondness for the country and the people who live there.
Yet despite two weeks in a country that arguably changed us (is there such a thing as an Indiaphile?), we were much less successful at unraveling the mysteries of India's historic, evolving coffee culture. There are a few reasons for this:
Despite these obstacles, we always welcome flimsy excuses to publish more travel photos.
It's a bit ironic that Westerner travelers feel the culture shock of India's raw authenticity — far removed from the corporate sameness that afflicts every downtown in America — and yet dedicated retail coffeehouses in India are dominated by big chains. The independent, mom & pop places called "coffee houses" are typically old school diners, cafés, and restaurants. (Another strange irony: with the escalation of world food prices, there are questions of how middle America can continue to afford organic foods for their families — whereas in destitute India, that's all they've ever eaten.)
Of course, India is a nation famous for its tea drinkers. Chai being the Hindi word for tea — and not that latte-styled spiced tea stuff Americans call "chai" either, which is closer to chai masala gone Starbucks. (Indian trains and train stations are filled with the "chai, chai!" calls of tea-vending children and adults.) As in other developing countries famous for their tea drinkers, such as China, many of the newly affluent are gradually eschewing their daily tea for the perceived cosmopolitan mystique of espresso drinks. And in most modern offices staffed by younger Indians, coffee seems to be the beverage of choice.
However, coffee (kaufi in Hindi) is hardly new to the subcontinent. It's generally believed that coffee was first brought to India in the 17th century through its historic Islamic ties to Yemen and the Middle East. Today India claims to be the fifth largest coffee producer in the world. Coffee is grown almost exclusively in South India, and most of it has been consumed in the domestic market — with an occasional bulk trade with the former USSR. But since the 1990s, India has developed some excellent coffees. They are also home to some excellent "oddities", such as Monsooned Malabar and some of the highest quality robusta beans in the world. (Unfortunately we didn't have the opportunity to visit coffee farms at origin.) Italy is currently the largest importer of Indian coffees.
South India is also famous for what they call "filter coffee" — or what the rest of us call "South Indian" or "Madras" coffee. It's a ritualistic combination of darkly roasted beans blended with chicory, a lot of warmed milk, and sugar. It all comes together through coffee mixologists who use metal cups and tumblers to form the frothy, sweet, milky drink. While available in Northern India, it was too sweet and milky for our tastes — though some Madrasi purists told us that the concoctions up north came up short to the real thing.
We conclude with a pathetically token sampling of a few Delhi area espresso ratings:
|Espresso [info]
|Cafe [info]
|Overall [info]
|Barista Crème
|33, 1st Floor, Khan Market
|New Delhi
|Costa Coffee
|L8. Outer Circle, Connaught Place
|New Delhi
|Café Coffee Day
|14 Indira Gandhi International Airport
|New Delhi
Posted by TheShot on 24 Jul 2007 | Filed under: Beans, Consumer Trends, Fair Trade, Quality Issues, Robusta
Corporate spokespeople frequently speak volumes more in what's left unsaid than in what they say. Take yesterday's Reuters news release from The Big 4's Kraft Foods. Kraft's flagship coffee, Maxwell House, has desensitized American coffee taste buds for decades. Kraft has just recently decided to use 100% arabica beans in Maxwell House's cans of unholy horror: INTERVIEW-Maxwell House coffee to go 100 pct arabica | Reuters.
In a statement made yesterday by Kraft senior vice-president and general manager of coffee in North America, John LeBoutillier, Kraft is changing the Maxwell House blend "to give mainstream America a richer, less bitter cup of coffee."
The unsaid message from Mr. LeBoutillier? "For decades we have knowingly given mainstream America a weaker, more bitter cup of coffee. In more recent years, while the likes of Starbucks has created a market for much better coffee than the crude commodity we've been forever slinging on supermarket shelves, we countered by offering mainstream America even worse coffee: using cheap Vietnamese robusta beans, chemically treating it to taste more like our usual coffee, and passing the savings on to our shareholders. And by diverting our massive coffee purchases from our usual growers to cheap suppliers of low-grade beans, we helped instigate the global coffee crisis, inspiring desperate measures such as the Fair Trade movement."
To also cite the Reuters article, "The move is neither an effort to challenge premium coffees nor in response to the hike in robusta futures prices to a recent nine-year peak, LeBoutillier said." As if we didn't predict exactly this ten months ago.
Posted by TheShot on 06 Jun 2007 | Filed under: Home Brew, Quality Issues, Robusta
Last week, C. Clairborne Ray of the New York Times answered this question as part of the paper's Q&A feature: bookofjoe: What makes coffee bitter?. (I'm citing it on another blogger's post instead of the original NY Times source — in case you are religiously opposed to NYT logins.)
As the article states, coffee is a "complex chemical soup". So complex, in fact, that the answer they offer is a complex alphabet soup.
The digestible short of it is that a little bitterness isn't necessarily a bad thing for the overall balance of coffee, as it cuts down on its acidity. However, you can cut back on the perceived bitterness of the cup by avoiding distilled water, by brewing at higher temperatures, and laying off the robusta. The Coffee Research Institute also recommends medium roasts, drip-brewed systems, and using a coarser grind.
Posted by TheShot on 18 May 2007 | Filed under: Coffee Health, Robusta
The uncontrollable urge to assign shamanic powers of eternal life or instant death to coffee are still in full bloom. Last December, we reported on the UK introduction of CoffeeSlender (a.k.a. Café Bulimia), a coffee drink that claimed to help consumers lose weight through something called Svetol — a derivative of green coffee beans. Today we can apparently bypass the beverage part entirely and just take a pill (it's about time!): Response Source | Press Releases – Green Coffee capsules – all the weight loss benefits, none of the bitter taste!
How this green coffee extract works to help you lose weight is actually a bit scary. According to the press release: "Ingredients in the Robusta green coffee bean inhibit the uptake of glucose in the intestines, regulating metabolism and resulting in weight loss over a period of 60 days." In short, chemical compounds found in a cheap coffee varietal — one traded on the commodities market by the gross ton instead of by the pound — put your body into a mild diabetic state. Dexatrim latte, anyone?
Posted by TheShot on 21 Mar 2007 | Filed under: Beans, Quality Issues, Robusta
David Lebovitz is a fairly well-known pastry chef and foodie who launched his career through a long tour of duty at Chez Panisse in Berkeley. Lately he's taken on a great interest in making the kind of espresso he can get in Italy — but not in the U.S. as easily. Following his pursuit of perfection, today he wrote about his recent training at Illy's Università del caffè in Trieste, Italy: David Lebovitz: Making Perfect Espresso at Illy.
At l'università, they compared for him espresso made with 100% Arabica beans and with a 50/50 Arabica/robusta blend. Illy openly disdains robusta coffee as a cheaper coffee stock, so it's not surprising that they went for the full "cheap beans" effect. Yet there are others who argue that the American outright avoidance of robusta in quality espresso is a major problem. In any case, I find an espresso blend of 90/10 makes a nicely balanced espresso — particularly with some of the high-end, carefully processed robusta stocks now available from places like India.
The Illy preachers also sound a bit reactionary to the trend towards single-origin products. It's a bit like the Johnny Walkers making their case against the single malt scotch trend. While there is a definite art and mastery to making a well-balanced espresso from a variety of blended coffee sources, single-origin espressos can often be excellent for their singularly strong, albeit imbalanced, flavor profiles.
Mr. Lebovitz appears to finally strike good espresso gospel when he writes:
So a good espresso isn't bitter (or burnt-tasting) and should be a thin syrup, 25 ml (about 2 tablespoons) and should have a layer of crema on top, a bit of foam which barista Michele told me was marked with what he called a "tiger's stripes", because of the wavy lines and mottled marks in the foam.
Definitely not, as the Illy guys said, "like your Starbucks in California"…
Hi Greg:
This is a great site, full of lots of good information. I linked to it twice in responses to comments on my site!
I know far more about chocolate than coffee, although I'm excited by all I'm learning, I think that people get obsessed with terms like single-origin, or percentages, at the expense of taste. I like forestero chocolates sometimes, but wouldn't use them for dipping. There's likely lots of badly-processed Arabica beans out there, but it was interesting to sample the 2 offered side-by-side. (When I asked why they didn't offer us cups of pure Robusta for sample, they said, "We didn't want to do that to you.")
Unfortunately where I live, there is a lots of robusta, or poorly-prepared Arabica coffee and it's frustrating not to be able to get a decent cup of espresso anywhere. So I'm trying to learn more about it at home. I've got a good machine, although I think my next purchase is a burr grinder.
Glad you found my post interesting and thanks for your feedback.
Posted by TheShot on 11 Jan 2007 | Filed under: Beans, Machine, Quality Issues, Restaurant Coffee, Robusta
Tomorrow's Atlanta Journal-Constitution nails it with this article headline: Espresso done right is intense — a full-bodied, stop-time moment to savor | ajc.com. Somewhat surprisingly, what follows the headline isn't half bad either.
The author, John Kessler, goes on to note how rare a decent espresso is in this country — and in fancy restaurants in particular. But rather than merely lament the sorry state of American espresso, he makes a legitimate attempt at an explanation. He attributes this sorry state to a variety of factors, including a cultural preference for the 30-minute indulgence rather than the three-sip shot, insufficient steam pressure from many commercial machines, and an avoidance of robusta beans. It's a noble attempt worthy of examination.
America's culture of indulgence is dismissive of the "small tasting". The small tasting typically makes an acceptable appearance only where physical constraints make it absolutely necessary — such as part of a lavish seven-course meal. (As celeb chef Anthony Bourdain is quick to point out, after the first few bites of anything, our taste buds progressively deaden with the same stimulus. Beyond those first tastes, you're no longer satisfying your taste buds; rather, you are trying to satisfy something else entirely.) Combine this with our cultural obsession over all-you-can-eat "value", and its no wonder that our espresso is over-extracted, poured in copious amounts, and almost always washed away in a sea of steamed milk.
Unfortunately, conventional wisdom in this country suggests that espresso is a "hot, bitter brew" — with the maximum caffeinated effect. This reflects just how poor the American cultural standard for espresso really is. I would argue that if it's hot and bitter, you're not drinking espresso — you're drinking something else. In a country where our beverage choices are either "freezing" or "scalding", espresso should be served a touch closer to room temperature. And if it's bitter, whoever made it likely over-extracted the shot, and it should be sent back like a corked wine.
But — as Corby Kummer, author of The Joy of Coffee, is quoted in the article — "I hate it when people use a wine analogy for coffee." Lately, I have caught myself using a balsamic vinegar of Modena analogy. Acidic vinegar doesn't sound like the kind of appetizing thing you might, say, pour over ice cream. But if you've ever had aged balsamic vinegar of Modena, you know just how sweet and syrupy — and so unlike its wine-based American counterpart — it can be. The same is true when comparing a true espresso with the typical American version.
Back to Mr. Kessler's explanation, I also have to agree that the American espresso is almost universally over-extracted and brewed at the wrong temperature. The general state of espresso equipment tuning and maintenance is sorry and sad. But training plays a huge role too. Machines tuned to perfection could be rendered irrelevant in untrained hands. All it takes is someone to leave the portafilter handles cooling in the drip tray.
However, I am in less agreement with his "aversion to robusta" argument. Sure, robusta is generally a cheaper grade coffee that many American retailers tend to avoid on this criteria alone. And the right percentage of good-quality robusta in an espresso blend can make a huge difference in an espresso's volume of crema, the richness of its aroma, and the breadth of its flavor profile. But I've also had astounding single-bean espresso shots that have blown blends out of the water.
Speaking of ever-tiresome wine analogies… On a semi-related note, today's The Washington Post today published an article where the author learned how to evaluate different bean stocks through a weekly public cupping at D.C.'s Murky Coffee: Wake Up and Cup the Coffee – washingtonpost.com.
Posted by TheShot on 13 Dec 2006 | Filed under: Beans, Fair Trade, Foreign Brew, Robusta
In response to the precipitous rise of specialty coffee in recent years, coffee's traditional Big Four (Nestlé, Sara Lee, Kraft, and Proctor & Gamble) — rather than compete by raising their quality standards — responded instead by seeking cheaper bean stocks to squeeze out more profits. The Vietnamese robusta coffee market rode the wave of these investments, and its explosive growth, overproduction, and proliferation fueled much of the coffee crisis that inspired Fair Trade and related initiatives to protect the endangered quality coffee grower.
Despite the low-grade coffee that Vietnam came to symbolize, that did not prevent delusions of grandeur. One of these delusions is now facing a harsh reality check, after eight years and $50 million of investment to develop higher-grade arabica bean growth in Vietnam: VietNamNet – Arabica coffee project a fantastic hope.
Robusta coffee is just that — rubustly resistant to drought, heat, and climates that can be inhospitable to the higher-quality arabica coffee species. The problem is that robusta coffee is so inferior, it often needs to be chemically treated to taste more like coffee — and not like the burnt rubber it is most commonly described as. The failure of arabica coffee to take hold in Vietnam only underscores how challenging it is to produce good coffee there.
Posted by TheShot on 29 Nov 2006 | Filed under: Beans, Robusta
As Frank Sinatra once sang, "They got a lot of coffee in Brazil". However, the driest winter in two decades is threatening to drop next year's crop yield by almost a third: Brazilian drought leaves coffee crop high and dry | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle.
As the reality of global climate change sinks in, one also has to wonder if shifting weather patterns might result in worse and more frequent droughts — steering coffee farmers to produce more heat- and drought-resistant robusta beans. Not that I would call arabica beans an endangered species, but I can't bear the thought of a post-apocalyptic world where the only coffee available is Yuban-in-a-can.
Posted by TheShot on 09 Nov 2006 | Filed under: Beans, Quality Issues, Robusta
Decaffeinated coffee was once treated a lot like robusta: as some kind of crude, faux coffee that caters to consumers with the misfortune of a biological defect. But just as high-quality, expertly prepared robusta beans started appearing on the market from places such as India (for blending into quality roasts for espresso, etc.), decaf coffee — or at least the drinkers of the stuff — started getting some love and respect: Demand is growing for rich decaf coffee (syndicated from the Los Angeles Times; new working link).
As I mentioned in a previous post, earlier this year, decaffeinated Fair Trade and organic specialty beans were being bought up en masse by the likes of Wal-Mart. Although I never buy decaf coffee for myself, I typically buy it for caffeine-free friends who come over for dinner (and most often I buy Stumptown decaf beans from Ritual Roasters). And I have noticed that the quality and variety of decaf beans have become much more appealing. When I have good decaf left over, now I don't hesitate putting it in a stovetop espresso maker or French press.
There's something purist about good decaf coffee that I like. With so many people who primarily crave coffee for its caffeine buzz, the quality of the coffee can seem irrelevant. In the world of beer, this is like the difference between buying a microbrew for its flavor versus buying a 40 of Colt 45 for the dead brain cells. But let's not take this analogy too far — I still don't see the point of non-alcoholic beer. Just as I don't get why some vegetarian restaurants serve tofu made to look and taste just like chicken. That's just crazy.


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- AnonymousApril 13, 2011 at 11:04 PM
Oscar Wilde, Should be an over the shoulder pic of a sexy dude, don't you think?ReplyDelete
She may not necessarily be Oscar's version of temptation, but I'm sure some of us find her very tempting! ;-)ReplyDelete
. . . . Is this some disgusting indirect way of saying it's ok to cheat & hurt?ReplyDelete
I didn't take it that way, or mean to imply it that way, at all, Destiny... You can be "tempted" by something even if you aren't "committed" to something, or someone, else. To me, because of Oscar Wilde proclivities, it means that you can give into something that others don't necessarily agree with.ReplyDelete
this is very very very true....and i live my life by it...ReplyDelete
Only I doubt if Oscar Wilde was ever tempted by women...ReplyDelete
hmmm. i don't know if i necessarily agree with this. anytime I've given into a "temptation" it's just gotten worse. it's an interesting thought, though.ReplyDelete
Very Nice And Interesting PostReplyDelete
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Alejandra Hernández
Meet La Biblioteca
In this series, one person at a time, go unfolding personalities behind the staff members of the Public Library of San Miguel. A small tribute to our colleagues and an effort to show the human side of this institution
A mermaid in both hair and voice, this friendly 29 year old is responsible for keeping the entrance to the ladies, and men's restrooms.
Before seeing Alejandra, I heard her. I was coming down the stairs that connect the offices of Atención to the rest of La Biblioteca's facilities. I heard a clear voice singing a lilting ballad by Mexican pop singer Alejandra Guzman, and there I saw Ale.
Ale, is a native of San Miguel. She has a keen knowledge of the town and the local people.
The bathroom it is a place where cleanliness, good organization, and care have a high priority. It is a place where everyone should be safe: boys and girls, elderly people, and members of the community.
Her desk functions as a mini-reception center. People ask questions and she provides varied information: Where is the Jardín? Where are the offices of Atención? What is in the newspaper this week? What time are the painting classes and guitar classes?
In addition, it is a place to buy the newspaper Atención San Miguel. Although Alejandra does not speak English, the language barrier is not usually an impediment to communicating with people. There's always flowing dialogue.
Despite her anime physical appearance, Ale is a woman of strong character. Aries born, she's stubborn and willful, while still being fair and displaying easy laughter.
Being a really confident woman, she does not compromise and claims not to change about anything or anyone. Take it or leave it, her way or the highway.
Alejandra has two passions in life: music and her three-year-old son, Andres Fernando.
The first has been with her since childhood. She cannot imagine life without music and without singing. Sometimes when going down the street, people greet her with "Bye-bye birdie."
Her son is the great love of her life and her motivation. As a single mother, in life, and she tries to teach him to be independent, to become someone aware of his context to be respectful toward women.
Alejandra thinks of herself a creative person. She went to beauty school after high school and had hair in all colors of the rainbow. Her tresses are currently pink, purple, and blue. She likes to experiment and express her personality through her ever-changing appearance. You can find Ale every day during the normal hours of La Biblioteca, from 10am to 7pm.


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What is not to like about kale? The combination of kale and quinoa and vegetables makes a great salad. This salad keeps well in the fridge for a day or two and makes a great lunch to take to work. Both the DH and I really enjoyed this salad. The other thing I liked about the salad dressing was that the chia seed acted as a thickener in the dressing. This salad is can be served any time of the year and is not just a summer salad.
|Chopped carrots and pepper.
|Baby kale before steaming.
|Parsley has been added to the bowl.
|Kale draining in the steamer.
|Salad ready for serving.
1 cup uncooked quinoa
3 to 4 loosely packed cups of kale leaves, chopped
1 glove of garlic, minced
3 tbsp lemon juice
a bit less than a 1/4 cup of olive oil
1 tsp chia seeds
1/2 tsp agave
1/2 tsp cumin powder
1 carrot, finely chopped
1 celery stalk, finely chopped
1 coloured pepper, finely chopped
1 handful of fresh parsley, chopped
salt and pepper to taste
Cooked the quinoa according to directions on the package. Let cool. While the quinoa is cooking, mix together the dressing of garlic, lemon juice, olive oil, chia seeds, agave and cumin. The dressing needs to sit for at least 10 minutes in order for the chia seed to soften and thicken the dressing. Steam the kale for three minutes in order to soften it.
To a large mixing or serving bowl, add the quinoa, kale, parsley and vegetables. Combine. Add the dressing and mix. Serves 4 to 5.


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Saturday, February 25, 2012
In My Mailbox #21
This week I bought a couple of books and got one from the library. They are all books I've been dying to read! I ordered Someone Else's Life, but unfortunately it hasn't come yet :( I hope it comes next week!!! But I was still delighted with the other books!
Rebel by R.J. Anderson
I've been wanting to read this for ages, and I saw it on sale, so of course I had to get it :)
Pretty Little Liars 7: Heartless by Sara Shepard
I have to read this ASAP! Only two more books and we find out who 'A' is...!
Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
This series is so great and funny! I'm reading this at the moment
What did you get in your mailbox?
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Rebel is so pretty, it looks great. Enjoy!ReplyDelete
I LOVE the Percy Jackson series! Rebel looks good, and I love Pretty Little Liars too. (I'm dying to know who 'A' is!!!)ReplyDelete
Oooh Pretty Little Liars! I only read the first four a long time ago, but I love the show! I hope you enjoy all you got :)ReplyDelete
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Ooh, Rebel looks good :)ReplyDelete
ooh Rebel has an amazing cover. I need to read the Pretty Little Liars series! I love the TV show, but I heard they aren't following the books and there's a DIFFERENT "A" so I'm curious about the books...ReplyDelete
enjoy and happy reading!
My IMM.
I really want to read the Percy Jackson series someday! Hope you enjoy everything you got in this week! You can check out my IMM for this week by clicking on the link below :)ReplyDelete
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I can't believe I STILL haven't read the Percy Jackson series. Strange, because I just KNOW I will love it!!ReplyDelete
Comments make my day :)
This is an award-free zone, sorry but I just don't have the time to pass them on! Thanks for thinking of me anyway :)


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Private Capital Group, Inc. et al v. BRAL Holdings, LLC et al
|Private Capital Group, Inc., NMB Investments, Inc., Michael Robinson, Jared Rupp, Burgandy Rupp, Joshue Scott, Jalee Scott, S&K Family Limited Partnership, Robert Nelson, Vickie Nelson, Ronald Ball, Gayle Ball, Sandy Walters, Del Rio Investments, Mark Amakasu, Bradley Call, Leslie Call, Bryan Call, Jana Call, Julita Guillen, Michael Guillen, Julie Johnson, Craig Labrum, Michelle Labrum, Shane Lamb, Carol Lamb, Beth Black, Aqulila Ventures, LLC, David Bitter, Amy Bitter, Michael Busby, Jan Busby, Kevin Heaton, Lou Ann Heaton, James Moore, Tina Moore, Kapua Sprout, David Walton, Kathy Walton, Placitas Gold, LLC, Michael Dischbein, Lori Dischbein, James Knight, Elizabeth Knight, Martha Sappington, Zane Westover, Lisa Westover, Frazier Family Trust, IRA4SC, LLC, Vivian Brown, Snyder Investments, Frank Torrelli, Diane Torrelli, Ash Brook Properties, LLC and Call Auto Enterprises, Inc.
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OMG just watched the new episode of Gossip Girl.
♥ Chuck and Blair ♥Favourite part of the episode :
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We recently traveled from our home in Tallahassee, Florida to the charmingly quaint town of Vinings, Georgia. Vinings is located about ten miles north-north west from Atlanta, Georgia's city skyline.
My husband and fellow college Fraternity Brothers were meeting in Vinings to celebrate the Inauguration of one of their fellow ATO Fraternity Brothers who would take the Oath of Office as Governor of the State of Georgia on the following day. All of the Fraternity Brothers were asked to serve as ushers for the early morning church service on the following day.
All of the Brothers including the Governor, and their wives, planned to have dinner together the night before the Inauguration at the Old Vinings Inn. It was a delightful event with delicious food, good friends and lots of stories from long ago being told.
The Old Vinings Inn building has been lovingly preserved and dates back to the 1800s. This building was originally a general store purchased in the year 1890 which housed a Seed and Feed on the main floor, as well as the Village Post Office.
Civil War markings can be seen spread throughout the city of Vinings. Some markers tell the story of Sherman and his Union troops as they inhabited the town for 11 days before moving on to burn the city of Atlanta which ultimately ended the Civil War.
Old Vinings Inn
3011 Paces Mill Road SE
Vinings, Georgia
After all the festivities were concluded for the Inauguration we wanted to sightsee around this amazing old Civil War area. We drove along Kennesaw Avenue with the thought in mind of visiting the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park.
The National Park Service established Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park in the 1930s.
The Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park is a nearly 3,000-acre tract that preserves a Civil War Battleground of the Atlanta Campaign. The North and the South fought here from June 19 until July 2, 1864.
On the day of our visit, as you can see, there was heavy fog even during the middle of the day and afternoon. Something about the fog made it easier to step back in time to the year 1864 and try to visualize the events of this battle which happened to be one of the last major battles of the Civil War.
The causes of the Civil War were very complicated ... The war was fought to fight for independence or secession from the Union for the Confederacy (South). And the Union (North) fought for the survival of the Union.
The Civil War was fought from 1861 until 1865. The War began in the early morning hours of April 1861 when the Confederates, or the "South," fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina.
Due to the foggy day and the lack of visibility on the top of Kennesaw Mountain, the Park Rangers closed the roadway going to the top of the mountain. The battle took place on top of Kennesaw mountain and in and around the Park.
One day when we are back in this area, and if it is a clear day, I very much want to go back and drive to the top of the mountain where that part of the battle took place ... I would like to see the surrounding area from the top of the mountain and see where that part of the battle took place.
During the four years of the of the Civil War, 237 named battles were fought,
and there were many more minor actions and skirmishes.
There were many old Civil War cannons all along our hike in the Battlefield Park.
Seeing the cannons located all through the battlefield made it easy to imagine the lives lost. The number of casualties during the war vary, but one historian gave a count of 750,000 soldier deaths.
The below photos show the actual grounds where a portion of the battle was fought. The Confederates dug deep trenches to crouch behind and protect themselves as the Union soldiers approached. In these photos it is hard to see the depth of the trenches.
There were many of the Earthwork trenches all along our hike,
but they were difficult to see in the photos.
Can you imagine the Civil War soldiers pulling these cannons
all the way up the mountain of this battlefield.
In the below photo it is possible to see one of the trenches used to protect the Confederate soldiers.
As we continued our hike in and around the Battlefield, we approached the Illinois Monument
which was out in the middle of nowhere in the Battlefield area.
Located here on this battlefield almost 400 soldiers from Illinois died during this war. The state of Illinois donated $20,000 for the construction of a special monument to those lost in this war from their state.
Approaching the Monument from behind.
This beautiful Illinois Monument was made of Georgia white marble.
The monument was strategically placed where the assault took place on Cheatham Hill.
The Monument continues to stand today, to honor not only the men of Illinois,
but all who fought for their beliefs and convictions.
In the below photo looking out across through the fog from the Illinois monument
we see an open battlefield below.
A short distance from the Illinois Monument we spotted this
touching grave marker seen in the below photo.
Rest in peace Captain Neighbour!
When I saw this sign I did wonder what it meant ... Thanks to Mr. Google I found out a Battery in the Civil War contained either 6 cannons and a crew of about a hundred and fifty men for the Union and four cannons for the Confederacy and a crew of about 70 men.
There were many families living in and around the Kennesaw Mountain area. Many of these families were adversely effected by the effects of war. One family's home in particular has been preserved and goes down in history because of the battle that took place in and around their property.
The Kolb farmhouse was built in 1826. The farm consisted of 600 acres, complete with blacksmith shop, farm outbuildings and a family cemetery. Peter Kolb, his wife Eliza and eight children were considered a wealthy family at the time.
Unfortunately, the Kolb family and many of their neighbors were forced to flee the area prior to the arrival of the worst of the fighting that would take place on their farm.
Several members of the Kolb family are buried in the family cemetery on the back of the property.
On the afternoon of June 22, 1864 fierce action began in front of the residence. With the ravages of battle the farmhouse became a mere shadow of its former self after the war. But, as you can see the farmhouse has been restored to it's original appearance.
It is hard to imagine such a fierce battle happening here at this peaceful location.
The Confederates did win the battles at Kennesaw Mountain, even though they did not go on to win the war. The Confederates were said to have lost 1,000 soldiers in the battle, and the Union was said to have lost 3,000 during this same battle.
Shortly thereafter Sherman of the Union Army would continue to march toward Atlanta which resulted in the fall of Atlanta on September 2, 1864.
The Civil War would continue on until General Robert E. Lee decided that the fight was hopeless and surrendered his army in Appomattox, Virginia on April 9, 1865.
Join us in a following post as we visit the touching final resting place for the soldiers of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.


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With the posting, Mike wrote: "The newspaper racket as a brothel. True enough at the start of the 20th Century, when Art Young published this cartoon, and truer in the Great Here & Now. Exceptions all along, of course, but fewer and fewer exceptions. Too much Bread & Circuses, and nowhere near enough provocative substance."
I really wish I could disagree with Mike, but, frankly, I think the sentiment expressed in this cartoon is just as accurate today -- with newspapers continuing to suffer financial hardships due to declining advertising revenues -- as it probably was then. Perhaps even more so.
I've touched on this topic before, in my Feb. 13, 2015, post "NEWSPAPER ETHICS: MAINTAINING (OR NOT) THE LINE BETWEEN DOLLARS AND SENSE," which you will find still available among my older blog posts.
Many of today's papers have seemingly accorded "scared cow" status to large local advertisers -- who seem to have no qualms about using the weight of their advertising dollars to bully publishers and editors -- and to prominent local people, business leader and particularly vocal groups in their communities who raise objections to certain kinds of content.
Once upon a time, back when newspapers were making higher profits than almost any other industry in the United States, most reputable newspapers took great pride in contending they had no sacred cows.
Prominent among those newspapers was afternoon Louisville Times -- where I took my first, post-college reporting job in 1970 -- and its morning sister publication, The Louisville Courier-Journal. But even then and even there, the "no sacred cows" contention wasn't exactly true as I learned when I wrote a story about Democrat Louisville Mayor Dr. Harvey I. Sloane not paying several years worth of a state tax (the exact title of which I can no longer recall) that applied only to those who, like Sloane, were extremely wealthy.
I knew Sloane was good friends with the also very wealthy Bingham family, owners of the papers at the time, who had thrown their full and the newspaper's full support behind his bid to become mayor.
By the time I turned in the story to the city desk the evening before it was to be published in the next afternoon's paper, I had all of my facts confirmed and double checked and even had the mayor acknowledging that he'd "overlooked" the payments due under the tax and his promise that he would immediately make good on what he owed. My editors and I figured that with all of this nailed down, the cozy relationship between the Binghams and the mayor wouldn't matter when it came to publishing a story about him being significantly delinquent -- we're talking many tens of thousands for dollars delinquent (over the intervening 40 some years I can't recall the exact amount, but I think is was something like $72,000 and change) -- in the payment of any rightfully owed tax.
We were wrong.
When my story was published in the day's first edition, it appeared stripped six-columns across the top of the front page under a large headline that said something like "Mayor fails to pay $72,000 in taxes."
When copies of the first edition hit Publisher Barry Bingham Jr.'s desk, our managing editor, apparently got a call from Barry Jr. raising cain over the story.
As a result, in the day's second edition, the story was moved to the bottom of the page, with the same headline. But that apparently didn't salve Barry Jr.'s state of pisstivity. He didn't want the story on Page 1, period. In addition, Bingham contended that the story was minimalized by my high-up sentence explaining that the particular tax Sloane owed only applied to the very wealthy.
So, by the day's final edition, the story had been moved to a page deep inside the local section under the headline "Mayor fails to pay obscure tax."
As a reporter and then editor at other newspapers where I worked throughout most of the rest of my more than 44 year career, I encountered similar experiences, even though most of those papers also took great pride in saying they had no sacred cows.
Of course, I did enjoy and number of instances where advertisers or prominent individuals and/or business leaders were told that their dollars or their influence were not going to interfere with the publication of valid news stories.
One such instance occurred while I was assistant managing editor for news and projects at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in connection with the Bell Helicopter series that went on to win the 1985 Public Service Pulitzer Prize. The series dealt with a design flaw in some of the helicopters that Fort Worth-based Bell Helicopter built for the U.S. military. In the five-day series, Washington Bureau Reporter Mark Thompson revealed the design flaw -- which led to an in-flight phenomenon called "mast bumping" -- had caused the deaths of nearly 250 service men between 1973 and 1984 and that it had gone uncorrected even after Bell's chief attorney brought it to the attention of company executives in 1979 and recommended the problem be fixed immediately.
The series, which began its five-day run on Sunday, March 25, 1984. enraged Jack Horner, president of Bell, which was the city's single largest employer. On Monday morning the furious Horner called to speak to Publisher Phil Meek, who was out of town. So he settled for screaming over the phone at Executive Editor Jack Tinsley, demanding the series be immediately halted, that the people responsible for it be immediately fired and that a top-of-the-front-page apology to Bell Helicopter be published across six-columns of the Tuesday paper, or else.
Tinsley called me -- as the editor responsible for overseeing those who produced and did the primary editing on the series and for actually putting it in the paper -- into his office. Frankly, I fully expected to be fired.
However, Tinsley told me he had reached Phil Meek by phone and informed him of Horner's demands.
"I asked him what I should tell Horner and Phil told me to tell Horner to go fuck himself. So, that's pretty much what I did," Tinsley told me. Although, by that afternoon, all of our single-copy sales boxes on Bell property had been ripped up and tossed outside the plant gates and a group of Bell employees had begun picketing outside the newspaper, the series continued and my job, Thompson's job and job of State Editor Roland Lindsey, who directly oversaw Thompson, were safe. Here is a link to the stories that were part of the series, which I still think is one of the finest examples of quality American journalism: https://sites.google.com/site/mthompsondc/star-telegramseries.
Considering the financial condition of most newspapers, I wonder how many of today's publishers would come up with that sort of response to livid complaints from an important advertiser, business leader or heavy hitting employer.
I fear the answer is not very many.
Certainly, during the waning years before my retirement as editor of The Monitor in McAllen, Texas, and departure from the newspaper business, I experienced several incidents in which important local advertisers where allowed to directly browbeat me, call me unethical and irresponsible and even accuse me or one or more of my reporters of taking payoffs during meetings called to let them bitch about things published in the newspaper that they didn't like.
And, as I communicate with editor and reporter friends who still are employed at other newspapers around the country, I hear more and more tales of such incidents in which outside influencers are allowed to successfully interfere with what gets published in their papers. The main reason usually being cited is fear of lost advertising revenue. The consequence, valid and important news stories with, as my friend Mike Price put it, "provocative substance" -- and even online comments from readers on some stories that do get published -- are being thwarted.
The result: As more of these sorts of things happens, readers lose faith and trust in their newspaper, which loses relevance for them. And we all know what happens when people no longer feel their newspaper is relevant in their lives.
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