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One of the tastiest treats I've found, and filling too, is pierogies. The filling can be made from almost anything but is usually potatoes with additional items for flavour (bacon, onion, cheese, etc.).
- 2 Cups flour, plus extra for kneading and rolling dough
- 1/2 Tsp. salt
- 1 Large egg
- 1/2 Cup sour cream
- 1/4 Cup butter, softened and cut into small pieces
- Olive oil for frying
- 5 Lbs of potatoes (boiled)
- 1 Large onion(diced and sauteed)
- 8oz Cheddar cheese (grated)
- Salt and pepper to taste
To prepare the pierogi dough, mix together the flour and salt. Beat the egg, then add all at once to the flour mixture. Add the 1/2 cup sour cream and the softened butter pieces and work until the dough loses most of its stickiness (about 5-7 minutes). You can use a food processor with a dough hook for this, but be careful not to overbeat. Wrap the dough in plastic and refrigerate for 20-30 minutes or overnight; the dough can be kept in the refrigerator for up to 2 days.
Roll the pierogi dough on a floured board or countertop until 1/8" thick. Cut circles of dough (2" for small pierogies and 3 to 3 1/2" for large pierogies) with a cookie cutter or drinking glass.
For the filling, mash the potatoes with the sauted onions and 8oz of grated cheddar cheese, adding salt and pepper to taste. Place a small ball of filling (about a tablespoon) on each dough round, wet edges of round and fold the dough over, forming a semi-circle. Press the edges together with the tines of a fork ( Personally, I prefer to use one of these ).
Boil the perogies a few at a time in a large pot of water. They are done when they float to the top (about 8 to 10 minutes). Rinse in cool water and let dry.
Saute chopped onions in olive oil in a large pan until onions are soft. Then add pierogies and pan fry until lightly browned.
Once pierogies are finished, you can add any number of toppings. Sour cream, fried onion and bacon pieces are the favourite for the wife. I like using just a little salsa over mine, just to be different.
You can double or triple the recipe so once the pierogies are made, they can be frozen. Then you have them ready to cook the next time you want some.


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Wheelock Exercises
The table below links to the Latin and English text of the exercises in each chapter of Wheelock's Latin. The text corresponds to the 6th revised edition; it is probably quite close to the same text for the 7th edition. The Latin text for the corresponding chapters of Groton & May's 38 Latin Stories is also included. Sorry, no one has updated the files to include the Scribblers, Sculptors, and Scribes sentences. You may also download a zip file containing the same material.
This particular breakdown of the chapters into weekly lessons is due to Meredith Dixon and has been used for a number of years by other LatinStudy coordinators. The coordinator of your study group may adopt a different pace or may elect to omit the Groton & May material.


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Brussels, May 24, 2014 — Mehdi Nemmouche, a 29-year-old native of Roubaix, in northern France, and veteran of the Syrian jihad, shoots three people dead at the city's Jewish Museum, fatally wounding a fourth. Upon his arrest six days later in Marseille, French police will discover a flag of the Islamic State among his possessions.
Dijon, December 20, 2014 — Forty-year-old Nacer Ben A. K. repeatedly rams his car into groups of pedestrians while yelling "Allahu Akbar!" Thirteen persons are injured, two seriously. According to initial reports, the perpetrator also shouts, "In the name of the children of Palestine!" But French authorities will later claim that he acted to avenge the "children of Chechnya." Describing the perpetrator as "mentally unstable," they will refuse to qualify the attacks as terrorism.
Paris, January 7, 2015 — The brothers Chérif and Saïd Kouachi massacre 11 people at the offices of the French weekly Charlie Hebdo, a satirical publication with a history of publishing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. The brothers have longstanding connections to France's radical Islamic scene. As they walk to the getaway car, one of them raises his Kalashnikov to the sky and declares, "We have avenged the prophet!" The Kouachis will kill one more person, a policeman, while making their escape.
Paris, January 8, 2015 — Amedy Coulibaly, an associate of the Kouachi brothers, kills policewoman Clarissa Jean-Philippe in the Parisian suburb of Montrouge.
Paris, January 9, 2015 — Coulibaly kills four hostages at a kosher supermarket near the Porte de Vincennes, before he is himself killed by police. In a posthumously published video, Coulibaly pledges allegiance to the Islamic State.
Nice, February 3, 2015 — Thirty-year-old Moussa Coulibaly (apparently no relation to Amedy) attacks three French soldiers with a knife. The soldiers are guarding a Jewish center. Coulibaly has recently been refused entry to Turkey and returned to France. It is presumed that he was attempting to reach Syria.
Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, June 26, 2015 — Yassin Salhi, a 35-year-old delivery man, decapitates his boss, Hervé Cornara, and hangs the head on a chain-link fence along with two flags inscribed with the shahada, or Islamic declaration of faith. He then proceeds to crash his delivery van into an industrial warehouse containing gas canisters, setting off an explosion. Before being arrested, Salhi takes a "selfie" posing with Cornara's head and sends it to his friend Yunes-Sébastien V.-Z., a French Muslim convert who has joined the Islamic State in Syria.
Aboard the high-speed Thalys train en route to Paris from Brussels, August 21, 2015 — Ayoub El Khazzani, a 25-year-old Moroccan who lived briefly in France before spending time in ISIS-controlled territory in Syria, emerges from a restroom with a Kalashnikov in his hands. When a passenger grabs the gun, El Khazzani shoots him with a second weapon, a pistol, and takes it back. A greater carnage is only prevented by the jamming of the Kalashnikov and the quick action of three vacationing Americans, two of them soldiers, who wrestle El Khazzani to the ground and disarm him.
Paris, November 13, 2015 — One hundred and twenty-nine people perish in a series of coordinated attacks in the French capital and outside the Stade de France stadium in the suburb of Saint Denis. An additional victim will die of his wounds days later, bringing the death toll to 130. The Islamic State claims responsibility for the attacks.
The last year has witnessed an unprecedented wave of Islamic terror attacks in France, culminating in the November 13th Paris attacks, the deadliest terror attacks in Europe since the March 2004 Madrid train bombings. With the sole exception of Ayoub El Khazzani, the gunman on the Brussels-Paris high-speed train, all the known perpetrators of the attacks were French citizens and the great majority were born and raised in France. (None were immigrants: The perpetrators that were not born in France were born to French parents in neighboring Belgium.)
The precipitate identification of a neophyte Belgian jihadist, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, as the "mastermind" behind the Paris attacks has somewhat obscured their French authorship. But just as with the previous attacks, all the known perpetrators, including those who had been living in Belgium, were in fact French citizens. It is worth noting, moreover, that the perpetrators of the massacre at the Bataclan theater, by far the deadliest of the Paris attacks, were not only all French citizens, but all French citizens who were born and bred in France (and had been living there until leaving for Syria in 2013). It is likewise worth noting that the series of attacks cataloged above begins with an attack by a born-and-bred French jihadist on a Belgian target.
The undisputed icon and role model for this new generation of French jihadists is Mohamed Merah. In March 2012, the 23-year-old went on a killing spree in and around his native Toulouse, assassinating three French paratroopers in two separate incidents before pulling up in front of a Jewish school on his signature T-Max motorbike and executing three small children and a teacher at point-blank range. He died in a shootout with police three days later, following a 32-hour siege of his apartment.
Mehdi Nemmouche clearly sought to pay homage to Merah in the attack on the Jewish Museum in Brussels—not only in his choice of targets, but also in his attempt to film the murders with a GoPro video camera strapped to his chest. (Nemmouche's camera did not work, but Merah successfully filmed all his victims as he killed them.) Amedy Coulibaly likewise used a GoPro to film the first seven minutes of the hostage-taking at the kosher supermarket at Paris's Porte de Vincennes, documenting three of the four murders he would commit before police raided the store. But he appears to have wanted to emulate Merah even more closely. His shooting of policewoman Clarissa Jean-Philippe in Montrouge on the previous day occurred just around the corner from the Yaguel Yaacov Jewish school. It appears that Coulibaly had in fact been planning to kill Jewish children, and Jean-Philippe, who had been dispatched to the area on account of a minor traffic accident, was merely in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Like Merah, Coulibaly approached his target on a powerful high-end motorbike. Like Merah, he had with him both a machine gun and a pistol. Like Merah, he arrived around 8 a.m., when a maximum number of children would have been arriving at school. Only the unexpected presence of the police appears to have dissuaded Coulibaly, forcing him to resort to an improvised Plan B: the attack on the kosher supermarket the next day. Thus, as recorded on his GoPro camera, Coulibaly would attempt to explain his actions to the hostages by rhetorically asking them about their ethnic "origin." When one replied "Jewish," he exclaimed, "Voilà! You know why I'm here then! Allahu Akbar!"
In light of the remarkable upsurge of homegrown Islamic terror in France, a new exposé on Mohamed Merah by French journalist Alex Jordanov could hardly be more timely. Jordanov's book is titled Merah, l'itinéraire secret—roughly, "Merah: The Untold Story"—and it lives up to its name. The author has been able to obtain access to the contents of the police case file on Merah, including numerous documents that have never before been made public: intelligence reports, interrogations of both Merah and suspected accomplices, wiretapped phone conversations, private e-mails, letters to family members, etc. He has supplemented his documentary research with interviews of people who knew or crossed paths with Merah. He also had the opportunity to view the video from Merah's GoPro.
The mere fact that the contents of the Merah case file are so copious is itself revealing. Merah, after all, was killed just three days after the Jewish school massacre (the last murders he would commit). He appears to have become a suspect in the murders of the paratroopers one day earlier. Thus only four days separated his identification as a suspect and his death.
But the fact of the matter is that Merah, like almost all of his above-mentioned acolytes, was the subject of an "S" file identifying him as a threat to national security. He had long been under surveillance and he was repeatedly called in for questioning by both the police and the DCRI, the French domestic intelligence agency (since re-baptized as the DGSI). Indeed, in the end, his contact with the DCRI was so regular that the question can be raised as to whether French intelligence was not in fact attempting to use Merah as a willing or unwilling informant. As will be seen below, materials in his file support this conclusion.
Jordanov's research provides a unique window onto Merah's life and crimes, offering important insight into his motives and the unflinching brutality of the ideology to which he subscribed. But it also reveals mind-boggling failings on the part of French counterterrorism. The story of Mohamed Merah is, in effect, that of a train wreck waiting to happen or, to paraphrase his brother Abdelghani, a ticking time bomb waiting to explode—while French intelligence looked on.
Indeed, in conversation with negotiators during the siege of his apartment, Merah himself expressed amazement at the fact that he was able to carry out his attacks unhindered, attributing his success—and the failure of French authorities—to the will of Allah. To coax Merah out of the building, the police had called in none other than Hassan Loubane, the local DCRI officer in charge of Merah's file. Alluding to his own carelessness in having sent e-mails to his family during a 2011 trip to an al-Qaeda stronghold in Pakistan's notorious tribal regions, Merah chided Loubane and his colleagues for their failure to react. "Hamdulillah!"—praise God—Merah exclaimed, "Allah made you blind!" Jordanov confirms that French intelligence officials, thanks to their American colleagues at the National Security Agency, were aware of at least some of these e-mails.
In Jordanov's account, the blindness and downright confusion of French authorities is already evident during the 18 months Merah spent in prison between December 2007 and October 2009 (which included a brief period of work release). Like so many of the current generation of French jihadists, Merah's path to jihad passed through an extended phase of delinquency and petty crime. Jordanov describes his rap sheet as "endless." It starts with a first recorded infraction in early 2005, when Merah was just 15, and comprises thefts, armed robberies, and assaults. The latter are notable not only for their savagery, but also for their gratuitousness. In 2006, for instance, Merah smashed his own uncle in the face with a fire extinguisher.
Jordanov quotes at length from letters Merah wrote from prison to his elder brother Abdelkader. Already well known to French intelligence at the time, Abdelkader mentored his younger brother in the ways of radical Islam. He is suspected, moreover, of having aided and abetted Mohamed in carrying out his attacks. He was arrested three days after his brother's death and has been held without charge ever since.
Merah's prison letters to Abdelkader are laced with invocations of Allah in phonetically transcribed Arabic, and they include calls for vengeance against the kuffar (unbelievers) and schoolboy-like recitations of Islamic fundamentalist or "Salafist" dogma. Thus, for instance, Merah writes:
The most truthful word [is] the book of ALLAH and the best path to follow is that of Mohammad and the worst thing is the innovator. Every innovator leads to straying [from the right path] and all straying leads to hell.
In their exchanges during the siege of his apartment, Merah himself would tell French intelligence officer Hassan Loubane that he had made up his mind in prison to join the jihad. A passage from one of his letters to Abdelkader alludes to this decision:
The first time I entered [prison] it brought me faith in ALLAH and this time wallahi [by Allah] it opened up my faith even more and I don't regret anything, since now I will know very very exactly what I have to do when I get out . . .
A cellmate reports that "from morning to night" Merah would "blast" a CD featuring Islamic chants and "sounds of explosions." Nonetheless, prison officials did not note any particular signs of radicalization.
More astonishingly still, they appear to have been unaware that Merah was in fact already the subject of an "S" file flagging him as a threat. He had turned up on the radar of French intelligence as a result of his many connections to prominent figures in the local radical Islamic scene in Toulouse. These included not only immediate family members like his brother Abdelkader and his elder sister Souad, but also Sabri Essid and Fabien Clain, both of whom would be convicted of forming part of a network dispatching jihadist recruits to fight American and allied forces in Iraq. Essid appeared last March in an Islamic State execution video filmed in Syria, and Clain is presumed to be the speaker whose voice is recorded in an Islamic State audio message claiming responsibility for the November Paris attacks.
Merah was even able to renew his French passport while in prison. The DCRI is "not informed," Jordanov writes, "since no one at Seysses [the prison] knows that he has been identified as an 'Islamo-delinquent' and hence there is no reason to notify them." Merah made ample use of the passport, as well as of a second Algerian passport in his possession: In April 2010, six months after his release, he set off on the first of four journeys in search of the jihad. In just eight months, from April to December 2010, he visited no fewer than 15 countries, including Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, the Palestinian territories, Israel, Afghanistan, and his parents' native Algeria.
Merah explained to Loubane that he hoped to make contact with the Taliban in Afghanistan by getting himself kidnapped, whereupon he would reveal his mastery of the Koran and his jihadist sympathies. Thus, on November 22, 2010, he set off by minibus on the perilous journey from Kabul to Kandahar. But, as Merah told Loubane, "Allah decided differently." He arrived safely in Kandahar and was immediately detained by Afghan security forces astonished to come across a French "tourist" visiting the historical bastion of the Taliban during wartime. The Afghanis in turn handed Merah off to American forces, who interrogated him and informed their French colleagues. At French request, Merah was placed on a plane back to Kabul. But according to Jordanov, it appears that no one was at the airport to meet him and he was free to continue his Afghan adventure.
By Merah's own count, he was detained and questioned no less than three other times during his travels: in Algeria, at Mosul in Iraq, and in Israel. During a brief stay back home in Toulouse, in the summer of 2010, he beat up a teenage girl from his neighborhood, leaving her blind in one eye. Called in for questioning by the police after charges are filed, Merah failed to appear on numerous occasions. When he finally did turn up at the police station, in January 2011, he appeared contrite and insisted he was in Algeria the whole time, at his sick father's side. In fact, he had been to Algeria on his first trip, which took place before the incident. But, in the meantime, he had been to more than a dozen other countries, and he had just returned from Afghanistan. Merah offered to come back with his passport to prove he was telling the truth. The police did not call his bluff.
According to the testimony of the local director of the DCRI in Toulouse, following his return from Afghanistan Merah was placed under intense surveillance, including direct observation of his movements, along with wiretaps and monitoring of his Internet use. Nonetheless, seven months later, in August 2011, he departed unhindered for Pakistan on his fourth and final voyage. This time he found what he was looking for, finally making contact with seasoned mujahedin who were prepared to take him under their wings, provide him weapons training, and give shape and direction to his jihadist longings. Merah identified his "emir" as Abu Yahya al-Libi. A fiery orator whose assumed surname refers to his Libyan origins, Libi had risen to prominence as one of al-Qaeda's most influential ideologues before being killed by an American drone strike in Pakistan in June 2012.
But in conversation with Loubane, Merah admitted that he never himself met Libi, and that the high-ranking al-Qaeda leader was, more precisely, something like "the emir of the emir of his emir." Jordanov's investigations identify Merah's actual emir as Moez Garsallaoui, the Tunisian-born leader of the Pakistan-based al-Qaeda affiliate Jund al-Khilafah ("Soldiers of the Caliphate"). In two separate communiqués, one issued on the very day of his death, the group claimed Merah as one of its own. Garsallaoui, incidentally, was reportedly killed in a drone attack four months after Libi.
But whatever organization "adopted" Merah in Pakistan, it appears to have been in conversation with his mentors that the idea was hatched to have the young jihadist wannabe return home to strike inside France. "I spoke to a brother from al-Qaeda," Merah told Loubane, ". . . and he told me, 'Go back to France . . . kill them in France . . . It's more important.' And I stepped back and thought about it and I said to myself, 'Well, go ahead. I'm going to try my luck.'"
Thus, on October 19, 2011, Merah returned to France, already with vague plans to attack French servicemen in retaliation for the participation of French troops in NATO operations in Afghanistan. The idea of adding Jewish children to his list of "legitimate" targets appears to have come from Merah himself.
Astonishingly, however, following questioning of Merah just a few weeks later, in mid-November, a counterterror expert from the DCRI's Parisian headquarters actually recommended that the surveillance of Merah be stopped. What is more, the DCRI officer described Merah as "interesting" for French intelligence in light of his travels: an apparent reference to a desire to use him as an informant.
Was this desire transformed into reality? Leaked telephone records show that the DCRI contacted Merah at least three more times in late 2011 and early 2012. Indeed, perhaps now alarmed that the interesting "traveler" might have become a mass murderer, it tried unsuccessfully to reach him twice just hours after the Jewish school massacre on March 19th.
The blindness of French security services continued even after Merah had begun his killing spree, indeed even after he had been identified as a suspect and located. Jordanov describes Merah casually slipping out of his apartment on the evening of March 20th—this despite a hundred French police and intelligence officers already staking out the premises, who somehow failed to see him go. It is only thanks to the fact that Merah came back a few hours later—on his own account, to retrieve materials that he needed for another planned attack—that a French SWAT team did not end up raiding an empty apartment. His return, incidentally, also appears to have gone unperceived.
Merah told Loubane, his intelligence contact, that a minivan full of French gendarmes drove right past him as he was in the process of committing his first murder: the execution of French paratrooper Imad Ibn Ziaten in a deserted parking lot on March 11, 2012. (The gendarmerie is a national police force.) Merah said that the driver of the van looked him "straight in the eyes." "Your gendarmes don't even intervene," Merah mockingly told Loubane, "They could have arrested me and look [what happened]!"
Jordanov confirms the presence of the van in Merah's GoPro footage, and that the driver did in fact look at Merah. He describes Merah revving the engine of his motorbike to make his getaway and then shutting it off when he realized that the gendarmes had driven on. He walked back to Ibn Ziaten's dead body, looked down at it, and said, "This is Islam, my brother. You kill my brothers, I kill you. Allahu Akbar!" He then sped off. Along the way, he ecstatically shouted, "He has joined the angel of death! He has joined the angel of death! I have no fear of death! . . . Allahu Akbar! La ilaha illallah! [There is no god but Allah]."
Four days later, Merah killed two more paratroopers and seriously wounded a third outside their barracks in the town of Montauban. Again, he continued to film as he made his getaway on his motorbike. "The road rolls by in the images," Jordanov writes, "He [Merah] rejoices. Numerous satisfied cries of 'Allah Akbar' are the soundtrack to this macabre film."
Jordanov's observations echo those made by Merah himself in conversation with Loubane. "I felt my heart at peace," Merah said about his feelings after shooting the paratroopers in Montauban, "and . . . since it was at peace, I wanted to do it again . . . ." Merah noted that he felt "better and better" every time he killed.
It has become common for French authorities to describe the perpetrators of what appear to be Islamic terror attacks as "mentally unstable," as if this designation somehow abrogated or diminished the terrorist character of their acts. But it is impossible to read Jordanov's account of Merah's life—or indeed Merah's own words—without concluding that by any normal standards Merah was somewhat crazy.
There is no doubt that not just Islam, but a particularly regressive and radical variety of Islam, was taken seriously in Merah's family. His brother Abdelghani, the anti-Islamist black sheep of the family, has said that Mohamed "bathed" in anti-Semitism from his earliest childhood.
Yet Merah also engaged in decidedly "un-Islamic" behavior right up to the end. Thus, for instance, he is known to have gone to one of his favorite nightclubs, the Bahia, just two days before the Jewish school massacre. Youssef el-Baroumi was a bouncer at the Bahia who knew Merah and his family from the Izards neighborhood where Merah grew up. In a deposition, Baroumi noted that Abdelkader, Mohamed's Salafist elder brother, would not even set foot in a grocery store that sold pork, let alone a nightclub. A thrill-seeker with a passion for fast cars and motorbikes, Mohamed's style appears to have been more inner-city "gangster" than pious Salafist.
Moreover, as Jordanov's survey of his troubled youth shows, Merah was prone to outbursts of extreme violence long before his Islamic "rebirth" in prison. One is left wondering, finally, just how much Islam had to do with the violence that he would go on to commit in its name. In form, of course, it had everything to do with it. But the "inside story" of Mohamed Merah suggests that radical Islam merely provided a conduit, giving legitimacy and a higher meaning to violent impulses that had their roots in the frustrations and resentments and dysfunction that are so typical of life in French urban ghettos like Izards.
Hundreds, if not thousands, of young French people from similar backgrounds have followed in Merah's footsteps, flocking to jihadist-controlled parts of Syria to join ISIS or the Nusra Front, Syria's official al-Qaeda affiliate. Like Merah, they are "not afraid of death" and prepared to take the risk that they too will meet a violent end. However comforting it might be to place all the onus on Islam, Merah's story reveals failings not only in French counterterrorism, but in French society itself. Mohamed Merah is the poster boy for a veritable lost generation of disaffected French urban youth, more and more of whose members are finding their calling in jihad.
John Rosenthal is a European-based journalist and political analyst who writes on EU politics and transatlantic security issues. He is the author of The Jihadist Plot: The Untold Story of Al-Qaeda and the Libyan Rebellion. Follow his work at www.trans-int.com.


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I first found this recipe last summer at another blog called Purple Cookie. You can check out the original post there. We've made a few modifications to the recipe. One thing we found out is that there seems to be too much frosting in the original recipe. The frosting is very sweet, and the cupcakes don't need too much of it to taste good. We've halved the amounts used in the frosting. If you want more frosting either double the measurements we've given, or just look at the original recipe at Purple Cookie.
Blueberry White Chocolate Cupcakes
- makes 12 cupcakes
For the cupcakes
1 ½ cups plain flour
½ tablespoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
¾ cup sugar
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
½ cup buttermilk
1 cup blueberries, frozen or fresh
1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line your muffin pan with 12 cupcake liners.
2. Whisk the flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl.
3. Put the sugar and butter in another large bowl. With an electric mixer, beat the sugar and butter until it is light and fluffy. Then, beat in the eggs, one at a time. Followed by the vanilla.
4. Beat in the dry ingredients in 3 addition alternated with the buttermilk in two additions.
5. Fold in the blueberries.
6. Put the mixture in the muffin pan. Bake for 20-25 minutes.
7. Let the cupcakes cool for 10 minutes. Then, remove them from the pan. Let cool completely before frosting. If you are pressed for time, put the cupcakes in the refrigerator to cool.
For the white chocolate buttercream frosting
2.5 ounces white chocolate, chopped into small pieces
¼ cup unsalted butter, room temperature
1 ¾ cups powdered sugar, sifted
Pinch of salt
¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
1/8 cup sour cream
1. Melt the white chocolate either in the microwave or over a pot of simmering water. Make sure to stir the chocolate as is melts. Remove when melted and let cool slightly.
2. While the chocolate is cooling, beat the butter with an electric mixer until light and fluffy.
3. Mixing on low, gradually add the powdered sugar to the butter until well combined.
4. Add salt, vanilla extract, and sour cream. Mix until smooth.
5. Add the white chocolate and mix with a spoon until the mixture is combined. Don't over mix.
Frost the cupcakes and eat! I like to store the cupcakes in the refrigerator since it tends to be hot in the kitchen during the summer and the icing stays more solid in the fridge.


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This information sheet presents data on foster children which was, for the first time, collected by the National Household Survey (NHS) in 2011. It extends on earlier analyses, which focused more broadly on disparities between the rates of Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal foster children (Information Sheet #165E).
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Hello all! Rara here again! Thought I'd do some blogs for Jenni while she was away, keep an eye out for them =)
Polishes used Barry M-Guava and Nails Inc-Belsize Park. I also added Tara's Talons-Fairy over the top of the bolts. Zigags and Lightening bolt decals from the vinyl boutique.
I loved this mani and I got loads of compliments on it (mainly from men which was weird!) It reminded me of Usain Bolt because the yellow turned the blue into a green and it kinda reminded me of the Jamaican Flag!I kept this mani on for ages and ages because I loved the strikingness (yes that is a word) of it!!


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Hadot, in The Veil of Isis (HUP, 2006) pp. 156, writes that the Timaeus is "presented as a poeisis, that is, as both discourse and a poem, or an artistic game that imitates the artistic game of the poet of the universe, the divinity". Timaeus is scientific, philosophical, and artistic but above all it is about a beautifully-ordered universe planned and constructed by a Craftsman whose Intellect mankind is encouraged to emulate. Perhaps one does not agree that behind the universe is a Good Idea - but who can argue with this premise when presented as a likely fable? Timaeus says that should anyone refute his discussion, "we begrudge him not the prize" (54b). Still, the man who does not see the singularity of vision behind the universe is to be allowed to "pass" (55d). Such is "unversed" - a play on words implying also "unskilled".
In this way, if one prefers traditional orderly narrative, one is making a political statement: preferring order and symmetry to Other. The Other in Timaeus represents the principle of plurality. May it be noted that plurality has its place in this universe: such as at the connection of the joints, for its presence allows for movement (74a).
Everything has its place in this account, despite man only being able to arrive at what is reasonable or likely (29c): man can at best try to unveil the meaning of the universe by composing a poem of the poem of the universe by acting with it, through mimesis.
This poetic endeavour is addressed by Aristotle in Poetics, where he writes that it is the poet's object not to tell what actually happened but what could and would happen (1451a). Hadot cites those who consider the Timaeus ahead of its times for having a "starting point in axioms that are indemonstrable in themselves but are capable of helping to construct a reasonable and likely representation of the universe; that is, ultimately, to 'invent' it" (159). It may not represent the world as it is but as it would appear if it were made rationally (158). If that is true, fair enough, but we are still left with the idea that the rational is good and requires discipline (of the pleasures, etc.) and education to reach. The former is particularly relevant for Timaeus notes that "what is good merits description more than what is evil" (87c) but who among us consistently cultivates their attention to focus on the good? Do we dislike a good fable?
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The sugar house is stacked high with honey super boxes full of ripe frames of honey. The hardest step in harvesting honey is behind me, so now the sticky fun begins.
Each frame of honey is comprised of an intricate network of honeycomb with each individual cell is filled with honey and the entire frame is sealed with a wax coating. So how does the beautiful block of wax-covered honey get into a jar?
Before extracting begins, the frames of honey need to be warm. It's always best to extract the honey soon after it is pulled off the hives since the bees keep the inside of their hives between 90º - 100º F. That is the perfect temperature for extracting. But for me, there are times when I just can't get the entire job done before the weather turns cold, along with my honey frames. When that happens, I will gently and slowly warm the frames using a heat lamp, bringing the temperature back up to about 90º, right where the bees like it.
And boy howdy, do bees love honey! Honey to bees is like catnip to cats. They are crazy about it. And once they find the stash of harvested honey, they go back to their hive and tell the rest of their family where it is. Then word spreads throughout the entire apiary and everyone joins the party. If they see a vat of liquid honey, they just can't resist the temptation to dive right in and take a swim. Then their friends follow and they pile on top each other and all of them drown. It doesn't take long for a tank of honey to be filled with thousands of dead bees. Yes, I learned that lesson the hard way. For this reason it is important to set up the extracting operation inside a tightly-sealed room.
I do the honey extracting in our maple syrup sugarhouse, which is a great place to make a sticky mess since this room is precisely designed to be used for that purpose. But sadly this room does not have the luxury of tightly sealed doors. Therefore, after the bee-drowning experience a few years ago, I need to keep my honey super boxes tightly sealed until I'm ready to extract. Then I'll do all of the extracting at night or on windy or rainy days when the bees aren't out foraging. But even with these precautions, there will always be a few bees buzzing around while the extracting process in progress.
To access the honey, the wax cappings need to be removed. I use an electric uncapping knife which is a hot metal blade that makes it easy to cut a thin slice across the top surface of the honey. As I slice, the top layer drops into the vat of the uncapping tank, which has a screen in the bottom to allow the honey within the wax to leach out to be eventually drained from the tank. Beeswax is also saved and rendered for future use.
The uncapped frames are vertically placed into the extractor, which is a tank with racks on the inside to hold the frames in place while they spin. Using centrifugal force, the honey flings out of the comb, splatters to the sides of the drum, runs down and pools in the bottom where it is drained out of the tank. The process is similar to the spin cycle on a washing machine. Extractors range in size and capability. Some are small and have a hand crank to spin the frames, while others are much larger, hold many frames and are motorized. My extractor is motorized and holds 18 honey super frames, and the process takes about 20 minutes per batch.
After spending 20 minutes being vigorously spun in circles, you may think that the honeycomb on the frames would be completely destroyed. But that doesn't happen. All of the beautiful honeycomb stays securely in tact, and the frames are ready to be put back on the hives for a refill next season.
As the honey is drained from the extractor, I use a sieve to catch the debris such as large chunks of wax or the occasional dead bee that found its way into the tank. At this point, some beekeepers may choose to filter and process their honey even further so it stays clear and liquid. I choose not to do that, keeping the honey as raw and natural as the bees have made it.
I pour it all into the bottling tank that has a spout at the bottom where each jar is filled one at a time. I like to use the old fashioned glass honey jars because it emphasizes the beauty of the honey. Plastic honey bears are a very popular container, not only because they are cute, but it's easy to squirt the honey out of the spout on the little bear's head.
Sadly honeybees around the world are greatly challenged and continue to decline. Beekeepers are equally challenged as they struggle along with their bees. They need your support, so take time to find and support a local beekeeper, eat local honey and celebrate this amazing product of nature.
Main photo by Mitch Kezar
Debbie Morrison is a frequent contributor to Simple, Good and Tasty. She and her husband Jim own and operate Sapsucker Farms, where their certified organic crops include maple syrup, honey, apples, plums and vegetables. Debbie's last post for Simple, Good and Tasty was Honey Harvesting 101: Smoke, Stink, Blow, Brush.


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She is the best friend ever. Her dark black hair hang just past shoulder length. Hter eyes are an unmistakable light blue eyes shine like the moons reflection on the water. Her smile shows a the liveliness of her life and her skin is a pale shade of brown. Maia wears bright clothes but anything she wears bring out the sweet smell of horses! She is tall for her age and friendly.
She has a great attitude towards learning and ponies! Her respect for animals really shows and her mother says that all animals are attracted to her. She loves sport and won cross country over the last couple of years.
Everyone respects her love for animals and her friends at Ashurst school crowd her each day. I love Maia for who she is and I know that her friend think the same. Her love of sport and ponies does not affect those that don't.
She adores her ponies Vinnie, Ruben and Miki. But sadly the last two Ruben and Miki have been sold. She has her own bedroom which she guards from her brother. She has her own desk and window with the best view of the ponies. Maia has a black jacket which she takes everywhere!
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text: Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders: A Lesson From the PastFranco, GiulianoEpidemiology: July 2010 - Volume 21 - Issue 4 - p 577-579 doi: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e3181e0c6f4 History: Commentary Author InformationAuthors Article OutlineOutline Article MetricsMetrics From the Department of Medicine and Medical Specialties, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia–School of Medicine of Modena, Modena, Italy. Correspondence: Giuliano Franco, Department of Medicine and Medical Specialties, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia–School of Medicine of Modena, Largo del Pozzo 71, 41100 Modena, Italy. E-mail firstname.lastname@example.com. REFERENCES Ramazzini's De Morbis Artificum Diatriba (Diseases of workers),1 published in 1700, has been described as a contribution to the development of occupational health as important as the contributions of what Vesalius' work to anatomy and Morgagni's to pathology.2 Bernardino Ramazzini (1633–1714) went beyond the study of usual health problems of his time (typhoid, smallpox, and plague),3 describing instead the health problems suffered by workers in particular occupations.4 Furthermore, Ramazzini understood that occupation hazards were not limited to exposure to chemicals (such as mineral dusts, organic particles, and vapors inhaled through the lungs or absorbed through the skin) or physical agents (such as noise, heat, cold, and humidity) but also included the effects of awkward body positions and movements: "...the cause I ascribe to certain violent and irregular motions and unnatural posture of the body, by reason of which the natural structure of the vital machine is so impaired that serious diseases gradually develop therefrom" (Chapter I - Diseases to which miners of metal are exposed) and the maintenance of prolonged stationary postures or postures requiring heavy exertion: "I now wish to turn to other workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from other causes, ie, from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body called for while they work" (Chapter XXX - Diseases of those who work standing). Ramazzini understood how posture, repetition of movements, weight lifting, and muscular load could contribute to certain disorders (sciatica, gibbus, valgoid condition, hernia, pain in different parts of the body, fatigue, arthritis, paralysis, lameness, shoulder dislocation, and muscular tension). This allowed him not only to describe the anatomic site of the health problem, but also to identify intensity and duration of the risk factor in diverse occupations (Table). TABLE Ramazzini observed that biomechanical overload and awkward postures caused disabilities in miners, and that musculoskeletal stress is a major cause of disease among potters, "who sit at the wheel and turn it to shape the vessels...from excessive fatigue of the feet they are often subject to sciatica" (Chapter V - Diseases of potters) and in porters, "whose work is indispensable for loading and unloading merchandise from the cargo-ships...From carrying huge weights on their shoulders they too often suffer from various and even very serious diseases...the dorsal vertebral are constantly bent forward and become set in that position" (Chapter XXXV - Diseases of porters). Prolonged stationary posture was associated with fatigue in pressmen, who "have to stand incessantly at work...is very fatiguing, for almost the whole body must be exerted in such a task; hence these workmen inevitably suffer from lassitude and intense fatigue" (Supplementum - Chapter I - Diseases of printers). Ramazzini observed that standing "even for a short time, proves so exhausting compared with walking and running, though it be for a long time" (Chapter XXX - Diseases of those who work standing) and proposed a pathophysiological mechanism to explain the observation: "It is generally supposed that this is because of the tonic movement of all the antagonist muscles, both extensors and flexors, which have to be continually in action to enable a man to keep standing erect" (Chapter XXX - Diseases of those who work standing). Clinical consequences of unnatural postures are also described for sedentary workers "who...while they work at their job, become bent, hump-backed, and hold their heads down like people looking for something on the ground..." (Chapter XXX - Sedentary workers and their diseases) In particular, "Tailors...often subject to numbness of the legs, lameness, and sciatica, because while they are sewing garments they are almost of necessity obliged to keep one of the legs back against the thigh" (Chapter XXXI - Sedentary workers and their diseases). Ramazzini observed health disorders in writers and notaries: "the maladies that afflict the clerks aforesaid arise...from constant sitting...the incessant movement of the hand and always in the same direction" (Supplementum - Chapter II - Diseases of scribes and notaries) and concluded that the muscular overload of the arm led to a progressive impairment of the function: "...incessant driving of the pen over paper causes intense fatigue of the hand and the whole arm because of the continuous and almost tonic strain on the muscles and tendons, which in course of time results in failure of power in the right hand" (Supplementum - Chapter II - Diseases of scribes and notaries). In these workers Ramazzini recognized the potential for psychologic stress: "the strain on the mind from the effort not to disfigure the books by errors or cause loss to their employers when they add, subtract, or do other sums in arithmetic)" (Supplementum - Chapter II - Diseases of scribes and notaries). Ramazzini felt the need to provide workers with advice and recommendations advising the patient to limit himself, to be moderate and to avoid risks: "Therefore in work so taxing, moderation would be the best safeguard against these maladies...; for the common maxim "Nothing to excess" is one that I excessively approve..." (Supplementum - Chapter IV - Diseases of weavers), to limit the working activity: "...we must advise men employed in the standing trades to interrupt when they can that too prolonged posture by sitting or walking about or exercising the body in some way" (Chapter XXX, Diseases of those who work standing), and to do physical exercise: "They should be advised to take physical exercise...to some extent counteract the harm done by many days of sedentary life" (Chapter XXXI - Sedentary workers and their diseases). In light of the recent increase of musculoskeletal disorders, representing a major cause of lost time from work, workers' disability, compensation claims and health care costs,5 it is appropriate to recall the lessons of Ramazzini. He anticipated the utility of epidemiology for discovering health problems, investigated the working environment to improve it, and provided workers with sound hygienic measures—sound even from the perspective of modern occupational health.Back to Top | Article Outline REFERENCES 1. Ramazzini B. De Morbis Artificum Diatriba. (Diseases of Workers). The Latin text of 1713, revised with translation and notes by Wilmer Cave Wright. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press; 1940. Republished by: New York: The Classics of Medicine Library, Division of Gryphon Editions, Special edition; 1983. Cited Here... 2. Rosen G. A History Of Public Health. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press; 1993. Cited Here... 3. Franco G. Ramazzini's "De Morbis Artificum Diatriba" and society, culture, and the human condition in the seventeenth century. Int J Occup Environ Health. 2000;6:80–85. Cited Here... | PubMed | CrossRef 4. Franco G. Ramazzini and workers' health. Lancet. 1999;354:858–861. Cited Here... | View Full Text | PubMed | CrossRef 5. National Research Council and Institute of Medicine. Musculoskeletal Disorders and the Workplace: Low Back and Upper Extremities. Washington, DC: National Academy Press; 2001. Cited Here... © 2010 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.


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Writing Documentation
- 1 Writing Docbook Documentation for the PKP
Writing Docbook Documentation for the PKP
This document is currently extremely incomplete, and undergoing revisions as I switch from DocBook4.5 to 5.0.
Creating a Docbook XML sourcefile is mainly a matter of identifying what kind of document you are working on, what kinds of tags you should be using to describe your document. This meta-document details the steps I use to create book- and article-level source documentation for the Public Knowledge Project. It will also describe the steps I take to transform XML source files to HTML and PDF.
Writings, books on DocBook
- DocBook v5.0: The Definitive Guide
- DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide
- Dave Pawson's DocBook site, may be slightly out-of-date
XML Editors
Writing an Article
First, choose whether you are writing a book or an article. This identifies the root element you'll start with: <book> or
. For the rest of this document, we'll assume we're writing an article.
At bare minimum, your source file will look like so:
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 <info> <title>Importing and Exporting Data with OJS</title> <author> <orgname>The Public Knowledge Project</orgname> <address> <city>Burnaby</city> <street>8888 University Drive</street> <postcode>V5A 1S6</postcode> <country>Canada</country> </address> <email>firstname.lastname@example.com</email> </author> </info> <sect1 xml:id="preface"><info><title>Preface</title></info> <para>...</para> </sect1>

Writing a Book
Info will come as I convert the OxS in an Hour docs as well as the Technical Reference. But mostly it's about using the following as your root element/namespace identifier:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <book xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xl="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0">
Common DocBook Elements You Should be Using
You can find a list of all elements for DocBook 5.0 here.
Inline Elements
- Use <filename>/plugins/importExport/native/native.dtd</filename> when you are referring to file names and locations.
- Use <command>php importExport.php</command> when you reference commands.
- Use <userinput>User Home</userinput> for referencing ... user ... input.
<para>To import a file, you can use <userinput><embed></userinput> to place a file directly within your XML document, or use <userinput><href></userinput> to link to one.</para>
- Use <![CDATA[[
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tags. (Let me know if you come up with a clever way to ignore <![CDATA[]]> itself.)
- Use <element xl:href="http://pkp.sfu.ca">Public Knowledge Project</element> to hyperlink to an external page. "element" can be any inline element. You can also use "link" as a generic element I think.
- Use <element linkend="sectionId">link text</element> for linking within the document itself. "element" can be any inline element. You can also use "link" as a generic element I think.
Block Elements
- Use <programlisting>/multiple lines of code/</programlisting> for large, multiline code blocks.
- Use <tip><para>this is a tip</para></tip> for notes, suggestions, tips, etc.
Transforming DocBook into Other Formats
DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide has a very good chapter on setting up all the tools you'll need to transform DocBook XML into HTML and PDF. You can download OS/platform-specific packages here, or at a minimum you can make sure you have the following installed:
- DocBook DTD
- DocBook XSL Stylesheets
- XSLT Processor
- XSL-FO Processor
To install most of what you need in Ubuntu, install the following packages through apt-get or Synaptic: docbook-xml (installs the DTD), docbook-xsl (the stylesheets), xsltproc (the tool to transform to HTML and FO). Ubuntu installs the stylesheets to /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh/. You can put them anywhere you want, but I'll reference that location below. You can also download them separately if you're not running Ubuntu from here.
I'm currently handling all of my transformations on Ubuntu using xsltproc for HTML and FO, and FOP for FO->PDF. The following instructions will assume you are using the same tools in the same general environment.
You can't use Synaptic or apt-get to install FOP on Ubuntu, but the DocBook XSL guide has a page on installing it here.


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Tulum was a great Christmas destination for the last 17 years (!). Now it's time to find that chill, un-fashionable beach vibe someplace that's just as beautiful and easy to get to from New York, but not packed with, well, New Yorkers. When I heard about Holbox Island, just off the coast of the Yucatán, from my friend Maria Cornejo—Tulum early adopter who moved on years ago—it sounded just right. No cars, no attitude, just basic beachfront hotels and simple food. I'll start looking into house rentals soon—or perhaps get a room at Casa Las Tortugas. – Christine Muhlke, editor at large
Pedaling the hills of Italy
My dream Healthyish vacation is a selfish one. I leave my wife and child at home, and I head off across the hills, mountains, and coasts of Italy with chef Seamus Mullen and a pack of hardcore cyclists. Orchestrated by DuVine, this weeklong trip deftly marries pampering and punishment. You bike all day and then settle into spectacular hard-earned dinners, knowing no matter how much you eat and drink, you'll burn it all off come morning. – Adam Rapoport, editor-in-chief


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The Unilever unit in January will extend its eponymous brand beyond soups and side dishes to complete meals. The marketer will roll out a line of meal kits intended to be paired with chicken, called Lipton Sizzle & Stir.
The launch will receive a whopping $45 million in TV and print support starting in March, targeting women ages 25 to 44 with the message that the premium kits provide a convenient meal for the whole family. Lowe Lintas & Partners Worldwide, New York, will develop the ads.
Lipton is the leader in the growing dry side-dish mix category, with products such as Lipton Noodles & Sauce and Lipton Rice & Sauce. But competition is bubbling. General Mills, long the leader in dry dinner mixes with its Betty Crocker Helper products, entered the shelf-stable side-dish category during the summer with a pasta and rice line under the Betty Crocker name.
Now, it seems, turnabout is fair play. With the new Sizzle & Stir line -- which includes varieties such as three-cheese chicken alfredo penne and lemon-garlic chicken and rice -- Lipton intends to steal share from other marketers whose offerings require consumers to just add chicken to create a complete meal in minutes.
Most notable among them are General Mills' Chicken Helper, introduced successfully last year, and Kraft Foods' Stove Top Oven Classics, launched in late 1998.
Dry dinner mixes overall were up 14% for the year ended Oct. 10, according to Information Resources Inc., growth one Midwest grocery buyer attributes in large part to Chicken Helper, which has grown to $48 million in sales.
"Lipton is getting into the category now because the opportunity for add-meat `mealmakers,' particularly chicken-based, is very large and the Lipton brand equity carries a lot of weight," said an executive close to the company.
Lipton intends to market Sizzle & Stir as a premium meal kit, with a suggested retail price of $2.69 for the six-serving box vs. Chicken Helper's price of $1.99.
Marketing support will target higher-income moms with prime-time and daytime TV and print ads running March through December, five newspaper inserts dropping between March and October, and extensive sampling programs in April and May and again in September and October.
Separately, Kraft's Stove Top Oven Classics line -- which differs from Chicken Helper and the new Lipton line because it is meant to be baked rather than made in a skillet -- will get two new potato varieties, au gratin and roasted garlic, to further bolster its $35 million in sales.
Unlike Kraft's Oven Classics' commercial from FCB Worldwide, Chicago, that features two elderly women discussing the merits of the 30-minute meal kits, Lipton's Sizzle & Stir ads will position the products as quick meals for young moms with kids, said the executive close to the company.
Lipton's sales in the $428 million dry side-dish category grew 9% to $164 million for the year ended Oct. 10, per IRI. Quaker's Golden Grain division, which includes Rice-A-Roni and Noodle-Roni, was down 4% to $128 million, and Betty Crocker was up 34% to $38 million.


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This week we are 'blinging it on' we want to see lots of bling bling bling!
We have 2 most wonderfully talented guest designers this week.
Firstly, Jenn you can see her blog here
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Such a fun challenge! I so love bling! If anyone is interested in the shoe template I used on my creation, they can find the link on my blog:
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My second entry for this challenge. Love the theme!
For the 2nd card I´ve used Glimmer Mist, Stickels and some
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Lab Tech, Certified and Registered Dental Assistant with Warford Orthodontics since 1985
Daily Job Activities: Pouring models and fabricating Invisalign Retainers, and sometimes resetting teeth before making the retainer.
How about life outside of work? I have many hobbies including teaching aerobics, biking, cross country skiing, and walking my three Newfoundland dogs. I like to eat fruits and veggies and my favorite drink is Diet Cherry Coke. For entertainment I love true story movies and listening to Rock and Roll and a little country rock.
What is your favorite part of working at Warford Orthodontics? I love work. I love constantly being busy and doing things with my hands. What makes me tick is knowing I do a good job and pleasing not just the Patients but also Dr. John.
Any funny or heart-warming stories to share? When a Patient had her braces removed, she was missing a cuspid and I made a pontic retainer for her. She got tears in her eyes because she could not believe how real it looked to have that tooth in her mouth.
What makes Warford Orthodontics different? The friendly staff! They are always willing to help the Patients and work around their schedules to accommodate them. There are fun things for the Patients to do inside and outside of office. And the complimentary X-rays, exams and second set of retainers set us apart as well.
Certified Orthodontic Assistant, Registered Dental Assistant with Warford Orthodontics since 1975
Daily Job Activities: I am involved in Patient care. And I am in charge of ordering all supplies for the office.
How about life outside of work? I enjoy being with my two children and four grandchildren. My favorite movie is "Sound Of Music"!
What is your favorite part of working at Warford Orthodontics? I love the work. Especially seeing the excitement in Patients when we remove brackets, and to see how happy they are with transformation of their smile.
Any funny or heart-warming stories to share? When you have two or more kids or parents from the same family, it is fun getting to know them through the years.
What makes Warford Orthodontics different? The experience of our doctors and staff. Also, our Patients are not just another person, they are treated as we would treat a family member.
Registered Dental Assistant with Warford Orthodontics since 2013
Daily Job Activities: There is a lot we do in one day, from normal braces to Invisalign. We do a lot with sterilizing and many different things throughout the whole office.
How about life outside of work? I share my home with a dachshund hound named Libby. My favorite food is strudel with cream and potatoes (it's a German dish). I like to watch Gray's Anatomy and listen to country music. In my free time I like to be doing anything outdoors like hunting, fishing or just being out on the lake – either relaxing on the boat or water skiing. In the winter I enjoy snowboarding as well.
What is your favorite part of working at Warford Orthodontics? I love working here. What makes me tick is just seeing the Patients change through treatment. When they come in, you can tell that some of them are really unsure about their smile. Then at the end of treatment they love their new smile and love showing it off. I love just knowing I helped to change that!
Any funny or heart-warming stories to share? I still love the time that Denise lost her glasses and we looked and looked for them and we finally found them, they were on the face of her Patient! We all still laugh about that story to this day.
What makes Warford Orthodontics different? We have on call on the weekends so we are always here to help you out. We are also an Invisalign Elite Provider.
Director of Investment Accountability
Daily Job Duties: I help Patients and families make their smile transformation dream a reality. I help maximize insurance benefits and partner to make the investment as affordable as possible.
What Makes You Tick at Warford Orthodontics? : I show up, I listen, I laugh, I try to be a good friend. I try to enjoy each & every day.
Life Outside of Work: My kids are very involved with both academics & athletics right now. They keep us busy attending their events, and watching them play a variety of sports – mainly Track, Basketball & Cross Country. My husband & I really enjoy traveling. I love reading, boating, and walking when I get a chance. I am also a huge classic rock & Motown fan.
What Makes WO Different: You will find a team that is truly dedicated to providing world class customer service. I have been working in healthcare for close to 30 years now, and their commitment to quality is obvious in everything they do. I have never experienced a team like this that has such a great balance of quality of care, and yet still provides a very fun atmosphere for both Patients and staff.
Smile Transformation Artist
What are your Daily job activities?
Between scanning, doing Invisalign starts, adding attachments, helping keep up with sterilization, and whatever else needs to be done, it's always a busy and exciting day.
How about life outside the office?
I am a happily married farmer's wife. I love the quiet and peacefulness of living in the country. Some of my favorite days are when it's raining outside, when I can wrap up in a blanket with a bowl of popcorn and a movie. Popcorn is definitely at the top of my list for favorite snacks! I also have a passion for photography. My camera goes almost everywhere with me. I love getting out and exploring new places with it. Fall is my favorite time of year. I love everything pumpkin spice, sweaters, and the beautiful colors of the leaves. Along with fall comes hunting season. I love getting out to sit in a tree stand or in a blind.
What is your favorite part of working at Warford Orthodontics?
I love seeing the glow of happiness our Patients have knowing their smile is becoming perfect! With access to the latest technology we are even able to show our Patients what their end result will look like before they even begin treatment. Seeing the excitement in their eyes, in awe of the transformation that can be made, makes me love my job more and more.
What makes Warford Orthodontics different?
The friendliness and professionalism of the staff stands out from anywhere else. You can feel the happiness and energy everyone always has. I love working in an environment where the goal is to make each person's day a little better than when they came in. It ends up making my day better too!
Princess of Clean
What are your daily job activities?
My job is to keep everything clean and sterilized as well as moving efficiently in "the circle" so our Patients can have an Astonishing Experience!.
How about life outside the office?
I have three siblings and my favorite season is fall because of the pretty leaves and pumpkin spice lattes! I enjoy going for walks and riding bike outdoors. In my free time I like cooking for my family, sewing, and quilting. My favorite meal is Syrian Style Rice and Beans.
What is your favorite part of working at Warford Orthodontics?
I like to watch the patient's teeth transform into a beautiful smile that boosts their self-confidence, I'm a former Patient myself, and know the difference it can make!
What makes Warford Orthodontics different?
Warford Orthodontics is different because it has an exceedingly friendly atmosphere and the best Invisalign treatment you'll find for hundreds of miles in any direction.
Dr. John
Dr. Warford
Office Hours
- If you are experiencing an orthodontic emergency during office hours please be sure to call ahead to ensure the best care possible.
- Regular daily office hours vary during the week so please call 701-255-1311 for office hours and to schedule your appointment.
- Fri – Sun, 9am-4pm
- Call or send a text to: 701-471-2539
- The assistant on-call will evaluate your needs and decide if you need to be seen right away or if waiting until the next workday will be okay depending on your comfort level, of course.
- The on-call assistant can consult with Dr. John 7 days a week if they need to so we can provide you the best advice for your holiday or weekend concerns.
After Hours
- Call the office phone or email, and we'll get back to you right away the next business day.
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Alright, let's get this mailbag thing rolling here with the first issue!!! We'll see how I do and keep working to improve from there. Remember, email your questions to email@example.com. Ask away, if I can answer, I will! I'm not going to use names. I was, but I'm going to keep it impersonal, that way I can answer the questions, and not have to worry about whether or not somebody wants them posted or not. The questions are good, and if you have them, I'm sure that another person has them as well.
Question #1 Rip/Liz
What are the two outside safeties keying for their run/pass read, in the 4-2-5, when running Saban's Rip/Liz? Also, can you tell me the alignment for the secondary?
Answer #1
When I ran Rip/Liz (R/L) from the 4-2, I had the OSS's key the EMOL for run/pass key. This is tough in my opinion, but keying #2 makes them a bit late to the party in some cases due to their tighter alignment that if they were a deep safety (such as the way Saban actually ran R/L).
|I'll take 1 high safety please...
To the second part, the OSS's are generally inside eye of the #2 receiver, but this can vary by game plan and ability. The corners, use standard divider rules that can be found in any Cover 3 playbook. Generally speaking, the split of the #1 receiver is what controls the alignment of the corners. The FS will play in the middle of the #1's, or he can favor the QB's arm, or play more to the MOF when the ball is on the hash. The FS can really be moved around according to game plan and what your opponent is trying to attack you with. For more on defending the spread from an eight man front, go here.
Question #2 Midline Diagrams
Do you have any diagrams of midline vs. a 4-3?
No need to break out the pen and paper when you've already done it right?! Go here to check out my old article on midline. I will expound on this a bit, as I ran the greatest running play in all of football three different ways.
Midline blast, or what some would call midline lead involved both slots attacking the B gap area. The play side slot would fold under and help seal off the scraping LB. In the case of the 4-3 defense, this would be the MLB. The backside slot would go in tail motion, and then lead the QB on the keeper (if the ball was pulled), by blocking OLB to near safety. Blast was a great power and short yardage play.
Midline seal, was the base way I ran midline, which involved the backside slot going in tail motion and leading the play, with the play side slot, loading on the front side. The key here was seeing how the defense would react. The reason you we ran seal was teams we would see, would pinch their DL vs. a base block, and this would thereby spill the QB outside. Well, if you're running Blast and the QB spills outside the B gap, there's nobody there to block for him. Seal keeps this from happening, and gives the QB a lead blocker if the play has to hit a gap wider due to stunting defensive linemen.
Midline fold, was a way to run midline with twirl motion or no motion at all. We would run this against teams that were blitzing a LB based on our motion, or slanting and stemming the DL based on motion. Fold had the play side slot replace the backside slot on seal. The backside slot simple went on a pitch course, as this was the beginnings of how we installed midline triple.
Midline is a great play, and is the number one constraint play a coach must install when running a triple option oriented offense. For more information on the flexbone, go here.
Question #3 Quarters Questions
How do you handle a boot back to a safety that has a detached #2 receiver or a one back, double tight double flanker? How do you handle sprintout pass to a slot trips set?
Answer #3
Although a bit vague, I'll try and answer these as best I can. Without route combos, asking a question about how a pattern read coverage handles certain routes is a bit difficult to answer. In the first part of the first question, I'm assuming some sort of high-low type concept where #2 may be running a whip route, while #1 is clearing the zone. In the first example I've got drawn, that is what you'll see. The safety is caught in a bit of "no man's land" in that the whip isn't really deep enough to grab his attention. The LB is going to be held by the fake, but must expand immediately upon reading pass. The LB will be inside and underneath the whip route. The safety to the side of the boot will rob curl to post, but since #1 is vacating, more than likely he'll get a drag coming from the other side of the formation. The MLB will carry the drag until he clears the edge of the tackle box, at which time he will come off and now attack the QB and contain him on the edge. This is where the safety must pick up the drag route. The safety away from boot action, should "melt" into the the middle third of the field looking to work underneath the backside post. Of course, the corner's rule of staying on top of #1 would hold true and he would run with the vertical route on the boot side, and be on top of the backside post away from the boot. Now, I have had some calls/reactions if we were really concerned with the backside drag that had the safety away from boot, jump the route and run with it across the formation. This is good, so long as the team you're facing doesn't run any sort of throwback concept off boot action. The big key with beating crossing routes, is that the underneath defenders need to get these receivers on the ground. A receiver lying flat of his back can't threaten a defense very much!
One common high-low bootleg concept that has caught on around here is booting into smash. Same concept, but what OC's like about it is that it pulls that robbing front side safety out of the mix, opening up the drag. This is when we like to tag our quarters coverage with something that puts the backside safety on the drag, or really harp on our underneath players getting the receivers on the ground.
None of this really changes via formation, so much as it does against route concepts. The reads are the same no matter the formation, so the Ace Double Pro look (double TE double flanker) doesn't really change anything for the safeties. They will still read/react off what the #2 receiver is doing. The good news about defending the TE drag is you can utilize some concepts such as the Jam concept by Michigan State to disrupt the release of the TE, compared to when the #2 receiver is split out in the slot position. Again, this disruption keeps the drag route from getting to the LB's before they've had a chance to come off their run read on playaction.
To answer the second question is even tougher than the first! Again, no route concepts were given, so I'll go with your standard trips sprint out flood, where you end up with three receivers on three different levels. Now again, what coverage are you playing, because as we all know, Quarters takes on a bit different shape when it defends 3x1 formations. The route concepts I'm used to seeing are shown below. The #1 receiver clears the zone, while #2 runs an out cut to the back end of the flats and the #3 receiver runs an out cut to the front end, or shallow end of the flats. Backside is usually a drag or post. For general purposes, I'm going to show this out of my solo check, again, keeping in mind there are several ways to play 3x1 formations out of Quarters coverage. Anyhow, the OLB/nickel to the trips side, will expand immediately and it's important that this player work for not only width, but depth too. The safety, will more than likely run with the out route by #2, but will be behind it due to leverage (which is why a strong side X-out concept such as TCU's Special is such a good change up vs. 3x1 flood concepts). The OLB keeps this throwing lane narrow by getting depth and width in their drop. The corner, of course, stays on top of #1's vertical route. The MLB is matching #3, and will widen on the snap seeing #3 expand AND seeing the sprint out by the QB. Once clear of the tackle box, the MLB has to go contain the QB. The weak safety is one that is really lost in all the shuffle, especially if the offense runs the backside #1 on a drag route. The FS should melt to the deep middle 1/3 and mirror the QB's eyes since #3 didn't threaten him vertically. Now, if the backside #1 runs the post, the safety can help the corner with this route as it crosses the field. The weak corner is locked up man to man with the #1 receiver, so wherever he goes, the corner is going. The LB, away from trips, is also locked in man, but upon seeing sprint action, can now work to the sprint side and help the corner with any shallow crossing routes by the weak #1 receiver. One thing to keep in mind with the LB away from the action, is to keep his eyes on the back. If the back DOES NOT go with action, he needs to sit for the throwback screen.
Again, a pretty vague question, I hope I was able to answer it clearly, and I hope the illustrations help. Please, feel free to elaborate by emailing me at firstname.lastname@example.com. Well, let's see how this goes, let me know what you think!


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The year has flown by and we are already in our final term of primary four. Last term was very busy and successful and we would like to thank all parents for their support with our Viking museum. The children thoroughly enjoyed sharing their learning with you.
This term our focus will be on Birds. We will be learning about different types of birds and hopefully going in to the local community to go bird watching.We would be grateful if you could ensure your child has appropriate outdoor clothing for this. As part of the topic the children will design and make a bird box and give a short presentation to the class.Homework task
Please note our class assemblies this term will be on the following dates:
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I just came back from AUBE and is was ooifdgshdoiagsoid fucking amazing!!!!!!!
I saw them live like FINALLY!!!!!!
They were so super uber cute and omg I love them Q____________Q
To see how they actually move live and to see the expressions on their faces Q_____Q<333
Since today's live was a christmas live, they all did "cosplay" XDD
Akiya was a Snowman
Sae was Santa
Kaito was a reindeer
and Yuuichi....
omg Yuuichi.....
I still don't rly know what he was, but he was wearing .... XDDD .... he was wearing... omg...
kind of a female black santa version... mini skirt (with sexy smiley pants underneath XDD) and santa hat and omg.... his make up was so feminine and pretty Q___Q He looked so stunning and beautiful!!! <333333333333333333 I wish I could have taken a picture from this beauty Q___Q;; but I was too afraid to get killed by all those bangyas around me... omg..... the atmosphere at a Japanese live is so damn strange... especially since you're a foreigner in the midst of all those gyaru-gyas and.. *shudder* ... I don't know XDD
Maaa, I was concentrating on furi so hard (gosh, they have killer furi XD) that I didn't reeeaally remember the setlist.... I think the first song was stare into the void because I don't know that song yet, but I bought the live only single and will hear it soon *_____*
ok ok~
1. Stare into the Void (?)
3. Gekijou
4. Que sera (a song from Aikuru, who also played.. they're like best buddies XD)
5. Towel kyoku
Sadly they didn't have buppan before AUBE played so I didn't have a towel *sob* but I have one now!! bwahahaha... the staff member who sold the merch was so over happy when I bought the towel and the single XDD I'm so happy I could support them a little *___*
ok, AUBE was 2nd last... Aikuru was last... some fans were shouting for an Encore and AIkuru reappeard... then there much bla from their side which didn't interest me, but then... they played one more song.. well, it was Que sera again and and.... Kaito and Yuuichi reappeared on stage!! *OOOOOOOOOOOOO* And they played/sang the song together >www<
Before that, Kaito and Yuuichi also gave Aikuru a christmas present in shape of a cake X3
They were so cute >w<
I don't really remember much from AUBE's MCs, most of it was just funny, no big announcements or so ;___;" ...... unless I missed them XDD
But it was great >w<
And I want that towel song on CD please, it's awesome XDD
Ok, that's all I can write abou so far... I mean I only just arrived here in Tokyo XDD
Tomorrow is the day of all days!!
the GazettE .... Tokyo Dome... halleluja!!
Good night!


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- Eduardo Mendes & Les Oxley & William Rea & Marco Reale, 2008. "Long memory or shifting means? A new approach and application to realised volatility," Working Papers in Economics 08/04, University of Canterbury, Department of Economics and Finance.
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July 22, 2015 | by Denise Heady
720 days. That's how long Alex Tung, 38, had to give up surfing after being diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. For most people, even some surfers, such a hiatus wouldn't be a big deal, but for Tung, surfing has been everything.
The Southern California resident began surfing when he was in elementary school, immediately falling in love with the sport and the ocean. As an adult, Tung would head straight to the beach to go surfing. It was his version of meditating. Nothing mattered when he was in the water.
"When I'm in the ocean, I feel more connected to mother nature," Tung said. "It clears my mind, gives me positive energy and soothes my soul. It's my escape. It's everything to me."
It was in the ocean, in early 2014, where Tung first noticed red dots on his body. He didn't think much of it at the time.
Then, in May of that year, he went on a surfing trip to Hawaii. That's when he also started noticing bruises on his legs and found himself getting tired easily. When he returned home to Cerritos, he decided to finally take his family's and friend's advice to make an appointment with his doctor.
Tung's doctor immediately suspected Tung had a form of leukemia. Tests proved him right.
Tung immediately started chemotherapy and spent a month in a local hospital. After finishing the treatment, Tung was told his only hope for a cure would be a stem cell, or bone marrow, transplant.
Finding a match proves difficult
Soon after his diagnosis, Tung came to City of Hope hoping to undergo a transplant.
Every year thousands of people with life-threatening blood cancers depend on a transplant of stem cells from bone marrow to survive their disease. Although some are lucky enough to find a bone marrow match within their families, others have to seek an unrelated donor through the National Bone Marrow Registry.
Tung waited six months for a match, but because of his Chinese heritage, the search proved more difficult than expected.
Although 12 million people have signed up with the registry, only 7 percent are of Asian descent.
Ultimately, with the guidance of his doctor, Elizabeth Budde, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, Tung decided to sign up for a clinical trial that used umbilical cord blood for transplantation instead of bone marrow. Cord blood has been found to provide the stem cells necessary for transplant when a blood cancer patient doesn't have an ideal stem cell match.
Today, Tung is nearly six months post-transplant and still recovering. Upon his diagnosis, he was told to stay out of the water for two years due to the risk of infection, so he's slowly counting down the days until he can step into the ocean once more. He recently hit the 387-days-to-go mark and, though waiting is difficult, Tung said, "Things couldn't look better."
Reflecting on his journey
Here, Tung shares some of the wisdom he's gained during his treatment journey, along with practical tips for patients who have been newly diagnosed.
Learn more about becoming a patient or getting a second opinion by visiting our website or by calling 800-826-HOPE (4673). You may also request a new patient appointment online. City of Hope staff will explain what's required for a consult at City of Hope and help you determine, before you come in, whether or not your insurance will pay for the appointment.