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Dubbo MP backs royal commission
A Dubbo MP who called for a royal commission into institutional child sex abuse in Australia, says he is glad organisations other than the catholic church will be looked at.
The Federal Government announced the commission last night, but it could take several years to complete.
The wide ranging inquiry will investigate child abuse in institutions, such as schools, churches and foster homes, and look at how authorities responded.
The Member for Dubbo, Troy Grant, says he is glad the investigation will reflect how wide spread the problem is.
"There's no doubt that the Catholic Church has probably been the most covered or prominent sector of any institutionalised group that have been sort of betrayed in the media or had their cases dealt with, but we'd be fools not to acknowledge the fact that this is an endemic thing that has happened right across many institutions for decades and decades."
He says the investigation needs to be allowed as much time as possible.
"The problem is so large that if you cut short the opportunity for the commission to do its job properly, you'd be doing a further injustice.
"So for me, it's not the timeframe that's important, and I think the Australian community will be shocked by the volume of information that is brought before the commission to deal with, so they'll probably need all the time that's going to be allowed."
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More than $500k shared with Woburn Police Department after precious metals probe
WOBURN, Mass. (AP) — The Woburn police department is getting more than $520,000 for helping federal officials foil an attempt by a Boston-area dealer of precious metals to smuggle large quantities of gold and cash into the United States from Canada.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations says Woburn police are receiving the money for their assistance in the criminal investigation of Zohrab Sarkissian.
Federal officials say the money is part of funds obtained when Sarkissian agreed in July 2011 to withdraw his claim to 15 gold bars, more than $13,000 in cash, a luxury sedan and other valuable metal. Authorities say Sarkissian attempted to smuggle the gold and cash through the port of entry in High Gate Spring, Vt. in August 2010.
The remaining funds will go to federal coffers.
The following is the press release on the case from Immigration and Customs Enforcement:

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After hunting dogs, an electric fence and traps couldn't get the job done, a German town looking to remove a snapping turtle from a lake has asked a blacksmith to create a giant rake to fish out the sharp-beaked reptile.
Authorities in Irsee believe the turtle, nicknamed "Lotti," is hiding in the mud of nearby Oggenreider Lake. An 8-year-old boy was swimming there earlier this year when he severed his Achilles tendon, and experts say an Alligator snapping turtle – the world's largest freshwater kind -- bit him, The Local reports.
For the past seven weeks, a search for the turtle has yielded no results.
"We'll get her out of the sludge with a giant rake," Mayor Andreas Lieb told The Bild newspaper. "The teeth [of the rake] shouldn't be pointed, but blunt so that the creature isn't hurt."
Lieb hopes the 3-foot-wide rake will be ready to use in three weeks, and authorities plan to drag it with a rope to cover the 172,000 square-foot lake floor.
Alligator turtles can live to be up to 200 years old, The Local reports. The average shell length of a male is 26 inches, and they can weigh up to 220 pounds, according to the National Geographic.
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Sempsoom History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
Anglo-Saxon surname that came from the baptismal name Simon, which was originally derived from the Hebrew word Shimeon meaning obedience. In the religious naming tradition surnames were bestowed in honor of religious figures or church officials. In Europe, the Christian Church was one of the most powerful influences on the formation of given names. Personal names derived from the names of saints, apostles, biblical figures, and missionaries are widespread in most European countries. In the Middle Ages, they became increasingly popular because people believed that the souls of the deceased continued to be involved in this world. They named their children after saints in the hope that the child would be blessed or protected by the saint.
Early Origins of the Sempsoom family
Buckinghamshire where Simpson was listed in the Domesday Book as Sevinstone or Siwinestone, lands held by the Bishop of Countances. The place literally meant "farmstead of a man called Sigewine" derived from the Old Scandinavian personal name + tun. [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
Mills, A.D., Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4) At the time, the land consisted of 8 hides (each hide would support one household), 3 virgates (three quarters of a hide) and land enough to support 8 ploughs. There were 13 villans (peasants), 2 bordars and 6 slaves [2]CITATION[CLOSE]
Williams, Dr Ann. And G.H. Martin, Eds., Domesday Book A Complete Translation. London: Penguin, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0-141-00523-8). Today Simpson is a village and civil parish in Milton Keynes and had a population of 585 people in the late 1800s. Another source has a different understanding of the name's origin. "The Simpsons of Knaresborough trace their lineage from the time of Edward the Confessor, and from Archill, a Saxon thane, living in that reign of the Conqueror. Among his vast possessions was the manor of Clint in Yorkshire. The name of Simpson was adopted from Symon, son of William de Clynt who was living in the year 1300. " [3]CITATION[CLOSE]
Lowe, Mark Anthony, Patronymica Britannica, A Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom. London: John Russel Smith, 1860. Print.
Early History of the Sempsoom family
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Sempsoom Spelling Variations
spelling variations are common among early Anglo-Saxon names. As the form of the English language changed, even the spelling of literate people's names evolved. Sempsoom has been recorded under many different variations, including Simpson, Simson, Simsoun, Symson, Symsoun and many more.
Early Notables of the Sempsoom family (pre 1700)
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Migration of the Sempsoom family to Ireland
Some of the Sempsoom family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt.
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Migration of the Sempsoom family to the New World and Oceana
For many English families, the political and religious disarray that shrouded England made the far away New World an attractive prospect. On cramped disease-ridden ships, thousands migrated to those British colonies that would eventually become Canada and the United States. Those hardy settlers that survived the journey often went on to make important contributions to the emerging nations in which they landed. Analysis of immigration records indicates that some of the first North American immigrants bore the name Sempsoom or a variant listed above: Henry Simpson who settled in Maine in 1635; John and Joe Simpson settled in Boston in 1635; Robert Simpson settled in Maryland in 1633; another Robert Simpson settled in Salem in 1630.
The Sempsoom Motto
The motto was originally a war cry or slogan. Mottoes first began to be shown with arms in the 14th and 15th centuries, but were not in general use until the 17th century. Thus the oldest coats of arms generally do not include a motto. Mottoes seldom form part of the grant of arms: Under most heraldic authorities, a motto is an optional component of the coat of arms, and can be added to or changed at will; many families have chosen not to display a motto.
Motto: Nil desperandum
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It has struck me that I'm not the only one doing the work of raising others to sainthood in this family. In my head, of course I know that as a family, we are each working together to get each other to heaven. Don't we all "know" that? It sounds so nice and noble when we talk about our vocations, our little domestic churches…the words are pretty. Talk is just talk, though, until our talk comes from the heart, from lived experience. And you know what? On my walk this Lent, Jesus has seen fit to teach me that I'm not just raising, I'm being raised.
Raised by my kids. Raised by my husband. I am no closer to heaven than they, and if it were not for them, who would be in the business of raising me to sainthood? I don't say this disparagingly about them. They are incredible souls, each with great gifts from God. That is what I mean, really. Incredible souls show us the path to holiness, show us more joys of Christian living, show us that we don't really know all there is to being people of God. I am learning from them! I am learning better how to live by following my own family. My 3 year old wakes up singing, and from him I learn joy. My 5 year old speaks to God and listens for His voice, which she actually hears. My 7 year old lives with an intense passion, and is asking to be able to receive the Sacrament of Penance again before Easter (we just went last week!). My husband is faithful in-spite of his own "dark night of the soul", and thanks God daily for his job (a job which is less than ideal and full of great stressors, but a job providing for our family). My 2 year old is silly, deeply devoted to his siblings, and smiles with his whole being. They are raising me, teaching me about growing in faith, love, understanding.
Now I am realizing from my heart this truth about "the family helps each member to get to heaven." I am living it, by way of the humbling experiences each day in which I learn from my children and my husband. We are raising each other towards sainthood, daily, through our simple lives.


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Toyota Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Will be Shown at 2014 Aspen Ideas Festival
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How Charlotte lost to Plano without even knowing it was dealing with Toyota
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Filed under: Hirings/Firings/Layoffs , Toyota With Toyota set to relocate its North American headquarters to the Dallas, TX suburb of Plano following a top-secret, 100-city search, the cities that missed out can now begin asking themselves what happened during a process they apparently knew little about. That's a particularly brutal task for Charlotte, which, according to North Carolina's Secretary of Commerce, Sharon Decker, finished second to Plano. While Toyota has been fairly open about what it was looking for in a new headquarters city – direct flights to Japan, proximity to its US production facilities, a lower cost of living, high-quality educational facilities and finding a neutral site suitable to the California, Kentucky and New York-based employees that would be relocated – it's been less open about how the finalist cities, which also included Atlanta and Denver, stacked up against each other. The Charlotte Observer has a few ideas. Part of the problem is the distinct lack of direct flights between Charlotte and Asia. US Airways, which operates a hub at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport, doesn't fly to Asia. Toyota, for its part, seems to be placing most of the blame on location. "With manufacturing locations in many US states, Canada and Mexico, we chose a location that better supports our diverse geographic footprint, in a time zone that allows us to communicate better with most of our operations, and has direct flights to all our North American operations and Japan," Mike Michels, Toyota's VP of product communications, told The Observer via email. How Charlotte lost to Plano without even knowing it was dealing with Toyota originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 08 May 2014 14:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds .
2014 University of Denver, Daniels College of Business 'Voices of Experience' Series – Jim Lentz
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Toyota to Establish New North American Headquarters
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TORRANCE, Calif., April 28, 2014 – Toyota Financial Services (TFS) today announced that the company will relocate its North American headquarters to North Dallas (Plano), Texas. The move—which is not expected to begin until 2017—is designed to better serve customers and position Toyota for sustainable, long-term growth.
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Filed under: Budget , Hybrid , Europe , Japan , Videos , Hatchback , Toyota , Diesel Toyota first launched the Yaris in 1999, though that model was sold in the North America as the Echo . The second generation arrived in 2005, replaced by the third in 2011. Sometime next year, Toyota is expected to roll out a new Yaris for North America, to be built in Mexico on the same platform as the next Mazda2 . But before that comes to pass, Toyota has introduced a mild facelift for the Yaris in markets other than ours. With styling cues borrowed from the new Aygo and the Yaris Hybrid-R concept, the new Yaris (for Europe) and Vitz (for Japan) are distinguished by updated styling front and rear. Though the European model bears a more aggressive look than the JDM version, both feature the new X motif that seems to be the new look for the whole family – particularly for small hatchbacks. The back end has also been revised to incorporate new LED taillights and a (faux) diffuser in the bumper. The cabin, meanwhile, has been redesigned to feel roomier and quieter with upgraded equipment. The suspension has also been refined, and in Europe at least, Toyota will continue to offer the Yaris with a choice of 1.0- or 1.3-liter gasoline engines, 1.4-liter diesel or hybrid powertrains. We'd tell you more about the varied specifications, but Toyota, in all its worldwide wisdom, oddly released one photo and a press release for the EU-spec Yaris, a whole mess of photos but no press release for the JDM-spec Vitz, but videos for both.
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Ann Arbor, Mich., February 3, 2014 – Twenty five artistic teens will learn how to bring imagination to life when Calty Design Research, Inc. opens the doors to its design process for The Neutral Zone's Art4Life Program on February 27. Calty, the North American arm of Toyota's global design network, will host design and sculpting workshops as part of an intensive professional development opportunity intended to give teens a winning advantage in pursuing an art career after high school.
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She sat at the control panel, digits tweaking buttons, and fingertips sliding with an articulate finesse all her own. Cybertron had barely woken up to the communal recharge it was granted, and already enemy fire had been shot from one side to another. Brave soldiers, gender unimportant, had been sent out to deal with them, second-in-commands teaming up with different squadrons to fight alongside their mates. Casualties hadn't been reported in, but with the light skirmish that usually happened when one side tried to steal Energon from another, it was unprobable that such had happened.
Iacon had been reclaimed from Decepticon properties not too long ago - just a fortnight to be exact. Her soldiers and underlings had been overjoyed to move from their underground hall, back into the wide station. Sentries and sentinels had been built, mostly from a grant by her mentor, Alpha Trion, who was overjoyed.
Come to think of it, he had been surprised too. Stepping out from the Decepticon stronghold, and making his way back to an Iacon she took such pride in reclaiming, she could've sworn he would be convinced to bring back his soldiers, and stay. She knew no fear, but fought fear best when, secretly, he was with her.
I hate being a war hero's hero, and lover. What I wouldn't give to make it stop, but what I wouldn't give to make it noticeable, too..
The lights flickered, one of the communication screens blowing with static as the image of a soldier appeared, optics scanning feverently. The background surrounding her was still hazed with smoke from both-sided fire. "Moonracer to Elita One. We have succesfully stopped the Decepticon. Coordinates of another Energon mine will be sent to you momentarily." Turquoise optics, dull in limelight, met with the accomplished sapphire ones, a nod coming forth. It didn't matter to her if the squadron had taken capture of another Decepticon hole. Certain news had been broken to Elita One earlier in the morning, and she didn't give two Primuses and Sigmas about anything else.
"Affirmative. I'm putting you in charge of setting another team to take it in," the female Autobot general replied, pressing another button to halt the communication link between the two. She swiveled around in her chair, scanners pointed at the floor. I just don't get it, she thought, why would he do this? After two phases of the moons, Cybertron, I should've known that he wouldn't of stayed forever.
She quickly regained composure. The audible chime of the doors to Iacon's Control Room hadn't even been heard, leaving her embarassed to be in a slump, though Elita could've gone back down in yet another when she met with his gaze.
"Optimus," she coldy acknoledged, slender arms crossed, giving the red-and-blue Autobot general a once-over scan. "What brings you here? I thought you were out, warning Shockwave for takeoff via the spacebridge."
If the programming had allowed it, the mouthplate covering the lower portion of his face would've been off to accompany the tinge of pain running through his circuitry, chartreuse optics blazed with sadness. Optimus Prime had spent nearly every day of his life with the carnation-coloured general, and to hear her melodic voice forced into something so hideous struck him at the core. "I wanted to see you, Elita. Is that so wrong?"
"Perhaps," she huffed, turning away from him so that it seemed she was busy at the control panel once more. When she didn't hear the doors to the control center open, she continued, quite loftily, with, "How else do you expect me to react? You have come back after so many years of me thinking you were sent to Oblivion, and now, you've decided to go off again, back to Earth."
A heavy sigh, and the female general felt heavy hands upon her shoulders. For the past millenia, she'd longed for that touch, longed for them to set their duties aside, and be Orion and Ariel again. She wouldn't let her bravada down, though. "That's why I want you to come with me, Elita. Forget Cybertron. Leave Chromia and Moonracer in charge of Iacon, as I have left Ironhide and Wheeljack in charge of the Ark. With your tactical ploys, you could stake valuable cause on Earth;
"And to me, as well."
Elita quickly turned in her chair, catching her bond mate off guard. This was it: the proposal to end all proposals involving love and war; she knew he'd come to it someday. Her circuitry ran rampant, processes rushing in fast pace. "I.. I.."
"Humans would call it an engagement, Elita, though they often give a sort of symbol to magnify this," Optimus continued. His chest compartment opened so that his hand could reach in, and withdraw a tiny block. "An energon cube, I think, would be the equivalent of a ring."
"Op.. Optimus," the female general sputtered, searching for words. Her hands cupped around the indigo-coloured block. She had captured, seen them before in all her previous years, but none caught her optics in the fascination that her mate had actually given her one. "It's.. beautiful.."
"But wouldn't you feel guilty that you couldn't see Ironhide?" Moonracer suddenly asked of her companion, cleanly catching her offguard.
The aforementioned two sat hunched outside the control room, eavesdropping in, and waving off passerbys and those who felt it important to report to Elita, seeing as how Iacon's controls had been mysteriously shut off. Each set of optics were brightened, lit with a different shade of hope and envy. The turquoise van, being the lamenting mate missing to Optimus' third-in-command, Ironhide, had suggested to both superiors the next time the valiant Autobot general came to Cybertron that Elita returned with him. Chromia had been in creation close to the days that Elita herself was manufactured, and knew how to efficiently run a base.
"Who wouldn't? You'd feel guilty about not seeing Powerglide daily, I'm sure," Chromia whispered back, sending Moonracer into a heated faceplate. The flat of her hand outstretched then to silence the other commander, scanners at search for the vocals of the two generals. When she didn't catch anything, she continued, lips pressed, "Elita One's given everything for us to make sure we're safe from the Decepticon, despite what she's said about not knowing fear. I think it's our turn to make sure she can, at least, see Optimus with knowing Cybertron's safe."
The sea-green commander still continued to seethe quietly. To her, it wasn't fair that love and war had torn Cybertron from its Golden Age, and into its own acts of Oblivion. Moonracer strongly believed, too, that if she, Chromia, and Firestar, another one of the general's officers, couldn't happily be with their mates, then why should Elita?
Of course, she didn't say a word of this to Chromia; a part of her process was still a bit charred over being put off by the general's damper mood. Primus above knew it'd be better to say nothing at all. "I suppose you're right," Moonracer finally answered, pressing her lips as well, but not in hope that a metal knight would sweep a lovely Cybertronian princess off her process.
Optimus leaned forward, his optics just milimeters away from her own. Elita was afraid to move. Their days as Orion and Ariel had changed everything, and the few trips in between continued to span the universe for them. The thin wafers of her lips tightened slightly, before leaning in closer, and closer, and closer..
"Optimus, I.. can't."
The two generals remained motionless, optics staring boldly into one another. If they were paying attention, solitary groaning from the two soldiers could be heard just outside the doors. "Why not?" Optimus finally asked, quietly, pulling away from his bond mate.
"Why can't you stay here on Cybertron?" Elita responded, fighting the urge not to bristle. See?! I knew it! It was just a fascade!, her mind retorted, grip on the Energon cube tightening.
Optimus remained calm, the years of a general draining into all he had. "You know why. Earth needs me, and you."
"As does Cybertron. And me," short answered, the essence of a bright, upbeat warehouse worker slowly drowning in the pool that claimed their lives as generals in the Cybertronian War.
They sat in somewhat comfortable silence, until Elita placed the block back in Optimus' outstretched hand. "I can't accept this," the female general whispered, "Not to mention, I already know you're with me, forever," she added, watching the light within his optics dim, then regain its ethereal gleam she'd come to love.
"It might be a long time before I can return to Cybertron again, Elita," Optimus warned, setting the cube down on a portion of the control panel. "Jazz informed me not too long ago that our Energon supplies are up again, so we needn't bother the Decepticons for awhile. We might not need to make another trip back here."
"That's a chance I'm going to have to take," Elita replied, forcing herself to smile. She slowly lifted herself out of the chair, and into Optimus' waiting arms. The touch that felt like eternity was a grim reminder of another yet to come.
A/N: Rewritten, mostly because I disliked the first version of this piece. Hopefully, it will be spared from the same thing that all ficlets go through: being rewritten for the umpteenth time. If so, sequel to come later.
Transformers G1 (names, ect): Takara/Hasbro


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Lionel Messi says he's only thinking of a club future with Barcelona.
Messi admits he regards Barcelona as his "home".
"You never know how your career is going but Barcelona is my home and I know that there is nowhere I could do equally as well.
"If it's up to me I would not go anywhere until the end of my career. Then I'd go back to Argentina to play there, but I have no deadlines or dates. It depends on how everything goes."


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A young mum is demanding an apology from pool bosses after she claims her baby son was struck down with a bug from Aqua Vale which has ruined his first birthday and could cost his family a holiday.
Charlie White, 27, wants answers after her son Noah contracted sickness and diarrhoea soon after going swimming with his mum, aunt and grandmother at Aqua Vale on April 1 – two days before the leisure pool was shut down after tests revealed the presence of cryptosporidium bacteria in the water.
Little Noah, who turns one today, began projectile vomiting and suffering with diarrhoea and crippling stomach pains at home after swallowing some of the water during his swim.
The hairdresser said: "He started being violently sick and projectile vomiting everywhere. I've never seen so much sick come out of a tiny baby.
"We've got through so much cot bedding, and he's had diarrhoea as well which has caused nappy rash and a bacterial infection on his bottom."
The youngster is still not himself more than a week after his visit, and Charlie said the family are awaiting test results to confirm that he has been suffering from the cryptosporidium bacterial infection, which causes diarrhoea.
Charlie said: "We actually thought it was a food allergy at first, but then my sister sent me the link to the story on The Bucks Herald and I put two and two together.
"It's such a shame, because it's the first time he was able to swim properly and really enjoy himself."
Charlie, of Dundale Road, Tring, and her family planned to hold a birthday party for Noah on Sunday, but they fear he may not be well enough to join in the celebrations.
She said: "We're supposed to be going on holiday to Great Yarmouth on Monday, but I honestly don't think we'll be able to go if he's still like this."
Miss White said she and her family were previously great fans of Aqua Vale but that their experience has definitely put them off going back, and now she wants to spread the word to others.
"I know it's not just my son that's suffered, so I want to warn other parents. No child should have to go through what he's been through.
"I want them to say sorry, and I want an explanation as to why it was allowed to stay open for that long after they knew."
The pool remained open 11 days after Aylesbury Vale District Council informed Aqua Vale owner Everyone Active of two cases of sickness from people who had swum there.
At that time the company – after advice from Environmental Health – decided not to close the pool, but completed extra cleaning works and conducted water tests.
It was only on April 3, when results revealed that bacteria was still present in the pool, that the firm took the decision to close.
Aqua Vale reopened on Wednesday after tests showed there was no longer any dangerous bugs present in the water.
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Lord Puttnam, the Government's digital adviser, has attacked Google for not paying enough tax and argued the search engine could become too powerful.
In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, the award-winning film- maker said it was "outrageous" that the search engine Google paid so little in taxation.
A report last year showed that it paid only £600,000 in UK corporation tax in 2007, despite local revenues of more than £1.25bn.
Last year, it was reported that Google did not pay any tax on its £1.6bn advertising revenues in Britain by diverting the earnings to its Irish subsidiary.
"Multinationals such as Google that are generating such significant profits should pay the taxes that we pay on revenues we generate," said Lord Puttnam, who produced films including Chariots of Fire.
Ahead of Google's first quarter results this week, Lord Puttnam also expressed concern over the search engine's increasing power.
Gordon Brown has praised Google for transforming itself from a research organisation into a $180bn company in a decade. But, there have been fears over privacy issues arising from the search engine's unrivalled influence on the internet - almost 90pc of web users in Britain choose the site as their gateway to other pages.
Lord Puttnam said he was concerned the company is now so central to the technological revolution it could hold sway over political decisions.
"I worry about Google because I think there is a danger that it can develop a mindset that says they don't need a relationship with Government," he said.
A spokesman for Google said: "We make a big investment in the UK, with more than 800 employees, and make a substantial contribution to local and national taxation. But the fact is that our European headquarters is in Dublin."
"We comply fully with the tax laws in all the countries in which we operate," he added. "Our success is based on innovation and building products people want to use and the competition is only ever a click away," he said.
Last year, John Fingleton, chief executive of the Office of Fair Trading said there was no evidence that Google was bad for customers, arguing it had achieved its leading position by innovation and foresight.


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mandriva2007 freeDVD, usb keyboard problem
I'm trying to install mandriva 2007 free from a bootable dvd which has been used successfully on another pc. This pc is a dell dimension 9200 with only usb connections for keyboard and mouse. It boots into the install menu with boot from harddisk the default option, the keyboard or mouse however do not react at this stage.
My experience with mandriva has been that its got excellent usb support, everything I've thrown at it before has always been plug n play.
I'm facing the adage, the more the haste the less the speed as I only have this afternoon to get this sorted for my brother so if anyone would like to throw out a suggestion... I had expected to be working on post install problems at this stage.
I have a lot of linux experience so I'm willing to try anything. I'm thinking right now about looking into a bootloader solution.
I have tried plugging out all but the keyboard and tested it in every usb slot.
And various bios settings.
thanks for any help,
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The obvious solution worked. I burned all.img from the install dvd onto a cdrw, booted from that and continued the install.
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Mandriva won't accept USB keyboard for install.
I just downloaded the Mandriva Spring 2007 DVD.
md5sum is fine.
I booted it but it refuses to accept the USB keyboard!!!
No keyboard means it only defaults to 'boot from hard-drive' which takes the PC to Ubuntu and the keyboard is fine.
My PC (Dell-Ubuntu E520N) has only USB keyboard and mouse. No option to plug in an older keyboard.
I don't follow the all.img action. I can find that on the DVD but copying it to a CD-RW won't boot. What was the 'obvious solution' I cannot see?
07-01-2007 #4
A little info from the forum over at madrivausers:
No USB support when installing 2007.1 - MandrivaUsers.org
Mandriva has declared it a Dell BIOS bug.
Personally I think it's something to do with their use of graphics in the boot menu. I tried 20 Distro's CDs/DVDs. Only Mandriva (PCLinuxOS) and SuSE have this "Dell BIOS bug". Both use custom graphics in the boot menu. A connection?
The quick fix is install from a CD that defaults to "Install" so the keyboard is not needed at the initial boot menu.


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One of the significant issues with male survivors is that we generally believe we are alone, the only one. In fact, most of us are alone because of the walls of protection we build around ourselves.
Probably the most rewarding aspect of being an advocate is hearing from other survivors who are starting their healing journey. I hurt for the difficult times I know they will have, but I also know the joy they will experience as they learn to like themselves and open their lives to other people. In the last week, three male survivors have reached out to me. One was going to meet with his congressional representative to ask for a federal law on child sex abuse with no statute of limitations. The state laws just aren't cutting it, according to him. He was angry and I understand that. The next two wrote about my book Boys Don't Tell: Ending the Silence of Abuse. One man had just bought the book and had this to say:
"I have pushed this trauma away for so long, through addiction, self hatred, low self esteem, medicated for Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, ADD, Panic and Anxiety disorders and so forth……I can't have a healthy relationship and my trust issues are enormous and the list goes on. I am looking forward to finding hope and recovery that I so desperately need."
The next letter came with greetings from the Philippines. It was from a man who said he lives in poverty and does not have the means to buy the book, but feels he needs it and will put it to good use if I will send him a copy.
"I have been looking for reading material on male sexual abuse. It is difficult to find here in the Philippines. I am religious seminarian training for Catholic priesthood. I am interested in your area of expertise and wonderful advocacy in life not just because I am working toward a professional practice in psychology but more on a personal level. I am trying to understand myself more…I am beginning to find some connection."
I always look for the circles and how they come together, and these three certainly overlap with pain, shame, anger, lack of understanding of self, and more pain, unbearable pain. These men's lives do not just intersect because of what they endured as children; they are in a similar place because they are all reaching out for support as they start their healing. Every survivor I have met who is in recovery will go to extremes to help another on their journey. It's kind of like we are all Alcoholics Anonymous sponsors; if you are hurting we are there for you, day or night.
One of the significant issues with male survivors is that we generally believe we are alone, the only one. In fact, most of us are alone because of the walls of protection we build around ourselves. I have used the phrase "I felt like I was tied in that chair, while he touched my skin." I think a lot of us felt as though we were tied with ropes because we had no control over what was done to us.
"So I want you all to know that I truly believe that we are one. Brothers. Together we can and will overcome."
What I find interesting is that some of us, myself included, have lived for years or decades as though those ropes were still there. It is only when the pain becomes too great, or we are triggered in some way that we first reach out to another human being to share our burden. It is at this point that the ropes begin to unwind and we can breathe for what to many of us, feels like the first deep breath we have had since before the abuse started. And as the oxygen travels our bodies the tears begin to well up as we release the hurt.
At church last Sunday they sang a beautiful song by Pat Humphries, "We Are One" about Korea and their country divided by war. It made me think of all the men who have survived being sexually abused as children, only to live a life alone behind our walls at war with ourselves and the world. So as you take that first breath of air, remember there are 19 million men in this country who, in some form, have had similar experiences. You are not alone, and those who will help and support your healing journey are many. We are here to bear witness to your pain and celebrate your recovery.
So I want you all to know that I truly believe that we are one. Brothers. Together we can and will overcome. And yes, a book is on its way to the Philippines.
Randy Ellison is a speaker, writer and author of the book Boys Don't Tell: Ending the Silence of Abuse. He is a child sexual abuse victim's advocate and an activist promoting cultural change working with local, state and national organizations. He addresses abuse prevention and healing for survivors from a survivor's perspective. Randy is a member of the Oregon Attorney General's Sexual Assault Task Force. He is a founding member and former board president of OAASIS, Oregon Abuse Advocates and Survivors in Service. Randy recently received the Diane Sandler Award for his work in education, awareness and prevention of sexual violence in Southern Oregon.
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It's hard to imagine more incongruous statistics than these: The Texans surrender 253 yards and 30 points per game.
That's one point for every 8.4 yards, which has to be unprecedented six weeks into a season.
The first figure makes the Texans the NFL's No. 1-ranked defense by a country mile because the ranking is based on average yards allowed. They added to their substantial lead Sunday despite getting pummeled 38-13 by the St. Louis Rams at Reliant Stadium. They're yielding 51 fewer yards than the No. 2 New York Jets after allowing the Rams 216.
The second makes the Texans 2-4 with a four-game losing streak following their second blowout beating in eight days.
Brian Cushing described the recent maddening patch "disappointing and frustrating."
Fellow linebacker Brooks Reed chose the words "aggravated" and "confused."
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Defensive end J.J. Watt, who failed to make a tackle for only the second time in his career and was also in the disappointed/frustrated camp, said: "We've struggled mightily. We need to get things figured out, and we need to do it in a real big hurry."
The offense has and probably will continue to receive the brunt of the blame for a season gone bad, but there wasn't a defensive player in the locker room who could have said he felt like part of the NFL's best defense.
"The only numbers that matter are 2-4," Cushing said. "We aren't playing to our capabilities."
Going back to the middle of the Seattle game three weekends ago, the Texans have been outscored 92-16, a 76-point spread. How can the top-ranked defense in the NFL give up 92 points in 10 quarters plus an overtime?
Well, to be fair, it hasn't. Some of those points have been scored by the other team's defense or special teams on a pair of pick-sixes — T.J. Yates followed Matt Schaub's lead with a spectacular one covering 98 yards Sunday — and Keshawn Martin's fumbled kickoff, which handed the Rams a look-what-we-found touchdown.
A 24-6 St. Louis lead turned into a 38-6 embarrassment over the final 7:36 of the third quarter because of two turnovers (of the Texans' four). Wade Phillips' defensive players could only stand there on the sideline with their jaws agape. They've allowed 16 completions over the past eight quarters and seen foes score 72 points.
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But none of this exonerates Phillips' defense, which can't make a red-zone stop to save its life. Three visits by the Rams produced three touchdowns, meaning the Texans have failed to keep teams out of the end zone only 24 percent of the time. The Texans are 13-for-17, and all but one of those "stops" were followed by field goals.
Then there are takeaways, or lack thereof. Only two teams have fewer than their three. Only the winless New York Giants, at minus-16, are buried deeper than the Texans' minus-12.
Another disturbing pattern that continued was the Texans' feast-or-famine defensive approach. They've been impenetrable or inept. The Rams knocked them in reverse on three occasions, scoring touchdowns on drives of 65, 80 and 80 yards, possessions that saw St. Louis make 14 first downs. But the Rams' five other possessions produced one first down.
Costly penalties
But on the first of the aforementioned long marches, the Rams gained but 25 themselves with a pass-interference call against Kareem Jackson accounting for 40. On the second, 20 yards were provided by penalties.
Could the mounting tensions be accounting for excessive aggression? Cushing conceded the possibility, although defensive end Antonio Smith suggested Jackson's downfield transgression was a 50-50 deal at best.
"None of the penalties I've seen have been anything more than someone trying to make a play, or penalties that could have gone either way," Smith said. "All I've seen is fight."


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To earn Fellow status and the right to use the FACHE credential, Sutton reached the highest of the three board certification levels awarded by the college. Candidates must pass a comprehensive examination, meet academic and experiential criteria, earn continuing education credits and demonstrate profession and community involvement. Fellows must pursue ongoing professional development and undergo recertification every three years.
"ACHE is the professional organization for healthcare administrators, and to be a fellow in the college shows a high level of accomplishment," Sutton said.
Sutton has been associated with Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital for 35 years. He is a retired Captain in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, having spent 28 years with the USPHS. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in pharmacy and a Master of Science degree in healthcare administration.
"Because healthcare management ultimately affects the people in our communities, it is critically important to have a standard of excellence promoted by a professional organization," said ACHE President/CEO Thomas C. Dolan, PhD, FACHE, CAE. "By becoming an ACHE Fellow and simultaneously earning board certification from ACHE, healthcare leaders can show that they are committed to providing high-quality service to their patients and community.


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Quincy Jones
"The role of music in television, or movies, serves two functions: it deals with tension and release. It has a magical ability to paint the psyche emotionally. We call it sometimes 'emotion lotion,' because it hits you. Nothing hits you harder than music."
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Quincy Jones' long career as a music composer lends insight into popular music's influence on the television and film media. In 1951, a teenaged Jones began working as a trumpet player and arranger for Lionel Hampton. During his early career, he played with some of the best known names in Black bebop and jazz, performers such as Count Basie, Clark Terry, Ray Charles, Billy Eckstine, Dizzy Gillespie, and Sarah Vaughan. His musical talent allowed him to tour Europe, the Middle East and South Africa during the 1950s. In 1957, he studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. During this period he also became a major publisher of music.
However, failed business ventures in 1959 forced him to sell his music publishing catalogue. Jones overcame this major financial setback by working as an executive at A and M Records and by working as an arranger for Dinah Washington in New York City. Signed as an executive in 1961 and then rising to the position of Vice President of Mercury Records in 1964, Jones was the first African American executive at a major record label.
In 1961, Jet magazine, a weekly entertainment periodical directed to an African American readership, awarded him the title of best arranger and composer. But despite honors from his African American community and excellent critical reviews, Jones recognized that jazz music was not earning high record sales. He decided then to produce more commercial songs. In 1963, he branched out to develop the talent of a white teenage singer, Lesley Gore, with whom he recorded the pop hit "It's My Party." Jones continued to work with talented white artists such as Frank Sinatra for whom he conducted and arranged Sinatra: Live in Las Vegas at the Sands with Count Basie (1966). By adapting to technological changes that gave more control to engineers and producers, Jones acheived commercial success in the music recording industry during the 1960s. Yet, he still desired to compose scores for motion pictures and his success allowed him to pursue the small openings in media industries previously closed to African American artists.
After Jones scored his first film The Boy in the Tree (1961), he scored The Pawnbroker (1963) for director Sidney Lumet. His first major Hollywood contract was with Universal Pictures. Jones became an African American pioneer in film and television industries during 1966-69 and he had few black colleagues. But television news reports were increasingly presenting images of discord and America was coming to terms with growing racial conflict. Amidst the struggle for civil rights, Jones worked in Hollywood to help destroy the negative stereotypes of African Americans. In 1965, he was hired to score the film Mirage, starring Gregory Peck and he scored In The Heat Of The Night (1967) starring the top box office star of the era, Sydney Poitier.
In 1965, Jones reinforced his ability to compose music for the screen by scoring the pilot and eight episodes of the dramatic television series Ironside. In creating the Ironside theme, he was the first composer to utilize a synthesizer in the arrangement of a television score. During the same year he composed the theme to the television movie, Split Second to an Epitaph. Jones also wrote the theme song for Bill Cosby's first situation comedy, The Bill Cosby Show (NBC, 1970) and went on to score 56 episodes.
In a brief two week period between film and television scores, Jones returned to record making with the jazz album, Walking. The album won a Grammy as best jazz performance by a large group in 1969.
In 1972, Jones wrote the theme to the NBC Mystery Movie series and his momentum in the television industry continued to grow. During the same year, he scored 26 episodes of The Bill Cosby Variety Series and in 1973, he composed the theme to the comedy program, Sanford and Son, starring comedian Redd Foxx.
In 1974, soon after his Body Heat album reached the top of the music charts, Jones suffered from health problems. A brain aneurysm required two surgical procedures and a promise to stop playing the trumpet.
After a four year hiatus, during which he concentrated on his own music productions, Jones returned to television in 1977 to score the ABC miniseries, Roots, one of the highest rated programs in television history. His score accented the exploration of African chants and rhythms as indigenous to American culture and garnered Jones an Emmy Award. Coinciding with this success in television, he scored The Wiz (1977), a Universal Pictures all Black version of The Wizard of Oz, starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson.
From the time between 1963, when Jones entered the Hollywood film industry as a film composer, and 1990 he had earned thirty-eight film credits. Most notably, he co-produced the critically acclaimed film, The Color Purple (1985) with director Steven Spielberg. In 1994, Jones was honored with an Academy Award for his achievements in the film industry.
Despite his success in television and film, Quincy Jones never lost interest in spotting talent in black music. During the 1970s, he continued to cultivate new performers in this arena. He created technically advanced, funk influenced albums for The Brothers Johnson, Chaka Kahn and Rufus. In 1977, he produced Michael Jackson's Off the Wall album, which succeeded in selling seven million albums--before the invention of MTV. His record breaking pop album Thriller, for Michael Jackson in 1984, became a musical landmark.
In 1981, Jones left A and M and formed his own Qwest label at Warner Brothers. The Qwest label produced hits for Patty Austin and James Ingram and captured Lena Horne's performance on Broadway; these recording projects earned him Grammy awards. In 1985, Jones produced the all-star recording of "We Are The World" to help performer Harry Belafonte realize a charity drive to raise world awareness of famine. From the song's popular music video, Quincy Jones, long been familiar through his music, became a recognizable face to the general public. He raised money for Jesse Jackson's historic run for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1988 and produced The Jesse Jackson Show in 1990, granting a forum to a high profile black figure in U.S. politics.
Jones also discovered a larger television audience by producing situation comedies. In 1991, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air premiered starring a popular rap artist, Will Smith, to become a highly rated program on NBC. In 1990, Jones formed the multi-media entertainment organization, Quincy Jones Entertainment Company and Quincy Jones Broadcasting, to acquire television and radio properties. In 1995, Jones hopes to repeat his television success with the situation comedy, In the House, starring Debbie Allen and rap artist LL Cool J.
While overcoming racial barriers and redefining several genres in music composition, Quincy Jones' creative persistence in the music business helped to maneuver black music across the color line of the musical mainstream and into every form of media expression. Jones' body of work spans five decades and opened the door for the growth of successful black entrepreneurs in television, film and music. Since Miles Davis' death, many critics cite Quincy Jones as the only remaining figure from the bebop era who has stayed contemporary and whose work continues to have an impact on these three closely integrated media industries.
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QUINCY (DELIGHT) JONES. Born 14 March 1933 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. Attended Seattle University, Seattle, Washington, Berklee School of Music, Boston; studied with Nadia Boulanger and Oliver Messiaen, Paris. Married: 1) Jeri Caldwell, 1957 (divorced), 2) Ulla Anderson, 1965 (divorced), 3) Peggy Lipton, 1974 (divorced); seven children. Began career as jazz trumpeter and arranger for numerous big bands and solo performers; music director, Mercury Records, 1961; vice president, Mercury Records, 1964; composer, film and television music, from 1960s; founded Qwest recording company, 1981; record producer for Barbra Streisand, Michael Jackson, and other artists; television producer from 1990. Recipient: numerous Grammy awards; Emmy award, 1977; Polar Music Prize (Sweden), 1994; Academy Award, 1994. Address: Rogers and Cowan, Inc., 10000 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angelses, California, 90067, U.S.A.
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1966-67 Hey, Landlord (composer)
1967-75 Ironside (composer)
1967 Split Second to an Epitaph (composer)
1970 The Bill Cosby Show (composer)
1972 The NBC Mystery Movie (composer)
1972 The Bill Cosby Variety Series (composer)
1973 Sanford and Son (composer)
1977 Roots (composer)
1990 The Jesse Jackson Show (producer)
1991 Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (producer)
1995- In the House (producer)
1967 Rodgers and Hart Today (music director)
1971 The Academy Awards (conductor)
1971 Merv Griffin Presents Quincy Jones (performer)
1973 Duke Ellington, We Love You Madly (co-producer and conductor)
1973 A Show Business Salute to Milton Berle (music director)
1990 Grammy Legends (honoree)
1991 Ray Charles: 50 Years of Music, Uh-Huh!
The Boy in the Tree, 1960; The Pawnbroker, 1965; The Slender Thread, 1965; Mirage, 1965; Made in Paris, 1965; Walk Don't Run, 1966; The Deadly Affair, 1967; Enter Laughing, 1967; In Cold Blood, 1967; Banning, 1967; In the Heat of the Night, 1967; A Dandy in Aspic, 1968; Jigsaw, 1968; The Counterfeit Killers, 1968; For Love of Ivy, 1968; The Hell with Heroes, 1968; MacKenna's Gold, 1969; The Italian Job, 1969; The Lost Man, 1969; Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, 1969; Cactus Flower, 1969; John and Mary, 1969; Blood Kin, 1969; The Out-of-Towners, 1970; They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!, 1970; Eggs, (short), 1970; Of Men and Demons (short), 1970; Up Your Teddy Bear, 1970; Brother John, 1970; The Anderson Tapes, 1971; Honky, 1971; $ (The Heist), 1971; The Hot Rock, 1972; The New Centurions, 1972; The Getaway, 1972; Killer by Night, 1972; Mother, Jugs, and Speed, 1976; The Wiz, 1978; Portrait of an Album (also director), 1985; Fast Forward, 1985; Lost in America, 1985; The Slugger's Wife, 1985; The Color Purple, 1985; Heart and Soul, 1988; Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones, 1991; A Great Day in Harlem (narrator), 1994.
- Quincy Jones on composing the theme for Sanford & Son
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- Quincy Jones on MTV and Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video
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- Quincy Jones on being an executive producer of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Clip begins at: 22:48, Duration: 06m 12s
- Quincy Jones on composing the theme and incidental music for The Bill Cosby Show
Clip begins at: 00:47, Duration: 05m 22s
- Quincy Jones on his friendship with Oprah Winfrey
Clip begins at: 12:34, Duration: 03m 01s
- Part 1
- Introduction
Clip begins at: 0:39
- On his early years growing up in Chicago (and then Washington State); on his education; on the moment when he played a piano and became interested in music; on meeting Ray Charles; on his early musical work
Clip begins at: 00:59
- On joining Lionel Hampton's band at 18; on touring in Europe and Asia; on meeting and working with such music professionals as Dizzy Gillespie, Johnny Mathis, Lalo Schifrin; on working as an arranger; on moving to New York; on being signed to Mercury Records and becoming a company vice president in 1964
Clip begins at: 13:35
- Part 2
- On first seeing television; on appearing on variety shows; on watching the filming of I Love Lucy; on composing for the feature film The Pawnbroker
Clip begins at: 0:0
- On working in Los Angeles; on scoring his first Hollywood films
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- On composing for his first television series, the sitcom Hey Landlord
Clip begins at: 09:52
- On composing the theme and scoring Ironside; on the show's use of the Moog synthesizer
Clip begins at: 13:48
- On composing for European Eye, The Pickle Brothers and The Bill Cosby Show
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- Part 3
- On composing the theme and incidental music for The Bill Cosby Show; on the TV-movie Killer By Night; on composing the theme for Sanford & Son; on working on the animated show Big
Clip begins at: 0:0
- On being musical director on The New Bill Cosby Show; on composing for NBC's Wednesday Mystery Movie; on producing Duke Ellington: We Love You Madly; on suffering two aneurysms in 1974
Clip begins at: 15:08
- Part 4
- On Rebop; on composing for the miniseries Roots; on the impact of Roots
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- On his friendship with Oprah Winfrey; on the advent of MTV; on Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video; briefly on "We Are the World"; on producing The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Clip begins at: 12:34
- Part 5
- On appearing on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (which he produced); on the show's legacy; on producing In the House; on producing a series on the history of rock and roll; on producing shows in-general; on producing the 1996 Academy Awards
Clip begins at: 0:35
- On Vibe; on the importance of music in television and film; on his advice to aspiring composers
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text: Where was I when those Average Joes were signing up to be on that show. That blond bombshell would have fallin for my personality if she fell for any of those shlebs. She is a goddess. I am gonna watch the show Average Joe just to get a good laugh if anything. They definitley don't have their looks goin for them, so I'm sure they did some stupid crap to impress her. I actually just saw a picture of the guy from the bachelor and a short nerdy guy from Average Joe....friggin hysterical. Pics at AverageJoeShow.com.


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by: Jose Grijalva
The matchup for tonight when the San Antonio Spurs visit the Houston Rockets will be between Kawhi Leonard and Chandler Parsons. In three games against the San Antonio Spurs, Parsons has averaged 17ppg this season. He's shooting 35% from the 3-point line and 48% overall from the field.
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Rich chocolatey fudge layered between buttery graham cracker crust and stuffed with mini marshmallows, this S'mores Fudge is sure to be your favorite no-bake dessert this Summer!
Hello friends!
I hope you all enjoyed the long weekend! I know I did. I whipped up so many fantastic treats to share with you!
Two weeks worth of posts, in fact! I love when I get into that groove in the kitchen; exhaustion is not an option when you are busy crafting cereal treats, coconutty cupcakes, mocha coconut smoothies,
and s'mores fudge!
As Summer swiftly approaches, my mind immediately turns to s'mores. People are spending more time outside, more time in front of their grills, and more time camping.
Note: people spend more time camping. Not me. I do not camp.
Camping is terrifying. Have you watched oh I don't know, ANY serial killer or horror films?
So many of them start as innocent camping trips!
Also bugs, and dirt, and sleeping on the ground in a bag, seriously who came up with camping? Well, I guess the pioneers did, but it wasn't so much for fun as it was for existence. Now we have houses! Aren't houses grand? Outside your house you can have a pretty grill where you toast up some s'mores…
Or you can whip up some creamy, decadent, s'mores fudge that lasts all week long!
Well, in theory it lasts all week long, you know, if you don't continue to make lame puns about needing "s'more" of them and eat them all in one weekend.
Yes. I am that person. I always need s'more s'mores in my life.
And so do you!
This recipe calls for a classic, chocolatey fudge base with layers of buttery graham cracker crust on both sides, with a layer of mini marshmallows sandwiched in-between. The fudge keeps the mini marshmallows soft, chewy, and gooey, just like in your favorite s'mores!
As the weather continues to get warmer, I know I'll be looking for simple, no-bake desserts and sweet treats to enjoy that don't require me to turn on my oven (and thus turn my kitchen into one of the levels of Dante's Inferno)
This would also be a good time to mention that I will be posting twice a week in the summer instead of the customary three times a week I keep to for the rest of the year. Aside from the fact that people are spending more time out and about at the beach (and less time working up a sweat in the kitchen) I also happen to have a teaching gig in the summer that, when combined with my year-round job, will put me at a full forty hours a week, not including the blog.
But I love the blog! So I shall just curtail my posting to 2x a week. I'll be back on Friday of this week to share a recipe for Tropical Coconut Lemon Cupcakes!
Happy Baking!
S'mores Fudge
Rich chocolatey fudge layered between buttery graham cracker crust & stuffed with mini marshmallows, this S'mores Fudge is sure to be your favorite no-bake dessert this Summer!
- For the graham cracker crust:
- 1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 6 tbsp melted butter
- For the fudge:
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup butter
- 3/4 cup heavy cream
- pinch of salt
- 1 (12 oz) bag semisweet chocolate chips
- 1 (7oz) jar marshmallow fluff
- 1 1/2 cups mini marshmallows
Make the graham cracker crust: Combine all ingredients in a medium bowl and stir until well combined and clumpy. Line one 9×9 square pan with aluminum foil, then press half the graham cracker crust mixture evenly into the bottom of the pan.
Make the fudge: Add both sugars, butter, heavy cream, and salt to a medium-sized, deep pot and bring to a boil. Boil for five minutes, stirring occasionally.
Remove from heat and, using an electric mixer, beat in fluff. Stir in chocolate and beat until smooth.
Pour half the fudge over the graham cracker crust in the prepared pan, followed by a layer of mini marshmallows. Top with the rest of the chocolate fudge, and then cover the top of the fudge with the remaining graham cracker crust mixture. Press graham cracker crust gently into the fudge (to make sure it sticks!). Cover and place in fridge to set for at least 4 hours. Cut into squares and serve.


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June 8, 2009
Economic Outlook: The greater good
The fate of U.S. automaker Chrysler LLC is under U.S. Supreme Court review after lenders refused to lie down and accept a quick sale of the company.
Persistent lenders from Indiana -- funds that hold a small fraction of Chrysler's debt -- petitioned the Supreme Court Friday to review the matter, saying several laws were ignored in previous rulings that would allow the car company to emerge from bankruptcy in about five weeks, The Washington Post reported Monday.Holding only $42 million of Chrysler's $6.9 billion in debt did not deter the funds from pressing forward in a case that some say balances doing the right thing with doing things right.
A group of unsecured creditors said Chrysler's plan was a
balance of harms, urging Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who oversees the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, to turn down the effort to bring the case to the Supreme Court.
The balance of harms tilts so overwhelmingly against a stay that the application should be denied on this ground alone, the creditors wrote.
Under that argument, the right thing to do would be to allow Chrysler's sale to Fiat of Italy, because it would serve the greater good -- a collection of assumptions, including maintaining productivity, salvaging jobs and, not incidentally, closing the deal with Fiat before a June 15 deadline.
On the other hand, the Indiana funds argue the return on their investment should not be railroaded by a government-backed plan that favors getting Chrysler out of court as quickly as possible.
The agreement gives creditors about 29 cents on the dollar, but the fast-lane proceedings also has implications for General Motors Co., which filed for bankruptcy a week ago and also wants to get out quick.
With about $40 billion in government funds invested in auto companies, taxpayers have a direct stake in the outcome that is a classic bankruptcy court battle. By definition, bankruptcy court is about a
balance of harms, what to do when individual rights -- in this case the right to make a profit -- is overwhelmed by circumstance.
Investors this week are anticipating a look at the Federal Reserve Bank's Beige Book, due for release Wednesday. A trade balance report is also due Wednesday.
Asian markets were mixed Monday. The Nikkei 225 average in Japan climbed 1 percent, while the Hang Seng index in Hong Kong fell 2.28 percent. The Singapore Straits Times fell 2.61 percent, while the S&P/ASX3 in Australia rose 0.93 percent.
In midday trading, the FTSE 100 in London dropped 1.25 percent. The DAX 30 in Frankfurt fell 1.65 percent. The CAC 40 in Paris fell 1.65 percent, while the broader DJStoxx 600 dropped 1.28 percent.


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Wow, that first cover is awful. For the record, I have the latter of the two. I think at the time I picked this up I would never have picked up such a saccharine looking cover like that! Even back then. Even now.
Lady of the Forest by Jennifer Roberson is the first of my goalwar this year – to read the oldest books on my shelf, or rather, the ones that have been in my life the longest that remain unread. I think I purchased this before moving out of my parents' home and I have since been living on my own well over a decade. Yeah. I've probably owned this book fifteen years. It's ostensibly a book about Maid Marion (spelled Marian in this version) and Robin Hood. It centers on Marian in a way that reminds me of Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon. That said, all the femme-centric plot lines in the world couldn't make me get into this book.
I actually started this New Year's Eve (forgoing the celebrations I promised myself for a night of laze) and somewhere along the way I decided that I was over it. It's a big book, so that doesn't help. The daunting near eight hundred page length of it is largely what kept me from starting it to begin with. Not that long length books frighten me, I just hadn't been in the mood for it (for fifteen years). However, the first hundred pages (or near about) are devoted to one single night… to one party introducing the characters… to one ongoing scene where several men fall in love with Maid Marian and decide to make her theirs. Blah!
One scene… one unending opening scene. I couldn't do it. In talking with a writer friend of mine his eyes rolled straight to the back of his head. No one can make one hundred page scene work, no matter how of a writer they are. Besides that I'm not sure I'm ready for a Hunchback of Notre Dame styled plot – one woman and the four men who want her. Hugo did it better, and if I want to read that much pathos and romantic drama I'll pick him up again. That's all.
First blue book of the new year. Done. I'm annoyed I lugged this around for 15+ years.
1 out of 5 stars.
– Follow the Reader –


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Aired May 7, 2010
Lt. James has daddy issues. We see them in both her inability to get over Lt. Scott and her desire to please Col. Young. It's sad, really, but it does drive the plot of this episode, which begins with Col. Young calling a meeting in the gateroom.
Turns out, they don't have enough power to get to the next galaxy to replenish supplies. Also, he says any hope of rescuing Lt. Scott, Chloe and Eli is… interrupted by a radio call from Dr. Rush. He has an idea, and he needs to bring aboard brilliant scientist Amanda Perry, an expert on Ancient technology, to help. The person who trades places with her via the communication stones will have to deal with the challenges of her body: a respirator and wheelchair.
Lt. James volunteers — please pick me, Col. Young! — but only lasts minutes in the body before freaking out and coming back. Camille Wray steps up next, so that she can spend time with her partner back on Earth.
Camille Wray gets shore leave in exchange for giving up her body.
Back on Destiny, an explosion in the FTL drive rocks the ship. People are injured, including Dr. Franklin, it seems, who has stopped speaking. Lt. James also reports a lapse in memory, but says it took place before the explosion. Alarms sound, indicating an incoming wormhole, and look who it is: Lt. Scott, Chloe and Eli. Yay! The writers barely pause to explain how it happened, with a "I thought you did it" line from Eli. Boo!
Eli gets back to work, joining the team trying to fix the FTL. He learns that brilliant scientist Amanda Perry used to work with Dr. Rush and still has a massive crush on him. Eli finds it icky that anyone would have a massive crush on Dr. Rush. (This blogger does not find it icky, having seen The Full Monty. Plus, that Scottish accent.)
The scientists discover that the overload happened in the FTL's weakest drive, and if they isolate it, the FTL will actually work more efficiently and get them to the next galaxy. What. A. Coincidence. They can either send the robot they found in a previous episode outside the ship to isolate the drive, or they can try to use the control chair to do the same. Dr. Rush, of course, wants to go the chair route, but Col. Young says only as a last resort, and that he will sit in the chair. Which makes total sense as Col. Young knows so much about Ancient technology. They also come up with an alternate plan to evacuate to the planet from which Lt. Scott, Chloe and Eli just came from, the same planet with the alien ship crashed on it, the same ship from alien race trying to capture Destiny.
Lt. James continues to talk about her lapse in memory, and then she decides that an alien took control of her after she jumped out of brilliant scientist Amanda Perry's body but before she could wipe her imprint from the communication stone. While in her body, the alien sabotaged the ship. She tells Daddy, er, Col. Young, who instead of thinking it might be a desperate attempt to get his attention, believes her. If it's true, let's just hope the alien didn't broadcast Destiny's location while in Lt. James' body.
I hope Col. Young, appreciates how hard I'm working.
Knowing she will be heading back to Earth soon, brilliant scientist Amanda Perry makes a move on Dr. Rush, who declines due to the recent reliving of his wife's death. And again, this blogger asks the question: Is sex allowed when you are wearing someone else's body? Also, do they have condoms aboard Destiny? Wray would NOT appreciate Dr. Rush impregnating her body, this we can assume.
The aliens arrive — guess the body snatcher did give away Destiny's location — and Col. Young decides to try the chair. Lt. James comes running in to tell Col. Young something really important: Dr. Franklin spoke again and uttered the words, "the chair." It should be Dr. Franklin who sits in the chair, Dr. Rush yells. He gets his way and as the aliens attack, Dr. Franklin sits in the chair and repairs the FTL drive before disappearing into thin air. Destiny jumps, leaving the aliens behind. Lt. James' daddy issues helped save the day! Forget that her need to please Col. Young brought about the alien attack in the first place.
Stargate Universe airs at 8 p.m. (CST) Fridays on SyFy.


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For a couple weeks now, we've been watching my amazing grandfather prepare for his next adventure. Sometimes leaving for a trip with a one way ticket is hard - even if you're traveling to paradise.
We are at the point now where we feel just a bit guilty for wanting him to be at rest. But we shouldn't feel guilty. It is a very unselfish thing to be willing to sacrifice our relationship with a beautiful man so that he can live in peace, in eternity, in wholeness.
The Bible says:
2 Corinthians 5:4-8 (New International Version)
4 For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. 5 Now the one who has fashioned us for this very purpose is God, who has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.
6 Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. 7 For we live by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
6 Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. 7 For we live by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
2 Corinthians 5:4-8 (New Living Translation)
4 While we live in these earthly bodies, we groan and sigh, but it's not that we want to die and get rid of these bodies that clothe us. Rather, we want to put on our new bodies so that these dying bodies will be swallowed up by life. 5 God himself has prepared us for this, and as a guarantee he has given us his Holy Spirit.
6 So we are always confident, even though we know that as long as we live in these bodies we are not at home with the Lord. 7 For we live by believing and not by seeing. 8 Yes, we are fully confident, and we would rather be away from these earthly bodies, for then we will be at home with the Lord.
I included both translations because I can't decide which I like better. It's not that we WANT to die, but we WANT our new bodies. Sums it up just about perfectly doesn't it?
Right now I feel like we especially "groan and sigh" watching such an amazing man suffer. Our hope is for him as he leaves us on his new journey. I will miss him. My heart aches. I love him. I'm going to miss him.
I'm so grateful for God's promises. Life is short. I will see him again soon. My prayer for today is that God will give my grandpap Carl peace and comfort during these last days and hours. Will you pray that with me tonight?
Pappap and Hannah Dec. 2005
Happy 80th Birthday! 2008
Christmas 2006 Hugs from Great Grandpap
Christmas 2009
Pappap with Baby Emma
Thank you God for the privilege of knowing such a beautiful man.


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That's a big issue that got me out of "teaching" in the public schools. By the principals' and school boards' interpretation of that mandate as having to kid-glove and cater to the kids with disruptive behavior problems, whose parents won't make the effort to discipline and control them, and who have no interest in learning, teachers are unable to provide an education to the rest of the class.I called the principal today and he told me that his mandate is to provide an education to all children living in the school district who are legally entitled to go to school.
(Of course, that's part of what keeps my freelance tutoring business alive and well -- kids who want to excel and be challenged, but aren't receiving that sort of education in their schools because the non- or under-performing kids are receiving all the attention.)


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Amanda - posted on 07/22/2011 ( 3 moms have responded )
My 3 year old son gets angry and hits or kicks us, and it only seems to be us most of them time, he really don't get in trouble at day care, we really don't have any other issues with him, he eats good. sleeps good, just hits, punches and kicks us when he gets mad or doesn't get his way. Is this normal and what can I do to get him to stop?


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Twitter @ScottRouch
Predicted thunderstorms on Friday have caused local high school sports schedules to be altered.
The Lakeside girls and Evans boys, in the semifinals of the Region 2-AAAAA soccer tournament, will be traveling to Houston County on Thursday. Lakeside will play at 5:30 p.m. and Evans at 7 p.m.
Augusta Prep has also moved four home contests to Thursday, two of which hold state playoff implications.
The girls tennis team faces Bulloch Academy at 4:30 p.m. and the girls soccer team takes on Westminster at 5:30 p.m. The winner in each contest earns a No. 1 seed in their respective Georgia Independent School Association state tournaments.
Baseball against Pinewood Christian will be played at 4:30 p.m. Thursday while the boys soccer team will play Westminster at 7:30 p.m.