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Cast resin transformer manufacturer Jinpan International (UNKNOWN:JST.DL) announced today its third-quarter dividend of $0.03 per share, the same rate it's paid for the past two quarters after cutting the payout 25%, from $0.04 per share.
The board of directors said the quarterly dividend is payable on Sept. 26 to the holders of record at the close of business on Sept. 16. The regular dividend payment equates to a $0.12-per-share annual dividend, yielding 1.8% based on the closing price today of Jinpan International's stock.
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This week's MixTape theme is: Great Cover Songs. I was excited about this topic, because I really enjoy hearing different versions of songs; it's fun to see each person's unique twist. Off the top of my head, here are some of the covers I have enjoyed lately. Interestingly enough, I was not a big fan of the originals, which is probably why I enjoy the covers so much.
Sara Bareilles - In Your Eyes
Dierks Bentley - Pride (In the Name of Love)
Tony Lucca - Grandma's Hands
Alison Krauss and Jamey Johnson - Make the World Go Away
Chris Daughtry - Poker Face
I guess I'm feeling a bit mellow (and acoustic) these days!

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Houston, TX—The Laura and John Arnold Foundation (LJAF) today announced a $1.9 million grant to the Internet Archive, the world's largest public digital library, to develop a search engine that will provide unprecedented access to its extensive collection of webpages, also known as the Wayback Machine. The search engine will allow researchers, historians, and others … Read More
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Letter threatening terror attack sends HC into tizzy
Tension amplified at Calcutta High Court on Tuesday after Chief Justice Manjula Chellur had received a letter, addressed to Justice Dr. Sambudhha Chakrabarty threatening that a terror attack similar to what happened in Bangladesh recently would be carried out at the High Court.
The Chief Justice had sent the letter to Justice Dr Sambudhha Chakrabarty instructing him to open the letter in the court. Justice Dr Chakraborty later opened the letter and read it out in the court room. The letter that was delivered to the Calcutta High Court by Pappu Singh as it was mentioned in the letter, said that if the possession of a disputed house on East Canal Road was not transferred to a particular person, a terrorist attack would be performed in the city almost in the same manner as it happened in Bangladesh a few days ago. Tension spread among the lawyers and other staff members of the Calcutta High Court after the letter was read out in the court room. It was also mentioned in the letter that "bloodshed" will take place if the possession of the disputed house was not transferred.
Following the incident, the matter was informed to the advocate general Jayanta Mitra and the city police have already started an investigation into the matter. The investigation officers were looking into the threat with utmost sincerity and trying to know who had written the letter. Senior police officers including joint CP (STF) Vishal Garg visited the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday in this regard. Senior police officers held meeting to chalk out plans on how to strengthen the security arrangements at the HC and other places in the city. The security in and around the Calcutta High Court will be beefed up in the wake of the threat letter. The officer-in-charge of the local police station has been asked to intensify the vigil. Special surveillance will be carried out on the vehicles passing through the area.


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Because I'm still in the middle of marking exams, and because I'm collecting a fourth batch tomorrow, English teaching has been on my mind.
Even though, as mentioned before, I've lost most of my native accent, the one vocal quirk I've kept is the one vocal quirk I shouldn't have.
When I was attending Edison Elementary School in Hayden, Colorado, I remember one of my teachers–I think it was Miss Trimble when I was in, maybe, 6th grade–explaining that the "wh-" in words like "what" and "where" should be pronounced as "hw" making them "hwat" and "hwere". This was done in order to distinguish them from "watt" and "wear". This is the reason words such as "who", "whole" and "whore" have an "h" sound and aren't "woo", "wole" and "wore". (For the record: she probably didn't use "whore" as an example.)
Although I ignored and then forgot most of the useful things I was taught in elementary school, like, say, math, for some reason I retained that and incorporated into my way of speaking. A sentence like "Watch where you wear those clothes lest your father whine and wail and drink a bottle of wine before butchering whales in Wales" is to me "Watch hwere you wear those clothes lest your father hwine and wail and drink a bottle of wine before butchering hwales in Wales".
Now it turns out that this was the way most of the English speaking world once said these words. However thanks to something called the "Wine-Whine Merger" (which could be the name of a country music album) most of the English speaking world now pronounces those words the same. (For me, "white wine" is pronounced "hwite wine" or "pinot gris".) There are a few pockets where the "Wine-Hwine Merger hasn't been completed, mostly across the US Southern states–although I don't remember anyone speaking that way when I was at Ole Miss or visiting friends in Georgia–and, apparently, large portions of Scotland, but I'm from Kansas and grew up in Colorado so I shouldn't speak this way at all.
Oddly, only a couple students have ever called me on this–one of them a couple weeks ago– and asked "Why do you speak like a complete fool?" (Or something like that.)
I, of course, took full responsibility for the way I speak by blaming my Miss Trimble.


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Loma La Parra is situated at the heart of Andalucia's most beautiful areas of mountains and lakes and set in several thousand square meters of private land, between two protected areas of extraordinary natural beauty, El Chorro and El Torcal and just 30 minutes from the famous, spectacular walkway, "el caminito del rey" or Kings Walk. Local activities include, horse riding, mountain biking, climbing, walking, water sports on the lakes, arial sports, sightseeing and shopping and golfing in nearby Antequera. Within easy reach are Malaga, Granada (the Alhambra and snow skiing), Cordoba and Seville, the coast and Gibraltar. Alternatively, just relax, soak up the sun and enjoy your peaceful surroundings; the views, the village life, the house, pool, barbecue and gardens.
Golf: Antequera Golf is 20 kms or half an hour from the villa.
Alhaurin Golf is 30 kms or 40 minutes away.
Both are in the mountains with spectacular scenery.
There are may more courses on the coast one or two hours away.
The Costa del Sol's beaches are 30 miles away which takes about 1 to 1.5 hours. The better areas are Fuengirola and the smaller beaches around Marbella.
A 2 to 3 hour drive will take you to the Atlantic windsurfing beaches around Tarifa.
Skiing: The Province of Granada is home to Andalucia's highest mountain range, the Sierra Nevada, and its local ski resort, Sol y Nieve.
There is an excellent, modern, lift network, good access, skiing to 3000 metres, and vertical descents of 1000 metres. Open from Christmas to the end of April, the resort is 2.5 hours from the house.
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March 12, 2009
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For one whole week my little ones have been sick. On Friday I delivered all my doodles and sketches to Walker for my new book. It will be out next year. My designer is piecing it all together to bring to Bologna Book Fair in a couple of weeks. A terrible tummy bug arrived to our house. My littlest chick who is only three has really been very sick. So I have spent the week looking after her. She is on the mend but now Oscar has come down with the same bug. I'm in for the long haul. So no work was done this week. In snatched moments I have been working on new ideas and characters for a new picture book in my notebook.
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Bollinger champagnes exemplify class and tradition. Based in Ay for nearly 200 years, the house pays scrupulous attention to the fine details and is dedicated to ensuring the highest quality in its wines. It has a long and trusted history as one of the most single-minded and steadfast houses, which is probably one of the reasons it is the favourite champagne of Agent 007, James Bond.
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We agree with Peter Liem, who describes the wines of Bollinger in the following way:
"Bollinger's champagnes are often known for their richness, but whenever I taste one, it's usually its fineness that I notice first and foremost. The wines are always suave and impeccably polished—it's unsurprising that Bollinger is James Bond's champagne of choice, although personally I find it more appropriately suited to Sean Connery than to Daniel Craig—and they are capable of tremendous complexity and depth of character." (champagneguide.net)
Bollinger Special Cuvee NV
60% Pinot Noir, 25% Chardonnay, 15% Meunier. Over 85% of the fruit comes from Grand or Premier Cru vineyards. The varieties and plots are vinified separately in both stainless steel tanks and oak barrels (approximately one-quarter to one-third of the blend). Typically two base years are used, to which is added 5-10% of reserve wines from magnum. The wine is aged for 3 years before release. The dosage is 9g/L.
Bollinger Brut Rose NV
62% Pinot Noir, 24% Chardonnay, 14% Meunier. Over 85% of the fruit comes from Grand or Premier Cru vineyards. This is the newest wine to the range, only created in 2008. As with the Special Cuvee, the grapes are vinified separately in stainless steel tanks and oak barrels. 5-10% of reserve wines are used, and the colour is derived from the addition of 5-6% four-month-old Pinot Noir. The dosage is 8g/L.
Bollinger La Grande Annee
A blend usually consisting of around two-thirds Pinot Noir and one-third Chardonnay, entirely from Grand and Premier Cru villages. This is a vintage wine, and the varieties and parcels are each vinified separately in aged oak barrels (five years old minimum). The Grande Annee ages for at least five years in the cellars. The dosage is 7-8g/L.
Bollinger La Grande Annee Rose
An amplification of the Grande Annee. It, too, has around two-thirds Pinot Noir and one-third Chardonnay, but with the added nuance of an exceptional red wine from La Cote aux Enfants, a Grand Cru vineyard of less than 1.5 hectares. This vintage wine is only made in the best years. Vinification takes place in old oak barrels. Aged for six years on the lees. Dosage is 7g/L.
Bollinger R.D.
Since the 1952 vintage, under the guidance of Madame Bollinger, a portion of the Bollinger Grande Annee is held back for disgorgement at a later date, which becomes the R.D. ('Recemment Degorge' or Recently Disgorged). It is usually disgorged 8-20 years after the vintage. The R.D. dosage is 3-4g/L.
Bollinger Vieilles Vignes Francaises
100% Pinot Noir from ungrafted vines. Very few ungrafted vines still exist in Champagne. Almost all were grafted onto American rootstock following the devastation of phylloxera. However, three of Bollinger's Grand Cru parcels survived unscathed: Chaudes Terres and Clos St Jacques in Ay, and Croix Rouge in Bouzy. Unfortunately, the ungrafted vines at Croix Rouge were lost to phylloxera in 2003, leaving just two ungrafted parcels today. These plots are worked in the traditional way, by hand and sometimes with the help of a cart horse. The Bollinger Vieilles Vignes Francaises ('French Old Vines') was first made in 1969, and is only produced in the best vintages.
Bollinger La Cote aux Enfants
This Coteaux Champenois is a still red wine made from Pinot Noir grapes from the tiny, organically farmed Grand Cru 'La Cote aux Enfants' (the Children's Hillside) vineyard. According to legend, the hillside is so steep that only children can climb it. The wine is only made in the best years and is aged for eight months in old oak barrels. Only a few thousand bottles are produced in a given year.
In 1650, the ancestors of the Comte de Villermont settled in the village of Cuis. Exactly 100 years later, the Comte purchased an estate in Ay that is still the home of Bollinger today. At that time, his family was already using grapes from their estate vineyards to produce a sparkling wine.
In 1829, the Comte entered into partnership with Jacques Bollinger and Paul-Joseph Renaudin to establish the house, then known as Renaudin-Bollinger & Cie. A few years later, in 1837, the Bollinger and Villermont families came even closer when Jacques Bollinger married the Comte's daughter, Louise-Charlotte de Villermont.
A decade after the marriage, Jacques Bollinger bought all the company shares held by the Comte and restored Renaudin-Bollinger to a privately owned business. In 1851 Paul-Joseph Renaudin passed away, and three years later the house came under the sole ownership of Jacques Bollinger (although the name remained unchanged until the 1960s out of respect to his former partner).
All during this period, Bollinger and Renaudin had been focused on selling their wines to key export markets, including Great Britain and Germany. They were among the first champagne houses to produce a drier style of wine that found great success, especially with the British market.
Upon Jacques Bollinger's passing in 1884, his sons took over the company, first Joseph, soon followed by Georges. The brothers had to face extremely difficult times, including the devastation of the vineyards by phylloxera. But they succeeded in further raising the profile and quality of the wines, and even expanded their vineyard holdings.
The reins then passed to George's son, Jacques, who at the tender age of 24 assumed responsibility in 1920. With help from his cousins, he too built on the advancements of his father and grandfather. Later, as mayor of Ay, he enjoyed great influence and authority in the locale.
In 1923 Jacques married a Scottish lass, Elizabeth (Lily) Bollinger, whose business acumen was a tremendous asset. It was she who took control of the house when Jacques died in 1941. World War II was raging, and yet, Lily, at age 42, was devoted to the company. She worked tirelessly to implement strategies that would bring the house and the wines much acclaim.
After the war, Lily built the estate vineyards up to their present level of 164 hectares, with purchases of plots in Ay, Grauves, Champvoisy and Bisseuil. She also represented the company around the world, where her charm and cheerful personality were warmly welcomed.
Lily was a great believer in progress and innovation, and it was her motivation that led to the creation of Bollinger R.D. by holding back some of the Grande Annee for later disgorgement.
To ensure the house continued to flourish, Madame Bollinger began training her niece's husband, Claude d'Hautefeuille, to skillfully run this business. He became director in 1950, and she appointed him Chairman in 1971, just six years before she died.
In 1978 Madame Bollinger's nephew, Christian Bizot, took over from Claude. He proved to be an excellent Chairman, taking after his famous aunt in his devotion to speaking with sommeliers and wine merchants around the globe and befriending them with his easygoing personality.
The novelist Ian Fleming was one of Bollinger's most famous fans. In his fourth Bond novel, Diamonds Are Forever, Bollinger makes its first appearance as the champagne of choice for the British secret agent 007. The relationship grew when Christian Bizot met and became good friends with Albert R. Broccoli, the producer of the Bond films. To this day, James Bond's champagne of choice is Bollinger.
In 1992, Christian created the house's famous 'Bollinger Charter of Ethics & Quality', which outlines their very strict standards and commitment to producing the highest quality champagne. These have since been renamed the Bollinger 'Ten Commandments', which state:
In 1994, the great-great-grandson of the house's founder assumed the helm of the business. Ghislain de Montgolfier's expertise led him to become the head of the Board of the Union des Maisons de Champagne and co-chairman of the Comite Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne (CIVC).
In 2008, for the first time in the company's history, control was passed to a non-family member. Bollinger is never afraid to try something new if it is in the best interest of the house and its wines. Jerome Philipon is originally from the Champagne region, and comes from a background of working with large industrial organizations. He shares the vision, passion and drive that has been the cornerstone of this house since its inception.
Gilles Descotes took over from Mathieu Kauffmann as chef de cave in June 2013. Descotes, says Philipon, was the natural successor, since he had been working at Bollinger for a decade - progressing from assistant production director to director of vineyards and supply, before being named technical director in 2012. Gilles is now in sole control of blending for the full Bollinger range, as well as grape supply and vineyard management.
The estate-owned Bollinger vineyards are located mostly in Grand and Premier Cru villages, and account for almost two-thirds of their total production needs. The remainder is purchased from local growers.
In the cellar, only the first pressing is used, and fermentation takes place in both stainless steel tanks and oak barrels. The grape varieties and many of the different parcels are vinified separately, and it depends on the wine as to which fermentation vessel is used. Malolactic fermentation is always carried out for wines that ferment in stainless steel, but for those fermented in oak, malolactic only takes place if it occurs naturally.
The Bollinger cellars contain 600,000 magnums, used to hold reserve wine for the blends. This is an extremely labour-intensive method, but Bollinger's commitment to quality means they are not interested in the easy route, and prefer to use the options that best suit the wines. The magnums of reserve wine are stoppered under cork, and offer the chef de cave a top quality array of base wines from which to create his blends.
Bollinger also performs riddling (remuage) by hand, and has a resident cooper to care for the barrels


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Assalamualaikum and salam blog to you all. Last Saturday, fasya was very lonely because my family had gone to our village. At night, fasya decided to watch a scary movie. Suddenly, fasya heard very loud thunder. Fasya felt very scared. After a few minutes, fasya was suddenly in the darkness. "Oh my God!" Fasya screamed loudly because fasya was shocked.
Fasya quickly took out my mobile phone from my pocket. Fasya pressed the call button without looking at name that appeared on the screen. Luckily, my mother answered my call. i started crying as soon Fasya heard my mother's voice. My mother was worried about me. She asked me what had happened to me? Fasya could not answer my mother's question becouse fasya was very frightened. my mother advised me to stay calm as she would come quickly.
Suddenly, fasya heard something fall on the floor. Although, fasya was in a scary situation. Fasya went slowly to see what had fallen on the floor. Fasya was so that relieve. It just a cat. "Si Comel."


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If I Were A Cantaloupe
The cantaloupe is sometimes referred to as 'muskmelon', a most august entity, indeed.
cantaloupe |ˈkantlˌōp| (also cantaloupe melon)
a small, round melon of a variety with orange flesh and ribbed skin
ORIGIN, late 18th cent.: from French cantaloup, from CantaluppinearRome, where it was first grown in Europe after being introduced from Armenia.
Well now, let's examine the inference in that phrase, "If I were a cantaloupe" . . .
It's a present conditional situation, allowing that whatever I've been before or might become later on, or a possible manifestation of what my being is or could be as a cantaloupe. I don't like to brag, but there are a few things I could tell you about that. I'll spare you both the ancient history and the grammar lesson.
But let's not deviate from the present primary premise pirouetting profusely in my cantaloupe brain. I have to mention - well - maybe not that imperative - but I feel the strong need and desire to mention that what's bothersome in this assigned title (though also willingly chosen) is that it seems to rule out several quite valid possibilities, such as that I may have already been and still may be (oh! here I go again - sorry 'bout that!) - but picture me being a lovely succulent melon grown in the tropical region of the Texas "Rio Grande Valley" - -
where everyone must know the best and sweetest cantaloupes ARE grown.
Now try to visualize that now I may have, could have, what-fun-it-would-be if I actually had metamorphosed into a silver haired, silver tongued poetess, so that no one is any the wiser about my origins. Never thought of that, did you?
Otherwise, you'd have stolen my hub story and probably would have written it up better. I must grab the cantaloupe by the - er - ball - and run with it now, if I'm ever to get into cantaloupe elite-ville.
OR - and don't rule this out: I might even now BE a cantaloupe in disguise as such a silver-haired, silver-tongued person having been through a process of undergoing an extreme DNA upgrade which - in the future - -
yes, will render me not only said succulent melon, easily taken for a Rio Grande Valley cantaloupe, but such a super-cantaloupe as the world has never beheld or even imagined. Is your credulity stretched sufficiently now to ponder the possibilities, fine Hubber or fair Hubberess?
In any of these cases, however, my cantaloupeness is/would be (if it were/ had been/ will be to become), so much more sophisticated, complicated and amazing than just your typical, run of the mill, everyday cantaloupe, you see, - not to mention straining the average non-Cantaloupian Hubber's credulity and/or comprehensiveness beyond containment. In fact, my own rind may burst with the thought of it momentarily! Read on. . . .
You need to understand that my seeds are/would be extraordinary. From one measly little slimy seed from the bowels of my round little body, entire barrels of clone-seeds would quickly form, emerge and germinate.
These would be fully capable of being self-sown across the land, being more than enough to cover the whole of South Texas, Mexico and the entire Isthmus down there, and more. No obstacle, natural or man-made would impede this progress.
There would soon be lovely vines bearing multitudes of these delicious, round, plump, healthy, moisturizing, beta-carotene-bearing fruits whose insides are so sweet to the palate and immensely habit-forming that the entire dangerous drug industry in all those countries would be put out of business while their former customers craved and sought more cantaloupes! Fortunately for all concerned, the supply would be limitless.
Cantaladdicts would become so sublimely healthy that doctors, pharmacists (and all their rigamarole, including those vile TV ads prompting unsuspecting folks to beg for their risky wares, serious side-effects, notwithstanding) would soon be closing their doors, shut down, out-of-business, kapoot. Hospitals would be open only for new births and old-age cases of the unfortunates who didn't get a chance to be in on the Cantaloupe Bounty in time. Those who do have access will survive indefinitely. People will be wiser, healthier, stronger, live longer, be funny, sexy, never be be bored, take themselves less seriously and give each other benefit of the doubt.
A diplomatic contingent of these Cantalaheroes will seek out someone named Stan Fletcher in order to confer the highest honors and Nobel Peace Prize upon him. He will be elated to write the world's most original and popular Ode to a Frog yet ever written. Even the Frog itself will become a prime mover in the Cantaloupe Culture.
The Cantaloupe Bounty Society will convene to elect national and international leaders who will abolish all the bad stuff, including child labor, childbirth labor, air pollution, diseases and other ugly stuff that has been either bad luck or bad neighbors generated. No blame, no shame, simply vast improvement - even into and including North Korea. All will simply turn into Cantalophiles.
The permanent Cantaloupe Counsel will meet as often as needed to review and revise the practical measures, although their major emphasis will be on directing the good stuff, since the bad stuff will quickly become obsolete to the degree that no one will any longer recognize anything about any of it, - any, none.
Yegads! I think I'm about to sprout!
Ah. That felt good!! It's been a load on my chest these many years. Happy Birthdays to me!
Hey - er - please - be gentle with that knife, will you?
Disclaimer . . .
This hub is my silly entry in Stan Fletcher's latest hub-writing contest, Another Fantabulous Contest, (or words to that effect - go check it out for yoursel!) Vote it up - maybe I'll win! (wink, wink - sure - maybe the Cowboys will be last minute substitutes for the Packers in the Superbowl, too!)
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If you are entering a hub in the contest, please be sure to enter the key tag, "seattlestan" in the tag area with it, so its link will be added and will appear here and on others' list of entries. Check with Austinstar's comment @ Stan's hub for complete directions about this.
The Contest . . .
- Fantabulous Hub Contest - Second Edition!
NEWS BULLETIN The time has come yet again for another of Stan Fletchers fabulous creative writing contests! The last one instigated a paradigm shift in the thinking of millions of hubbers. No longer were...
My cantahead is reeling...but I enjoyed every minute of it.
Thank you, ma'am...that clears up much for me. I just copy/pasted that into a little journal I'm keeping for notes and such. I'm about to publish a new hub-I don't typically announce that to anyone, but I feel I can to you, without fear of censure. Thank you for the kind words and guidance :)TR
Good morning, Miss Nellie..
My training, as it were, comes from much reading, and writing about two dozen college papers on various subjects for a couple teens who lacked the gumption to do it on their own. That's about it.
Not being schooled in the various facets of writing, I really have no idea where improvements might lie. I've not experienced rejection yet, so a perspective is hard to formulate.
Good Lord...I just managed to pry my tongue off the roof of my mouth and get my breathing back under control. Wow...ok...now I AM prattling. One thing I mentioned on my profile, and am absolutely insistent upon...I want to get better. I see that many on here compliment one another (which is perfectly fine), and I certainly appreciate yours. But I also want to know what I'm doing wrong...how else do we grow? if you'd be so kind...
Thank you, ma'am...I've enjoyed it so far....it was a pleasure today.
Miss Nell....
I never thought I'd be jealous of a cantaloupe. I'm but a novice, and your writing staggers me. At the risk of morphing into a fawning schoolboy, this is why I joined hubpages-to learn from Masters/Mistresses. I'm honored (and no, I'm not kidding)
A post-script; the next time I wander through the fruit and veggie aisle, I'll be glancing surreptitiously at the 'loupes and wondering what the little buggers are thinkin' :)TR
Once again you never seem to amaze me.Your words are articulate and proper.I seek Honey Dew melons but they are too expensive.I really love cantaloupe and the really ripe kind where the juice drips down my lips.I heard if you touch the end and you want it to be soft.If you see any white marks on it put it back.If you shake it it is ready to eat.I usually put them out on the counter for a couple of days and then take my chances.Most of the time I am pleasantly surprised.Cutting up one seems to be a process.When I grew up we use to eat them in slices and hold their firm skin and eat it so close to the rind.Making sure we didn't waste any.I see you have thought of everything and more.Now years later I cut up my succullent canaloupe into little bite size squares so different than what I am use to.Why I am not sure.Lazy I guess and it is so easy to eat later and I add some whip cream as if it isn't sweet enough.I love it for breakfast and any afternoon.Late night snack can be fun too.I guess you already know anytime of the day will do.I think one reason I cut it up is that I have seen people eat the canaloupe cut up in slices and they leave so much still left on the skin.I feel it is a sin.To waste all that wonderful fruit.So this way I cut it up and eat any leftovers.Greedy I guess.I love your hubs and even a layman can see your talent absorbed in everything you write.You boggle my mind and your pictures are delicately refined.I am just out of my mind.As I see how sweet and kind you are and rare as they come. I leave my cantaloupe on the counter now so I can watch and stare.I have known you all my life and just didn't know you were in my home since I was a little tike.As I grew older you were always piled high as soon as you walk in the supermarket always teasing every customer as soon as they walk in.Even if we didn't buy cantaloupe because you got too expensive for my taste.Your thoughts crossed my mind subconsciously and consciously every time.I have never seen a cantaloupe go eight months without a bite.I am here to make sure it doesn't happen again.You are what you say you are and so much more.Love the hub and will have to go back to it many times to understand the many play on words you so talently include.Funny and without mention a mouthful.Without any ado I adore you.P.s. when I read your hubs words that I have not used in years come to mind.I don't know if they are in proper usage of the english grammar (probably not).My English teachers would have a field day.In my defense all I can say is Thank God I don't have to be graded.I would end up staying after school for the rest of my summer.(lol)
And a big hug to you, my new found, but no less precious, friend.
Thinking of you and all my North American friends. I am sitting in the dining room, where I have the computer; no study, just a computer in a corner. I'm thinking it's not too cool to put on the central heating, and there you all are, up to your whatevers in that horrible white stuff I abhor. To rub it in. it's a mild, sunny day.
And with the beauty of the Internet, I don't have to brave the weather to look at your hubs; which I love doing, Nellie.
By the way: Happy New Year!
Brava! (as they say) I have been looking for an analogy for a texture i need for the writing of a story I am involved with... and I was looking into your hubs (as is my wont, of late) to find it raised its lovely metaphorical head.
Look for the word muskmelon (the true cantaloupe) in a magnificent novella by some obscure writer. And there it will be, in all its golden fleshed glory.
Ah! The Armenians, clever chaps, to a man.
Cantaloupes of the world unite! You've nothing to loose but your skins!
I love cantaloupes very much. Here in South Africa they are known as "spanspek" which could mean "Spanish bacon" or "team bacon" - how it got that name I have absolutely no idea. But whatever they're called they taste as sweet, as the Bard might have said.
Loved this and the tasty pix!
Thanks for a great read in the great Nellieanna tradition!
Love and peace
Hugs right back at ya, darlin'!
Just dropped by for a little squeeze, please. May your melon always be ripe!
I have always love melons and now you will forever be etch in my mind whenever I see or eat one :) which will make the experience doubly pleasurable.My comment on Stan's hub was made with a poker face :) and I did leave another comment about my "affliction" :)
After finding out that you entered Stan's contest.With trembling hands on the keyboard I hurriedly sought this hub.Thankful that my favorite poetess didn't turn into a melon or cantaloupe.The definition of both in the Urban dictionary is not flattering.I'm glad that superior intelligence and a kind heart have triumph once again.(please read my comment in Stan's hub to fully understand the reason of this comment...I hope it's still there :)
This was hilarious, Nellieanna. I loved the fun you had with grammar! I also liked your last comment: "A privilege of maturity is to enjoy being ripe." Cute pictures, too.
You are so sensuous and flirtatious as you approach the anniversary of your birth. Cantalorgy is a fine word to coin; especially for a cantaloupe bulging with juices. LOL
Hex-leafed sultry orange blossom
Draw fair nose to parted petals
Yield luscious melons full bossom
Palmed ripely; licked; savored balls;
Scooped fleshy orbs consumed; mellowed
Fresh fluid fills fired thirsty palate;
Juicy fruit bitten chewed swallowed
Dripping; mouthfuls sucked fruit salad.
Can I have a bite? :-)
In my language we call it a "spanspek" – meaning literally: "Spanish bacon". Do you know that South Africa's spanspek is vastly superior to any equivalent elsewhere? So guess who is going to have cantaloupe for breakfast tomorrow. Well done with this contribution to Stan's challenge, Nellieanna. This is a great tribute to the cantaloupe - I enjoyed the read. Take care!
Nellie - you've knocked this one out of the park. About halfway through, I had never wanted a cantaloupe so badly in all my life, and by the end I was ravenous. And to think world peace could be achieved as a bonus! You've outdone yourself here! Rated up and hit all the buttons!
Ah, sweet cantaloupe, at last I've found you. I am strong and sturdy and unattached at the moment. Will you marry me? Signed, Lonesome Watermelon :)
Hi Nell! The RSS feed will pick up any hub with the tag "seattlestan" in the tag area. It will do this automatically as they become available. No redo required. Just add the tag to your hubs.
You have to do both things to make it work. Add the tag and add the rss capsule.
I wish I had gone to U.T.A. Instead, I went to Sam Houston State (which used to be a teacher's college). I followed my hero, Dan Rather.
Ahh.. Cantaloupes, such sweet and savory sepals they are, made all the sweeter by this hub. I thoroughly enjoyed your work. Good luck with the contest. I'll vote you up daily. You've undoubtedly set some sort of precedent in fruit literature.
Santi Lio
Fantastically funny and frivolous, full of metaphorical import...Bravo, and voted way up...
I like my cantaloupe sliced thin and wrapped in prosciutto, yummers !! Thank you for this exquisite mind trip...Larry
Wow, that was a bit of a cantaloupe explotion lol.
Now I have a craving for cantaloupe! Was chuckling at the suggestion to be "gentle with the knife".
Voted up of course! :)
Oh, I love your new avatar photo! It's Fantabulous! You sure look great for a cantaloupe.
This hub made me wish I had a sweet Pecos melon right now! I have to wait for Spring, I think. Yum, Yum.
I got it! Nellieanna, the RSS is trying to parse the line with the odd characters in it - "cantaloupe |?kantl??p| (also cantaloupe melon)cantaloupe |?kantl??p| (also cantaloupe melon)"
which is the first line of your hub (that the RSS sees) it's ok as is and I would just leave it that way. Computers sometimes read odd characters as something different.
This is a cool hub, I'm going to read it now.
I will always look at cantaloupes differently now - who knows where the silver haired, silver tongued poetess may be hiding! :)
I don't really want to be a cantaloupe but you seem to have it all figured it out.
I'm glad you are not a cantaloupe, because if you were, you would probably be eaten before you get to read this.
If I were a cantaloupe I would have severe indigestion!
Hi, Nellieanna, the High Priestess of Cantloupia. You have a fertile imagination and a distinctly marvelous way with words. Loved the sibilance....You will be pleased to know that I'm already a Cantaladdict. I'm also an afficionado of all things Texan (well, not the football, which I realize is heresy) as I lived in the Dallas area for eight years and loved it. Texas is like a separate country in the U.S. (which I think native Texans believe). Sorry, I digress. Talking about Texas does that to me. Really enjoyed your glorious entry into Stan's contest. Your prose is quite poetic, so I'll look forward to reading your poetry. JAYE


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There's so much going on today! Where to begin?! Let's start with the bad:
Ray Rice – So this happened and apparently, the NFL never saw this video when they issued his initial two game suspension. I don't know about that. Sounds suspect. But…he's suspended indefinitely now.
Glad the NFL took these steps immediately. I mean seriously, he should've had this penalty to begin with. I wrote about this before, but this dude knocked his then fiancé–now wife–OUT! Knocked her OUT!
Now, I can't believe that after this incident, she went on to marry him. UGH. But I recently read this transcript from a woman doing a TEDtalk where she discussed the domestic violence she experienced. It was heart wrenching to read. The talk was about why women don't leave their abusive partners and she shared her story as an example. After reading it, in her situation, it seemed like it centered around the fear of what if she left. She stated statistics about the number of women who are murdered by their abusers when they attempt to leave. That was part of why she didn't/felt she couldn't leave. The other part being she still loved this man despite what he was doing to her. But she finally had enough and basically told everyone around her, including the police, about her situation and that's how she got away from her husband. Again, read the story. It was just…wow. Reading that shed some light on why Janay (Rice's wife) probably decided to go through the marriage. It's just sad.
I really hope Rice getting a LOT of help (he has plenty of time to receive it now). I hope Janay is getting help too. No one should be hitting anyone, but for a man–an NFL football player at that–to hit a woman….absolutely UNACCEPTABLE!!! She needs to know that. I hope she has someone in her corner telling her she deserves more.
Moving on to greener pastures…
The Royal Family – Kate is preggo!! That's exciting! I don't follow the Royals that much, but I love Kate and Will. I love seeing wonderful relationships. And they just seem so meant for each other. Of course, I say this based on perusing lots of pictures! *lol* Obviously, I don't know them, but they just look like a great couple and I'm sure they are wonderful parents. That little Prince George is such a cutie. I think I echo many by saying, I hope she has a little girl! Yay for royal babies!
Neil Patrick Harris – NPH got married to his partner this weekend! Yay for them! I love NPH. I've been a fan since the Doogie Howser days. #oldschool I follow him on Twitter and he's awesome. Congrats to him!
NY Fashion Week – Fashion! Fashion! Fashion! I lurve Fashion Week! Now that we're out here in the #Jerz, I'm following along via Instagram and Twitter. I need to find this site I used previous years to look at the shows. Fashion is fun. 🙂
I feel like I had more to say, but I can't think of the words now. I hate it when that happens. *shakes fist in the air* I'm feeling a bit out of sorts because of a small ailment I have going on. Going to the doc this week. It's nothing to worry about though, just need to make sure things are ok. 🙂
That's all for now! Hopefully I'll have another blog later this week!
p.s. I know my Wolverines are sad about the loss this Sat. *sigh* Let's hope the loss doesn't knock down our spirit too much. We've gotta fight on!!! #GoBlue I will say though, that Ohio losing made me feel better. 🙂 #evillaugh


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Children should have better access to WIC and SNAP
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No one should go hungry in the United States, especially children. Programs such as Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provide assistance to low-income families. While our main concern for these programs is a budget cut, we also have to fight for the income portion of eligibility to be revised as well as increasing the age limit from 5 to 21 for children and services should begin when the child is in the womb.
According to the USDA website in order to qualify for WIC, applicants must meet all of the following requirements:
§ Categorical
§ Residential
§ Income
§ Nutrition Risk
This petition focuses on the following two qualifications that must be re-visited and changed to better Serve Children of the United States:
Under Categorical one must fall under the following requirements:
§ Pregnant (during pregnancy and up to 6 weeks after the birth of an infant or the end of the pregnancy
§ Postpartum (up to six months after the birth of the infant or the end of the pregnancy)
§ Breastfeeding (up to the infant's first birthday)
Infants (up to the infant's first birthday)
Children (up to the child's fifth birthday)
Children should not stop qualifying until their fifth birthday, rather all children until the age of 21 should receive assistance. This will help with children being able to access fresh fruits and vegetables during a prime time of their development. Furthermore, this will assist with fighting childhood obesity.
Income Requirement:
Once again referring to the USDA website, in order to be eligible for WIC, applicants must have income at or below an income level or standard set by the State agency or be determined automatically income-eligible based on participation in certain programs.
Income Standard. The State agency's income standard must be between 100 percent of the Federal poverty guidelines (issued each year by the Department of Health and Human Services), but cannot be more than 185 percent of the Federal poverty income guidelines.
These income guidelines for WIC are also very similar to the income guidelines for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
Putting things into perspective in order to qualify for WIC, one must be below the federal poverty level. A better re-assessment if for congress to keep this on a state to state basis, meaning that the cost of living in New York can not be compared to the Cost of living in Oklahoma or Minnesota. Furthermore, although there is a great need for low-income families, mid-income families should also be able to participate and be eligible for programs such as WIC.
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(CN) – Three trials on a capital murder charge, 20 years of labyrinthine appeals, and a smitten private investigator whom he married in prison did not save convicted serial killer Oscar Bolin from execution Thursday night.
The inmate known as "Bolin the Butcher" was put to death by lethal injection at Florida State Prison on Jan. 7, after spending more than two decades in prison for abducting and killing three women.
His death warrant was signed for the murder of Teri Lynn Matthews, a woman found bludgeoned on the side of a rural Pasco County, Fla. road in 1986.
Bolin went through three trials for the murder, as the Florida Supreme Court repeatedly reversed the state court's guilty verdicts, citing questionable jury-screening procedures and improper fielding of spousal testimony by Bolin's ex-wife.
In 2001, the last jury in the Matthews murder case found that Bolin was indeed the man who abducted the 26-year-old outside a post office, raped, stabbed and clubbed her to death.
Bolin's half-brother Phillip testified that on the night of Matthews' disappearance, Bolin showed up with the body wrapped in a sheet, telling him the woman had been hurt during an off-the-rails drug deal. Phillip, 13 at the time of the incident, said Bolin asked him to help dispose of the body in exchange for money, an offer which he refused.
Phillip had reportedly recanted his account well prior to the final trial, but he ultimately reaffirmed the gruesome narrative and professed that family members had pressured him into the recantation.
Solidifying the evidence against Bolin was a forensic expert's testimony that he matched several bands of Bolin's DNA to a sample taken from Matthews' body.
According to court documents, Michelle Steen, the spouse of Bolin's cousin, further testified that in 1987, while visiting her home, Bolin said he had murdered a girl in Florida and put a hose down her throat, and that Phillip had watched him do it.
Fighting his third conviction for the murder, Bolin filed a string of appeals with the aid of Rosalie Martinez, a private investigator who professed her love for Bolin after she met him in prison working on his defense.
Martinez made international headlines when she wed Bolin while he was behind bars.
For years, she helped Bolin construct his argument for innocence, largely based on the notion that forensic evidence had been handled by FBI agent Michael Malone, a hair-and-fiber analyst accused of giving fraudulent testimony in other criminal trials.
Bolin also pointed to Ohio inmate Steven Kasler, who allegedly confessed to Matthews' murder.
Florida courts and later the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the supposedly exculpatory evidence. The Eleventh Circuit sided with state prosecutors' argument that Kasler was unreliable as he had given numerous false murder confessions and had provided no details of Matthews' abduction apart from what was widely available in media coverage.
The appeals court went on to find that the disgraced FBI agent's work on fibers from the Matthews case was not used as trial evidence. Forensic experts other than Malone were responsible for managing the pertinent case samples presented at trial, the court ruled.
Bolin's execution was scheduled for 6 pm Jan. 7, but the U.S. Supreme Court reportedly delayed the affair for about three hours pending review of his certiorari petition.
The first prisoner to be executed in the United States this year, Bolin was put to death late Thursday evening, more than 24 years after his initial murder conviction.
Bolin had been in prison for Matthews' murder and the slaying of two other Florida women.
The first victim, Hillsborough County restaurant manager Natalie Blanche Holley, was killed in January 1986. Holley's family endured four trials stretching from 1991 to 2012, each ending in a guilty verdict for Bolin.
The second, teenager Stephanie Collins, was slain between November and December of 1986, around the time of Matthews' murder. Juries that heard the Collins case voted unanimously for Bolin's execution.
Authorities did not link the slayings to Bolin until 1990, when his ex-wife Cheryl Coby's new husband called a tip line to report that Cheryl had implicated Bolin.
Cheryl then allegedly informed authorities that she had helped Bolin hide evidence.
Bolin was already serving a jail sentence in Ohio for rape when he was indicted for the Florida murders.


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For garlic lovers everywhere! Enjoy your soft, warm and freshly-made chapattis with a generous burst of garlic flavour. Combine it with the garlic & coriander Tarka dhal recipe for a double garlic hit!
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- 2 cups wholewheat flour
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- good handful Wild garlic, finely chopped
- (judgement) Water
- Salt to taste
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- Make a well in the flour and add the oil and wild garlic.
- Stir the mixture then slowly add a little water at a time, mixing between additions.
- Stir to form a smooth dough that holds together and leaves the side of the bowl clean. (If too sticky, add a little more flour; if to crumbly add a little more water.)
- Take the dough out of the bowl and kneed on a clean, floured surface.
- Divide dough into 12 balls
- Lightly coat one ball in dry flour
- Flatten the ball and roll to a circle (add extra flour if sticking to the rolling pin)
- Heat a small frying pan (griddle) on a medium heat and add chapatti
- When bumps form across surface of chapatti, turn over
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- After a few seconds, press down the puffed chapatti with a spatula
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Inside picture of Aaradhya's fun-filled birthday at Prateeksha
After a family dinner at a five star hotel, Aaradhya Bachhan's sixth birthday was held at Prateeksha on Saturday night and it saw many celebrity friends of the Aishwarya and Abhishek Bachchan attending the party with their respective children.
We have spotted Shahrukh Khan with his bundle of joy AbRam, Shilpa Shetty with her son Viaan Raj Kundra, her mother also joined them. Sonali Bendre arrived with her son Ranveer while Farah Khan was also snapped with her triplets.
Tara Sharma attended Aaradhya's birthday with her sons, Zen and Kai. Grandparents Amitabh Bachchan and Amitabh Bachchan also seen arrived for the bash.
Aaradhya's birthday was totally fun-filled. Shilpa shared a video in which children were seen have a gala time riding in a giant wheel.
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Though her exact line of work is unknown, an Instagram page filled with beachfronts, large properties, and trips to landmark cities around the world, experts conclude she has not missed a step when it comes to rising the ranks of social clout. And while the debate about whether she's an international ambassador, founder of a successful startup, or the brand model for a line of detox juices rages on, each one of her thousands of social media followers agree she's completely dominating the game of life.
Even your former classmates who have found relative success after high school are stunned to somehow still be in her shadow, especially after seeing the photographs of the destination wedding with her high school sweetheart, who you remember as the most popular guy in school and thought for sure HE of all people would peak in high school, also appears to also still be totally killin' it.
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Out of the night that covers me,Black as the pit from pole to pole,I thank whatever gods may beFor my unconquerable soul.In the fell clutch of circumstanceI have not winced nor cried aloud.Under the bludgeonings of chanceMy head is bloody, but unbowed.Beyond this place of wrath and tearsLooms but the Horror of the shade,And yet the menace of the yearsFinds and shall find me unafraid.It matters not how strait the gate,How charged with punishments the scroll,I am the master of my fate,I am the captain of my soul.
This is one of my favorite poems. I learned it in middle school – the first poem I actively remember having to memorize and recite aloud. I never realized the importance of this poem for so many people until I got to college. It has a whole new meaning – or perhaps interpretation – for different sets of people.


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Guru Poornima.
The full moon day in the Hindu month of Ashad is observed as the auspicious day of Guru Poornima, a day sacred to the memory of the great sage Vyasa. All Hindus are indebted to this ancient saint who edited the four Vedas, wrote the 18 Puranas, the Mahabharata and the Srimad Bhagavata. And it says that Vyasa even taught Dattatreya, who is regarded as the Guru of Gurus.
Moon is the presiding deity of the mind.Poornima refers to Full-Moon day and it symbolizes the mind filled with happiness. Thus there is close association between the moon and mind. Evidently Guru-Poornima does not mean worshipping the Guru with some offerings alone. Guru Poornima is an occasion for clearing impure mind and keeping. Guru in the thoughts all-over without an awe of worldly desires, so that, GURU dwells in it and helps the being to come out of darkness of ignorance.
Kabir said that GURU is washer man; His disciple the cloth, soap is the creator, washed on the stone of knowledge which elicits utmost brightness.
Hindus attach paramount importance to spiritual gurus. Gurus are often equated with God and always regarded as a link between the individual and the Immortal. Just as the moon shines by reflecting the light of the sun, and glorifies it, all disciples can dazzle like the moon by gaining from their Gurus. Then, the heart of the devotee purely dwells in almighty pleasures and consciousness.
It has been said that obstructions that may be faced in the path of Spirituality are mainly due to unstable mind which alone keeps away our effort/desire of moving along spiritualism. In order to keep our mind or say concentration, the Guru's Grace (Krupa) is ardently needed. When Guru is pleased there would be no hindrance and the Guru leads the disciple entirely on to the path of Spiritualism.
On this day, all spiritual aspirants and disciples perform 'puja' of their respective spiritual preceptor or 'Gurudevs'.
The Spiritual aspirants and disciples knows that the Guru is the only guarantee for the individual to transcend the bondage of sorrow and death, and experience the Consciousness of the Reality."
The relation of Guru-Sishya is as pious as that of Bhagavan–Devotee.
The Guru's form should be meditated upon; the feet of the Guru should be worshipped; his words are to be treated as a Sacred Mantra; His Grace ensures final Liberation".
The form of Guru is the root of Meditation,
The feet of Guru are the root of Worship,
The teachings of Guru is the root of all Hymns,
The Grace of Guru is the root of Salvation.