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Research in Southern India Provides a Sweet Look at Preservation of Ecological Knowledge
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Released: 30-Nov-2012 1:55 PM EST
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KEYWORDSBoise State University, Honey, honey gathering, South India, Anthropology
Newswise — A well-known proverb states that, "It takes a village to raise a child." According to Kathryn Demps, it also takes a village to preserve ecological knowledge in upcoming generations.
Demps, A Boise State University visiting assistant professor in anthropology, studies behavioral and evolutionary ecology in small-scale societies. Her latest project looks at the honey-gathering Jenu Kuruba tribe in South India and how its cultural knowledge is being preserved, or lost, in our modern world.
"What we learn from others — our culture, skills, values, beliefs and knowledge — is passed through the generations," she said. "How it is passed down can change the body of knowledge."
Demps noted that in today's race toward homogenous societies, indigenous knowledge is being lost even faster than languages.
One example is medicinal specialists. In the 1980s, the first hospital in the area populated by the Jenu Kuruba opened; 1985 was the last year for a recorded medicinal ceremony. Gurus didn't train more apprentices because no one wanted to learn, and as a result, the knowledge has been completely lost in just one generation.
The Jenu Kuruba comprise a band of small communities located in the forested Kodagu District. For generations, young men from the tribe have collected wild honey by nimbly scaling massive trees. Because honey is in such high demand in the cities for its purported medicinal qualities, it fetches a high price and is an important part of the local economy.
But the skills needed to harvest this precious commodity are at risk of dying out. Several former honey-gathering communities were moved away from the forests in an attempt to create national parks, and those that remain (thanks to special rights from the government to live in the forest and collect non-timber products) are now sending children to school during the day, drastically affecting how, or even if, they learn necessary honey-gathering skills.
Prior to construction of the local school in the 1970s, children rarely received a formal, western education. While the average level of education is still low, most children are spending at least a few critical years learning new skills at the expense of traditional, indigenous knowledge.
"Kids need to learn how to climb trees and how to make big, smoky torches from sticks wrapped in green leaves," Demps said. "They have to learn to climb onto the branches and cut off the honeycomb. There also are ritual things like the honey-collecting song that is supposed to appease the bees and show brotherhood."
Locals learn at an early age to scale trees by shimmying 100 feet up the trunk, pressing their feet flat into the bark and using their arms to pull themselves ever higher. Young boys pick this up by playing a traditional climbing game called mara cothi, which means "tree monkey" and is similar to an arboreal version of tag. Because the climb can be so dangerous, young men often leave offerings at the base of a tree, asking for a blessing for a safe climb.
More skilled gatherers also need to know how to work with the bees, coaxing the queen into a new hive, gathering the honey or calming a troubled colony. This is especially important given that the largest honeybees in the region are massive compared to the average Idaho varieties, and pack a powerful sting.
Demps and fellow researchers are evaluating data collected from almost 200 local residents ages 6-65 in order to understand what residents know at various ages, and who they learned it from.
"If we know what people are learning, and how they are learning it, we can make recommendations that may remove conflicts affecting traditional knowledge," Demps said. "For instance, giving children just five or six days a month off of school can make a big difference. That has been shown to be enough time for children to learn the skills they need to collect honey but still learn western knowledge. They also can learn how to collect forest foods for better nutrition as they are out hunting and gathering, as well as medicinal knowledge and how to manage the environment so that they are less likely to deforest the area."
Demps has published two papers based on her research and is working on another based on traditional knowledge and schooling. She hopes to eventually write a book examining the tribe's traditional life ways that draws on various firsthand accounts over the past two centuries.
About Boise State UniversityA public metropolitan research university with more than 22,000 students, Boise State comprises seven academic colleges, serving undergraduate and graduate students in nearly 200 majors and programs. Located in Idaho's capital city, the university plays a crucial role in the region's knowledge economy and famed quality of life. Learn more at www.BoiseState.edu.


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Here in the dry, wood-heated Winters of the Southwest it's easy to get all dry, cracked and chapped from the inside out. Besides keeping your skin greased with lanolin and herbal oils, and staying out of the moisture sucking wind, my favorite herbal moistening method is to ingest lots and lots of mucilaginous drinks and foods. That means lots of Okra in my stews, and Flax in my nut breads and crackers and tapioca for dessert, yum!
In my everyday nourishing infusions of Nettles or Raspberry or Oatstraw I add a pinch of two of a slippery plant like Mallow (flowers or roots or leaves or all together, depending on how much slime you like) or Flax (I don't like the taste much, but some people are quite fond of it) or some Siberian Elm (check out Darcey's excellent post on this underused Slippery Elm analogue). Any of these will really help temper any drying tendencies of the other herbs and add a very moistening effect to the whole brew. Elm is especially neutral in taste and temperature and can be added to almost any drink, or even to food as a powder. I usually add about a teaspoon of chopped bark to a quart of infusion for a significantly slimy beverage. Try a little less if you can't deal with the gooiness or add more if you really need some extra moistening.
I like Mallow better for Summer dryness as it tends to be more cooling and diuretic, but it really is mellow enough to be used year round for nearly anyone, especially the Common Mallow as opposed to the cooler Marshmallow.
The moistening herbs are great for general dryness, and also for achy, inflamed bellies (I love a cold infusion of Chokecherry bark and Elm bark for burning gut pain from bad food choices), dry, unproductive coughs or sore throats (a few drops of a tincture of Mallow can almost immediately eradicate a sore throat from dryness and irritation), and also irritated, inflamed urinary tract infections.
Oh, and here's another great use for Elm in preventing oil rancidity from jim mcdonald.
I've also been trying out herbal soaks for dry, cracked, sore hands and feet made of a diluted infusion of Elm, Moonwort (Artemisia spp.) and Bee Balm, it smells weird but it works really well.
Note: Still working on getting the new satellite installed, and still behind on emails. The river is slowly going down and today we were actually able to drive out. Cross your fingers, as this means we're more likely to get the internet connection sooner… which is great on all accounts, since my shoulders are sore from hauling supplies in and well, that water is cold to walk through! All this to apologize to those of you waiting for me to write you. I will get there, I have not forgotten you, and I'm very sorry for the delay. In the meantime, enjoy the new updated Anima site. And check out the new course offerings which will soon also be listed here.
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Hi Kiva,
I followed the link to the Anima site. Looks great! Is there a video intro? I got a plug- in error message. I can see a Quick Time logo but no video.
Hello again,
I just checked for the intro again and it worked. What amazing beauty you live with!!
Thanks for sharing it!
hi sweet canyon family,
i've been enjoying the videos on the new website and it makes me longgggg for the canyon again. i've been dreaming about it often, still absorbing lessons. hugs to my little otter and all of you.
Love all your posts. they inspire me to not give up looking for answers to my health problems,like CFS. Im looking forward to trying milky oats and oatstraw. Just started nettle.thanks for sharing.


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April 17. 2013 10:27PM
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GILFORD – A three-alarm fire severely damaged a home on Young Road Wednesday night, fire department officials said. No one was injured.
At 6:38 p.m. firefighters called for a second alarm at a three-story home near Cotton Hill and the Belmont town line, officials said.
Heavy fire was reported on the third floor and the attic of the 30x60 foot structure.


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Jerusalem artichoke
A spreading veg that does well on weedy ground. It's a perennial, i.e can be left in the soil year after year, but if dug and replanted you get larger, easy-to-peel tubers. 'Fuseau' is the best variety. Plant now through until spring (01932 253666; organiccatalogue.com).
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Oil rises above $97 as protests in Egypt continue
The price of oil rose above $97 a barrel Monday as concerns over protests in Egypt and their possible effect on Middle East oil supplies outweighed fresh data showing a slump in China's manufacturing sector.
By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark crude for August delivery was up 81 cents at $97.37 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 49 cents to $96.56 on Friday.
Protests in Egypt aimed at ousting Mohammed Morsi, the country's first democratically elected president, continued Monday. Officials said at least 16 people have been killed across the country in violence connected to the rallies against the Islamist leader and the Muslim Brotherhood group which propelled Morsi to power.
Traders are concerned that the protests in Egypt and the civil war in Syria could affect the production and transport of oil supplies in the Middle East and North Africa.
"Oil could see some real volatility, as a result of the geopolitical tumult," said the Kilduff Report, a market research paper edited by Michael Fitzpatrick. "With the protests in Egypt and reports of more strife in Libya, the geopolitical risk premium is being reflated. The battle within Syria, which is a battle for the region, is escalating still."
Earlier in Monday's trading session, oil prices fell to near $96 as China's manufacturing weakened again in June amid a credit crunch and slower U.S. and European orders, two surveys showed Monday. The findings added to signs that growth in the world's second-largest economy is decelerating.
Oil's fall was braked by better economic news from Japan, where business confidence among major manufacturers turned positive for the first time in nearly two years, and by improving figures in the eurozone's purchasing managers' index.
In London, Brent crude was up 80 cents at $102.96 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.
In other energy futures trading on Nymex:
— Natural gas lost 2.1 cents to $3.544 per 1,000 cubic feet.
— Heating oil gained 2.76 cents to $2.8864 per gallon.
— Wholesale gasoline added 2.03 cent to $2.7359 per gallon.


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Iconic styling; quattro all-wheel-drive; new high-performance model
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Underneath its iconic easily recognizable exterior, the TT is based on Audi's sturdy passenger car platform with quattro all-wheel-drive, making it a superb all-weather handler, yet it maintains good all around performance, with the turbocharged 2.0L engine pushing it to 60 mph in just 5.7 seconds--faster than both the Mercedes-Benz SLK 300 and the BMW Z4. The new-for 2012 TT RS has a 360 horsepower 5-cylinder engine that offers intense performance in the same compact package. The new model's base price of under $60,000 makes it a great performance value.
A performance oriented version of the Audi TT, the 2012 Audi TTS is a luxury sports car available in coupe and roadster trim levels. The TTS is powered by a 2.0-liter 4-cylinder turbocharged engine that produces 265 hp and 258 lb-ft of torque, for a 0-60 time of 4.9 seconds. A 6-speed dual-clutch with electro-hydraulic control is paired with AWD to grant the TTS an EPA estimated 23 mpg city and 31 mpg highway. Features include xenon headlights with LED daytime running lights, 19-inch wheels, retractable rear spoiler, heated leather seats, hill-hold assist, hands-free phone capabilities, navigation system with a 6-CD changer, and premium leather seats. Safety is comprised of front airbags, thorax side airbags, front knee airbags, electronic stability control, traction control, anti-lock brake system, electronic brake distribution, and brake assist. The TTS is backed by a 4-year/50,000-mile warranty.


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That Infinity Gauntlet has me extremely pumped for whatever it is going to be used for.
SPOILERS.....It looks like the first teaser (which appears after the credits of Cap) has leaked online. It is very poor quality, but if you'd like to see it, it is probably wise to do it quickly:Avengers TeaserA lot of the "quick flashes" type of stuff going on, and I look forward to seeing it in better quality (or on the big screen), but man it is exciting that this big team up movie is happening.
So is Thanos the villian in The Avengers?
Ugh, Skrulls are part and parcel of the FF continuity, I hate to see them trawled out for another franchise. Did the Avengers even have a recurring nemesis?
Looks like Cap's Avengers movie costume is on display at SDCC, looks pretty nifty:http://i.marvelousnews.com/g/index.php?mode=album&album=2011_San_Diego_Comic_Con%2FMovie&dispsize=600&start=0
Here it is as a figure as well, along with variations of previous Thor and Iron Man figs. Pretty sweet.http://marvelousnews.com/index.php?catid=23&itemid=14267
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UPDATE 06052013 - Herwig
Updated the page with input from David Nolen, the description of the prototype is left intact at the end of the page.
I concur with giving specify an extend-like interface, which can be passed functions.
UPDATE 06052013-2 - Herwig
I pushed a commit to github that makes most of clojurescript runnable again with the refactoring: https://github.com/bendlas/clojurescript/commit/5d827ee8f11b2a575dff2647f7321bc2c47db1de
There is still an issue with accessing locals from reify, when implementing IFn. Due to the call method hack.
Added replys to comments.
Even with namespacing extend-type is a global modification of a Clojure program. While powerful, this feature comes at some cost to modularity. On dynamic hosts like JavaScript, Clojure can provide an efficient modification of individual instances so that they may participate in a protocol. Such a feature would have the additional benefit of actually being more general than extend-type - that is the global modification (via JavaScript prototypes in the case of ClojureScript) is a special case of instance modification.
Add two new macros: specify and specify!. Both have a syntax similar to clojure.core/extend, but take a target object in place of the type and are macros.
specify! will mutate the target object by assigning protocol methods as keys. This is mostly useful to create new prototypes, but can occasionally be useful for external objects from libraries or eval.
specify will clone the target object before specify! ing the clone.
(specify! x IFoo {:-bar existing-fn :-baz (fn ([x] ...) ([x y] ..)})
The function implementing the method (existing-fn) will be called method-fn in this.
Giving specify an interface like extend has following difficulties
Since the arity dispatch is already done at the method call site, we want to directly call the appropriate arity of the method-fn. Since method-fns are lexically bound, we cannot statically know in all cases, how to get the target arity thunk from method-fn.
As the fallback, specify will have to look at the method-fn in every call (of specify!), but this could be mitigated, when the type of a method-fn is known from analysis.
Since specify may come into contact with external data, there is a risk of name clashes, since under advanced compilation method names are shortened to few characters.
specify should check if a property exists on the target object before assigning and should throw if so. This will also guard against double specification with possibly different method-fns.
For external data, such conflicts can and should be resolved with externs files.
We need to think about this some more - we really don't want any checks for modifying prototypes. We need specify! to work elegantly for both scenarios - David
Ok, that's true. Maybe a warning would be more appropriate but the warning strings would already equal half a reflection layer. In production, people really shouldn't specify the same object more than once. For development and macros that will use specify on the prototype (extend-type), there could be another metadata flag ^:force-specify - Herwig
I'm inclined to say that specify! need not warn at all. If you're going to specify! foreign data you don't control that's a user error. For foreign data I think it's probably far wiser to use reify.
It's a user error, alright, but it's one that might manifest as a heisenbug from compilation to compilation, because the set of clobbered property names will change randomly. It won't show up under normal compilation and not even under advanced compilation with minification disabled (there is an option in gclosure for that, we should expose it). A truly horrifying perspective in my eyes. We should at least warn about it. - Herwig
The docstring of specify! should make it clear that it's not intended for data objects outside the ClojureScript compilation process and suggest reify for those cases. - David
I'm not exactly happy with that, but I think its manageable, given that clojurescript has still some way to go towards 1.0 - Herwig
As per the refactoring from CLJS-414, generating (unmangled) Object methods is possible with (the private version of) specify.
When implementing IFn, extend-type generates a multi-arity fn and uses that as a call method. This hack was carried over into CLJS-414.
specify will generate arity methods, call and apply directly, when implementing IFn.
David, can you comment on how .apply vs .cljs$lang$applyTo are used?
.apply is for regular JavaScript fns and simple ClojureScript fns, .cljs$lang$applyTo is for everything else, .cljs$lang$applyTo gets checked first - David
I will need to unify the code for emitting a function with the code for specifying IFn. That move might even make fn* redundant in the analysis format, since it can then be implemented as (specify! (Function.) IFn ...) - Herwig
I don't see how since you still want the general version that dispatches via argument.length - David
Well, my example presupposed that specifying an Object as IFn would generate .call and .apply, as requested, which would supposedly need to dispatch on argument.lenght and do all the other things fn is doing, won't it? - Herwig
I don't see why you need to generate .apply instead of cljs$lang$applyTo. We do probably need to generate .call, this is mostly needed for compilation mode other than advanced - David
1. pass a function-like object into jquery 2. jquery calls .apply on it. ... We don't need to generate .apply for every specify IFn; a single .apply method that calls .call or .cljs$lang$applyTo can be assigned to all implementors of IFn. Maybe just Function.prototype.apply - Herwig
It's an entirely unrealistic expection to think you can pass instances of IFn to external JavaScript library and think they will work. The point of adding a .call property is about a uniform ClojureScript calling convention. JS libs will not generally invoke functions via .call or .apply. Adding .apply serves no purpose for ClojureScript that clj$lang$applyTo doesn't solve. - David
Right, adding .call doesn't automatically make an object callable. Thanks for catching that!
But we do want cljs$core$IFn$_invoke$arity$variadic and cljs$lang$maxFixedArity, right? - Herwig
Update 290513: I've implemented generating .cljs$core$IFn$_invoke$arity$ methods and .cljs$lang$applyTo along with .-cljs$lang$maxFixedArity and a wrapper for .call. Surprisingly, this seems to slow down IFn invokations slightly, at least on my machine, despite the generated code looking pretty optimal: https://github.com/bendlas/clojurescript/blob/8a7b4d75708ed8c7ac35ccb1dbd5627b1fce97dc/src/clj/cljs/core.clj#L583 and https://gist.github.com/bendlas/5664542#file-specify-js-L77 - Herwig
The slowdown issue has been resolved by type hinting. An area I want to explore is the possibility of using a single .call method for all fns (containing a switch and pulling the arity off this). - Herwig
Should the method names be written as symbols instead of keywords? extend has keywords, but it's a function.
specify might become a function on clojurescript if and when cljs gets reflection, which it probably won't.
Still, other dynamic hosts, that have reflection built in might profit, if we stick to keywords now.
there's also the added benefit of specifying maps of fns at the macro level and merging them there. This one is probably worth asking the community about once the proposal is more fully baked - David
Right now there is a special case, where IFn$_invoke is called without the otherwise usual first this parameter. I will explore the possibility to remove the redundant first parameters from other protocol methods aswell. Specify will need to introduce the binding via this-as or a wrapper function in the case of external implementations. - Herwig
I'm willing to implement the optimization for cost 1: to pull arity methods from the method-fn, if available. That would leave the overhead of the type dispatch(es) when invoking specify + a couple of redundant fn objects per specify call site.
I don't see why we need type dispatches, redundant fns for inline specifications do not add any more cost than what we're currently paying - which is nonexistent as far as I can tell from benchmarking - David
By type dispatch I mean checking for arity-methods on method-fn / other type specific optimisations. Currently extend-type just generates the arity-methods. A full fn would also generate an arity dispatch and apply that will never be used by specify. - Herwig
Right we should probably avoid generating the full fn - David
My point is that we don't generate the full fn, the user does:
(extend-type IFoo (-m1 ; this only generates IFoo$._m1$arity methods ([o] :m1) ([o x] [:m1 x]))) (specify (js-obj) IFoo {:-m1 (fn ; this generates an unused arity-dispatch, ... unless we do something about it ([o] :m1) ([o x] [:m1 x]))})
- Herwig
Yes, I think we should special case this since in this case that the fn arities map back to the protocol, there's no need for the wrapper. - David
Both could be thought of as confined costs, but I would like to make sure that they won't be show-stoppers, if nobody gets around to figure out how the specify macro could interact with the analyzer in such a way that they are removed.
analyzer/resolve-existing-var is all you need, this will contain all the known information about the fn, arities, max-arity, whether it's variadic etc - David
Does this also work for lexically bound names? What about expressions? Can I analyze them from a macro? - Herwig
It does work for lexically bound names though I'm not sure why you need that for specify. Expression themselves don't generally have any information. I don't see why you couldn't analyze from a macro, you're passed the environment so I think you should be able to call analyzer from the macro yes. - David
(specify x IFoo {:m1 existing-fn}) ; existing-fn is lexically bound and could be an arbitrary expression. Remember, I'm referring to existing-fn as method-fn - Herwig
Most major decisions seem to be ironed out. I'll start with the ground work for:
There is still time to chime in on the design; it might take a week or two before I can allocate another time block like this to start pushing patches
The operation to extend an instance will be called specify in the next proposal and have an interface similar to deftype. See discussion at CLJS-398
The refactoring done as part of this implementation will be rebased to current master with names specify and specify* set to private, until the design for specify is fully fleshed out.
extend-type now expands to specify on the .prototype property.
specify expands to specify* of protocols and method-arity-maps with fn expressions.
Since the whole protocol/type stack in clojurescript is based on modifying the prototype anyway, the patches from CLJS-414 basically just pull out the redundancies and label them.
specify* is loosely based on clojure.core/extend, in that it takes maps of implementing closures.
specify* is needed, because currently CLJS doesn't lift lambdas, so new function objects are allocated every time specify is evaluated. This is fine for specifying prototypes or configuration-object-like protocol instances. It is not so fine for specifying 1000 objects to take part in IEquiv and IHash.
(deftype A ILookup (-lookup ([o k] (aget s k)) ([o k nf] (if (.hasOwnProperty o k) (aget o k) nf))) ;; expands to (specify (.-prototype A) ILookup ...) ;; expands to (specify* (.-prototype A) ILookup {-lookup {2 (fn [o k] ..) 3 (fn [o k nf] ..)}}) ;; and if we want to specify a whole batch ;; we can have the same method instances attached to every object (let [m2 (fn [o k] ..) m3 (fn [o k nf] ..)] (defn specify-alookup! [o] (specify* o ILookup {-lookup {2 m2 3 m3}}))) (defn jsonp-callback [json-list] (process (map specify-alookup! json-list)))
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Japanese designer Jun Takahashi presents his new Undercover Fall/Winter 2012 Collection. Entitled 'Psycho Color', the collection looks better than ever. The designer used more color than usual and we really like the direction he took. A fantastic mix of materials, colors and silhouettes is featured in the collection. The line is different from anything else we have seen, very unique and innovative, nicely displaying the various influences of the designer in one look. The only thing we have to complain about, is the wait time until the line hits stores.
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Archive for March 2012
Cramming: a huge scam on your cell phone bill – check your bill carefully!
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Every now and then, I receive unsolicited text messages to my cell phone. This is particularly annoying, because I do not pay for a texting plan, so every text I receive costs me twenty cents, but I digress. Recently, I received two text messages from 836-60 within seconds of one another. The first stated:
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Shortly after receiving the message, I decided to check my Verizon cell phone bill. And to my surprise, there was a $9.99 charge for "Premium Messaging." At first I thought maybe that Verizon had accidentally put a texting plan onto my phone bill, but that was not the case, because I was still being charged twenty cents per text message. So I called Verizon to ask what the deal was.
Right away, the representative told me that the $9.99 charge was because "I" signed up for "Love Genie." I told her that I had not done such a thing, and I had no idea what "Love Genie" was. She said that if I wanted to stop the service, I would have to text "Love Genie" back and cancel the service that "I" had signed up for. At that point I got upset that the Verizon rep continued to say that I had chosen to sign up for this service, and told her that I had done no such thing, that I was a married man who did not want "flirting tips" or whatever else the "Love Genie" might have for me, and that someone else (if not Love Genie itself) signed up for the "service" against my will and without my knowledge and that I demanded a refund from Verizon.
The Verizon rep told me no refund would be forthcoming, because I had chosen to sign up for the service by not texting "stop" in response to the spam message. She also said that Verizon wasn't really the one charging me, rather, "as a convenience to me," Verizon allows me to sign up for services by charging those services to my account, Verizon pays the charge, and then recoups the charge from me as "premium messaging." Significantly, at no point could the rep explain what service "Love Genie" provided me (they had provided no service, just sent me messages telling me they were charging me money). Additionally, the rep admitted that anyone could type anyone else's phone number into a form and sign them up for services like "Love Genie," and that Verizon would charge the phone number account holder for these services. I asked why Verizon accepted this practice, and she offered no explanation. I asked for a supervisor, and she told me that the supervisor would tell me "the same thing." I told her I didn't care, and I wanted a supervisor.
As soon as I got the supervisor on the line, I told her the same things I had told the rep, and that I thought that Verizon was aiding and abetting a scam by allowing customers to be charged in this manner and then acting as though they can't give a refund by claiming that they were not the ones who were really charging me. After arguing for a few minutes, she agreed to refund me the money and place a block on my account so that I could not be charged for "premium messaging" again (supposedly there are lots of services out there that use the "premium messaging" line on your cell phone bill to tack on charges similar to "Love Genie"). I also placed the block on my wife's line. Why a block on premium messaging is not a default setting on Verizon accounts I do not know.
Based on some quick googling, it appears that Verizon is not the only cell provider that tolerates this practice, and that many people have extra charges for "premium messaging" on their bill, particularly as a result of "Love Genie." For example, see this website, containing lots of complaints about Love Genie adding charges to people's cell phone bills. It seems like many people have had the same thing happen to me.
Hopefully, cell phone companies will cease allowing this shady practice to happen. However, until then, the moral of the story is to CHECK YOUR CELL PHONE BILL FOR STRANGE CHARGES, as it's likely that at some point, you could be charged for "premium messaging" without knowing it.
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Pedroia, Middlebrooks lift Sox over JaysBy LARRY MILLSON
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April 25. 2014 10:44PM
TORONTO — Dustin Pedroia and Will Middlebrooks each drove in two runs and right-hander Jake Peavy pitched seven innings as the Boston Red Sox defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 8-1 on Friday night.
Designated hitter David Ortiz homered for the Red Sox (11-13) who handed the Blue Jays (11-12) their third straight loss. Every player in the starting lineup had at least one hit in the Red Sox's 16-hit attack.
Peavy (1-0) held the Blue Jays to five hits, two walks and one run, on a seventh-inning homer by designated hitter Juan Francisco, while striking out seven in seven innings. Left-hander Chris Capuano took over in the eighth and struck out the side.
Left-hander Mark Buehrle (4-1) allowed 12 hits, three walks and seven runs (six earned) in 5 1/3 innings. Buehrle's ERA went from 0.64 to 2.16.
The Sox struck for four runs in the second inning keyed by Pedroia's two-run single. They added one in the third, two in the sixth and one in the ninth.
Middlebrooks, who came off the disabled list for the game, doubled in his second run of the game in the sixth inning to score catcher A.J. Pierzynski, who singled and gave the Red Sox a 6-0 lead. Middlebrooks was out trying for third. An error by shortstop Jose Reyes and two walks by right-hander Neil Wagner, who took over from Buehrle, gave Boston a 7-0 lead.
Ninth-inning doubles by Pierzynski and Jackie Bradley Jr., who had three hits each, scored a run against right-hander Todd Redmond.
The Red Sox scored four runs in the second inning. The inning started with a walk to Mike Napoli, who took third on a double by Xander Bogaerts and scored on A.J. Pierzynski's fly to center. Middlebrooks hit an RBI single and took third on a double by Bradley. Pedroia singled in two runs and was out trying for a double.
Ortiz hit his fifth homer of the season with one out in the third.
NOTES: Boston 3B Middlebrooks (right calf strain) was activated from the disabled list for Friday's game. INF Brock Holt was optioned to Triple-A Pawtucket after Thursday night's game. ... Toronto RHP Casey Janssen (left abdominal/lower back strain) hopes to throw a bullpen session today or Sunday and would need to throw another session before going on a rehabilitation assignment. ... Toronto DH Adam Lind (back) is swinging a bat but not yet running. ... The three-game series in Toronto will be Boston's only road games in a stretch of 20 dates from April 18 to May 7. ... Boston RHP Clay Buchholz (0-2, 7.71 ERA) will start today against Toronto RHP Brandon Morrow (1-1, 5.03 ERA).


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Saute: 1 diced medium onion , 6-8 diced small potatoes until tender. Add 3 diced zucchini, 1 diced summer squash and cook until those are tender. Add 4 cups of vegetable broth, 1/2 cup white wine, 1/2 cup of milk, 1 tsp tarragon, 1 tsp pepper. Simmer for a couple of hours. Sprinkle with parmesan cheese and enjoy.
And with the peppers? I cooked 1 cup of quinoa with 1 cup of homemade tomato sauce and 1 cup of vegetable broth. Stirred in peas and feta cheese and a dash of red peppers and stuffed that into the green peppers. Baked the peppers for about an hour at 350˚ until the pepper was tender.
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Do You Buy Stuff On TV, Like The Wax Vac?
I never have. Not even when I was a kid did I beg my mother for anything other than a monthly stamp collection thing. But Hot Booties, Wax Vacs and Forever Comfys seem to have taken over every waking hour of television.


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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Demaryius Thomas propped his left arm up on the table to rest his head on his large hand, and as he did, a new tattoo on the inside of his biceps peeked out from underneath the sleeve of his gray Denver Broncos T-shirt.
Thomas — the Broncos' No. 1 draft pick this year and the receiver the team hopes will make Denver fans forget about Brandon Marshall — was a celebrity at the Federal Correctional Institution, a low-security women's prison in Tallahassee, Fla.
Inmates shouted out his name across the visitors room, and Thomas signed autographs.
But the thing Katina Smith kept focusing on was that ink on Thomas' arm.
"You got another tattoo!" she said.
Thomas pulled
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"You've got to slow down with the tattoos," Smith said.
It had been nearly a year since the two had seen each other, since Demaryius was last able to make the nearly four-hour trip, take off his shoes to go through the metal detector and walk through a series of heavy metal doors to see his mother and his grandmother, Minnie Pearl Thomas. Both women have been housed here since 2000, when they were convicted of trafficking cocaine.
They have been incarcerated for half of his life.
"I know it has been hard for him. He's the one who holds everything inside," Smith said in an interview at the prison three days later. "But at the same time, it has given him the strength to go on and be better than the example I set for him."
Thomas has been here only five times, including the most recent visit July 9. He has seen his mother each time, but this latest visit marked the first time he had seen his grandmother in 11 years. He was just a boy, then. Now he is 6-foot-3 and 229 pounds, a grown man, nearly a millionaire and on the verge of NFL stardom.
The trio sat around the table for three hours, playing the card game Tonk and tic-tac-toe, talking about family and football, and the new life Demaryius is about to embark on, with Broncos training camp starting this week. They laughed loudly and deeply, and the women flashed their identical smiles. They couldn't remember seeing Demaryius so happy.
As they talked, Minnie Thomas kept leaning over to touch her grandson and to grab onto the Broncos shirt and blue Broncos warm-up pants he wore. The NFL gear somehow made it all seem more real, a tangible sign that yes, Demaryius, the child they nicknamed Bay Bay when he was an infant, had turned out just fine.
"I'm happy to see them, but it's emotional," he said. "It has gotten a little easier because we talk a lot on the phone. But it was real hard when I was young. As I get older, it is different."
School first
Demaryius Thomas and his two younger half sisters were fast asleep on March 15, 1999, when police officers burst into their mother's house in Montrose, Ga.
The officers were shouting, Thomas remembered, ordering his mother and stepfather out of bed. Smith was panicked, but she asked the officers if she could at least get her children ready for school like normal before they took her to jail. She helped the children get dressed, fed them breakfast, packed their backpacks and went outside to wait with them for the bus.
"I hugged them and said, 'I'll see you when I get back,' and told them, 'I love you,' " Smith said, dropping her head. "But I never came back."
His grandmother was arrested the same day, and both women were charged in federal court with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base.
"I held money on two, maybe three occasions," Smith said. "They said I was the bank, but I wasn't the bank."
Minnie Pearl Thomas sold drugs — marijuana — for the first time in 1986, and was arrested for the first time that same year. Despite her first trip to jail, Minnie Thomas was hooked on the rush of selling drugs and was becoming accustomed to the extra money it provided her family. It wasn't long before she was manufacturing and selling crack cocaine out of her home.
She was arrested again in 1991 but resumed her business after she was released at the conclusion of a 14-month sentence in a jail near Milledgeville, Ga.
"I mostly did it to make ends meet, to buy my kids what they wanted, so they could wear what the other kids were wearing, so I could keep my house nice on the inside," Minnie Thomas said.
Demaryius, who was born in December 1987, was Minnie's oldest grandchild, and old enough to know what was going on inside her house. He remembered seeing his grandmother making the crack and the stream of strangers coming and going, leaving behind their makeshift crack pipes.
"I knew my grandma was selling it and my mom was keeping some money," Thomas said. "I told my mother one time that they needed to stop because I had a dream that they got in trouble. I started crying like every night after then. And then it finally happened."
Prosecutors offered Smith a plea deal and a reduced sentence if she testified against her mother. Smith refused.
"It hurt me when I found out she wouldn't tell on me," Minnie Thomas said. "I think of her kids and how they're being raised. It's not that they don't have good lives, but they would have been better with their mother. I beat up myself about that all the time."
Both women were convicted in February 2000, when Demaryius was 12 years old. Smith was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. Because Minnie Thomas had two prior drug convictions, she was given two life sentences, with the possibility of parole after 40 years.
Demaryius and his younger sisters, Tonecia and Tyeshia Smith, sat in the courtroom that day. The numbers they heard were incomprehensible.
"I just remember hearing what they got, how many years, and I knew it was going to be a long time without seeing my mother," Demaryius said.
He has seen her in person in 2000, 2003, 2006, 2009 and their most recent visit, earlier this month.
Thomas scrunches his face and shakes his head before he tries to describe what those visits, especially the first one, were like. As much as he loves his mother, he could hardly bear to see her locked up.
"I would ask if he wanted to go," his father, Bobby Thomas, said. "I took him once, and then he never wanted to go again."
Smith has never seen Thomas play football in person but watches many games on television. Mother and son share the dream that he will still be in the NFL for the 2017 season. Smith is scheduled to be released to a halfway house in December 2016, then to be living on her own by the following June. By then Thomas will be 29 years old and, they hope, an NFL veteran. Smith already has begun planning that day, what she'll wear, what she'll say, what it might feel like to watch him live instead of settling for a phone call from prison, before and after the game.
"I want to be in the front row, right next to the sideline," she said. "I'm going to lose my voice."
A place to feel at home
The greeting cards arrive in James and Shirley Brown's mailbox on the major holidays. Christmas. Father's Day. Mother's Day.
During her time in prison, Katina Smith has become quite the letter- writer and card-sender. And the Browns are near the top of her list.
"I just want to say thank you to them for taking care of Bay Bay, and for instilling good morals in him," Smith said.
The cards are appreciated, sure, but not necessary, the Browns said. This is what family does.
Bobby Thomas and Katina Smith were teenagers when they met in 1985, and Katina was 15 years old when Demaryius was born. They never married, but the two maintained an amiable relationship with shared custody of Demaryius before she was arrested.
Bobby enlisted in the Army immediately after graduation from high school, and he was stationed at Fort Rucker in Alabama when Smith became pregnant. With Bobby's Army lifestyle, living on bases in Alabama and Virginia and deployments in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, he couldn't provide a stable home for his son, so when Smith was sent to prison, the family decided it was best that Demaryius stay with members of the extended family in Montrose. Bobby Thomas remains a fixture in his son's life — he sent money for clothes and other expenses throughout Demaryius' youth — and the pair lived together near Atlanta this spring and summer.
It was a challenge, though, in those first few months after Katina Smith went to prison, to figure out the right place for Demaryius to stay. He stayed briefly with his father's mother, but that home was crowded with other children. Then he went to live with his father's younger sister, but that home wasn't completely drug-free, and she wouldn't let Thomas play sports.
"I didn't want to be around drugs because I saw what could happen," Thomas said.
So Thomas started spending time with his Aunt Shirley and Uncle James, who had two older daughters, Angela and LaTonya, and one younger son, Ben. The story of how Demaryius came to live with the Browns varies from one family member to another, but the result was the same: He found a permanent home.
"He needed stability," James Brown said. "I think he felt comfortable here, like, they won't belittle me because of who I am and what my family has done."
Living with the Browns meant chores and a non-negotiable 11:30 p.m. curfew. Thomas was baptized and became an usher at the church where James Brown preached. On summer mornings, Brown roused Thomas from bed before sunrise and put him to work in the field behind their house, mowing grass and picking peas. They would take the peas to town to sell, or Thomas and his cousins would shell them by the bucket load for Shirley to cook.
During the school year, the Browns let Thomas focus on his classes (he had a 3.5 grade-point average at West Laurens High School) and on sports. Thomas' first sport was basketball, and he played point guard on a traveling team.
He started playing football in middle school just to have another activity. He didn't start a game until 10th grade, at cornerback, and didn't play receiver full time until his junior year.
As a senior, already 6-3 and 210 pounds, he decided that football was his future. He was average-size for a Division I college basketball player. As a wide receiver, he had the potential to be special.
Coaches at Georgia Tech, and now, the Broncos, agreed.
He averaged 25.1 yards per catch last fall as a junior and was first-team all- Atlantic Coast Conference, despite playing in a run-oriented triple-option offense. Thomas left school with one year of eligibility remaining.
The Broncos made him the first wide receiver selected in the 2010 draft, at No. 22 overall. The team is counting on Thomas to make an immediate impact as a replacement for Marshall, the talented but often troubled receiver the team traded to Miami in April.
In Thomas, the Broncos saw a similar physical specimen, but a player who Broncos officials believe will cause far fewer headaches off the field.
"In getting to know him the way that we did and spending time with him, we understood he had a number of things in his life that he had to overcome," Broncos coach Josh McDaniels said. "He didn't let those things and those conditions affect the type of person he became. He made the right decisions and ended up in the right place and created a bright future for himself. We're very fortunate to have him, and we think he's going to have a bright career."
"I never want to go to jail"
For years, Thomas rarely spoke about his mother. He didn't tell his aunt and uncle when he was sad, and he didn't open up to his father about his heartache.
On the outside, Thomas appeared to be a normal, well-adjusted teenager. He was the star athlete, on the homecoming court and had plenty of friends.
"He handled things very well," Bobby Thomas said. "He would never talk to me about it. The emotional side of it, it never comes out in front of anyone."
Thomas didn't let anyone know that he often cried himself to sleep.
"Every night," Thomas said. "I missed her."
It took until 2006, about the time he graduated from high school, to come to terms with the crimes his mother and grandmother committed. The memories of the drugs inside his grandmother's house, of the police raid at his mother's house and of his first visits to the prison had shaken him deeply, impacting the course of his high school and college life.
"I never want to go to jail," Thomas said. "Never, ever."
Now his past is no secret, and he is not ashamed of it.
Every NFL team he met with during the combine in February and in the months leading up to the draft asked him about his mother and grandmother.
Thomas was proud when he answered their questions. He had avoided all sorts of trouble: never tried drugs, never was suspended from school, never arrested. The worst thing he has ever done, it seems, was get a speeding ticket shortly after he turned 16.
"I really didn't put myself around the wrong crowds," Thomas said. "The only way you get in trouble around here is if you're dealing with drugs, because there's not much here in the country you can do besides drugs. You don't see kids with firearms or anything like that, just mostly drugs. There were a lot of people around here you could hang with that did drugs, so you had to pick the right crew."
If Aunt Shirley's rules weren't enough, Thomas would hear his mother's voice in his head. They speak multiple times a week on the telephone, each call lasting 15 minutes. Nearly every conversation includes some sort of motherly advice.
"I tell him to let me be the only example he needs of what can happen, and that he needs to obey the laws of the land, down to wearing your seat belt," Smith said. "Just look at me and my mom."
Countdown to Sept. 12The prison clock hit 3 p.m., and it was time for Demaryius to go.
Katina Smith told herself not to cry. Minnie Pearl Thomas began sobbing again, just as she had when Demaryius had arrived three hours earlier, and clutched on his arms. Finally, he had to walk away.
Thomas crossed the room and stepped across the yellow line painted on the floor — the line that inmates, like his mother and grandmother, are not allowed to cross.
As he turned to look back one more time, Smith could have sworn her son's eyes were filling with tears. "Don't cry," she called. "I love you!"
And then he was gone, hopping back into his large silver pickup to drive back to Georgia.
Katina Smith and Minnie Pearl Thomas were escorted back to their dormitories, where the countdown has begun to the next time they'll see him: Sept. 12, when the Broncos play at Jacksonville in the first game of the regular season.
They will paint their faces, use tape to make the No. 88 on their khaki prison T-shirts and get a front-row seat in the recreation room.
Thomas will be wearing the Broncos' white uniform and will write each of their names on the tape on his wrists.
"We've all been going through a lot," his grandmother said. "We're going through time, and he's going through time too."
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The Texas Education Code (TEC), §42.158, enacted by Senate Bill 4 of the 76th Texas Legislature, 1999, created the New Instructional Facilities Allotment (NIFA) for public school districts and open-enrollment charter schools. The legislature did not provide funding under this allotment for the 2011–2012 through 2014–2015 school years. However, funding has been made available for the 2015–2016 and 2016–2017 school years. This allotment provides operational expenses associated with the opening of a new instructional facility. The NIFA is available to all public school districts and open-enrollment charter schools that construct new instructional facilities that meet the requirements of the statute and rules.
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It's a bright & sunny Sunday here in Mauritius - that perfect time just on the edges of summer and preparing for the cooler days of fall & winter. Ideal time to sit down in your front room with a cup of frothy coffee and a good read; from time to time, you look up and glance at the brilliant light outside and that's spilling through the French windows on your terrace. Hmmm, perfect for Six Sentence Sunday!
So, where were we with those excerpts? Still in Surrey, inside the double-fronted Victorian manor. We left hunky doctor Jamie Gillespie with uptight forensic pathologist Margo Nolan in Margo's kitchen last week. Margo's tween daughter, Emma, is causing some ripples in Margo's life, and Jamie's just proposed to help...
What will Margo reply?
The excerpt from last week was the cliffie ending of Chapter 3. Today, we move to the next six in the read - start of Chapter 4, Margo's POV.
Don't forget to check the rest of the SSS posse list today - surefire goodies can be found at Siobhan Muir, Sarah Ballance, Jessica E. Subject, Christine Warner, Cara Bristol, & Sue, among many, many others! :)
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Sabathia pitches Yankees into ALCS
Bronx, NY – The New York Yankees opted to go without their highest-paid player with their season on the line. Fortunately, the one with the second-largest salary was able to provide a big return on the team's investment.
Behind a complete-game gem from CC Sabathia, the Yankees outlasted the Baltimore Orioles by a 3-1 score in the deciding Game 5 of an American League Division Series filled with nail-biting finishes and dramatic moments, with perhaps the most captivating one taking place prior to Friday's clincher.
Yankees manager Joe Girardi brought some additional intrigue to the contest by electing to bench Alex Rodriguez, with the star third baseman mired in a 2- for-16 slump over the first four games in which he struck out nine times.
But while Rodriguez's removal from the lineup became the primary pregame storyline, Sabathia (2-0) was clearly the headliner of the matchup itself. The ace lefty held the Orioles to a mere four hits and two walks while fanning nine batters in a 121-pitch masterpiece that catapulted the Yankees into the next round, where the Bronx Bombers will host Detroit in Game 1 of the ALCS Saturday at Yankee Stadium.
"It is what I am here for," said Sabathia afterward. "I guess I should feel a little pressure or something like that, but I don't. I feel like I need to go out and win every time out. And I think that takes a lot of pressure off me, the outside pressure off me. I put so much pressure on myself to go out and perform well that I expect it."
Raul Ibanez, whose ninth-inning homer pinch-hitting for a scuffling Rodriguez helped lift the Yankees to victory in Game 3, singled in another key run on Friday to help New York advance. The Yankees also received an RBI double from Ichiro Suzuki, while Curtis Granderson finished 2-for-3 with a solo homer in the win.
Lew Ford singled in the lone run for Baltimore, which took the more experienced Yankees right to the wire in the franchise's first postseason appearance since 1997, while starting pitcher Jason Hammel (0-1) allowed two runs on four hits while striking out six in 5 2/3 innings.
"They are a very good club and they are a very resilient club," said Girardi of the Orioles. "You have a bunch of young kids over there that just play the game the right way and play hard. People thought they were going to go away, they never went away. And I am very proud of our club for staying in."
Girardi's controversial decision to sit Rodriguez didn't exactly pan out, as replacement Eric Chavez went 0-for-3 with two strikeouts in place of the three-time AL Most Valuable Player. His choice of Sabathia, now 7-1 in 12 career playoff starts since joining the Yankees as a highly-coveted free agent prior to the 2009 campaign, to pitch in an elimination setting proved to be far more beneficial.
A series marked by tight pitcher's duels delivered another one early on in the finale, with both Sabathia and Hammel opening up with three perfect innings and a leadoff single in the fourth by Baltimore's Nate McLouth accounting for the only baserunner on either side.
Hammel actually set down the first 12 Yankees batters until Mark Teixeira singled to begin the bottom of the fifth. The usually stationary first baseman then orchestrated a surprising steal of second -- he swiped just two bags during the regular season -- and came home with the game's first run when Ibanez singled under the glove of a diving Baltimore second baseman Robert Andino.
McLouth came within inches of tying the score a half-inning later, yanking a Sabathia fastball into the second deck but just inside the right-field foul pole. Following a brief replay review, he would strike out on the next pitch.
"I couldn't tell, I knew it was real close," Orioles manager Buck Showalter remarked. "Someone said it nicked the pole, but that didn't beat us."
Sabathia would stymie the Baltimore bats again in the seventh, right after Hammel's night came to a close when he walked Derek Jeter in the sixth and Suzuki laced a one-out double into the gap in right center, knocking in the New York captain and extending the Bronx Bombers' advantage to 2-0.
Granderson increased the lead further by crushing a hanging slider from Troy Patton into the seats in right during the bottom of the seventh. But as has been the case all throughout the series, the Orioles weren't about to go down without a fight.
Matt Wieters ended Sabathia's string of eight consecutive outs by starting the eighth with a single and Manny Machado drew a walk to bring the tying run to the plate. Two batters later, Ford lined a base hit to left to send Wieters home from second and finally get Baltimore on the board.
Andino followed with an infield hit to load the bases with one out, but Sabathia came through with a huge strikeout of McLouth before inducing an inning-ending grounder from J.J. Hardy to keep the score at 3-1.
"We had a shot there in the eighth, and he took it to another level, if there is such a thing," said Showalter.
The Orioles couldn't mount a threat against Sabathia in the ninth, however, with the big lefty retiring Adam Jones, Chris Davis and Wieters in order to finish off his first career postseason complete game.
Game Notes
Counting the regular season, the Yankees won 12 of the 23 meetings between the AL East rivals and outscored the Orioles by a slim 106-102 margin ... Sabathia is now unbeaten in his last eight postseason starts, having gone 4-0 with a 3.97 ERA over that stretch, and the Yankees are 10-2 in their last 12 games in which he's began on the mound ... Jones, Baltimore's leader in batting average (.287) during the regular season, ended 0-for-4 on Friday and was 2-for-23 for the series ... Granderson had been 1-for-16 over the first four games.


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2. The danger is so great that no ships can be saved.
3. So great a storm had arisen that all the sailors were terrified.
4. He escaped so quickly that no one could catch him.
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2. Tantum est periculum ut nullae naves servari possint.
3. Tanta tempestas coorta erat ut omnes nautae timerent.
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Erin Appelbaum 7/17/2009 5:19:09 AMOutstanding capture and HDR Justin. Peter #1155433
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Debra K. Johnson 7/17/2009 6:41:54 AMGORGEOUS! #7748872
Deon 7/17/2009 7:19:53 AMExcellent shot Justin with wonderful colors and lighting. #7749011
cheryl m. phillips 7/17/2009 7:56:25 AMVery nice work, Justin!
Jeff Robinson 7/17/2009 8:31:15 AMOutstanding comp and capture Justin! Jeff #7749289
Marty Straub 7/17/2009 9:34:35 AMGlorious golden light. Big impact image, Justin. #7749533
A P 7/17/2009 12:11:31 PMGorgeous Justin No one does HDR as beautiful as you do. #7749934
Melissa Olsen 7/17/2009 12:45:08 PMOutstanding and gorgeous! #7750003
David M. Montero 7/17/2009 5:35:24 PMFantastic Justin! This is one of the better photos of the Palace I've seen. I need to look into what HDR is all about. #7750645
Robert Baer 7/20/2009 9:32:34 PMthanks so very much for all of your wonderful comments! #7760471
Gail Vitikacs 7/21/2009 6:52:34 AMThis is one fabulous image Justin....a real beauty! #7762135
Colleen Farrell 7/22/2009 10:12:09 AMWow, this is gorgeous, Justin! Love the HDR work; it's not overdone at all. #7769401
Dianna Murphy 7/27/2009 7:41:58 PMOne of the best I've seen. Beautiful. #7788319
Valentin M. Armianu 8/17/2009 3:54:32 PMCongratulations on another wonderful Finalist!! #7857883
Ron McEwan 8/17/2009 4:29:53 PMCongratulations are in order here on this fine image that received a Silver. WTG Justin #7858151
Sharon 8/17/2009 5:18:25 PMCongratulations!!! This is a beauty! #7858549
Linda Blair 8/18/2009 6:26:57 AMSooooooo beautiful.....congratulations!!!!! #7862120
A P 8/18/2009 7:55:43 AMboth yours and Maria's wonderful. I'm away and sitting in Starbuck's right now sending a few Congratz out. So if you have any more CONGRATULATIONS on them too. LOL #7862612
Shawn Jennings 8/18/2009 10:48:51 AMGreat image Justin! Congratulations on your finalist! #7863367
Becky J. Parkinson 8/18/2009 11:35:14 AMAnother beauty!! Congratulations again on the finalist! #7863610
Colleen Farrell 8/18/2009 3:00:48 PMWoohoo! WTG, Justin--so well-deserved! #7864128
Renee Doyle 8/18/2009 4:23:00 PMGorgeous Justin~!! Congrats!! #7864538
Usman M. Bajwa 8/18/2009 11:10:34 PMCONGRATULATIONS ON A STUNNING FINALIST!
Alex T. Mizuno 8/19/2009 1:05:59 PMThis is one of the most beautiful POFA images I've seen! Superb HDR work Justin! Congratulations on your Finalist!! #7868433
Valentin M. Armianu 8/19/2009 3:52:55 PM
Congratulations on your spectacular gold!!!! #7869010
Renee Doyle 8/19/2009 4:03:18 PMBig congratulations Justin on this excellent winner!! #7869082
A P 8/19/2009 4:17:36 PMCONGRATULATIONS again my friend on your stunning winner #7869155
Shawn Jennings 8/19/2009 4:53:21 PMCongratulations on your fantastic win, Justin! #7869380
Courtenay Vanderbilt 8/19/2009 4:56:57 PMCONGRATULATIONS on this awesome Winner, Justin! #7869402
Nadya Johnson 8/19/2009 5:58:37 PMOne of my favorite places, even though I haven't been there now in years. This is truly a magical shot! Congratulations on your gorgeous winner, Justin! #7869676
Christopher Budny 8/19/2009 7:46:14 PMAn absolutely beautiful win, Justin; congratulations! #7870057
Debra R. Harder 8/19/2009 8:29:04 PMCongratulations, Justin, on your OUTSTANDING GOLD WINNER!! This is BEAUTIFUL!!! Deb #7870229
Cindy Bendush 8/19/2009 9:27:11 PMYou've really captured the magic here Justin! Big congratulations! #7870448
Mary K. Robison 8/20/2009 1:35:32 AMNo surprise to see such a gorgeous image in the Winners' Circle!
Robert Baer 8/20/2009 6:17:13 AMThanks my friends! #7871536
Linda Blair 8/20/2009 8:45:04 AMCongratulations on this beautiful win!!!!!! #7872038
Colleen Farrell 8/20/2009 8:56:03 AMWTG, Justin! Big congrats on your win! #7872088
cheryl m. phillips 8/20/2009 8:57:21 AMWell deserved!
Linda D. Lester 8/20/2009 7:02:00 PMCongratulations on this beauty!!! #7873455
David M. Montero 8/21/2009 8:57:11 AMCongratulations Justin! Simply outstanding and well deserved. #7874974
Laurie Daily 8/21/2009 1:54:08 PMWhat a beautiful palace, Justin...Congratulations on your well deserved winner! #7875362
Sam Britt 8/21/2009 8:04:27 PMCongratulations on this winner, Justin! #7876222
Donna La Mattino Pagakis 8/21/2009 9:36:13 PMNice light and reflections Justin! Congratulations on your win! #7876491
Wanda Judd 8/22/2009 9:01:39 AMJustin, a great big congratulations...great depth of color and composition... #7877594
Usman M. Bajwa 8/23/2009 6:21:41 AMCONGRATULATIONS Justin on this superior capture and Gold award!
Wendy Moghadam 8/26/2009 7:10:15 PMAbsolutely beautiful win! #7891208
Dominick M. Dimacale 11/15/2009 6:49:27 AMCongratulations Justin on your Win!!!
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Summer is the time for change! Are you tired of those drab locks? The right hair color can be invigorating as well as a way to glam up your overall appearance. Whether you want a natural look or a dramatically haute change, there is no better way to turn up your appeal than hair color.
There are a few things you should do if you're considering coloring your hair. A vital aspect of hair color is hair health. Make sure your hair is in great condition by shampooing and conditioning your hair with moisturizing products. Get rid of spit ends by having a light trim every six to eight weeks. Avoid lightening your hair if it is chemically treated (relaxed or permed). Though it is a myth that hair color automatically causes hair breakage, the condition of your hair will not improve past the state it began once the hair is colored. So make sure your tresses are in the best condition possible before you begin hair color treatments. Now that you have your hair in the proper condition it's time for the fun part; choosing the right shade(s) for you.
Though the world of hair color can be fabulous, it can also be confusing. Here are a few ways to help you find the best hair color for you. Most people fall into one of the two hair color families. They either fit in to the "cool tones" or the "warm tones" categories. Though it sounds slightly complicated there are a few indicators to help you learn which tonal family best suites you.
People who fall into the "cool tone" family generally have grey, blue, or green-blue eyes. Their skin is normally pale, rosy, or has pink undertones. It you are not sure if your complexion fits this description another characterization of cool toned people is; their skin burns rather than tans when in the sun. Those who fit this category generally look better wearing silver. To visualize sexy, sultry cool toned women think Gwen Stefanie, Kim Kardashion, Keri Hilson, or Lily Allen. The singer, Pink, is a great example of ever changing hair color within "cool tones" color family. "Cool" toned hair colors include pearl blondes, ash blondes, brown-violet, and blue-black.
Those that fall into the "warm tones" family have orange, yellow, peach, and golden brown skin tones. They tan easily when exposed to the sun and usually look better in gold. Another way to determine if you fit into the "warm" tonal family is your eye color. If you have hazel, brown, amber, or green eyes "warm" tones usually work best for you. Aubrey O'day, Eve, Jessica Simpson, or La La Vazquez are all gorgeous bronzed examples of woman who fit into the"warm" tonal family. Jennifer Lopez is great at changing from blonde to brunette and back while staying within the "warm" tonal family. "Warm" toned hair colors include gold blondes, champagne blondes, chocolate browns, and caramel.
These same tonal families apply for red heads. Those who want natural looking red hair prefer "warm" or orange based reds. These tones include copper, red-gold, and strawberry blonde. Sexy "warm" red heads are Reba McEntire and Debra Messing. Mahogany, red-violet, and pink are examples of "cool" toned or blue based reds. "Cool" reds are considered fashionable reds. The chic Kate Walsh and Scarlett Johansson are ideal examples of "cool" toned red heads. Keep in mind that red is the hardest color to get in the hair, as well as the hardest color to take out of the hair.
To make your hair color one of a kind, I recommend highlights. Highlights are a perfect way to make your hair color pop. Subtle highlight, just one or two shades lighter than your all over color, can make hair color appear more natural. Subtle highlights, placed on the crown of the head, make your locks appear sun kissed.
For a bolder look have fun by breaking the rules. If your hair color is in the "warm" color family, add "cool" toned highlights. For example, add pearl blonde highlights to golden tresses. Or add strawberry blonde highlights to mahogany strands.
Once you have explained your hair color preferences to your hair color professional, and are please with your new look, it's time to maintenance your freshly colored tresses. You want to keep your hair as moisturized as possible. Use a professional brand moisturizing shampoo and conditioner for color treated hair. This will help your hair color to appear as fresh as possible. An inexpensive way of maximizing your hair's moisture and health is to add extra virgin olive oil to your conditioner. Apply the EVOO and conditioner and wrap your hair with a hot towel. Rinse after ten minutes, once your hair is dried and styled you will notice ravenous shine and moisture. This will help your hair to maintain a brilliant shine and color.
The hair color you have chosen determines how often you need to have it retouched. Hair color that is slightly lighter or darker than you natural hair color should be retouched every six to eight weeks. This also holds true for subtle highlights. Hair color that is dramatically lighter than your natural hair color should be retouched every four to six weeks.
Now that you know which hair color family fits you best, it's time to turn up the fun and choose the best new shade for you. Whether you are "cool" or "warm" based, you can bring out your inner diva.


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Wild Things Roundup: Acorn Sweets by Kiva and Loba
This is a post by both myself and Loba for the Wild Things Roundup which is focused on Acorns for November
From Kiva
Our family had a wonderfully wild foods infused Thanksgiving this year that was especially rich in roasted Acorns and White Fir, as Oak and Fir trees are common plants in the canyons and mountains of our bioregion. Despite the fact that there was not even a single acorn on the Oaks this year because of the severe drought the SW has been experiencing, we had enough stashed to create an incredibly tasty Thanksgiving dinner. For this Acorn themed Wild Things Roundup, I'm including recipes by both Loba and I, and all sweet! While our family isn't particularly sweetener centered, we decided that the holidays are a great time to share these decadent recipes.
Here we have a recipe for Acorn syrup, one for Cranberry Acorn Compote and one for Acorn Cheesecake that utilizes the first two recipes.
My apologies for the lack of food preparation pictures, I'm afraid we were all too busy celebrating and cooking and eating to bother with a camera.
Here are a couple of previous acorn posts I've written.
Please Note: We're using our local SW acorns from species such as Quercus gambelii, Q. emoryi, Q. turbinella & Q. grisea which only need to be roasted before shelling and using. If you live somewhere besides the SW, your acorns may be more labor intensive and require leaching.
Simple Acorn Syrup
The point of this recipe was just to find another concentrated acorn preparation so that I could add more acorns to everything. Especially combined with maple syrup, this is a great way to add the rich, nutty flavor to many desserts. Just try to avoid drinking it straight out of the bottle.
- 1/4 C Roasted and smashed/ground Acorns
- 1.5 pints of water
- 13 oz Sugar or about 3/4 C Honey or Maple Syrup
- Pinch of salt
- Decoct acorns in water for appr. half an hour to an hour.
- Strain, reserving liquid and saving acorn pieces for other recipes.
- Add sweetener and salt to 1 pint of the decoction (if you have any leftover you can use it for tea)
- Simmer for 45 min or until reduced by about 1/3 of volume.
- Store in fridge or other cool place.
Cranberry Acorn Compote
This recipe results in an aromatic and rich compote that works great as a topping but it's really pretty hard to resist just eating it out of the pot as soon as it's done. The White Fir (Abies concolor) is an incredible match with the sweet-tart flavor of cranberries.
- Reserved acorns from Acorn decoction or syrup recipe (about 1/3 C after being decocted)
- appr 3 heaping Tb Honey
- 4 Tb White Fir Infused Olive Oil (oil infused with other evergreen needles or even Rosemary could work here)
- Handful of dried Cranberries (sweetened)
- 1/4 Tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1 medium sized crisp Apple like Honeycrisp, diced
- 1 Tb butter or Acorn infused butter
- pinch of salt
- Grind acorns (preferably while still damp from decoction) with food processor or mortar & pestle to a rough meal
- Stir in honey and place on low heat on the the stove
- Let barely simmer while stirring frequently for half an hour
- Remove from heat
- Place cranberries and 1 Tb of White Fir oil in small skillet or pot
- Cook over low heat for appr. 1/2 hour (can be done concurrently as the Acorn honey is cooking)
- Add cranberries and oil to acorns and honey, stir well
- Saute apple in butter until tender but still crisp
- Stir apple, vanilla, salt and remaining Fir oil into acorn mix.
- Allow to sit for a few hours before eating
Makes about 1/2 C of compote. If you wish to use this compote to make a thick topping for your cheesecake, you'll probably want to double the recipe.
From Loba:
Acorn Cheesecake with Cranberry-Acorn Compote Topping
As soon as Kiva made her magnificent compote, we knew it had to be made into something truly worthy of its genius. Pie was on our minds. Kiva suggested cheesecake, and offered the use of the lovely acorn syrup she'd just made. I gladly tinkered with my favorite recipe to make this version. Cheesecake is one of those things I'm always happy to provide. I was thrilled to remember I'd just found a bit of acorn meal hiding in the pantry to flavor the crust. Try as I might, I couldn't wipe the slightly anguished look on my face the whole time I was eating it– it's that painfully good. I don't think I've ever been quite so sad to see that cast iron skillet empty.
The crust is gluten-free and very reminiscent of traditional graham cracker crust in flavor and texture. You could substitute wheat flour for the oat flour, but you'll lose the crumbly effect. If you don't have any in your kitchen, oat flour can easily be made without a food processor by rubbing rolled oats together in your hands– makes your hands really soft, too!
The acorn meal I use in the crust is from Southwest acorns that I have simply roasted before being ground into flour with an ancient metate and a coffee grinder.
The Crust:
- 1/2 cup melted butter or acorn infused butter
- 1/2 cup acorn meal
- 1/2 cup almond meal
- 1 cup oat flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- several grinds fresh nutmeg
In a medium bowl, mix together all the ingredients. Form into a cohesive ball of dough and press into the bottom of a 9" cast iron skillet (if you have one without a wooden handle) or a 9" pie dish (not a tart pan– too shallow). I like to bring the crust only about halfway up the sides of the pan, making it fairly thick. Bake in a 350 degree oven for about 15 minutes, watching carefully. Be sure to take it out as soon as it gets evenly browned. When pressed with a finger, the crust will collapse a bit and seem a bit too fragile. Taste it to make sure it's cooked all the way through before adding the filling.
The filling:
The piima (a cold process culture somewhat similar to yogurt) I use in the filling is made with half heavy cream, half half & half. I like to soften the cream cheese in the warmer of my woodstove while I'm making the crust. Setting the packages by a sunny window or in a bowl over some steaming water for a half hour or more works well, too. Don't be tempted to skip or reduce the rather large amount of alcoholic substances– they help provide a lovely depth and a great balance to the acorn flavor. Be sure to taste the filling before putting it in the crust– you may wish to add a bit more acorn syrup, if it doesn't seem sweet enough to you. Also, please know that I bake my cheesecake in a woodstove oven, so the timing is not terribly reliable– this one is truly worth watching like a hawk! Do be sure to set the oven temp as low as I mention, it will result in extra creaminess. You could even bake this in a water bath to make the edges of the cheesecake as creamy as the middle, if you're really devoted to perfection. If you don't have a cast iron skillet of the proper sort, this would be an extra good idea.
- 2 8 oz. packages Philadelphia brand cream cheese, softened
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 1/2 cup piima or sour cream
- 1/2 cup heavy (whipping) cream
- 4 tablespoons Kiva's Acorn Syrup
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract, preferably homemade with cognac or brandy
- 2 tablespoons spiced rum, or 1 tablespoon cognac and 1 tablespoon brandy
- 1 tablespoon Acorn Infused Butter (see Kiva's recipe)
In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together the eggs and softened cream cheese, then beat in the piima or sour cream, the Acorn Syrup, Acorn Butter, vanilla and rum. Taste and adjust if you like. Pour into crust and bake at 325 degrees until just set, about 35 minutes. I find it perfectly done when it's puffed up around the edges but the center is still just the slightest bit wobbly. Closest attention must be given, however, to find this magic moment. Cool and refrigerate before serving, if you can stand to wait that long. The center will firm up perfectly after proper cooling, and maintain an ecstatic level of creaminess that can be lost if the whole pie puffs up in too perky a manner.
After the pie has chilled completely, cover the top with the Acorn Compote. Serve slices with black chicory coffee, or Acorn-Fir Tea barely sweetened, and if you're being crazy-indulgent, maybe some homemade whipped cream or homemade eggnog on the side, as we did.
9 Responses to "Wild Things Roundup: Acorn Sweets by Kiva and Loba"
Holy. Shit.
I'm curious of this homemade eggnog recipe that is mentioned too 😀
yum yum yum! I remember cracking and grinding acorns with sue and then loba making cake with the "flour". so amazing. how is the cookbook coming? I am moving into my own little version of the gifting lodge today! dreams do come true! would love to see you all this year!
I can't wait to make the cheesecake and store some acorn syrup for use on a regular basis! Yum! Yum! What a sensational delight!
Irene <3
When I saw acorns I was so excited! Well, I guess we have the acorns that require leaching. Anyone know how to prepare our acorns to be able to use them in these wonderful recipes?
Wow, wonderful women! I teach how to eat acorns over here in OZ, but our oak trees are rarely the very sweet kinds, we take what we can get from the urban and city edge areas. We generally have to soak, boil or wash our acorns for use but I've been making acorn bread weekly recently – its the start of autumn here 🙂
Thanks for your recipes, we will definately be coming back to get the recipes!
This is so amazing! We have been wild foraging for two seasons (summer, fall) now and make acorn flour to use in our acorn bread. We have white oak acorns and have used red oak which require more leaching and are a tad more work but well worth the effort. Next harvest season we will collect more and try a variety of recipes with them. I would love to purchase your cookbook! This art or (love-style) has been forgotten and needs to be remembered and shared. I am taking on the job to do this and am so happy to find others who are as well. Blessed be


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The Montrose High School show choir serenaded the Capitol twice today, first singing for the entire building and then for the House.
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The promise of billions of dollars in offshore oil and gas investment spurred business groups and chambers throughout the Gulf Coast to ramp up efforts in a sort of regional arms race.
At the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston this past week, there were a few non-corporate entities on display.
One was Alabama, which had a booth promoting its website, OffshoreAlabama.com. The first of its kind website was created at the behest of local executives by the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce. This marked the group's third appearance at the international conference.
"Business driven, Mobile is home to the Port of Alabama, five Class 1 railroads, two Class III railroads, three air cargo providers, more than 60 trucking companies, two interstate highways, Brookley Airport and Aeroplex and Mobile Regional Airport," the introduction page of the website reads.
The advantages being advertised by the Mobile, Ala., contingent are the exact weaknesses that south Louisiana business and trade groups have been lamenting; adequate waterfront space, world class roads and highways and a readily trained and skilled workforce.
"It's a logistical nightmare in this region. We have problems with our highways. We have problems finding auto technicians. It's crazy," said Vic Lafont, president and chief executive of the South Louisiana Economic Council. "As we attract more people to the region, our companies and our infrastructure get exhausted. Our services get exhausted."
South Louisiana's business organizations are putting together their own armaments to help alleviate some of the crowding that oilfield hysteria has caused. Lafont himself has been finding automotive technicians and bringing them to local dealerships, where backlogs have created headaches.
The South Central Industrial Association, which represents many of the fabricators and contractors who service the oil and gas industry, has spent years developing programs like WorkIt! Louisiana, which aims to promote technical training and skills training in local area schools.
"We tried a lot of really creative things, and we pulled people into the region," Lafont said. "If it's going to work, we have to grow it. These jobs are now, so everybody is trying to find any way they can contribute to the existing situation while we are still working on the long range."
Louisiana Economic Development had a large presence, as it usually does at the conference.
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South Louisiana, more specifically the Houma-Thibodaux metropolitan area, also has secret weapon in its tackle box: experience.
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Stephen Russell, director of business retention and expansion for the Mobile Area Chamber, said that his organization can only offer an alternative until waters in the east Gulf open for drilling.
"We are sort of in the central Gulf of Mexico, so our clients really depend on location," Russell said. "If it is in the central or western Gulf, we are fighting an uphill battle. We are really the prime location for offshore activity in the eastern Gulf, but we are a neophyte in this."


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Roberto Martinez's FA Cup winners failed to carry forward their Wembley momentum and slip out of the Premier League as their eight-year top-flight stay ends with a whimper
The Gunners, too, were desperate for a win to keep alive their ambition of finishing in the top four and Lukas Podolski capitalised on some woeful defending to hand the home side an early lead while a Shaun Maloney free kick – won in questionable circumstances – drew the visitors level before the break.
Roberto Martinez's side threatened to put the dampeners on Arsenal's final home game of the season but clinical second-half strikes from Theo Walcott, Podolski and Aaron Ramsey ensured that they both regained control of the final Champions League qualification spot going into the last game of the season and terminated Wigan's eight-year stay in the top flight.
Neither side came into the high-stakes encounter with fresh injury concerns and Arsene Wenger's decision to replace Nacho Monreal with Kieran Gibbs at left-back was the only departure from the starting line-ups that last featured for both.
That, though, was an issue. The emotional nature of the Latics' remarkable turn at Wembley on Saturday offered a draining contrast to their hosts' 10 days of inaction since beating QPR, particularly considering that, while Wigan were enjoying the greatest moment in their history, notable Premier League strugglers conspired against them with crucial wins.
Consequently, Arsenal imposed themselves on their jaded-looking visitors, were met with flimsy resistance and took the lead just after the 10-minute mark. Alarm bells should have been ringing when a free Santi Cazorla hit the deck to send a controlled header skidding wide of the upright and moments later a totally unmarked Podolski stooped to nod home a bouncing corner delivered by the Spaniard.
The Gunners loosened slightly thereafter and, though Gibbs nearly got on the end of Bacary Sagna's cross-cum-shot, it took Laurent Koscielny's well-timed, agile interception to deny a lurking Arouna Kone.
More questionable defending from a corner saw Koscielny poke narrowly wide before Walcott saw an effort ruled out for offside as Wenger's side threatened to render Wigan's end-of-half ascendancy somewhat impotent. However, moments before the interval, Maloney struck a lethal free-kick from edge of the area that Wojciech Szczesny's hand could not prevent from nestling into the bottom corner.
Wigan started the second half in a much more confident manner, testing Szczesny right away as the Polish goalkeeper stood firm to thwart Kone's close-range attempt, while James McCarthy was half a yard offside when he tucked home. Arsenal countered immediately and Joel Robles denied Cazorla as the the home side's freshness became telling.
Robles was kept busy as he blocked Podolski's header and Walcott's near-post drive, though there was little he could do to stop Walcott from prodding home Cazorla's pinpoint cross from the right flank to re-establish the Gunners' lead.
Any hopes of Wigan pulling themselves back into the game and saving their Premier League status were dampened shortly after as Podolski grabbed his second, capitalising on some static defending to race onto Cazorla's header and dink over the advancing Robles before Ramsey once again breached the Latics' defence to gleefully rifle home inside the near post.
With the job done, Arsenal played out the remainder of the game in the knowledge that, having leapfrogged north London rivals Tottenham, a top-four finish is now in their own hands when they meet Newcastle on Sunday.


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