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The U.S. flag is a strong sign of American identification as well as nationwide pride. Additionally called Old Glory, the American flag has a vivid background and also has actually gone through numerous adjustments from the initial main flag of 1777.
Today the U.S. flag includes thirteen straight stripes, 7 red rotating with 6 white stripes. The stripes stand for the initial 13 colonies; the stars represent the 50 states of the country. The colors of the flag are symbolic also: red signifies strength and also valor, white signifies purity and also virtue and blue represents vigilance, willpower and justice. The reason the Continental Congress originally picked the red, white, as well as blue colors was not made clear in the resolution adopting the flag. Historians believe it was most likely a shade choice based upon the British Union Jack, which had actually formerly flown over the colonies.
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The flag that began with only 13 stars grew to 50 with the addition of other states to the Union. The number of stars on the flag gradually increased to its existing number today in which a brand-new star would certainly be added to the blue area on the 4th of July after the date of each new state's admission.
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The American flag is a sign not just of strength, valor, purity, virtue, vigilance, determination as well as justice; it is an icon of liberty. Freedom that has actually been dealt with so hard for over the decades. Liberty that has actually cost this nation and also the households within a lot, but it is still a sign to those desiring they had the liberty that the nation has.
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The flag isn't folded up in this fashion because each of the folds has a special symbolic significance; the flag is folded this way due to the fact that it gives a sensible ritualistic touch that identifies folding a flag from folding a regular item such as a bed cover, and also due to the fact that it results a visually pleasing, easy-to-handle form. This thirteen-fold treatment was a common technique long before the development of a ceremonial assignation of "suggesting" to every of the actions.
A sophisticated flag folding event incorporating these meanings has from then on been designed for unique occasions such as Memorial Day as well as Veterans Day. These connections are "real" in the sense that they imply something to individuals that take part in the event, however they are not the reason that a flag is folded in the standard thirteen-step manner.
This is America and also its sign is the American Flag. Also though numerous Americans in the state of Louisiana proudly fly the flag outside their houses and also services every day, it is suitable that we, as a nation, have established aside one specific day each year to honor our flag and to keep in mind that it stands for the ideals and worths that we should make every effort to promote.
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Definition of the noun amaranth
What does amaranth mean as a name of something?
noun - plural: amaranths
- seed of amaranth plants used as a native cereal in Central and South America
- any of various plants of the genus Amaranthus having dense plumes of green or red flowers; often cultivated for food
- lexical domain: Plants - nouns denoting plants
- more generic terms: herb / herbaceous plant = a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties
- more specific terms:
- Amaranthus graecizans / Amaranthus albus / tumbleweed = bushy plant of western United States
- Amaranthus caudatus / love-lies-bleeding / tassel flower / velvet flower = young leaves widely used as leaf vegetables
- Amaranthus hybridus hypochondriacus / Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys / Amaranthus cruentus / gentleman's-cane / prince's-feather / purple amaranth / prince's-plume / red amaranth = tall showy tropical American annual having hairy stems and long spikes of usually red flowers above leaves deeply flushed with purple
- Amaranthus hypochondriacus / pigweed = leaves sometimes used as potherbs; seeds used as cereal; southern United States to Central America
- member of: Amaranthus / genus Amaranthus = large widely distributed genus of chiefly coarse annual herbs
Alternative definition of the noun amaranth
- Any of various herbs, of the genus Amaranthus.
- synonym: pigweed
- Their flowers' characteristic purplish red color; a red to purple azo dye used as a food colouring and in cosmetics.
- synonym: E123
- The seed of these plants, used as a cereal.
Amaranth is a musical group.
- albums: "You Shine, Beyond Dawn", "I Have the Right to Remain Silent"
Amaranth is a publisher.
Amaranth is a fictional character from the 2013 film Bul Bul.
- "Amaranth" is the second single from Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish's Dark Passion Play album, and also the second single with the former frontwoman Anette Olzon. The official debut date was August 22, 2007, but it leaked onto the internet before the official release, though the exact date it leaked is unknown.
- also known as Amaranth (instrumental)
- music by Tuomas Holopainen
- "Amaranth" is the first studio album of the Korean pop-ballad duo Davichi, released on January 28, 2008. Actress Lee Mi-yeon and former labelmate Lee Hyori starred in the music video for their debut single, "I Love You Even Though I Hate You". Many composers contributed to the album, including Cho Young Soo, Ahn Min Young, and Park Geun Tae.
- genres: K-pop, Contemporary R&B
- released on (7 years ago)
- "Amaranth" is a 2007 single album by Nightwish.
- released on (7 years ago)
- "Amaranth" is a composition, cataloged instance.
- music by Masahiro Andoh
"Amaranth" is a book by Nelia Benson.
- genre: Speculative fiction
- copyright: 1984
- Amaranth is a reddish-rose color that is a representation of the color of the flower of the amaranth plant. The color shown is the color of the red amaranth flower, but there are other varieties of amaranth that have other colors of amaranth flowers; these colors are also shown below.
- Amaranth, FD&C Red No. 2, E123, C.I. Food Red 9, Acid Red 27, Azorubin S, or C.I. 16185 is a dark red to purple azo dye used as a food dye and to color cosmetics. The name was taken from amaranth grain, a plant distinguished by its red color and edible protein-rich seeds.
- also known as E 123, E123, Potravinářská červeň, Viktoriarubín, Amarant
- Amaranth was a four-masted barquentine built by Matthew Turner of Benicia, California in 1901. Amaranth sailed in the China trade between Puget Sound and Shanghai. She was wrecked on a guano island in the South Pacific in 1913 while carrying a load of coal.
Phrases with Amaranth
- amaranth family
- Mat Amaranth
- red amaranth
- Slim Amaranth
- Tall Amaranth
- False Amaranth
- globe amaranth
- Spiny Amaranth
- purple amaranth
- Smooth Amaranth
- spleen amaranth
- Sticky Amaranth
- thorny amaranth
- African Amaranth
- Brown's Amaranth
- Florida Amaranth
- Fringed Amaranth
- Gregg's Amaranth
- Pigweed Amaranth
- Redroot Amaranth
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Underutilized and Underexploited Horticultural Crops: (2008)
by K.V. Peter
Amaranth is the most often used as a leaf green vegetable in many parts of the world. Vegetable Amaranth is an excellent crop for the home gardener because it is a rapid growing, nutritious crop.
Grain amaranth is a new crop and has the potential to broaden diversity of commercially grown crops and, thus, make an ...
An Improved System of Botanic Medicine (1854)
Founded Upon Correct Physiological Principles, Comprising a Complete Treatise on the Practice of Medicine, with a Co[pio]us Materia Medica by Horton Howard
T1-rs amaranth is an annual plant, much cultivated in gardens for its beautiful red appearance, rising to the height of from...
Weeds of Canada and the Northern United States (1999)
A Guide for Identification by France Royer, Richard Dickinson
Plant: Green amaranth is a common weed of gardens, fields, and waste areas. It is a slender plant with erect reddish stems up to...
The Art of Simple Food II (2013)
Recipes, Flavor, and Inspiration from the New Kitchen Garden by Alice Waters
Amaranth is a heat-loving plant and will do well in drought situations. It is easy to grow and the colorful plants are quite ornamental, making them a perfect edible addition to the flower garden. Plant it after any threat of frost in full to partial sun.
Essential Guide to Food Additives (2013)
by Mike Saltmarsh, Sue Barlow
Number Product E 123 Amaranth CI food red 9 FD&C red no.2 Colour Index No: 16185 Sources Amaranth is a water-soluble synthetic dye commercially available as the sodium salt of the dye. It is also available as the aluminium lake, which is ...
At Home in the Whole Food Kitchen (2014)
Celebrating the Art of Eating Well by Amy Chaplin
Amaranth is a flowering plant whose tiny seeds can be eaten as a grain. Like quinoa, amaranth is an ancient grain from the high valleys of the Andes, a richly nutritious food that is exceptionally high in protein and calcium. It has a ...
Encyclopedia of Food Grains (2015)
by Colin W Wrigley, Harold Corke, Koushik Seetharaman, Jonathan Faubion
Amaranth is a fast-growing, high-nitrogen, and highbiomass plant that can be used fresh or as silage for animal feed.
Vegetables (2004)
by G. J. H. Grubben
Amaranth is a quantitative short-day plant, which is an advantage in the subtropics where the generative stage is retarded during summer. Amaranths like fertile, well-drained soils with a loose structure. The mineral uptake is very high.
Cereal Grains for the Food and Beverage Industries (2013)
by Elke K Arendt, Emanuele Zannini
Amaranth is a pseudo-cereal crop, producing cereal-like grains containing an unusual type of starch, high-quality oil and high levels of nutritionally favourable proteins, and it represents a suitable foodstuff for patients with gluten intolerance.
Supergrains (2013)
Cook Your Way to Great Health by Chrissy Freer
mg Gluten free Amaranth is a pseudo-grain, like quinoa, ...
Pseudocereals and Less Common Cereals (2002)
Grain Properties and Utilization Potential by Peter S. Belton, John R.N. Taylor
Furthermore, amaranth is a good source of vitamin E [25, 66], which among other things possesses an anti-oxidative effect and therefore prolongs the stability of the oil. Besides tocopherols (more y- than a-tocopherol), toco- trienols are also ...
Survival Wisdom & Know How (2012)
Everything You Need to Know to Thrive in the Wilderness by The Editors of Stackpole Books
Characteristics: Amaranth is an erect annual, some 1 to 6 feet high, and branched above ...
50 Secrets of the World's Longest Living People (2009)
by Sally Beare
Amaranth is a spinachlike vegetable that is grown in Bama. Its seeds have recently become popular among healthfood enthusiasts in the West, since they are rich in nutrients, including protein, fiber, vitamins, and minerals. They can ...
Living Cuisine (2004)
The Art of Spirit of Raw Foods by Renee Loux Underkoffler
Grown by the ancient Aztecs in South America and in the Himalayan regions of India, Nepal, China, and Tibet, amaranth is a hearty plant that can thrive in weak and poor soil and drought conditions. Much of the high-protein complex is ...
Cooking through Cancer Treatment to Recovery (2015)
Easy, Flavorful Recipes to Prevent and Decrease Side Effects at Every Stage of Conventional Therapy by Susan Gins, MA, MS, CN, Lisa A. Price, ND
Health Tip 101: Amaranth is a grain that is high in protein. It is also high in the amino acid lysine which helps convert fatty acids into energy and can counteract the effects of steroids on fat retention. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope ...
Book Of Calories and Phytosterols In Foods (2013)
by Mary Curtis
Amaranth is a plant that comes to us from ancient days. Although some consider it a weed, people throughout Asia, Central America, North America, and South America cultivate it. Harvested Amaranth seeds are for grain and cereal. The plant ...
Bread and Its Fortification (2015)
Nutrition and Health Benefits by Cristina M. Rosell, Joanna Bajerska, Aly F. El Sheikha
Amaranth is an excellent source of high-quality balanced protein, composed mainly of globulins and albumins, which have high bioavailability (Escudero et al. 2004). Moreover, amaranth is a good source of vitamins and minerals especially, ...
Digestive Health Now (2002)
The Four Week Plan to Heal Heartburn, Ulcers, Colitis, IBS, and More by Andrew Gaeddert
Amaranth is an ancient grain from South America. Amaranth flour is gluten free. It can be cooked into cereal or batter, or added to another grain so that it comprises 20 percent of 91 Appendix C: Digestion-Friendly Grains.
AS/A2 Geography Contemporary Case Studies: Food and Famine (2012)
by Michael Witherick
Amaranth (b) Quinoa Amaranth Amaranth is a remarkable plant on a number of counts. It can be cooked as a cereal to make a sort of gruel, ground into flour, popped like popcorn, sprouted or toasted. The seeds can be cooked ...
Prairie & Plains States Getting Started Garden Guide (2015)
Grow the Best Flowers, Shrubs, Trees, Vines & Groundcovers by Cathy Wilkinson-Barash
lobe amaranth is a wonderful multipurpose flower. With its 1-inch, cloverlike blossoms, it is a great addition to any garden—in a sunny border, formal garden, mixed bed, or cutting garden. Globe amaranth is well named since it resembles a ...
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- Amaranth bathroom
There's a green laser that shoots into the toilet. Looks great when you cross the streams. Ahem.
At Amaranth Lounge.
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Amaranthus hypochondriacus (Chinese Giant Orange Amaranth)
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- Amaranth, Degan, plums
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Scrabble value of A1M3A1R1A1N1T1H4
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Idamae Winterstein wept but found no sympathy yesterday in Baltimore Circuit Court, where she pleaded guilty to the May 31 murder of her 2 1/2 -year-old son while tearfully claiming she hadn't done anything to him.
After hearing Winterstein's taped admissions to the police about the beatings and other torment of her son, David Michael Winterstein, Judge Elsbeth L. Bothe called it "one of the most horrible cases I've ever heard about, and I hate to say it, but the only tears that seem to be wept by the person responsible for it are for herself."
Prosecutor Laura F. Mullally said she would seek the maximum 30-year term for second-degree murder at sentencing May 1.
Winterstein's boyfriend, Franklin Carl Redden, who had moved into her home in the 200 block of South Conkling Street a month before the killing -- and the day after David's father died -- has also pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and is to be sentenced April 11.


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The real reason I bring this up is that in the process of jumping off the truck, I put my phone down on the front seat of Cass' car and left it there. It's the first time in many years that I was without it for ANY length of time. Now I have to ask, how did I ever live without it? I felt almost naked and so disconnected! I know I give the kids such a hard time about how addicted they are and need to get a life. Now I find myself in the same position.
Ok, the kids spend their time playing games, watching videos and chatting with friends where I use my time on the phone productively keeping up with the news, stock market, gas prices, race news and yes, I play a game or two. Seems I'm just as addicted! I just justify it in my own way. Seems all of us need to get a life, ya think? As I step back, I need to spend more time with real people interaction as I find I spend more and more time on this blasted thing!
Note: I did not drive the truck enough to charge the battery on the way to work and had to jump it off again before I came home. LOL! Way to cap off a great day!
Ok, I have to answer the phone (ok, my resolve to use the phone less starts tomorrow). Hope you have a great day!


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Random, Disjointed, and Self-Righteous Thoughts on TV, Music, Movies, Comics, Musicals, and More
Friday, January 23, 2009
1. "Why Trust a Shark?" - Thomas Newman - Finding Nemo
Newman's Nemo score is not the equal of his transcendent WALL-E score, but a good 'un nonetheless. I like the ominous electric guitar here.
2. "Anakin's Betrayal" - John Williams - The Revenge of the Sith
A gorgeous, heartbreaking piece of music. I really don't think Willilams' Sith score got the kudos it deserved. This is Star Wars music to stand with all other Star Wars music.
3. "Lizzie's Coming Home" - Schmidt & Jones - 110 in the Shade (2007 Broadway Revival)
Lizzie's father and brothers celebrate her return from vacation. I love how simple musicals can be.
4. "Baba O'Riley" - Jordis Unga - Rock Star
The soundtrack from the first season. This suffers mostly in being an attempt to stuff a much more epic song into barely three minutes. Unga is great though.
5. "The Axiom" - Thomas Newman - Wall-E
Newman starts small and then opens up the palette to convey the size and immense scope of the ship as WALL-E looks on in delight. Gorgeous.
6. "Bedtime" - Alan Menken - The Little Mermaid
A bit of scoring, with Ariel looking on in wonder at the surface world in the castle.
7. "Electrical Storm" - U2 - The Best of 1990 - 2000
A very solid, near-great U2 song. Are other band's best-of add-on tracks as good as U2's?
8. "Dress Big" - Sondheim - The Frogs (2004 Broadway Cast)
Lesser Sondheim. There's not much of it out there.
9. "Bama Lama Loo" - Elvis Costello - Kojak Variety
Elvis cuts loose with a raucous Little Richard cover. Fun.
10. "Fish in My Hair" - Thomas Newman - Finding Nemo
What are the odds? There are 40 tracks in this album. 12,170 tracks in total on the iPod. Do the math. (Really - do it. I don't know how.)
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3 comments:
- bill said...
Why hasn't Jordis released an album? There's gotta be a story there. I fear she's missed her window.
- Tosy And Cosh said...
There was noise after the show, but nothing ever came of it. I've also wondered why - she was, to me, by far the most intriguing talent there. It's hard for a solo "rock" voice who can't write though - I wonder if that was part of the problem. Although the success of Daughtry would seem to be an exception - he doesn't write his own stuff, does he?
- bill said...
I'd agree she was the most intriguing talent. As for Although the success of Daughtry would seem to be an exception - he doesn't write his own stuff, does he?
I recognize that Daughtry references a singer, but I'd have wiki and youtube him to have any idea who he is exactly.


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Everyone has heard of the Bonsai tree, however very few individuals understand anything about the background of the miniature plant or even the place that the tradition came from.
Bonsai is actually a Japanese term that, in its native vocabulary, translates to read "tray gardening." This phrase describes exactly what Bonsai is, as this is a tree which is cultivated in a little pot or tub allowing it to always be kept small. These types of trees aren't usually genetically prone to become small and so they are kept this way by means of thorough trimming. The ability to take care of a Bonsai tree, trying to keep it little and healthy, is definitely a talent by itself. The trees are commonly trimmed into an aesthetically pleasing shape, another reason why they are viewed as works of art and not just as trees.
The expression "Bonsai" is widely known and understood but the craft was initially present in China, named "Penjing". The Japanese art of Bonsai stemmed out of this and so is really more contemporary, compared to the Chinese style. However, the Japanese variation is the one which is much more widely known today.
Discoveries have been made in Egyptian tombs of sketches displaying miniature trees in pots. These are thought to have been used for decorative purposes and these pictures go back to 4000 years ago! After that time, there are studies to report that trees were transported in the caravans of Asia when they journeyed about because they were put to use for their medicinal qualities if someone had fallen ill.
The art of Bonsai as you may know it derives from the Chinese art of Penjing, a 2000 year old custom. It had been taken to Japan anywhere between the 7th & 9th centuries through the Imperial Embassies to Tang China. At first it was experienced only by the aristocracy and wasn't an activity that was enjoyed by the public. Nonetheless, over time it started to filter down throughout the social hierarchy and became a thing that many of the people enjoyed.
The procedure of pruning and forming miniature trees continues to be in place both in China and Japan. However, the Chinese often have them for outdoor displays and so, although still smaller than normal trees, they're relatively bigger than the Japanese versions, which produce the works of art to be shown primarily in their home.
For anybody considering turning their hand to this hobby, it really is well worth reading up on the subject in advance because the trees need careful tending. It is not just the leaves which need trimming, the roots need to be tended to also and the volume of water they need is practically a talent in itself. Info on this can be accessible on the web, and therefore any person serious about attempting this should be able to do so successfully.


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Stimulus Saves Oregon Jobs, But Most Are In Government
Harry Esteve | The Oregonian via YellowBrix
October 13, 2009
Federal stimulus spending has created or saved thousands of Oregon jobs, state officials boasted Monday, but at least three out of every four positions were in government work, according to the state's own figuring.
The lion's share of the money — about $750 million, went to beefing up entitlement programs, such as Medicaid, unemployment benefits and food stamps.
But the remaining quarter-billion has been spread among public schools, universities, public safety and construction projects that have spared teacher layoffs, kept prisons open and allowed contractors to hire new workers.
In all, the spending accounts for the equivalent of 8,238 full-time jobs, according to the state's report, which was delivered to federal authorities over the weekend. Of those, more than 6,000 were in education and public safety. Fewer than 2,000 were in the private sector.
"The fact is, it's working," Gov. Ted Kulongoski said today at a Portland news conference. Without the federal help, Oregon's already gloomy economic picture would be even worse, Kulongoski said.
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The governor made his comments on the same day the state released updated unemployment numbers showing a stubbornly high rate of 11.5 percent. That's down from 12 percent last month, but reflects the loss of more than 10,000 jobs statewide.
Monday's report is the first of what will be regular quarterly updates on how Oregon divvies up the estimated $3.9 billion over three years. The figure represents the state's share of the $733 billion stimulus package approved by Congress last February as part of President Obama's effort to rescue the nation's failing economy.
The state report doesn't include direct federal grants or grants to local governments, which could reap another $2 billion or more for Oregon over three years. Nor does it include the billions of dollars in federal income tax cuts that were part of the stimulus bill.
Instead, it reflects money that has come through state coffers and has been spent "in every corner of the state," Kulongoski said. Besides classrooms and prisons, the money has gone for everything from new pavement and sidewalks to new water systems and refurbished university buildings.
The governor clearly wanted to play up the private sector benefits Monday. He held his news conference in the parking lot of an Oregon Department of Transportation maintenance yard and brought in several highway contractors to talk about new hires they've made.
Brent Kerr, of Kerr Contractors, Woodburn, said he was able to hire 56 new employees because of federal stimulus spending, which accounted for 52 percent of his business this year. Among his projects is the reworking of Interstate 405 in Portland.


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Attacks in Pakistan's north-west 'kill at least 19'
At least 19 people have been killed in a series of attacks in north-west Pakistan, officials say.
Seven were reported dead in a blast at a police checkpoint in the Hangu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Meanwhile, at least six people were killed in a bomb attack on an anti-Taliban tribe in the Orakzai region.
In another incident, six suicide bombers died in an attack on a police station in the town of Bannu.
Officials said five of the bombers in that attack were shot dead by police while a sixth blew himself up. The Taliban carried out the attack, their spokesman said.
Officials said one policeman was hurt in that attack.
Security personnel and civilians are thought to be among those who died in the attack in Hangu.
Tribe targeted
The two roadside blasts in Orakzai region came only hours earlier, and left another 26 wounded.
Members of the Zakhakhel tribe had been travelling from Tirah valley in Khyber district to Peshawar when they were caught in the blasts in Orakzai.
There was no immediate claim for the bombing. Militants have carried out many such attacks in recent years in which hundreds have been killed.
An Orakzai administration official told the BBC there had been two bombs and that two passenger vans had been targeted near the village of Hasanzai. The injured include six women and five children, he said.
The vans were heading for Peshawar via the town of Hangu, where many members of the Zakhakhel tribe have fled recently to escape fighting between pro-Taliban and anti-Taliban groups.
The tribe has been resisting attempts by the Lashkar-e-Islam militant group to extend its influence to the Tirah area, the BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad reports.
Lashkar-e-Islam has a tactical alliance with the Pakistani Taliban in Tirah and has attacked Zakhakhel members before.
A number of anti-Taliban tribal groups in the north-west are sponsored by the government in an attempt to drive militants out of their communities.
They are often attacked by insurgents. Pakistan's security forces are also fighting the militants in several areas.


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I recently made these for a PTA meeting that I had forgotten I was supposed to bring something to. Whoops. I didn't have time to go to the store, so I looked in my pantry to see what I could come up with and it hit me we had just done s'mores the weekend before and I still had leftover ingredients. After a pinterest search for anything s'more related, I came across these little cuties. They were easy to make and were delicious, the perfect bite sized sweet treat. I may have sampled several:)
S'more Cups
recipe from In my own words
You will need:
-Marshmallows (regular sized)
-Milk chocolate chips (or chocolate bar), semi sweet morsels...basically whatever chocolate you have
-Graham crackers (approx 7 whole crackers to make a cup)
-1/4 cup powdered sugar
-6 Tbsp melted butter
-mini muffin pan
*Crush graham crackers (7 whole crackers should make a cups worth)
I used a small food chopper, you could also put in a ziploc and smash
*Put crumbs in a bowl and add powdered sugar and melted butter. Stir to combine
*Spray muffin pan with cooking spray
*Press 1 Tbsp of mixture into each muffin compartment. I used the back of my measuring spoon to press into pan....works perfectly!
*Bake in a 350 degree oven for 4-5 minutes
*Take the pan out and add a few chocolate chips to each cup (I used 4-6 morsels per cup)
*Cut marshmallows in half (kitchen shears), and place each marshmallow cut side down in each cup
*Put back in the oven so the marshmallows will soften. Watch them. I left mine in there until they were barely starting to brown on the top
*Remove from oven and place on cooling rack
*Hint: easiest way to remove from pan is to let them completely cool. I tried to get one out while still warm and it didn't work well
*Once completely cooled remove from pan onto serving dish.
*Melt remaining chocolate chips (or chocolate bar) and spoon a little over the top
*Add a few crumbles of graham crackers on top, just to make it pretty
*Makes about 24 cups


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"The good of the grace of one soul is greater than the good of the nature of the whole universe"
- St Thomas Aquinas Ia IIa, q.24, a. 3, ad 2
by Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O. P.
CHAPTER IV: QUESTION 2 —THE MODE OF THE UNION OF THE WORD INCARNATE (cont)
Third Article: Whether The Union Of The Word Incarnate Took Place In The Suppositum Or Hypostasis
The meaning of the title is: whether the union of the Word incarnate so took place that in Christ there is one suppositum, only one hypostasis..
The answer is in the affirmative, and it is of faith. The Council of Ephesus declares that "the union is subsistential."[593] But some heretics said that there is one person but two supposita.
St. Thomas refutes this heresy by three arguments.
1) He points out that, by the addition of the note of person to the hypostasis, the nature becomes determinate and rational.
2) If it be said that "what person adds to the hypostasis is a dignity," then the union would be according to a certain dignity, or it would be a moral union, as Nestorius contended.
3) If there were two supposita in Christ, then to one of these what pertains to God would be attributed, and to the other what pertains to man. This would result in the severance of the subsistential union.[594]
Fourth Article: Whether After The Incarnation The Person Or Hypostasis Is Composite
State of the question. Some deny that the person of Christ is composite, such as St. Bonaventure, Durandus, Scotus; and this for reasons posited by St. Thomas in his objections at the beginning of this article. He points out: (1) that the person of Christ is the very person of the Word, who is in Himself most simple, and in no way composite. (2) Moreover, the divine nature cannot be a part in Christ, because the part is always less perfect than the whole. (3) It cannot be said that Christ is composed of two natures, because thus there would be a composite nature, just as the human nature is composed of soul and body, and then the Deity would be to the composite as form, and therefore as part. This would be Monophysitism.
Reply. The person of Christ is one, but is composed of two natures.
First proof. It rests on the authority of St. Damascene, who is quoted in the counterargument of this article. Moreover, the Second Council of Constantinople corroborates the conclusion stated above, saying: "The Holy Church of God... confesses that the union of the Word of God with the flesh was by way of composition, which means that it was subsistential."[595]
Second proof. The argument is from reason, and there are two parts to it.
a) The person of Christ in itself is an absolutely simple uncreated being, even as the nature of the Word is, and therefore in itself is in no way composite. Thus Christ is one subsisting being.
b) Nevertheless, this person of Christ subsists in two natures, and thus He can and must be said to be a composite of two natures.
First objection. The reply is evident from the argumentative part of the article.
Reply to second objection. The divine nature, however, is not to be considered as a part of this composite. For "this composition of a person from natures is not so called on account of parts, but by reason of number, even as that in which two things concur may be said to be composed of them." Hence Christ is not a composite of parts, but of extremes that are united. St. Thomas explains this point more fully elsewhere,[596] remarking that composition may be viewed in two ways.
1) It may be considered as the union of parts which causes and results in the totality of the being, and this union implies imperfection, inasmuch as the part is an incomplete being, not so perfect as the whole, and inasmuch as the being of the whole is dependent on its parts and thus is caused.
2) Composition may be viewed as the union of extremes in some third entity that communicates being to the extremes. The extreme, however, prescinds from the notion whether it be a complete or incomplete being. Thus, for example, seeing terminates in the thing seen without resulting in any imperfection on the part of the object seen, on which the seeing depends, but which does not depend on the seeing. Thus the intellect of the blessed is united to God who is clearly seen, without involving any imperfection on the part of God. There is something similar to this in the hypostatic union, but in the order of being and not merely of operation, since the human nature is terminated by the absolutely simple person of the divine Word, without involving any imperfection on the part of the divine person. The person of the Word is related to the human nature not as informing act, but as terminating act.
First corollary. Christ is also a composite of the person of the Word and the human nature, because He consists of these really distinct and united. Yet it cannot be said that Christ is a creature, because created being applies to the person, who is what is. The person of Christ, however, is uncreated, but in Him the human nature is something created.
Second corollary. Although Christ is thus composite, He is not more perfect than the Word not made flesh in this composition, because the Word is the infinite extreme eminently containing the perfection of the human nature.
In contrast to this, God is not said to be a composite of persons and nature, because the divine persons, although united in the same nature, are not united among one another, but are rather in opposition, not being united with the nature, because They are simply identical with the nature. Thus They are not really distinct from the nature, but They are really distinct from one another by a relation of opposition.
"Does our conduct correspond with our Faith?" The Cure D'Ars
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"God looks neither at long nor beautiful prayers, but at those that come from the heart." The Cure D'Ars
"The greatest glory we can give to God is to do his will in everything." St Alphonsus de Liguori


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Vote for Colors' ''Intehaa Pyaar Ki'' Jodi
The three awesome rocking jodis on Colors are here in this poll yet another time. The three jodis mentioned here depict true love, which transformed their hearts into selfless lovers gradually. The couples were together always, yet they did not know they are made for each other and were longing for mutual love.
Though their love was infront of their eyes, still the lovers took much time to notice what they call true selfless love. Some got change of heart and actions by the effect of love, and some pulled the other partner by the power of love. Such amazing stories of love are showcased in Colors' lovely shows tagged Intehaa Pyaar Ki.
The special love stories of unspoken love and search for their life partners are shown. Now their journey will be completing where the lovers will be reaching the destinations. Once, love is realized, there is set no boundaries for their emotions. Such is the case of Viplav-Dhaani, who got together after facing so many problems. It just made their relation stronger. Likewise Sanskaar who entered Swara's life with grey intentions changed after realizing his love for her. Bihaan-Thapki's love story is still blossoming and has to reach its final step. Colors brings a season of love for the viewers to witness stories with different twists. Vote for Colors' ''Intehaa Pyaar Ki'' Jodi. Which show and pairing from the three given options deserve to be called Intehaa Pyaar Ki? Let us know in this poll. You may leave a comment as well.


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To Co-Chairs Heller and Bennet on Tax Reform Matters' Impact on the Transportation Industry and Communities
To Co-Chairs Heller and Bennet on Tax Reform Matters' Impact on the Transportation Industry and Communities
The Honorable Dean Heller
Community Development & Infrastructure Working Group
Senate Committee on Finance
219 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
The Honorable Michael Bennet
Community Development & Infrastructure Working Group
Senate Committee on Finance
219 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
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Dear Senator Heller and Senator Bennet:
On behalf of the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) and its more than 1,500 member organizations, please accept our thoughts below on four critical tax reform matters which impact the transportation industry and communities across our country.
Parity Between Transit and Parking Fringe Benefits
We urge the members of the Community Development & Infrastructure Working Group to support permanent tax parity for public transportation and parking fringe benefits. At the end of 2013, the transit benefit expired nearly cutting in half a benefit used by millions of transit riders across the country, while the parking benefit actually increased to a monthly maximum of $250/month—a skewed federal policy that incentivizes driving over public transportation as a commuting option.
APTA estimates that more than 3 million people utilize transit tax benefits to help reduce their public transportation costs for commuting to and from work. By offering pre-tax transit benefits to employees, businesses realize savings from reduced payroll taxes. Transit tax benefits are also a valuable employee recruitment and retention tool. In addition, the use of public transportation reduces traffic congestion and harmful emissions, and transit capital investment stimulates economic development throughout the country.
Legislation introduced in the House by Rep. Peter King (R-NY), H.R. 990, shows that parity can be achieved at no additional cost to the taxpayer.
Extension of Federal Tax Credits for Alternative Fuels and Related Infrastructure
Second, we urge the members of the Community Development & Infrastructure Working Group to support making permanent the federal tax credits for alternative
uels and related infrastructure that expired on December 31, 2014. This provision was extended retroactively for 2014 in the tax extenders bill passed in December. Small, medium, and large-sized transit agencies across the country benefit from these tax credits, especially, the $0.50 per gasoline gallon equivalent (GGE) tax credit offered to transit agencies fueling their vehicles with compressed (CNG) or liquefied (LNG) natural gas. These credits provide important offsets to transit agency fuel and operating costs, thereby supporting improved transportation services, as well as aiding in job retention. M
aking these tax credits permanent for the transit industry will reduce harmful emissions and move our country toward long-term energy security. Transit agencies use thousands of CNG and LNG fueled vehicles to operate their systems safely and efficiently to carry millions to work, school, medical appointments and other activities.
Public transportation agencies have invested millions of dollars in environmentally-friendly natural gas vehicles and related infrastructure and others will transition to modern, greener CNG and LNG fleets if this credit can be used to offset the substantial implementation costs associated with new fueling stations, pipeline connections/extension, and building modifications. Uncertainty surrounding these tax credits has the potential to discourage future investment in CNG and LNG fleets and associated infrastructure. APTA also supports the inclusion of electric and hybrid electric vehicles within the eligible uses of this tax credit.
Municipal Bonds
Third, we urge members of the Finance Committee to fully preserve the long-established provisions of federal law that ensure interest earned on municipal bonds is exempt from federal taxation. We ask that any effort to eliminate or cap tax exemptions not include the exemption for interest on municipal bonds.
State and local governments have long relied on municipal bonds as a cost-effective way to attract private investment in public transportation projects. The interest exemption enables state and local governments to pay lower interest rates on these bonds than if they issued taxable debt. Because interest income on the bonds is tax exempt, bond investors are willing to accept a lower interest rate on municipal bonds than they might otherwise accept on a taxable investment. Eliminating or capping this tax exemption would reduce the attractiveness of municipal debt for investors, and drive up borrowing costs for those issuing municipal bonds, in the form of higher borrowing costs and reduced debt capacity. In this time of declining Highway Trust Fund (HTF) revenues, the tax exemption on interest from municipal bonds is an important form of federal support for state and local infrastructure investment that is not dependent upon the HTF.
Financial Stability for the Highway Trust Fund
Finally, we strongly urge you to address the long-term financial stability of the Highway Trust Fund, thereby averting the dramatic cuts to surface transportation programs projected for FY 2015. A predictable, long-term federal commitment to surface transportation investment is essential to the nation's economic growth and international competitiveness. At the federal level, inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the current fuel taxes, last raised in 1993, by more than 37 percent, while higher fuel economy standards and increased use of hybrid/electric are further eroding fuel tax revenues.
Sustained federal support for public transportation investment by increasing dedicated revenues to the HTF and preserving the tax exemption on municipal bonds and is an essential component of the federal government's role of fostering the efficiency and reliability of our interconnected, national transportation network.
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on these important tax issues. If you have questions, please have your staff contact Channon Hanna of APTA's Government Affairs Department at (202) 496-4810 or email
Sincerely yours,
Michael P. Melaniphy
President & CEO
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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — "Survivor" contestant Jeff Varner who outed fellow competitor Zeke Smith as transgender on Wednesday night's episode of lity competition has been fired from his real estate job.
The Greensboro News & Record reports Varner was fired on Thursday from Allen Tate Realtors because he was "in the middle of a news story that we don't want anything to do with."
Varner made accusations of "a deception" before revealing that Smith is transgender on the episode. Varner was immediately criticized by other players. He repeatedly apologized, but was voted out of the competition.
Smith explained that he didn't mention that he was transgender because he didn't want to be known as "the trans 'Survivor' player."
He writes in The Hollywood Reporter that by calling him deceptive, Varner invoked "one of the most odious stereotypes of transgender people."
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Nagpur: The CBI has arrested three State Bank of India (SBI) officers for their alleged involvement in siphoning off money to the tune of Rs 1.35 crore from the Non-Resident Indian (NRI) accounts, sources said Thursday.
The accused including alleged mastermind and in-charge of NRI section of the main branch Anup Rajurkar, deputy manager Prakash Bhalkar and senior executive Mamata Motwani were apprehended yesterday for their alleged role in fraudulently withdrawing the money from the NRI accounts of the bank, they said.
Though the scam was unearthed two years back but after initially ignoring the fraud, the State Bank authorities lodged a formal complaint with CBI only in July last.
Rajurkar was placed under suspension by the SBI pending inquiry against him.
According to CBI sources, Rajurkar enjoyed a clout with a section of BJP leaders.
He allegedly used to provide fake receipt to the NRI bank account holders and transfer money to his own account and would later withdraw the same.
The fraud was committed between the period 2004 and 2011.
CBI yesterday produced the trio in a designated court here and obtained three-day police custodial remand (PCR), sources said.


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Not many of us are familiar of link wheel..! So here we are going to discuss about Link Wheel technique. When we talk about Page Rank in SEO then, link wheel is another useful technique to pull off site ranking, beside link-exchange and many other techniques. Link wheel becomes even more important because back-links got from techniques comes through authentic sites, hence more links pointing back to your website the higher the probability of receiving good PageRank.
|Link Wheel: All WEB 2.0 sites are inter-connected
A question might have arise ding your mind that, what's the big difference in link wheel technique and traditional link building technique? So my answer will be, yes absolutely, there is a big difference between both techniques. Traditional link building works on barter system, i.e. give and take, if you want to link exchange with another your niche website then you have to put there link too and another thing with such techniques is it is quite a hard process as well as time consuming too! On other hand, when you use link wheel technique just you need to do is create some new blogs, post some articles and create backlinks within post with anchor text. And you will have one way backlinks for your main websites. You can also you social networking websites for this process, whenever you create a new post in your main website, you can post its page link.
Is link wheel effective? Yes, of-course it is effective, since backlinks are on WEB 2.0, weightage give because of such sites are much more than traditional link-exchange. WEB 2.0 sites are much established that any other sites with strong platform, and it is not only about backlinks, traffic gain through such sites also counts, where as in traditional link exchange one can get merely some hits and that to rarely. On other hand, when search engine bots encounter with such backlinks they rate your website pretty high. Just remember one thing, create only pages on which your main website niche and chose your targeting keywords when you create anchor text.


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Activist Summer: Kwame Rose moves forward following the Baltimore Uprising
During the Baltimore Uprising, Kwame Rose was catapulted into the forefront of the movement when he confronted Geraldo Rivera on live television about Fox News' coverage of the protest and how it perpetuate false narratives about the black community. "I want you and Fox News to get out of Baltimore City," he told Rivera. In the weeks and months since, Rose became notorious, for better or worse, and used his newfound fame to help out wherever he can with grassroots initiatives around the city and to call attention to injustice and police brutality.
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The return to Waterdeep was bittersweet. Kaelthiros could not be resurrected, and there was no hope of bringing back Murry. Gundren sought out some much needed recouperation, and Mullyn rejoined the party.
Moments later, the city square in which they stood was invaded by a band of cultists led by none other than the long-forgotten Redbrand, Frank. During their skirmish with these opponents, the party encountered a new ally - a young tribesman native to the area North of the Greypeak Mountains named Killian Wolfrunner. After the cultists fled, Killian explained that his people had sought refuge in Waterdeep after being driven from their land. The party accepted his request to join the party.
The introduction was short-lived however, a great disturbance was felt in the very fabric of nature - a breeze, and a strange silence overtook them all. Strange. The party took the now-polymorphed Frank (thanks Mullyn) to the council of Waterdeep to see what could be learned. It was soon discovered that a relic named the Darkkorn had been blown, calling all dragons towards it. An ill change of fate indeed. The council informed our adventurers that the Drachorn was last seen with a Tiefling who was part of the Arcane Brotherhood, McCaff the Crimson. She was last seen in the Sea of Moving Ice. And that is where they would go.


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text: There have been articles bouncing around about this for a while, but none had any useful details. This one finally has some actual photos, so it's possible to have an idea of what's going on. First look at BMW's new laser headlights Looks like there are three wide-bandgap gallium nitride based blue lasers which are directed at a white phosphor. That luminescence is then roughly collimated with a lens and focusing mirror set to produce the headlight... err... light. This system doesn't look nearly as compact as some articles had been describing, but with the claimed efficiency gains, it's probably worth it. Plus it's a car with frickin' laser beams.


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Safety Recall: Simplicity & Graco Cribs
One million cribs recalled. On Friday the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced a voluntary recall of several Simplicity cribs (including some models sold with a Graco label) after the deaths of two infants. In both cases, the drop-rail side of the crib was installed upside down by the consumers which weakened the hardware, caused the drop-side to detach and created a gap in which the baby became entrapped and suffocated. CPSC has reports of 7 infant entrapments and 55 other incidents in these cribs. A third child death in another model is being investigated.
The CPSC points out that the crib and hardware designs are flawed in that consumers can unintentionally install the drop-side upside down. They are urging all Simplicity crib owners to be sure the drop-side is correctly installed.
The affected cribs were sold between 1998 and 2007. Models include:
Aspen 3 in 1, Aspen 4 in 1, Nursery in a Box, Crib N Changer Combo, Pooh 4 in 1, Chelsea, and the following cribs with the Graco logo: Aspen 3 in 1, Ultra 3 in 1, Ultra 4 in 1, Ultra 5 in 1, Trio, and Whitney. The model numbers are: 4600, 4605, 4705, 5000, 8000, 8324, 8800, 8740, 8910, 8994, 8050, 8750, 8760, and 8996.
If you have any of the above cribs with either the Simplicity or Graco labels, visit the CPSC website for more information - they have photographs which show examples of a correct and an incorrect drop-side installation. They also have information about how to obtain new hardware or a repair.


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The Rick Santorum Theme Song, Brought to You by the Author of the Herman Cain Theme Song
Krista Branch has built quite the career for herself as the muse of the insurgent conservative candidate. In 2011, Herman Cain adopted her thumping track "I Am America" as his official theme song -- it was the one that played whenever his head slowly turned at the end of his web ads.
Rick Santorum has announced that he will officially adopt another Branch song as one of his campaign themes. (He already has one, "Game On," from two admirers in Oklahoma. I met them in Alabama this week; they're starting to go where he goes.)
"Our campaign has focused on returning to a government that believes in the American people again," explains Santorum in a not-at-all-canned-sounding statement, "and few songs express the beauty and strength of who we are as free Americans better than Krista's. 'It's our time,' as the song says - our time to take a firm, unwavering stand against big government; and it is our time to take our country back."
Fair enough, but I think the best Branch song is this cover, "Lead Me On," which she's interpreted as a Zionist anthem.


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by Marilynne Robinson Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2004 "Writing is nothing more than a guided dream." Jorge Luis Borges "How do you review a book like Kafka on the Shore?" Chris asked. This is Chris, of the long list of recommended books. No problem, I told him. Wrong. Not easy. Nonetheless I'm going to give it a stab, because the book is a phenomenon and worth the read. I'm not saying everyone will take to this book the way Chris did. It took me awhile. I have this new rule I use, my friend Marge's rule: Read as many pages you are old, but if the author hasn't hooked you by then, move on. Too many books and too little time. But by page 54 (my current age), I was still leery. The reality spun by Haruki Murakami (one of Japans most popular authors) isn't just foreign (taking place in...read more
The Guernsey LIterary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows Random Hosue, 2008 Try it. You'll like it! The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society needs no deep literary analysis. It's simply a good read, recommended by both my daughter (a Generation Xer) and a friend who teacher college level Creative Writing. What stays with my daughter is the easy way it read and the love story. What stays with my friend, and with me, is the information gleaned about life during World War II for those English citizens on the Channel Islands off the mainland. A series of letters propels the stories and the plot. No chapters, just letters from various persons to various other persons, though the main character, Julia, writes most of the them. I wasn't sure whether this device was going to grow tiresome. But it didn't. As I said, it propelled the plot well. And new...read more
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
by Muriel Barbery Europa Editions, 2006 This is one of those rare books whose goal is to speak beautifully about beauty. Sounds esoteric? It is in a way. But don't let this put you off. You will meet two fresh and intriguing characters that speak in brief, alternating chapters (and alternating fonts) of their disdain for bourgeoisie culture and the people who create it. (Now you are really wondering if this is a book you need to read. Trust – the ending will inspire.) The setting for this novel (translated from the French by Alison Anderson) is a posh Parisian apartment building. Here we meet Renée, the plump, unattractive (by her own assessment) fifty something concierge who manages the building at number at number 7 rue de Grenelle. A brilliant autodidact she hides her intellect and role plays being an uneducated peasant, for fear that if her upper class...read more
Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout Random House, 2008 I'm sad. Not because Olive Kitteridge ended – as is sometimes the case when I read an acclaimed book. (And Olive Kitteridge is acclaimed having won the Pulitzer Prize.) I'm sad because the lives of so many of the characters, "day after day unconsciously squander their lives." This is not a reason to avoid this novel. Just fair warning. Truly there are all kinds of reasons to read it. For one – the concept is fascinating. The novel is a series of short story/chapters linked by the appearance of one Olive Kitteridge, resident of Crosby, Maine (are all the other characters in each chapter.) Hence the title – Olive Kitteridge . I'm not always a lover of short story collections. But I Stout kept me glued to each story, curious as to how and when Olive would appear. Sometimes it was no...read more
Let the Great World Spin
by Colum McCann Random House, 2009 I heard Colum McCann interviewed about this marvelous "symphony of a novel" as Frank McCourt called it, before his death. His novel had won the National Book award (an award that always makes me look again). The novel is set in August of 1974 and the interconnected stories in each chapter are each related to an actual event: Phillipe Petit, walking a tight-rope strung between the still existent Twin Towers. It is a marvelously complex novel – full of surprise with the clever way the various characters touch each other's lives, unwittingly, unknowingly. Recently – I've learned from friend and poet Jack Ridl the power of not looking directly into a subject, but glancing in another direction. In so doing – we can take in more fully, more creatively, the subject that is being addressed. This is not a story about September...read more
by Sam Savage Delta Trade Paperbacks, 2009 I'm a reader. And I love to read a book that leads me to another book that leads me to another book that leads me to even another book. This petite novel, Firmin does this. Delightfully so. I'm not normally attracted to fantasy books where the protagonist other than human. There have been a few. The Narnia series (though I read this first when I was 11.) A couple of books written from a dog's point of view. But usually – not. So I wasn't sure about a novel where the main character is a rat (Firmin) who teaches himself to read the novels he had here-to-for feathering his nest and/or eating when desperate for food. However – Firmin was recommended by the same person who recommended The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes. He has good taste. And he...read more
Edgar Sawtelle
by David Wroblewski HarperCollins, 2008 Edgar Sawtelle is mute – though he is not deaf. We meet him in the first chapter – a young boy reading old documents that give him and us a history of how the Edgar's parents came to dwell near the great red barn and how the Sawtelle dogs began to be bred. We ease in to the story through Edgar's eyes though we will hear bits and pieces told by other characters too. Trudy his mother, Claude his father's ex-con brother and even through the eyes of Almondine, Edgar's "nurse-maid" dog. (This latter not an easy point of view to write but David Wroblewski makes it believable, moving.) In her interview with David Wrobleweski, Diane Rehm suggested that Edgar Sawtelle was a boy and a dog book for grownups. And it will resonate with all of us who love dogs. But the book...read more
City of Thieves by David Benioff
by David Benioff, Penguin, 2008 The siege of Leningrad. Who can bear to pick up a book on that subject? And yet – the book came highly recommended, so I picked up a copy on one of my too frequent visits at the bookstore. I've read. It is exquisitely written – and it is important. As is every single book that reminds us that war is hell on earth. David Benioff leads us in gently. The novel's opening chapter has a screen writer (David) interviewing his grandfather (Lev Beniov) about the war years he never talks about. (The similarity in the names has raised the question of whether this novel is based on a true story.) His grandfather doesn't want to remember, but his grandson is persistent. And so in the second chapter the old man's story begins. The setting is Leingrad (or the city of Piter/Peter as the...read more
by Colum McCann Random House, 2006 "If you keep quiet, you die. If you speak, you die. So speak and die" – Tahar Djaout That is one of the three epigraphs that begin Colum McCann's story of Zoli. A story – about the Romani, or – as often called, often pejoratively called – Gypsies. A nomadic people they have resisted for centuries, even well meaning attempts to offer them four walls, permanent homes. And so often they call themselves simply – travelers. Zoli and her grandfather are Romani travelers. They had been away, together, when the men had come. The ones who had forced all her family, all the others with them in the circled wagons – on to the ice, to the middle of the frozen lake. Women, children, babies, men, the old ones, the horses, the wagons. Forced them onto the ice and then encircled them with...read more
This Side of Brightness
by Colum McCann Picador/ Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1998 This Side of Brightness is not an easy read. Though it's an important one. As are all the books I've read by Colum McCann. This is my third. The first one – Let the Great World Spin (a National Book Award winner) was sheer genius. Set in New York at the time of Phillipe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the Twin Towers the novel tells of the interconnecting lives of those who all witnessed Petit's feat. Evoking for the reader – stories of interconnecting lives in the aftermath of 9/11 . Ingenious. The second one was Zoli – which invited us to consider the pligt of the Romani/ Gypsy people. The discrimination against them, their own traditions that would prevent them from pleading their own case, believing it is shameful, even dangerous to let others know too much...read more


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We made the sweet shop ourselves for very little money.
It was $20 for the 2 crates which we glued together with liquid nails
The $7 for the 2 side pieces of wood and the front piece. The were that size already from Home Depot and we just glued them on. The cupcake and tea pot were from Michael's for $5 and we decorated them ourselves.


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(third-person singular simple present trips out, present participle tripping out, simple past and past participle tripped out)
- (idiomatic) To hallucinate as a result of drugs.
- They started to trip out' after 5 minutes of eating the mushrooms.
- (idiomatic) To have as an image in one's mind.
- (idiomatic) To have a fit, to become enraged.


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As if there are not beguiling mysteries enough out there, I must press upon your patience once more to relate a little adventure of mine, which has uncovered yet another unexpected truth at the heart of Yorkist family politics. On awakening one morning, I decided to take a stroll and set out from Piccadilly after breakfast with little more than a potted-meat sandwich tucked away in my inside pocket. By teatime I found I had wandered across several county borders into Norfolk, and I came to my senses amid the bulrushes of the Fens with a pair of curlews engaged in some ritual mating dance at my feet. Seeking a bed for the night, I was fortunate enough to find the Biggerump Inn, standing alone in the falling darkness, where I was offered the corner of a stable. Dining on braised lamb in the Inn's delightful parlour, my fancy was taken by a shelf of old-looking books, which I fell to perusing once my meal was finished. One of the smallest, and most battered, was a little book in a leather binding (see above); a funny little foible, but I have a taste for funny little foibles and, as I turned its pages, it was clear that the content pre-dated the cover by some centuries.
I flicked through the pages. It seemed to be some sort of prayer book, written in a fifteenth century secretary hand, with the occasional illuminated initial letter in red and gold. I have seen many similar books before. The first page bore many inscriptions, dating through from the 1400s to the seventeenth century, and one name in particular caught my eye. I had heard of Severus Larke on a previous occasion: the Larkes were a well-known Suffolk family, connected with Wolsey and the court of Henry VIII. Yet this individual's hand was quite distinct; he had made a few notes in the margins beside prayers, initialling them with an elongated "S" and a small bird with distinctive stubby wings. And as I traced his comments, most of which were amendments to prayers or names of individuals to pray for, I recalled where I had heard his name before. Severus Larke had, for a brief period during the autumn of 1483, acted as confessor to Elizabeth Woodville, the wife of Edward IV.
By this point, Elizabeth was a widow. She had fled into sanctuary with her children following the death of her husband. Her sons had been taken and Richard III had been crowned, so her future looked very uncertain. Larke was working in the service of one of the Pastons, I believe, which had taken him to London for a few months on legal business and, somehow, he ended up lodging in Westminster. As I yawned before the roaring fire, I passed the hours in trying to decipher something of his hand, and form an impression of his character. It was but fancy, and I met with little success, until I reached the end pages, which he had used to record his thoughts. Mostly they took the form of prayers and lists, payments owing and in one case, the number of his master's dogs that needed feeding. And then, there was a strange line. Strange in that it was dated, very specifically to September 29, 1483. The line read "Prayers to be said for the Princess for the safe arrival of her child." The word "Princess" was scored through in ink of a lighter colour.
This threw me into a state of bafflement. I could not recall a Princess that might have been pregnant in the autumn of 1483. Elizabeth Woodville was too old, having borne her last child three years earlier. Richard III's Queen, Anne Neville, had borne a single son, who was then somewhere between the ages of seven and ten and there were never any reports of a second pregnancy. Equally, she would have been referred to in the text as "Queen" or "widow" or "dowager," but not Princess. The only Princesses I could think of were the daughters of Edward IV, then in sanctuary with their mother. The eldest, Elizabeth of York would have been seventeen. Within months, Richard would pass an act of Parliament, Titulus Regis, declaring them illegitimate. This might account for the word being scored through, as Elizabeth's royal status was retracted. Could it have been possible that it was she to whom Larke's prayers referred?
So I twiddled with my pipe and thought about the dates. Elizabeth and her daughters had entered sanctuary in June 1483 and left it on March 1, 1484. This was a period of nine months but it couldn't have corresponded exactly with a pregnancy, as Elizabeth of York must have been well enough, recovered and churched, to emerge on March 1. Nor is it likely that she conceived in the cramped confines of sanctuary, under the watchful eye of her mother. Therefore, she must have been pregnant when she entered sanctuary and given birth late in 1483 or early in 1484. And I began to wonder who the father of this child might be, this hypothetical child, whose absence from the records suggests it did not survive. The only man in London to whom Elizabeth's name was attached prior to her marriage to Henry VII was her uncle Richard, the future Richard III. Tracing back his movements, I discovered that Richard was present in the city early in 1483 to attend a session of Parliament, leaving for the north in February. If he had impregnated Elizabeth of York that month, he would then have departed without being aware of her condition. We know that he had two acknowledged bastards; the scarcity of records about them suggests there may have been more, about whom we do not know. Yet perhaps not even Richard ever knew about this other child.
Elizabeth's pregnancy would have become apparent by late March or early April. In the light of this, Edward's early death can be interpreted in a different way entirely. I never accepted the theories that the robust Edward, even with all his feasting and whoring, had succumbed to a chill caught whilst out fishing. The possibility now arises that Edward was informed by his wife of his favourite daughter's condition and the shock broke his health. Such a scandal was unprecedented and must be covered up. After Edward's death, Richard began to travel south. Aware that he was the father of the child, Elizabeth Woodville could not allow him to know about the pregnancy, so before he was even half way, she fled to sanctuary, which she knew would offer the cover she needed until the child was born. If it was conceived in February, the delivery date would have been in November 1483. If it had been a boy, the child would have been an important Yorkist heir, a replacement for the lost Princes in the Tower. It also meant that the potential match being proposed between the Princess and the exiled Tudor was not anticipated to become a reality in the immediate future, suggesting that Elizabeth Woodville had no faith in Henry's planned invasion of the autumn of 1483. Either that, or Henry had been informed of her condition and was coming to avenge her honour, in the style of his favourite French Romances. But he failed to live up to these legends. The weather drove his ships back and the next thing we know is that Elizabeth Woodville and her daughters emerged at the start of March. If Elizabeth of York carried her child to term, in this world where still births, miscarriages and infant mortality, were common, it seems most likely that it did not survive. Only one or two servants would have known of its existence, including confessor Severus Larke.
This theory also makes sense of the oath Elizabeth Woodville required Richard to swear in 1484. Before she set foot outside the safety of Westminster, she required him to make a public promise to protect her daughters and arrange suitable marriages for them. Of course she did, given that she knew Richard had already seduced her eldest girl. Richard was probably unaware of the pregnancy but had his deflowering of his niece on his conscience. This also makes sense of the rumours that date from Christmas 1484 about a potential flirtation between Richard and his niece. Except this was not a new flirtation, it was the tail end of a dangerous affair from early 1483, which the oath had firmly put an end to. To Richard, Elizabeth of York was but a conquest from his days as the Duke of Gloucester. Now that he was King, he had his own reign and wife to concern him, and Elizabeth was relegated to the status of an old flame, whose future he must arrange, to a Prince of Portugal. No doubt Elizabeth felt used and rejected. It is no surprise then, that she was eager to go along with her mother's plan to wed her to Henry Tudor. She had borne her uncle's child in secrecy and, but for the prayer of the royal confessor, jotted indiscreetly into his book, the matter would never have come to light.
It was that very indiscretion that led to the dismissal of Severus Larke from the royal profession. The emergence of the women in March 1484 coincided with Larke's return home; first to Ipswich, then on to a position of confessor in a noble Norfolk household. No efforts were made by the royal family to retain his services and, ten years later, he appears in the Assize court records as living a profligate life, keeping a mistress who bore him a bastard. He was in danger of losing his position, in addition to the payment of a large fine but the case was never concluded. Only two weeks later, in October 1495, he was granted a royal pension by none other than the new Queen, Elizabeth of York, and retired to Bungay in Norfolk, just two miles east of the Biggerump Inn. He retained this pension and the queen's favour until his death in 1498. Perhaps it was in recognition of his services in the past, or perhaps it was made to ensure his silence. With this thought, I strolled out into the deep Norfolk night and smoked a particularly good pipe of woody tobacco, musing on the inconsistencies of history and the eternal frailties of woman.
Roald Dahl, Enid Blyton, Arthur Conan Doyle, Geoffrey Willans, Shakespeare, Tobias Smollett, Jonathan Swift, George Orwell.
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Portadown's position as a leading area for grassroots development was enhanced with double delight at the Northern Ireland seven-a-side finals.
The decision by members of the Mid-Ulster Schools' Football Association to embrace the revamped blueprint for youth development received reward on two fronts in Cookstown as pupils from Orchard County and Edenderry picked up national prizes.
Orchard County defeated Lowood, Cookstown's St Joseph's and Harryville across the group stages, plus finished level against Olderfleet. A late equaliser against Olderfleet secured top spot in the group for the Annaghmore-based pupils.
Single-goal wins then arrived in the last-four and final against, respectively, St Ninnidh's of Enniskillen and St Joseph's.
Joel Willis made his mark in the final four seconds of extra-time with a title-winning finish off Darren Robinson's pass.
Orchard County can now boast two NI Cup triumphs inside four years.
"I jumped about six feet in the air when Joel found the net late on," said Orchard County's Stephen Blevins. "Just as we were enjoying our celebrations, news filtered through that our friends from Edenderry had also won the cup so we raced over to enjoy their presentation.
"It's a day none of us will ever forget and what a day for Portadown and the Mid-Ulster Schools' Football Association.
"I have coached the MUSFA primary regional squad together with Peter Mullan from Edenderry and we both encourage the boys to play the game with the ball on the ground and a smile on their faces.
"We're both fully-focused on the development of players rather than teams but it's still a joy to witness them gel to maximum effect against the best squads in the country.
"Both schools are also superbly supported by positive and enthusiastic parents, all of whom were as excited as the boys."