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Senate Republicans repudiate Roy Moore's candidacy, urge him to leave the race
Sean Sullivan, Robert Costa and Jenna JohnsonWashington Post
Senate Republican leaders on Monday waged an urgent campaign to pressure GOP nominee Roy Moore to withdraw from the Alabama Senate race amid allegations of sexual misconduct, declaring him "unfit to serve" and threatening to expel him from Congress if elected.
But Moore showed no signs he was preparing to step aside, even as another woman came forward to accuse him of sexually assaulting her in the late 1970s when she was 16 years old.
The fusillade from Senate Republicans started Monday morning in Louisville, where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., called on Moore to step aside.
"I believe the women, yes," he said of the allegations levele d against Moore.
Later, National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Cory Gardner, R-Colo., issued a written statement going even further. "If he refuses to withdraw and wins, the Senate should vote to expel him," Gardner said. He later told reporters Moore "doesn't belong in the United States Senate."
The public comments from top Republican senators marked a dramatic escalation from their initial reactions to Thursday's Washington Post report detailing allegations that Moore initiated a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl when he was 32.
The intensifying move against Moore reflected a growing sense that his candidacy is becoming a national emergency for the Republican Party, which is already deeply concerned about its standing with voters ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. In campaigns far from Alabama, Democrats on Monday sought to tie GOP candidates to Moore to take advantage of the controversy surrounding t he former judge.
Still, national Republican leaders and their allies were left without a clear path forward, with no way to remove Moore's name from the ballot for the Dec. 12 election. One possibility that some GOP officials were pushing as a last-ditch effort was a write-in campaign by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who vacated the seat to join the Trump administration.
But there was considerable skepticism in Sessions' orbit that he would agree to that idea. Others floated the prospect of a write-in effort for Sen. Luther Strange, R-Ala., whom Moore defeated in the primary.
Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., was among the Republicans voicing confidence that Sessions would be the party's best hope as write-in candidate. He told reporters the attorney general would be a "strong one."
President Donald Trump has been relatively quiet on the controversy in recent days while traveling in Asia, adding a degree o f uncertainty to how the party should proceed with Moore. Last week, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump believed that if the allegations against Moore are true, he "will do the right thing and step aside."
In recent days, senior Trump administration officials have been in touch with Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, R, and her inner circle, according to several people briefed on the talks. One person described those conversations as "information gathering" so the White House would know where Ivey stands and to keep the channels of communication open as the political drama continues.
But since Trump won't return from Asia until late Tuesday and is still considering his own options regarding how to further address Moore's candidacy, White House officials have been reluctant to lean on Ivey in any way, the people said.
"It's tough having him out of town because no one wants to get too far ahead of him," said one Republican involved in the talks, requesting anonymity to describe private deliberations.
McConnell has spoken to Trump about Moore since the allegations were first reported last week, a Republican familiar with their conversations said. Senate Republican leaders and their allies believe that Trump's positioning - wherever he decides to come down - will be crucial to the attempt to force Moore out.
Gardner's call to expel Moore if elected was Senate Republican leaders most aggressive effort yet to get the former judge to drop out of the race. But an effort to expel a senator is extremely rare and would require the approval of two-thirds of the chamber to be successful. An actual vote hasn't happened since 1862.
Moore was defiant amid the increasing pressure from party leaders. He wrote on social media that McConnell is the one "who should step aside" and that he has "failed conservatives."
The war of words unfolded on t he same day that Beverly Young Nelson, now 55 , accused Moore, now 70, of sexually assaulting her and bruising her neck in the late 1970s when she was 16 years old.
Nelson said at a news conference at a New York hotel that Moore, then the district attorney of Etowah County, was a regular at a restaurant, the Old Hickory House restaurant in the northeastern Alabama town of Gadsden, where she was a waitress and would sometimes compliment her looks or touch her long red hair. She showed a copy of her high school yearbook that she said Moore signed on Dec. 22, 1977, with the inscription: "To a sweeter more beautiful girl I could not say 'Merry Christmas.' "
On a cold night about a week or two after that, Nelson alleges that Moore offered to give her a ride home from work after her shift ended at 10 p.m. Instead of taking her home, Nelson said that Moore pulled the two-door car into a dark and deserted area between a dumpster and the back of the restaurant .
When she asked what he was doing, Nelson alleges that Moore put his hands on her breasts and began groping her. When she tried to open the car door and leave, Nelson said he reached over and locked the door. When she yelled at him to stop and tried to fight him off, she alleges that he tightly squeezed the back of her neck and tried to force her head toward his lap. He also tried to pull her shirt off, she said.
Moore denied this latest accusations during a brief campaign appearance Monday evening in Etowah County, where he still lives.
"I can tell you without hesitation this is absolutely false," Moore said, according to the Anniston Star newspaper. "I never did what she said I did. I don't even know the woman. I don't know anything about her. I don't even know where the restaurant is or was."
The new allegation followed an extensive report published Thursday by The Washington Post in which Leigh Corfman alleged that Moor e initiated a sexual encounter with her when she was 14 and Moore was a 32-year-old assistant district attorney. Moore has denied the accusation.
In addition to Corfman, three other women interviewed by The Post in recent weeks said Moore pursued them when they were between the ages of 16 and 18 and he was in his early 30s, episodes they said they found flattering at the time, but troubling as they got older. None of the three women said that Moore forced them into any sort of relationship or sexual contact.
Neither Corfman nor any of the other women sought out The Post. While reporting a story in Alabama about supporters of Moore's Senate campaign, a Post reporter heard that Moore allegedly had sought relationships with teenage girls. Over the following three weeks, two Post reporters contacted and interviewed the four women.
Moore has declined to rule out that he may have dated girls in their late teens when he was in his 30s, but he has said he did not remember any encounters.
Last week, McConnell and many other senators said that "if" those allegations were true, Moore and would need to step aside, stopping short of the position he took Monday.
Scott Jennings, a former McConnell aide, wrote a column published Monday endorsing a highly unusual proposal that has also generated chatter among Republicans: Sessions should step down as attorney general and run for the seat.
"President Trump should intervene," Jennings wrote in the Louisville Courier-Journal, by demanding the Alabama Republican Party "withdraw Moore's name as a candidate, which it almost certainly would do if ordered by the White House; dispatch a still-popular Sessions to run a write-in candidacy; and campaign for and hope Sessions wins."
A Sessions spokeswoman at the Justice Department did not immediately comment on the proposal. A Republic an close to Sessions granted anonymity to speak candidly said Sessions "has told folks in Alabama that he is not considering it."
Sessions is scheduled to be on Capitol Hill Tuesday to testify before the House Judiciary Committee.
Inside the White House, Sessions has been floated as a potential replacement, according to two White House officials and several Senate Republican aides.
Sessions - whose once close relationship with Trump has frayed over the past year following Sessions recusal from the federal probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election - has dismissed the notion in private but would "of course" listen to the president, should he reach out, according to one White House official.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who expressed solidarity with McConnell's rejection of Moore, wrote on Twitter that Strange would be "an excellent alternative."
Strange repeatedly declined to comment when asked if he would mount a write-in campaign or if he had spoken to Moore.
A spokeswoman for the Alabama Republican Party did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the prospect of a write-in campaign. In an interview Sunday with the website "Alabama Political Reporter," state Republican Party Chairman Terry Lathan said "it would be a serious error" for party officials to publicly endorse a write-in candidate.
While Moore's name must remain on the ballot, the state Republican Party has the power to disqualify him - meaning votes cast for him would not count.
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., criticized Moore Monday. He also distanced himself from the campaign of Democratic nominee Doug Jones, who is trying to demonstrate independence from national party figures in hopes of winning some crossover votes in Alabama, which leans heavily conservative.
"I thought Moore never belonged in the Senate even before these allegations," said Schumer. As for the Jones effort, Schumer said, "when they ask us for help, we'll do it. But it's been an Alabama race."
As Republican senators returned to Washington on Monday, several of them made clear to the leadership in phone calls and through colleagues that they would support a tougher line on Moore in the coming days and would encourage Trump to join them once he returns from Asia, according to two people familiar with the discussions.
Asked if there was any easy solution to the Moore situation, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., replied: "No." Then he reconsidered.
"There's one solution," McCain said. "He should never be a United States senator."
The Washington Post's Paul Kane, Ed O'Keefe and Elise Viebeck contributed to this report.
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Our own Blog Princess. Whom, after laboring laboriously throughout the night, actually judged not one, ladies and gentlemen, but all unjudged caption contests. (I think this was solely to remove a source of harassment for yours truly.......oh, and because I judged mine in light-speed fashion -- as compared to *some*, that is.)
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Because surely such an event was divinely inspired.....and it's Wookie time.
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Man o man, this week has been complicated.
Posted by: Manchurian Bubba_hun at April 3, 2009 07:06 PM
I hear ya.
Time to kick off the shoes and grab a beer or three.
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Wookie Time will offend me, according to the U-Toob Nanny.
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It's enough to drive me nuts...
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Last week, the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) recommended a comprehensive review of the VAT threshold with a view to reducing it from the current £85,000 level.
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On 3 May 2013, the Supreme Court of Victoria handed down its decision in Lockwood v PSP Investments Pty Ltd [2013] VSC 10.
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This decision considers when an amendment to a proposed plan of subdivision by a vendor gives a purchaser the right to rescind a contract of sale.
In January 2010 Mr Lockwood entered into eight contracts with PSP Investments Pty Ltd ("PSP Investments") for the sale of land off the plan. Four of the contracts related to the purchase of apartments, and four related to car parks to be constructed on a development known as 'Ecosquare.'
In early 2012, the City of Port Phillip required the car park lots to be deleted from the Plan of Subdivision ("the Plan") and converted into common property. Lot 800 on the Plan was also deleted and merged into common property. Mr Lockwood was not informed of these amendments until after the Plan had been registered.
Mr Lockwood commenced proceedings for a declaration under section 9AC(2) of the Sale of Land Act 1962 ("the Act") that the four contracts for the purchase of the apartment lots had been validly rescinded, and for the return of the deposit monies paid in respect of the contracts. Mr Lockwood contended that the apartment contracts had been materially affected by the amendments to the Plan.
The issue before the Supreme Court was whether the amendments to the Plan materially affected the lot, and therefore entitled the purchaser to rescind the apartment contracts under section 9AC(2) of the Act.
Justice Judd in the Supreme Court referred to the decision of Justice Pagone in Besser v Alma Homes Pty Ltd1, and stated that there is no requirement in section 9AC(2) of the Act that the material effect be deleterious or adversely affect the lot or the rights of the purchaser.
The Court stated that the material effect required under section 9AC(1) is a change in the subject matter of the contract of sale. Here, Justice Judd stated that the deletion of the car parking lots and lot 800 from the Plan had the effect of enlarging the common property relating to each apartment lot, and therefore changed the corresponding rights and obligations of the owners of each apartment.
Justice Judd also indicated that when considering the impact of the amendment, the car park and apartment contracts should be considered together. He found that both parties would have understood that the car parks were purchased for use with the apartment lots, and that the car park lots enhanced the value to the purchaser of each apartment.
Justice Judd found that the deletion of the car park lots and the inability of the vendor to complete those contracts, materially (and adversely) affected each apartment lot.
The Court declared that the apartment contracts had been validly rescinded pursuant to section 9AC(2) of the Act. The Court ordered the return of the deposit monies paid in respect of these contracts under section 9AF(1)(b) of the Act.
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Was thinking to set up my own blog for a while but was always too lazy or had always something more "important" to do. Tonight by chance I went to my gmail account which I haven't logged into for a long time. I have never really used it, just set it up years ago when it first showed up. I was just trying to figure out what is wrong with our ISP smtp server which didn't want to send an email to a particular email address. Well, experimenting with SMTP soon ended when I found out I can actually set up a blog directly with my gmail account without having to go through lengthy registration somewhere else. So here I am, hope this is not my last post :-S
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Its been such a long time since I last posted any thing on my blog and even longer since I did an OOTD.So here is what I wore out shopping with my hubby.The red jumper is from f21.The clutch is a DIY project that I have not completed yet.The necklace is f21,the earrings and shoes I purchased in the LA fashion district. xoxo hope you all like.
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Snail kites soar the marsh seeking snail delights. Photo Credit: Ron Bielefeld
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The government should give people over the age of 65 welfare and benefits, but only if they need it. Some elderly can't help it if they can't work due to disability or some physical malady. The retirement age is still 65 even though Social Security will be insolvent in the decades to come if something doesn't change.
Yes, the government should be required to provide welfare for those that are over the age of 65 and really need the help. They have worked most of their lives and have contributed to society and they should reap the benefits of their work. They may need some assistance seeing they have no income coming in.
The government should provide welfare to anyone of any age that needs it. People sometimes fall on hard times through no fault of their own and get punished for it rather than helped out. We need to help people find jobs, encourage them to do their best, and show them their options, not kick them while they are down.
The government should provide welfare to people over the age of 65 who need it.The government already provides welfare to people who are of a good working age, and don't need the welfare. The government should most certainly provide welfare to the elderly who need it much more than younger people who can find work much more easily.
People over 65 are getting to point where they may not be able to work anymore or may not be able to work full time. They may easily still live another 30 years and they do need access to some sort of financial support. This of course should depend on their income and assets!
There are many programs for people aged 65 and older. If the individual worked and paid into social security, then they should obviously be obtaining that benefit. The welfare programs of the past are gone and have either been eliminated or replaced with more specific programs. Welfare no longer exists, other than rent assistance and food stamps, which in general terms are already available to people aged 65 and older, if they qualify.
Assuming that the question refers to the federal government, I oppose. I am of the persuasion that the federal government should not provide welfare to anyone, rather welfare needs should be handled at a state level. If the question referred to state government then I don't have a strong opinion, I tend to think if the 65 year old was able to keep working then he should keep working. Otherwise, maybe.


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A 5-Point Plan for Maximum Impact
By Lili Rahmati
Thanks to the brilliant campaign sponsored by the generous folks at Gold Peak Tea, one lucky individual stands to win $100,000 so that they can take a year off to do whatever they wish – pretty amazing stuff and definitely the opportunity of a lifetime! As a response to Mallika's recent call to fellow Intent-ers to share their ideas assuming someone from the community might be lucky enough to win, I've been fantasizing about what this scenario would look, taste and feel like for me. At first, so many things rushed through my mind that the exercise became quite overwhelming. But after allowing the thoughts to simmer down a bit, I've identified five distinct opportunities for allocating the winnings (both time and money) in a way which would create huge impact and fulfillment.
I have to admit that I found this exercise to be a little bit alarming, but also very enlightening. Instinctively, most of my initial thoughts about how to use the prize resources had little to do with myself and instead were almost completely focused on how to support others whether they were causes, organizations, individuals, etc. Clearly, there's nothing wrong with that, but I did become aware that I was perpetuating an all too familiar pattern of female behavior which is based upon always playing the role of dedicated nurturer, caretaker, and being the one who provides comfort and succor, etc.
It's part of our biology to know how to readily give to others, but when it comes to ourselves, we often don't know how to receive (from ourselves or from others). I can only speak for myself, and I don't want to make sweeping generalizations. I'm sure there are many women who can be classified as outliers compared to this typical model of behavior. That said, I think that the conversations that we have with one another — whether in person or online –tend to lend support to the fact that women need to learn how to take better care of themselves so they can be better equipped to care for or give to others.
Once I allowed myself to become more comfortable with the concept of including myself as a recipient of the winnings, I was able to craft a solid vision of what life would look like and the impact and fulfillment which could result, both for me directly as well as for those who I want to help/support.
1. Self-Care: This is an area of my life that needs a lot of attention. I'm lucky to have a thriving business (which gives me immense personal and professional satisfaction), but being an entrepreneur is hard work and I often am left feeling physically, emotionally and mentally spent. I realize that it is essential to allocate time and money to incorporate regular self-care rituals into my life. These involve yoga, meditation, nature hikes/walks as well as massages and other wellness practices.
2. Photography: In recent years I've discovered the creative passion in my life which is photography. I usually shoot on film and print in the traditional darkroom, but recently I've incorporated digital photography into my repertoire as well. I would love to create the space for my own darkroom (or pre-pay for an entire year's worth of rental darkroom time). I'd also use the additional resources to upgrade my camera equipment and bump up my inventory of film cartridges, media cards, etc.
3. Social Interaction/Quality Time: I score pretty high when it comes to spending quality time with my immediate family and a few close friends, but there's a gaping hole in my life when it comes to spending time with my other friends, relatives and colleagues (even though we don't live that far from one another). Putting forth the effort to have quality interactions with people we already know is not only fulfilling but also a huge component of our emotional wellness.
4. Travel: Throughout my life travel has been a natural part of my existence, so much so that as an adult I truly identify myself as a world citizen. Every opportunity to travel is a chance to learn something new, and as a result my life is enriched in ways which I could never have anticipated. I often travel for pleasure, but if I had a year off and $100,000, the travel would be more purpose-driven. I envision incorporating my photography with my travels in a way that would tell stories of where I've been, who I've met and what I've learned. Or perhaps it would enable me to give a much needed voice to those who otherwise may not have one. Whether domestic or international, the opportunities for connecting with others in meaningful and impactful ways are endless and I would seize upon as many as I could.
5. Philanthropy: I've always felt the need to have a clear sense of purpose in terms of my place in the world. Although I haven't always been connected with exactly what that meant, the older and more experienced I become, the more I've been able to craft a precise vision of how I want to affect positive change.
Philanthropy is an essential part of my current life and within the context of a life-changing event such as the Gold Peak Tea campaign, the opportunities for philanthropic giving and being of service would be hugely magnified. Aside from having the time to volunteer for causes near and dear to my heart, the ability to make direct targeted contributions to causes, social enterprises and traditional non-profits would be at the top of my agenda. Whether it's through providing a scholarship to a girl in a US high school who plans to study math/finance or business in University or supporting a crowd-funding campaign for a non-profit which addresses the basic health and hygiene needs of girls and women (in developing countries) so that they can pursue their education, undoubtedly there are numerous ways to make a meaningful, sustainable and life-altering impact. From my perspective, being philanthropic and cause-driven is immeasurably meaningful and rewarding, and I look forward to a lifetime of service and philanthropic giving.
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Bratislava has been a city of excellent cuisine and delicious wine traditionally. On the sunny slopes of the Small Carpathians Mountains grapes have been cultivated since very early times – people have enjoyed wine here since 200 – 300 years BC. The wine-growers from Presporok (the former Slovak name of Bratislava) supplied royal wine cellars with their wine. There is a nice exposition in Museum Of Viticulture in the Apponyi Palace.
The wine tradition, which was not cultivated for last decades of 20th century, was reestablished by the Festival of Young Wine in Bratislava. Usually it dates around the 11th of November, the Saint Martins Day (Saint Martin is a patron of vintners).
Taste Wines of the Small Carpathians (Male Karpaty) Area
A new site with wine tasting is in a reconstructed historical wine cellar with a hotel built just above this cellar. There are 45.000 bottles, 20 white, 15 red types and special products in this wine archive. The wine is product of a wine company based in the Pezinok town – one of the traditional Small Carpathians vintner centers. The company has in its portfolio 20 sorts of white, 13 of red variety wines and several superior wines.
Green Veltliner - is a dignified and self-confident representative of the white wines group produced from a non-aromatic grape varieties. However, the "aroma" is not so unambiguous. Even today, the older winemakers call the veltlin as "zeleny muskatel – green muskatel". It is characterized by the scent of green almonds and by the taste of roasted almonds. The fullness and velvet likeness of its features is enhanced while it rests in bottles.
Müller Thurgau - is a cross-breed between rizling and silvan. Its creator, Dr.Muller, did not want the cross-breed to bear his name and his wish is honored in many countries and therefore it is marked
as "rizvanec". This variety yields bouquet-like, less extractive but slightly muskat-like wines with lower content of acids. That is why we recommend its early consumption.
Chardonnay - is the most desired white wine grape variety in the world these days. It comes from Burgundland and it will convince you by its gentle velvet-fruitlike bouquet and a unique taste of acacia honey. Ripening in wooden barrels and resting in bottles suits this wine. We believe that our Chardonnay will satisfy your senses.
Other white wines: Red Veltliner early, Green Silvaner, Feteasca regala
Rhine Riesling, Neuburger, Kerner,Pinot blanc, Pinot grigio, Junglady grape, Moravian muskat, Irsai Oliver, Sauvignon blanc, Muskat Ottonel, Traminer, Devin, Czerszegi Füszeres, Palava.
White Cuvees: Caballero, Cuvee Matysak.
Rose wines: Saint Laurent Rose, Zweigeltrebe Rose.
Red wines
Saint Laurent - comes from France, but to locate it you need to have luck. However in our area it is an attractive and favorit blue variety. It yields pleasant harmonic wines, equipped with suficient color and often pleasantly cherry-fruit bouquet. Svätovavrinecke - Sain Laurent tastes good even as a young wine. That it when it reminds of the famous "Beaujolais nouveau"!
Lemberger - When it is ripe enough, it is dark, smells after cinnamon and its taste is long and ample "warm". It comes from a remarkable concentration of polyphenols and glycerol. Open the bottle an hour before you want to drink it, cool the wine to 16 – 18°C and pour it into decent, big glassy glasses.
Dornfelder -is German cross-breed, which settled in the vineyards of the Small Carpathians not long ago. It yields colorfully intensive red wine with scent of a small berry fruit. Its taste is full, extractive and persistent. Resting in barrels and then in bottles it ripens into the form which is very attractive to the red wine lover.
Cabernet Sauvignon - is a unique variety. Though you can not speak French, you will surely understand it. But try do get aquatinted with matured Cabernet. It is going to be full of scents of red currants and black pepper. In a few years old Cabernet you will actually discover scents of chocolate and tobacco. Cabernet Sauvignon is simply godly medium.
Other Red Wines: Andre, Zweigeltrebe, Pinot noir, Blue Portugieser, Heroldrebe, Domina, Alibernet, Otelo, Riesling black.
Red Cuvees: Hidalgo,The King Ondrej II.
Sparkling Wines: Matysak, Morio.
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8 oz. penne or other short pasta
1 tablespoon cooking oil
14 oz. Kielbasa, sliced in ¼ inch disks
½ cup sliced green onions
¼ cup dry white wine or chicken broth
1 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme
¼ cup butter
½ cup half and half
2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese
- Cook pasta according to packaged directions.
- Heat cooking oil over medium heat in a large skillet. Add the sliced kielbasa and cook until it starts to crisp up on each side. Remove from the skillet onto a paper towel-lined plate. Drain the extra grease from the skillet.
- Return the skillet to the stove. Add the onions and wine/broth, letting it bubble and loosen the brown bits from the bottom of the skillet. Add the thyme and stir until the liquid is almost evaporated.
- Add the butter. Once it is melted, add the half and half and mustard. Bring it to a simmer and let it thicken a little before adding the Parmesan cheese. Stir until the cheese is melted and the mixture coats the back of a spoon.
- Add the cooked pasta to the sauce and stir to coat the pasta.
- To serve, either mix the kielbasa into the pasta or top each serving of pasta with some sausage
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A Havre de Grace High School freshman has been charged as an adult with attempted murder in two recent shootings.
The 15-year-old, Karl S. Miller, was indicted in a February shooting by a Harford grand jury on April 2 -- four days before the second shooting on April 6, though police did not serve the indictment until after the second shooting -- Assistant State's Attorney Michael Sanger said.
The victim of the April shooting initially told police he was shot when a car drove by him as he walked down a Havre de Grace street. He later changed his story, saying Miller shot him, police said.


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Business leaders and digital project managers know what problems they're trying to solve, but they haven't necessarily figured out the exact "how". Let's look at how headless could be a way of meeting the pressing needs for speed and better presentation.
What is headless?
A headless CMS decouples the rendering and presentation system and allows you to replace it with front-end or other technologies of your choice. The CMS is simply a content store and web application for content creators, and the content is delivered to the front-end or other system, typically via REST APIs as JSON.
Contrary to common misconception, you can still have a preview function and work in headless mode. A hybrid approach gives you a UI for entering structured content, and a UI for building experiences (such as pages), plus a REST API to access both structured content experiences, and a server-side rendering system. This means that you are not limited to filling forms, but can create rich content and preview pages. At the same time, the content is generated in clean JSON to use in headless mode in any framework or channel: mobile apps, kiosks, third-party systems, or web pages.
If you're concerned about time to market, headless makes it faster to roll out. It fits into existing infrastructure and you do not need to change your existing delivery tier. Headless is open to all other systems such as CRM and e-commerce that consume content from it - access is provided through APIs. Because developers simply work with content APIs, they can start on projects fast and work in parallel.
If you're thinking about how to connect the shop functions you need: headless works well in a microservices environment. It supports cross-functional teams to get tasks done quickly. The front-end is decoupled from the back-end. You get more flexibility and it's easier to switch and replace various tools that you use for e-commerce, from PIM to marketing automation.
E-commerce managers still struggle with this. Headless is a neat way to push content to different front-ends. It supports content that does not contain any presentation formatting, and that can be used and re-used on any channel. You effectively have a flexible platform for every touchpoint - web, mobile, IoT, smart TV, touchscreens.
Content types
You can mix and match different types of content, whether it's user-generated in the style of Amazon or Ikea, or product information on heating systems and water filters in a B2B setting. A major retailer was able to use a headless approach to quickly and effectively create campaign landing pages and product teasers, and to simultaneously reach customers through new emotional touchpoints. It immediately saw how sales peaked around the holiday season.
If you're in the midst of re-thinking and re-designing your e-commerce projects, consider how a headless approach could be part of your digital infrastructure. Content commerce is about using great storytelling to create emotions at new touchpoints, beyond templates. Content wants to be free, and headless is the architecture that sets it free.WEB / ECOMMERCE / E-MARKETING


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BS, Ethnomusicology, UCLA
Nick was born and raised in San Diego, CA. At a young age he began taking piano and drum lessons, soon joining the San Diego youth honor bands and ensembles. In high school, he attended the Coronado School of the Arts and began playing around the city a the top jazz venues. After high school, Nick attended UCLA as an Ethnomusicology major with an emphasis in Jazz Studies. During his time there, he continued performing with various groups and has performed in venues such as the Troubadour, Teragram Ballroom, and Hotel Café. He has also worked as an assistant recording engineer at the Melnitz Recording Studio and had interned at Stones Throw Records. He was also awarded Grand Prize winner of the 2016 John Lennon Songwriting Contest. His music has been featured on music blogs such as Consequence of Sound, Indie Shuffle, Earmilk, and has performance credits on the upcoming UK film Bliss (2016).
Fun Fact: He has a cameo in the movie Devil's Carnival starring David Hasselhoff, where he plays drums in Satan's band.
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We need to get the pipeline economics right
By Robyn Allan http://www.robynallan.com/
Achorus is singing the praises of the oil industry's economic benefit, from the boardrooms of Alberta to the Prime Minister's Office.
They advocate the rapid export of Alberta's crude as a panacea for our economic future. They cite big numbers from studies prepared by industry-funded research institutes and consulting firms.
But what if the studies are more marketing tools than reliable research? What if more B.C. jobs are lost with Northern Gateway than without it - jobs that actually exist and sustain our diversified economy? What if a stand against the pipeline actually means a healthier, more sustainable economic future for B.C.?
After extensive analysis of the Northern Gateway economic-benefit case prepared by Enbridge, it is clear the study is bogus. It suffers from erroneous assumptions, calculation errors and inappropriate use of an input/output model. The study assumes the Canadian dollar depreciates to 85 cents US by 2016, and stays there for 30 years.
Enbridge's economic case is not only unreliable, but unusable. The benefits don't exist - not for B.C. and not for most of Canada. Northern Gateway will benefit a handful of large oil companies, including Sinopec, China National Offshore Oil Company and PetroChina, all owned by the Communist Party of China.
Northern Gateway has been presented as a way for oil producers to get higher prices in Asia. What we aren't told is these price increases apply to every barrel sold in Canada, and these price increases are passed onto Canadians.
When I filed my report with the National Energy Board, Enbridge confirmed the intent of their pipeline - higher oil prices in Canada with Northern Gateway than without it, on every barrel, every year for 30 years.
Canada is a net exporter of oil, so pipeline proponents claim higher prices outweigh the cost to the rest of us. What is not widely known - and excluded from the Enbridge analysis - is Canada is a major importer of crude oil.
Quebec and the Atlantic provinces are almost completely dependent on foreign crude oil imports from volatile and uncertain markets such as the Middle East, the same markets China is trying to protect itself from by importing our crude. Be careful of spin masquerading as substance. When Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Northern Gateway is in the national interest, it may not be Canada's.
As long as Canada depends on foreign markets for almost half of its crude-oil needs, Canadian economic security and stability is threatened. Exporting raw crude also means loss of value-added potential in upgrading and refining, and the jobs that go with it.
Harper promised he would not let this happen when running for re-election in 2008. A Times Colonist editorial on May 4, 2012, suggested the "construction of the pipeline will create 60,000 jobs over five years, most of them in our province."
Not really. Those "jobs" are person-years of employment and the analysis was conducted on expenditures made from 2009-2017. Enbridge allocates 57 per cent to B.C.
Person-years of employment are erroneously interchanged with jobs, but they are not jobs. They represent the full-time equivalent of one year of employment. If we want to discuss jobs, divide by 9 years.
Total on-site B.C. construction employment according to Enbridge is 455 jobs. But recent statements made by Enbridge CEO Pat Daniel suggest even those jobs may not benefit B.C. workers.
China's state-owned PetroChina - which owns oil-producing rights in Alberta, a fleet of tankers, refineries in China and builds many of China's pipelines - has expressed an interest in bidding on the construction contract for Northern Gateway.
With millions of workers and lower labour rates, it's likely PetroChina could deliver a competitive bid, all the more easily facilitated by the Harper government's recently introduced Temporary Foreign Worker Policy.
Northern Gateway means almost an oil tanker a day transiting Douglas Channel. This traffic crowds out local economic activity. As "super natural" British Columbia becomes a super-oil-tanker terminal for Alberta, we put at risk B.C. jobs in tourism, fishing and related activities, as well as First Nations' rights and way of life, all for no measurable economic benefit.
This is even before we talk about oil-spill risk. Why would we even contemplate this project going through?
Robyn Allan has had a lengthy professional career in senior executive positions in the public and private sector, with an emphasis on insurance, finance and real estate.
Keep the oilsands' wealth at home
Direct costs to consumers are often ignored in expansion talk


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This Week's Famitsu Reviews
L.A. Noire rated almost perfect.
The top rated game in Weekly Famitsu this week is Rockstar's L.A. Noire. The magazine's four person review crew scored the game 10, 10, 10 and 9, making it a near perfect score.
Famitsu's editors are not alone in their praise. Sister publication Famitsu Xbox 360 gave the game two 10s and two 9s in its latest issue.
Other reviews this week, as summed up at Sokuho @ Hokanko include:
Knights Contract (Namco Bandai, PS360)
Score: 7, 7, 8, 6. Clear time 10 hours, full play through 15 hours. Complaints include the poor camera which makes combat difficult, the rough transitions between battle and event scenes, and the unreasonably tough quick timer events during boss fights.
Earth Defense Force Insect Armageddon (D3, PS360)
Score: 7, 7, 7, 7. Clear time 8 hours, full play through 30 hours plus. The game retains the series' enjoyment of blasting away at masses of enemies. Other praise included strong ally AI which makes play easy, and large variety of customization. Complaints included repetitiveness. The game has the same type of stage over and over.
Infamous 2 (Sony, PS3)
Score: 9, 9, 9, 8. Clear time 10 hours, full play through 30 hours plus.
Angel Love Online (Q Entertainment, PS3)
Score: 6, 6, 6, 5. Play during each log in can range from a few minutes to many hours. This is just a package version of a free-to-download game. You can download it yourself (once PSN comes back up...).
Angel Senki (Q Entertainment, PS3)
Score: 6, 6, 6, 5. Play during each log in can range from a few minutes to many hours. Same story as Angel Love Online.
Wii Remote Plus Variety Pack (Nintendo, Wii)
Score 8, 7, 7, 7. Play time depends on play style. The various mini games are simple but addictive. It may seem that having just 12 mini games is lacking, but for the price it's a value. Also, the mini games are original and unique.
Doctor Lautrec (Konami, 3DS)
Score 8, 8, 8, 8. Clear time 20 hours, full play through 30 hours plus. The game has good balance with puzzles, exploration and battle. With its action and battle elements, the game has a uniqueness over other puzzle solving type games. Complaints included little things like difficulties when retrying a dungeon.
Class of Heroes 3D (Acquire, 3DS)
Score 7, 8, 7, 7. Clear time 30 hours, full play through 70 hours plus. The basics of the series are carried over, but the game has been made overall more player friendly, allowing even beginners to enjoy themselves. Other praise included the higher tempo battles due to the inclusion of simple commands and the abundant character raising variation due to the ability to select sub subjects from the start. Complaints included various control issues and the repeated use of maps.
Haruhi Suzumiya Mahjong (Kadokawa, PSP)
Score 6, 6, 5, 6. Clear time 12 to 15 hours, full play through 40 hours plus. I don't write about mahjong games, even if they have Haruhi.


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Underwear for kimonos is called "Nagajuban" in Japanese. It looks really fancy to show a little bit of its collar from beneath the collar of the kimono.
In addition, it prevents your yukata kimono or Japanese kimono from getting wet with sweat.
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The whole notion that bad things come in threes is about to get thrown out the window. Why? Because here's the fourth celebrity divorce couple of the week: Nip/Tuck star Dylan Walsh and wife of six years, actress Joanna Going.
I may not be an avid watcher of Nip/Tuck, but it doesn't take much for me to see how incredibly attractive the TV series star is at 47 years old.
According to TMZ, Walsh filed on December 10, citing irreconcilable differences. This isn't his first bout in the divorce ring -- Walsh was previously married and had two children with Mellora Walters.
Walsh is asking for joint legal and physical custody of his daughter, Stella Haven. And don't worry -- he will be paying Going spousal support, according to divorce documents.
This isn't the first time we've seen a male celeb make a huge effort to keep connected with his kiddos.
Britney Spears and Kevin Federline: Who can forget the intensity over drug and alcohol accusations in this custody battle? Federline came out on top, and Britney left with a court order requiring parental counseling and random drug testing.
David Hasselhoff and Pamela Bach: Hasselhoff, whose recent reality TV series co-starring his daughters Taylor-Ann and Hayley was cancelled after just two episodes, surprised the masses when he was awarded custody of his two girls in 2007.
Michael Jackson and Debbie Rowe: Oh Prince Michael and Paris, what lucky kids. It's all fun and games until your dad is accused of child molestation. The charges were acquitted in 2005, and Jackson earned legal and physical custody of his two kids in exchange for a $750,000 price tag of alimony payments to the ex.
Jesse James and Sandra Bullock: Whose heart didn't break after hearing about the Jesse James scandal last year? James was awarded physical custody of their 8-year-old daughter last July after a two-month custody hearing.
Are you surprised to hear that Dylan Walsh and Joanna Going are getting divorced?
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Phila brings us this amazing collection of illustrations from old Japan, via the wonderful BibliOdyssey:
There's lots more at the BibliOdyssey link, and they're all wonderful. A number of commenters there said the illustrations reminded them of Gahan Wilson; the illustration above reminded me of Tove Jansson. For those of you unfamiliar with her work, she wrote and illustrated a series of children's books featuring the Moomin characters, who are largely unknown here in the States but are hugely popular in Europe and Japan. She also wrote and illustrated a comic strip aimed at adults featuring the same characters, which Drawn & Quarterly is collecting into beautiful hardcover editions:
There's a pdf preview available at Drawn & Quarterly. Check it out - it's fantastic stuff.


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How does conscience and responsibility demonstrate victors character development?
One of the ways in which the text explores the creation event is by posing the question of what responsibility, if any, the creator bears to the created. Frankenstein shuns his monster almost immediately after creating him. The monster attributes blame to Frankenstein for this, and puts the onus on Frankenstein to right his wrongs by creating a mate for the monster. When Frankenstein refuses, the monster punishes him; Frankenstein ultimately comes to believe that it is his duty to kill the monster. The two feel bound to each other by the creation event, and it is this bond that, by the account of Frankenstein and the monster, establishes culpability on the part of the creator for the outcome of the created.


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Simply put, the best and easiest time to quit smoking is before you get pregnant. This is because the medications we recommend to help you quit are easier to use without fear of side effects before pregnancy.
After you're pregnant, most of the medications designed to help you quit smoking are still safer than continuing to smoke, but then you're trading risks and benefits around the question: Which is worse for me and my baby—smoking or the medications to help me quit smoking? No butts about it, research shows it's still a lot safer for you and your baby to use the medications to help you quit in pregnancy.
Protect Your Baby
If you fear you've already done something damaging to your baby, rest assured that human beings are a resilient lot; otherwise we'd have died out millennia ago. Let's face it: Since 50% of pregnancies are unplanned, plenty of women inadvertently expose their babies to toxins like alcohol and tobacco. The key is simply stop, make a U-turn, and reverse damaging behavior as soon as possible. Even the damage caused by smoking can be offset if you quit in the early part of your pregnancy.
Put Out the Fire
Whether from us or from your pregnancy care provider, you're going to get this information at some point, so now's as good a time as any. Please don't sentence your child to 40 weeks inside a smoky bar.
Tobacco turns on genes that are later linked to the development and growth of cancers, as well as inflammation in arteries, which leads to heart attacks, strokes, wrinkles, and impotence. Smoking causes inflammation in uterine arteries, limiting blood flow and making it harder for oxygen and those much-needed nutrients to travel from mom to baby.
One of the reasons we care so much about a mother's health during pregnancy is that your health affects how the placenta works, including how much surface area will be available to exchange nutrients between you and baby. For example, smoking or having high blood pressure that's not properly managed can cause your placenta to calcify, limiting the area available for oxygen and nutrients to flow between mom and baby.
That's the bad news. Here's the
good news: When you stop smoking:
Baby gets more oxygen every day, even on day 1
Baby is more likely to go to term, making him or her more likely to be healthy
Baby is more likely to graduate high school without having a disability or needing medications for asthma
As you can guess, quitting increases the amount of nutrients your baby receives, promoting his or her growth and development and helping baby avoid issues that can have a major impact on baby's health later in life.
You don't have to quit alone—there's help, including our breathe-free, addiction-busting program. Here's how to use it:
Get everyone else to quit and be a buddy to quitters: Having a spouse who doesn't smoke or who quits smoking is an advantage. Make your home smoke-free; get rid of all cigarettes in the house and car to increase your chances of quitting. Use your spouse or partner or even a friend as a buddy. Report on your progress and get additional help as needed.
Get help: If you're not pregnant but want to be, quit with the program starting at #1. If you're pregnant, and are smoking less than 7 cigarettes a day, we favor 1 attempt at quitting cold turkey, trying #1. Everyone else—including pregnant women who smoke more than 7 cigarettes a day—start with #1.
Have a smoking cessation plan—this is our plan, but please discuss this with your doc before you or anyone you know starts this plan.
On our plan we favor using nicotine patches and the drug bupropion. The patch is safer than smoking and gives a more consistent level of nicotine with no hydrocarbons. Bupropion helps you quit without cravings and has been used safely, even at much higher doses, as withdrawal from cigarettes without bupropion and nicotine causes side effects on your unborn child.
Although nicotine is a natural neurotransmitter you have in your nervous system, at the higher doses in cigarettes and in patches, it's a toxin. Let's be specific—using nicotine replacement products during pregnancy or breastfeeding is considered relatively safe; it's not entirely risk-free.
You already expose your unborn or nursing child to nicotine if you smoke in pregnancy or while breastfeeding. Breastfeeding is recommended even if you smoke or use nicotine replacement products. Babies of smokers are more prone to illnesses, but breastfeeding helps prevent these infections. Breastfeeding also reduces the risk of other illnesses and death for baby.
There is no evidence that using nicotine replacement products in pregnancy or breastfeeding results in higher blood levels of nicotine than smoking. The argument for using nicotine replacement in pregnancy, despite potential risks, is that if it increases the chances of pregnant women quitting smoking, then withholding it would be harmful.
Compared with a placebo, use of a nicotine replacement product to try to quit smoking during pregnancy improves the birth weight of the babies and may improve birth outcomes by decreasing the risks of low-birth-weight and preterm birth. Overall, nicotine replacement products are considered to be safer than continuing to smoke as cigarette smoke contains other chemicals known to be toxic to your unborn child.
Cigarettes Harm Your Baby for Life If you're pregnant and smoke, it's time for both you and your developing baby to quit the habit
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We hope that you are enjoying this new feature of our Larsen Global blog. We will continue to compile some of the things we have been reading throughout the week in hopes that you will find them useful. They will mostly, but not always, be USANA-related items covering health, nutrition and business.
We hope everyone here in the U.S. had a great Thanksgiving last week. This USANA post on Taking Time and Giving Thanks was a nice reminder.
After a nice Thanksgiving feast, my thoughts turned to healthy eating. This thoughtful video from Dr. Weil on the future of organic foods goes into some of the bureaucracy of organics and private gain vs. public good.
Do you know what is in your supplements? It's always nice to see USANA's guarantee of potency and purity verified by independent testing.
Along those lines, this is a great interview with Dr. Brian Dixon, USANA's director of new product development on why USANA chooses science over speed in their product development.
If you have daughters or granddaughters, this is a beautiful article about 10 things a mother wanted her daughter to know about working out.
The greatest networkers tell the best stories. Here's a list of 10 honest and helpful public speaking tips, and a piece from Seth Godin about two errors that lead to fear in public speaking.
Enjoy this gorgeous time-lapse video and message of peace from the International Space Station.
Have a great weekend.


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I'm trying to gather contacts about doing some diving in Benin. Same sort of deal as when I was in Tanzania last year, operations will give me a few days break in town.
There doesn't seem to be a lot of info. An article in Africandiver.Com from 2009 refers to a commercial diving operation in Cotonou harbour, which doesn't surprise me in the slightest. I'm following that up.
Another blog posts about diving with the same people in 2012 ... actually at about the same time that I was at ECO2 in Tanzania. And I'm following that up too.
Going from a visitor every 3 years, to one a year may not be exactly a thriving business opportunity, but it's also several hundreds of percent growth.
UPDATE : I eventually contacted the company, but he was very busy with regular diving work in Cotonou harbour, with no time or interest in providing fills or gear for amateur visitors.