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I call BS
I know most Chef's would have you believe everything they do comes from on high like some stone tablet from Mount Sinai. I ain't true. Inspiration can come from any direction. For me it's part my Mom and Dad, part friends, part just stuff that I see or hear about or experience. It'll just hit me. "Hey you know what would be even COOLER?" Add this, subtract that, change this, yippity-yehaa, something new.
I've had several postings that came from an idea through an e-mail or conversation, someone wanted to share a family recipe or a favorite meal. Reneene's Chulupa-Beef, Mariam's Assyrian chicken, Mom's Rum-Balls...etc.
It's not that there was anything wrong with the original, it's just more fun for me to play around with an idea than to reproduce it exactly, write about it and take the credit. That would be stealing.
Also, my Dad is at it again with the super-huge produce. Remember Arthur and Philip (the giant zucchini) from a year ago? He grows everything in horse manure and sand. Would ya look at the size of that patapan squash? Nobody told him he's supposed to harvest it small. So anyways.....
About a year ago my WHS friend Lisa K. sent me this nifty little recipe using one of my favorite spices, Cumin. Here it is right from her email.
Its a no brainer...I like to do Cornish game hens...the juice of 4 or 5 lemons...lots of butter to make the sauce brown and thicken...salt ...pepper ...and tons of cumin...I sprinkle enough to make the chx almost green...I do the cumin last so it doesn't get "washed" off the meat...I bast it here and there and the butter makes it golden brown...so if some cumin comes off during basting it's all in the sauce...the sauce just needs to reduce in the oven and its magic! Baste often...oh yeah ...I bake it at about 375 to get the liquids reduced in the oven...I also do put the pan low in the oven so sauce will reduce faster...I do this with chx breasts too...they just don't stay in the oven as long...so I really work the sauce lower in the oven...love it...totally good and totally good for you healthwise...I hope you enjoy!...let me know how you like it ..
I got more recipes if you are ever blocked...loll
|Just like Lisa's
Is there something wrong here? Did I think it was flawed? NO WAY. It's great just the way it is. Lord knows I love Cumin but when you send me a recipe it's like giving me a new toy, I gotta monkey with it.
CHEF NICK'S (and Lisa's) CUMIN LEMON CHICKEN.
One whole chicken, divided.
4 cloves garlic, shmushed
Fresh Mint
1/3 cup of ground Cumin*
1 TB Chili Powder
2 Lemons. I'll show you what to do later.
6 oz Greek Yogurt, unflavored please, duh
Olive Oil
Kosher Salt and crushed Black Pepper
*Some words about using ground spices: When using stuff like Cumin or Chili Powder in a dish like this it's a good idea to toast them up a little. Just heat up a small pan and toss around for a bit. This activates the oils in the spices and really brings out the flavor. In this case we all know what Cumin smells like ok? Should I say it? It's a musky spice and so is my armpit, 'nuff said.
|toasting up both the cumin and chili powder
As soon as it starts to toast up, toss it around in the pan and remove from heat, dump into a bowl.
Lay a couple pieces at a time on top of each other and carefully turn them into very small shreds.
Turn them across and carefully render them into small tiny squares.
|That's my hand, it's how ya know I'm keepin' it real
You'll end up with a pile of this stuff.
BUT NICK I BOUGHT THIS EXPENSIVE MICRO-PLANE THINGY, CAN'T I USE THAT?? Sure, Micro-planes have their place, that place is in the bakery where you don't want the texture to interfere with the final product. In this dish we don't want soft little strings of peel, we want all that lemony stuff.
Slice the lemons in half and squeeze out the juice through your fingers to remove the seeds into the same bowl. I'd put up a picture but I can't squeeze lemons, remove seeds and take a picture at the same time.
Don't throw those exhausted lemons halves away, if you pack them with salt as they dry out they make little but mighty room de-oderizers.
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Ok so in the bowl you should have the spices, lemon peel and lemon juice. Add the Greek Yogurt, smushed Garlic Cloves, chopped fresh Mint, big pinch of Black Pepper, smaller pinch of Kosher Salt and a solid amount of olive oil. Whisk all that together, it looks like this.
Dump that over your divided Chicken pieces, nice even coat on all sides please and let sit in the 'fridge for 'bout 3 episodes of True Blood. Bilith is the funniest word I heard this whole week.
Let's turn our attention to the Patapan Squash. I just sliced right across
tossed them in, Salt, Pepper, Garlic and Olive Oil. In that order.
laid the slices across the grill.
turned 'em once, removed from heat, added some chopped fresh Basil -done.
Here's the science. Yogurt (Greek style, that crap from anyone else is dead) is just full of wittle tiny enzymes that help extract all the yuck from our bird. Many cultures across the world use different substances to accomplish the same thing.In the U.S. we brine (unless you're a douche) In the U.S. South they use butter-milk. In Latin-America they use citrus juice and vinegar. In Europe, wine. In Asia they turn to fermented Soy. Whatever you use, the process is the same. Remove the blood and stuff, save the nummy. No idea what I'm talking about?
Heat up the grill, grab the tongs. 400-425 F please. Bill S. Kevin P. Are you paying attention? Of course you are.
Lay your Chicken pieces skin side down.
|if you grab them and they feel stuck, let them go on heat until they release
When they give, flip them over.
|fire good
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Make chocolate-hazelnut icebox cake by creaming together 1 cup of heavy cream, 3/4 cup of mascarpone, 1/3 cup of confectioners' sugar and 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract until stiff peaks form. In a separate bowl, whip 3/4 cup of heavy cream, 3/4 cup of mascarpone and 2/3 cup of chocolate-hazelnut spread into stiff peaks. To assemble the cake, spread a layer of chocolate graham crackers on the bottom of a springform pan, add half the vanilla cream mixture, add more chocolate graham crackers, and top with half of the chocolate-hazelnut mixture. Repeat the layers, ending with the chocolate mixture on top. Chill the cake for six hours before serving.
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Skip to comments.Christians gather in Kan. to discuss homosexuality
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SODOMY is the sin, you Biblically illiterate tool. 'Orientation' is of no concern to God. It's your action that is the abomination.
I totally agree with your point. Homosexuality is no worse than adultery or the other sins mentioned alongside. The reason it often gets a little more attention is that adulterers don't have 'pride' parades, or try to gain access to children to teach them that adultery is safe and fun.
That's because heterosexual immorality, particularly premarital, is so accepted in our society there's no need to teach that it's safe and fun. It's just the consensus of society.
Homosexuality is called "abomination" in Leviticus (from Hebrew "to'ebah", which means something utterly disgusting). Not all sins are given that label, although all sin carries the death penalty (Romans 6:23); other sins called "to'ebah" include idolatry.
No, it is not so accepted. Don't fall for the liberal spin. Only liberal churches "accept" it.
But the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinful against the Lord(Sinning before the Lord continually) Gen.13:13.
I read the Bible and believe that the "iniquity of Sodom" as given in Ezekiel 16:—suggests a condition of the heart that became a behavior.Remember when King David stayed behind —that was not a sin -but the right of the King.When he looked upon Bathsheba as she was bathing on the rooftop nearby.Neither she nor the King could be said to have sinned,except one must ask if she knew the King had stayed behind, and if bathing on the roof was common for her -or others. And one must ask if King David stayed behind because he had heard she might be bathing on the roof. If it were all chance and nothing proceeded from it I could not consider such sin.But it appears King David chose to dwell on that pornographic image.He lusted after her. He imagined what might be.He invited her in ,as was a Kings right. and the condition of their heart led to unlawful behavior even murder. All this to say I believe the Bible does suggest an
orientation is still sin. For orientation is a way of looking at a given object. and the Believer is to keep his eyes upon God.
Who wants to discuss the disgusting? It is wrong, end of discussion.
This guy isn't reading the same Bible, Of course it's condemned, but so is ANY other sin.
Everyone is lost, and needs the savior..
Quite true.
However, there are quite a number of things called "abomination" in the OT. I had one for lunch on my burger. Bacon, yum.
"These six things doth the Lord hate, yea, seven things are an abomination to him: haughty eyes; a lying tongue; hands that shed innocent blood; a heart that deviseth wicked imaginations; feet that be swift in running to mischief; a false witness that uttereth lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren."
IOW, homosexuality is hardly unique in its being referred to as abomination. So are many other sins. And quite a remarkable number of things that few today consider sins at all.
Don't buy that.
Sexually active homosexuals would not be welcome at many conservative churches.
Sexually active unmarried heterosexuals I think few would bat an eye. In my lifetime the term "dating" has changed from primarily meaning socializing and courtship to random one-night stands.
How many churches today make any attempt to discipline members who divorce, regardless of the cause? Even though Christ spoke against divorce, but said nothing that has been recorded about homosexuality.
BTW, I'm not in favor of "gay rights." I just think the Bible classifies homosexuality as one of many sexual sins, in which they are roughly equal in sinfulness except for special characteristics.
Of these, the unnatural nature of homosexuality and incest makes them worse than "normal" fornication. The abusive nature of pedophilia makes it worse. And the betrayal aspect of adultery makes it worse.
But all sexual sins fall under the general term "porneia" or fornication.
The reality is that claiming being homosexual has nothing to do with what someone IS, and has everything to do with what someone DOES!....the âACTSâ follow the mind and heart. It remains a choice to refrain/resist/flee from sinful choices or yield. That includes the twisted sexual appetites of homosexuals who see themselves as exceptions....when in fact they are simply satisfying their twisted sinful appetites.
The word "porneia" is derived from "pornos", the Greek word for a male prostitute, just for the record.
And any church that welcomes a heterosexual fornicator is not conservative, bottom line.
Porneia is not derived from pornos, which is merely the masculine form of the feminine noun for prostitute, porneia. The feminine form is much more commonly used, for obvious reasons, since in the ancient, as well as modern world, female prostitutes greatly outnumbered male ones.
I am not a Greek scholar, but I think it highly unlikely that the modern word fornication derives ultimately from pornos rather than porneia, the much more common noun form.
The word "prostitute" (female) is "porne". "Porneia" refers to all such activities engaged in by both "professions", and adultery (forbidden in the Ten Commandments) is very much included.
I seriously doubt that throughout the Roman and Greek Empires there was a shortage of male prostitutes, or even a disproportionate ratio of female to male. Consider their culture, especially the Greek one (heavily into pederasty).
It should be pointed out that adultery in the OT is defined as it is in the Koran. That is, any sex outside marriage engaged in by the wife, or sex by any man with a married woman.
Sex outside marriage by a married man not included.
Completely false. The instances of stories in the Bible of male adultery are examples of what not to do and are not examples of righteousness. And male adulterers are to be put to death, BTW.
The Koran actually says nothing about stoning; that's from the Hadith.
But the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinful against the Lord(Sinning before the Lord continually) Gen.13:13.
Ahh, you're right!
We have multiple examples in the OT of a woman executed or almost executed for the crime of adultery. Her lover was also liable to execution.
Would you care to provide an example of a man considered guilty of adultery not because he had sex with a woman married to someone else, but because he had sex with a woman other than his wife?
In a polygamous society male adultery in this sense has no meaning. Even a man convicted of raping a virgin was only sentenced to pay a fine to her father and be married to the rapee without possibility of divorce. No mention of his execution if he happened to already be married. It was just not relevant.
You are correct that male adulterers are to be put to death, as they are today in Saudi. But the crime is defined as sex with a married woman. Not sex by a married man with someone other than his wife.
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|The Day After
Actors: Jason Robards, JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg, John Cullum, John Lithgow
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Genres: Action & Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Television, Mystery & Suspense
UR 2004 2hr 7min
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Chad B. (abrnt1) from CABERY, IL
Reviewed on 12/3/2011...
I remember seeing this when it first aired and I had nightmares for quite awhile. Very effective film tah serves as a warning about the dangers of nuclear war. What amazes me is that some idiots believe that there can be such a thing as a winner in a nuclear confrontation. If nuclear weapons were to ever be used everyone loses.
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Donna D. from AMSTERDAM, NY
Reviewed on 11/24/2010...
Great movie fast paced and keeps you on the edge of your seat
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Joseph S. (hamsterdad)
Reviewed on 12/11/2009...
When Isaw this movie on swapadvd, I got goosebumps and shivered. I remember when I was a kid practicing bomb safety drills in school classrooms. Hiding under our desks to protect us from the cold war threat of nuclear war. Then this movie came out and removed all hope of a 2 foot by two and a half foot piece of pressboard and formica saving my life. The movie was breath taking and absolutely terrifying. For the time it was filmed, the effects were chilling and realistic, and the topic was on everybodies brains almost daily. The movie depicted a bleak and almost hopeless fututre of the earth as a wasteland due to the stupidity of man. The movie had such a immediate social impact the network that aired it actually had counselors waiting on the phone for people to call and process what they had just witnessed. If you are like me, a cold war kid who can still pull up the old fear the settle into my bones every time the teacher would say "That's the in coming threat siren, please assume your safety positions" then this movie will take you to an interestingly historical place. I feel the the movie is still very relevant in today's climate of if I can't see it, it can't harm me. When you watch the movie, watch it for the message, not the effects, or car chases.
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James V. from BISMARCK, ND
Reviewed on 10/14/2009...
This was fairly well done for its day. I'd love to see a remake with newer science, better special effects, and less time spent on character development before the bombs drop. How would we survive without computers? If anything, it would have been easier to survive in a post-apocalyptic world back in the 80s than it would be today. Thought provoking movie and the hairdos were great!
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Watching the ICBMs take off and head for the Soviet Union...
Lawrance M. Bernabo | The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota | 10/14/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)
"The political controversy over "The Day After" when it was first broadcast in 1983 had to do with the idea that a television movie about a nuclear war was an indictment of the policies of the Reagan Administration. Of course "The Day After" was not an attack on a particular president, but rather it represented the liberal nightmare of the worst of all possible futures, with a full out nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union. Four years later the ultimate conservative nightmare was aired with the mini-series "Amerika," in which the United States has been taken over by the Communists. Both were predicated on questionable assumptions, the former on an escalation of a conflict over Berlin and the later on the effects of an electro-magnetic pulse, but those were both simply excuses to tell the story that wanted to be told.
Ultimately "The Day After" is not so much a story as it is a depiction of what a nuclear war would be like that comes under the heading of "seeing is believing." Prior to the airing of this television film Hollywood showed what it was like to live in the world after a nuclear war in films from "On the Beach" to "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome," suggested that a nuclear war would be so horrible that a president would drop nuclear bombs on New York City rather than go to war in "Fail Safe," and ended the Cold War satire of "Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" with a series of atom bomb's exploding set to the popular song "We'll Meet Again." But what they did not show was what that nuclear war would be like. Even the "Star Wars" universe assumed there would be a nuclear war some day, as did I, but depicting the horrors of such a war was never really done until "The Day After."
However, exploding mushroom clouds and the victims of radiation poison were not what was most memorable about "The Day After." The icon image from the film became the shots of the missiles taking off, with the people of Lawrence, Kansas looking up into the sky at the ICBMs headed towards the Soviet Union knowing that their missiles were heading for us. Suddenly it became clear that the true moment of horror would be when you saw those missiles because chances were you would never see the mushroom cloud that took your life. In fact, given the choice between being incinerated and surviving long enough to watch your loved ones suffer horribly, I think most people would hope for the quick death. This film turned those last few minutes of life from the old joke about how you need to bend over, put your head between your knees and kiss you ass goodbye into an enduring image of outright terror.
The worst moments of this film are the painful period between the missiles taking off and the nukes exploding. One of the silos is right next to the Dahlberg farm, and the emotion nadir of the film is Denise Dahlberg (Lori Lethin) comes down the stairs holding the wedding dress she will never get to wear and her father tells her to get into the storm cellar. Then Jim Dahlberg (John Cullum) has to go upstairs and drag his wife Eve (Bibi Besch) screaming and crying away from the bed she is making in a desperate attempt to pretend that the world is not coming to an end.
Jason Robards is Dr. Russell Oakes, who along with Nurse Nancy Bauer (JoBeth Williams) has to deal with the casualties following the detonations at a besieged hospital, and Stephen Klein (Steve Guttenberg) is the guy who takes refuge with the Dahlbergs. Joe Huxley (John Lithgow) is the college professor who gets to supply most of the relatively small amount of exposition the story requires: a student thinks they are safe because Kansas is in the middle of nowhere, but the professor is the one who points out "There's no 'nowhere' anymore" since there is an Air Force base and 150 Minutemen Missile silos spread halfway down Missouri, all constituting "an awful lot of bullseyes." When the missiles take off he is the one who knows it takes thirty minutes to reach their target, a fact that applies to the incoming missiles as well.
I remember the night of November 11, 1983 as I watched "The Day After" how ABC did not run any commercials after the nukes went off and that right afterwards the network had a special news program in which Dr. Carl Sagan introduced us to the idea of a "nuclear winter" and the fact that the reality of a nuclear exchange would be much worse than we had seen. To say that this was a sobering idea to give an audience that was already depressed by what they had seen, would be an understatement. Sagan, of course, was opposed to the use of nuclear weapons and condemned the arms race. Speaking on the other side, which is to say in favor of the concept of nuclear deterrence, was William F. Buckley, Jr., and what we got to see in that debate (which is still available on video) was that both were right.
It is rather amazing, given the history of humanity, that it has been almost sixty years since nuclear weapons have been used in war. Ironically, we now live in a world where we still believe that those weapons are going to be used, although now we assume it will be the work of terrorists (or an attempt to stop terrorists) and not a war between East and West. I would not be surprised if right now Hollywood is kicking around ideas of what it would be like the day after that sort of nuclear detonation, going beyond what we saw in "The Sum of All Fears." Hopefully it would be as successful at forestalling our worst nightmares as "The Day After" has been these many years."
What makes it even more scary is that it could STILL happen
Kevin Wolf | Lawrenceville, Georgia United States | 02/22/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I first saw this movie a few months ago on television, and even with all the commercials, I stay tuned for all 3 hours of it. I have never been more frightened for this world in my entire life, and that is a fact. "The Day After" deals with a nuclear war, and the main characters are everyday folk, like us, in Middle America. The movie was filmed in the early 1980's, when the Cold War was at it's peak, and every film studio came out with cheap action films about post-nuclear war heros and giant radioactive insects. But this telefilm, guided by the talented Nicholas Meyer(Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), rose to new heights and presented us with a vision of a world that has lost all sense of reason and hope, with 2 powerful nations taking their ignorance out on the billions who are innocent, but still pay for the actions brought on by the ignorant. Jason Robards plays a doctor and Steve Guttenburg(his best performance by far) as a man traveling home are just two of the many everyday people bound together by horrible circumstances. Two of the most powerful scenes that brought tears to my eyes is where a battered priest is reading from his Bible from a bombed out church, with devastation all around him, and the people in attendance are scarred, bloody, and dying. And as the priest trys to raise hopes about God's plan, and about keeping faith, a little girl dies in her sleep, apparently from radiation sickness.And the family, without saying anything, gets up from their pew, and walks away, while the priest, in desperation, increases his voice, having a hard time himself believing in a God that would let this happen.Another heart-wrenching scene is when a group of people are in a building hiding from the radiation, when they pick up a message from the President of the United States, telling Americans that a cease fire had been called, and that the US did not surrender, won't surrender, and he felt sympathy for the losses inflicted, but the great nation of America still lives, and he too had suffered personal losses. And as he said this the camera pans around the room, and instead of patriotic fervor from the survivors, you get the more realistic blank faces, from people who had just seen the world as they knew it destroyed, family, friends dead. This scene shows how futile and pointless war of any kind is. What was the most powerful is that even though we can inflict so much pain on each other, as presented very clearly and graphically in this film, is that there are those who will die to save others in the aftermath, such as in the hospital where the doctors died themselves, worked to death comforting the dying. I think that this film will touch everyone's soul, and hopefully someone in power will take heed of this movie. The threat of nuclear holocaust is still with us, and it would not take much for this film to become reality. Please buy this, rent this, or catch it the next time it is on television. We should not all have to suffer just because a few egomaniacs can't shake hands. This is just one of the many lessons this film teaches, and hopefully it will be a lesson learned, for all of our sakes."
Eddie Landsberg | Tokyo, Japan | 10/15/2005
(4 out of 5 stars)
"When this made-for-TV movie came out, I remember being scared out of my pants for days literally... The fact that this was at the height of the Cold War era, and many people believed that Ronald Reagan was... well crazy enough and so were the Soviets made this broadcast so real. Oddly enough though, the British managed to outdo it with THREADS, which made me about twice as physically ill when it aired on TV.
The Broadcast was scary, and I remember after a panel of experts appearing on a special Nightline and a special call in to discuss issues. - - Could it happen ? Could anyone survive ? Would the living envy the dead ? - - and even more horrifyingly the fact that one of the more controversial elements of the broadcast was the arguement that the broadcast presented an OPTOMISTIC view of what it would be like to survive a nuclear holocaust.
Though just a made for TV movie (in an era when made-for-TV movies were usually corny), I have found this broadcast to be the most disturbing movie I've ever scene because at the time it was such a real possibility. (Even now it is... but then you could really sense that the U.S. was at a "let's see who blinks first" stand off with the Soviet Union.)
In conclusion, THE DAY AFTER actually wasn't the first broadcast of its type... about 40 years earlier there was actually a radio drama centered around the aftermath of a Nuclear War called THE FIFTH HORSEMAN... check it out ! ! !"


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"The state is in a recession with no end in sight on the pattern of tax changes affecting employers," Waguespack said.
As the state's chamber of commerce and manufacturers association, the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry is the largest business advocacy group in the state, representing more than 2,500 business members of every size and in every sector and region.
According to a LABI summary report about the impact of new laws on employers passed in the second special session of the Louisiana Legislature, which adjourned on June 24 after a record-breaking 19 weeks in 2016, the focus again was on raising taxes.
In the most recent fiscal session, the state Legislature passed roughly a dozen new tax bills that primarily targeted business income taxes and related credits, totaling more than $90 million annually for state programs and services, said Waguespack.
"The newest changes to the tax code come on the heels of more than $1 billion raised on employers for (financial year) 2017 in the prior two fiscal sessions over the past year," he said. "Despite more than $4 billion in new taxes on both individuals and employers that the state is projected to take in over the next five years, state officials consistently declare that still more revenue is needed to fully fund government."
For the Louisiana business community, the report finds combined impact of taxes raised in the 2015 and 2016 legislative sessions are: a $575 million tax increase on employers in fiscal year 2016; a $1.33 billion tax increase in financial year 2017; and a $1.35 billion tax increase on employers in financial year 2018.
"At a time when Louisiana manufacturers are already grappling with ever-expanding federal regulations, funding new health care mandates and fighting excessive litigation, state officials have now enacted three rounds of tax changes that take direct aim at this vital sector of the state's economy," added Waguespack.
The impact of the tax changes number in the hundreds of millions of dollars annually for Louisiana manufacturers who represent one-fifth of the total economic output of the state and employ nearly 150,000 workers with an average salary of $82,150.
"With over 19,000 jobs lost in the past year, state officials should be working overtime to improve conditions for manufacturers to create more high-skilled, high-paying jobs, however, the wants of state government have clearly prevailed over the needs of the Louisiana economy," Waguespack said. "The time for short-term revenue quests with little regard to the real-world impact must end, and getting the long-term solution right is absolutely critical as the Louisiana economy struggles through a recession."
For LABI's overviews on the employer tax burdens, presentations on taxation and finance or to better understand the Louisiana state budget and what can be done to fix it, visit labi.org.


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While a revolution to change the world may seem far reaching; sometimes, all it takes is a spark to set the world ablaze.
We have all been privileged to be part of great educational institutions. However, many sections of the society haven't been so fortunate to receive this quality of education. Children from the poorer sections are forced to study in schools which lack basic amenities. The inadequacy of resources in these schools is a collective let-down of the society and needs to be corrected.
When we first entered the hallowed portals of IIMB, our aspirations were numerous. The glorious piece of document, the SoP for our admission interviews is a testimony to vibrancy of our ambitions. Some of us wanted to be entrepreneurs while some others wanted to do their bit for the society. However, down the line we seem to have lost touch with that yearning to reach out to humanity. Majority of every batch that graduates from the college inevitably ends up in an MNC. Very few of us have taken the courageous path to social sector.
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Project Unnati wishes to fulfil the basic infrastructure necessities of government schools through donations. After a meticulous survey of schools near the campus, we have identified three projects which are in need of a helping hand from the alumni. We have documented the infrastructure requirements of these schools after in depth discussion with teachers and other important stakeholders. Requirements range from ensuring adequate sanitary facilities, drinking water filters and school furniture to setting up a library. We have partnered with Teach For India to benefit from the rich experience they have acquired in this sector since the past ten years and to maximize our reach.
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At least 15 killed by Californian mudslides as rescue workers search for survivors
The death toll from mudslides that struck Southern California has climbed to 15 as rescue crews searched for people trapped, injured or dead in the onslaught that smashed homes and swept away cars.
The torrential rainstorm that set off the disaster ended and was no longer a hindrance as searchers made their way across a landscape strewn with boulders and covered in cement-like mud shoulder-high in some places.
Fifteen people were confirmed dead and two dozen people remained missing, said Amber Anderson, a Santa Barbara County spokeswoman.
"We have no idea where they're at. We think somewhere in the debris field," she said. Damage is spread over 30 square miles.
"Right now our assets are focused on determining if anyone is still alive in any of those structures that have been damaged," Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said.
He said several dozen homes were destroyed or severely damaged, and that there are probably many more in similar condition in areas still inaccessible.
At least 25 people were injured, 50 or more had to be rescued by helicopters. Four of the injured were reported in severely critical condition.
The search was set to expand with the arrival of a major search-and-rescue team from nearby Los Angeles County and help from the Coast Guard and the National Guard.
Most of the deaths occurred in and around Montecito, a wealthy enclave of about 9,000 people north-west of Los Angeles that is home to such celebrities as Oprah Winfrey, Rob Lowe and Ellen DeGeneres.
Winfrey's home survived the mudslides. In an Instagram post on the same day many Democrats were talking about her for president because of her speech at the Golden Globes, she shared photos of the deep mud in her garden and video of rescue helicopters hovering over her house.
She said: "What a day! Praying for our community again in Santa Barbara."
A mud-caked 14-year-old girl was among the dozens rescued on the ground on Tuesday. She was pulled from a collapsed Montecito home where she had been trapped for hours.
"I thought I was dead for a minute there," the dazed girl could be heard saying on video posted by KNBC-TV before she was taken away on a stretcher.
The mud was unleashed in the dead of night by flash flooding in the steep Santa Ynez Mountains, where hillsides were stripped of vegetation last month by the biggest wildfire on record in California, a 440-square-mile blaze that destroyed 1,063 homes and other structures.
Burned-over zones are especially susceptible to destructive mudslides because scorched earth does not absorb water well and the land is easily eroded when there are no shrubs.
Authorities had been bracing for the possibility of catastrophic flooding when heavy rain was forecast for the first time in 10 months. Evacuations were ordered beneath recently burned areas of Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles counties.
But only an estimated 10 to 15% of people in a mandatory evacuation area of Santa Barbara County heeded the warning, authorities said.
US Highway 101, the link connecting Ventura and Santa Barbara, looked like a muddy river and was expected to be closed for two days.
The worst of the rainfall occurred in a 15-minute span starting at 3.30am local time on Tuesday. Montecito got more than a half-inch in five minutes, while Carpinteria received nearly an inch in 15 minutes.
"All hell broke loose," said Peter Hartmann, a dentist who also works as a news photographer for the local website Noozhawk.
"Power lines were down, high-voltage power lines. The large aluminium poles to hold those were snapped in half. Water was flowing out of water mains and sheared-off fire hydrants."
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Have you ever noticed that you put the needs of everyone else ahead of your own and that you sometimes feel lost, angry or resentful? Working as a counselor for women at the YWCA of DuPage, with girls in a residential setting and in multiple private practice settings, I have noticed that this is a trend in how women treat themselves. I work hard to find ways to change this pattern and increase the personal satisfaction of everyone who comes to me.
I work with adults and teens and specialize in women's empowerment, trauma, and divorce support. I am a trained EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapist and also work in traditional talk therapy. In addition to my therapy work I provide talks and workshops on subjects like grief, sex therapy, winter blues and working with teen girls.
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DENVER (AP) — A United Nations drug agency says the legalization of marijuana for recreational use in Colorado and Washington violates international drug treaties. The International Narcotics Control Board is urging the Barack Obama administration to challenge the legalization measures. It made its appeal in an annual drug report released today. Marijuana is illegal under federal law


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Roe - Girls Out West
In her transparent purple panties, Roe washes her slender body down by the river.
Roe has a mild obsession with having sex in public bathrooms as she first got with a girl in the bathrooms of an art-deco office building and says her last sexual encounter was at a gay bookstore when they were holding a special event for an erotic anthology reading. The naughtiest thing she has ever done was taking part in one of the many Australian nude biking events where there are over 260 people riding bicycles completely nude!
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Roe is a beautiful woman. She has a great body – I really like her tush! What a great bush, YUM!


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Boyds Bears is a line of collectible teddy bears made by the Boyds Bears Authority. Boyds Bears come in plush and resin styles and many are now rare and expensive.
The Boyds Bear collection began as an antique shop that was run out of the home of its founders, G.M. and Justina Lowenthal. The company quickly expanded to produce wool teddy bears and decoy ducks and eventually began producing its sought-after Bearstone Collection. Despite looking like toys, these bears are meant as collectibles and should not be played with by children.
Today, the company produces collectibles such as Bailey and Friends, and Boyds Hares and Critters.


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Street Art Takes on NYC Tourists
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For those that have never been to New York, or those that haven't paid a visit to our fair city since the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11/01, people from all over the world visit the gaping hole on a daily basis to take photos and while it's pretty disrespectful and tasteless, it's become a fact of life. Street artists have chimed in with their thoughts on this matter as you can see in the above and below images.


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UK Country superstars The Shires will tour the UK in spring 2017, performing at venues across the UK culminating in a performance at the prestigious London Palladium on 2 May 2017.
The Shires stated: "We are so happy to be hitting the road again in 2017 – we love playing in the UK, the audience for UK country is growing and growing and every tour and show we do, we see more and more new faces! It's been such an amazing year but we can't wait to get started on the next, bring on 2017!"
The Shires released their brand new album 'My Universe' in September, storming the charts, landing at No.3 and becoming the fastest-selling UK Country album of all time. They also joined the ranks of prominent US Big Machine Label Group Country artists Tim McGraw, Florida Georgia Line and Thomas Rhett, by signing an exclusive recording deal with the leading US Country music record label.


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Steve Nash had 23 points, 13 assists and seven rebounds, Channing Frye added 19 points and the Phoenix Suns surged early in the fourth quarter for a 108-99 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers on Sunday.
Frye hit two of his five 3-pointers in the final minutes of his second game back from a dislocated right shoulder for the Suns, who have won 10 of their last 11 meetings with the Clippers.
Blake Griffin scored 17 points before fouling out on an offensive foul with 4:09 left for the Clippers, who have lost three of four. Chris Kaman had 21 points and 11 rebounds while starting for DeAndre Jordan, who sat out with pneumonia.
Nash showed no ill effects from a trip home to Vancouver on Saturday to attend the inaugural game of the Vancouver Whitecaps. Nash is a part-owner of the MLS expansion franchise, and he banged a drum in the Empire Field stands while wearing a Whitecaps scarf and a No. 13 jersey before jetting back to Los Angeles.
Nash also isn't slowing down after a recent two-game absence to rest his injured pelvis. He followed up a strong game against Golden State on Friday night with an even better effort against the Clippers, only missing a triple-double because he couldn't get a rebound in the second half.
After Phoenix broke open a tight game by scoring the first eight points of the fourth quarter, Griffin fouled out when he rattled home a jaw-dropping, one-handed dunk over Marcin Gortat, who appeared to be moving on the play. The rookie All-Star then got a technical foul for holding onto the ball in disbelief after referee Steve Javie's call, and Nash's free throw put the Suns ahead by 14 points.
The call finally enlivened the Staples Center crowd, which vociferously booed the Suns' next few possessions. The Clippers scored the next five points, but Frye hit a 3-pointer with 2:26 left.
Frye added another 3-pointer with 50 seconds left after the Clippers had cut Phoenix's lead to seven points. The sharpshooting big man wore a bulky brace to support the shoulder he hurt March 6.
Gortat had 17 points and 13 rebounds for the Suns (35-33), who pulled back within two games of eighth-place Memphis (38-32) in the Western Conference playoff picture. Chris Dudley added 14 points, hitting two 3-pointers.
Phoenix played without backup point guard Aaron Brooks, who served a one-game suspension for hitting an official with the ball during the Suns' win over Golden State on Friday night.
Mo Williams had 18 points and seven assists as the Clippers played without Jordan, who spent the night in Marina Del Rey hospital with what the team called a mild case of pneumonia. The shot-blocking center was released from the hospital during the game.
Leading scorer Eric Gordon also struggled in his fourth game back from his latest absence with his injured right wrist, scoring just 10 points on 4-for-11 shooting.
Led by Nash's 15 points and seven assists, the Suns led by 10 points early and went into halftime up 54-49 after making 51 percent of their shots with just two turnovers.
After Griffin got 30 points in his highest-scoring performance since the All-Star break during the Clippers' win over Cleveland on Saturday, the All-Star struggled again, going 6 for 18.
NOTES: Jordan hadn't missed a game this season. Griffin, Ryan Gomes and Eric Bledsoe have appeared in all 71 games for Los Angeles. ... The Suns will stay in town to play the Lakers on Tuesday.


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i cannot believe that it has been exactly one month since my last post! wow, either i'm a real slacker of have been really busy...we'll go with really busy :)
actually, things have been a little crazy here in the Des and here's what has been going on:
1. we went on a super relaxing trip north to the cabin and spent time with wonderful family [more pics will be coming soon!]
2. the Sunday night we got back from Minnesota, we got 4-6" of rain in a couple of hours and our basement flooded for the second time in three years...ugh!
3. the next night, our basement flooded again... double ugh!
4. i drove back to the cabin the following weekend to pick up youngest son, who stayed on and missed all the drama at home [man, was i jealous!]
5. work has been crazy busy
6. school started today... yeah!!! both of my boys are now in high school and all i can say, again, is how time flies!


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How to spot a baby conservative
UPDATE: There are some good criticisms of the Block study by Jim Lindgren at the Volokh Conspiracy (here and here).
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I was whiny and PARANOID(but not so much of a complainer) as a child - by no means self confident - but I'm almost as liberal as you can get, as you know. And I've never been a conservative.


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I often settle for less than Jesus has in store for me.
Here's the twist though …quite often with all of the distractions in my life I don't even notice it.
It's ONLY during my prayer time, Bible study time, my quiet time (with Him), and yes even the not so "holier" times in my life when Jesus walks me back through the past hours, days, weeks, years, and shows me the moments that I have "settled" that I even take note of it.
Know if this is you also this morning please rest assured that God is not making you nor I aware of this to beat us down or discourage us.
In fact this message should encourage us that though we are being made aware of our "settling" that in doing so we are in the least hearing from His Holy Spirit so we have the ability in HIM to change and/or get better.
The message to you and I this morning is simple…Jesus never desires that we ever settle for less.
He wants us to continue to seek more and more after Him for we are by the royal bloodline that we inherit as His children once we have given our lives to Him and we are PRINCES and PRINCESSES so why not seek after all that comes with that inheritance?
It is only when we realize that we have "settled" that we (in Christ) are more willing to do what is necessary to NOT settle for less than what He has promised us.
For example…if you went to a very expensive top of the line restaurant that promises the most "wonderful, unbelievably juicy, mouth watering steak in the world (now I've gone and made myself hungry…dang!!!) and paid the corresponding very expensive price for it there is no way that you would dare sit there and remain silent if the server placed a plate with a simple hamburger and soggy fries before you.
You would do everything possible and go to great lengths to ensure that you received the meal that was promised you yet in our walk with Christ we quite often even put up a fight for what is rightfully ours due to the "Blood" that Jesus shed for us that made us co-heirs to the "throne" with Him.
My prayer today is that you and I fall prostrate before Jesus today asking Him to reveal to us times that we have "settled" in the past so that we can know what "settling" looks like.
Also, let's ask Him to reveal via His Holy Spirit in the future times that we begin to "settle" for less than He has promised us since He paid a horrible, gruesome, yet necessary death by being "hung on a tree" to do it so we should in my humble opinion at least fight to attain said promises.
He love you today!
He woke me up this morning ESPECIALLY FOR YOU (and me) to pen this message so that we may have hope that He sees our "stumbles" in our walk with Him and that He is always there to pick us up when we fall.
He reminded me that all babies fall as they learn to walk and that they must go through that full process before they can run YET babies are not downcast during the process but excited and it is that kind of spirit that we should have while learning THIS walk (with Christ…and if you're having trouble getting excited…pray for that also…He is faithful and NOT bored with even the simplest requests).
I love you dear brothers and sisters and have a Jesus-filled day!!
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Free Workshop on Knight-Thompson Speechwork – Saturday, October 13th, 1-3pm
Actors and other professional voice users need to speak clearly and expressively in order to communicate the ideas and emotions of their characters – and themselves. Whatever the native accent of the speaker, this easy communication to the listener must always happen in every moment, on stage, in film or television, in real life too.
Knight-Thompson Speechwork is a unique approach to speech skills for actors and other professional voice users that develops clear intelligibility, flexible adaptability, and expressive variety. Created by master teachers Dudley Knight (Professor Emeritus of Drama at the University of California, Irvine, with a forty-year career as voice, speech and dialect teacher and voice director for professional theater) and Philip Thompson (Associate Professor of Drama at the University of California, Irvine, and head of the MFA program in Acting), this method is based upon practical exploration of the physical actions of speech – all of the actions, all of the articulators, all of the variations. By learning this gamut of sounds not just by ear, but by the feel of the actions required to produce them, students develop the skills to access any accent or style of speech that may be required.
Local actor and dialect coach Joseph Papke was one of only nine teachers to complete the inaugural teachers' certification course in Knight-Thompson Speechwork this past summer in New York City. On Saturday, October 13th from 1-3pm, he will present a free introductory workshop at the Washburn Library (5244 Lyndale Ave. S., Mpls). Participation will be limited to twenty people, age 16 and up. All participants must pre-register by sending an email to firstname.lastname@example.com. For more information, please visit www.josephpapke.com.
Joseph Papke is a fiscal year 2012 recipient of an Artist Initiative grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible in part by a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.


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WEST YARMOUTH — Voters will cast their ballots — again — on a failed school override today after a special town meeting last night decided to return the issue to the ballot.
WEST YARMOUTH — Voters will cast their ballots — again — on a failed school override today after a special town meeting last night decided to return the issue to the ballot.
Residents resoundingly decided to send the issue back to voters today. The original Proposition 2½ override of $1.65 million failed in May. The amount now sought by the Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School District, $1.51 million, is slightly less than that.
The town of Dennis already passed the amount it needs to fund the 2009 district school budget of about $48 million.
Last night, one of the core issues came up quickly — some young families with children don't feel the town's sizable retirement population is always on their side.
"This town does not value young families," Michelle Blaze, 38, said from a microphone in the crowd. The mother of two young children told the Times she moved to Yarmouth five years ago from Florida. She thought her children would get a great education, and she built her dream home here. Now she's put the house up for sale and told voters she was moving away.
"It really breaks my heart, because I've met so many wonderful people," she said, becoming tearful before the crowd. "I can't stay in a community that doesn't support me."
The $1.5 million would amount to a $69.90 per year permanent increase in taxes on a home valued at about $300,000. That, noted at least one resident, is what it might cost a small family to dine out for one night. Or $6 a month. Or, as another voter said, 19 cents a day.
One grandmother on a fixed income said she'd still find a way to come up with the money to support the school system in which her granddaughter was enrolled.
But during the hour-long debate, other residents noted that with the rising cost of everything and increasingly dangerous debt burdens on individuals, towns and the nation, the town shouldn't take on more debt or raise taxes. One man called talk of possible cuts to school or town services "fear mongering."
Surrounded by school committee members, schools Supt. Carol Woodbury explained the proposed 2009 schools budget. Yarmouth would pay $22.56 million altogether, with $1.5 million of it paid for by an override.
The schools still needed to boost standardized testing scores to meet federal mandates over the coming years, she said. And with a lopsided state funding formula, more of the financial burden has been shifting to local taxpayers as state aid dwindles, she said.
Money from the schools' reserve fund is being used rather than cutting more staff positions, she said. Thirty-nine jobs, including 14 teaching jobs and a social worker, have been cut. Possible future cuts include larger classes, to more than 25 students, and the loss of health classes and physical education.
The entire district could be left with only one librarian for all the schools under one plan for cuts Woodbury presented last night should the override not pass. Other scenarios: up to nearly 100 staff cuts, losing all foreign language instruction in middle schools, or closing Laurence C. MacArthur Elementary School, she said.
"The budget before you is a maintenance budget," she told attendees. "Nothing new has been added."
Finance committee vice chairman Patrick Foran questioned why the reduced budget wasn't presented to voters the first time around, and he challenged the school district's budgeting practices. He proposed asking for an $800,000 override instead, but that last-minute amendment was rejected.
If voters again reject the override at today's election, the school committee could and most likely will take the issue to a district meeting with both towns. There, voters could force Yarmouth to pony up the money the district needs, and Yarmouth could face municipal cuts of just over 6 percent from other departments to make up the $1.5 million difference.
Last night, residents also agreed to send two other issues to voters in the future. One would slightly reduce previously approved amounts in the budget for waste management and several other items. Another would pay the town's share, $1.865 million, to Cape Cod Regional Technical High School District for 2009.


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Brittles and Jay
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Sarcastic Magic 8 Ball
Pretty much the best thing that has ever been invented. I don't remember anyone calling me for the rights to all my favorite phrases though ....
-In Your Dreams
-Get a Clue
-You've got to be Kidding
-Who Cares
-Yeah, and I'm the Pope!
-Oh, Please
-Yeah Right!
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For this and many other delightful Christmas gift ideas (these went to my coworkers, so they can have a little piece of me wherever they go), go to www.officeplayground.com
I think I might love that site more than Facebook. Yup. A lot.
Friday, February 25, 2011
David Beckham on The Ellen Degeneres Show
Monday, February 7, 2011
Catch Up
-Went to DC with the family in November, which was FANTASTIC. My family is a blast and my parents were the sweetest to take us all on their vacation with them (in celebration of my dad's 50th birthday)
- We got a new dog! Her name is Minnie (her previous owners, big Disney fans, named her after Minnie Mouse, they weren't being ironic - though that would be kind of funny). She's an english mastiff and she's SO sweet! Aside from one bad incident (which we should have expected when we tried to give 2 dogs 1 ham bone and think that they'd share), she and Cali are getting along great. They seem to be having a lot of fun playing during the day because Jay and I come home from work to two exhausted dogs, which is fine with me!
I think that covers most of the major things ... Hopefully I'll get better at blogging regularly but until then ... Sorry?
- Harper (the cutest niece ever) turned 1!! We were lucky enough to get to spend her first birthday with her in Utah and it was a blast! I may have gone a little overboard with the gifts (she got more than Jay did between Christmas and her birthday) but it's just too much fun buying cute little presents and watching her open them. I just can't get enough of that little girl!
- Jay was AWESOME and had a new stereo and sub installed in my car for my 25th birthday. And yes, the first thing I played in it was Eminem so I was that weird preppy girl driving down the street blasting music with lots of bass in my Hyundai Elantra. Oh well. I enjoyed my new system for a grand total of 2 days before I did this:
- Not the best way to celebrate, I know. I rear ended a car on the freeway (someone a couple cars ahead was cut off so we all slammed on our breaks and I hit a truck). I'm not injured, was able to drive my car home (with the air bag light on-made me nervous) so it could have been worse, but if you're looking for me around town, you better keep your eyes pealed for my loaner old school Honda Civic with no radio. I'll get my car back in about 10 days so all in all, it's not too bad.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Ugh ...
Monday, July 19, 2010
Tear ...
I understand my dog is a dog and she doesn't have all of the same needs a human child would, but I'm still a little sad to have to leave my puppy child home next week while Jay and I go on vacation to Oregon.
We found her the best possible people to stay with (Mike and Nikki you are GEMS) but ... how could I not feel bad leaving this sweet little face at home?
Friday, July 9, 2010
Oh My Mona
For a while I've been saving these pictures, fully intending to post about the absolute insanity that is my husband's home town. When Jay and I were dating, he would tell me stories about high school and the "creative" ways they came up with to pass the time due to the lack of things to do in Mona. I thought he was kidding about how tiny this place is.
... he wasn't.
We took a trip out so I could have the "grand tour." It took us about 10 minutes to hit all the high points.
As we exited the freeway, we were greeted by this:
How could I not get excited about a trip that starts with a sign displaying Majestic Mt Nebo? We then drove by the post offices, both new and old. The old building, I don't have a picture of (basically a little one room house that the city used). The new one though ... what a beauty ... and so spacious!
Next we checked out the fire station (also new):
We finished our journey with a stop at the gas station to pick up a refreshing beverage. I, again, though Jay was kidding when he said he would get me a Wild Cherry Pepsi "if they have it." Gas stations in the "big city" of Pleasant Grove where I had lived most recently have every option of beverage and car snack available. Drinks in varying sizes and flavors, fountain and bottle, endless selections of sunflower seeds, jerkey and chips. So when we pulled up to this:
I was a little shocked. I started to believe that Jay was perhaps not kidding and I might have to settle for the root beer that I had considered as a second choice. Too bad Brittany ... Coke, Pepsi (they DID have both diet and regular), Sprite and water are your options in Mona.
I was a little irritated that we made the trip for a diet coke and view of a 20 square foot post office until I saw something so ancient, I would have sworn I hit my head and went back in time:
Yep, old school gas pumps, my friends. People in Mona don't need credit card slots, audio ads playing on digital screens, car wash options or even multiple levels of fuel. They enjoy the chats they have with the gas station owners as they come outside with a screw driver to turn the dial on the gas pump back to zero and take double the hard earned cash that would be paid in an average size city for the base quality fuel available.
That sight made the whole trip worth it. Does it really get any better? No wonder people live in small towns. My eyes have been opened.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
RIP Michael
"Jackson is the seventh of nine children in a well-known musical family. He has three children, Prince Michael I, Paris and Prince Michael II." Holy crap. Who names ONE of their kids Prince Michael, let alone two? Anyone else find this odd? I almost think it's worse than George Forman naming all of his sons George.
In closing, Megan (my sister - who is pregnant by the way - YAY!), I am officially okay with Lincoln as a name for my future nephew (although I'm still keeping my fingers crossed that I get a niece). So long as the child's name does not contain Prince or George, I'm a happy camper.


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We are in love with this series by one of our favorite writers, Clea Simon. As Dark as My Fur is the second book in the Blackie and Care series, and it fully lives up to the promise of the first book, with a darkness and grit that are engrossing but not overwhelming. These are not the sort of lighthearted cozy mysteries we usually review here. Simon's characters live hard lives in a bleak setting. There is hope, though, in the way they just keep going, and going, and going.
Where did this cat come from, anyway?
The story is told from the point of view of a black cat (Blackie). He is not a young cat. His body hurts sometimes. He's maybe not as fast as he used to be, and perhaps he can't jump as high or fight as hard as he used to. Also, he hasn't always been a cat. It's probably best if you don't think too hard about how the soul or spirit or whatever you call it of a human got into a cat, but that is what happened. The first book in this series, The Ninth Life, largely dealt with the cat figuring out who he is. Now he knows.
He used to be a mentor to this pink-haired girl named Care. He was an investigator of sorts, finding things that have been lost—that sort of thing. Only now he's a cat, unable to speak, unable to clearly communicate all he knows. But he is devoted to Care, to her protection.
Finding things that have been lost
Care, meanwhile, has taken over her mentor's old business. She and Blackie are living in the old office and trying to take on paying clients, and if they don't get some soon, they'll be evicted from the only safe place they have. Also, food would be nice. Blackie can catch his own food, of course, but Care refuses even the best stuff he brings her. This distresses him, as so many things do.
It is against this backdrop that Care and Blackie find themselves caught up in a complex tale of deception, greed, and murder. While Care works to find out what her new client wants to know, Blackie works to untangle the client's true intention. Because the cat can smell that there's far more going on than what Care has been told. And the truth in this case is very, very dangerous.
We found it absolutely mesmerizing to walk along in Blackie's pawsteps through the streets of this unnamed city, a city whose best years are behind it. We can't say that there is anything beautiful here. It's a place where the strong dominate and use the weak, where nothing matters much beyond survival. We feel Blackie's frustration at not being able to communicate fully with Care as, again and again, he senses something she does not. We feel his confusion at times, and his constant desire to protect Care at all costs. Each night when we curled up to read this book, we found ourselves reading farther than we intended because, as dark as Blackie's world is, it's hard to set aside.
As Dark as My Fur is not a book whose sentences go tripping happily along. It is instead a book that grabs you in the midgut area and doesn't let go. We found this to be a not unpleasant sensation, and one that pulled us to keep reading, reading, reading. And we are so glad we did.
For those willing to face the darkness, we very highly recommend this book!
As Dark as My Fur is set for release on April 1, 2017. It is currently available for preorder.
A note on the "Paws Up" system: Miss C gives either one or two paws up. One paw is for a good read; two paws is for a great read. She never gives three or four paws because that would require her to lie on her back...and Miss C does not do that!
We received a free copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review. We wouldn't tell you it was good unless we really liked it!
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Discussion in 'Motorhome Chat' started by June and Mike, Jun 22, 2009.
hi, does anyone know of any sites that allow open campfires?
not very many, if any, i would say.
health and safety rules and insurance clauses will have put paid to that idea on official campsites.
maybe some beachside wildcamping spots on the beach but i wouldnt hold out much hope.
Saw on another Forum on their meet recently at Hay on Wye at the Hollybush Inn, that they had a lovely camp fire which looked safe
Also the site has tipis which have chimineras so suppose they would not be against others lighting up ...safely
We go to one every July where about 10 of our vans all form a circle like the cowboy days and have a huge fire in the middle. We have sing songs, people bring their instruments along etc. It really is good fun. In the day-time we play organised crazy games and the kids are included. Alongside runs a small river and some people bring their canoes. It is really a no holds barred site with some weird tents and teepees, as well as lots of caravans and motorhomes. It's a private campsite and I'm not sure if I should give it's location on here for fear of 'Elf & safety' involvement.
the one I am does
where are you?
We were at a camp a few weeks ago where you could even set fire to the kids:
i like mine a little on the charred side but not too big.......they get tougher as they get bigger.....
if your watching your weight dont have a fat one. too many calories
sounds perfect:thumb: pm me if you like xjx
And we've been to a campsite where fires are positively encouraged. It is in France, though:
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hi john, im from peterborough, which site are you on?
A lovely farm site, about 2 hours south of you, pm me for more..
there are some annoying magpies here though
SWAP? here is a sitewith campfire facilities if you send me yours.
Bwch yn Uchaf - Camping and Caravan Park - Llanuwchllyn, Bala, Gwynedd, North Wales
The Orchard at Wickham Market in Suffolk allow open fires, they'll even sell you the wood for it.
Many sites won't allow an open fire but will allow a fire in a proper fire bowl providing it is kept off the ground and doesn't mark the grass.
ye one between fairbourne and tywyn think it cy ddu right on the cost and the farmer will sell you wood too as well as home made lamb burgers :thumb:
open fires
Theres a site at "Brandy Wharf" Lincolnshire that hire you a huge brazier for £3.00 + wood at £3.00 per bag so bring your own wood + just buy 1 bag. I was there 2 weeks ago + the site was lit up with them all, we a group of 2 m/h's + 2 tuggers formed a square, awnings up, brazier flaming away, food cooking, music playing (all music off at 01.00 am) + beer flowing. Was £14.00 per night 2 adults with h/up. Had a great time.
PS, 5 mins walk is the famous "Brandy Wharf Cider Pub" with alcohol strength as high as 7.2% maybe higher but that was the strongest i saw.
Fisherground in Eskdale have fire pits next to every pitch, old wheel rims, good for cooking on.
Lanes to Eskdale are narrow but we managed ok with our 24ft motorhome.
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Dear Sis,
I thought of you today. Happy Mother's Day. And not just because you're a mom. But because of what a mom you were to me. You know, for all those early years.
My brother, sister, and me. Early 1970's.
Remember the year you made me a birthday cake, with jam for the frosting, because that was the best thing we had.
How you protected me when that girl at school made fun of me for looking poor. You made me feel like a million bucks.
You introduced me to Richie Rich, Uncle Scrooge, Archie, Casper, and Emily Post. And to a world beyond our life in the woods - at the library, where books became my everything and magazines like Vogue, Bazaar, and Seventeen became my inspiration. Because you showed them all to me.
Remember the hover craft that you saved up for? The one we thought you'd drive? That turned out to be as big as the palm of your hand and that eventually got so tangled up in your hair that it had to be cut out? And the sea monkey family? Remember them?
You were like my giving tree.
And then one day, you grew up and moved away.
And I was sad.
"Come and play with me!", I'd write. But you were too far away.
So I'd go to the spring and think about you. About the day you and Ky ran into the bear there and how you and the bear both turned and ran away in fear. I'd think about the old days when we were all together. You, me and Ky.
And I was happy.
I thought about you today, Sis. About what an impact your mothering had on me. I'm not sure where I'd be, had you not been there for me.
My giving tree.


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