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Yield: Yields about 9 cups
Servings: 8
Creamy, hearty New England clam chowder is by far the most popular chowder style (compared to Manhattan or Rhode Island versions). Chowder made with milk or cream began appearing in the early 1800s, and New Englanders claimed it as their own in the 1900s. Many versions use a flour and butter roux to thicken the soup. The roux is necessary if you're cooking with milk; otherwise, it curdles when boiled. This chowder gets its thick texture from a combination of heavy cream and puréed potatoes. You can crush some of the potatoes against the side of the pot (instead of puréeing the vegetables) for a thinner but equally delicious version.
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This was really a very delicious clam chowder with rich flavors of the clams and heavy cream. Easy to make and follow, but you must follow the steps as indicated to achieve the final results. I used the heavy cream which I found to be very rich with the fresh clams and juice. This is so good on a cold night for supper. The chowder taste better the second day because the flavors had time to marry overnight. Heat on very low temp so you don't over cook the cream. This one is a keeper for sure.
This is delicious! Not too heavy but just right!
We really enjoyed this - like the other review, we used half and half. It was creamy enough, to the point that I honestly think heavy cream might have been overdoing it. As we made it we liked it a lot. I was a little intimidated by cooking the clams and making the broth, but it turned out to be easy. A yummy recipe and a good experience!
This was very delicious, with a deep clam flavor, yet light tasting. We used half and half rather than full cream, and it was still delicious. Next time I might add a bit less of the clam stock so that the soup is a bit thicker. Be sure to buy extra clams in case some are dead or don't open. I bought 26 clams, which turned out to be around 7 lb, and scaled down the recipe a bit given the smaller weight of clams. I wish I had bought 30 clams to allow for some being smaller and/or dead. (I bought the clams from the largest seafood retailer in the southeast with a really fast turnover, so they should not have been old.)
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text: Happy Monday! Hope you had a fantastic wknd and aren't too groggy-eyed as we roll into the work week. I thought we'd start it off with a group I've been digging on as of late – that being Pillowfight, which is the Gorillaz Dan the Automator's new project with Brooklyn-based hip-hop violinist, Emily Wells and Kid Koala. KCRW's Jason Bentley introduced me to these guys last month as they've just released their debut, self-titled album (which you can have a listen to below – you're welcome). ; ) I've particularly been cranking the track, "Get Down," in the studio and at the gym as it has that perfect twist of funk disco with modern beats to get you up and at it. I'm a fan. I think you will be too. Enjoy. =)

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text: Apple Blossoms, Trinity County, CA. Posted on April 27, 2018May 1, 2018 by V I love apple blossoms, especially the ones with pink. Apple blossoms soon to be apples. Once again in the cycle spring to fall. Apple Blossoms in April in Trinity county, California. I love this apple tree and it's blossoms in the spring. Apple blossoms.


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- What in the World is this "Gender" Thing? A Non-Binary Perspective
- Why Asexual Awareness Week Is Important
- LGBT Network gains public presence on Facebook & plans LGBT History Month
- Malaysian Government Performing Seminars to Teach Parents and Teachers How to Spot Gay Kids
- Kill the Gays – A Fight Against Ugandan Oppression
- Brighton Pride Review
- Campaign started for a Southampton Pride event
- Two Gay Jamaicans Contest The Island's Homophobic Laws
- Media Highlights Worrying Trend Of Gay Conversion Therapy
- Obama's Promise for LGBT Equality Rivals Mitt Romney's Shocking Policies
- Outraged Cardinal Keith O'Brien Wins Bigot Of The Year Award
- Homophobia in the UK?
- Shocking "Call Me Kuchu" Tells Ugandan LGBT's Tragic Struggle For Safety
- Cameron gets his foot stuck in it, again
- America Approves of the LGBT Community
- Kill The Gays Bill to pass as 'Christmas gift' to Ugandans
- Sir Ian McKellen Stands Up Against Homophobic Bullying
- Uganda Drops Death Penalty From "Kill The Gays" Bill
- First Gay Mosque Of Europe Opens In Paris
- Same-sex Marriage To Become Legal In 2013
- Iowa Becomes The First Public University To Ask Applicants If They Are Gay
- BBC Report Shows Gay TV Characters Are Under Represented
- Amsterdam Celebrates Drag Queen Winter Olympics 2012
- 10 Overlooked LGBT News Stories of 2012
- Berlusconi Says Yes To Gay Marriage – But Will He Keep His Word?
- 'Sugar Rush' Writer's Bigoted Transphobia Published
- Hampshire 'Top Police Force 2013' for LGB
- Gay Marriage Is A 'Category Error'
- Private: The Gay Agenda Marches On
- Private: Same Sex Marriage Legalised for England and Wales
- Private: The Gay Best Friend Myth
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- The LGBT Pride Flag – Do we really need to include Black and Brown stripes for POC?
- Here's (Nearly) Everything You Need to Know About the Australian Equal Marriage Vote
- Australia Backs Same-Sex Marriage
Europe's first gay mosque has opened in Paris, amidst claims Islam must stop ignoring its gay community.
Run by married and gay Islamic scholar, Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed, and the founder of Homosexual Muslims of France, the exact location of the new mosque has not officially made known as security fears are running high, with Islamic leaders condemning its opening.
Mr Zahed believes the mosque will stress the importance of "accepting everyone as equally God's creation," fighting off controversy as Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Grande Mosquée in Paris, claims: "worshippers go to a mosque to worship god, they don't go to demonstrate their sexuality."
The cleric added: "This is an abuse of the definition of a mosque."
However, plans are in the making to perform same-sex marriages in the near future, as Mr Zahed told a Turkish newspaper: "We will start with Friday prayers, but we will perform marriages afterwards."
Although not supported by any formal Muslim institution, the mosque may make way for Islam tobegin talks on LGBT issues, after a British Muslim student recently opened up about his struggle to cope with being gay, urging Islamic leaders to "stop sweeping the issue under the carpet."
Known only as Yusef, the student is an active member of his university's Islamic Society, who blames Muslim communities for failing to provide sufficient support to anyone that is LGBT. In a blog for The Huffington Post, he claims "Muslim communities tend to treat such deeply personal matters as elephants in the room."
"Of course, one such elephant is homosexuality, specifically the idea that someone who is gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) can also be a devout Muslim."
"If you're a Muslim coming to terms with the fact that you're gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, I'm not going to offer you some generic advice and avoid the your actual concerns altogether, as some scholars might. I really wish I could point you in the right direction, but that's part of the point: the Muslim community needs to do more to support those of us who are LGBT."
Mr Zahed hopes the Parisian Mosque will provide a safe, gay-friendly alternative currently missing from Muslim religious spaces. "In normal mosques, women have to sit in the back seats and wear a headscarf and gay men are afraid of both verbal and physical aggression.
"After performing the Hajj, I realised that a mosque for gays was a must for gay Muslims who want to perform their prayers." In an article for the Guardian, he stressed that: "today in France, gay teenagers are almost 15 times more likely than those who are straight to kill themselves because of their sexual orientation."
He added that he believed his religion had aided the suppression of his sexual orientation: "I have found out that I had been pushing down my feelings with the help of Islam."


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New Zealand and the Asia-Europe Meeting: Three Years On
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New Zealand, alongside Australia and Russia, formally acceded to the Asia–Europe Meeting (ASEM) in October 2010. This followed fifteen years of drift, a period during which initial strong interest, derailed by the opposition of Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, subsequently became less certain as views of the forum's utility to New Zealand dimmed. In effect, by the turn of the millennium, the issue of ASEM membership had been kicked into the long grass, where the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade was happy for it to remain until it became clear in mid- 2008 that Australia was pushing strongly for entry and was likely to succeed. This move had wrong-footed MFAT, forcing a rapid rethink of a policy that had rested, among other elements, on a view that New Zealand's non-membership was acceptable given Australia's parallel exclusion. The final volte face and scramble for membership was therefore motivated in large part by a fear of marginalisation, a concern that Australian entry would leave New Zealand in the untenable situation of being the only regional state outside the forum.1 Three years on, it is worth considering where New Zealand stands in relation to ASEM. Given its less than wholehearted accession, what benefits does it perceive in participation, and to what extent have these been achieved?
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New room to play in :)
It's a basement: 616 x 369 x 228 cm, concrete walls, two small windows and a door in a corner.
Amroc room modes
Turning up the volume wasn't too much fun: strong room modes.
Moving the listening position around did make a huge impact though, but still..
So I decided to invest in some accoustic treatment.
I wanted an easy sturdy solution, space was not a real issue.
A full wall absorber seemed to be the answer.
Absorber calculator
The compromise is the type of absorber:
Loose and fluffy is the most efficient, but it needs structural support.
Thick and sturdy is easy to stack, but less efficient.
I opted for Rockwool Rocksono Base (Flow resistivity is about 10000 Pa.s/m2).
Already much better: less bass buildup :)
Wooden frame.
Almost done: fire retardent fabric.
This page is presented for my personal enjoyment. I hope this page will also be an inspiration for diy-ers all over the world. This page is not meant to be a manual, so please don't contact me for guidance or support.
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Good overall output quality. Multiple connectivity options. HP's ePrint features. Able to print from external devices.
Small touch pad. Graphics tend to curl or smudge.
Bottom Line
The HP Officejet Pro 8500A e-All-in-One is a solid choice as a small-office MFP, with good output quality and paper capacity, and a solid feature set.
The HP Officejet Pro 8500A e-All-in-One Printer ($299.99 direct), the junior member of HP's 8500A series of small-business multifunction printers (MFPs), brings to the table most of what the HP Officejet Pro 8500A Plus e-All-in-One Printer ($399.99 direct, 4 stars) offers. It has a smaller touch screen, and lacks some of the Officejet Pro 8500A Plus's (which I'll hereafter refer to as the Plus) multifunction features. Whether the Officejet Pro 8500A (which I'll call the Pro) is worth the $100 savings may depend on how much scanning, faxing, and copying you plan to use it for. Regardless, the Pro is a very respectable choice as an MFP for a micro or home business, or the dual role of home and home-office MFP.
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The Pro prints, scans, copies, and faxes. It can scan to a PC, memory card, email, network folder, or. It can act as a standalone printer, printing photos from memory cards, USB keys, and PictBridge cameras as well as content from the Web using HP's Web Apps.
The Pro has a 35-page automatic document feeder (ADF) for scanning or copying multi-page documents, while the Plus's ADF fits 50 pages, and lets you duplex (automatically scan both sides of two-sided pages). Although the Pro prints at up to legal size, it is limited to letter-sized scanning, while the Plus supports legal-sized scanning as well as printing.
HP says that the Pro is the slower of the two models at scanning, with rated speeds of 5.1 and 5.2 pages per minute (ppm) for black-and-white and color pages, respectively, compared with the Plus's 7.5 and 5.6 ppm. (I was unable to compare the two products' scanning speeds, as we don't test scan speeds for MFPs unless they seem unusually fast or slow, which wasn't the case with the Plus when I reviewed it in January.)
At 1.1 by 19.8 by 16.5 inches (HWD) and weighing 25.4 pounds, the Pro is large enough that you'd probably want to set it on a table of its own. The Pro is clad in a mixture of matte and glossy black plastic. The front panel holds the touch screen, which at 2.4 inches is considerably smaller than the Plus's 4.3-inch screen. The Plus's touch screen was disappointing when I tested it, as despite its generous size it was not very responsive. The Pro's screen suffers from its small size, making tasks such as entering fax numbers on its virtual keypad more of an ordeal than a chore, at least for a big-fingered person like me. So neither model's touch screen was anything special.
The Pro has ample paper capacity for most small offices, with a 250-sheet input tray, and an automatic duplexer lets you print on both sides of a sheet of paper. If you need more paper capacity, the third model in the series, the HP Officejet Pro 8500A Premium e-All-in-One ($499 direct) adds a second 250-sheet paper tray.
The Pro can print selected content directly from the Web as a standalone device, using HP's Web apps. You can output business forms, topical or custom daily newsletters, coupons, recipes, even coloring book pages with Disney and Nickelodeon characters, and much more. Additional free apps are available for download from HP's ePrintCenter.
The ePrint function lets you e-mail an attached image to the printer for it to automatically print out. The printer is assigned an e-mail address when you register at the ePrintCenter. From a single e-mail it can print out up to 10 attached files with a total size of up to 5MB, printing out first the cover e-mail and then the attachments.
As an added bonus, the Pro 8500A is compatible with the AirPrint feature in Apple's iOS 4.2 and later, which allows you to print from an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad that's connected to the same network as the printer.
This printer has a port for either a USB thumb drive or PictBridge-enabled camera. Its two memory-card slots fit a variety of card formats.
The Pro can connect via USB, Ethernet, or Wi-Fi. I tested it over an Ethernet connection with its drivers installed on a PC running Windows Vista.
Print Speed and Output Quality
The Pro 8500A Plus printed out our latest business applications suite (timed with QualityLogic's hardware and software, www.qualitylogic.com) at an effective 3.9 pages per minute (ppm) (printing both text and graphical content). It slightly lagged the HP Officejet Pro 8500A Plus e-All-in-One and the Epson WorkForce 840 ($300 street, 4 stars); I clocked both at 4.5 ppm. (We don't usually consider speed differences of less than 1 ppm as significant.) The Editors' Choice
Text quality was slightly above par for an inkjet MFP, good enough for general business documents but not for documents such as resumes in which the presentation is as important as the content.
Graphics quality was on par with the majority of inkjets we've tested, which makes the output fine for most internal business uses as well as PowerPoint handouts, though whether you'd give them to a client you were trying to impress depends on how much of a perfectionist you are. Several images showed bandingregularly spaced lines of discoloration in otherwise solid zones. It also had trouble printing out thin lines; in two illustrations, they were barely visible. Full-page graphics fresh from the printer tended to curl and/or smudge, so be careful when handling them, and you might want to invest in a heavier weight paper if you plan to print a lot of illustrations.
Overall photo quality was par for an inkjet. A monochrome photo showed a slight greenish tint. Two prints showed traces of streaking or banding. A couple of prints lost detail in bright areas. The quality varied, with about half of the prints being of true photo quality and the other half just short of the quality we'd expect from drugstore prints.
The HP Officejet Pro 8500A e-All-in-One Printer is easy to recommend as an MFP for a small, micro, or home office, and its photo printing is good enough for it serve in a dual role as a home-office and household printer. It lacks the duplexing ADF and some scanning features of the 8500A Plus, but if you don't plan to do much scanning the Pro 8500A may be preferable, as it's more cost-effective. Still, the Editors' Choice Canon Pixma MX882 provides stellar output quality plus a raft of features including higher paper capacity for $100 less than the Pro.
Check out the test scores for the HP Officejet Pro 8500A e-All-in-One Printer.
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Hi everyone! Pattie here to share a layout that I created using the new paper range Bella! At Last. This paper line has a beautiful combination of corals and teals- so pretty!!
This is a photo of my Aunt and Uncles wedding. They are both gone now, but I'm so happy to have this photo of their special day :)
Here is a close-up of one of the new die cut border embellishments. I love that the new Bella! Die Cut Borders pack has embellishments that work with all four of the new paper ranges Ruby Rock-It is releasing for Summer CHA.
There are also an assortment of embellishment packs with the perfect sentiment for your project. This one came from the Bella! Project card pack.
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Previously on the 199th episode of Survivor:
Edgardo, Alex, Mookie and Nightmare formed the Alliance Of The Four Horsemen. Unfortunately, their apocalypse was short lived when it was revealed that they were really three horsemen, and one very large jackarse.
After being proclaimed the most. hated. survivor. ever, Stacy had a moment of brilliance never seen in the history of the game before slipping back into her UTR catatonic state. In her honor, and for product placement ad dollars, we declare her the first recipient of the Oily of Olay Strategery Medal of Honor Award
Statue. For a more entertaining description of events from Episode 10, please visit Michels far more in-depth and visually appealing summary.
And now, for your reading pleasure, with fireworks and other various noisemakers, may I present to you, the bicentennial addition (well, it feels like we've been watching it that long), the 200th spectacular edition of
It was the best of games, it was the worst of games, it was a game of wisdom, it was a game of foolishness, it gave players a glimpse of hope, it gave them the depths of despair. They had turtles before them, they had nothing before them, they were all going direct to final four, they were all going direct to loser lodge -- in short, every player thought to themselves, "Hey! I'm running this game!" and while they all thought this to be true, only one of them was correct.
After the nights TC, Mookie and Alex discuss the breakdown of their in the bag apocalypse and come to the conclusion that Dre doublecrossed them. Alex believes that Dre might have been playing us all along. A quick cut to Stacey and Dre shows us that Alex has given Dre far too many intelligence points. Dre looks very much like a puppy whos been smacked with a newspaper for messing on the rug as Stacy tells him that the Super Six didnt lie to him, they simply protected him from being fed misinformation. Dre looks confused, and rather than tell her that he has no clue what she means, he decides she had a really smart idea.
Stacey approaches Earl and rattles off something intelligible not requiring subtitles that allows him to believe that not only is he the leading mastermind of this game, he came up with the idea to oust Edgardo. He chortles and rubs his hands, telling us that power is on our side, we have six in our group, and we are comfortable. At least hes got better math skills than Lisi. Meanwhile, Stacy explains that the Horses arse alliance days are numbered, and they will be lucky if they get fed. This statement is followed by a face shot so evil that the only thing missing was pea soup vomit, and her head spinning 360 degrees.
By the way, where have we misplaced our Oh, God! meter clicker?
Day 28. We can still run this game! (really, we can)
Mookie and Alex sit on the beach discussing the traitor Nightmare. Mookie wants him to grovel; Alex wants him disemboweled. Nightmare just wants to cover his tush. He mumbles incoherently, trying desperately to convince the two twits that he didnt turn on them, even though it was clear to both alliances that his votes shift faster than the tropical easterlies.
With seemingly no tree mail, the tribe goes to reward beach, which has been hosed down to the consistency of chocolate pudding. Or maybe its just low tide. Can you smell the stink of this already? Jeff explains that the teams will be randomly divided. This random business is really MBs code for I am splitting you all up, because a separation a day keeps the Pagonging away. After the tribe stops fighting over being randomly stuck with Nightmare, Jeff explains the challenge:
1. There are two platforms, each with a slingshot and a basket of colored balls with paper tails. For you Chinese fluents, this is the challenge Year of the Coconut Kite.
2. The remaining three players on each team are given jai lai baskets, and are to stand in the mud pit and run, slide, or dive to catch the lobbed balls. No matter the color of the ball you catch, you get a point, and the first team to catch 5 balls wins.
After a half-hearted yeah, tell us what we win, Jeff tells them that they get a lovely basket of pastel colored finger towels, and an assortment of Oil of Olay Body Ribbon lotions to take as product placement to a Fijian Luxury spa. They get showers, food, beds, and a chance to pick a loser to go to Exile Island.
The random teams are:
Orange: Yau Man, Boo, Cassandra, Mookie. Green: Stacy, Earl, Nightmare, Alex.
Yau Man lobs a ball, and misses. Stacy lobs one that hits Earls catcher, but bounces out. Earl grumbles that he didnt know it would bounce. Um
its a ball. Balls bounce.
Yau Man lobs one to Boo, who catches it. Stacy lobs her next one, and Mookie steals it away from Earl. Score is Orange 2, Green 0.
Yaus missile launch misses again, mainly because Cassandra is busy getting a chokehold on Earl. When he complains, Jeffy calls him a sissy, and to suck it up. Stacys lob misses.
Yau lobs to Boo, who does a face plant in the mud. Stacy lobs one at Nightmare, who catches it. Orange 2, Green 1.
Stacy lobs to Nightmare, who is distracted by Mookie. Yau misses, as Boo screams and writhes in the mud. When Jeff asks him whats wrong, he says hes got a knee injury. An ACL tear, kind of like Artificial Crybaby Loser whine. Jeff says, lets get medical in. The medic, amazingly not wearing a Red Cross helmet or proffering morphine, doesnt actually do anything except help Boo to his feet. Walk it off you sportster hunk, you. When Boo stands up, a pop is heard that is so disturbing, even Jeff winces. Boo, big strong jock that he is, decides he can go on. Way to take one for the team, Boo.
Yau the Challenge Master shoots to Boo. Stacy launches to Nightmare, who catches the ball. Jeepers, hes good for something after all. Orange 2, Green 2.
Stacy shoots and misses. Cassandra tells Earl to get physical. Earl snarls back that he is being physical, but its about the placement of the balls.
*snort* This is a PG 13 board: Must. Restrain. Self.
Yau shoots to Mookie; score is now Orange 3, Green 2.
Stacy lobs to Nightmare who catches it. Yau shoots to Mookie, who yells at Yau when he misses. Yau lifts his hand to give Mookie the bird, but thinks better of it. Score Orange 3, Green 3.
Stacy lobs to Alex who misses. There is a short pan to Cassandra to remind the viewers that shes still in this episode. Yau shakes his head to Mookie, and lobs the ball. Score is now 4- 3.
Yau shoots to Mookie, but Alex sees his ballistic pattern plan by now and actually manages to steal it away. Stacy and Nightmare miss again. Score is now 4- 4. Oh, how very suspenseful.
Finally, host, cameraman, gaffers, and viewers sigh with relief that this challenge is almost over. Yau shoots to Boo who misses, and Stacy shoots to Nightmare who catches. Its over! Yay! Now send Boo to Exile so we can get on with the shower shots, will ya? Are we going to the yacht, the spa, or the luxury hotel where MBs staying? Or some made up Home Depot kit-sized development all on its own?
Boo is taken to Exile Island, where the tower can be best described as a quickly discarded Disney set from Swiss Family Robinson. He mumbles out the clue:
If youre sitting in the tower and reading,Realize what a loser you are.And if you think that this clue will help you,You should know that your brain is sub-par.The Idol is back at your very own beach,So just sit here and chew on this fact.Its near a singular tree, and easy to reach,But we know you are blind as a bat.
Boo looks dumbfounded, amazed that a Cingular® tree is nearby and he doesnt have his cell phone, but hes happy that the idol is not on Exile Isle. He can now whine about being dehydrated, having a heat stroke, and being not much good for anything. Arent these Survivors such consummate Outbackers?
Meanwhile, on the seaplane the true leaders of this game are heading off to reward. Earl and Stacy believe they are each in charge; Alex thinks he can get back in charge. And Nightmare? Well, he just dreams of what he can charge to room service.
At the Fijian Hilton, the four are met by a native extra who informs them that there are two sets of showers; one inside the room, one in the backyard. Of course, they all shower together, but I couldnt really tell if they were inside, or outside.
I have to take this moment to mention that this LUXURY spas showers seem to be without doors or privacy. Nice tilework, though. Now, MY idea of luxury includes walls and some semblance of privacy when I shower. Anyway, the three remain fully dressed while they pull odd things out of their armpits, and Stacy rubs her breasts and soaps up her legs.
After the gratuitous soaping and groping is over, the gang dons green and blue robes and go off to dinner. Stacy feels awkward with Alex there, especially when he tells her that hes this upstanding guy who always congratulates the winners of a challenge even if hes on the losing end. She looks at him like hes completely lost his mind, and Alex decides to put the squeeze on Earl, who is the one really running this game.
Alex decides that the best way to infiltrate the Super Six alliance is to ask Earl straight up who is the next person to go. Earl reminds him that the game is still going on, so hes not going to divulge anything, as his name is NOT Dre. Alex tries to go for the psychological approach, and tells Earl that Mookie really wants to leave the game. Earl responds with Thats why Mookie might not go first, because HE wants to.
Funny, while watching this exchange, my thoughts slid to a scene in The Princess Bride, where Fazini was trying to outwit Wesley regarding iocane powder -- and we all know how THAT worked out.
We are still in charge dude. Straight up!
When the four return to the tribe, there is much rejoicing because Nightmare now smells like apples and cinnamon rather than
Dre. Mookie and Nightmare lay under a tree and Mookie decides that it must be Yau Man who has the hidden Idol, since he never leaves camp. Nightmare proves to be no help at all with this brilliant deductive reasoning, so Mookie approaches Alex, and decides that they should be creative and go through Yaus belongings to see if he has it. They leave Nightmare dozing under the tree, go back to the cave, and sure enough Yaus turtle is found as they burglarize his bag. Its too bad Yau didnt disinter his fake turtle Idol for them to find in their search. Imagine the confusion if they found two, count em, two, Idols in his stuff!
Oh joy! Oh Rapture! The two go skipping and clapping to a secluded little area outside of camp to discuss their options. Of course, they are so busy extolling the wonder of the Horsemen (present company included), that they fail to notice the UTR contingent behind a few trees, toasting the wonders of not being noticed from week to week. Cassandra and Stacy decide that since they were not noticed, theyll just listen in. Thats the way a girl gets ahead in Survivor Land.
Alex: How do we convince the tribe that we know Yau has the idol?Mookie: We just tell them we looked in his bag. They will be so impressed with our creative approach that they will hand us the million dollars.Alex: When do we do this?Mookie: At TC. We tell Yau to drop his pants and prove he has an idol.
Women viewers everywhere shudder and scream, No! In the name of decency, NO!
Alex: We do this at TC? Mookie: Yes. If we show them at TC, they will all know hes been LYING and they will all be so disgusted with him that they will ALL vote our way!
Alex looks like hes in the throes of orgasm, and yells We are so great! Even if we get voted off, we will go down in the annals of Survivor as the best players ever! It will be a blaze of glory, like Scarface man! Scar- friggin-face!
At this point, they hear a twig snap, and notice the two girls laughing their butts off. Realizing that having Yau drop his pants is not going to pan out, they decide to work the Scarface angle, and rough up Yau back at the camp. I guess our remaining pair of XX chromosomes are good for something.
Its the Amazing Race! Alex and Mookie run full charge back to camp to confront Yau, while Cassandra and Stacy stand under a tree, discuss what they think they heard, and decide to walk back to camp. Mirna and Charla they arent.
How jou like dat, eh? Jou lose, old man!
Mookie and Alex try to remember all the Scarface and Sopranos lines that they have ever heard before they muscle up to Yau to put the squeeze on him. Mookie grabs a piece of fruit, and attempts to eat it maniacally in front of Yau as Alex starts the rough stuff.
Alex: We know youse has da idol. Jou wanna tell da tribe, or do we?
Yau: How do you know I have it?
Mookie: We saw it in your bag. *takes a huge bite and spits out the seeds.* Mookie wonders whether hes the good cop or the bad cop in this play.
Yau: What? So you guys were getting wood and you thought you might find some in my bag?
Alex: Huh? What? Mookie, hes supposed to be begging for mercy by now!
Yau: I tell you what. You guys do what you need to do. Good luck. (Oh, how I wish they had not edited out the howls of laughter from the crew)
There is a cut to an Alex confessional, where he states that yep, we are back in charge, I saw the oh crap expression on his face. This is followed by a cut back to Yau telling them Im past the phase where I have to have this thing. Im in the MAJORITY alliance, so the idol doesnt even matter at the moment.
Yau walks off while Mookie and Alex still hold on to the belief that they have somehow wrestled control back from Yau, Earl, Boo, Stacy, Cassandra, Dre, or whoever the heck thinks they are running the game at the moment.
See the person who never says hes running the game? Guess what?
Yau slowly returns to camp, weighing his options. The old Zen Master, realizing that Mookie and Alex are desperate and thus making stupid errors in judgment, keeps his cool and rationally decides to tell the tribe the truth. As luck would have it, he runs into Stacy first, and capitalizes on the Im an old man victim angle. Stacy is so heart hurt that the dimwitted duo went through his personal belongings, that she emotionally tells the story to the tribe while Yau does his best to look old and victimized. As she leads the tribe to believe that Mookie searched ALL their bags, Yau doesnt bother to correct her. Earl asks Yau how he knew the dimwits were being truthful, and Yau explains that he always folds his things NICELY, and now his belongings are a mess. Everyone becomes more and more angry with Mookie and Alex, and Earl is the only person who seems to understand that Yau deflected the situation away from his holding the HII.
Meanwhile, Mookie and Alex are still living in their dream world and believe that even if they did not get Yau to show his idol, they caused dissension in the tribe. They lie on their backs (pun intended) and laugh about a job well done. They dont realize that they have managed to turn their tribemates against them and that, for them, the lid has slammed shut on the chest holding the prize money. And nobody hurt a finger.
As the tribe heads off to IC, the look on Yaus face said it all. We have met the Godfather, and its a small, innocent looking Asian guy with spectacles. Are there still any questions about who is REALLY in charge of this game?
Immunity Challenge. Awwwww, you sunk my battleship!
Jeff smiles, and tells the tribe that it will be a challenge of brains and strategy. Alex, Nightmare, and Mookie all look panic stricken. He explains that there are 25 squares on a grid. Five rows of numbers (1-5) and five columns of letters (A-E). Nightmare wiggles his fingers, trying to figure out why there are not 8 squares each, and is this chess or checkers?
Each player selected three connecting squares on the board. They take turns calling out coordinates. Whoever's name is on that picked square gets an "X." When the three selected blocks for a player are "X"'d they are out of the game in a blast of fire from a gas torch. Last Survivor with an un-Xed square on the board wins immunity. When choosing squares, only Alex chose horizontal squares; everyone else chose diagonal ones.
Dre is up first. Since he is the ADD poster boy, he chooses a square of his own. Call me Dr. Kevorkian, but lets hear it for assisted suicide. Nightmare's pick also hits Earl, and Boo.
Cassandra picks next. Seeming to be channeling the mind of Nightmare, she hits Yau Man, and
wait for it
herself.Mookie manages to hit only Earl. For those of you paying attention, that means that Earl's going to be sitting on the mat gnashing his teeth soon.Earl chooses a square that hits Mookie and Cassandra.Yau Man hits the square naming Boo, Nightmare, and Earl. Earls sits on the sidelines, glowering. Now its Stacys turn. Boo and Dre get hit, which knocks Boo and the Nightmare out. Boo never even got a chance to play.Alex, brilliant strategist that he is, picks a square with no one's name.Cassandra, never one to come up with anything original, follows Alexs thinking, and also misses.Mookie lucks out, and hits Cassandras last square.Alex misses the mark again (hes done that all episode). Stacy proves that last weeks strategy was a fluke, and misses by repeating Cassandras guess.Mookie hits Alex.Yau Man snuffs Mookie. Alex picks Yau Mans square. He chortles with glee, believing that hes Tony Soprano again.
Only three players remain. Yau and Alex with 2 Xs each, and Stacy with 1. Stacy comes out of her UTR catatonic state long enough to pick the one square shared by her, Yau, and Alex. Jeffy, stating the obvious, proclaims it a good strategic move. They are gone. Stacy gets the big tusk thing that will take the eye out of anyone who tries to congratulate her! Wow, for two weeks in a row she seems to actually know how to play this game. Who knew?
Back at camp, Alex brings Mookie some fruit to help keep his strength up. While Alex eats, they discuss their next move. Alex worries that he doesnt have many moves left. (Mind boggling observation, is it not?)
Both men decide that the only option left is to be totally honest about Yaus idol, cause some alliance havoc, and bring hell down on them all. Funny, I thought hell was already down Alex must have read Dante. Just which circle has he traversed so far? Alex continues to show just how and why lawyers get such a bad rap by insisting that he is a paragon of virtue when set against a little old Asian guy with a turtle necklace. Draw your own conclusions he tells us. Oh, we have Alex. Now go to the level of Hell reserved for lawyers with delusions of grandeur, and be quiet for awhile. Alex is going to run for district attorney in Durham, North Carolina next; he heard the position will be opening up soon.
Meanwhile, Earl is having troubles of his own with tribemates who should just collect firewood and be seen and not heard. Nightmare tries desperately to prove he is smart, by explaining to Earl that they should vote Mookie off because he is lazy and shiftless, while Alex would at least go get firewood once in awhile. Earl pulls out a stick, and drawing pictures in the sand, attempts to show Nightmare that Alex would win challenges, while Mookie has already checked out mentally from the game.
Nightmare holds his ground, explaining that Alex is not as physical as Mookie, who would win all the challenges. In frustration, Earl breaks the stick over his knee and says to Dre, "Physical has nothing to do with it, STACY won the last immunity, and Yau won the one before that!"
As if dealing with Nightmare wasnt bad enough, Earl is next cornered by Boo, who has decided that even though neither of them has seen a clue about the newly hidden Hidden II, the two twits must have found it. He even manages to convince the UTR twins of this. Yau and Earl watch as Boo takes control of the tribe and orders the UTR twins and Nightmare to split the vote between the two twits.
In confessional, Earl proclaims that it is a far far better thing than he has ever done before, as he will relinquish power just this once, even though it scares the bejeebers out of him. Why? Because those who take charge and admit they are in charge end up getting voted out.
Tribal Council, at long last
At tribal council, Jeffy gets right to the point, and asks Alex if he got a sense that the game had shifted. Alex is very quick to tell the jury that the rats and snakes came out full force. Jeff then turns to Mookie and asks the all important question:
Ra, are all those nature and critter shots in the can already?
Then he turns to Mookie. Mookie, what did you notice?
Mookie: There are alliances, and one was completely destroyed at the last TC. There was some backstabbing, and maybe some trickery by the other alliances, I dont know. But at some point, I got the feeling that I was the outsider.
Jeff: Hello? Mookie, why do you think the words Outwit and Outplay are included in the show logo? Dont answer that. Mookie, what do you do when you are so thoroughly outwitted?
Mookie: Well, Alex and I decided to go find a hidden immunity idol in Yaus bag.Jeff: Wait you found a hidden II in Yau Mans bag?Mookie: YepJeff: FOUND it.Mookie: YesJeff: In YAU MANS bag?Mookie: Yes, I already said that, whats your point?Jeff: And Alex calls other members rats and snakes? Yau, any thoughts?Yau: They are desperate and lame, but it doesnt matter, because the idol wont be needed for at least two more episodes.Jeff: Wow. What?!Yau: Well, I may have to change my strategy a tad IF I intend to use it at some point.Jeff: Earl, reactions to all this?Earl: Im really pissed off. Dont ANYONE go through the puppet masters stuff!Jeff: *hangs head and sighs* Nightmare, I know you dont like to think, but how big is trust now in this game?Nightmare: Oh, um. Well days gonna be summon gone soon, and then it will be the six of us, and somebody has got to go. I just need Earl or Boo to tell me who that is.Jeff: What about Yau Man?Nightmare: They went through his stuff! Aint nobody gonna go through the Dreamz stuff!Jeff: Alex, is anyone coasting in this game?Alex: Yep, and when cosmic karma is finished grinding me and Mookie into a nice smoothie, somebodys going to find out that they are next on the menu. Hey guys, past actions foretell the future. NB: At this point, Stacy truly looks like shed like to stab Alex with the Immunity Necklace.
In the guise of giving him a hug.
Jeff is so exasperated, that he orders everyone to go vote. He asks Stacy if she would like to take off the necklace, but she tells him that shes had it soldered to her neck, and shes into BDSM. *Woof* on that collar.
The votes are counted: Alex, Alex, Mookie, Boo, Mookie, Mookie, Alex, Mookie.
Jeff snuffs out Mookie, and sends him on his way down the path of shame. In Mookies final confession, he couldnt decide if he was happy to be out, or happy to be playing the game. Basically, he had no clue, but at least he can have a nice date with Lisi at Loser Lodge, and compare their new math skills.
Jeff tells the tribe that there seems to be a strong alliance of six -- and Alex. He then makes the mistake of saying that Alex will either be the odd man out, or the most important player.
Gee, I wonder which of those Alex will choose to believe.
Next week on Survivor:
Its Can you name the jury members so far game time! Spin the dial Bob Barker! No, thats not incorrect. I didnt say spin the cute model. Now is not the time to go Don Imus on us.
Alex goes undercover. I havent seen any blanket rewards yet. I am confused. Boo gets annoying followed by a shut up/you shut up/you are soooo stupid exchange. And then theres a great free for all!
Its the return of the Piñata bobbing for shanks of meat challenge! Its pork. Muslims need not apply. Its for the children, you know. Or Homeland Security. Good fences make good, er, bonfire material. Just like Congressional Hearing transcripts.
Just who gets muddied next episode? Well have to wait till next Thursday to find out.


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Statement of Faith
Matthew 25:31-46
When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He wil put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
Then the King will say to those on his right, "Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance. I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me."
Then the righteous will answer him, "Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?"
The King will reply, "I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me."
Then he will say to those on his left, "Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angls. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me."
They also will answer, "Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?
He will reply, "I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me."
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Location: Pontianak, West Borneo, Indonesia
Type: Shopping Centre, Hotel, Business Park, Theme Park, City Walk
Site Area: 58,000 sqm
Gross Floor Area: 230,000 sqm
Building Height: 41 m
This project is located on Arteri Supadio Km12 Road, which lies between the airport and city centre, also on the intersection of Trans Kalimantan Road, which leads to Kuching (Malaysia). This area is expanding as a new business area and neighbourhood. This mixed-used complex consists of mall, business park, four-star hotel and apartment. The mall will be a landmark and is going to be the biggest one in West Borneo after its completion.
The architectural concept of this building originated from Kapuas River itself, which is the most famous river in Borneo. From the river, we took the notion of water and boat as the main inspiration source to be implemented in the building's facade. The lower part of the mall's facade is designed with curvy waves of skeletal object to resemble the water waves of Kapuas river. It also acts as shields for the sun coming from west, aimed to reduce direct heat from the sun and eventually lowering the air conditioning power consumption. The shape of the hotel section on top of the mall, derived from the shape of "Bandung Boat" which is the an indigenous house-boat along the river.
This project is developed to be "one stop business and entertainment complex". It has shopping centre, hotel, business-park, theme park, city-walk, movie theatre and outdoor playground. The business park is designed with glasses and aluminium composite panels to give a modern look, integrating into the shopping mall's design. The theme park will become one of the main attractions for mall's visitors as Pontianak is lacking for entertainment and recreational space. It will become the new destination of the city. In addition the city-walk, design as an open space for people to hang out. It is equipped with coffee shop, sitting facilities and greenery area. It completes the lifestyle for the locals to hangout and drinking coffee culture.


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I have been sitting around with my daughters this summer break and playing with this hilarious app called Mad Lips(for the iPhone and iPod). The girls and I have been making short movies and rolling around on the ground laughing hysterically. And then BOOM! I thought, if we are having this much fun, so can my students!
That is when I came up with Talking Book Covers as a refreshing new way to do a book review, character analysis, or short and to the point book report. Talk about making a book report a fun (yes… I said the F-word.. FUN)! Remember, never take the fun out of reading and, boy, do regular old book reports do that.Now you can use the Mad Lips app (free) to take a picture of a favorite book and make a 15 second summary or book review. Here is how:
1. Read a book! 🙂
2. Write and practice a quick summary or book review. Here is my example using one of my all time favorite books, Because of Winn Dixie:
Here is what I started with:
Hi, I'm Winn Dixie. Yep, I am named after a grocery store. Its really a funny story. You should read this book and find out how I got my name and how I became Opal's best friend. I came into Opal's life at just the right time and little did she know all she needed was a dog to help her find her way in her new town. This is a great summer adventure to read during your summer break!
Here is what I had time to say:
Hi, I'm Winn Dixie. Yep, I am named after a grocery store. Its really a funny story. You should read this book and find out how I got my name and how I became Opal's best friend. This is a great summer adventure to read during your summer break!
3. Open up Mad Lips app and take a photo of your book by selecting NEW.
4. Then select VIDEO and record. Be sure to hold your iPod steady because if the camera moves too much your lips will move out the "lip zone." After you have recorded, resize the oval to match the size of your lips. When set select DONE.
5. Now adjust the size of your lips to match the character you wish to have talking. You can change the size, rotate the mouth, and even blend to make it appear more realistic. You can also change the sound of the voice but the free version only has three choices (geek, normal, or creep). Not my idea of great choices. So I just keep it normal.
6. Then select DONE. At this point select SAVE and SHARE, then SHARE again. You will then need to write a title (I would have my students put their name here) and a frame. Then select DONE.


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The ad depicts a white Australian cricket fan subduing boisterous black West Indian fans by sharing his fried chicken.
"Need a tip when you're stuck in an awkward situation?" the Australian asks. "Too easy," he adds after the West Indian supporters surrounding him give up their celebrating to eat his KFC.
The spot, which foreshadows a much-anticipated clash between the two fiercely competitive cricketing nations, ran for three weeks without raising a ripple of complaint in Australia.
But when the ad spread via the Internet to the United States, some complained it played on a derogatory stereotypes of black Americans. Minstrel shows, which portrayed demeaning caricatures of blacks in the 19th and early 20th century, often showed them eating fried chicken.
There is no such association in Australia.
"These people, they're so unruly and uncivilized and so rowdy, jumping up and down," U.S. radio announcer Ana Kasparian said, in her criticism. "They just can't sit down unless you give them some ... fried chicken."
KFC, which is a sponsor of cricket in Australia, said in a statement on Thursday the ad was meant "tongue-in-check."
"We have been made aware that a KFC commercial being shown on Australian television has apparently caused offense, particularly in the United States, after a copy of the commercial was reproduced online without KFC's permission," the Louisville, Ky.-based company said.
"While we believe this lighthearted commercial has been well understood by Australian cricket fans, to avoid the possibility of any further offense being caused by the advertisement either here or online overseas, KFC will cease running the commercial immediately," it added.
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JonBenet shock: Newly released video of brother stuns viewers
Never before seen footage shows police interviewing brother of murdered six-year-old JonBenét Ramsay after her death in 1996.
The video, which aired this week on The Killing of JonBenet: The Truth Uncovered, Ramsay Burke reveals the last time he saw his sister alive.
'When is the last time you saw JonBenet alive?' the police investigator is seen asking Burke, reports the Daily Mail.
'Um....probably...in the car...tired and laying down,' he responds.
JonBenét was found murdered in her basement on December 26, 1996. The investigator asks Burke what he remembers from the day before, Christmas Day.
'What do you remember about that morning and about the fun things you were doing that day?' the investigator asks.
'I just remember her falling on the bike and sitting on it,' Burke responds.
'Your family, do they take a lot of pictures, as you're opening presents and stuff?' the investigator continues.
Yeah, we take it in turns, opening presents. Towards the end,we just kind of go for it,' Burke says.
Additionally, Burke is set to tell all in an exclusive interview with Dr Phil. Burke's interview with Dr. Phil will air on September 12, 13 and 14.


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Caponata-Style Fettuccine the Editors of Publications International, Ltd.
Caponata-Style Fettuccine
Makes 4 main-dish or 8 appetizer servings
|medium eggplant (about 1 pound), cut into 1/4-inch slices
|teaspoons salt, divided
|cup olive oil, divided
|small green bell pepper, cored, membrane removed and sliced
|medium onion, coarsely chopped
|cloves garlic, minced
|medium tomatoes (about 1 pound), seeded and coarsely chopped
|cup each raisins and halved pitted green olives
|cup balsamic or red wine vinegar
|tablespoons capers (optional)
|teaspoon each ground cinnamon and black pepper
|ounces fresh spinach fettuccine, cooked, drained and kept warm
|Fresh basil leaves for garnish
- Place oven rack at lowest position. Preheat oven to 450°F. Place eggplant slices in large colander over bowl; sprinkle with 1 teaspoon salt. Drain 1 hour.
- Place eggplant slices in a single layer on baking sheet or jelly-roll pan; brush both sides lightly with some of oil. Bake 10 minutes or until lightly browned on bottoms. Turn slices over; bake about 5 minutes more or until tops are lightly browned and slices are softened; set aside.
- Heat remaining oil in large skillet over medium-high heat. Add bell pepper to skillet; cook and stir 5 minutes or until pepper turns bright green. Remove pepper; set aside.
- Add onion and garlic to same skillet; cook and stir 5 minutes or until onion is soft. Add tomatoes, raisins, olives, vinegar, capers, cinnamon, black pepper and remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt. Cook until most of the liquid has evaporated.
- Cut roasted eggplant slices into quarters; add to tomato mixture. Add bell pepper; cook until heated through. Serve over fettuccine. Garnish, if desired.
Caponata is a Sicilian eggplant dish that can be served cold as an appetizer or on lettuce as a salad. Here it is made into a vegetarian sauce for pasta.
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So yeah, I wiki'd the page up and gave it a few less serious bits (progressively more exclamation points for the internet factor), but overall it's very serious and very boring. Someone, please liven this up! I am not a satirist! Sanfam 05:32, 28 Jul 2005 (UTC)
Well, i change the article, i just coined my article about the "cruzades" with this one...
TheQED123: This article is more or less absolute crap. It should have slightly wittier humour rather than wtf moments throughout. Can someone reasonably intelligent fix this article?
Article currently being reworked extensively. Some older stuff will survive but not much. --RomArtus*Imperator ® (Orate) 18:40, December 22, 2011 (UTC)
- Removed list of Crusades and created new article List of Crusades (best I could come up with). --RomArtus*Imperator ® (Orate) 17:14, July 16, 2012 (UTC)


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Nellie Cline Steenson - Biographical Sketch
Taken from obituary in the Idaho State Journal, April 6, 1984
Nellie Cline Steenson, 99, a prominent political figure in Pocatello history, died April 1, 1984, in a Pocatello nursing home.
She was born in 1886 to G. Polk Cline (whose name as a famous lawyer is a legend in the history of Kansas) and Maggie Ward Cline in Larned, Kansas. After attending schools in Larned, she went to finishing school in Kansas City, Mo., and graduated from Baker University in Baldwin, Kansas.
Her life from this point was taken up with the study of law. She was admitted to the state bar and was the first women who pleaded criminal cases orally in the state Supreme Court. She was elected as county attorney. With the passage in 1920 of the national Suffrage Amendment, Mrs. Steenson was elected one of the first four women ever to serve in the House of Representatives in Kansas. She introduced and succeeded in passing the first law in Kansas which gave protection to farm labor (Threshermen's Lien Law).
In 1943, Mrs. Steenson after the death of her husband, Jim, and her father, continued her political career in Idaho, having moved here in 1935. She was elected to the Idaho State House of Representatives and was the first woman to serve in the Idaho Senate. She then served for eight terms in the Idaho Legislature.
She succeeded in getting passed the first laws in Idaho calling for pensions for retired firemen and policemen, and session after session carried her bills in the state Senate for Social Security pensions for teachers. Many bills were carried by her for social health, sanitation, shorter hours and higher wages for women.
Mrs. Steenson's original purpose for entering the political field in Idaho was to help promote the University of Idaho, Southern Branch, located in Pocatello. She introduced the bill which resulted in the conversion of the two-year Southern Branch into a four-year school, Idaho State College. A bill to grant Idaho State College a master's degree status was then passed, leading to the university status. Another of her accomplishments was the introduction of the Indian Day Bill.
In 1953, Mrs. Steenson was one of 14 women from six states selected for a cruise by the U.S. Navy to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. She represented the state of Idaho.
Mrs. Steenson's book reviews were sought in many cities in the state.
She participated in many civic and social clubs, including PEO, DAR, BPW, Sigma Phi, international honorary member of Beta Sigma Phi, honorary member of Alpha Pi Omega, Rebekah Lodge, and Woman's Club. She was a member of the Christian Science Church.


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the boyfriend is finally home, and i was really upset and nervous to see him, as i didn't quite know how i felt. but he was being really nice and it made me feel even weirder. why couldn't he be like that before, when we were apart? anyway, we'll see how that one goes.


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For most of my life I have positively sucked as a gardener.
I didn't pay any attention to what my dad was doing in the garden as a surly and disinterested teen. Old Frank grew up farming and likely knew a thing or two, but he's dead now. That horse has fled the barn and taken generational knowledge with it.
I didn't think there was much to growing food when I put in my first vegetable garden behind my first house in Maple Ridge. There was a quite knowledgable gardener next door, not that I paid any attention to what he was doing.
The soil was full of clay and the Internet barely existed at the time. It was mostly called the Usenet.
These days you can got a lot of ideas online and a lot of answers to a lot of questions. Most of it is crap, but if you take the time to sift through the masses of unfiltered verbiage that characterizes the post-newspaper world of information you might learn something.
The trouble is that every patch of dirt in the world is a bit different from the next. You are the only expert on your patch. Sorry about that.
I did not handle my soil well at all. All my efforts to create loamy, nutritous soil resulted in something resembling weeds trapped in the cracks of an old asphalt road. We harvested a large quantity of green tomatoes and not a helluva lot else.
After a ten-year break – coinciding with my residency in East Van – I moved to the country and started to garden again, this time with far less hubris and far more humility.
Rather than clay, I had purchased an acre of fine gravel covered with overgrown sod and alder, former rainforest.
The first summer I nailed together a few 2X12s into boxes and brought in nursery soil. We ate some chard, chives and mixed lettuce greens. By fall I began to dig into the sod using a huge unweildy sieve – built from an old iron grate and scrap lumber – to remove the larger rocks and roots.
I was determined to suffer. Painstaking shovelling, hauling and sweating resulted in a strip of cleared earth about 6 feet wide and 20 feet long. I have repeated that process using the same horrible, painful technology about 15 times in the ensuing four-and-a-half years.
I once knocked myself silly when a fence post I was using to pry loose a boulder broke in half and hit me square on top of the head. I have thrown away three heavy duty pairs of rubber work boots and a dozen pairs of work socks.
If boulders ever go up in value I stand to become a very wealthy man.
What I am trying to say is that I finally know that to create living soil one must cherish every square foot of earth devoted to growing food. I have two plastic composters and four heaps of shredded leaves, vegetable trim and manure.
The leaves I rake from my yard and the neighbours and the rest I steal from the provincial park. The manure I take from the friendly couple around the corner who keep a menagerie of miniature farms animals for no obvious reason. I turn and sift my compost to aerate it, sometimes adding a home-crafted accelerant.
Composting is a religious experience for me. And five years in, I am almost getting it right.
After years of failing to grow edible radishes, I figured it out. I was doing everything wrong. Even the sage-sounding advice that I got from the Internet was completely wrong. It may have been right for whomever wrote it and their patch of dirt, but it was wrong for me.
The list of mistakes and failures goes on and on. Plants in the wrong place, with the wrong fertilizer, at the wrong time of year. So many things were wrong all at once that sometimes it was hard to figure which mistake caused the failure. The process of elimination has taken years.
Not that I'm succeeding at everything. Oh no.
I lost 12 cauliflower plants and eight broccoli to cabbage root maggot this spring. Leaf miners are devouring my kale. Replacements are spread isolated from each other all over the garden to stop them pests from spreading.
Slugs anihilated in just one night the parsley I nurtured for two months in the greenhouse. But I now have an inkling about where the slugs come from and I know that they won't eat tomatoes or potatoes. This is valuable intelligence that I can use to plan where certain plants go and where others cannot.
Planting radishes in the same bed that overwintered carrots was also a big mistake. Follow root crops with another root crop and you allow pests to accumulate in destructive numbers. The little worms in my first crop of radishes this spring were not especially appetizing.
Here are my rules for successful gardening:
1 There are no experts, only you and your patch of dirt. Pay attention to where the sun shines most and least. Scout wet leafy fringes where slugs will spend day before coming out to eat at night.
2 Pay attention to your failures. Your notebook is as important as your shovel. Draw a map of the garden and show where each different crop was planted. Date it and keep it so you can rotate crops to a different location on a minimum three-year cycle.
3 If you want to harvest all season, just plant a few seeds a week, but do it every week. Every time a summer plant comes out a fall crop goes in. Why not harvest through the winter?
4 Prepare your soil for planting and wait. When the weeds sprout, pull them out and then plant. All bare ground will eventually sprout unwanted plants. Keep your soil including paths covered with mulch or a green manure such as clover.
5 Build soil. It's a living thing, feed it only organic matter (and some lime). Compost first, then fertilizer. Compost alone is seldom enough to keep a garden really productive for more than a couple of years. I use canola seed meal for extra nitrogen. Alfalfa meal or pellets are also good. Bone meal is good too, especially for potatoes and tomatoes. (Google "green man fertilizer" for detailed instruction.)
6 Compost everything from the garden, the yard and the kitchen. See number 5.


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The claim came as part of an investigative report by CNN. Unnamed officials described a pattern of previous attacks in Benghazi as "Stand-off attacks with no follow up." By contrast, the 9/11 attack was "a whole paradigm shift for whichthere was no prior intelligence and there was no context to put inrelated to what was going on." In other words, we weren't ready for an attack this big.
Perhaps to emphasize the scale of the attack, an official claimed that even if Marines had been on hand it might not have mattered "More guards, or even a Marine detachment, the officials maintained, could not have curbed the lethal attack." Note that this is a quote from CNN, not a direct quote of the source, though they are clearly relating his words.
It's insulting and dismissive to suggest US Marines couldn't have made a difference. Reports suggest that as few as 20 and no more than 50 peoplewere involved in the consulate attack. The problem was that we had 4-8 Libyanguards and just 5 US security people in a compound with no interior gate and no guard towers. And when we did send in a security detachment from Tripoli by helicopter that night reports suggest that they were able to fight off the attack and rescue remaining staff. It would not have taken manyMarines to balance the scales and perhaps result in a very different outcome.
Yesterday, Jay Carney announced "It is, I think, self-evident that what happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack."This is just the latest shift in a series that seem designed atdeflecting blame. What is truly self-evident is that the administrationhas been trying very hard to avoid taking responsibility for thesecurity failure that led to the first killing of a US Ambassador in 30years. The administration was happy to let the press obsess overRomney's comments for the first couple days. Then they claimed it was aprotest gone wrong and blamed a You Tube clip. Now they're claiming noamount of security, not even the Marines, couldn't have stopped whathappened. You may notice the pattern here: It's always about whatsomebody else did or couldn't have done.


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Our View: Commissioners: Set aside differences and show results
We are quickly approaching the two-year mark since the horrific fire that deprived the county of some of its history and consumed the courthouse. There have been countless meetings, contracts and promises, and yet we have nothing to show for it.
We believe it is time to set our differences aside and make decisions to replace what was lost May 4, 2016.
A lot has occurred since the fire, but a common denominator in all of it is that with every step forward, there have been two steps back. It didn't start like that. In fact, in the beginning things appeared to be progressing well.
In less than a month, the county was discussing salvaging documents, rebuilding and providing temporary offices for employees.
However, one of the first setbacks occurred when ServPro, the emergency restoration company contracted by the insurance company, delivered temporary office units equipped with electric rather than the planned natural gas heating, requiring additional time and expense to upgrade the service.
The temporary units are just an example of the stumbling blocks the county, its residents and commissioners have faced during this process. There were also delays in demolition and wasted meetings with architects for plans that were later scrapped by the commissioners. This cost the county approximately $60,000 out of its general fund because the commissioners did not read their contract, and added many days to the reconstruction process.
The county's insurance company stepped up to the plate and backed the county's policy, shoring up all the costs involved with employee displacement after the fire, the demolition and a sizeable amount that was intended to pay for the reconstruction.
However, it appears that these delays have managed to burn through a good portion of the approximately $2.1 million in coverage, plus an additional $700,000 in riders for things like document restoration. According to a recent report from the county treasurer, there is about $1 million remaining on the county's books from the insurance settlement.
Now, commissioners are in danger of burning through the remaining money if they let the process drag on. We estimate the commissioners have met at least once a month since the fire to discuss the rebuilding process. If that is true, those meetings alone have cost the county more than $5,400 in per diems alone.
To speed things along, it was a smart move to consult with a professional in the industry, something that should have been done at the beginning of the process. However, the perceived conflict of interest in hiring the chairwoman's husband for that role should have raised a few red flags. Because of his hiring, Chairwoman Olsen has to abstain from many votes — rightfully so — but this often results in stalemates between the remaining commissioners.
But what's done is done, and from all appearances, no wrongs have been done as Will Olsen carries out his job. In fact, in terms of expenses and setbacks in the reconstruction process, Mr. Olsen has been what some might call a bargain. According to county documents, Mr. Olsen has cost the county little more than his travel expenses. In fact, in one instance he saved the county money by billing only $81.60 and using air miles to pay for the majority of his estimated $600 flight.
The only setback occurring regarding Mr. Olsen is others' attitude toward him. It's good to question matters of conflict of interest, but when no harm has been done, there is a time to set it aside and let the work continue.
On the other hand, his wife, LaNita Olsen, has the ability to cause setbacks because, while she may be abstaining from votes, her input in comments and discussions about the process may cause a legitimate conflict of interest. While not required legally, we feel her abstention should extend to discussion.
The fact that ground has not even been broken on rebuilding the courthouse is absolutely shameful, especially since the county is home to many skilled builders with the ability to raise massive structures in a short time.
It is time for the fighting and bickering to stop. The time for dreaming is done. The commissioners need to make a decision, put a plan in motion and serve the residents of the county. And they need to make sound fiscal decisions with the taxpayers' dollars.
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This week's opinion piece (January 25, 2018) pushes a narrative that this current group of commissioners are incompetent. It is so far from the truth. However I do believe that most people are entitled to their own opinion (like the Herald), even when it is wrong (like the Herald). That said the commissioners are trying real hard to make the best of a bad situation (courthouse burn & build). Now I bet the author of this piece got "some" of the raw data from the Treasurer's office but got most of the politics from the left side trailer office.
So here is the rest of the truth…. After the Courthouse burned down in May 2016 (this was also an election year), the first "group" of commissioners appointed a committee of the "gang of 18" of Mio's best and brightest brains. It was a great attempt at group consensus, but it was too big and too late in the building season to break ground…. and 12 people too many to make any meaningful decisions so late in the year.
[Oh that $60,000 spent by the WTA, that occurred before LaNita was even a commissioner. Yet at the tale end (yes, its a tale) of this opinion piece, it implies that LaNita was involved with this $60,000 WTA transaction and host of other bad decisions. The tale is all about political character assassination on the chair for decisions made before her term.]
Continuing on… our humble county has the 2016 election with three new commissioners elected. And swiftly moving on to a 2017 New Year the commissioners have new set of ideas and challenges for the courthouse build. I will say at this time it's literally "back to the drawing board" cliché.
With the new set of commissioners and Brandy Wright as the chair (she did previously fill-in for Bob Boerner's seat), there came a series of meetings where the public was graciously invited to attend, to ask questions, to pick the commissioners brain and even make their input known. This was and is "open govt" at its best.
As chair, Brandy should be commended for moving the Board of Commissioners in a direction to get the county involved. Really involved. One of the "supposed controversial decisions" was to get Will Olsen involved in the courthouse build. It should be noted that it was Brandy Wright who made the recommendation to bring in Will Olsen as a RFP consultant. The commissioners all weighed in and Will was brought on board to get things going.
Let me say right here that the decision to bring in Will was made public with a series of very public meetings. Which until recently no one in the county made a stink about. Not the commissioners (who voted for Will), not the public nor the Michigan Association of Counties (MAC). Even the MAC lawyer saw no laws broken. There is no conflict of interest. So then there is no there, there…..
[Will Olsen, who is married to Commissioner LaNita Olsen, works for Bechtel Construction. He was working on the project on his own time, taking no fees for his services, and was not working on the project on behalf of Bechtel. However, the board did pay for Olsen's flight from Texas to attend the meeting. As written by Nick Powers from the Herald April 20 editions.]
[2nd Note: recently certain people (including the Herald) have tried to push for the "conflict of interest" narrative regarding Will Olsen and LaNita Olsen, husband and wife. These loud mouths were never at any of these early meetings to get the full story. So with only a half a story to go by, they conveniently filled it in with misguided quotes. But I digress.]
In April 2017, Brandy resigned as chair for a job that was offered to her by her good friend, the prosecuting attorney. This is where LaNita Olsen became the chair (she certainly didn't ask for this hot seat, the chair). Nonetheless LaNita was voted in as the chair and as such, was able to continue Brandy's good work and move the Courthouse build forward into a positive direction.
Yet somehow this week's opinion piece from the Herald saw issue with picking Will as the point man for the Courthouse build. In the article it just had to mention LaNita and Will Olsen by name. As if to deliberately deny her any chance of getting reelected. I also think the Herald should look into its journalistic standards as it forgets there are other players (i.e. politicians) who are trying desperately to negatively tear apart our county.
Recently there have been allegations regarding some instances of nepotism and cronyism. I pray that it is not happening because if it is, then this would explain the recent attempts to besmirch the chair's reputation. Perhaps the paper should investigate that or better yet, the many years of ambulance mismanagement. Again this way before LaNita was elected commissioner.
About Will Olsen: he is a Navy veteran where he was involved in the nuclear industry. Honorably discharged.
About LaNita Olsen: she is a Navy veteran who was also involved in the nuclear industry. Also honorable discharge.
It seems that certain people in the Oscoda County govt (and maybe the Herald) don't like veterans. I believe that is the bottom line narrative… their hatred for veterans. This, then is my opinion, and it is correct one.
While I appreciate the unknown "author(s)" of this article opinions, it would have served the community further if the article would have stated where we are at currently instead of the shortcomings of the past. With being said, where are we at in this rebuild process? As voted by the Board of Commissioners (B.O.C.) and published in the January 23, 2018 synopsis of B.O.C Minutes there will be a "Special B.O.C. meeting held on February 6th at 6 pm where the B.O.C. will have the opportunity to vote on the Basic Schematic Design of the new facility and make any final changes. This is the last major hurdle in the rebuild process as it will establish the basic outline and size of each department and where they will be located in the new facility. That being said, what it will not address is "hot button" topics like windows, interior or exterior design as those are all matters of opinions and not legal requirements or important to the intended function of the building which is serving the community.
Over this next week, I will be reaching out to each department again to make sure the space provided to their department meets the legal requirements for that departments space and that it will serve the community as intended.
I would like to thank the following departments for not interjecting "me, my or I" "wants" into the discussions and providing the requested and necessary information about the applicable departments space requirements:
• Mr. Guthrie – Equalization
• Mr. Wakeley – Housing
• Mr. Welser – Veteran's Affairs
• Mr. Kauffman – Information Technology
• Mrs. Hudson – Department of Corrections
• Mr. Kendall – Treasurer
In addition I would also like to thank Sheriff Grace for providing guidance on security and emergency considerations.
To Mr. Franklin, while I appreciate the defense in your rebuttal to the author(s) please contact me as the community could use your successful editorial and publishing skills to regularly post updates on what will be a new page on the county website aimed at informing the public on updates to the rebuild process.
As always and as published since April 2017, I am available for any questions or concerns at email@example.com
William Olsen
Enjoyed reading all entries on the opinion page. However, I take issue with Ben Franklin's last statement about veteran haters.
Also have concern with Mr. Olsen's authority to invite Mr. Franklin to be editor of new web page on county website. If, in fact this is real who gave Mr. Olsen permission to do so, was under the impression that Mr. Olsen was a contract manager for new build, not a working employee of the county that can make this type of statement. If it is true, I believe the commissioners put a hiring freeze on during January meeting, bottom line would you not think that a position like this should be posted.


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Obviously, I had my opinion about the regime of Mullahs. And this view was the reason I wanted to give my support to Iranian women. The news about the bombing of Camp Liberty, the dead and the very many wounded, many permanently disabled, probably had occupied few minutes on the local news, perhaps the story about some metrological disaster and perhaps robbery at the supermarket. Unfortunately, what is not known or does not appear in the media does not exist for the public opinion.
At the Women's Day event, I could put a face to the suffering of thousands of Iranians, whose life is in danger right now for the sole reason of not wanting to be resigned to live under political oppression. People who, under the leadership of Madam Rajavi, believe strongly that it is not true that in North Africa and the Middle East, they necessarily need to choose between secular dictatorship and religious fundamentalism.
It is not true. People who believe that it is possible for another kind of government that respects human rights and freedom of conscious, in which the woman is not the second class citizen. Their own alternative board of Iranian people, not imposed or suggested.


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