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Photo Essay: Two Weeks around Northern Morocco
Winter sun is always great, especially when you're escaping the grey winter days of London. I had found a reasonably cheap return flight to Fes and decided to book myself a 2 week trip to Northern Morocco over New Years.
The previous year Emily and I had done a 10 day trip to Morocco in which we'd covered Marrakech, Essaouria and a 3 day trip out to the Sahara desert. This had started my love of the country and I'd been itching to get back to see some more.
As Emily was going to Australia for a month to visit her sister this time I was going solo. Having survived driving an auto-rickshaw 2000 miles across India a year earlier I was excited to see if my travel mentality for the crazy hustle and bustle of the country had changed since the first trip.
After some planning I settled on a rough loop around Northern Morocco but as with any trip things change and after not particularly enjoying the feel of Tangier I left a day early and popped down to Asilah for a night. So my final route ended up being:
Fes –> Chefchaouen –> Tangier –> Asilah –> Rabat –> Meknes –> Moulay Idriss –> Fes
Below is a selection of my favourite shots from the two week trip. I've tried to add helpful captions to the images but as always let me know if you want any more info on any of them.
After visiting Marrakech the previous year, Fes felt like a much more authentic and genuine Moroccan city. I had a fantastic few days in the city, getting horribly lost in the medina only to pop out somewhere I knew or recognised. I feel the only way to really explore Fes is to just wander and get lost. As usual I had offline maps downloaded onto my phone so if I got really lost I'd at least be able to pinpoint where I was, it didn't help at all with actually getting around the maze as the GPS signal jumped around so much that it was almost useless.
Chefchaouen is an incredible town up in the mountains. Famed for being the hashish capital of Morocco and most known online for it's highly Instagram worthy pretty blue streets. I spent several days, including New Years Eve, walking up into the surrounding hills and appreciating the chilled out vibe and laid back tourists the town attracted.
I'm afraid to say I didn't particularly love Tangier, before I'd arrived I'd already heard from several people that it's a love or hate city so I was interested to go in with an open mind and make my own decision. Sadly as with many industrial port cities it felt a bit too raw and rough around the edges for me. After initially planning to spend two full days exploring the city I ended up cutting my time here short and jumping on the train down to Asilah for a night instead.
Asilah was a breath of fresh air and backed up my earlier decision to leave Tangier. It's a beautiful small coastal town, known for it's bohemian vibe and pretty white washed houses in the medina. Due to the large community of artists living in Asilash you find murals adorn many of the walls. I spent my time meandering around admiring these pieces, which ranged from tiny little doodles up to full walls.
The capital city of Morocco, Rabat, is surprisingly only it's 7th largest city. This actually works well for it giving the city a more relaxed vibe to it's bigger brothers such as Fes and Marrakech. There is plenty to see here if you aren't content with just wandering including a fantastic Kasbah, a ruined roman town and of course the open expanse of the ocean.
Moulay Idriss and Volubilis
From my research it seems that most people swing through Moulay Idriss on a day trip combining the town and Volubilis. I decided I wanted to give the town a bit more of a chance and I was glad I did. Although there isn't a huge amount going on I really enjoyed just drinking tea and watching local people go about their daily business.
Another reason for staying the night was so that I could get up nice and early and make my way over to the sprawling ruined roman city of Volubilis before the tour groups from Fes and Meknes arrived.
Meknes was my last stop on my whistle stop tour of Northern Morocco. Meknes had a strange feel to it, it seemed to fit somewhere between the hustle of Fes and the relaxed feel of Chefchaouen or Asilah. I spent a few days wandering around checking out the main tourist sites and coming to the realisation that I'd soon be back at my office desk in London.
And that wraps up the two week loop. Going back this time I felt I was in a much better mindset to deal with the occasional hassle. I also really enjoyed getting out my comfort zone a bit, partly by travelling solo and also by exploring parts of cities we probably would have avoided on our first trip.


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The invasion of Iraq in my opinion was George W Bush trying to finish the war his father started years before. In the face of glaring evidence there were no WMD's. The world knew it, we all knew it. It made us look like a war hungry country who is willing to do what ever it wants, when ever it wants at any cost. And the cost was thousands of dead soldiers, and thousands more wounded both physically and mentally. Also a crushing debt to help pay for it.
The war was a complete disaster, and the world sees that. Also, America just looks overly aggressive when dealing with its problems. America invaded Iraq with the information that they had weapons of mass destruction, which they did not find. This made them look inept as well as quite dumb.
While the administration in the US saw a clear threat in Iraq, the connection made in the rest of the world was 9/11 led to invading Iraq - something that can be strongly argued, and is also somewhat random and definitely ill conceived. The rest of the world saw a random American invasion.
Yes, I think the 2003 invasion of Iraq had a negative effect on how the world views America. It showed the world that we have no problem upending the most ancient or stable cultures for the sake of enriching our defense contractors. It made things worse for us in the Middle East.
No, I do not think that the 2003 invasion of Iraq had a negative effect on how the world views America, because the world doesn't like America anyways. If they weren't criticizing us for that, they'd be criticizing us for something else. America cannot constantly worry about what the rest of the world thinks of us.


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Here are some recent photos taken from the MI (Musicians Institute) Success Story video series. Ignacio Val & Eric Knight were recently invited down to MI (both former students) to talk about their experiences at the school and to give advice to prospective new students. Below are photos of Eric & Ignacio during the shoot.
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In the book I explain that for some men, it can be the pressure to perform, masturbating to porn is less stressful, this is quite common with men that have performance issues. That can be one issues. Other men have explained that they had a secret fetish that they felt their wife may not understand. It could also be that what he is viewing on the screen is more stimulating. Some suggestions that I point out in the book is to talk about what turns him on and find out if the two of you can explore some of that in your sex life.
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Stephen Curry (groin) due for MRI after exiting Warriors' first home loss
Steve Kerr refused to blame injuries, even one to star Stephen Curry, for the end of the Warriors' eight-game winning streak Thursday.
The Bucks beat the NBA champions, 134-111, as Golden State lost at home for the first time this season with Draymond Green (sprained toe) out and Curry leaving in the third quarter with a left adductor strain.
"I'm not nervous. I have nothing to go off of. If this was an ankle, I could tell you four days, 12 days," Curry told The Undefeated after the game (via ESPN.com). "But I will see [Friday]. … I've honestly never done this before, so I have nothing to go off of."
Asked for an early read on Curry's groin strain, Kerr told reporters after the game: "I don't [have an update]. I think he's going to get an MRI [Friday]."
But the coach's main concern was with Golden State's complacency as it fell to 10-2, hoping the loss to the Bucks (9-2) will provide a reminder of the difficulties of the NBA.
"I don't think it had to do with Draymond [being absent]. It had to do with our overall focus," Kerr said.
"Obviously Draymond gives us everything that he does, but when you come out with a mindless intent and you're fouling and not executing against a really good team — a team that's hungry and on the rise — you're not going to fare very well.
"It was about our approach. Sometimes you've got to get hit in the mouth in this league to remind you how hard it is to win a game. I think that's what happened.
On to the next, #DubNation pic.twitter.com/n4ULIXFm0R— Golden State Warriors (@warriors) November 9, 2018
"I think we got a little complacent. We won the last eight, were feeling pretty good about ourselves, and it's one of those nights. It happens during the NBA season.
"It's a long year and we were playing a great team who lost just two nights ago in Portland [against the Trail Blazers].
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"The word 'bucolic' has a powerful connotation in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. When RJ Reynolds Tobacco, a company that began and grew in Winston-Salem, bought Nabisco in the '80s, its new head, F. Ross Johnson, moved the company headquarters to Atlanta, because it was 'nouveau riche' and Winston-Salem was too 'bucolic.' " 'Proud to be bucolic' […]
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"How do I get started learning more about blockchain?" is one of the questions I hear most often. Elena spent a couple of weeks working from the DFINITY office and was inspired to learn more. In this video, we talk about how she approached it and what tools she used. Dive in if you're also wondering how you can get started.
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Welcome back to yet another episode of Inside DFINITY. Today we have a bit of a special set up – next to me is not any of DFINITY's team members, but Elena. Elena is my girlfriend. She does not work in crypto, but I think we had a bit of an impact on her. She's been working out of DFINITY office on her own stuff, but she's definitely had a bit of a crypto influence over the past two weeks.
Elena usually works in SEO – Search Engine Optimization. So she helps companies to appear further up on the Google results list. But this week she cleared her calendar to educate herself on crypto. I wanted her to come out to the show and talk about her experience and how she progressed; what she looked at, what she learned in that time. Because I think it's a common question that I get, "How can I get started and how do I find out what all these cryptic terms mean? How can I figure out what to make of all these 15 hundred different currencies that are currently listed on pages like CoinMarketCap. So maybe we'll start with that.
First Exposure to Blockchain
Cédric: First of all, when did you first hear about crypto and blockchain?
Elena: I first heard about Bitcoin actually a while ago in 2012. I used some bitcoins for transaction but didn't have any clue about the whole system, what it's capable of, this whole new world of blockchain. I didn't know anything about it and forgot about it later after the transaction. Then I started to get more into it through Cedric actually, when he started to talk about conferences, about DFINITY and I already felt that it's a big thing. But still didn't have any clue. Then, I started to ask people on how to get started on crypto; this was actually not very easy because no one could really give me an answer.
Cédric: I think it's actually interesting that the first time you got in touch with Bitcoin was not because you were speculating or you were fascinated after technology, but you actually used it to buy something real.
How to Buy Bitcoins
Cédric: Do you remember how you bought those Bitcoins? How did you find your seller at the time because I think it was not through an exchange back then and it must have been peer-to-peer?
Elena: I actually googled for people who sold the bitcoins and, then, went to someone's apartment and purchased my bitcoins actually there. I gave some money and in exchange he made the transaction.
Cédric: Cool. I think it's interesting that back then again, this was six years ago, but it feels like a lot longer. It feels interesting that back then when there weren't even real exchanges, or very few of those that are big and popular today.
Elena: What was funny about this is that when I was searching for people who sold bitcoins, it was actually very hard to find someone; in the whole city of Vienna there were only two people who were doing this. I think right now, it will be way-way more.
Cédric: Now we've come a long way since then. Six years later, you could call it bubbles or, at least, like there's been at least two periods, where people were extremely long or bullish on Bitcoin. I think especially 2017 due to the fact that the prices of Bitcoin and Ethereum rose so much. There's a lot of public attention, in return the price drove again. It's been a lot of exchanges. Even though it's way easier now to get your hands on Bitcoin on buying different currencies, I think it's still very hard to grasp what these currencies can actually do and what the technology is behind them. So you've obviously seen me, joined DFINITY and became excited about the decentralized technology and decentralized applications. But even for me sometimes it's hard to explain very basic concepts – sometimes I feel like I'm on a very high level talking about concepts or things are changing very rapidly.
Courses on Blockchain
Cédric: You've decided to take this week off and investigate blockchain, more research and the concepts of blockchain and all the different currencies, and some of their challenges that are associated with some of the principles and concepts out there. Before you did this week, I'm sure you've also tried to just more casually pick it up along the way. We've talked about this before, you've asked me how can I learn about the blockchain and we looked at few different courses and ways of reading and learning about it. What were some of the experiments or ways you've researched the technology before? To what degree did it work out vs. failed?
Elena: Well, I started by just asking around anyone that was involved in the crypto and blockchain about how to get started because I thought, maybe someone would have a really good tip and some really good sources. But actually it was very hard to find some valuable information because no one could really tell me where to inform myself and many people would tell me sources and then warned me about many misleading information. But not really tell me how I could distinguish the good and not good sources.
Wikipedia Info on Blockchain
Elena: This was actually quite hard. What I started to do then was just reading through the Wikipedia, which was very good. However, the information was not very structured, not in the sense that I could grasp the whole topic just by reading Wikipedia, I would get a very fragmented view on blockchain. I felt like many information was missing and I couldn't connect all the articles together and all the dots together. So this is why I decided to do this crypto week to get more into that and combine all the information.
Cédric: I've made a similar observation. I think the Wikipedia is great to drill down into one term or one concept, but to get started on a completely new area of research, it's sometimes hard, but this is not a linear path. So you start somewhere and then there's like three branches, and you go in all three and there's more tangents from all of these leaves. So it can be very a cluttered process or, at least, not very straight forward way of getting from zero knowledge to somewhere close to 100 percent or even 80 percent of certain area.
Elena: It all depends also on who wrote the article on Wikipedia. There are many authors. They have different writing styles – some are easier, some are harder to understand. So I would say these are good sources to look up certain key words or certain elements of the blockchain that you don't understand. But for grasping the whole topic, it's actually very, very hard on the Wikipedia.
Courses on Blockchain
Cédric: Okay and so I know you've done a bit of research before this week when you decided, you wanted to take a bit of time off from your regular job to invest into accumulating more knowledge in this area. How did you go about that and what were the outcomes? What was your learning? How did you structure your process?
Elena: As someone who works in SEO I, of course, started googling around for the best, actually, courses on blockchain because I feel like a course is something more structured and easier for me, actually it is, to learn the topic then just to read certain articles on different topics. So, I found some sources and some nice courses. There are different kinds actually for developers, for people in the financial industry, some general information, etc. There are so many that I really had to look for the best ones. I think I found that.
UDEMY Courses on Blockchain
Cédric: We probably have all gone on Google and we've looked for blockchain courses or crypto 101. I know I've talked in a previous vlog episode; I've talked about my favorite podcast, which was something that helped me to get the key insights. But I've never gone through a course that takes you from zero knowledge to a hundred. What's the course that you've chosen to follow? How do you find it? What was your experience so far?
Elena: Actually I found two courses that I really liked on Udemy. There was one that it was only a three-hour course. So there was some general information, like what is a miner, what is a token, what's protocol, what are coins. This helped me to get an overview. Then, I started another course that was also on Udemy. It's called Blockchain A to Z and this was actually very nice. It was divided in three different parts – the knowledge part always within these three parts, and there's a second part, where practical aspects come in, and the practical aspects were coding your own blockchain, your own coins or your own currency and then creating also your own smart contract.
Elena: The first course gave me a good overview, and the second one really gave me some insights on how the technical aspects really are and how everything really works. I felt like this is something not just for developers but really for anyone, who's interested in the topic. And the second part was then, of course, developing with Python. I'm not that familiar with it and I know some general concepts. But the way it was explained, it was super-super easy for me to actually create my own blockchain. This is amazing because this happened already on the end of my first day of learning about blockchain. So imagine I would go from almost zero or almost nothing to creating my own blockchain in one day. So I would really recommend that course.
Blockchain Knowledge
Cédric: Well, thank you so much. So I think we're going to wrap it up here. What I've heard so far is a bit about how you first used Bitcoin back in 2012 to actually buy something which is, I think, a lot of people that hold actually Bitcoin have actually never done. They have never exchanged Bitcoin for something in the real world. Then, this week you've done a bit of research to find courses to go from zero to as close to a hundred percent in blockchain knowledge as possible. I think the approach you have taken really resonates with me – one high level course, it's a kind of quick to establish the landscape and a longer course to dive in.
I really like that the course also has a part, where you apply what you learn in theory. I think very often all that theory, especially if we see the math formulas, feel so abstract and complicated but when you get to actually implement the small protocol, blockchain and stuff on top of it, I think, it makes stuff a lot more accessible and easily understandable. Thanks so much. I'm sure we're going to catch up towards the end of the week. We'll make sure to capture some of your findings as well and for now have fun with your courses. And we'll talk soon. Thank you.


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After a long sabbatical, I plan to post new snippets with some holiday recipes from around the world. May your upcoming holiday preparations be interesting and fun. Stay happy and healthy until I write again.
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Gingerbread Cookies
I've used this gingerbread cookie recipe for a long time to make gingerbread men and women, and also to put together gingerbread houses for the Christmas season. If done right, it makes up into a dough that cooks up crisply and that will hold up to the rigors of being frosting glued into a holiday gingerbread house. I'm not wonderful using pastry bags to frost too finely, so I resort to using those plastic tubes of frosting that can be found in the baking section of a supermarket. They come in all colors and some even have changeable tips to make different decorating effects for the finished cookies. Use whatever shape of cookie cutters move you, but I still prefer the gingerbread men and Santa's to make gingerbread shapes that can be punched with a hole and hung as decorations, too. The recipe is as follows:
1/4 lb. pound unsalted butter (not margarine)
1 cup molasses
1 cup brown sugar
4 cups all-purpose flour
1 large egg well beaten
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons dried ginger powder
1/4 cup boiling water
Cream butter and sugar until blended and light. Add the egg and molasses. Mix well. Dissolve the baking soda in the boiling water. Sift the flour with the salt and ginger powder and add the hot water to the first mixture and then stir this into the dry ingredients. Chill this for at least one hour. Roll the dough very thin and cut with a cookie cutter of your choosing which has been dipped in flour. Bake in 375 degree Fahrenheit oven for approximately 15 minutes being careful to watch closely as these can burn quickly. Cookies should be firm but not overly browned.
Cookies can be used as walls and roof for a gingerbread house with either a pre-bought kit or cut freehand from your own pattern.
Serving amount dependent on size of your cookie cutters. I use a 2 inch cutter. You can also make ornament shaped ones using a 2 inch glass rim dipped in flour and then decorated with sugar frosting and sprinkles.
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And busily all the night
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With a silence deep and white.
Hanukkah (with recipe)
The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah (Chanukah) takes place this year from the evening of December 8th through to the evening of December 16th, 2012.
Hanukkah is a happily celebrated holiday that starts on the 25th day of Kivlis (according to the Georgian calendar and is dated based upon the cycles of moon. Hanukkah is also referred to as the Festival of Lights and is usually celebrated on a date falling somewhere around November into December. It takes place for eight days and nights. The festival is in celebration of the rededication of the 'Temple of Jerusalem' – or Temple of Menorah in 165 B.C by Judas McCabe. The word Hanukkah in translation means 'dedication' in Jewish.
During the Hanukkah celebration in the eight successive nights, the menorah is lit. The special menorah that is used by celebrants is called the 'hannukkiyah'. The special ninth candle that is used is called the 'shamish and it takes a central space on the menorah. It is the 'servant' candle used to light the other candles. On night one, the first candle is lit and they are lit successively until all are completely lit on the eighth night. The candles are usually lit from left to right. A blessing thanking God is usually said before and after a candle lighting. A Jewish hymn is sung during the lightings. The menorah is often placed in a front window of the celebrants home.
Gift giving has become the norm and gifts are now given on each of the days of Hanukkah. This is a more recent tradition Games are played during Hanukkah including 'sivivon' and 'dreidel'. Foods fried in oil such as latkes and donuts filled with jams are very often served. Of the many foods served during the celebration, honey spice cookies are popular among children and following is a recipe that I used for a bake sale held at a local temple some years ago. I share it below:
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup margarine (60% oil), softened
1/2 cup honey
1 large egg
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 1/2 teaspoons ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoons ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 beaten egg whites
2 1/2 cups confectioners sugar
Tablespoon of lemon juice
In mixing bowl, cream margarine and brown sugar with electric mixer. Beat in the honey and egg until thoroughly combined. In a small bowl, mix the flour, ginger, cinnamon, baking soda, nutmeg, cloves and salt. Add honey mixture and mix on low speed until well blended. Cover up the dough and refrigerate for at least 1 hour. Can be refrigerated for up to two days.
When ready to bake, grease 2 large cookie sheets and set aside. Working rapidly, quarter the dough, and one piece at a time roll out on a surface dusted with flour to a 1/4 inch thickness. Using shaped cookie cutters (star, dreidel and menorah) cut into desired number of cookies depending on size of cutters. These can also be cut by hand with sharp knife. Reshape scraps and cut more cookies from it. Place on shapes on greased baking sheets and bake in a 350 degree oven for 7-8 minutes or until golden. Quantity of cookies may vary due to size of cookie cutters. Transfer cookies to wire baking racks to cool.
To frost cookies – In large mixing bowl, combine egg whites, confectioners sugar, salt and lemon juice. Beat this on high until mixture forms peaks. A bit of water can be added if too stiff or add more sugar if too runny. Using pasty bag with fitted tube, decorate with icing.
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Chocolate Liqueur
Here's a quick recipe for a liqueur that can be used for any special occasion. I've found it an easy recipe to make and it is can be enjoyed after things have settled down after your holiday meal.
In a saucepan, mix together the sugar and corn syrup, stirring occasionally. Bring the mixture to a boil over medium heat, being careful not to burn it. Remove from heat and let stand for 30 minutes. Mix in the vodka; stir in the
vanilla and chocolate extracts. Pour finished liqueur into glass bottles with corks or into other fancy glass containers. Cover and let stand for 2 or more days for the flavor to develop.
This is good served with a shortbread cookie or Biscotti's.
Scrappy Pie
Remembrance Day falls this year in Canada on November 11th. Some provinces and territories celebrate it, also, on November 12th. My Dad hails from Newfoundland, and at times he made what he called scrappy pie to celebrate it. It is on Remembrance Day there that Canadians remember all of the fallen soldiers from past wars.
My great-uncle Charles was killed in Belgium in the first World War and is buried where he was killed defending his fallen comrades. His name is called out and his memory is saluted by a contingent of military members at Parliament every year on this day. For this I simply give you my father's Americanized version of Scrappy Pie (or Newfoundland Seafood Pie):
Potato topping ingredients: 1 cup all purpose flour, 1/2 cup fresh mashed potato, 4 ounces butter, 1 tablespoon milk, 2 Tablespoons dried breadcrumbs.
Filling: 16 ounces whitefish (cod, haddock, whiting or your choice), large cooked shrimp (8 ounces), 1 small onion- chopped fine, 1 cup frozen peas, 2 tablespoons fresh parsley – chopped fine, zest of a lemon – grated, 1/4 cup cornstarch, 2 cups milk.
Sift flour into a large bowl. Using a pastry blender or fork, mix this with the mashed potato until thoroughly blended. Blend in the butter, then draw into a dough, adding a bit of water until dough sticks together. Wrap dough in pastic and chill in the refrigerator for 1/2 hour.
Prepare filling by cutting fish into chucks and putting them into a 10 inch pie pan or baking dish. Mix in the seafood, onions, peas, parsley and zest. Blend the cornstarch with a bit of milk in a bowl. Heat the remaining milk almost to boiling and stir it into the cornstarch mixture. Return mixture to pan and stir until the mixture thickens. Add seasoning and pour over fish filling. Cool for 20 minutes. Bring oven to 400F (200C).
Roll out the dough between sheets of wax paper to overlap to of pie plate. Remove the top of the waxed paper and use the bottom sheet to help position dough on top of seafood mixture.
Press dough around edges of pan and clean up the edges. Slash center of pie with small knife to vent steam. Brush the crust with milk and sprinkle liberally with plain breadcrumbs.
Put pie on a baking sheet Bake for 10 minutes – then drop temperature to 350F (180C). Bake for 30 minutes or until golden brown.
My father cooked this for us when we were very young and it's the closest I can come to the original recipe. I sought out Scrappy Pie recipes everywhere to no avail, so if someone could forward me more from the great nation of Canada, I would greatly appreciate it.
May you stay safe and sound on Remembrance Day. And to my remaining Newfoundland cousins, may the sea treat you right and the cod keep running.
Old Hartford Election Cake
I've decided to share with my readers a recipe for Election Cake that is interesting in that there are a few very old variations that have not differed too much throughout the years. The citron has been adjusted and you may use an extract in place of the pure brandy. Just add 1 teaspoon of the extract instead of the 1/4 cup of brandy.
I'm offering this recipe in honor of the upcoming U.S. elections to be held next Tuesday, November 6th. This will decide who our next President will be and will shape the course our nation will take for the next four years. Even though Election Day is not considered one of the national holidays here in America, it is a day of grave decision and reflection as Americans cast their votes. If you have a night of poll watching or an election day function to arrange perhaps this cake might be a novel treat to serve to your guests.
OLD HARTFORD ELECTION CAKE 1 Tablespoon margarine (or other shortening) 1 package regular rise yeast 1 Tablespoon sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 1/2 cups flour 1/2 cup margarine (or other shortening) 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup warm water 2 well beaten large eggs 1 teaspoon lemon rind (grated fine) 1 teaspoon lemon juice 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract 3/4 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg 1/4 teaspoon salt 3/4 cup chopped citron 3/4 cup all-purpose flour 3/4 cup brandy (or omit and use 1 tsp. brandy extract) Dissolve yeast in lukewarm water. Add one tablespoon butter, salt, sugar and 1 1/4 cups of flour, mixing thoroughly. Set this aside in a warm place to rise overnight. Blend the 1/2 cup of margarine and cup of sugar and beat until light. Add eggs, raising, citron, lemon rind, lemon extract and juice. Sift together the flour, salt, baking soda, and nutmeg. Add this to first mixture, adding some brandy or extract slowly into mix. Combine raised dough with cake dough and pour into greased pan. Let rise in warm place for one hour or until dough, pressed with finger, indents and is risen. Bake in 350 degree oven for one hour While the cake is still warm, spread with icing made of confectioners sugar dissolved in enough warm water to make a spreading consistency. TO CELEBRATE OUR RIGHT TO VOTE!!
Today brings a normalization of the weather here in New England after the monster hurriane, Sandy, hit our shores. We give thanks to God that we were spared, in my hometown, the devastation that struck the coast farther south of here, especially in the states of New York and New Jersey. Our prayers go out to those whose lives were disastrously affected by the hurricane everywhere along the eastern seaboard.
Today, for everyone who is able to celebrate this Halloween holiday with some resemblance of normalcy, I simply give you an recipe from an old church bulletin. I'm unsure where it originated from, but it was being used and copied somewhere around the 1960's and has been made in my family to celebrate different holidays since that time. It is very good to use at children's costume parties.
3 1/2 Tablespoons raspberry gelatin
3/4 cups sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 Tablespoon white vinegar
1 cup mini chocolate chips
Line and grease large baking sheet with parchment or brown paper and preheat oven to 250 degrees Fahrenheit.
Beat egg whites and salt on high speed with electric mixer until light and foamy. Gradually add gelatin and sugar and continue beating to stiff peaks. Mix until sugar is totally dissolved or kisses will be sticky. Add the vinegar. Fold in the chocolate chips. Drop by teaspoon onto lined, greased baking sheet. Bake kisses at 250 degrees for 25 minutes and then turn off the oven, leaving them in oven for additional 20 minutes. Remove baking sheet from oven and remove immediately to wire baking rack to cool.
Makes 6 dozen.
I hope you find these simple to make, and please have a safe, happy Halloween night.


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ROME - Milos Raonic made an early exit at the Italian Open.
The 22-year-old from Thornhill, Ont., lost in the first round to Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber 7-6 (2), 6-4 on Monday at the Foro Italico.
Raonic, the No. 14 seed, played a close first set with no break opportunities, but the No. 22 Kohlschreiber pulled out the one-set lead thanks to a strong tiebreak performance.
Raonic saved two break points early in the second set — at the 1-1 mark — but later fell behind to Kohlschreiber, who used an effective serve to limit Raonic's break chances.
The match was completed in one hour 17 minutes.
It was the second straight early round exit for Raonic. He was ousted in the second round at the Madrid Open Fernando Verdasco.
Raonic's next tournament will be the French Open, which begins May 26.
Toronto's Daniel Nestor is still in contention in Rome. He has a first-round bye in the doubles draw alongside Swedish partner Robert Lindstedt.


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Please be patient while I try to catch up with comments due to the power loss. They are expecting storms again so I am crossing my fingers that we are able to keep the power on.
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What is Water Mums?
Water Mums is an exercise class designed for pre and post natal women. During the 45-minute class you will perform exercises in warm water utilising the buoyancy and resistance of the water. The class is aimed at improving all-over muscle strength with a focus on strengthening the pelvic floor area.
Water Mums is conducted by a qualified female physiotherapist who has carefully planned a series of exercises to give you the most benefit. There is several weekly class times to choose from so it's easy to regularly work on improving your strength.
The class is also a great way to meet other mums or mums-to-be who are going through similar time in life and can relate to your experience, while you're having fun. Regular 6-monthly reunions are held so that mums can reunite and meet each others' newborn child.
Contact our reception for further information or to request a self-assessment form prior to attending the class.
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Sense8: Season 2, Episode 8 "What Family Actually Means" (B+)
In the time between when I watched the previous episode and this one, this show, which was cancelled after ending on a previous cliffhanger that I'll soon encounter when I finish this season, has been revived for a closing two-hour special to wrap up all the plotlines (or at least a few of them). I've never known exactly where this show was headed – or even if the creative forces behind it knew – but the point of it seems to be to showcase people who have to overcome a great deal of adversity to be accepted for who they are. Nomi and Lito being recognized and accepted despite the different lifestyles they lead are obviously the most blatant examples, while Sun has her own literal uphill battle to fight and Kala struggles to fit in when she yearns for something more than she has. Capheus has always been pretty happy and exuded a sense of wonder and curiosity about the world, and now he's moved up to something that I don't think he ever expected. Seeing him in a suit is a strange thing, but there's no denying the power of his speech and the relatability of what he said. While he's playing someone else, Lito is engaged in a performance of his own, doing what he has to do to become accepted in a mainstream Hollywood. And, all of a sudden, in this show's somewhat schizophrenic way, everyone is uniting to help Sun to take down her brother, fighting with something stronger than just a bit of fancy bartending.
Saturday, July 8, 2017
What I'm Watching: Sense8
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- 3 Sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into bite size cubes
- 2 tsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp butter
- 1 tbsp of brown sugar (more if you want it sweeter)
- 1 tsp of ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp of ground nutmeg
- Pinch of ground ginger
- Sea salt, to taste
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Coat a small baking dish with cooking spray. Peel and dice the sweet potatoes into bite size cubes and place in the baking dish. Melt butter in the microwave and pour over the potatoes along with the olive oil, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and salt. Add more sugar or cinnamon if desired. Toss to coat evenly. Bake in the oven for 60 minutes. Stir the sweet potatoes once or twice during roasting. Enjoy
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Nutritional Info
- Calories140
- Carbohydrates22 g(7%)
- Fat5 g(8%)
- Protein2 g(3%)
- Saturated Fat2 g(11%)
- Sodium247 mg(10%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat0 g
- Fiber3 g(13%)
- Monounsaturated Fat2 g
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For the Camerons, the pursuit of higher learning is a family tradition, one with immeasurable value. For Norman and Beverly Cameron, both retired academics from the University of Manitoba, and their youngest son, Fraser, currently a PhD engineering student at Stanford, making a donation to the AIChE John J. McKetta Scholarship Fund in memory of their late brother/brother-in-law/uncle, Dr. Gordon Murray Cameron, was the perfect way to honor this tradition while supporting the profession held so dear by Dr. Gordon Cameron.
"All three institutions left an indelible mark on Gord's analytical and engineering abilities that served him well throughout his career."
"We knew how much Gord loved being a chemical engineer and how much he valued his engineering education. Helping to educate future chemical engineers seems like a good way to honor Gord's contribution to the chemical engineering profession."
Gordon Cameron was the second son of Murray and Vera Cameron, both teachers and one (Murray) a former high school principal. From an early age, Gordon excelled academically. After graduating early from high school, Gord enrolled in Canada's Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario and then Queen's University for his undergraduate education. He went from there to the University of Delaware for his PhD work.
"All three institutions left an indelible mark on Gord's analytical and engineering abilities that served him well throughout his career."
When Norman and Beverly first inquired about making a memorial donation to an AIChE scholarship, they had two requirements: first, the scholarship had to be open to Canadian chemical engineering students (since Gordon was a Canadian); and second, the scholarship had to be large enough to make a real financial difference to the recipient.
The John J. McKetta Scholarship turned out to be a perfect fit for the Camerons' philanthropic goal - on many levels. Not only did it meet their specific requirements, it also pays tribute to another education aficionado and devoted family man, Dr. John J. McKetta (of the University of Texas at Austin), who established the scholarship in 2003 to support the transition of chemical engineering students into the workforce.
"The education of young engineers was a favorite topic with Gord, and he would be pleased to know that a memorial donation in his name will help a talented young chemical engineer advance his or her professional development."
Dr. Cameron started his working career as a Process Engineer with C-I-L in Montreal in 1960 and went on to become one of the founders of Chemetics International, ending as their Vice-President of Technology until his retirement in 1988.
Following his retirement from Chemetics International, Dr. Cameron founded his own company, Cecebe Technologies Inc., where he licensed his technologies and provided engineering support to Monsanto Enviro-Chem Systems and to Noram Engineering and Constructors. In 2005 Gord released his patents to Noram Engineering and Constructors and went on to start an independent company G. & M. Cameron Technologies Inc.
From the mid-1970's on Dr Cameron was a continual driving force of a revolution within the sulphuric acid industry and was recognized as an industry leader in technology and innovation, including gas cleaning preparatory to the acid production. A few of his more significant accomplishments include being co-inventor and developer of the industry standard anodically protected stainless steel acid cooler, inventor of the radial flow gas-to-gas heat exchangers, recipient of over 80 patents, and author of over 40 technical papers.
When asked what they imagined Gordon's advice would be for young professionals pursuing chemical engineering, Norman and Beverly said:
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Selling cheap options with very high probabilities of success makes rationale sense on the outside. I mean, why sell options with a 70% chance of success when you can sell options further out that have a 90% chance of success. No brainer right? Well, not so fast. The options market is fair and efficient – and selling these far out-of-the-money options might look good from a win rate perspective, the total dollar profits you'll generate far under-perform the stock market. Today, we'll use our Options Backtesting software to run two option selling strategies on TLT. The first selling options at the 0.25 delta and the second selling options at the 0.05 delta. Inside we present the results and our analysis as to why selling cheap options could be less beneficial to your portfolio.
Key Points from Today's Show:
In episode #102 we looked at different options prices and dug down into particular contract months for S&P call options.
- Tested the 40, 30, 20 and 10 Delta options.
- Looked at the differential between pricing and how far out they were from the money, probabilities of expiring in the money, etc.
- This topic goes hand-in-hand with today's episode.
In today's show we look at a back-tested case study of a TLT strangle.
- The strategy works across different ticker symbols and highly liquid ETFs.
- The concepts and framework generally work across everything that we are trading.
- We can use TLT to help prove this specific concept.
Often times when traders discover that they can sell options and generate a high probability of success, the natural default is to sell the cheapest options furthest out.
- These are the options with a 90% chance of being in the money.
- The problem with trading cheap options that are so far out is that although cheap options have a high probability of success, they have dramatically lower profits overall.
- The key is not to look at just the total win rate, but rather to look at total dollars generated.
Case Study:
Set up weekly short strangle entries on TLT (a bond ETF), targeting 40 days until expiration. There was no IV filter in place, no profit taking, and no stop-loss — pure set it and forget it trading. Simply set up the trade and let it go all the way until expiration, win, lose, or draw — no adjustments, no rolling. The only changes made were in the short strikes that were selected.
Setup 1:
On the first run, sold options at the 25 Delta on either side. Theoretically, this trade should be a 50/50 winner. At best, this is set up for a 60% win rate.
Results for Setup 1:
- The strategy won 70% of the time, overshooting expected win rate by at least 10 points.
- That differential is because of the implied volatility's overpricing, because the market doesn't move as far as we would have thought.
- The strategy generated a 40% return over the last 10-11 years.
- Total profit on a $250,000 portfolio was a little over $100,000.
- The annual CAGR was 2.46%
- Performed very similar to the S&P, but had dramatically less variance.
- During 2008 and 2009, the portfolio did not take as much of a dip as it would have in equities.
- The variance in the account and the stability of the strategy was much improved over the S&P.
- The max draw-down at any one point in the whole cycle was 27%, again, better than the broad market.
Setup 2:
Same setup as setup 1, with a tweak in the short strikes. Went much further out on the short strikes and sold the 5 Delta calls and the 5 Delta puts on TLT. This strategy should win 90% of the time. Again there was no IV filter, no profit taking, and no stop-loss.
Results for Setup 2:
- The strategy won 92% of the time.
- The further you go out in selling options, the less often the strategy is going to out-perform what it should do.
- At some point you will hit 100% or 99% chance of success if you sell options very far out.
- There is a diminishing return factor where if you sell options further out, the win rate starts to slowly creep down.
- Since you are selling options so far out to begin with, the strategy only won 2% more than the probabilities suggested.
- The draw-down was 13%, which is consistent with a strategy when you win more often.
- However, total profit made and total returns dramatically under-performed the market.
- There was a 17% return over the entire period.
- Annual CAGR was 1.61%.
- Total dollars earned on a $250,000 was just $43,000.
- When you sell options that are closer in (15-25 Delta range), you generate more total dollars than you would if you just defaulted to selling options very far out of the money.
- Although selling options far out of the money has a really high win-rate, it consistently under-performs the market and generates less total return.
- Back-test and optimize your trades, trading within a framework and using it to your advantage.
Free Options Trading Courses:
- Options Basics [20 Videos]: Whether you're a completely new trader or an experienced trader, you'll still need to master the basics. The goal of this section is to help lay the groundwork for your education with some simple, yet important lessons surrounding options.
- Finding & Placing Trades [26 Videos]: Successful options trading is 100% dependent on your ability to find and enter trades that give you an "edge" in the market. This module helps teach you how to scan properly for and select the best strategies to execute smarter option trades each day.
- Pricing & Volatility [12 Videos]: This module includes lessons on mastering implied volatility and premium pricing for specific strategies. We'll also look at IV relativeness and percentiles which help you determine the best strategy to use for each and every possible market setup.
- Neutral Options Strategies [7 Videos]: The beauty of options is that you can trade the market within a neutral range either up or down. You'll learn to love sideways and range bound markets because of the opportunity to build non-directional strategies that profit if the stock goes up, down or nowhere at all.
- Bullish Options Strategies [12 Videos]: Naturally everyone wants to make money when the market is heading higher. In this module, we'll show you how to create specific strategies that profit from up trending markets including low IV strategies like calendars, diagonals, covered calls and direction debit spreads.
- Options Expiration & Assignment [11 Videos]: Our goal is to make sure you understand the logistics of how each process works and the parties involved. If you don't feel confident in the expiration processes or have questions that you just can't seem to get answered, then this section will help you.
- Portfolio Management [16 Videos]: When I say "portfolio management" some people automatically assume you need a Masters from MIT to understand the concept and strategies – that is NOT the case. And in this module, you'll see why managing your risk trading options is actually quite simple.
- Trade Adjustments/Hedges [15 Videos]: In this popular module, we'll give you concrete examples of how you can hedge different options strategies to both reduce potential losses and give yourself an opportunity to profit if things turn around. Plus, we'll help you create an alert system to save time and make it more automatic.
- Professional Trading [14 Videos]: Honestly, this module isn't just for professional traders; it's for anyone who wants to have eventually options replace some (or all) of their monthly income. Because the reality is that mindset is everything if you truly want to earn a living trading options.
Option Trader Q&A w/ Roy
Trader Q&A is our favorite segment of the show because we get to hear from one of our community members and help answer their questions live on the air. Today's question comes from Roy, who asks:
Have you ever look at selling half of the trades at 50% and then let the rest of the trades go to expiration rather than just selling everything at 50% or picking an arbitrary number like 75%?
Remember, if you'd like to get your question answered here on the podcast or LIVE on Facebook & Periscope, head over to OptionAlpha.com/ASK and click the big red record button in the middle of the screen and leave me a private voicemail. There's no software to download or install and it's incredibly easy.
PDF Guides & Checklists:
- The Ultimate Options Strategy Guide [90 Pages]: Our most popular PDF workbook with detailed options strategy pages categorized by market direction. Read the whole guide in less than 15 mins and have it forever to reference.
- Earnings Trading Guide [33 Pages]: The ultimate guide to earnings trades including the top things to look for when playing these one-day volatility events, expected move calculations, best strategies to use, adjustments, etc.
- Implied Volatility (IV) Percentile Rank [3 Pages]: A cool, simple visual tool to help you understand how we should be trading based on the current IV rank of any particular stock and the best strategies for each blocked section of IV.
- Guide to Trade Size & Allocation [8 Pages]: Helping you figure out exactly how to calculate new position size as well as how much you should be allocating to your each position based on your overall portfolio balance.
- When to Exit/Manage Trades [7 Pages]: Broken down by option strategy we'll give you concrete guidelines on the best exit points and prices for each trade type to maximize your win rate and profits long-term.
- 7-Step Trade Entry Checklist [10 Pages]: Our top 7 things you should be double-checking before you enter your next trading. This quick checklist will help keep you out of harms way by making sure you make smarter entries.
Real-Money, LIVE Trading:
- EWZ Iron Butterfly (Closing Trade): After nearly pinning the stock at our short strikes, and thanks to the volatility drop, we netted a $600 profit on this iron butterfly trade.
- VXX Short Call (Closing Trade): One of the most consistent and profitable options trades we can make is shorting pure volatility with VXX and today we closed this naked short call in VXX after a couple days for a $420 profit.
- DIA Iron Condor (Adjusting Trade): This neutral iron condor in DIA is need of a quick adjustment early this week as the market continues to rally. In this video, we'll discuss why I'm adding an additional put credit spread while also choosing NOT to close out of our current put credit spread due to pricing reasons.
- COP Short Put (Closing Trade): These single short puts in COP acted as a great hedge for our other bearish bets in oil this month and helped smooth out our returns after we closed them for a nice big profit.
- TSLA Put Debit Spread (Closing Trade): Although many people thought we were crazy for getting bearish in TSLA this pre-earnings put debit spread trade made us $200 today. After the huge run up from $140 to $260 and getting some technical sell signals, we were pretty sure this stock would pull back.
- MON Iron Condor (Closing Trade): Following a huge drop in implied volatility we worked hard to close this MON iron condor trade adjusting the order multiple times to fill before the end of the day.
- IBB Call Debit Spread (Opening Trade): We'll show you how I started searching for a new bullish trade and eventually found a low volatility trade in IBB looking for a move higher to hedge our portfolio.
- TLT Iron Butterfly (Closing Trade): Following the Brexit vote TLT and bonds traded in a nearly $8 range really quickly – even still the drop in implied volatility helped generate a $330 profit for us.
- XBI Call Debit Spread (Closing Trade): Got lucky picking the exact bottom for our entry in this call debit spread for the XBI biotech ETF which ultimately was closed for a profit of $165 today on the rally higher.
- COH Iron Butterfly (Earnings Trade): Shortly after the market open we close out of our COH earnings trade for about a $160 profit, leaving just 1 leg on to expire worthless.
- EWW Debit Spread (Closing Trade): Using some of the technical analysis signals we discovered in our backtesting research, we were able to make a quick $130 profit on this bearish EWW debit spread trade.
- IBM Iron Condor (Earnings Trade): Shortly after the market opened you'll follow along with me as we watch volatility drop and liquidity come into the market before closing out the position for $250 profit.
- SLV Short Straddle (Opening Trade): Using our watch list software we decided to continue to add to our existing SLV short straddle position with a new set of strike prices reflective of the move lower in the ETF recently.
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100 Things Learned the Hard Way
Dr. Ray PritchardDr. Ray Pritchard is the president of Keep Believing Ministries, an Internet-based ministry serving Christians in 225 countries. He is the author of 29 books, including Stealth Attack, Fire and Rain, Credo, The ABCs of Christmas, The Healing Power of Forgiveness, An Anchor for the Soul and Why Did This Happen to Me? Ray and Marlene, his wife of 39 years, have three sons - Josh, Mark and Nick, two daughters-in-law- Leah and Vanessa, and four grandchildren - Knox, Eli, Penny and Violet. His hobbies include biking, surfing the Internet, and anything related to the Civil War.
- 2006 Aug 25
Jim Jackson has written 100 Things I've Learned the Hard Way as a Senior Pastor That I've Never Read in a Book. Pastors who read this list will nod in agreement. Church members will understand their pastor better. The following items caught my attention:
4. Choose your battles carefully; ask yourself, "Is this issue central to my vision?"
14. Communicate to your staff that it is okay to fail, but it is not all right to punch holes in the boat below the water line.
23. The style of preaching that communicates today is Biblical, relevant, and confessional; it is best delivered without notes.
41. The most essential spiritual gift that a senior pastor can have is discerning of spirits.
46. Have someone needlepoint this quote for you and put it in a prominent place in your office so you can look at it often: "There is a God--You're not God."
54. If you've got to bite the head off a frog, don't spend a lot of time looking at it; if you've got to bite the head off two frogs, bite the biggest one first.
58. When people think you are wonderful, subtract; when people are critical of you, add; when people praise God for blessings, multiply; when people leave the church because of you, divide.
60. Never read anonymous letters. Dear friend I saw that someone is writing tacky letters and signing your name to them.
65. The "balanced life" is as much of a logical impossibility for a passionate pastor as it was for Jesus; think instead of the Holy Spirit as a swinging pendulum in your heart which is always pointing to an area that needs special attention; respond obediently to the Spirit's promptings.
65. The "balanced life" is as much of a logical impossibility for a passionate pastor as it was for Jesus; think instead of the Holy Spirit as a swinging pendulum in your heart which is always pointing to an area that needs special attention; respond obediently to the Spirit's promptings.
71. Never attend wedding rehearsals, rehearsal dinners, or wedding receptions; stay home with your family.
73. In long-range planning, hardly anyone can see beyond three years.
77. You are not the last Senior Pastor your church is going to have; you are just the temporary steward of the church to which Christ has assigned you.
89. No Senior Pastor has time to be a counselor; find a therapist you trust and refer people.
94. When you walk into a room and someone says, "Hey, preacher," it is not a greeting; it is a warning.
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Avon calling: Rams' Class L game with Falcons pushed to Wed.
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10:20 AM — The CIAC has postponed the Rams' Class L football tournament quarterfinals game against Avon in Simsbury Tuesday evening. It has been rescheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 28, at 6:30 p.m.
The CIAC has also moved the semifinal rounds of its Class LL, L, and M tournaments from Saturday, Dec. 1 to Sunday, Dec. 2. Sites and times of the games will be determined after the completion of the quarterfinal round.
TUESDAY 8:30 AM — New Canaan football coach Lou Marinelli is the first to admit he thinks his Rams were more than a little surprised following their first loss to rival Darien since 2001 last Thursday.
After jumping out to a 14-0 first quarter lead, the Rams surrendered 36 straight points to Darien, which went on to post a 36-23 victory, ending the season with a 7-3 record.
"I think they've won this game for so long that they just naturally thought we're going to go down there, beat the hell out of them, and those guys are just going to roll over," Marinelli told the Advertiser after the game. "Then you're up 14-0 and you think 'Here we go again.' You have to give Darien all the credit. They hung in there, they're down 14-0 and they kept fighting and fighting. They did a tremendous job. Their coaches and their kids played their hearts out."
The only bright spot for New Canaan was that the season didn't end there. The Rams will live to fight another day, and perhaps more.
New Canaan will look to rebound from the loss to Darien, and put the Turkey Bowl in the rearview mirror, when the Rams take on the Avon Falcons in the CIAC Class L quarterfinals at Simsbury High School at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 28.
The sixth-seeded Rams enter the game with a record of 8-2, while third-seeded Avon is a perfect 10-0. The Falcons haven't faced an FCIAC opponent in 50 years. In the three years from 1960-62, they lost to Trumbull once and Wilton three times.
Avon is a perennial power in the Pequot Conference, compiling an overall record of 53-10 during the past six years. Avon last played in the State tournament in 2009 when it lost to Berlin in the Class L semifinals, 35-28.
While the Falcons aren't exactly a familiar foe in Fairfield County, they have put up some gaudy offensive numbers, which weigh heavily to the ground game.
That makes New Canaan's task somewhat clear: Stop running back Colin Moore and you'll likely stop the Falcons.
Moore, a 5-10, 185-pound halfback, has been a monster for Avon during the past two seasons, as he's surpassed 2,000 rushing yards as a junior and senior.
This fall, he's carried the ball 242 times for 2,003 yards or an 8.4 yards per carry average. He's also scored 29 of the Falcons' 42 touchdowns.
As a team, Avon has scored 320 points, with an average of 274 rushing yards and 66.5 passing yards.
Senior Mitch Cappello (5-9, 175) has provided a change of pace in the running game with 51 carries for 279 yards and two TDs.
Junior quarterback Noah Hahn (5-10, 165) hasn't been called on to do much throwing, as he's attempted just 74 passes in 10 games. He's completed 43 of those passes for a .581 percentage, and has collected 652 yards and six TDs.
Hahn may play a key role in the quarterfinals, as he can take the heat off of Moore should the Rams defense slow down the running back.
His chief target has been wide receiver and senior co-captain Chris Suttmeier (5-8, 171). Suttmeier leads the team with 20 catches for 290 yards and three touchdowns.
Junior WR Justin Reichler (6-5, 165) has 13 receptions for 228 yards and two TDs.
Defensively, the Falcons have given up just 97 total points, or less than 10 per game, and have forced 24 turnovers with 12 interceptions and 12 fumble recoveries.
Junior linebacker Jimmy Murphy (5-6, 160) has been a terror on defense, racking up a team-best 123 tackles and seven sacks.
Senior co-captain Joe Murphy (5-10, 175), another linebacker, is also over the century mark with 111 tackles, while junior LB Stephen Griffin (5-11, 190) has 65 tackles.
DBs Patrick Driscoll-Kelly (5-9, 145) and Dylan Marquis have been the standouts in the secondary, as each has 58 tackles.
"You work all year to get into this tournament so we get to come back and play again," Marinelli said after the Turkey Bowl. "I would hate to have this senior group go out on such a bad note. So hopefully, we can do some things in the tournament and finish a little better."


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Paddy Lowe is Executive Director (Technical) of Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix, a company of over 700 staff which constructs and races Formula 1 cars. Since entering F1 in 1987, his career has been characterised by many exciting and innovative technical developments both on- and off-car, winning eight World Championships to date.


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Hatip to Drudge Report. Biden, that never failing source of unintentional humor in dark times, in addition to being Veep is apparently de facto Surgeon General based on this rather alarmist advice that he gave in regard to swine flu. Perhaps he believes the swine flu is the crisis he warned about last year?
Update: Dale Price at Dyspeptic Mutterings has more health tips from the Veep.


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Half of February was very quiet. Like every year January and February usually are. As I am not into winter sports, I stayed at warm visiting my father sometimes, cinema, drinks with friends and once I also visited David and his family. They are all doing well 🙂 The Valentines day I have spent with father, we went to the restaurant and after were watching tv. Love has many sites 🙂
Few days after Valentines day I had work 7 and 6 hours with one Belgium client. It was great, we had beautiful weather, so we did a lot of sightseeing and had nice rest in bed after. I like such meetings as there is enought time for little walk, food and bed fun. Spring is coming so I hope I will have more clients to show our amazing city 🙂
Then, like every month, I went to visit my friend Bernie to Germany. To go there is like going to vacation, he takes care about me and about everything, program, food, movies, I am like a princess 🙂 In winter time we usually dont walk much outside, so we are travelling with car or train, see little of the cities, eat and travelling back home. Our days are all the same but so different, I like it.
Winter time is always boring as I cannot go for my trips with car for walk to the nature what I love so much. But winter is slowly finishing and my sneakers are getting ready :-))
In around 1 month we will start going to our summer cottage again, so some of my weekends may be busy. Dont miss the opportunity to meet me to use the fantasy and experience in moments you are alone :-))
Yours Lucky


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After plenty of waiting, the Ravenstone Mine expansion for Ravenwood Fair is finally available. Though the game was initially purported to be a seperate release from the main game, it turns out that it's actually an in-game expansion, much like the English Countryside add-on for FarmVille.
If you log-in to Ravenwood today you'll notice a new fair goer named Skelly; a mole decked out with a miner's hat. Chatting with him will give you some further information about the underground world as well as give you the option to visit it. However, before you can start mining for vitalin you'll need to complete a quest first. This involves finding some dynamite and matches, all of which can be obtained from chopping down neighbors' trees. You'll need to be level 10 or higher to access the mine, as well.
We've only played the game for a short while, but as you can see from the art style, it's a much darker version of Ravenwood Fair, though the core gameplay appears to be very similar. Stay tuned for some more in-depth thoughts soon.


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Memory Lessons
With our population aging, our health care system facing upheaval and countless Americans caring for aging parents, Gemini Ink found perfect recipients for its 2009 Literary Excellence Awards: Dr. Jerald Winakur and his wife, poet-attorney Lee Robinson. She has published two poetry collections: Creed and Hearsay. Jerald Winakur has practiced internal and geriatric medicine in San Antonio for more than 30 years and is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center. He and his wife serve as associate faculty members at the Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics at UTHSC, where they teach a class for medical students titled Literature and Medicine. The course includes discussions of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Birthmark and William Carlos Williams' Complaint.
In 2005, Dr. Winakur wrote an essay for Health Affairs (www.healthaffairs.org) titled What Are We Going to Do about Dad? about caring for his 86-year-old-father in his fight against Alzheimer's. Winakur expressed his frustration that, after 30 years of practicing medicine, he couldn't keep the disease from stealing his own father. There was so much response to the article that Winakur began writing Memory Lessons about his family's journey through his father's disease. He describes how his new role in his parents' lives opened him in unexpected ways. He talks about the long journey that brought him to treat the aged as a private practitioner and about the havoc wrought by managed care, the debate over "quality care" of the elderly and the issues of prolonging life at any cost. "Probing and intelligent, Winakur's work challenges readers to think hard and deeply about the choices they make in the care of their elders." Publishers Weekly, January 2009. Gemini Ink's INKstravaganza honors the couple on Thursday, Sept. 24, at 312 Pearl Parkway. The event includes a silent auction of photos from FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA, the sale of handmade chapbooks of works by Winakur and Robinson and jazz music performed by George and Aaron Prado. Jane Ciabattari, president of the National Book Critics Circle, will present the awards. Cocktails are at 6:30, dinner at 7:30 p.m., $100 per person. RSVP by Sept. 15 at (210) 734-9673.
Creative Passions
Susan Toomey Frost's book, Colors on Clay, beautifully published by Trinity University Press, has over 300 images of colorful tiles and pottery produced in San Antonio. Frost, the leading authority on decorative art tiles and pottery produced by the San José Workshops, captures the story of passionate people who produced these works of art from 1931 to 1977. Ethel Wilson Harris, born in Sabinal, Texas, in 1893, created the workshops. With a background from her father's construction business, she founded a small tile contracting business in the 1920s. Her husband, Arthur, a former Army officer from Massachusetts, encouraged her to open Mexican Arts and Crafts in a historic barn on the San Antonio River. She loved the river and the Spanish missions, and in 1934, she opened San José Potteries next to Mission San José to serve as production facility for her workshop on the river. Filled with creativity and skilled at networking, marketing and public relations, she knew that the area's culture was perfectly suited to embrace colorful scenes of Texas and Mexico. Texas' clay soils and high-quality limestone provided perfect raw materials to produce clay products.
She read about Fernando Ramos, a gifted student whose family had moved to San Antonio from Mexico. At age 15, he had won the San Jacinto Association's Fiesta Poster contest. He also won the American Legion's national poster contest and captured first place in painting at Thomas Jefferson High School. While he was still a student, Harris hired him to become principal artist to draw designs for tiles produced at San José Potteries. They remained friends and co-workers for years. In 1937, she copyrighted a book of his designs for the Library of Congress. Also talented as a dancer, Ramos returned to Mexico to study Spanish, Mexican and Gypsy dances from the masters. He met Carla Montel, a dancer born in San Antonio and raised in California. They formed a dance team, married, traveled the world and became famous. In the 1940's, they appeared in four films, were guest stars at the Metropolitan Opera House and appeared at Carnegie Hall. The Harrises had four children. Ethel entered her pottery business into a partnership with Cecil and Mabel Beck, but the partnership floundered over quality-control issues, and they dissolved the company in 1937. Her husband, a public school teacher, was diagnosed with cancer and died in 1938, leaving Ethel to support their children.
From 1939 to 1941, Harris worked with the Work Projects Administration as technical supervisor for their arts and crafts division. When the government reconstructed La Villita, Mayor Maury Maverick had the city lease Harris's Mexican Arts and Crafts building for the use of WPA's La Villita workers. The craftsmen also produced tiled panels for San Fernando Cathedral, roof and floor tiles for Arneson River Theatre, murals to adorn the San Antonio River, tile panels over entry gates to Alamo Stadium and murals in front of the Alamo and the Menger Hotel. Ramos periodically returned to San Antonio to help Harris with designs. She once flew to New York, where he was dancing, and took his unfinished drawings for him to complete. He finished them backstage, and she flew them home. Seventy years after Ramos created his designs, collectors still recognize him as the artistic soul of the San José Workshops.
In 1955, architect Robert Wilson Harris, the second of Harris' three sons, designed a house for his mother on land she had purchased at the northwest corner of the mission compound. She continued working in her home studio for 18 years, mixing glazes used at Mission Crafts and testing glaze formulas in her electric kiln. Her tiles appear throughout the house, designated in the National Register of Historic Places. Images from the house appear in the book. After she retired in 1963, she wrote and produced plays in an outdoor amphitheater near her home. Her energy and creativity live on, beautifully captured in Colors on Clay. The Witte Museum, 3801 Broadway, is featuring an exhibit of San José Workshop tiles and a Sept. 20 book signing. For information, call (210) 357-1900. Nancy Glass West's novel, Forever Fatal, an Aggie Mundeen Mystery, has been released. See www.nancygwest.com. Send comments and Book Shelf information to firstname.lastname@example.com, to email@example.com, or to SAN ANTONIO WOMAN, 8603 Botts Lane, San Antonio, 78217.
Calendar of Events
It's not too late to join a reading group. Here are samples of groups' fall selections:
Barnes & Noble, San Pedro Crossing
Sept. 26, 3 p.m. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. SATX ReadersCircle, B&N San Pedro Crossing. Sally Bergstedt, email@example.com
Oct. 25, 3 p.m. 3 Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson. SATX ReadersCircle, B&N San Pedro Crossing.
Semmes Branch Library
Sept. 12, 10 a.m. – Classic Book Group: Virgil's The Aeneid, 15060 Judson Road. (210) 650-9540.
Sept. 12, 11 a.m. – Jane Austen Book Club: Emma
Sept. 14, 7 p.m. – Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Sept. 23, 7 p.m. – Semmes Writers Group
Are you a writer, or do you want to be? Here's your chance to interact with fellow writers.
Oct. 5, 7 p.m. – A Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond
Oct. 10, 10 a.m. – A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
Oct. 10, 11 a.m. – Jane Austen Book Group: A Visit to Highbury by Joan Austen-Leigh
Oct. 13, 7 p.m. – True Crime: Never Enough by Joe McGinniss
Igo Branch Library
Sept. 16, 7 p.m. – True Crime: Seduced by Madness: True Story of the Susan Polk Murder Case; 13330 Kyle Seale Parkway. (210) 561-6113
Sept. 22, 7 p.m. – The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
Oct. 7, 7 p.m. – Mystery: Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
Oct. 21, 7 p.m. – True Crime: Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers by Michael Connolly
Oct. 27, 7 p.m. – Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
Brook Hollow Branch Library
Sept. 16, 7:15 p.m. – The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon; 530 Heimer Road. (210) 496-6315
Sept. 24, 2:30 p.m. – Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Oct. 1, 2:30 p.m. – Mystery: Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin
Oct. 21, 7:15 p.m. – Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Oct. 22, 2:30 p.m. – Savannah by John Jakes
Westfall Branch Library
Sept. 15, 6 p.m. – Westfall Classic Movies: Casablanca.
Sept. 17, 2:30 p.m. – Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon; 6111 Rosedale Court. (210) 344-2373
Oct. 15, 2:30 p.m. – Literary Book Club: The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
Cody Branch Library
Sept. 12, 10 a.m. – Until I Find You by John Irving; 11441 Vance Jackson Road. (210) 696-6396.
Sept. 19, 10 a.m. – Mystery: Silent in the Sanctuary by Deanna Raybourn
Oct. 3, 10 a.m. – Cody Film Club sees Born Yesterday
Oct. 17, 10 a.m. – Mystery: Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
Oct. 22, 6 p.m. – Mystery: Stalked by Brian Freeman
Guerra Branch Library
Sept. 24, 2 p.m. – Spanish Book Club: Cruzando La Frontera por Rubén Martínez; 7978 Military Drive West. (210) 673-1492
Maverick Branch Library
Sept. 26, 10 a.m. – Ladies' Choice: People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks; 8700 Mystic Park. (210) 680-9346
Oct. 31, 10 a.m. – Ladies' Choice: Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
Cortez Branch Library
Oct. 1, 6:30 p.m. – X-rated Bloodsuckers by Mario Acevedo; 4803 Hunter Boulevard. (210) 922-7372
Landa Branch Library
Oct. 3, 2 p.m. – Three Blind Mice and Other Stories by Agatha Christie; 233 Bushnell Ave. (210) 732-8369