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Dining Out with Diabetes
Many Diabetics feel overwhelmed when they first start dining out after being diagnosed with Diabetes. After all, dining out removes some of the control you have over what ingredients and options you have for your diabetic meals. However, learning the dining out ropes may seem intimidating at first, but once you have a handle on it, dining out can be a true pleasure – and a relief if you spend much of your time in the kitchen.
As a recently diagnosed Diabetic, you should keep in mind that the principles of good nutrition are still in effect. Therefore, just because the menu offers high sugar options doesn't mean that you should compromise your nutrition standards for the restaurant. Even if the menu does not offer items that are particularly low in sugar, you can (and should) always request that the chef take special care with your diabetes diet recipes. After all, your health is on the line! Many restaurants have special recipes for customers wishing to order sugarfree desserts or sugar free recipes. Sometimes, all you need to do is ask.
What to do when dining out:
• Fried foods are tempting appetizers. However, most menus also offer fresh fruit, seafood or soup options. Select the Salmon seafood or soup.
• When ordering eggs at breakfast, avoid scrambled eggs or eggs that could be mixed with butter or cream. Instead, opt for a boiled or poached egg.
• Always ask for the dressing on the side. Many restaurants also offer sugarfree desserts in addition to traditional deserts or dressings.
• Choose whole-grain breads when ordering rolls, crackers and biscuits. If whole-grain breads are not options, avoid eating breads made with refined flour.
• Select brown rice over white rice.
• Look for vegetables that come raw, steamed, stewed or boiled. Otherwise, make sure that the vegetables are not cooked with high-fat oils and butter.
• Select lean meats, such as meats ending in "loin" (tenderloin, sirloin). Always ask for the gravy or sauce on the side of the dish.
• For dessert, order fruit, yogurt or sugar-free ice cream. Though it may be tempting, unless there are other sugar free desserts on the menu, stick with the item with the lowest sugar level.
• Never drink soda. Always opt for diet beverages, unsweetened tea or water.
• Eat small portions (like you may at home, and take a doggy bag.)
• Even when dining out, remember that you may have a special diabetes meal planning. Stick to it.
• Don't forget to take your medication. Grilled Fish Meal
• Fat free doesn't mean sugar-free. When in doubt, ask your waitress or chef for ingredients, or simply skip the item.
• Plan to take some of your food home, even before eating. That way, you will avoid over-eating.
• Approach buffets very carefully – start with a salad, take as much vegetables as you would like, avoid those croutons; tuck in the tomatoes; some sunflowers seeds, with no-fat or low-fat dressing and make that your first course. On the return trip, have more salad or follow the above guidelines for your entrée course.
For diabetic dessert, try the fruit. Remember some buffets, use canned fruit with sweetened juices, watch those; too much sugar. Fresh fruit is always best and they generically have those around the salad bar as well.
Dining out can often is a huge relief for families in which one person has Diabetes, but not everyone. When you dine out in such a situation, everyone can feel comfortable ordering foods that they enjoy and no one has to worry about cooking diabetic delivered prepared meals in addition to a meal that the whole family will crave. Keep in mind that by remembering your nutrition basics, you can eat large, very healthy diabetic diet meals without having to feel guilty. Bon Appétit. Enjoy.
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Hi Sheri,
if you don't have the space, means or inclination to breed a horse, and it's a good horse, why not just geld it and have a really nice riding horse and trail companion for many years to come. There are plenty of good horses to breed from so leave it to the ones who really want to.
I would trust what debbie says. Having a stallion is always going to be more trouble and from what you say he'll make a great gelding. If you sell him then you've got to then find as good a replacement and you might regret it.
I wouldnt be interested as i'm in NZ and have already 'done my dash' with importing horses. But i would like to hear how things go for you:-)
Hi Sheri, I am new to this site and new to the world of horses. I am currently fulfilling my dream of learning to ride and learning as much as I can about horses. I am in love with the Peruvian Paso and your boy is gorgeous! Thanks for adding me as a friend. I live north of San Diego.
Hi Sheri,
Thanks for "befriending" me. I'm really new to this site & really don't know how to find people. I see that you live in Yorba Linda which is probably 90+ minutes from me in Bonsall (San Diego County). I was looking at the pictures of your Prince. He is gorgeous.


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THE GIST: As the name suggests, Modern Socialism is an attempt to modernise socialism. It's not about 'modernisation' in the toxic, principles-shedding, status quo-pandering New Labour sense of the word. It's about revamping the radical left into something far more open, accessible, flexible and ecologically-focused.
The Marxes and Engelses of the world thought they'd created a 'scientific' socialism, one based on processes and principles they'd divined from studying economics, sociology and history – and that therefore was much better than the wishy-washing moralising of the socialisms that had come before. But a lot of their 'scientific' analysis was wrong. A lot of their predictions didn't come to pass. Meanwhile, it's always going to be wrong that millionaires exist in a world where people starve.
Rather than some grand, sweeping theory of everything, Modern Socialism needs to be more humble – a values system and a set of priorities used to approach the problems the species faces. A lot of these (appropriately) red lines should be the same ones the Left has always had – egalitarianism, libertarianism, public ownership of crucial services and industries, etc. But there are also areas the conventional Left has tended to neglect, and, unfortunately, they happen to be staggeringly important.
Unforgivably often, left-wingers have ignored immense human suffering in the global South, caused by entirely preventable poverty, starvation and disease. They've also been distinctly rubbish about embracing eco-politics on a planet where another hundred or so years of the status quo will probably leave the environment irreparably damaged – and our prospects of survival along with it.
To be properly viable in the twenty-first century, we need a socialism that's both radically humanitarian and ecological – that takes humanitarian suffering as seriously as it takes anything, and that aims at making genuinely sustainable, egalitarian societies free from dependence on economic growth.
THE FULL RAMBLE: This is the first in a series of posts about what I've resorted to rubbishly calling Modern Socialism. It's unsurprisingly based on the premise that socialism-as-practiced and as commonly understood isn't fit for purpose any more, and that we need a 'modern' version to replace it.
Across a string of posts that'll gradually appear on here over the next few months, I'm going to try and elaborate on what that actually means. Among other things, we'll look at the radical politics of the twentieth century, and what bits we need to keep and what bits need to go. We'll look at how, if it ever does, the kind of society we're aiming at might come about, and what we can do to try and make it happen. And in ways that will probably overlap with my parallel sister-series on what for now I'm calling Radical Atheism, I'll bang on about ethics and morals like the strange far-left vicar I'm increasingly coming to resemble.
In this introductory bit, though, I'm just going to sketch an outline of what Modern Socialism is, what it isn't, and why it's needed.
What/why it is?
Even as a sort of placeholder until we/someone else can think of something better, the 'Modern Socialism' label has downsides aplenty – first and foremost, that it sounds quite a bit like New Labour. But if there's one thing that needs to be made clearer than clear from the off, it's that this emphatically isn't about retreating from long-held political positions to try and accommodate a skewed, morally bankrupt status quo. Instead, it's about knocking together a new, accessible radical left-wing politics addressing the world as it is now.
What does socialism need to do to be viable in the twenty-first century? Ditch the Marx worship, the Bolshevik fetish and the strange, clunky, cult-like language of the twentieth century Left. Get away from tiny elites squabbling over dense academic texts impenetrable to anyone without a PhD. Use 'thinkers' and 'theorists' – critically and selectively – for what they were: flawed human beings very much of their time, who were very right about a few things, wrong about quite a lot of others, and, obviously, entirely incapable of foreseeing how radically civilisation would change in the decades after their deaths. Rather than some grand, unquestionable theory of everything, modern socialism needs to be a flexible, non-dogmatic but uncompromisingly egalitarian and anti-capitalist way of approaching the problems facing the species.
But it also needs to right two of the biggest, most damning failures of the conventional Left, too. One, its near-silence on extreme global poverty and the plight of the bit of the human population suffering the most, territory it's effectively abandoned to market evangelists. And two, its lukewarm-at-best response to the emergence of radical green politics, despite the civilisation-imperilling ecological crisis just around the corner.
Humanitarianism and environmentalism aren't just features that should be casually tacked on to existing worldviews, either. They're central to the whole endeavour. Capitalism has had a fair roll of the dice, and it's performed abysmally. It's brought the planet to the brink of ecological catastrophe, and presided over such ludicrous inequality of development that one part of the world has so much, and wants so much more, than it threatens the continued existence of everything alive, while another has so little that millions starve.
What we call Modern Socialism, then, tries to combine an accessible, non-dogmatic democratic radical socialism – and a passionate commitment to the welfare of the poorest, most vulnerable bit of the species – with the emerging anti-growth ecological agenda.
Because we're a simple-minded and very visual blog-based non-phenomenon, we always see it as a triangle – three sides, three components.
One, what you might call conventional anti-capitalism: the traditional left-wing fight against corporate dominance, unaccountably, society-disfiguring inequality and the abuse, exploitation and waste of ordinary people.
Two, radical humanitarianism: treating poverty, starvation, drought, preventable disease and the like with the utmost seriousness, and arguing that society needs to be comprehensively restructured to wipe them out.
And three, radical anti-growthist green politics – because there's absolutely no chance of achieving the objectives of one and two on a dead planet.
If I start spooling out some vision of what a Modern Socialist future might look like, there's absolutely no doubt that the result is going to sound laughably far-fetched to almost everyone.
I'm very relaxed about that. 'Far-fetched', after all, essentially just means 'very different from the way things are now, in a culture that's catastrophically, self-destructively short-sighted and dominated by those with the biggest interest in preserving the status quo'.
The way things are now is also very different from the way things were for 90% of the time humanity has existed, when we lived in roughly egalitarian, co-operative groups of hunter-gatherers with negligible environmental impact. If we don't start living more like that – the kind of existence homo sapiens evolved to uniquely suit over hundreds of thousands of years– then we'll consume ourselves to extinction, and our annihilation will be very well deserved. In the increasingly unlikely event we do survive, the idea that economies can and should grow endlessly will have been filed away alongside the one that held the earth was flat, and millionaires will be looked back on as baffling historical oddities.
And with that cheery preamble out of the way, here's a brief sketch of the kind of political situation we need to be aiming for – one that, no doubt, we'll be lucky to come anywhere near during my lifetime, but that can provide us with something to strive towards, and to point to when people say 'it's all very well you criticising us, but what's your alternative?'
What it would look like?
Modern Socialism's primary objectives should be to drastically reduce our environmental impacts, both as individuals and as societies, and maximise the wellbeing of everyone alive. Advanced Western economies like the UK need to shrink, not grow – to undergo 'degrowth', and be reconfigured to meet real human needs rather than serve the profit motive. We also need 'deglobalisation' – to return the main focus of economic activity to locally producing goods and providing services to meet local needs.
To achieve all this, food and necessary consumer goods need to be produced as close to the place they're consumed as possible – which would have the added bonus of providing manufacturing and agricultural jobs for millions of people, a neat counter to all those who claim green politics means massive job losses. International trade needs to be done away with, except when absolutely necessary.
That said, affluent countries need to commit a vast and sustained programme of aid, material, financial and technical support to less affluent countries, continuing until such a time where poverty and hunger have been eradicated, and now-impoverished areas of the world are able to support themselves.
As soon as possible, 100% of our energy requirements need to be met renewably. Thanks to World War Two, it's an extremely evocative word, but energy use, like food, individual carbon output and material consumption, needs to be rationed. Since cutting down the amount of meat you consume is the best way of reducing your carbon footprint, our diets need to become far less meat-centric – to the extent where we only have one or two carnivorous days a week.
Socially useless sectors of the economy need to be unsentimentally culled to help it shrink – the UK's £100bn advertising industry, for example, should be the first to go. For the same reason, working hours need to be reduced to between three and four days a week.
That amount of work either needs to pay as much as full-time hours do now, or be boosted by a Citizens Income scheme, where everyone in the country receives a monthly payment for no other reason that happening to be alive. In their spare time, people can do what they like, albeit within very strict environmental limits.
The number of cars on the roads needs to be massively cut, and public transport needs to be massively expanded – providing more jobs. Short-haul air travel needs to effectively cease. Long-haul flights should only be allowed in cases of proven need – and a weekend in the Seychelles won't count.
There needs to be permanent, comprehensive redistribution of wealth. The repulsive gains made by the very richest over the past forty years simply need to be seized back – they can put up with having their assets frozen and just be thankful we don't throw them in jail. Like everyone else, they'd be eligible for comfortable and, crucially, energy efficient and eco-friendly council housing.
And there needs to be steep progressive taxation, a generous Living Wage and a legal maximum wage. The difference between the income of the richest and that of the poorest needs to be narrow – cut to 10:1 for a conservative start, then ratcheted down to 5:1, then to 3:1 or even 2:1.
The whole idea that land can be 'owned' by an individual should be done away with. Instead, all land should be publically owned, and individuals should simply rent it out for as long as they need it.
A long list of social functions need to be declared too important to be left to private, profit-making business. Healthcare, education, food production, food sale, the pharmaceutical industry, power production, telecommunications, public transport, law enforcement, defence, emergency services, social services, and care of the elderly and disabled all need to administered under some kind of public ownership (and lots of different forms of public ownership can exist in tandem – with some services being planned and run at state-level, some at local level). The financial sector needs to be entirely public-owned too, restoring public control over the all-important money supply.
'Big' business needs to effectively cease to exist. History has conclusively shown that when private wealth and power is allowed to grow beyond a certain size, it begins to use its massive clout to warp societies in its own narrow, self-seeking interest.
Private companies need to be small to medium-sized by definition, operating in a small and heavily regulated private sector – restricted both in terms of the kinds of goods and services it can provide, and how much money individual enterprises can make. That marketplace needs to be made up of a much wider range of enterprise types, too – with employee-owned co-operatives, mutual societies and the like featuring far more prominently.
And wherever possible, the focus of political decision-making needs to be local, with local people given real, decisive power over what happens in the places they live, through localised referendums, pop-up citizens' assemblies that could be convened when required, and other, similar measures – with people being excused from work with full pay to take part. Employees and service users also need to participate in the running of public-owned entities, able to overrule management if necessary.
Where some sort of representative democracy is needed, citizens need to have the power to recall the people they've elected, and to collectively come together and overrule them or local government bureaucracies if they choose to do so. Elected representatives themselves need to be embedded in the communities they serve, receiving no special perks or extra pay, either continuing to work in normal jobs on the side (using your political influence to make money, of course, would a sackable, imprisonable offence), or receiving an average worker's wage for politicking full-time.
The same should apply to situations when national-level decision-making is required. It started as a joke, but the idea of a Skype parliament has a hell of a lot going for it – letting representatives vote and debate in cyberspace, without the need for second homes and bulging expense accounts, while still living and working among the people that vote for them.
If there's one thing for sure, any society organised like this won't be a utopia. People won't get everything they want. They'll have more say over what goes on in their locality than they ever have done, but the range of choices will be limited. Society just won't have the resources – or to put it more accurately, the environment just won't have the carrying capacity – to provide anything frivolous or luxurious. It won't be flashy, at times it might not be especially fun, but it'll survive, without obliterating the very ecosystem that sustains it.


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February 9, 1937 - December 2, 2012
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August 14, 1985 - November 20, 2012
Christopher Jackson age 27, of Sheffield Lake. Dearly beloved son of Keith and Paula (nee Checovich); loving brother of Angela (Robert Fortney); dearest grandson of Joyce and the late James Jackson and Chester and the late Jean Checovich; dear nephew, cousin, and friend to many. Family will receive friends Sunday 3-6:30 pm at CRACIUN FUNERAL HOME 23040 CENTER RIDGE RD. WESTLAKE (LOCATED...
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Also, this story is part one of a trilogy, which is now complete! Here's the full list of The Ballad of Baldric Brimstone.
- Chapter One: Don't Ever Field a One-Eyed Dragon
- Chapter Two: Why You Never Give Your Party The One Ring
- Chapter Three: Big Gay Half-Orcs and Utterly Destroying Plot
Also, this story is part one of a trilogy, which is now complete! Here's the full list of The Ballad of Baldric Brimstone.
- Chapter One: Don't Ever Field a One-Eyed Dragon
- Chapter Two: Why You Never Give Your Party The One Ring
- Chapter Three: Big Gay Half-Orcs and Utterly Destroying Plot
Now, onward to this week's tale...
Boy, did I ever.
The Ballad of Baldric Brimstone
|Have gun, will travel.
The character I created for this game was a reformed villain with a secret history. To all appearances he was a human gunslinger/alchemist by the name of Baldric Brimstone. A quick draw specialist who relied on speed and overwhelming firepower to see him through most situations, he was a fairly good fit in a generally chaotic, and generally neutral, party. However, despite his human-like appearance (I burned a feat slot to take Pass For Human for this back story), he was actually a half-orc.
Bred to a savage tribe for quick wits and fast hands, he had been a fire-bomber who left little standing on any raid he was part of. A disagreement with the tribal chief, who got lit up like dry kindling in a lightning storm, led to this alchemist fleeing, lest vengeance be visited upon him. A frontier family found him half-starved and exhausted, along with some broken bones and no few deep cuts. They took him in and helped him recuperate, and that was his first brush with a culture where "might makes right" wasn't the whole of the law. He learned the trade of gunsmithing, and decided to try and make up for some of his dark deeds by taking up the cause of good. Nothing like a Chaotic Evil to Chaotic Good switch to grant you plenty of motivation.
So, Baldric shows up as a new recruit to a mercenary guild of adventurers. He's assigned to a party, and told to go and deal with a dragon problem.
Hunting Trouble
It should be mentioned that before this game session began I asked the DM very specifically if he first, allowed advanced firearms if the player could afford them, and second, if he allowed called shots. He did, and he did. This needs to be mentioned up-front.
So, the party finds its way to a village that looks like something out of my character's past. Houses are burned to the foundation, people are scattered, and there's little enough left standing. The party is given directions to a certain mountain, and we pick our way along to a cave that looks big enough to house a dragon. We enter, weapons drawn. We see a horde with an unconscious child atop it; no dragon in sight.
So the party, being an adventuring party, starts exploring. We don't find hide nor hair of the dragon, but as soon as the mysterious orphan on the horde awakens a red dragon lumbers in. He's big enough to be full grown, but whether it's a juvenile or a young dragon it's still several challenge ratings higher than the party. However, the DM mentions that the dragon looks wounded. It's covered in deep cuts, it's limping, breathing hard, and one eye has been completely destroyed.
|Don't get ahead of me, now.
Because we aren't commanded to roll initiative immediately, the bard begins to parley with the dragon. Most of the party speaks draconic, including Baldric, but he feigns that he doesn't. There are exchanges back and forth, rolls are made, and mechanically speaking the negotiation is going about as well as a thing like this can be expected to. After the third or fourth exchange though, I turn to the DM and declare a readied action. The readied action in question is to draw my pistol, and make a called shot to the beast's remaining eye.
Bulls-Eye.. Er... Dragons-Eye
Despite the out of character knowledge that the negotiation is going well, all Baldric is hearing is that we, the heroes, are negotiating with a creature responsible for destroying lives and attempting the murder of an entire town. So, butting into the negotiation, he demands to know why the red dragon in question decided to just attack the town.
Its response? "Because I felt like it."
|Polyphemus, eat your heart out.
I cannot emphasize this enough; no one at this table has seen me game before. For some of them this is their first campaign. We are facing a threat somewhere between 2 and 5 challenge ratings higher than we should be, and before anyone can stop him Baldric drags iron, pulls the trigger, and rolls an 18 on the die. After all the negatives were calculated, that was a 19 on a touch attack against a flat-footed opponent.
I hit.
The Aftermath
Fortunately for yours truly I had built a character with a very impressive initiative. Unfortunately for most of the rest of the party, the dragon went directly after me. I took another shot, and got out of the way. The dragon, being evil, blind, in pain, and a dragon, blew fire all over the cavern. The blast torched most of the party, and dropped a goodly number of them. Baldric remained untouched and kept shooting.
For three or four rounds this fight continued, with flung alchemical weapons and flying lead peppering this already injured creature. The still-standing members of the party got in on the action, and some of the bombs were having a noticeable effect. Before the dragon could be dropped though, it took wing and got the hell out of dodge. The party's in shambles, and standing over them is a lunatic with a smoking gun who not only hasn't taken any damage, but is reloading his pistol and demanding to know if they're going to let that thing get away.
|You want us to what now?
I had never seen that many looks of dumbfounded disbelief at a gaming table before. First that I had an extraordinarily stupid idea, and then that it worked out in my favor. Also, the DM learned a valuable lesson that night; no matter what you put on the table, or how powerful it is, someone in the party is going to try and kill it. Always be prepared for that.
The truly funny thing about the whole situation? This was only the second game where I had to roll out hit points for my character. I did not roll well. I was at the controls of a glass hammer who was getting by on little more than a high initiative, brass balls, and a decent intimidate check. Baldric's hit points didn't dramatically improve as he gained levels, either. Despite that he not only survived the campaign, but became a king by his own hand, building an empire from ashes with little more than a fast hand and a can-do attitude.
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WHCCAMP Chair James S. Gordon, MD, is is upset that his 2-year pet project is under attack. On March 26, 2002, the Washington Post printed a letter in which he defended his irresponsible behavior. This letter is a response.
To the Editor:
Yesterday, Dr. James S. Gordon, Chairman of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (WHCCAMP), complained in your paper (Interactions, page HE02, 3/26/02) of the unfairness of his critics in the scientific medicine community. I am one such critic, a health care consumer advocate who has researched and published materials about Dr. Gordon's checkered past. A great deal of my research focused on Dr. Gordon's 12 year involvement with the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh cult from 1973 through 1985 as well as other fringe beliefs and bizarre activities of Dr. Gordon such as his collaboration with "alien abduction" theorist, Dr. John Mack. Both the National Council Against Health Fraud and the Quackwatch websites have posted my research for public review. My research has also been published in the Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine. I am also a signatory to the letter that requested the disbanding of Dr. Gordon's Commission last fall that was mentioned in last week's Washington Post article, "Alternative Health Panel Under Attack".
In my articles and in other critics' comments no one has ever, to my knowledge, accused Dr. Gordon of being directly involved in the 1984 salmonella poisonings attributed to Rajneesh followers, as he has incorrectly stated in his letter. However, Dr. Gordon's 1987 book, "The Golden Guru", written soon after the poisonings, is full of elaborate apologies for Rajneesh, the movement and Gordon's own close involvement with what even Gordon himself admits the State Department considered a "Jim Jones" type cult.
Gordon's protestations of being a mere New Religions "researcher" ring hollow as his book describes his joyous participation in "rebirthing" at the hands of a naked Danish woman at the cult's free love commune in India in 1979, his at least partial approval of violent psychotherapies used to convert persons to the cult and his regular attendance through the 1980s at the Devadeep Rajneesh Meditation Center in Washington. At this cult center oriented toward the recruitment of African-American youth, Gordon participated in hallucinatory "Dynamic Meditation" dancing which he also offered to his patients as psychiatric "therapy". The Devadeep Center also offered rebirthing, Reichian orgone treatments and immersion in isolation tanks. Gordon recruited patients from Devadeep and wrote on page 92 of his book that "some of my most lonely patients found friends there."
During the time of the salmonella poisonings in Oregon, in Sept/October 1984, Gordon claims (Chapter 7 The Share a Home Campaign) that, purely as an NIMH researcher, he was accompanying Rajneeshee recruiters in Washington as they herded hundreds of homeless men - many recruited from the Devadeep Center - onto buses in an attempt to rig an election for the Rajneesh in Oregon. The salmonella poisonings were another tactic in that election-rigging. Later in the chapter, he defends these recruitees' treatment at Rajneeshpuram as superior to what they would have received "in city and state mental hospitals and shelters" and that "those who stay are functioning, useful members of a loving community."
Gordon, who despite his enthusiastic participation portrays himself ex-post-facto as a secret critic - for years appears to have had unprecedented access to the highest levels of the Rajneeshee movement. Over and over in his book he praises Rajneesh's philosophy and brags of his access to the inner circles. Clearly any criticism he may have had was muted indeed.
Indeed, Gordon's 12 years of close association with Rajneesh appears to have been both as a follower AND as a researcher. Indeed the two activities may have been synonomous. Gordon's own former psychiatric supervisor, Dr. Andy Ferber, renamed Bodhicitta, became a prominent Rajneeshee. In fact many of Rajneesh's core disciples were psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers who ran the cult's transformational "therapy groups" - Esalen Institute inspired therapies that Gordon deeply admired. While Dr. Gordon's book does criticize quite severely the Oregon poisonings, one can only imagine what he would have written had the commune not been immersed in scandal and had he not his own reputation to defend. Despite the authoritarian turn of his guru, Dr. Gordon in the closing paragraphs of the book still refuses to condemn him, writing of his appreciation of Rajneesh's "remarkable talents and gifts" seeing his - the Rajneesh's - "unfinished journey as a mirror for my own."
Dr. Gordon prefers to have the readers of the Washington Post view his dalliance with Rajneesh as ancient history, or a mere minor aspect of his "New Religions" research, irrelevant to any questioning of his qualifications or judgment to determine national CAM policy. However, even today he has not cut all his connections to his Bhagwan. On the web site of his Center for Mind Body Medicine, he advertises and sells two of Rajneesh's meditation tapes under the deceased Rajneesh's pseudonym of OSHO. The tapes, Dynamic Meditation and Kundalini Meditation are sold under his center's section at Amazon.com. So, even as I write this letter, Dr. James S. Gordon is directing "seekers" to the circles of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.
Is it not entirely understandable that we in the consumer health community question the qualifications of Dr. Gordon to expound on any aspect of United States health care? Given that this same Dr. Gordon loaded his commission with CAM zealots and ideologues in order to rig perhaps the most corrupted, anti-scientific commission report in US Medical History, I would hope that the Washington Post will call for the total rejection of the WHCCAMP report.
Documentation is listed below.
E. Patrick Curry
Pittsburgh, PA
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Training Center Improvements
York Electricians JATC has been busy this past year with training center upgrades. These upgrades included building upgrades and addition of training aids. We have updated the lighting throughout the training center with IBEW-Made LED dimmable fixtures and Lutron Vive wireless lighting controls. These provide reduced energy consumption, higher quality lighting, and improved control functionality. Two of our labs have been outfitted with nLight fixtures and controls to show an alternate option on the market. This system is controlled through Cat5 cables and graphic keypad. It was donated by illuminations/Acuity Brands through cooperation with CapitalTristate.
We have also added two Fire Alarm Trainers that will allow apprentices to install, wire, and program the various components associated with a Fire Alarm System. The trainers have been designed to simulate a building with two floors, lobbies, an elevator shaft, and a sprinkler room with tamper and flow switches. Fire Alarm systems continue to be a key component of any building system and protect all personnel occupying it. These trainers will help to ensure that our installers are effectively and efficiently installing these systems to help provide worker and patron safety in commercial and industrial buildings. We have also added a new instructor who is experienced with various complex systems throughout the area to focus exclusively on fire alarm systems. The courses include a rigorous series of labs that must be completed in order to pass these courses.
Milwaukee Tools has donated a wide variety of M18 battery power tools and hand tools to help our apprentices learn proper tool care and use while giving them the resources they need to complete the various other hands-on activities throughout the program. As our program continues to grow, this tool donation will help us maximize our instruction and lab time by allowing every apprentice to have what they need for labs and activities. We have included space on the display to accommodate the future donations they have promised. Milwaukee Tools is a Platinum Training Partner with the electrical training ALLIANCE and has a team dedicated to helping JATC programs across the country. We are very grateful for this partnership and their recognition of the importance of training the new workforce.
Southwire has donated a MAXIS tugger, MAXISJAX reel stands, simpull wire, MAXIS triggers, and their QWIK rope which will allow our apprentices to practice proper wire pulling procedures. When used together, this system is pretty amazing. The remote foot switches allow either end of the wire pull to stop the tugger by simply lifting your foot off the switch. This improves safety by removing the need to transmit an emergency stop across a radio. The improved rope and wire also reduce friction and allow for an easier pull and no required lubricant which can put a workers hands close to pinch points. We have installed parallel 3″ EMT runs to give apprentices hands-on experience in our lab.
Square D has donated a complete Bussway system that was installed by our apprentices this past spring. These systems are widely used in industrial settings across the country to provide improved flexibility and maintenance of equipment. They have donated various buss plugs which will allow our apprentices to gain experience installing and testing properly in a safe deenergized environment.
York Electricians JATC is dedicated to providing the best electrical training in the industry. These are a few of the most recent improvements we have made to our program and training center. We have also added new bending equipment, Wi-Fi programmable thermostats for HVAC control, a lighting display to show the differences in color temperature and much more. We believe that training is the key to the success of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. We strive to make our workers the safest, most productive, and most professional in the industry. We will continue to grow and adapt to our ever-changing industry to ensure that we meet that mission. We encourage anyone seeking access to high quality training to contact us to learn more about what we can offer.
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The Greater Orange Area Chamber of Commerce recognized Brandy Mobbs, Head Custodian at Bridge City High School, as School District Employee of the Month. Brandy leads her team with energy, intelligence, and professionalism. She never misses a deadline and has earned the respect of the administrators, teachers, and staff because of her professional competence and demeanor.


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Archive for November, 2013
Recyle, restore and revive
Often the best place to shop is in your existing wardrobe – a wardrobe audit is the perfect place to start planning your new summer look. It's amazing how existing pieces can be given new life – a change of length a tweak here and there and a different combination gives you an updated look […]
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A good selection of home made food and bright fresh décor in an historic 1863 building and a nice change from trying to find a park in Onehunga Mall. Established in 1863, Trafalgar House is an icon in the Onehunga Area. It's becoming established as the local coffee shop, a short distance from Onehunga Mall, […]
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Delicious home cooked food and wide range of coffee beans and the latest machines, based in the rural Waikato town of Tirau. Indulge yourself with the fine taste of their unique blend of coffee, delivery directly to your door. Their small team is dedicated to providing you with a high quality product every time you […]
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The new film version of 1984 is a solid, well-conceived adaptation of George Orwell's novel. It must have been a tremendously daunting project to adapt one of the most famous books of the century.
It had happened once before—in 1956, with Edmond O'Brien as a rather incongruously well-fed Winston Smith. But that version has been tied up in Orwell's estate for years, and movie rights for a remake have been similarly locked away.
Somehow, British producer Simon Perry cajoled the rights from Orwell's heirs, just in time to start filming during the exact time described in the novel (April through June, 1984). Unfortunately, this meant that the film wouldn't make it into general release until 1985.
But here it is—and despite the apparent anachronism of the title, 1984 seems just as relevant as ever. The story of one man and one woman being "thought criminals" in a totalitarian state controlled by the omnipresent image of Big Brother is chillingly suited to today's latest-breaking news stories.
Adaptor-director Michael Radford is quite faithful to Orwell's vision, even to the point of including the phrases that echo through the novel. The newspeak of Oceania is intact, with its sexcrimes, doublethink, and Party slogans, as well as the children's rhyme that haunts Winston Smith: "Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clements…."
Radford also recreates Orwell's physical description. This is a grimy, depressed industrial jungle, with telescreens looming over the scurrying citizens and announcers keeping up a steady drone of Party chatter. Radford's visual scheme includes a bleached-out color that accurately conveys the spiritual blankness of most of the inhabitants of what was once known as London.
Radford's casting is also true to the book. Certainly one would be hard-pressed to find a more fitting Winston Smith than John Hurt, whose sunken face suggests a lifetime of suffering. Remember, Hurt is the guy who was able to give humanity to the Elephant Man through his voice alone, so his deadened look is an appropriate counterpoint.
Smith is joined in sexcrime by Julia (Suzanna Hamilton), a fellow worker. Their nude scenes are deliberately used by Radford as a vivid contrast to the uniformity of clothing and appearance in the other parts of their world. Big Brother seeks to eliminate sex because it distracts people from the greater good of serving the Party.
It's very nice that the late Richard Burton (to whose memory the film is dedicated) was able to end his film career—one of the most wildly uneven of any major actor—with something of merit. He is fine as O'Brien, the Party official who tortures Smith into embracing the "love" of Big Brother.
Somehow, this interesting movie never gets really great, and it may be due to is very faithfulness; Orwell's book is not unusually well-suited to the movies, and the relentless horror of it all becomes numbing after a while. But it gets its point across—as Winston Smith says, "The important thing is not staying alive—the important thing is staying human." The movie believes in that most insidious thoughtcrime, and it has never seemed truer.
First published in the Herald, February 26, 1985
I caught a few minutes of this on cable recently and it looked good; Burton was chilling. It might be hard to ever get the novel right, because it is such an unforgettable reading experience; one feels superbly illicit just opening the book and committing a thoughtcrime. I was very interested in Radford then, because I'd liked his film Another Time, Another Place; he would find real success with Il Postino but then kind of fall away from prominence.


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Had an awesome grouse opener on Saturday, limited out in 20min.
This was tonight's dinner.
Jalapeno, sun dried tomato and cream cheese stuffed bacon-wrapped ruffed grouse breasts.
In a bowl, mashed up cream cheese and added chopped jalapenos and sun dried tomatoes. Stuff mixture into the cavity under the breast plate and held it in place with bacon strips.
Extra cream cheese mixture was stuffed into jalapenos to make poppers.
Baked at 350F for 45min.


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CEYLON was designed around your life to provide the convenience of living where you work and play while delivering the luxury you deserve. Located near public transit, as well as having a controlledaccess parking garage, CEYLON meets the transportation needs of all residents. Hosting guests has never been easier with the reservable clubroom, second floor terrace overlooking restaurant row, and a community guest suite. The modern ondemand fitness center, video callbox, and instant notification parcel system allow residents to maximize their time in and out of their home.
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Tawa Chicken Recipe By Food Fusion
Try this Tawa Chicken recipe. You don't have to be in Lahore to enjoy it. Tawa chicken is very well known dish in lahore.
Recipe in English:
-Chicken (tikka pieces) 1 kg
-Ginger garlic paste 2 tbs
-Yogurt 1 & ½ cup
-Salt 1 tsp or to taste
-Cumin seeds roasted and crushed 1 tsp
-Red chili powder 1 tsp
-Black pepper crushed 1 tsp
-Coriander seeds roasted and crushed 1 & ½ tsp
-Red chili crushed 1 tsp
-Yellow food color 1 pinch
-Oil ½ cup or as required
-Onion chopped large 1
-Tomatoes chopped 4
-Green chili sliced 3-4
-Ginger julienne cut 1 inch
-Salt ½ tsp or to taste
-Lemon juice 2 tbs
-Whole spices powder 1 tsp
-Fenugreek leaves (optional) 1 tsp
-Coriander leaves handful
-Put the cuts on chicken for better absorption of marinating.
-In a bowl, add chicken and apply ginger garlic on chicken well and leave for 10 minutes.
-Now add yogurt, salt, cumin seeds (roasted and crushed), red chili powder, black pepper (crushed) coriander seeds (roasted and crushed) and red chili crushed, give it a good mix.
-Add yellow food color, mix well and marinate for 2-3 hours.
-Heat oil on tawa, add chicken with marination and fry until chicken is half done, set aside.
-On the same tawa, add onion and sauté for 2-3 minutes. Add tomatoes and green chili,mix it.
-Now add ginger julienne,salt,lemon juice and mix it.
-Now shift fried chicken on tawa,stir it.Cover and cook for 10mins (each side).
-Sprinkle whole spices powder, fenugreek leaves,coriander leaves ,cover and steam cook for few minutes.
-Garnish with green chili and ginger julienne and serve.
Recipe in Urdu:
-Chicken (tikka pieces) 1 kg
-Adrak lehsan paste 2 tbs
-Dahi 1 & ½ cup
-Namak 1 tsp or to taste
-Zeera roasted and crushed 1 tsp
-Lal mirch powder 1 tsp
-Kali mirch crushed 1 tsp
-Dhania roasted and crushed 1 & ½ tsp
-Lal mirch crushed 1 tsp
-Yellow food color 1 pinch
-Oil ½ cup or as required
-Pyaz chopped large 1
-Tomatoes chopped 4
-Green chili sliced 3-4
-Ginger julienne cut 1 inch
-Namak ½ tsp or to taste
-lemon juice 2 tbs
-Garam masala powder 1 tsp
-Kasoori methi (optional) 1 tsp
-Hara dhania handful
-Chicken per cuts laga lein.
-Bowl mein chicken dal ker us per ginger garlic ka paste ache tarhan lagayein aur 10 minute kliya chor dein.
-Ab is mein dahi,namak,zeera (roasted and crushed),lal mirch powder,kuti kali mirch,dhania (roasted and crushed) aur kuti lal mirch dal ker ache tarhan mix karein.
-Yellow food color dal ker mix karein aur 2-3 hours kliya marinate kerlein.
-Tawa per oil garam karein,aur marinated chicken ko dal ker itna fry kerlein k chicken adhe gul jaye,side per rakh dein.
-Is he tawa per pyaz dal ker 2-3minute kliya saute karein.Tamatara aur hari mirchein shamil ker k mix ker lein.
- Ginger julienne,namak aur lemon juice dal ker mix karein.
-Ab is mein fried chicken shamil kerain,dhak ker 10 minute kliya paka lein dono sides sa.
-Garam masala powder,kasoori methi aur hara dhania dal ker dhak ka thori dair kliya paka lein.
-Hari mrichein aur ginger julienne dal ker serve karein.
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Back to the Future.
- Moving!
- The "un-edited" version: Toronto & BarChef
- Nolet Pratt – Competition Cocktail
- Horchata
- Almonds & Orgeat
- The Pesto.
- The Cocktail Kitchen Series
- A Ginger Beer Bonanza
- The Vegan Diaries: #5
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
- The "Ultimate" Food Science.
- Raw Carnage: Continuity
- Raw Carnage: The Theory.
- American Whiskey – Ambrosia of the Common Wo/Man.
- Can you put a price on passion?
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A Ginger Beer Bonanza
I had to fight to get on CityTV's Breakfast Television, not because I suck, but they aren't really interested in "cocktails" and booze – one of those things I suppose they'd like to avoid promoting at 7:00am, which makes tons … Continue reading
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As everyone knows, after the dreadful events of two weeks ago, all mass demonstrations had been banned in Paris, which was a bit of a setback as that meant that there were Climate Rallies taking place in major cities all around the world – except Paris, where the Climate talks are about to start!
Well, fortunately, that was not totally true, as there has been the virtual rally in the Place de la Republique, where thousands of shoes (including donations from Pope Francis and Ban Ki Moon) were placed to represent the people who would have been there had the authorities allowed. And there was the human chain which had been agreed by the authorities along the Boulevard Voltaire here at noon today (Sunday 29 November).
So Ricky and I (the two surviving Climate Vision cyclists) travelled the Metro to Charonne Station and on emerging to street level found several hundred already getting in line. As midday approached, more and more emerged and joined in until there must have been 5-10 thousand people strung out along the boulevard. Ricky and I found ourselves alongside Jenny Jones (Green Party representative in the House of Lords), Christine Milne (former leader of the Australian Green Party) and a number of Green MEP staff. It was all incredibly positive, and peaceful. It was just good to be with so many people of determination and goodwill. And there was not a single policeman or soldier in sight. After an hour and a half, the human chain gently melted away.
Apparently, some people went on to the Place de la Republique to gather where, unfortunately a small number of people bent on provocation also went. And so followed a confrontation with the police who were a little too diligent in trying to stop the action – all too predictably, people were attacked, tear gas fired and around 200 people arrested. All we knew about it was when we were travelling back from the human chain, our Metro train did not stop at Republique Station and, as we passed through, I could see a couple of dozen armed police on the platform and people being held back from the platform. Unfortunately the media, ever-attentive for a dramatic story to tell, will doubtless focus on the violent few and ignore the peaceful many. Nevertheless, they can never take away the abiding memory of all those wonderfully motivated people.
One other extraordinary experience was when Ricky and I, reaching the end of the human chain along Boulevard Voltaire, found ourselves in front of the Cafe Voltaire, where one of the attacks took place two weeks ago. Along with the other people who were paying their respects, I found a white poppy in my pocket and was able to place that with the flowers and candles. And to offer a prayer for peace.


text: I had the honor of photographing the marriage of Candy and Bob this past July – with family and close friends standing by as they joined their lives together. The ceremony took place in a tiny church in Hebron, CT which is located southeast of Hartford in the beautiful rolling hills and farmlands of this cool little state. There were big beautiful bouquets of summer flowers; pretty pots with ribbons lining the pews and lovely bouquets and boutonniers. After the ceremony & photos in the garden, we proceeded to downtown Hartford for the party at the fantastic restaurant 'Firebox' that specializes in 'Farm to Table' foods. (A must visit if you have not already experienced this place.) It was a fine mix of sophistication and down to earth rustic which made a unique, fun and beautiful wedding day. Congratulations to this beautiful couple! Take a peek at what the day was like and please leave your comments below! Thank you for visiting my blog. Dress from Mariella's in Rocky Hill, CT/Food & Flowers by FireBox, Hartford, CT


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Top 10 Latest Kickstarter Success – What Made Them Stand Out?
Being a professional product hunter for more than two years now gives me the opportunity to come across exciting innovations every day. Kickstarter has been one of those platforms I have been glued to since I don't know when. With 102, 134 successful projects (according to recent statistics) raising thousands of dollars every day, I don't think I need to explain what makes this platform special. Creativity speaks a lot and if you have a keen interest in new products and innovations, you're going to understand the value of crowdfunding faster. I've had friends and acquaintances raise capital for their projects from this platform and I must say that it's really crucial to have such platforms for fundraising in today's time.
But is it sufficient to just rely on this platform for crowdfunding success? Don't you need that extra edge to stand out from the crowd? Yes you do. And that's exactly why not all projects are successful and not all projects get funded even before their end day is reached. It was just yesterday when I was going through some of the recent projects on Kickstarter and to my surprise, I came across many who had already crossed their goals with nearly a month left in fundraising!
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They must be doing something RIGHT and when I dug in, I could see a lot of difference in the way these projects were presented and marketed across the web. Let's have a look at 10 such recent campaigns on Kickstarter and what makes them successful before time.
"A reinvented spanner with easy-cycling and interchangeable wrenches. Whenever you need, WRENCHit!"
One look at the entire project presentation and you're going to go WOW. Because starting from the video to their project timeline, everything is well presented here. But one thing that really makes me like this project a lot is the way they begun their story – Crisp enough to draw your attention.
Bottomline: Be crisp in your introduction. Not too exaggerating. Not too short!
"Bike bells generally look and sound a bit ugly. But why? What if they looked sexy and sounded like an angel playing a glockenspiel?"
I think I don't need to explain what made me look through the entire project here. Those two lines above were enough.
Bottomline: Make the two-liner description catchy and use a question if possible.
"Lighter, Smoother Cast Iron—an American classic meticulously redesigned with a modern twist: The Field Skillet"
You know, I am not much of a cast iron user but this project made me think of switching to one. Not just because of the skillet and its properties but because of the fact that they also highlighted why I should use cast iron.
Bottomline: Don't just sell your product. Let people know why they should buy yours.
"A winter coat with built-in gloves, scarf, length extension, hat pouch and tech pockets. Built for two different temperature ranges."
Most Kickstarter projects price their products at a lower rate during the campaign as compared to the retail price. But I don't see that well highlighted under the rewards chart that often! Smart Parka won the game in that sector by highlighting their retail Vs. Kickstarter margin in a clear cut graphical representation. Bravo!
Bottomline: Let the world know that your product is available at a much lesser price during the campaign.
"A playful programming language you can touch. Montessori approved, and LOGO Turtle inspired. Learn programming away from the screen."
When I buy a product, I obviously look for testimonials. I want to know the feedbacks of others and when I don't get one, it often leads to a "no-checkout". Unless it's some niche product I really want to have my hands on. With Cubetto, things were easy right from the beginning because of the testimonials they provided.
Bottomline: If you've got testimonials, show them. Don't wait for your backers to ask for some!
"Combine the freedom of pen and paper with the utility of the cloud. Microwave. Repeat."
Whenever I come across a Kickstarter campaign, the first thing I notice is the video. I don't want to see the next trailer of Game of Thrones out there. I want a clear visual description of the product in a simple way. I think Rocketbook is a clear example of what a proper campaign video should be like.
Bottomline: Be explanatory in your product video. Not over creative!
"OSSIC X is the world's first headphone that instantly calibrates to your anatomy for the most accurate and immersive 3D audio."
When I am putting my money into a product, I need to know every single thing that product can do. Even if it has got to do with "turning into Yoda at night", I am up for it. And when I stumbled upon Ossic X, I went back with a smile. Because they explained every feature from the scratch and with proper videos and images wherever necessary,
Bottomline: List all your product features in detail. It MATTERS "THE MOST"!
"Stikk is a Unique Re-Usable Double Sided Gel Pad That Will Stick Anything to Everything!"
There a tons of projects on Kickstarter which comes with multiple uses. But how do you know of them if you're not shown properly. Stikk is a Gel Pad you can use anywhere and the makers did show where you can use with clear cut imagery. Well done!
Bottomline: Use proper images to highlight the usability of your product.
"The Sleep Shepherd Blue uses brainwave sensors and binaural beats in a biofeedback loop to improve sleep quality and tracking accuracy."
Crowdfunding often comes up with products that are similar to others. It's how you present them that makes a difference. Like for Sleep Shepherd Blue, they did a separate chart on what features makes them different and obviously better than their competitors.
Bottomline: If you have competition, make sure to do a comparison.
"Smarter lights, powered by the light of day."
Finally, I have to give kudos to Ellum. Not only is their product a beauty but I love the fact that they stuck to a couple of GIFs only for their project. I hate my internet connection and the fact that the page keeps loading for projects with tons of GIFs.
Bottomline: Work on the image sizing of your project and use optimum sizing accordingly!
Submit your project on Gadget Flow and advertise in front of millions of potential customers.
That was my experience with the latest projects on Kickstarter. What about yours? Do you have more to add to the list too?


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on November 8, 2009 at 11:24 pm
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Ok, trying this for the sixth time this year, text will be current on Monday. Tonight I got it up to October 29th. All the comics are done for the week as well.. but it's late right now and I really need to sleep. I'm exhausted.
– Tiff


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Orlando Shooter's Wife 'Doesn't Understand Cause And Effect'
The school teacher of Orlando shooter Omar Mateen's wife has spoken out about her struggle with understanding complex situations.
Susan was Noor Zahi Salman's teacher at her California middle school, and she spoke to ABC News about her experience with teaching her. Noor was enrolled in Susan's special education classes.
"Noor had difficulty with retention, she had difficulty with conceptualizing, understanding, all challenges to her," Susan said. "She tried hard. She was very sweet."
Noor's family also released a statement to ABC news in response to Susan's comments. It outlined that she did not understand 'cause and effect', and that she needed extra help in high school.
"Noor is completely innocent and [was] unaware of the attacks," it said.
Noor is being investigated by the FBI to see whether she had any involvement in the attacks. She has admitted to the FBI that she drove him to Pulse nightclub and other sites, such as Disney World, to 'scope them out'. She also said that she was with him when he bought the gun and ammunition, but didn't contact authorities.
Omar's ex-wife, Sitora Yusufiy, said that he was mentally ill and has even alleged that he abused her throughout the relationship.
Noor and Omar married in September 2011 and met online.


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John Holiver named CharterCARE CEO
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John J. Holiver, ACHE, has been named Chief Executive Officer of CharterCARE Health Partners. Holiver most recently served as Interim President of Roger Williams Medical Center. He succeeds Lester Schindel, who has moved into the role of Chief Strategy and Development Officer for the New England region for Prospect Medical Holdings, the parent company.
Prior to joining Prospect Medical Holdings in 2015 as Chief Integration Officer, Holiver held several executive leadership positions in the Steward Health Care System, New England's largest community-based hospital network. At Steward, he served as President of St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, that system's flagship hospital, and in the same capacity at both Norwood and Good Samaritan Hospitals. He also served as Chief Executive Officer of Manet Community Health System in Massachusetts. Holiver is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). In his executive roles, he has had oversight of academic medicine, financial planning and growth, quality improvement, physician recruitment and retention. He also has a special interest and expertise in the hospitality sector, and has applied his knowledge to advancing customer service and patient satisfaction principles and benchmarks in the health care field.
As CEO, Holiver will lead the further development of CharterCARE, a joint venture company that operates two hospitals, an elder care services network, a major cancer treatment and research center, a leading behavioral health program, a home health agency and an independent physician association comprised of more than 200 Rhode Island primary care physicians and specialists. Specifically, Holiver will oversee the implementation of CharterCARE's strategic plan, which envisions an integrated, multi-level network of healthcare providers to provide convenient access to high quality care at lower costs. The complete network is expected to include urgent care centers, diagnostic services centers and additional physician groups.


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A heart of clovers to cross-stich for good luck.
A collection inspired by a particularly warm winter who has displayed, to whom who had the capacity to perceive it, bits of unexpected colors among the leaves of the woods.
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BOOK HUB Reader
You can download BOOK HUB Reader 1.0.0025 from our software library for free. The most popular version among the program users is 1.0. BOOK HUB Reader is included in Home & Hobby Tools. This free software is an intellectual property of The Book Hub. The program's installer is commonly called BookHubReader.exe.
From the developer:
BookHub Reader is an eBookReader application which can be used to read Sinhala,Tamil and English publications of Sri Lanka. This tool is easy to use; you just need to follow few simple steps: download the program, purchase the books from BookStore after registration, open the BookHUB eReader app, select the book you downloaded and enjoy reading.
You may want to check out more software, such as Book Wizard Reader, ICE Book Reader Professional or Nu-book Reader, which might be related to BOOK HUB Reader.
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Family Research Council's Statement on the RNC: It's Really About Gays and Greed:
The mainstream media has been all abuzz with the pronouncement by Tony Perkins of the Christian conservative organization Family Research Council (motto: "About that whole 'judge not lest ye be judged' thing..."), "Don't give money to the RNC." Every article and news report associates the action with the Republican National Committee's expense report showing the expenditure of $2000 worth of drinks and bondage at the douchiest nightclub in L.A. However, only a few mention that what the FRC's action is really about: hating the gays and pumping up its own coffers.
See, the FRC exists at this point for two reasons: forcing women to have unwanted babies and stopping any and all advances in gay rights. So, since abortion isn't part of the RNC's expenditures yet (you never know with Michael Steele), they've got the homosexual agenda involved. Not only was Voyeur offering lesbian bondage acts, but the RNC recently hired lawyer Ted Olson on a campaign finance reform case: "Yes, this is the same Ted Olson that is trying to overturn the results of the marriage amendment in California. The outcome of Olson's challenge to Prop 8 goes far beyond nullifying the votes of nearly 7 million voters in California; his efforts could lead to the overturning of amendments and laws in all 45 states that currently define marriage as the union of one man and one woman." He's also the same Ted Olson who represented Bush in Bush v. Gore, but, oh, fuck that, he supports gay marriage.
Tony Perkins and his FRC apostles touch themselves vigorously in revulsion at the idea that men who like to suck cock or women who like to lick clit might want to get married to like-minded members of the same sex or serve in the military. In fact, this week's FRC Prayer Targets for the Super-Duper Prayer Team are mostly about getting God to put the smackdown on the evil gays gaying up the joint with their gayness and all the traitorous non-gays letting the gays get things gayer. (The Rude Pundit joined the Super-Duper Prayer Team a few years ago under a nom de rude, and every week he gets sent new prayerection orders of shit what we want God to smite.)
Yeah, this week, the SDPT is told to pray against Obama recess appointee Chai Feldblum, "a radical lesbian and Georgetown University law professor who openly advocates homosexual 'marriage'" as an EEOC Commissioner because she was "an architect of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act." Then, in a real, hilarious quote, the FRC says, "Feldblum's appointment signals the President's likely plan to force the LGBT agenda upon American business, perhaps even before completing his effort to repeal the military's ban on homosexual behavior. Can you visualize a cross-dresser managing a Christian bookstore or an open lesbian heading up a church daycare?" That doesn't even leave room for a joke. But "only God can stop a massive transformation of American business and its subsequent impact upon society. May He intervene!" On your knees, motherfucker, and git yer big ass Jesus down here to stomp some queers.
But, c'mon, the real reason for the FRC calling on an end to contributions to the RNC is simple, and Perkins ain't subtle about it. You could donate to a candidate or "Better yet, become a member of FRC Action and learn about the benefits it offers, including participating in the FRC Action PAC which can support candidates who will advance faith, family and freedom!"
And don't worry. The FRC will only spend your money on wholesome things like promoting job discrimination and denying equal rights. Far better than lesbians in leather.
Actually, RNC donors, if you give your money to the Rude Pundit, he'll make sure it goes to leather lesbians.


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This past weekend, Shelby and I snuck away for a girl's afternoon that involved retail therapy and a lunch date. It also included a version of this Sweet Tea Shock Cocktail. Continue reading »
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08 Thursday Oct 2015
Posted cocktails & coffees, love to cook, Sundays with Shelbyin
This past weekend, Shelby and I snuck away for a girl's afternoon that involved retail therapy and a lunch date. It also included a version of this Sweet Tea Shock Cocktail. Continue reading »
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23 Sunday Aug 2015
Posted cocktails & coffees, love to cookin
Jalapeño Watermelon Margarita.
One of my friends posted pictures on facebook yesterday of the margaritas she and her significant other were enjoying at a local cantina. Robin had a sweet looking Watermelon Margarita and Tim had a fiery Jalapeño Margarita. Instantly I craved a margarita. A blended margarita. Continue reading »
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21 Friday Aug 2015
I was on a mission to develop a new Friday Night Cocktail. I wanted it to represent Summer Thyme, because while I'm always excited about Autumn…I in no way want to rush through the last month of 'official' summer.
This Red Grapefruit Mojito {with Vanilla Simple Syrup} might be the perfect seasonal segue. The crisp flavor of fresh squeezed Ruby Red Grapefruit and Lime are super refreshing. Continue reading »
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03 Friday Jul 2015
Posted cocktails & coffees, love to cookin
It's Independence Day weekend and that calls for a new cocktail recipe to celebrate.
Kiwi Mojito {with Agave Syrup}.
Shades of green with kiwi, lime and mint. There's nothing like a rum cocktail to transport you squarely into a holiday weekend. Continue reading »
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10 Sunday May 2015
It's Mother's Day and on this year, also my birthday. I'm feeling doubly blessed. Enjoyed a wonderful lunch out with my family. Received many birthday wishes & calls from family & friends. And now…now I'm sipping on a Strawberry Mojito. And it is good. Continue reading »
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24 Friday Apr 2015
Posted cocktails & coffees, love to cookin
I may have a new favorite Summer Thyme Sipper. Gin & Tonic {with Grilled Pineapple & Lemony Thyme}. Photo bomb courtesy of Scrappy Thyme.
Wow on so many levels. Have you had grilled pineapple? Turned your nose up at gin? Questioned fresh herbs in a cocktail? If you answered "Yes" to any of these questions… Continue reading »
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02 Monday Mar 2015
Posted cocktails & coffees, love to cookin
Martini Mondays.
I like the way that sounds. Especially when I'm enjoying a mini staycation.
I've been wanting to make this Nuts & Berries Martini since Christmastime when Santa first told me about it. Continue reading »
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17 Saturday Jan 2015
I've been swirling this Winter Harvest Cocktail recipe around in my mind for months. I wanted to create a libation that when sipped brought warm thoughts of Winter Harvest to mind. My cocktail would of course begin with rum. After doing a suitable amount of rum research, I discovered what might just be the perfect flavor pairing for my vision. Pyrat Rum XO Reserve. Continue reading »
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15 Saturday Nov 2014
Posted cocktails & coffees, love to cookin
From the minute I first spotted fresh cranberries in the market I knew a Cranberry Mojito was in my future. The perfect holiday cocktail or mocktail. Here's how we make them. Continue reading »
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19 Friday Sep 2014
Posted cocktails & coffees, love to cookin
This, my friends, is a
London Scotland Strawberry Martini. It's a glorious concoction of gin, strawberry puree, grenadine, lemon juice, with a splash of champagne. It's sweet and refreshing.
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