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This is from a reading Steve Beckow from The 2012 Scenario had with Archangel Michael on 12-26-12.
This is taking a while to transcribe. So rather than require you to wait forever, I'll post this transcript in parts.
Archangel Michael frequently says some very nice things that I regularly edit out of these transcripts. But doing so makes the transcript sound more clipped at some points than it would otherwise. But leaving them in makes it sound self-serving. So I settle for sounding clipped.
There are confidential matters discussed that I cannot record publicly. These have been left out. But I've tried to leave in as much as I possibly could.
In the next part, AAM discusses how Ascension is a process that started in Dec. 2011 and is at its midpoint now. It will continue for a period of time after this. And it continues because many people are just a stone's throw away from ascending and can join us if we hold the doorway open for a short period of time. Anybody opposed to that? Not me, certainly.
We have not yet had the really impactful unfoldment that he's talked about in the past, he says in Part 2, but the energies are now hitting us in full force and we're expanding daily.
This is a mostly-unedited conversation between a lightworker and an archangel. You get to hear exactly what was discussed. No, I was not planted in a fiery lake of brimstone for assailing him, as you can see. He is a gentle master (to me he is my master, not to you perhaps – and that's OK).
[Opening prayer and catalog of names and functions deleted.]
Archangel Michael: I'm asking you, no, not as public figure, but as brother and as friend, before we even begin, to come and to sit with me in the sacred union … to relinquish and to give to me any concern, dismay, despair, anything that is not of wholeness. I come this day fully prepared, my friend, to speak to you and to answer your queries.
You say, Lord, where is the Ascension, and yes, we know, you and many have been led into this date, this human time, but also this conjunction of time and space and realities, and what I also say to you, dear heart, is that you are in the middle of your Ascension process, and each person is experiencing it uniquely, differently, and yet the collective is also choosing to go forward together.
Can we lift you up as one immediately? Well, no, because that would interfere with freewill. But we will cover all of these questions.
But let me first speak to the question of your heart. And it is a question of: Is this real?
It is a fair question for really what do you have? A discarnate voice speaking over some electrical telecommunications device. So I understand your concern. And I understand particularly your concern about the veracity, because nothing spectacular and nothing foretold has come to pass.
But long before you have even spoken to this channel … shall I say eons before … I have reached out to you as you have reached out to me because you are the warrior, the communicator, the builder of truth, of compassion, and a shower of the way.
And we have worked together on this creation of the New World, of Nova Earth, of nova being, pointing the way, not only to what is possible, for everything is possible, but to what is almost inevitable, not because fate demands it or destiny requires. But because it is the journey that the souls above and below and the Divine Mother has planned for eons.
That still does not speak to the heart of the question, to the heart of your question and your plea, and that is for me to show you what is real and what is not and to have this demonstrated to you not simply through the channel, or a channel, because there are many, but in your own consciousness, in your own time, and in your own reality.
Steve: Yes.
AAM: It is not likely that I will bring you on ship today.
[Note that I had not asked this question of AAM directly in this reading but had definitely addressed the question to him the night before. The answering of a question before I asked him is for me evidentiary.]
But I will give you very tangible evidence that does not need to be questioned that you are in sacred partnership not only with me but with many of us.
The reason you do not go on board ship is that there are preparations underway for what you have been waiting for and for what they have been waiting for and for what we have been orchestrating for a long time.
But the reality of what you are really saying is that I am asking you not to listen to me but to listen to your heart. Now you think that you have not moved forward interdimensionally.
[Again this is not something I said to AAM before he raised the subject but I did talk to myself about it, so to speak, the night before. So again this is evidentiary to me.]
But that is not so.
You have shifted significantly. And what is happening as you are doing that is a great deal of the perception is also shifting automatically. But with this question as a backdrop, let us begin.
S: OK, Lord. I guess the problem is that I may have shifted interdimensionally but I don't have any experience of it. I feel like the same person at the same level of understanding so that's the paradox.
[X] had a message from Grener this morning and wants to know if it was a true message.
AAM: Grener has been talking and visiting with [X] because he has also … well, he loves her first of all … but he also feels that it is important that there be at least several vehicles for him to speak if not to the wider group of humanity then certainly to this smaller circle. So yes, the visitation and the message has been very real.
Grener has a very wry way of putting things. So yes it is real. But may I say something before we continue on?
S: Please.
AAM: You say that you do not perceive interdimensionally and yet your sense of love, even of peace, of relinquishing the drama, of letting go and embracing what you desire and know to be true, of building Nova Earth, of seeing me in form, of seeing the truth of other people's hearts, this has grown. This has expanded. I do not say this so that you can say, "Oh, alright. I have proof from Archangel Michael." That is not my role.
It is that I do not wish for you to underestimate what you have done, what you have received, what you have accomplished.
[Archangel Michael then goes on to describe what I or the blog have accomplished, but it would be perceived as self-serving of me to reproduce it so I delete it.]
And, yes, you take this as a very serious responsibility and so do I. But know that you have opened [readers], you have shown the way and what is possible.
[Again more favorable comments but I delete them.]
Now we have mentioned [these matters] even prior to December 21st but let us be very clear. If there is any of the old 3rd blame, fault, guilt, let it fall to us and not to you.
[More complimentary comments which I delete.]
So having said that, let us continue.
S: OK, Lord. And thank you for that. What we're addressing now is my mind so I look for every opportunity to provide what we call in [British] Spiritualism evidence, evidential indications, so I'm going to ask you a question for my mind. It would be evidential for me and perhaps even for X if you could tell us what Grener said to her, if you could reproduce some of what Grener said to her. Are you aware of what Grener said to her?
[I would call what I am doing here "testing the spirits."]
AAM: I am aware of pieces of it, yes. I do not eavesdrop on every conversation.
AAM: Basically what Grener has said to her is that [confidential information deleted, but accurate]. He has said to not give up hope, to not abandon what I would call your battle stations. He has said that you are to lead the way and that the plan is still in the process of unfoldment and that the uncloaking of the various ships, including the mother ship, will happen directly.
[In order to give the reader an idea of what Grener actually said through X, something unknown to Linda, to compare with AAM's rendition of it, here is the description of Grener's message from X:
"Grener popped in quite unexpectedly and told me 'Do not give up on US…..give up on everything else, but not on us. We are already amongst you and we will be coming. It was not an accident that I showed up in your mirror in early December. We will be coming very shortly. You (X) will feel much better then. [Deleted: confidential.] Steve should be writing from his heart and writing about what he knows about Love.'"
S: That's very good. Every instance of that does help me so thank you for that.
OK, well, I am dead in the water for a number of reasons. One I have told the complete story. I'm not sure what else to write. It's all been said and there's no sense going over it again. It's all on the site in the righthand column.
So it feels as if I've finished the complete saga, so to speak. And I don't like sequels. They're never as gripping as something that's in the moment and new. But that's only part of it. The other part of it is that I'm experiencing a crisis of confidence. And that's more serious and I need to discuss that with you.
Before the 21st of Dec., 2012, when things didn't go as they seemed they should, I would say to myself, well, it doesn't matter because the 21/12/12 is coming and it will wipe the slate clean so why get upset about that?
But there wasn't anything that happened on that day that matched what you were saying, what Saul, SaLuSa and Archangel Metatron were saying, what any of them were saying that would happen on the 21/12/12 that happened.
So once that occurred, then these other situations became prominent in my mind, so I need to go over that with you. I need to be satisfied on those scores so I can hopefully win release from this writer's block that I'm in. And put rather baldly, and in short form, nothing that you and I have discussed, no promise or predictions made, has come true. Nothing has eventuated out of all of that.
[I then reviewed, Pre-NESARA, NESARA, Disclosure, the Neptune, mass flyovers for the world and at Sedona, triple-digit dates, Ascension, etc.]
On none of these dates did anything happen that matched words that were said about them before.
[I then read from comments he had made about 21/12/12, etc.]
I don't know any person who has disappeared or ascended. At this moment, no one knows the date of Ascension.
I don't have a playbook to write from. I have nothing more to say. So there's all that.
[I then related personal things as well.]
My memory is still gone, interdimensionality not restored, blinkers not removed. You said I'd be working with the galactics in Geneva, Washington and New York but that hasn't occurred. [Etc.] Now you say that [confidential] will be on [date] and I'm saying to myself, "Oh yah, oh yah, another date."
AAM: And you'd be perfectly correct on that. We do not try and make excuses.
S: I understand.
AAM: Because we have not produced on the dates that we have said. And I have been listening not only to your conversation with the channel [before the reading] but long before that.
[Yes, I have lain on my bed and complained to the stars for days, as have many, I'd imagine.]
Because you and I have been having this conversation for days. In fact we have been having this conversation for weeks. And out of all of that the most important is the fact that you have not experienced the expansion, the growth, the evolution.
AAM: And that is the most significant because not only does it affect you. It affects many.
Never do we seek to avoid responsibility for what we have said would come to pass and what hasn't. Now in so many situations there has been the agreement with divine law that we will not interfere with human freewill. But I know that you say, well, this is simply too convenient because there are many whose freewill is absolutely there in the knowing and in the inviting and in the balance and the unity with us.
And containment truly helped escalate that and change that and make it a more important forum if you will.
AAM: We … and this is difficult … are waiting to meet, not you, because you are there, so in many ways you feel that you are at the bus station waiting and the bus is never showing up.
But there are many others that we are also waiting for, that are approaching that bus station in hordes and this has not just been our decision. It has been your decision as well.
You say that you do not know any who have ascended, but I suggest to you that there are many who have gone through this doorway, who are standing in the portal but have also gone through the door.
S: I don't know of any personally, Lord.
AAM: We will start to expose them to you.
S: When? When do you mean, Lord? Now?
AAM: Today.
S: Today?
AAM: Yes, today. We will have them begin to communicate to you, on your website, what they are experiencing. So that will be what you conceive of as evidentiary proof.
S: Yes. I need solid, reliable people, Lord.
AAM: Yes, we understand. So do we.
S: I get lots of people who make claims. [I relate one outrageous claim to AAM.]
AAM: No, it was not truth. You need solid evidence.
S: I do.
AAM: You need peace on Earth as I do. You need radical adjustment.
S: Uh huh.
AAM: So this is what I say to you. I understand and embrace the crisis of confidence that is your mind, not your heart.
S: That's right.
AAM: I say to you, yes, we have let you down. I will not use the word "failed." And I say to you that we will, quickly, a day, the next couple of days, provide you with tangible proof of a nature of which you are asking.
S: Adequate. Not just a few things that….
AAM: No, you were asking for the spectacular. I understand.
S: Well, something irrefutable.
AAM: Yes.
S: That's what I'm asking for. Something that is not open to interpretation. So for instance, if the proof was people writing in and saying "I have ascended," well, that's not irrefutable. I don't know if they've ascended. Maybe they're just writing me. So something people will not be able to deny.
AAM: Yes, we understand.
AAM: Now let us talk about you.
S: OK, I need an elevation of consciousness because I can't write any more from where I am. The mind that did all those articles on the site has run out of things to say. I have to be able to reach into a deeper place or another place.
AAM: Yes, it is a new beginning. It is a completely new beginning. From our perspective, and we do not seek to give false praise, what our platform [the 2012 Scenario] has accomplished in 2012 in building community, opening hearts, changing the way people think and perceive, what they are prepared to do, how they are building a new community of Earth, how they are shifting out of the old and into the new has been nothing short of remarkable, what you would think of as spectacular.
[OK, I'll leave this one in because it lists what we've been doing. If people want to see it as self-serving, that's fine.]
These are the things that we look for. So we have had plenty of evidence on our side. Yes, there are many who still lag behind but that is also known, expected, anticipated. But in terms of what you are asking and talking about, there are two things, the expansion, the darshan ["darshan" means a vision or appearance of the divine] and the new topic because you are quite correct insofar as it has all been said and it is time for the new to begin.
Steve: Yes. I agree.
AAM: So first comes the opening. Now I would suggest to you you are not grounded in the old third. You are having an experience of physicality but it is not what you think of as the old third. But nevertheless you will have the opening and then you will go forward with a new perspective on building the new reality.
S: OK. Now once we get off the phone together, Lord, then I have no further contact with you that I'm aware from that point to the next reading so…
AAM: No, we need to have this channel open.
S: What channel, Lord?
AAM: Your channel.
S: But I'm not aware of speaking to you.
AAM: But you are aware of writing and you are aware at times of channeling me.
S: Yes, oh yes. Uh huh.
AAM: So when you hang up and you think, well now my conversation with Michael has finished, I am asking you at some point today, because I know you will busily get this information out to be shared….
S: Yes, indeed, Lord.
AAM: … but I am asking you to take the time today to simply go into the deepest meditation, no process, no nothing, just receive, let me simply come to you.
S: Alright. OK. Is it possible for us to begin a new phase of our communication and that is for me to be able to meet with you directly. I would have said on board ship but you mention that that is not a good thing.
AAM: You will begin to meet with me directly. It is not immediate. But you will certainly feel my presence and certainly my colors and scent today at home, in your apartment. And then this will grow. It would not be … for my full presence to suddenly apparit [appear] would probably cause you to drop dead.
S: Ha ha ha! Well, then I'd really get my interdimensionality back, wouldn't I?
AAM: [laughs] Yes, you would. But that is not our plan.
S: OK. I only need enough to do my job. That's all I'm looking for really. Do you know what I'm saying?
AAM: Dear heart, I know exactly what you are saying.
S: You know exactly what I'm saying.
AAM: I do not want to let you down. And I won't.
S: OK. Alright. OK, let me just look and see, uhhh…
I have to ask through you, to all the Company of Heaven, when lightworkers complain, please do not turn it back on lightworkers and say you guys haven't done enough, etc.
AAM: We are not saying that. We are saying this. Let us begin by saying we love you. We honor you. We admire you. We embrace you. You have held the sacred space and you have done your work. And it is many ways the lightworkers', lightholders', loveholders' decision that has so influenced the collective to all come along.
That is not to say that, oh, it did not happen because you decided…. We are praising you because it has been such an unselfish, generous, expansive collective and in many ways unconscious decision.
Now what we are saying, we know about disappointment, but we also know that that is of the old third in many ways. We are asking you to not turn away. We're asking you to continue in partnership even in the human realm, even in sacred partnership, unions. There are times and incidents and situations where things occur and you think, oh, well, I can not continue on. You know exactly what I am speaking of.
S: Yes, indeed.
AAM: But often you find a way to forgive a friend, to forgive a nation that has acted barbarically, to extend a hand to someone in need even though you are in need yourself. Your hearts are generous.
S: Yes.
AAM: We do not turn around and blame those who have supported and embraced us. That would be the resurrection of the evil and the darkness that has plagued Earth for so long. Gaia says no more.
No, dear heart, that is not what we say. We understand, we will not say angst. There has been very little anger really. When you think of the anger we have experienced in the past. We say we trust you, we love you, and please hold on.
S: Alright.
AAM: Yes, many channels have talked about the days of darkness. These are your days of darkness. But it is time for it to end. We understand.
S: People will ask me, why didn't you ask him what he meant by "we let you down." What is it that failed to eventuate, Lord. We heard that there would be a grand celebration after Ascension and grand reunion and tsunami of love and all the rest of that.
AAM: Well, some have.
S: OK, some have. Alright.
AAM: Some have [ascended]. Some haven't. Some are pillars holding the ground, anchoring the light.
S: Right.
AAM: There has certainly been remarkable movement.
S: I guess what I'm asking you, you've just said what did happen. What did not happen. Or what circumstance has not fully materialized or manifested, because people will want to know. What's the score, they'll be saying.
AAM: The score is this. As you know, in our private channelings, we have indicated to you [confidential information on the extent of Ascension]. Think of it as a family decision, saying, slow down, because we all want to come. The plan has still need to go forward with great rapidity, by the way. But we will slow down because we want to accommodate everybody [who wants to ascend, that is.]
[This is the hitting of the pause button that I referred to in an earlier post. I said it was because the Company of Heaven wanted lightworkers to do some of the heavy lifting. I was mistaken. Its because more will come with us and ascend if we slow things down at this moment.]
AAM: So what you are doing is literally holding the door open. So that is exactly what has transpired.
So rather than [confidential info] ascending, many going to a holographic Earth, a few going to an alternate universe, think of it as pushing the pause button, but even as you know, that even as the pause button is pushed, there is still recording activity. It is not that you enter no time.
So what has taken place in this what you can think of as pause, is the old third has taken its form fully as a holograph, on the outer rim, rather than separate from Gaia, she has allowed this, many are still looking outward at that holograph. It is just that, although much of life is a holograph, as you have pointed out.
And the collection is being made so that all may shift into the new form and this is being made possible not only by us who have pushed the pause button, but by each of you. You say but we are not conscious of this. But your soul is most certainly conscious of this and that is why you are so anxious.
You say well, Lord, that is all well and good. But in the meantime while the pause button is on hold, and you are not telling me what day and time, rents are due and bills must be paid and people are waiting. We did not agree to this pause and to this adjustment in plan without understanding that you will need more help on the physical realm.
And we will do so.
[Confidential discussion which will be shared very shortly.]
OK. Now I did say that I thought you had hit the pause button but I thought you had hit the pause button to have lightworkers to some unknown work. But you're saying you did hit the pause button but it was so that many more can cross the finish line.
Yes, and for the lightworkers, lightholders, loveholders to realize their role and power. And you know that power is not a word I use casually. And so when I speak of power, there is a process for lightworkers that is going on right now. And it is a process that is important to allow. Because not only have you done this magnificent work but now you are in a place where you are questioning and judging both us and yourself. Have I been a fool? Has this been a farce? Is this ridiculous? Do I need to simply shove this aside and get back to reality.
So you are at another decision point. That is all right. We have complete faith in what this decision is going to be. So in many ways you are at the pause but you are at the pause and you are going to say "No, I am going to keep going."
But we cannot program that into you. We cannot make this decision and nor would be wish to.
Because we know what you are capable of. And we know what the new holds. And so do you. You may not know it in your conscious minds. But stop looking at the old third hologram and look within to the new. That is our plea.
S: I did have a dream of the new world. I did get the sense of it.
AAM: And is it not beautiful?
S: Oh, it was wonderful. It was sublime. I'm so happy to have had that glimpse.
OK, so all the people are struggling.
AAM: We understand this. And we also understand that in the new there will be different ways of playing with currency. But this is also a time when many are deciding so we do not want to interfere with that.
AAM: But we are no going to simply abandon thosee who have given their lifeblood?
S: OK, that is very reassuring. Has Ascension happened or are we working towards Ascension?
AAM: You are in the middle of Ascension.
S: Now how would you describe the beginning and how would you describe the middle and how would you describe the end?
AAM: I would describe the beginning over a year ago as we began these conversations, as people began the clearing, as they were riding the troughs and the waves. That was the beginning of this journey. The middle has been the opening of what you think of in human dates as 11/11/12 – 21/12/12. This is the middle. It is the opening of the floodgates.
And you are being flooded. That is why you are feeling so much. The end is the when the full restoration, the complete restoration and the jubilation, the full restoration of vision and the knowing of your interdimensional self is full there. Now it is already there for some of you. It is coming by degrees.
But many of you are busy collecting, collecting, collecting, helping. That is the role of wayshowers, pillars. That is why there has been this discussion about who they are and what that is about.
We knew that this was a possibility. There are always many possibilities. But the outcome does not change. Because the outcome is the restoration of the Mother's Plan and the New Earth, Gaia, in her magnificence and humanity in their magnificence.
You ask me for a date. And I do not give you one. Because I do have a terrible track record, do I not?
S: Hah! Ha ha ah ha. Yes, Lord.
AAM: But I am telling you it is not indefinite. It is not years. We are not talking hundreds of years or thousands of years. We are talking a human process that is well underway.
S: Are we talking about weeks? Are we talking about months?
AAM: We are talking about months.
S: Months? Months? Oh, my gosh, that is a long time.
AAM: But it is not because there will be a lot happening in the interim.
S: Well, we certainly could use some flyovers and all the rest of it. Is there any problem now that the cabal is in containment?
AAM: No, there is no problem. The cabal is contained. That is not an issue.
S: So when could we expect a decloaking or a flyover?
AAM: Look to the night sky. Look to the daylight sky. Look up, dear heart. Because they are there and many will be seeing them.
S: I have only seen three little white dots in my whole lifetime. I'm starved for the sight.
AAM: We will bring it to you.
OK. Ask Grener. He will help. He owes you a favor, does he not?
S: He owes me a favor big time. I have gone through so much obloquy and so has Linda. I mean, poor Linda. She has taken such a hit over the Neptune and this last one. Yes, I'll call in my debts.
AAM: Do so, dear heart. They will be paid with interest.
Go with my love, Farewell.
S: Farewell, Lord.
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So let's look very closely at other events on December 26th-28th, 2002.
December 26
-----, Ron Grantski told Greta Van Susteren: "I -- I talked to Scott two days after Laci was missing, and I -- I asked him then. I said, you know, if you -- if you had an affair, was seeing somebody, I think this is time to say something because I know the police are going to bug you about your fishing story, and he said, no, no problem. And so I let it drop." Ron testified that it was the afternoon of the 26th when he quizzed Scott. Ron also testified that it was a day or two after the 24th when he first learned Scott had a boat, because someone asked if he knew about the boat. Now isn't that curious? Why didn't Ron tell the police that it was no big deal that Scott went fishing that afternoon because he himself went fishing that same afternoon. Moreover, as we shall see, Brocchini did believe Scott went to the Berkeley Marina, albeit not to fish, but to dump Laci's body. Of course, Brocchini knew he would need a motive -- and an affair would be perfect. Didn't he and Buehler tell Amber Frey when they first met her that they were praying for someone like her to come along?
4:12 p.m., Susan Medina places a call to her son in Los Angeles. Susan and Rudy were returning to Modesto from Los Angeles and as they drove past the MPD on G street, they noticed the TV cameras; Susan called her son to find out why Modesto was again on the news. When they reached Edgebrook and Covena, the entrance onto Covena was blocked by a police barricade, and they had to show identification to prove they lived on the street. As they drove into their driveway, they noticed the hand truck (dolly) on the front lawn, and when Rudy went into the backyard, he noticed the french doors were wide open, having been kicked open. Susan went out to the street and got the attention of police officers to report they had been burglarized.
4:45-4:50 p.m., Office Wend, on the scene for the Peterson search warrant execution, responded to the Medinas to investigate the burglary. Wend said the dolly was approximately 25 feet from the street, and described the burglary as "a pretty typical door-kick, grab what you can and take off with it. I mean, it wasn't, there was only one room that was really ransacked, and that was the master bedroom. And it wasn't ransacked a lot. Some things were taken off the top shelf in the bedroom, in the bathroom. In the master bedroom a drawer had been opened and a jewelry box had been laid, laid out." The safe was approximately three feet tall by two and a half feet wide by two and a half feet deep. The point of entry was through a gate on the south side of the Medina property. The clue that it was a forced entry was the boot print by the lock, and the door standing open. The boot print was like moist dirt transferred to the door, but Wend couldn't tell from its composition how long it had been on the door. Mr. Medina had placed a chair up against the doorknob, as an extra precaution, and the burglars moved the chair out of their way. A lot of valuables in the house were not touched, such as TVs, VCRs, a vase containing $800 cash and jewelry out on a counter. The keys to the Mercedes parked in the drive were hanging in the kitchen, but the car was undisturbed. Wend left the forms for the Medinas to fill out, documenting everything that had been taken, and then had nothing more to do with the investigation of this burglary.
Wend's description "a pretty typical door-kick, grab what you can and take off with it" doesn't pass the giggle test - one doesn't just grab a 3'x2.5'x2.5' safe and take off with it. But the fact that valuables out in the open, much easier to grab and take off with, were not taken, suggests to me a robbery interrupted.
So, as the search warrant on the Peterson home was being executed, the MPD knew about the burglary right across the street. It's unfathomable that both Brocchini and Grogan, who were at the Peterson home at the time Wend responded to the Medina burglary right across the street, could not have known about the burglary. But they didn't seem to be a bit interested in it. Not a bit. Which isn't strange at all when we remember that Brocchini made up his mind what happened to Laci on the night of the 24th; and Grogan concurred on Christmas Day. So it was just a matter of proving it, and not letting irrelevant stuff like a burglary across the street distract them from their noble cause.
~7:30 p.m.. We don't know exactly what time Cindee Valentin began the dog trailing effort with Merlin, but she did before Skultety arrived at 7:30 to begin the search warrant, which for that night only included a search for forensic evidence and signs of a struggle. A few stains were probably blood and collected, but certainly nothing to compel any reasonable person to believe Laci had been murdered in that house. Unless you already were certain she had been.
~9:30 p.m. The dog trailing that Brocchini manipulated to prove Scott transported Laci's dead body from the house to the warehouse and then headed out of town had already terminated by 9:30 p.m., when Chris Boyer gave the scent items to Brocchini. Brocchini kept these in his possession to be used for later dog trailing.
To get the most traction out of the dog trailing on the 26th, Brocchini ensured that the media received only his interpretation, and thus we read in the ModBee:
When Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department deputies brought in a specially trained bloodhound on Thursday [Dec 26] to help in the search, it didn't head into the park. Instead, it headed to Yosemite Boulevard. Later, the dog led its handler from the Peterson house all the way to Maze Blvd.Which, of course, was a blatant lie. Merlin led Valentin to the Gallo Winery.
December 27
------. Rick Armanderiz was sent to the Berkeley Marina to meet with Berkeley police officers to confirm or refute Scott's alibi. Remember, Scott said he went to the Berkeley Marina and produced a parking receipt. Mark Geragos was not allowed to ask Armanderiz about his interviews at the Marina, or the media presence there, because Distaso objected on the grounds it was beyond the scope of his direct. Delucchi ruled in Distaso's favor. However, we found out from a couple of the Marina people he did interview that there indeed was a media presence at the Berkeley Marina, and they were there because of the Laci Peterson investigation. They hemmed and hawed their way out of saying it was the 27th, but that only confirmed that it was. This is pretty important information to know -- that on the 27th, the MPD's very first field trip to the Berkeley Marina, there was already a media presence at the Berkeley Marina. Folks, it was no secret that Scott Peterson went to the Berkeley Marina on December 24th.
4:10 p.m., Diane Jackson informed Sgt. Ed Steele that she "witnessed the 459 [the California burlgary statute] on Covena on 12-24-02 at 1140 hours. She saw the van and the safe being removed from the house." Some reports are that Jackson, who lived around the corner from the Petersons, saw the police there that morning for the conclusion of the search warrant, and walked over and told some of the officers about what she saw. She obviously told the same thing to Sgt. Steele, perhaps at the Volunteer Center as he was the police liaison there. Surely this should have caught someone's attention and caused someone to re-consider whether they were following the wrong lead in the investigation. If it did raise any concerns or curiosity, that would soon be quashed.
6:30 p.m. , Detective Stough was told about Jackson seeing the Medina burglary and he called her for an interview. For me, I think I'd have gone to her house and had her give me much more information, like the exact location of the van she saw, exactly where she saw the 3 men. Instead, Stough was content to get a description of the 3 men: "three short of stature, dark skinned but not African American guys. . . . When asked to further describe the individuals she stated that that's all she could remember as she wasn't thinking about that and hadn't thought about that until she called the police." The MPD wasn't in much of a hurry to solve this burglary -- it didn't release a description of the 3 men and the van or inform the public about the $1000 reward until the 31st. How did the reporters keep from laughing when Chief Roy Wasden said, on the 31st, "We really feel a compelling need to get the burglary solved to see if that moves us any closer to finding Laci." Compelling need? Really!
What do you do when the media, the public, and even some police officers get distracted in a murder investigaton? You redirect them.
December 28
So it is that Brocchini asked Chris Boyer to take trailing dogs to the Berkeley Marina, and he chose Anderson and her dog Trimble and Seitz and his dog TJ. Brocchini wanted to prove that Laci Peterson was brought to the Berkeley Marina by Scott Peterson. Brocchini sent the scent items with two detectives to give to Boyer -- scent items he'd had in his possession since the night of the 26th.
Boyer gave the glasses/case to Anderson, and the pink slipper to Seitz. Anderson's Trimble allegedly followed Laci's scent to the end of the pier and stood gazing out on the water. Seitz' TJ didn't have any such luck -- he could not pick up Laci's scent at all.
Why the difference? Perhaps because Seitz wasn't already convinced that Scott was guilty, as Anderson was, and thus wasn't leading TJ to smell something that wasn't there. Perhaps because the glasses/case Anderson used was contaminated with Scott's scent. Probably a combination of the two.
What evidence is there of such contamination? The scent items were compromised from the very beginning. Valentin was the person who collected the scent items at 523 Covena Avenue in the late afternoon on December 26. She collected the items in this order: pink slipper, brown slipper, sunglass case with sunglasses inside, and a hairbrush. She did not recall changing gloves between the collection of the items. For this reason, the scent items were compromised from the very beginning. The only exceptions were the pink slipper which was collected first, and the sunglasses inside the case which had not been opened. However, he case itself had been inside Laci's purse; and a number of people had put their hands inside the purse before the scent items were collected: Boyer, Brocchini, Spurlock and Scott himself when he retrieved Laci's keys.
All of the scent items were in Brocchini's possession from the night of the 26th to when he gave them to Detectives Stough and Schmierer to take to Boyer at the Berkeley Marina for the dog trailing that was to be done that day. He sent the pink slipper and the sunglasses/case and the brown slipper. The brown slipper is important, because it was Scott's brown slipper, with Scott's scent. Ron Seitz used the pink slipper and found no evidence of Laci's scent at the Marina. Anderson used the glasses, and allegedly trailed Laci to the end of the pier and out onto the water. Moreover, Anderson didn't take much precaution to prevent Trimble from picking up Scott's scent from the glasses case; she just opened the case and had Trimble smell the glasses.
Noble cause: doing what needs to be done to get the guilty person. So what if you have to nudge the evidence a little, to make it say what you want it to say.
At the trial, the State addressed the issue of contamination by saying that if it had been Scott's scent that Trimble picked up, then Trimble would have followed Scott out of the Berkeley Marina back to Modesto, because trailing dogs are trained to pick up the freshest scent. I'll remind you of this explanation when we get to the trailing that was done on January 4. But there are other things to discuss in the meantime.
The net result is that by the end of the day on the 28th, Brocchini had his evidence that Scott murdered Laci, transported her to the Berkeley Marina, and brought her out into the Bay in his boat. Now all that needed to be done was to get the rest of the investigative team and the media on the same page. The burglars were home free.


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B2B credit scoring company Cortera landed $10 million in funding this week, bringing its total capital raised to just over $578 million in combined debt and equity. Investing in the Florida-based company are Hearst's Fitch Group Financial Venture Fund, who led the round, as well as existing investors Volition Capital, Battery Ventures, Allen & Company, and Tomorrow Ventures.
"We are passionate about fueling profitable business growth in the U.S.," Cortera CEO Jim Swift said. "For too long, the flow of capital has been hamstrung by the need for more complete and timely insights into private companies. It is exciting to be at a point of network coverage where businesses now have a powerful alternative to traditional sources."
Founded in 1993, Cortera gathers insights on the purchase and payment behavior of more than 20 million public and private U.S. businesses. The company leverages this data to create analytics such as new customer risk assessments, customer portfolio risk monitoring, supplier risk management, customer segmentation, insurance underwriting, customer profitability modeling, and loan-default prediction. Essentially, the data help businesses make decisions about their customers, prospects, and suppliers, and minimize risk.
Hearst's Fitch Group Financial Venture Fund Managing Director Shea Wallon, who will join Cortera's board of directors, said, "Cortera's unique business information and analytics provide an alternative view into the credit risk of private businesses where traditional financial statements are not reliable or easily available."
Cortera demoed a network where businesses can share payment experiences at FinovateSpring 2010. Earlier this week, the company announced its trade credit data will be available in Moody's Analytics RiskCalc small business solution. Last spring, Cortera scored LexisNexis as a client, blending its B2B trade credit with LexisNexis' risk solutions alternative data.


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Recent business confidences surveys conducted in China show a downturn in the Business Confidence Index for small and medium -sized manufacturing companies of all types, falling to its lowest level since the 2008 financial crisis. The decline in business confidence is the result of features built into the Chinese economy.
This declining BCI shows that economic stress on SME manufacturers in China continues to increase. This is a long term trend, and any resolution of the trade war likely will not impact this general trend. As a result, China based non-government economists are predicting a wave of plant closures and bankruptcies that will ripple through the entire PRC SME manufacturing sector over the next year. The large state owned enterprises will not be significantly impacted; the impact will be primarily center on small and medium enterprises. This means bankruptcy and closures both in the private sector and in the provincial and local state owned manufacturing sector.
These closures and bankruptcies do not reflect the condition of the Chinese economy as a whole. The companies that will be swept away are weak and technologically backward entities that would have been eliminated many years ago in a fully market economy. The Chinese system tends to keep these weak players alive far longer than is economically rational. Then the life support is suddenly removed and they all die at once. This sudden rise in business deaths is what is being predicted for the next decade.
The concern for foreign buyers of Chinese product is that an increase in closures and bankruptcies will also mean an increase in scams and frauds. When a factory in China knows it will be shutting down, its owners often work to make a final score. They set up a deal that allows them to bring in as much cash as possible in the short term. The owners then take the cash as a final bonus, shut down the company and then move on. No bankruptcy is involved. They just shut the doors.
In implementing their scam, the factory owners are faced with a problem. If they commit fraud against another Chinese person or entity, they likely will be pursued for retribution. That retribution may be criminal investigation and prosecution through China's criminal justice system. Or the retribution may be informal action carried out by an effective criminal gang system active in China.
Perpetrating a scam on a Chinese entity involves considerable risk. On the other hand, scams against foreign buyers have hardly any risk at all. When a foreign buyer is cheated, the Chinese police often do nothing at all and there is virtually nothing your Embassy or Consulate can do beyond put the names of the offenders on a list. The Chinese courts can do little to nothing as well and the informal methods of retribution are rarely available to foreign entities. For this reason, when it comes time to do that last big scam or series of scams before shutting down the factory, foreign buyers will always be the preferred target.
The scams at this stage follow a regular pattern. The three primary patterns are as follows:
Model Scam Number One: It is typical for Chinese factories to require buyers make an initial deposit on the date it accepts the buyer's purchase order (PO). A common structure for China suppliers is 30% down and 70% paid prior to shipment. Using this structure, a factory that knows it will shut down will take the deposit, do no work at all and simply fail to deliver. If the factory does this with enough foreign customers, it can collect a substantial sum for funding its owner's retirement.
This kind of scam is hard to detect and for that reason is very effective. The problem for the scammer is that in a declining market, the total return for the scammer may be disappointingly small. So to milk more from unsuspecting buyers some factories will go for an even bigger score. They go to their buyers and offer to sell their product at a substantial discount. But the price for this discount is a substantial increase in the order amount and an increase in the deposit from 30% to 50%. The Chinese side says: "It is a great deal for you. Make a full year of orders all at once and you will save big money." Using this scam, the Chinese factory collects a much larger deposit amount and the owners shut down the factory and disappear.
In China Tariffs and What to do Now, Part 1 we focused on how Chinese factories were offering to illegally transship their products to Malaysia or Thailand or Vietnam or Bangladesh or the Philippines (mostly), thus avoiding U.S. tariffs:
But before I discuss what companies do about their tariff problems, it is far more important I start out discussing what they should NOT do. They should not have their China products shipped to Taiwan or to Malaysia or to Thailand or Vietnam or anywhere else and then have those products shipped to the United States as though they are not from China. Doing this sort of transshipping can and does lead to massive fines and to JAIL TIME. I am not kidding. I am starting out with a post on what not to do because the risks from this one thing far exceed the benefits of the things we will be discussing in our subsequent posts.
And yet, many are telling us that their Chinese factories are suggesting these exact sort of transshipments and giving assurances that they are legal or that nobody ever gets caught, neither of which are remotely true. Step back for just a second and ask yourself why you are even considering taking legal advice about United States customs law from a Chinese factory owner or salesperson who has all the incentive in the world to sell you Chinese products and very little incentive to keep you out of jail. Please, please, please don't fall for that. Please.
Chinese companies and the U.S. importers of their products often believe they can get around United States tariffs by transshipping the products to Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bangladesh, India, [or some other country] before sending them on to the United States. Their plan is to relabel the products with a new country of origin and then export the products to the US free of China , without US Customs and Border Protection ("CBP") ever being the wiser.
I bring this up because many of the same factories that are making this transship offer are at the same time offering to discount their prices in return for a large increase in the deposit. This sort of "double" offer to illegally avoid tariffs and raise the down payment amount is a terrific indicator of a brewing scam.
Model Scam Number Two: Chinese factory sells a standard product: usually something like a chemical or a basic raw material or a food product. As with scam number one, it pumps up its orders by offering a substantial discount — sometimes even too good to be true. In exchange for the discount, the factory requires full payment before shipment. Then the factory ships a non-conforming product, collects the payment and disappears.
The below are some examples brought to the attention of our China lawyers by foreign companies that were scammed:
- Container of custom cut food product: 25 containers, neatly packed. The first layer of these cartons contain conforming product. The rest of the container is filled with bricks.
- Barrels of a granulated chemical (say citric acid). The top two inches in each barrel is conforming product and the rest is filled with sand. Or barrels are for a liquid chemical (say sulphuric acid). The barrels are filled with salt water.
- Containers filled with frozen food product, which when thawed, reveal that the food is rotten. In my own experience, this happened with 8 containers of frozen salmon. The decay was so bad that the containers were declared a hazardous waste site and the buyer was required to pay the substantial cost of a hazardous waste clean up.
Model Scam Number Three. The owners of the Chinese factory contact a foreign customer (oftentimes a regular buyer who gets all or most of its product(s) from the dying Chinese factory) and offer to sell their business at a unrealistically low price. In exchange for this low price, the deal must close very fast. This fast close means no time for due diligence and no involvement of experienced and trustworthy China lawyers or consultants.
The foreign buyer pays the purchase price by wire transfer to the Chinese factory. Then the buyer travels to China to inspect its factory and here is what they find:
— The factory building was rented, not owned. The building is stripped. Not only has all the machinery been removed, but even the window glass and plumbing fixtures are gone.
— The bank account has been emptied by the former owners and they have disappeared.
— The landlord shows up and demands a full year's rent on the factory that has not been paid. 200 hundred workers show up and demand 6 months back salary. The local government shows up and demands one year in back taxes. To make it even "better" the local government colludes with the workers to take the passports of the foreign owners, lock them up in a local hotel, and then announce that they will not be able to leave town until all back payments are made.
The above sort of scams are committed in China all the time. However, their frequency and severity increases whenever there will be a wave of factory closures and bankruptcies. This is what is predicted for the next couple of years for China, so particular care is now required. For some of the things you need to be doing now to reduce your chances of problems stemming from this wave, check out last week's post, China's Economic Slowdown and YOUR Business: The Times they are a Changin'.
And be careful out there.


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Hello, my name is Ollie.
I'm a digital thinker and website developer from York, UK.
I love working with others to communicate effectively in the digital world.
By day, I'm Digital Manager at UCCF: The Christian Unions.
When not doing digital things, I like to unwind by drinking tea, listening to music and plotting the next holiday to the north (where they have proper scenery).
Take a look at my portfolio at
See my code on GitHub
Bits of me, scattered around the internet.
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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sound :: lost and found symphony
Link to download
Led by: Dr Marcus Leadley, James Bulley, David Rogers, Professor Adrian Newton. participants: ivon oates, Mandy Rathbone, Sarah West, Eva Fahle-Clouts, Jemima Talbot-Rogers, Yoshiki Ichihara, Han Joon Sung, Duncan Silvey, Guy Fleisher.
'sound: lost and found' was an encounter with environment that focused on sound and listening. A circular walk from West Bay to Bridport, Dorset, and back. Seeking out 'lost' and 'hidden' sounds – from inside objects, underwater sounds and electromagnetic sounds, recordings made during the walk were used to realise the Lost and Found Symphony, a soundscape composition produced during a live, improvised performance at the Salt House, West Bay, Dorset.
The Being Human Festival led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts & Humanities Research Council and the British Academy.Event supported by Goldsmiths University, London, West Dorset District Council, friends and family on crowdfunder.
Plastic Ocean [The Forest of Plasticity volume1]
Link to download
Plastic Ocean opens with Kate Moran, recording the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Canada, speaking of the detrimental effects by humans of sound on whales, in a 2017 Radio 4 interview.
ivon oates and David Rogers played a mix of 'plastic sounds' as a response to recordings of whales and dolphins, using the very same materials that pollute the oceans, to highlight the impending catastrophic imbalance to the environment.
The piece ends with the devastating statistic that ….
'…. we are on the way to have the same weight of plastics in the global oceans, in 2050, as the weight of fish …'
Erik Solheim Executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme
The Forest of Plasticity [volume2]
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Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Festival 2017 [fringe]
Curated by Adrian Newton, a place of transformation and mutability. Where sound is plastic and plastic is sound. Sound art and experimental music by local and international artists, exploring sonic responses to ocean plastic.
The Forest of Plasticity [volume3]
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Broadcast on Bournemouth Beach by Adrian Newton


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March 6, 2017
Catch up on our regular roundup of industry links, professional development and training insights, and interesting reads across the spectrum of digital communications.
We also post regularly to our Firehead's Twitter and LinkedIn pages, so please do connect with or follow us there.
Here's what we've been reading over the past month, from writing errors to the importance of metadata to successful technical writing.
Content – creation, strategy, sharing
- Deutsch CTO Explains Why Content Will Drive VR, and Where It Will Be in 5 Years (AdWeek)
- Some Writing Mistakes Just Aren't OK: Our 8 Biggest Content Pet Peeves (Acrolinx)
- The Metadata is Bigger Than the Data (Analecta)
- Metadata Basics for Web Content: The Unification of Structured Data and Content (Michael Andrews/ebook)
UX / design
Tech comm
- Mastering Technical Communication Leadership (The Content Wrangler)
- Findability in Documentation (Write The Docs/podcast)
- How do you learn what you need to learn to be successful as a technical writer?
Recruitment and professional development
Augmented reality
Image: (CC) Michael Mol / Flickr


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Hot Pads – Not just something used with oven-related activities.
The temperatures across the nation have reached record highs and our furry friends are definitely feeling the heat! During a trip to Washington DC last week for the Susan G. Komen National Race for the Cure, the temperatures reached a migraine-inducing 99 degrees and you could basically fry an egg on the pavement or perhaps grill up some tofu, if that is your protein preference.
Needless to say, I couldn't help but wince when I saw some oblivious pet parents walking their very warm pups on the hot pavement! This experience would be akin to we humans doing the Tony Robbins Fire Walk. Not pleasant. In warm temperatures, its best to walk your pooch in the early morning or in the late evening and keep them on cooler surfaces and/or grass. If that is not possible, protect their paws with paw-protecting booties.
Many pet parents are not aware of how the heat effects their pooch, as dogs have a higher
internal temperature than humans and they can get hot very quickly.
Outside activities can be fun to share with your furry friend; but
remember to protect them from the summer heat. If you aren't careful,
your dog could suffer from heat exhaustion. Read more about how to beat the heat at ehow ehow: Beat the Heat as well as at Muttropolis: Beating the Heat
-Janet McCulley, Chief Barketing Officer & Schmoo, the furry Guru


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DENVER (CBS4) – Several smart phone apps can help make Black Friday shopping easier by helping shoppers save money and time.
The free app "BF Ads" allows for users to search through thousands of products, compare, shop, and even create a shopping list to take with.
According to American Express, 55 percent of consumers plan to shop online that day versus the 52 percent who will actually go to the stores.
Another helpful free app is called "Bakodo Barcode Scanner." It will search more than 20,000 stores to see if that product is cheaper somewhere else.
Another free app, "Snipsnap," allows consumers to take photographs of coupons so clerks can simply scan the barcode at the counter.


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Sunday night my dear friends JD and Catherine Sullivan invited me for dinner. JD is a good cook (see the sausage making video we did together; video also feature my partner in tools, Mac Dalton, an appearance by my young son, James, who now, lean and tall, looks me straight in the eye, and JD at the end; it's a good primer on making sausage).
But when I arrived to find that JD's chicken Provençal was simply baked chicken with herbs I was prepared to be underwhelmed.
JD explained that it was a recipe from the estimable Sam Sifton who runs the excellent NYTimes cooking site. Chicken is seasoned, floured, put in a baking dish and roasted for about an hour. It turned out to be a terrific preparation, thanks to the aggressive herbage, and also, importantly, lemon, whole garlic cloves and whole shallots, all of which flavor the rendering fat and juices that JD basted the chicken with throughout. You can use any Provençal herbs that you have on hand, but to my mind the most important is plenty of whole branches of thyme.
This is a terrific meal (eating the shallots and whole garlic gloves along the chicken) that couldn't be simpler and allowed for plenty of time to talk and drink wine during the cooking process, perfect for a chilly Sunday evening or even a weeknight dinner.
Roasted Chicken Provençal
- 4 chicken legs or 8 bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- ½ to ¾ cup all-purpose flour
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons herbes de Provence
- 1 lemon, quartered
- 8 to 10 cloves garlic, peeled
- 4 to 6 medium-size shallots, peeled and halved
- ⅓ cup dry vermouth
- 4 sprigs of thyme, for serving
4 servings
- Heat oven to 400 degrees. Season the chicken with salt and pepper. Put the flour in a shallow pan, and lightly dredge the chicken in it, shaking the pieces to remove excess flour.
- Swirl the oil in a large roasting pan, and place the floured chicken in it. Season the chicken with the herbes de Provence. Arrange the lemon, garlic cloves and shallots around the chicken, then add the vermouth to the pan.
- Put the pan in the oven, and roast for 25 to 30 minutes, then baste it with the pan juices. Continue roasting for another 25 to 30 minutes, or until the chicken is very crisp and the meat cooked through.
- Serve in the pan or on a warmed platter, garnished with the thyme.
If you liked this post, then you will enjoy these links:
- My past posts on New Cooking App: Feast, Happy New Year and Peace on Earth.
- Epicurious shares their top 15 chicken recipes.
- Blend your own herbs de Provence using Emeril's base ratio.
- Learn more about the Provence region of France.
© 2016 Michael Ruhlman. Photo © 2016 Donna Turner Ruhlman. All rights reserved.


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Friday, December 12, 2008
green salad with pears, fennel & pear vinaigrette
cooking with kids
This time of year, we all have so many traditional sweet treats to make—for our friends, family, and ourselves! I remember making lots of special holiday cookies with my mom when I was little. Some that come to mind are the spritz butter cookies that I loved to squirt out of the press in green wreath shapes and decorate with red hot candies, the krumkake that we made in a special waffle iron and then rolled around a wooden cone, and the peppermint-flavored dough that we rolled into pink and white snakes and then twisted into candy-cane shapes. For a few years, my mom even made rosette cookies, with the heavy iron molds she dipped into the cookie batter and then deep-fried in her electric wok. Remember those? Dusted with powdered sugar, they left a grease slick on the roof of my mouth… With all those fond memories, plus plenty more of my own favorite cookie recipes, it's pretty easy to think of holiday treats and cookies to make with my four-year-old, Meredith. I'm sure it's the same for you.
But why do we only think about including our kids when we're making treats and sweet things? I didn't learn how to cook until I went to college—my mom didn't think to include us kids when making dinner—I think she just wanted to get dinner on the table, and didn't need us underfoot. So in the interest of teaching Meredith to cook healthy, delicious meals (not just desserts), I try to include her in all sorts of cooking projects. She's not always quite as interested in making a salad as making treats like graham crackers (eating raw dough is one of her favorite hobbies), but there is almost always a fun part in even the most ordinary meal. If I'm not rushing to finish lunch or dinner, I'll ask if she's interested in helping. And usually she is—for a little while, anyway!
My greatest inspiration for Meredith-inclusive cookery is my friend Cate, who writes a fabulous blog about cooking with kids: Tribeca Yummy Mummy. She is all about including our kids in cooking real food—using real, raw ingredients, and making meals and FOOD, not just treats. Thank you, Cate, for encouraging us to raise our expectations of what we assume our kids are interested in, and are capable of doing in the kitchen!
For this salad, Meredith chopped up the pears for the dressing with a table knife, helped measure the rest of the dressing ingredients into the blender jar, and then picked pomegranate seeds. (Oh, and then she helped eat it!)
green salad with pears, fennel & pear vinaigrette
This salad is one of my absolute favorites—and it's great with winter pears. It's based on a recipe from Annie Somerville's Everyday Greens. I love fennel, but the key to eating raw fennel is slicing it really thinly. It's quite a tough vegetable when raw, so if the slices aren't thin, you really get a jaw workout. I use a mandoline—a fancy slicer that allows me to get paper-thin slices—but if you're careful to use a very sharp knife and take your time, you can get thin enough slices by hand. (If you want more justification for buying a mandoline, see my recipe and story for the cabbage & fennel salad with apples & raisins.)
The dressing is really fun, too—it's just pureed pears with some pear vinegar and a little olive oil and salt. SO tasty, though, and it'll keep for a couple of days in your refrigerator if you have leftovers. I've found a couple of different brands of pear vinegar in grocery stores and specialty stores in town, but if you can't find any, you can substitute 4 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar and 2 tablespoons apple juice.
1 medium pear, peeled, cored, and chopped coarsely
6 tablespoons pear vinegar
½ teaspoon sea salt or kosher salt
3 tablespoons olive oil
sugar, as needed
Place the pear in a blender with the vinegar and salt; puree it until smooth. Drizzle in the oil while the blender is running. Taste for salt and sweetness. If your pears weren't very sweet, you might want to add a little sugar to the dressing, or you can add more olive oil to tame the vinegar's sharpness. Refrigerate until ready to serve the salad.
2 large heads of lettuce, or about 10 cups of baby salad greens
1 large fennel bulb, cut in half, cored, and sliced very thinly crosswise
1-2 ripe pears
Optional garnish in winter: ¼ cup pomegranate seeds
1. Wash and dry the greens and make the dressing.
2. When you're ready to serve the salad, cut the pear(s) in half, cut the core away, and slice thinly.
3. Put the greens and fennel into a bowl and toss them with dressing to your taste, then add the pears and toss gently. Arrange on individual plates, and if pomegranates are in season, top with their seeds.


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"The DGCA has issued an advisory to the travelling public and airline companies today, lifting the restrictions on in-flight use of the new Samsung Galaxy Note7, purchased after September 15, 2016," the South Korean smartphone maker said in a statement Friday afternoon.
In the advisory seen by ET, the aviation regulator also allowed storage of the phablet in checked-in baggage. Devices made after September 15 will be made in India and will show a green battery sign indicating that the device has been made afresh with the safe battery.
However directions barring the switching-on or in-flight charging or stowing of the Note 7 in check-in baggage which has been purchased before September 15, have also been issued to airlines and passengers. The devices made before the date show a white battery charge indication and have been recalled by Samsung.
On September 9, the DGCA had prohibited use or charging of the Galaxy Note7 on board aircraft, irrespective of when they were made.
Samsung said that customers will be able to identify the new Galaxy Note7 with the 'green battery icon' which are safe to charge and use during the flight.
"Samsung has not sold a single unit of Galaxy Note7 in India so far. The 'green battery icon' will apply to all Galaxy Note7 units that will be sold to customers in India when it is launched," the company added, without sharing the new launch date.
The world's largest smartphone maker has delayed the launch of Note 7 from September 2 this year, after several cases of fire from exploding batteries in Note 7 devices forced the company to issue a global recall of 2.5 million Noyte 7 phones.
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Passengers on the late night Central Coast train got an eyeful on Tuesday night when a man pulled out his three-foot-long jungle python.
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The man did not have a reptile licence for the snake, named Bread, so police confiscated it.
It's currently staying at Woy Woy Police Station where it is expected to be examined by staff from a reptile park today.
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Meatballs In Chilli-sherry SauceFrom chillidude 12 years ago
- ½ cup onion, finely chopped shopping list
- 1/4 cup finely chopped capsicum shopping list
- 2 cloves garlic, minced shopping list
- 2 slices stale bread, crusts removed shopping list
- ½ kg mince meat (ground beef) shopping list
- 2 tablsp chopped fresh parsley shopping list
- 1 teasp ground paprika, preferably smoked shopping list
- ½ teasp chilli powder shopping list
- ½ teasp ground nutmeg shopping list
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- 1 egg, beaten shopping list
- plain flour for dusting shopping list
- salt and freshly ground black pepper shopping list
- olive oil for frying shopping list
- Sherry Pepper Sauce: shopping list
- ½ cup onion, finely chopped shopping list
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- ½ red capsicum, thinly sliced shopping list
- 2 garlic cloves, minced shopping list
- 2 teasp paprika, again, preferably smoked shopping list
- 1/4 teasp cayenne powder shopping list
- 2 tablsp plain flour shopping list
- 2/3 cup dry sherry shopping list
- 1 cup chicken stock shopping list
How to make it
- Garnish: chopped fresh parsley
- To Make the Meatballs:
- In a bowl cover the bread with milk and soak until the bread is soft, then drain the bread and squeeze to remove the liquid.
- In a large bowl, add all the meatball ingredients and mix them together well.
- Form about 1 tablsp of the mixture into small balls and roll them in the flour.
- Reheat the frying pan and add additional oil, if needed, and proceed to brown the meatballs in batches over medium heat, moving them around frequently so they retain their round shape.
- Remove and drain.
- To Make the Sauce:
- Heat the oil in a frying pan and saute the onion, capsicum, and garlic until soft and then add the chilli powder, paprika, and the flour. Cook for an additional minute or so.
- Stir in the sherry and chicken stock, bring to a boil, and then reduce the heat to a simmer. Add the meatballs to the sauce and let simmer, turning the meatballs occasionally, for 20 to 25 minutes until they are cooked and sauce has thickened slightly.
- Serve the meatballs with the sauce, garnished with the parsley and speared with a toothpick.
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The latest public message released by No. 2 Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri may signal a change in public-relations moves by the terrorist group in the face of growing doubt about its tactics among Muslim supporters, experts say.
Reuters reports that in an audiotape released Wednesday, Mr. Zawahiri responded to unusually pointed questions submitted earlier by users of Al Qaeda-linked online forums. The fact that Zawahiri answered the forum posts, which challenged Al Qaeda's policies on attacks against innocents, the United Nations, and Iran, suggests that dissent among its supporters may be forcing Al Qaeda to change tactics, according to an anonymous US counterintelligence official.
The US official, interpreting the questions and the answers given by Ayman al-Zawahiri, said: "They've been taken to the online woodshed on a number of things."
"Some of the questioners are raising tough issues, such as the legitimacy of murdering innocent civilians and the effectiveness of Al Qaeda's overall strategy," the US official, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters. "Since Al Qaeda chose what questions to address, it suggests Al Qaeda's tactics have raised serious concerns – even among potential sympathizers – and that the group's leadership recognizes that it has some serious explaining to do," he said.
ABC News reports that the medium by which Zawahiri's latest message was released also suggests a tactical change.
One terrorism expert who studies jihadist websites says the audio message may signal a shift in Al Qaeda's media operations. The expert cites the fact that both Zawahiri's message and top Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's last address were both released without video. The expert also says the recent files uploaded to jihadist websites have appeared in Arabic, rather than their usual format in English.
The Daily Telegraph of London reports that in the tape – which bore the logo of Al Qaeda's media arm, Al Sahab – Zawahiri denied that the terrorist group targeted innocents in its operations.
"We haven't killed the innocents, not in Baghdad, nor in Morocco, nor in Algeria, nor anywhere else," he said, according to the transcript, in response to the question: "Excuse me, Zawahiri, but who is it who is killing with Your Excellency's blessing the innocents in Baghdad, Morocco, and Algeria?"
"If there is any innocent who was killed in the Mujahideen's operations, then it was either an unintentional error or out of necessity," Zawahiri added, saying that it was Al Qaeda's enemies who killed the innocent, "intentionally [taking] up positions in the midst of the Muslims for them to be human shields for him."
Agence France-Presse reports that Zawahiri said that 18 United Nations staff members who were killed in December suicide attacks in Morocco were not innocents, however, and accused the UN of double standards.
[The UN] "is the one which considers Chechnya an inseparable part of Crusader Russia, and considers Ceuta and Melilla inseparable parts of Crusader Spain," he said, referring to two Spanish enclaves in North Africa claimed by Morocco. The UN had agreed to the presence of outsiders, dubbed "Crusaders" by Zawahiri, in Afghanistan and Iraq and had approved the separation of East Timor from Indonesia. Yet "it doesn't recognize that right for Chechnya, nor for all the Muslim Caucasus, nor for Kashmir, nor for Ceuta and Melilla, nor for Bosnia", he said.
The BBC writes that Zawahiri also denied reports that Mr. bin Laden is in poor health. "The ill-intentioned always try to circulate false reports about him being sick," he said.
Noah Shachtman, a national security blogger for Wired.com, writes that Zawahiri addressed Al Qaeda's hostile stance toward Iran, saying that a protracted struggle between Iran and the US would be "in the interest" of the terrorist group, and that Al Qaeda would strike against the winning party.
Al Qaeda, a Sunni organization, has long regarded Iran, a Shiite nation, as an enemy. Mr. Shachtman emphasizes a particular passage of the Zawahiri transcript (translated by IntelCenter):
The dispute between America and Iran is a real dispute based on the struggle over areas of influence, and the possibility of America striking Iran is a real possibility. As for what might happen in the region, I can only say that major changes will occur in the region, and the situation will be in the interest of the Mujahideen if the war saps both of them.
If, however, one of them emerges victorious, its influence will intensify and fierce battles will begin between it and the Mujahideen, except that the Jihadi awakening currently under way and the degeneration state of affairs of the invaders in Afghanistan and Iraq will make it impossible for Iran or America to become the sole decision-maker in the region.
The questions Zawahiri answered were submitted between December and January on Islamist militant web sites at the prompting of Al Sahab, writes The Associated Press.
AP notes that the questioners "appeared to be as much in the dark about the terror network's operations and intentions as Western analysts and intelligence agencies," and "appeared uncertain whether Al Qaeda's central leadership directly controls the multiple, small militant groups around the Middle East that work in its name, or whether those groups operate on their own."


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Unlike its Northern European counterpart, which were coded with luxurious objects that captured the burgeoning merchant import economy, Spanish Baroque still life sought the transcendent. Ordinary objects became broader reflections on spirituality where objects glowed from the inside with mystical radiance. That is the foundation of my still life photography project.
By 2003 I was a full-time theology student. I began the study a decade into my career as an artist. The blend of thought and practice from both disciplines came together in my artwork. My undergraduate thesis in photography ten years earlier was a study of Catholic iconography re-imagined through the lens of Hollywood glamour portrait photography. As my study at the Bangor Theological Seminary evolved, I briefly considered revisiting my undergraduate thesis to update those interpretations, taking inspiration from the more profound inquiry I was experiencing. (Ultimately, my Master of Arts thesis went down an entirely different path.)
Alongside my theological studies, I deepened my research into religious iconography in art. I have always been a fan of Italian and Spanish Baroque paintings, where lighted subjects emerge from primordial darkness. The simple, elegant paintings of Juan Sanchez Cotan—a devout Catholic much influenced by the religious mysticism of his time—stood out to me. In his tightly composed bodegones, Cotan depicted more than ordinary fruits and vegetables. What is it about empty dark voids and luminescent lighting that instigates transcendent emotions? Trained artists are aware of the classical approach to composition known as Golden Ratio (or Divine Proportion) and Cotan's Still Life paintings did much to exploit those rules. Yet with a notable absence of any overt iconographic references, Cotan's work generates a quiet and erudite spirituality. It is hardly a wonder that he relinquished his career as a painter to the path of monasticism.
I did not set out to replicate Cotan's painting (nor become a monk), but rather dissect the path that led him to his discoveries. I collected the spoils from my refrigerator along with things found during my walks to the studio. In reality, the objects were entirely incidental to my explorations, except for the rare moment when I became fascinated by the monkfish head and (during a bad breakup) a pig heart (not shown). My process in the studio consisted of minimal lighting, a large format camera, film, and absolute isolation. On the "other side" of each day I would feel the tremendous satisfaction of having experienced something. Often it was a struggle to detach from the objects in front of the lens. I had to overcome clinical observation to arrive at an unforced place where I was simply trusting that all of my instincts and training would rally and coalesce.
The Pinnacle…
The Still Life body of work grew. I had not intended to exhibit the work, but eventually decided to create print editions of key pieces and had several successful shows. The study paused at a very specific (and emotionally arresting) moment when I knew I had reached the pinnacle of my exploration. I have not publicly exhibited the work from the last Still Life photo shoot. I have only shared them with a few close friends. Ten years later I have posted them on a private page, and you may reach out to me for the password.


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The DUFF (2015)
An American teen-film about Beanca Piper, a dowdy and oudated senior school teen-girl who is faced with the problem of social pecking. Her friends backstab Beanca but she's got no idea about it. One day a school playboy named Rash opened her eyes to the truth…Now Beanca wants to get rid of the disgraceful status, become irresistable and win Rash's heart…
Original Title: The DUFF
Country: USA
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Genres: Comedy
Director: Ari Sandel
Cast: Mae Whitman, Robbie Amell, Bella Thorne, Bianca A. Santos, Skyler Samuels, Romany Malco
Runtime: 116 min
Language: English
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Resolution: 720 x 304
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Trafero Solutions, Inc., a leader in organizational culture assessments and transformation, today announced it is the first U.S. consulting firm to sign a licensing and distribution agreement with Peter Strohkorb Consulting International Pty Ltd of Sydney, Australia, to deliver its Smarketing® assessment and The OneTeam Method™ solutions across the United States.
The agreement makes Trafero Solutions the only U.S.-based consulting firm to be able to offer the Smarketing® assessment and the range of The OneTeam Method™ business productivity solutions. The licensing agreement continues the expansion of Trafero's capabilities and expertise using proven, research-based methods that focus on specific facets of organizational culture, climate, and behavior. The approach facilitates the measurement, baselining, and comparison of organizational culture and effectiveness – highlighting opportunities to become more competitive and more profitable.
According to Peter Strohkorb Consulting International, approximately 87 percent of organizations that miss revenue targets do so due to a misalignment between Marketing and Sales. The OneTeam Method™ is the only structured program that creates a mutually beneficial alignment between these customer-facing and revenue-generating functions.
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Both Trafero Solutions and Strohkorb Consulting International consider organizational alignment to be essential to corporate performance and a positive customer experience. The agreement between the two firms demonstrates a commitment and focus on culture and alignment for better business results.
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This blog is about football. Soccer. Whatever you call it, both terms are fine and good and I use them interchangeably.
The Italians call it calcio. And that's the football/soccer that inspired me to start this blog.
I love Italian soccer in all of its forms — Serie A, Lega B, the National Team. This blog will follow those subjects as well as Italian players making their way in other leagues.
Who Is the "Brilliant Italian Soccer Man?"
I've been thinking about starting a blog about calcio for quite a while. But today's headline on Deadspin finally pushed me over the edge:
Brilliant Italian Soccer Man Scores Just the Coolest Goddamn Goal
Who's that unnamed but brilliant "Italian soccer man?" Why, it's Fabio Quagliarella, a veteran of Serie A. The anonymity of the headline, the dumbing down of the news for a soccer-ignorant readership, irked me and made me laugh at the same time.
So I thought this would be a good time to get started on the blog I've thought about for a while. Indeed, there are plenty of other sites out there about Italian soccer – IFTV has been my English-language go-to for a while. I'm not here to compete with them. Rather I'd like to focus on an incredible goal or a "brilliant Italian soccer man" with each post that I write. Here's my chance to learn more about Italian soccer and to share my excitement with all of you.
Here, again, is Quagliarella scoring what is possibly the goal of the season for Sampdoria. This clip also includes the two prior goals from Quagliarella's teammate Grégoire Defrel and Q's post-match interview.


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Annie JR : INTENSIVE MUSICAL THEATRE
"You're never fully dressed without a smile"
We are delighted to welcome Zara Holmes School of Drama to Pinehill Studios. Zara will deliver an Intensive Musical Theatre Workshop suitable for all stage enthusiasts.
Annie Jr : Intensive Musical Theatre Workshop
Open to ages 6-13 years 7th August to 10th August (showcase final day) 10am-4pm each day at Pinehill Studios.
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