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Established in 1967, Shawnee Community College offers over 40 associate degrees, diplomas, and certificate programs, including specialties in Health-care, Business, Accounting, Agri-Business, and Information Technology. Located in Southernmost Illinois, Shawnee has expanded throughout its history to include four extension sites serving the five counties district and beyond.
Shawnee Community College now serves an annual unduplicated headcount of 3,344 students in both credit and non-credit programs across all locations in the communities of Anna, Cairo, Metropolis, Ullin, and Vienna. Student count includes dual enrollment students in our local high schools. Additionally, Shawnee Community College serves our community in non-credit training opportunities and workforce development classes.
The College is nestled in the foothills of the Appalachian and Ozark mountains in Southern Illinois, within a few hours driving distance of major cities including: Indianapolis, Nashville, St. Louis and Chicago. The region is known for its extensive outdoor excursion opportunities, which include cave exploration, hiking, fishing, boating, and bicycling. The local community is made up of exceptionally friendly people, abundant natural resources, and a quality of life experience that is second to none.
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Spring & Fall: Monday – Friday from 7:45 am to 4:15 pm
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I am here for this beaded collar necklace trend that has emerged in the fashion world as one could guess from my latest haul video on my youtube channel. Some of these necklaces can be really expensive, but you don't have to break the bank to look fly and expensive #atthesamedamntime. Here some collar necklaces that are all under $50.
From top left to top right (sorry I forgot to number them).
- Sparkling Faux Stone Necklace from forever21.com – $19.80
- Multi-Strand Dangle Necklace from lastcall.com – $47.60 originally $95.00
- Bejeweled Bib Necklace from forever21.com also available in black, white, and mint green – $13.50
- Bejeweled Bib Necklace from forever21.com – $8.80
- Multi Stone Chain Necklace from piperlime.gap.com – $28.00
See, you don't have to spend that much at all!
How Would I Style Them?
These pieces are pretty dressy, but they can dressed up or down. For example, I would wear the necklaces that feature rhinestones (1,4,5) to dressy events like church, a banquet, ball, or wedding. I may pair the other two with a peplum top and a pencil skirt or a plain dress.
These are statement pieces, meaning that they are meant to be the focal point of your outfit. I would shy away from prints (at least in terms of what is worn on top) if I were to wear these types of necklaces lest I be #dointhemost. It may be tempting to pair one of these necklaces with earrings that dangle, but its better to keep it simple on the ears and wear your hair up and out of the way. This way the necklace can shine. 🙂
Also, when buying necklaces like these, you may want to pay attention to the cut of the neck on the dress/shirt you want to pair it with. Round necklaces tend to look better with round cuts, and necklaces that form an apex tend to look better with v-necks.
In any event, you'll draw attention with either one of these pieces. A wise person once said, people are going to stare anyway so you might as well give them something to look at.Much love, Brittany

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You are invited to a free half day event to bring together voluntary and statutory organisations from Coventry with academics from the University of Warwick and Coventry University to discuss ways in which we might work more closely together, build relationships and generate ideas for new projects.
Date: Wednesday 29 October 2014
Time: 1.30 pm – 5 pm
Venue: Coventry Central Hall, Warwick Lane, Coventry, CV1 2HA
How can organisations link with researchers to evidence what they do?
How can we best share skills that would benefit each other?
How can students and organisations benefit from student work placements?
How can research be more effectively used to influence practice and policy?
The workshop is aimed at academics and students at both universities, and at Coventry statutory and third sector organisations interested in collaborating on research, work placements or other joint projects.
There are already a number of successful formal and informal partnerships between organisations in Coventry and faculty and students at both universities. However, there can be barriers to potential projects, such as problems with timing, expectations, understanding each other's cultures and ways of working.
This informal networking workshop will provide an opportunity for us to learn about each other's research needs and interests as well as find out more about different ways of working, timing of research projects and so on.
This workshop is free, but advance registration is essential. Light mid-afternoon refreshments will be provided.
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Boobik? is an adult microblogging site where you can 'meet people the sexy way', according to its copy. Mobuzz.tv gives it some love, and I've been reading a good chunk of speculation here and there about it today. Apparently Boobik? supports video embedding, and certainly photos aplenty. It is mucho NSFW. Boobik?s terms of service appear braced for the wide array of material the site will no doubt generate. Twitter's users number at ~1M, right? It'll be interesting to see how rapidly Boobik? grows.
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twitter and boobik?Posted in trying to learn with tags adult, Boobik, mobuzz.tv, nsfw on January 24, 2008 by Zack
how will porn penetrate twitterPosted in business, trying to learn with tags adult, Audacia Ray, Katie COuric, Lexi Lapetina, Midwest Sex Teen Show, nympho, porn, sex on January 14, 2008 by Zack
You said penetrate, huh huh.
Not neccessarily porn proper either…but how will adult entertainment get its piece of the twitter pie?
Agh. Did it again. *sigh*.
Here's one example of a new user doing what she can to draw a crowd: @bambidollface. Her bio labels her a Bi Nympho Teen CumSlut, but thus far her posts are tame, on the whole. She should use links more.
@GirlieGurl has more success than @bambidollface. Her background is NSFW, but her tweets are tame. My guess is she is more established elsewhere among the interwebs. Has a home page in bio, prob a dirty lil number.
@Lexilapetina, bio says adult site owner. Also has home page in bio. Already I'm thinking they should embed their link in every tweet they do. (True for other businesses too, or just the internet lookin's?) @audaciaray is a porn director and 'sex nerd', with many recent tweets from adult film awards ceremony. @hardnhorny also has a home page that sounds adult enough for me to resist clicking it and putting it on the pc's history. His posts are protected, so as to whether he's a fan or a biz, can't tell. @MidwestTeenSex purports to be booked for the Katie Couric show. According to their bio, they make funny movies about teen sex.
And there's plenty more users out there — you can click through replies from these users and learn more about the community. I'm betting sex would sell better in twitter if my 'following' weren't visible to all. If that feature ever becomes optional (especially on a friend-by-friend basis), and the 'following' feature can get a little less transparent, adult entertainment will have way better results in twitter – like instant results.


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Large handcrafted intricate cut out brass and sterling silver mandala charm. This stunning charm is a lovely symbol of unity and harmony to offer strength and inspiration. It is a striking feature piece that can also be mixed with other charms to create a gift of love that will always be cherished. An ideal gift for birthdays, graduations, farewells or gift it to yourself for an uplifting memento. The handmade, warm and intricate nature of this charm will ensure it is a much loved piece in anyone's collection and be a daily reminder of balance, warmth and love.
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As I was watching him blissfully go back and forth across the gym floor, I realized that I feel just like him sometimes. When I have several days in a row that I don't have busy things planned, my life feels like it has no direction. I do one thing for a little bit, like work on one of my scrapbooks, but very soon I wonder if there isn't a more important thing I should be doing. But nothing comes to mind. So I'll pick up one of my crochet projects. After a little bit of crocheting, I will again feel like what I'm doing is pointless. I'll read a book, and by chapter 4 I will be bored out of my head. I will grab a rag and spray bottle and attack the bathroom (since that is my favorite room in the house to clean). An hour later, my bathroom will be sparkly, but my heart will still feel lonely. Unlike the baby crawling around in the gym tonight, I will be fully aware that I'm going in unproductive circles.
So I pull out my kindle, or click the Power Bible button on my computer, or gently open my non-digital Bible--whichever one is closest when I finally realize what's been missing in my life the past few days. And I sit and read. I let God remind me of how much He loves me, even when I forget about Him. My heart soaks in His promises, and my life's purpose becomes clear again. I live to please God. I live to worship God. I live so others can see Jesus in me. I beg for God's forgiveness for forgetting Him, and I plead that next time my life gets hectic, I would forget something much less important from my schedule.
I remember growing up all the times I walked into the living room in the wee hours of the morning thinking that surely no sane person would be up yet only to find my mother sitting in her chair, reading the Bible or praying over her list. That knowledge that my mom was always on speaking terms with God was such a reassurance throughout my childhood. If I only succeed in one thing in life, I want it to be that my son grows up knowing that his mom is always on speaking terms with God, too. Which means, among other things, that I need the discipline to not let my life get too busy for Him. Now that I have a blog, I am going to use that to my advantage. I hereby declare every Sunday to be Sharing Sunday, where the post for that day will be about what I learned or was reminded about in my devotions the previous week. There. Now I'm accountable to whoever reads this post, and if busyness tries to keep me out of the Bible, potential mass embarrassment will bring me right back, and once I finish Numbers :-), that renewed sense of peace that fills my heart after being in God's Word will convince me to come back for more tomorrow.


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Superman Returns Is Part Dawson's Creek; Hulk Awaits Gay Cowboys
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When you sit down to watch a superhero movie, there are a few things you should be able to count on: tights, capes, villains, and action. Well, not so fast. Maybe you can't count on action. Some superhero flicks are light on that part, but, in rare cases, they work anyway. Which superhero flicks are missing the obvious and still fly, and which ones flop? Read on!
Tim Burton's Batman is a case where the dearth of action doesn't hurt. The passage of time is kind of the point. Try comparing Burton's flick to the The Dark Knight and it's night and day. The older movie's Joker (Jack Nicholson) is a devious villain with goons who occasionally shoot stuff. The Dark Knight's Joker (Heath Ledger) is a devious villain who terrorizes a city with crazy explosions, renegade cars, and gun battles. One's got serious action, but both are good movies.
A brief plot summary: Elektra (Jennifer Garner) sits around agonizing over a decision. That's about it. The screenwriters really goofed up on this one, since the audience for Elektra consists of action fans who want to see Elektra fight people and horny teenage comic geeks who want to see Elektra run around in tight clothing. (Needless to say, there's a lot of overlap in these two groups.) Having Elektra sitting around all day doing nothing pleases no one. Which goes a long way to explain why it flopped.
Fantastic Four
Here's what happens in Fantastic Four: Jessica Alba sits around looking pretty but sad. Then Ioan Gruffudd sits around looking sad, while Chris Evans yells, Michael Chiklis grunts, and Julian McMahon sits in dark rooms looking devious. In between there are a couple of action scenes, but they're not what we've come to expect from the recent spate of quality Marvel flicks like Iron Man and X-Men. At no point is the world in serious peril, and even the battle we finally get at the end is pretty anti-climactic.
What happened in this movie? Nothing. Apparently, director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) decided to make the most boring superhero movie ever. He succeeded! The movie opens with a bang, as we learn the source of the Hulk's powers. Don't get your hopes up, though. The rest of the movie is so akin to Brokeback Mountain in terms of pacing that at any given moment it seems more likely that a pair of gay cowboys might wander onto the scene, instead of that the Hulk (Eric Bana) will go wild.
My Super Ex-Girlfriend
Uma Thurman as a superhero? Well, a gender-role-reversing superhero who saves and intimidates her powerless boyfriend. Plus, Anna Faris gets superpowers. This all sounds very exciting and yet, somehow, it's not, because My Super Ex-Girlfriend is just a not-so-funny relationship sitcom, sprinkled with even less funny moments during which Uma is pissed off. Frustratingly, we have to wait an excruciating hour or so just to see one halfway decent fight. Better stick with Kill Bill.
Superman Returns
The reboot of the Superman franchise is an experiment in merging superhero flicks with Dawson's Creek. The astounding level of angst means there's little action. Superman (Brandon Routh) spends most of the movie brooding. Admittedly, he has to stop brooding long enough to engage in some light physical activity, to stop Lex Luthor. That mostly consists of him lifting stuff, like portions of earth. If you want to see Superman participate in a one-man weight-lifting competition, this is your movie. If not, stay away.
When artsy directors tackle the superhero genre, flicks like Unbreakable follow. It's not a knock on director M. Night Shyamalan. When you ask Shyamalan to make a superhero movie, he makes an Shyamalan superhero movie. What else would you expect? Like most Shyamalan movies, Unbreakable looks nice, is suspenseful, and develops slowly. The difference is that, unlike most Shyamalan movies, it's a superhero movie, minus the tights and capes.


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Croatia was able to beat the host team Hungary in the grand final of 17th FINA World Championships in the Hajós Alfréd Complex thanks to a great first quarter and three goals from captain Sandro Sukno.
Finals of the 17th FINA World Championships:
Hungary-Croatia 6-8 (0-4, 2-0, 2-2, 2-2)
Hajós Alfréd Swimming Complex, 7800 spectators, referees: Severo (ITA), Alexandrescu (ROU)
Hungary: Nagy V. – Gór-Nagy, Hosnyánszky, Vámos 3, Varga Dénes, Erdélyi 1, Mezei. Subs: Manhercz 1, Zalánki, Hárai, Török 1, Decker Á. Head coach: Märcz Tamás
Croatia: Bijac – Loncar 1, Buljubasic, Garcia 2, Setka, Sukno 3, Jokovic 1. Subs: Macan 1, Fatovic, Vukicevic, Krapic, Buslje. Head coach: Ivica Tucak
At the bronze game:
Greece-Serbia 8-11 (3-5, 1-2, 3-3, 1-1)
Hungary wanted to be the second team ever to win the world championships at home, while Croatia wanted to break the ice and finally take home a gold medal after winning a few silver medals in the last couple of years in FINA tournaments.
Croatia jumped off to a great start, Sukno scored on their very first attack of the game. They followed this up with three other goals and won the first quarter 4-0. Croatia defensed really well and Hungary's offense was really ineffective in the beginning.
Hungary started the second quarter much better with the lead of Vamos, who scored their first goal and had a steal right after that. The host team stepped up its defense and shut down the Croatian team in the second period. Nagy –who was voted for the best goalkeeper of the tournament – made some great saves and Hungary as a team played a lot better after the slow first period. There was 4-2 on the scoreboard at half time.
Hungary had the momentum and goals by Erdelyi and Manhercz meant that five minutes into the second half, the teams were even (4-4). This was the moment that woke Croatia up, Javier Garcia scored twice, both of them were deflected shots, so Hungary was a bit unlucky at the end of the third quarter.
After Sukno's goal, Croatia lead by three, but Vamos – who played brilliantly throughout the whole tournament and won the MVP award as well – scored twice. The second was on a crucial extramen situation and he decreased Hungary's deficit to one, when there was only two minutes on the clock. Sukno's third goal meant a two goal lead again and eventually Croatia's win in the final, so they became world champions. Sukno also won the final's MVP award.
Tamás Märcz, head coach (HUN):
"We would like to congratulate the Croatian team, it was a great World Championship for them, from the beginning to the end they played flawless. They were concentrated, beating very strong opponents in the quarterfinals, the semi-finals and then the finals. They deserve their success. But I congratulate my team, it took a long way to the final from the January preparation until now.
It was not an easy game, it was very difficult to stand up after 4-0, but our players demonstrated how great water polo players they are, in the second and third quarters, were well-grounded that it might be close to the end. We were very close to turning the result. I'm happy for our silver medal despite it's being always difficult after a losing game, of course, we do have to really appreciate it. We have to learn how to play in finals, this is what the Croatians already do better than us."
Hosnyánszky Norbert (HUN)
"Thank you very much to the audience, to the team, thank you for having me here. I think we have achieved a very nice result. Every final is different, in Barcelona, we have gone from Montenegro, now the Croatians are from us, but we came back and we got two unlucky goals. This is sport. Those who work for it has the fortune, but the opponent was better now. The World Championship was a great experience for me, I shall remember it as a nice memory. "
Viktor Nagy (HUN):
"I'm sad, because we came here to win today, and that we did not succeed. I'm sorry if we made the fans disappointed. This is sport. Our opponent was better today."
Luka Loncar (CRO):
"This was a great tournament; I can congratulate the Hungarians as well. It was difficult to play in such circumstances, but we could show our strength during the two weeks. I believe that victory does not have to be explained. I congratulate the Hungarian and Serbian team for my silver and bronze medals."
Milan Smodlaka, assistant head coach (CRO)
"We started well and that has determined the match. We were able to keep the game under our control all the time. The arena was fantastic, the whole World Championship was amazing, thanks for having us here, the organization was great."
Márton Vámos (HUN):
"We started very badly, and the relapse took so much energy out of us that we could not move forward. Those who work for it have luck, but we did work on it though seems like the Croatians did it a bit more. We've been fighting all over, we did not give up, but the fact that the beginning was so bad decided the end result. "
Andro Buslje (CRO)
"It's a fantastic feeling. After 10 years we became again world champions. Nothing clever does not come to mind now. First of all, I would like to congratulate my fellow players, we have played well throughout the tournament. We were better from game to game. We had minor problems, but we overcame them, and in both the finals and the previous games we showed that we are the best. We started very well organized so we gained the 4: 0 advantage. Then we stopped a bit, but after 4: 4 we did not let the Hungarian team get the lead. We believed in ourselves, we knew what to do for victory."
Final result of the 17th FINA world championships men's water polo tournament:
1. Croatia (1 Marko Bijac, 2 Marko Macan, 3 Loren Fatovic, 4 Luka Loncar, 5 Maro Jokovic, 6 Ivan Buljubasic, 7 Ante Vukicevic, 8 Andro Buslje, 9 Sandro Sukno, 10 Ivan Krapic, 11 Andelo Setka, 12 Javier Garcia Gadea, 13 Ivan Marcelic)
Hungary (1 Viktor Nagy, 2 Béla Török, 3 Krisztián Manhercz, 4 Gergő Zalánki, 5 Márton Vámos, 6 Norbert Hosnyánszky, 7 Ádám Decker, 8 Miklós Gór-Nagy, 9 Balázs Erdélyi, 10 Dénes Varga, 11 Tamás Mezei, 12 Balázs Hárai, 13 Attila Decker)
3. Serbia (1 Gojko Pijetlovic, 2 Dusan Mandic, 3 Viktor Rasovic, 4 Sava Randjelovic, 5 Milos Cuk, 6 Dusko Pijetlovic, 7 Nemanja Ubovic, 8 Milan Aleksic, 9 Nikola Jaksic, 10 Filip Filipovic, 11 Andrija Prlainovic, 12 Stefan Mitrovic, 13 Branislav Mitrovic)
4. Greece
5. Montenegro
6. Italy
7. Australia
8. Russia
9. Spain
10. Japan
11. Kazakhstan
12. Brazil
14. France
15. Canada
16. South Africa
MVP of the bronze game: Andrea Prlainovic (Serbia)
MVP of the final: Sandro Sukno (Croatia)
Top goal scorer: Ioannis Fountoulis (Greece) 23 goals
Best goalkeeper: Viktor Viktor (Hungary)


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The long list of enemies assassinated President John F. Kennedy had at the time of his death showed he had made a host of enemies, while in office in two years and ten months of being president.
The following list may leave out someone unintentionally, because it is not easy to remember all of his enemies. Some people may not regard some of these people or organizations as JFK's enemies, but to me they had reasons to have him assassinated.
President Lyndon B. Johnson – When Lyndon B. Johnson was defeated in the 1942 race for the U.S. Senate, he was losing in the vote count. However, 202 votes mysteriously turned up in alphabetical order with all the votes being for Johnson. The election judge admitted 35 years later in 1977 that the 202 votes were fraudulent. The voters whose names were on the fraudulent ballots were all deceased.
The reason I even mentioned the 1942 Senate race is that LBJ was not that happy being a second banana to the Kennedys, when he accepted the nomination to run for Vice President in 1960. The 1942 race also shows that LBJ would do whatever it takes to win an election.
I am not saying that LBJ orchestrated the assassination of JFK, but he had the clout to make it happen if he wanted. One obvious fact is that nobody profited more from the assassination of JFK than LBJ. He went from being a pawn in the Kennedy administration with little or no power, to becoming the most powerful man in the United States.
The following paragraph may or may not be true, but if it is true LBJ was in the middle of the planning of the JFK assassination:
There is no doubt that of all the individuals who personally benefited from the Assassination of JFK, Lyndon B. Johnson was highest on the list. Johnson is the answer to the proverbial question Cui bono or who benefited? Johnson is known to have attended a final pre-assassination meeting on November 21, 1963 at Dallas oilman Clint Murchison's home. Two separate witnesses have independently verified that LBJ was present at the meeting including his former mistress Madeline Duncan Brown who stated on multiple occasions and in various venues that LBJ told her on the night of November 21, 1963 "after tomorrow those Kennedy boys will never make a fool of me again." – JFK Assassination Conspiracy Update
Cuban Freedom Fighters – The invasion of the Bay of Pigs in Cuba was doomed from the start because of news articles like this being printed:
JAN 10, 1961: The New York Times publishes a front page story entitled "U.S. Helps Train an Anti?Castro Force at Secret Guatemalan Air?Ground Base." Written by Paul Kennedy, the article reports that "Commando?like forces are being drilled in guerrilla warfare tactics by foreign personnel, mostly from the United States." – National Security Archive
This is tantamount to printing in the New York Times that the Allied Forces are preparing for an invasion at Normandy, France. This must be the fault of the CIA to have leaked this sensitive information so Cuba would be aware of the impending attack.
It must be noted that President Dwight D. Eisenhower was still in office when the plan to invade Cuba was instituted. Despite JFK"s eagerness to blame the CIA for the crushing defeat of the invasion force, the president is ultimately the one that must accept the blame.
By his failed invasion, JFK infuriated Fidel Castro and the Cuban Freedom Fighters who abandoned them as they fell into the clutches of Castro's henchmen and many of them were executed.
Fidel Castro – It was a huge coincidence that on the same day JFK was assassinated, Rolando Cubela Secades an employee of Fidel Castro was handed a poisoned pen by CIA agents in Paris, for Secades to use to kill Castro.
Castro had to know of the assassination plots against them, so naturally he would assume that JFK was behind the plots. It was clear that Castro had caused JFK to go through the October missile crisis of 1962. The Russians finally blinked, but it was Castro who allowed them to set up their missiles, just 90 miles from our shore.
His ex-lover Marita Lorenz smuggled a cold cream container with poison pills inside. However, Castro discovered the plot and gave her a gun to shoot Castro, but she couldn't pull the trigger.
Those were just some of the assassination attempts against Castro. If there was anyone that had reason to assassinate JFK, it would be Castro.
American Mafia – There were many angry mobsters not happy with the way Robert F. Kennedy was prosecuting Mafia chieftains. The two names I have heard mentioned the most were Sam Giancana and Carlos Marcello as the masterminds behind the JFK assassination.
Judith Exner was introduced to President Kennedy by Frank Sinatra. Exner's activities were being watched closely by FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, who was using his knowledge of the affair to potentially blackmail the president to protect his job security. That explains why he was FBI director for so long, since he had blackmail material on every president he served.
Exner was a girlfriend of Giancana, so her affair with JFK may have been one more reason that Giancana reportedly conspired to kill JFK. It was 12 years after the assassination before Exner was publicly linked to JFK, but apparently Jackie Kennedy knew about the affair while JFK was still alive. The following paragraph from anusha.com infers that Jackie knew what was going on:
Exner has been treated unfairly by history. She never sought to capitalize off the fact that she was JFK's mistress. She kept this hidden for years. Jackie knew about her, of course. Once, when Jackie found a woman's pink panties in her pillow case, she turned to JFK in bed and said, "Would you find out who these belong to, because they are not my size?"
Louisiana mobster Carlos Marcello had a huge motive for assassinating JFK, since JFK's brother Robert the attorney general, had Marcello deported to Guatemala.
Marcello made the following statement which shows that he was serious about having JFK assassinated:
In September 1962, Marcello told private investigator Edwin Nicholas Becker that, "A dog will continue to bite you if you cut off its tail…," (meaning Attorney General Robert Kennedy.), "…whereas if you cut off the dog's head…," (meaning President Kennedy), "… it would cease to cause trouble". Becker reported that Marcello, "clearly stated that he was going to arrange to have President Kennedy killed in some way". Marcello told another informant that he would need to take out "insurance" for the assassination by, "…. setting up some nut to take the fall for the job, just like they do in Sicily". – Wikipedia
The above statement shows that Marcello wanted JFK dead so his death would deter his brother from pursuing his vendetta against organized crime figures in the United States. The assassination played out just like Marcello mentioned in that a patsy named Lee Harvey Oswald took the fall, while the ones planning the job celebrated.It is just too much of a coincidence for me that Oswald was killed by Ruby who had close connection with the Chicago mobsters.
The FBI investigated Marcello after the assassination and came to this conclusion:
After Kennedy's assassination, the Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated Marcello. They came to the conclusion that Marcello was not involved in the assassination. On the other hand, they also said that they, "… did not believe Carlos Marcello was a significant organized crime figure," and that Marcello earned his living, "… as a tomato salesman and real estate investor." As a result of this investigation, theWarren Commission concluded that there was no direct link between Ruby and Marcello. – Wikipedia
It is ludicrous that the FBI would state that Marcello was not a significant organized crime figure. Even more preposterous is that they said he made his living as a tomato salesman and real estate investor. Then to cap it off the Warren Commission said that Jack Ruby and Marcello had no direct link.
FBI – The FBI may not have fired the shots that killed JFK, but J. Edgar Hoover had information about a plot to assassinate JFK just 13 days before the assassination, but apparently did nothing to act on that information. Retired FBI agent said that Joseph Adams Milteer had told William Somersett, a FBI informant on tape that the best way to kill JFK was to shoot him from an office building with a high-powered rifle. It is not surprising to me that Milteer is not even mentioned in the Warren Commission Report.
The FBI agent asks if there were plans to assassinate JFK and Milteer replied that they were in the works. Milteer was shown in the crowd at Dealey Plaza, the day of the assassination. Why would he be there to see JFK since he hated JFK? It tells me that he wanted to see for himself that JFK had been assassinated.
Adams also says he has information from FBI reports verifying that Lee Harvey Oswald, not only didn't fire any shots from the Texas Schoolbook Depository Building, but was seen in the break-room at the exact time of the shooting.
Knowing that the FBI director Hoover, who was no fan of the Kennedys, had this information and sat on it tells me he was not intent on stopping the assassination. Why didn't Hoover pass on this information to the Secret Service so they would be extra cautious on November 22, perhaps going so far as to leave the roof closed on the presidential limousine?
Hoover almost certainly knew about JFK"s connection with Judith Exner and Marilyn Monroe, but with Kennedy dead he didn't have to use that information, since his job was safe.
CIA – The CIA had motive to assassinate JFK or let someone else assassinate him unimpeded, because only two years earlier JFK had vilified the CIA after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. The president had said the air strikes were not vital, which doomed the invasion. However, he was intent on blaming the CIA, saying he wished he could shatter the CIA into a thousand pieces. Several high level CIA officials handed in their resignations, including CIA director Allen Dulles.
So now the CIA has the motive to assassinate JFK, because he showed he was mad enough at the CIA to possibly even dismantle the most secretive intelligence organization. If the CIA was involved in trying to assassinate Fidel Castro, it would not be surprising, that they would entertain thoughts of assassinating the president who had dissed them publicly.
Secret Service – There are some that think that the Secret Service was involved in the assassination and Roy Kellerman in particular. Kellerman reportedly turned around to the front after looking back and seeing JFK had been shot, rather than responding immediately. Conspiracy theorists also say Kellerman took JFK"s body from Parkland Hospital by force.
William A. Greer the Secret Service agent driving the limousine, slowed down and then brought the limousine to a stop. It is thought that the stopping enabled the killer or killers time to make the fatal head shots.
It is difficult to believe that the men hired to protect the president would play a part in his assassination. I can't see why any of the Secret Service agents would have motive to assassinate the president. It is because of this fact, that I rule out any involvement of the Secret Service in the assassination.
KGB – Any list of possible conspirators would have to include the KGB, since Russia had been more or less forced to withdraw their missiles from Cuba only 13 months before the assassination. This had to be the main motivating factor for them to be a participant in his assassination.
There was no doubt that Khrushchev was angered at JFK for placing him in the position, where he had to withdraw Russians missiles from Cuba as can be seen in the following portion from scientciapress.com.
According to Ion Mihai Pacepa, at the time deputy director of foreign intelligence for Gheorghe-Dej's Romania, in his book Programmed to Kill: Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB, and the Kennedy Assassination [1], Dej was visiting Moscow at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Pacepa writes:
"According to Dej's account, when Khrushchev finished reading that cable [from the KGB in Washington saying that Kennedy had ordered a naval quarantine of Cuba], his face was purple. He looked inquiringly at [KGB chief] Semichastny, and, when the terrified general nodded, Khrushchev 'cursed like a bargeman'. Then he threw Semichastny's cable on the floor and ground his heel into it. 'That's how I'm going to crush that viper,' he cried. The 'viper,' Dej explained in telling the story, was Kennedy.
Goading himself on, Khrushchev grew increasingly hysterical, uttering violent threats against the 'millionaire's whore' and his CIA masters." – Scientiapress.com
Lee Harvey Oswald reportedly gave the Soviets the intelligence they needed to down the U-2 plane of Gary Powers in 1960. Powers himself said Oswald could have been the one that gave the Russians intelligence they needed to down his plane.
The KGB more than likely knew that Oswald intended to assassinate JFK, but did nothing to inform Washington of the impending assassination, since it removed JFK from the scene after JFK had shamed Premier Khrushchev the year before during the Cuban missile crisis.
Summary: This November 22 will be the 48th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. It will be six more years till the last files pertaining to the JFK assassination will be released.
It is amazing that President Kennedy could have incurred the wrath, of so many enemies in less than three years after being elected.
The Warren Commission took the easy way out and concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone on November 22, 1963, to kill the president of the United States.
Oswald's own statements after being arrested, if they are considered to be truthful, imply that he was only a patsy, which inferred that there was at least one other person involved if not an entity like the CIA or FBI. Evidently, the Warren Commission did not think Oswald was being truthful, because they ruled out any conspiracy theory.
If Oswald was a patsy, he was perfect for the job. He had moved to Russia after being discharged from the Marines, which could have gave him access to the KGB. Even though the KGB was suspicious of Oswald, they knew he could be used to further their plans of assassinating President John F. Kennedy.
The fact that Oswald was in the Texas School Book Depository Building, by itself doesn't mean he was the one that pulled the trigger that day. With the shooter surrounded by boxes, it was not likely the shooter was ever seen while shooting. It has been assumed all these years that Oswald killed Officer Tippett. He may have but after reading the following article, I am not so sure it was Oswald:
48 years have passed since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, but there are many who are not willing to accept the Warren Report conclusion that Oswald acted alone.
The fact that Allen Dulles, the former CIA director was on the Warren Commission, skewers the report beyond recognition considering he was there to steer the commission from probing too much into CIA documents related to the assassination.
Even President Lyndon B. Johnson said in this statement, probably without thinking that he was saying the Warren Commission Report was not completely truthful about Oswald acting alone.
Lyndon Johnson, president:"I'll tell you something about Kennedy's murder that will rock you…..Kennedy was trying to get Castro, but Castro got to him first."
– from How CIA Plot to Kill Castro Backfired, 2 Aug 1976, by Harry Altshuler, quoting Howard K. Smith interview of LBJ.
That statement tells me that he thought Oswald did not act alone, if he was blaming Castro for JFK's assassination, since Fidel Castro wasn't in the Texas School Book Depository Building the day of the assassination. LBJ is insinuating that Castro was involved and by doing that he is saying that some of Castro's people may have planned the assassination of JFK with the Cuban government making sure Oswald had what he needed to assassinate President Kennedy.
The following Warren commission members later rejected the lone gunman theory:
Richard Russell, Senator and former Warren Commissioner:"We have not been told the truth about Oswald."
– Whitewash IV, by Harold Weisberg, p. 21.
Hale Boggs, Majority Leader and former Warren Commissioner:"Hoover lied his eyes out to the Commission – on Oswald, on Ruby, on their friends, the bullets, the guns, you name it…"
– Coincidence or Conspiracy?, by Bernard Fensterwald Jr. and Michael Ewing, p. 96. The quote comes from an unnamed aide to Congressman Boggs. The book also quotes Bogg's wife Lindy, through a colleague, as saying "He wished he had never been on it [the Commission] and wished he'd never signed it [the Report]."
John Sherman Cooper, Senator and former Warren Commissioner:"On what basis is it claimed that two shots caused all the wounds?…..It seemed to me that Governor Connally's statement negates such a conclusion. I could not agree with this statement."
– The Zapruder Film, by David Wrone, p. 247. Cooper was commenting on a draft of the Warren Report. Wrone is citing the papers of J. Lee Rankin, wherein Cooper's written comments appeared.
This website has a wealth of information about the many different conspiracy theories:
History-matters.com has testimony from 216 witnesses present in Dealey Plaza:
History-matters.com also has a page that tells where the witnesses thought the shots were coming from and several said they came from the grassy knoll:
This page also from History-matters.com shows how the government and non-government witnesses differed on how many heard shots from the grassy knoll with non-government witnesses outnumbering government witnesses 143-73. However the non-government witnesses who thought there was gunfire from the grassy knoll was 44, while the government witnesses only 8 thought the gunfire came from the grassy knoll.
The Mary Fennelly Foundation website has the most complete archive of documents, phone calls, photos, essays, audio and video of any JFK assassination site I have seen:
There are so many conspiracy theories that we know that we know they can't all be true. We may never know what actually happened on November 22, 1963 other than President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. However, we can formulate in our minds, from what we read, that we think happened.
This article has too much information to read at one time, so might be a good page to bookmark for future reference, especially to the links at the end of the article.


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What to avoid if you don't want to be deindexed by Google
Despite the fact most marketers have stopped employing black hat SEO, some websites continue to utilise tactics and techniques that Google has long considered forbidden.
Usually, those who don't play by Google's rules will be given a manual action notice and see their site downranked. But in the worst case scenario, Google will take the ultimate action and deindex the site completely.
To stay in its good books, you should always bear in mind Google's two-pronged approach to "organise the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful,":
- Constantly adapting and amending its increasingly intelligent search algorithms.
- Using human quality raters to assess and ensure search results are of the highest standard.
Seeing as these guidelines are a little broad, here's what to avoid if you don't want to be deindexed by Google.
Cloaking is the practice of showing search engines one thing and your visitors another. It's done by delivering content based on the IP address or the user agent and can result in a partial or site-wide penalty.
Websites that show content to Google but restrict it to viewers, as well as images that are obscured, different to the ones served, or redirected elsewhere can also be considered cloaking.
According to Google's Webmaster Guidelines, the following is considered spam and could result in your website being deindexed.
- Automatically generated content
- Participating in link schemes
- Participating in affiliate programs without adding sufficient value
- Sneaky redirects
- Hidden links
- Scraped content
- Creating pages with malicious behaviour, such as phishing or installing viruses, trojans, or other badware
- Sending automated queries to Google
Keyword stuffing
Keyword density is not as important or influential as it once was. However, Google still looks down on the act of inserting or loading pages (including meta tags and descriptions) with a huge volume of keywords and numbers, otherwise known as keyword stuffing.
The following is also considered keyword stuffing:
- Unrelated keywords – For example, your website is about music but you add keywords to do with food in the hope of getting more traffic.
- Keyword repetition – Not only the unnecessary repetition of keywords, but also using every variation of a keyword.
- Hidden text – For example, keywords in a font that matches the website's background or is too small to read.
Thin content
Google's ultimate aim is to provide users with the most relevant content to match their queries. In recent years, its algorithm has favoured high-quality, in-depth content that gives each user useful and valuable information.
Therefore, thin content, which is defined as having little substance and no originality, will result in a penalty from Google.
Duplicate content
Duplicate content can be classified in two ways:
- Copying content – Literally copying content from other high-ranking websites and passing it off as your own.
- Multiple content – Creating multiple pages of the same content on your website, such as product pages with almost identical information.
To proactively address duplicate content issues, Google suggests that you use 301 redirects and top-level domains, be consistent with internal linking, minimise similar content and boilerplate repetition, syndicate content carefully, and avoid publishing stubs.
Use machine-written content
In order to avoid the pitfalls of plagiarising or spinning content, some marketers are using computers to create unique and original articles. In fact, there are a few examples of machine-written content where the standard and quality isn't that much worse than humans.
Even so, machine-written content will never compare to the imagination and ingenuity of the human brain. And while algorithms will continue to advance and improve, Google is already well-aware of what machine-written content looks like.
Unnatural links to and from your website
Link building is arguably the most important skill in SEO, mostly because it tells Google how to determine website authority – the more links pointing to your site, the more people consider it useful, valuable, and worth vouching for.
As a result, several marketers try to manipulate this way of thinking with certain link building methods, which have been a target for Google updates such as Penguin.
Link building techniques that could find your site in hot water with Google include:
- Buying links
- Linking from forum signatures
- Spam blog commenting
- Low-quality guest posting
- Link exchanges (link farms, private blog networks, link directories etc.)
- Paid links
Get in touch with any website owners that are providing you with low-quality links and ask for them to be removed. Alternatively, you can disavow links yourself on Search Console.
When it comes to internal links, try not to be excessive with your use of anchor text. Also, overusing and abusing internal links can make your site appear over-optimised and spammy.
Spammy structured markup
Adding structured data to a webpage makes it easier for Google to make sense of the content contained within. However, if you intentionally make the markup invisible to users or include misleading content, you will get penalised.
Google's structured data guidelines call on website owners to provide up-to-date information using relevant data as well as the most specific applicable type and property names defined by schema.org.
User-generated spam
Chances are, the majority of comments you receive on your blog will be from real users. But every now and then, spam bots with strange usernames or weird email addresses will leave a comment that is not only unrelated to your blog, but also contains a link to an external website.
Even though you weren't responsible for the link, it could still result in a penalty from Google. This means you should keep on top of manually moderating the content on your website or use plugins like Akismet on WordPress.
Doorway pages
Google says that doorway pages, which are created to rank for specific search queries, can lead to a number of similar pages in search results, even though each page only links back to the first.
Examples include pages without content that are purely created for affiliate traffic and intermediate pages designed to rank for generic terms, which contain very specific content. This has an adverse impact on the user experience, because traffic will eventually be directed to the same main page anyway.
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It doesn't matter what the current world economic situation is, the Middle East can always be counted on to lap up luxury goods, be it that Louis Vuitton handbag in Starhill or ordering a Veyron for the Palm Jumeirah mansion back home. Exotic car manufacturers are a major beneficiary of this excess, but this is the most obvious seduction attempt so far: Maserati has produced a limited-edition GranTurismo S MC Sport Line with Matt White "ICE" finishing specially for the Middle East, unveiled last week at an exclusive event for selected Arab customers at Abu Dhabi's Yas Marina Circuit.
Only twelve of these GranTurismos will be made, representing twelve world titles won by the MC12 in the FIA GT International Championship since 2005: two Constructors' Cups, four Drivers' Titles, five Teams' Titles and one Citation Cup. Twelve also signifies the Middle Eastern cities where Maserati is present with a dedicated showroom: each car will feature a plaque with the name of the city it's allocated to.
For the GranTurismo S, MC suspension brings a 10mm lower ride height, stiffer dampers and larger-diameter anti-roll bars that reduce roll by 20%. Overall rigidity is increased by 16% at the front and 32% at the rear. This is combined with drilled, slotted front and rear disc brakes plus a re-calibrated Maserati Stability Programme that allows the driver "greater freedom of action".
MC Sport Line options (available to Maserati clients worldwide) include an Aerodynamic Package that consists of double front winglets, rear lip spoiler, door sill inserts, black window surrounds, black exhaust pipes and body coloured door handles. Carbon fibre door mirrors and handles are also available. Maserati claims that these wind tunnel developed parts increase vertical load, allowing faster cornering and improved traction. Other add ons include gloss black alloys, dash carbon trim and aluminium racing pedals.


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Berta and Elmer built their home from 1919 to 1925. They married in 1919. They'd probably have married earlier but they had to wait for Elmer to return from serving in Europe during WWI. They'd have lived in their beloved San Francisco but decided that artists who hoped to truly "make it" had to live in New York City, or its outskirts. They settled in the village just north of the City that became their beloved Grand View. They'd have built a small house but they knew that for life to be full and complete they'd need room to surround themselves with friends.
Their "can do" attitude served them well in their careers and in their private lives. They observed masons at work and decided that they could "do that." When they ran into difficulty with their first fireplace they hired those masons to help them, learned more, and leapt into independent action again, helped by visiting friends on the weekends. Group meals, skits, songfests, spirited conversations, canoeing, storytelling, and sleeping were interspersed with sessions of swinging hammers and using trowels. When their house was finished the first thing they decided to do was to add on.
Some locals had doubted that they could build on the sloped land they had chosen. Having lived on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco the Haders knew it could be done. The Grand View land overlooked the Mighty Hudson. It abounded with wildlife and with their dreams. They had a prolific spring whose water cascaded down the hill, creating a waterfall, and then joined the Hudson River.
Berta and Elmer had decided they could build a house together and they realized they could build a career together. Berta brought her honed art skills from having studied at the California School of Design, doing newspaper fashion illustration and portrait miniatures to the team, as well as her writing skills. Elmer had attended the same school and then went on to study in Paris. His talent had landed him the first one-man, one-themed show ever held at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. They married his style rich with bold colors and hers rich with minute detail to create their charming and realistic portrayals.
In the early 1920s they created children's pages for a number of magazines—paper dolls, action toys, finger puppets and peek-boxes. A nation of children spent many hours playing with these imaginative creations. A change in postal regulations eventually banned such magazine inserts. The Haders were saddened by that but decided to try something new. They entered an illustrator's contest sponsored by Macmillan in the late 1920s. Louise Seaman had arranged the contest because she wanted to create a Happy Hour series. Berta and Elmer won the contest with their illustrations of The Ugly Duckling. The Happy Hour series had them illustrating Hansel & Gretel, The Little Red Hen, and others. Their book writing and illustrating career was launched.
They truly worked together passing the same piece back and forth between them. Their prolific career lasted more than forty years. Most of their titles were printed in many different languages which brings their total number of books printed to well over 100. Elmer also illustrated dust jackets, including four of John Steinbeck's (Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, The Long Valley and Winter of Our Discontent), plus he painted landscapes. Berta painted miniature portraits. Their love of life, of people, and of nature and animals showed in much of their work, as did their senses of humor and of whimsy.
Thousands upon thousands of their books sold. They were a significant and important part of the Golden Age of Children's Literature. There was a vibrancy and magnificence of detail in their work. Berta and Elmer died in the 1970s, but their legacy lives on.


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The European commission has accused Britain's home secretary of not knowing what she was talking about when she criticised new and radical plans for the sharing of refugees across the EU in response to the Mediterranean migrant boat emergency.
The commission outlined its plans on Wednesday for a new system of quotas in resettling asylum seekers still outside the EU and in redistributing more equitably those already in Europe. Britain, which is exempted from the proposed new regime unless it decides to take part, has robustly rubbished the scheme and vowed it will have no truck with it. Prior to their publication, the home secretary, Theresa May, said the EU plans would make the migration crisis worse.
Frans Timmermans, the vice-president of the European commission, said the blueprint for a new immigration system in Europe would "prompt debate and attract criticism".
But he argued that May's rejection was half-baked.
"I have the highest regard for British intelligence," he said. "But I'm not sure that Theresa May has read all the plans we have made. What will make the situation worse is doing nothing."
Inaction in the face of tragedy in the Mediterranean would destroy European credibility, he argued. "I wonder how anyone could maintain this could make the situation worse," he said.
Federica Mogherini, the EU's foreign policy chief, echoed the reproach to the home secretary after May singled her out for criticism and said the migrants crossing the Mediterranean should be turned back.
Under the Geneva conventions governing treatment of refugees, it was impossible to return those fleeing immediately, said Mogherini. "All the people we save at sea will not be turned back," she said.
In reference to May's comments, Mogherini said: "I believe there's been a little bit of misinterpretation. I don't know if intentional, probably not."
Amid a battery of policy moves on migration, many of them entailing a reinforcement of "Fortress Europe" measures to make it more difficult for economic migrants to enter the EU from north and sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, the commission proposed three big shifts on European refugee-sharing and quotas which, if realised, would constitute the beginnings of a coherent European policy on immigration.
One short-term measure was to share 20,000 migrants who have not made the Mediterranean crossing and have been identified by the UN refugee agency as qualifying for protection. This would be funded by €50m (£36m), with Brussels effectively paying countries to take in migrants according to a distribution key based on population size, national wealth, numbers of asylum seekers already present, and unemployment levels. If Britain participated, it would be allocated 2,309 of the 20,000.
The second short-term measure, the details of which follow in a fortnight, would compel the rest of the EU to help relieve the flood of migrants into Italy and Greece. No figures for redistribution have yet been agreed.
The longer term and more fundamental policy shift was to propose a permanent system for refugee redistribution whenever there is a "mass influx" into Europe. There is not yet any definition of what constitutes a mass influx and again no figures were mentioned.
The commission proposals will need to be backed by the EU's national governments by a qualified majority, which already appears assured. Germany is a strong supporter of the plans, not least because under the general quota calculations it would see its share of asylum seekers roughly halved, from more than a third of the EU total at the moment to just over 18%.
Britain, Ireland, and Denmark enjoy special exemptions on justice and home affairs policies in the EU, including asylum matters, and do not need to take part. Before seeing the detail of the legislation that will need to be tabled, the British Home Office has already flatly refused to be involved.
The UK's exclusion from the proposed new regime will have an impact on British immigration policy in ways that are not yet clear. For example, Timmermans said that to turn the proposals into a new system "we are going to have to revisit Dublin III. We are indeed going to have to revisit the system."
The EU's Dublin regulation stipulates that an asylum seeker has to lodge the claim in the first EU country he or she enters and that if the claimant applies elsewhere, he or she can be deported to the first country of entry. Britain takes part in this system and uses it to deport asylum seekers who arrived in the UK via another EU country. If the Dublin rules are changed to facilitate the new system, it is not clear whether Britain would be able to opt in to one part while opting out of the bigger element.


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Now that my contract for Spitfire is signed, sealed, and delivered (it should be there by tomorrow, I think), I decided I wanted to share the news with my 7th grade students at SMS. Here's how it went:
Me: (holding up the cd with the digital version of my manuscript on it) Before we start class, I have some really exciting news. Guess what's on this disk?
Student A: An ultrasound?
Student B: You're pregnant?
Student C: She's pregnant?
Student D: Whoa! She doesn't even look fat yet.
Me: No, No, NOOOOOOO!!
Student A: It's not an ultrasound?
Me: No.
Student C (ready to try a new idea): Did you star in a music video?
Student B: Cool!
Student C: Wicked!
Student D: Awesome!
Me: No. No video.
Students A-D: Oh.
Student B: Did you write a book or something?
Me: YES!!!
At this point, my students were friendly and kind enough to express various levels of joy at my news (even though it wasn't a music video). A couple classes clapped. (Yay!) In every class, someone asked if I was going to make a lot of money. (Well, no…) And in every class, at least one person wanted to know if they could come back next year to have their copy signed (Absolutely.)
Aside from being a lifelong personal joy, writing has been great for me as a teacher. I know how mad and lazy we can all feel when we have to revise something ("But I want to be DONE….), so I understand how my students feel on draft six. I understand how much more fun it is to slog along through the revision bog when you're not slogging alone (thanks to my online critique group and two local writer friends), and so my students often collaborate in class or through online forums to revise their writing as well. We get by with a little help from our friends….


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IT'S A ROASTER: Well. It's late August around Southern California, meaning things have been closer to scorchy than not. It may seem as if beach days will stretch out for months to come, and yet one of the fall's liveliest traditions is set to open in a matter of days. Are you ready for the word we're about to type? Of course you are; you read the headline of the post (we hope). That word is Oktoberfest, and, like all great Oktoberfests, it starts in September. And Old World Village in Huntington Beach has a way of not only starting in September but very early September. Can we all agree that Sunday, Sept. 4 is very early September? It is. So our question is this: How long before Old World Village gets the Oktoberfestian festivities going in August? Next year? The year after? Soon, we hope.
OUR OTHER QUESTIONS: Where are our brats? And dachshund races? And chicken dances? We're ready to get this party going. And it is a big'n. Old World Village's Oktoberfest has several things going down throughout its two-month, Wednesday through Sunday run, including Happy Hours and special family nights. If you're planning on hitting it before its 2011 closing date -- that's Sunday, Oct. 30 -- you'll want to check the full schedule. Oh, you're looking for oompah bands? They'll have oompah bands. Boy will they. Steins up, SoCal!


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Tea (Herbal)
Herbal Tea is a generic term for a hot beverage that uses other plant material to produce a tea other than the tea leaf (Camellia sinensis).
Herbal teas are used as a way to enjoy a hot beverage, still get antioxidants, but avoid caffeine.
In general herbal teas contain 0mg of caffeine, but because many are produced in the same factories as regular teas, some contamination can occur.
The Journal of Food Sciences recently conducted a study and tested a series of herbal teas. Here are their findings per 2 grams of common herbal teas.
|Herbal Tea Variety
|Caffeine Amount
|Orange & Spice (Bigelow)
|Chamomile (Safeway)
|Wild Raspberry (Stash)
|Trace amount
|Chamomile (Stash)
|Evening Delight Tea (Safeway)
|Peppermint (Stash)
|Peppermint Tea (Safeway)
As we can glean from the above data, some Herbal teas do have trace amounts of caffeine.
However, even for those ultra-sensitive to caffeine even .4mg of caffeine would most likely go unnoticed.
Ingredients in Tea (Herbal)
Various plant material including leaves, stems, and flowers from plants other than the Camellia sinensis plant.
Sugar content: Contains no sugar.Compare sugar levels of other drinks
Similar Items
Bazza High Energy Tea 150mg
Biggby Iced Tea 37.5mg
Brown Rice Tea 4mg
Chai Tea 50mg
Chick-fil-A Iced Tea 62mg
Crystal Light Iced Tea 11.25mg
Dunkin' Donuts Iced Tea 67mg
Caffeine Comparisons
Tea (Herbal) contains 0.00 mgs of caffeine per fluid ounce (0.00mg/100 ml).


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turned out to be a great time, but if you had asked me oh, about 2:00pm on Saturday, I would've said, nah, we're not even going.
Hubby and I obtained our freedom at noon on Saturday. The older two were dropped off at Grandma's without even a backwards glance, while Baby was safe at home with my (very own) "Manny" (aka Sis's Husband) and my Niece. (We decided that for this trip, we would divide and conquer, rather than strap our unsuspecting family members (who are now quite suspecting) with all 3 at once.)
In an attempt to taunt me, Hubby wanted to stop and look at cameras at Circuit City in Natick. But not buy one, oh no, because, remember, I shot my wad on a $200 haircut the day before...So we finished perusing in Circuit City and lo and behold, the SUV wouldn't start. It didn't even make so much as a click when Hubby turned the key. After an hour (and lots of profanity), the AAA man came and gave us a jump-start, ensuring us that it was definitely the battery, and that as long as we ran the car for 20 minutes, we'd be okay. On to Boston!
We drove right to our hotel and parked at the valet stand, and areyoukiddingme??? It wouldn't start back up again. The kind valet gave Hubby a(nother) jump (that sounds so wrong, doesn't it??) and Hubby then schlepped an hour BACK HOME to drop the SUV off at the mechanic's and to bring vehicle #2 back into Boston. As for me? Well, I wouldn't want to NOT get our money's worth on our hotel stay, right? So I headed to the hotel bar, had myself a bowl of chowdah and a few beehs and went back to the room to watch bad TV on the highly-touted (by Radisson) "Sleep Number Bed" (more on that later).
Oh, and in the meantime? Eldest was home with Grandma PUKING. He ralphed in their car (but managed to contain it in his hands and all over himself--poor buddy), and then an additional 4 more times that day. So on top of the car trouble, we were stressed about Eldest's health and whether we were being "bad" parents for not staying home.
Ok, so the alcohol erased all those doubts. Dinner was here and we had tickets to see this guy. (side-splitting hilarious!) And then we painted the town red until 2am. Rock on!
So back to the frigging Sleep Number bed. A good idea, in theory, if they WORK! Seems our remote was broken. Cut to bedtime (passout time?) Hubby's side was on the softest setting; mine was on the firmest. Therefore, I slept (so what if it was a beer-induced coma and not actual sleep...) on what felt like a slab of wood (get your minds out of the gutter please). And do you think Hubby would switch sides with me? No way--he's going to hold his grudge over the cost of my hairstyle for years to come and bring it up whenever it suits him. ("So will you switch sides of the bed with me dear?" "No...You're the one who spent $200 on her hair...therefore, you must SUFFER!") Here's my rant....as a mother of 3 who RARELY spends a night away from her boyz...when I do managed to break free for a night...I want a SPECTACULAR sleep. I want a peaceful and comfortable hotel stay. Is that too much to ask, Mr. Radisson with your stupid-ass Sleep Number beds??


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Before 2018 started, I made a prediction that Taiwanese cuisine would be next big thing in the Philippine restaurant scene. It's been seven months, so it's probably safe to say that I was wrong. Despite more people spending their holidays in Taiwan, Taiwanese food hasn't really taken off as much as I had predicted.
Nevertheless, a few Taiwanese restaurants gained traction this year, and Tien Ma's is one of them. The restaurant itself isn't new, but the original owner recently sold it to the people behind Figaro.
Even before the big change in ownership, though, Tien Ma's already had a rich history of offering authentic Taiwanese dishes. Tien Ma's was named after Tien Liyuan, a Taiwanese native who sold Xiao Long Bao in the night markets of Taipei. After retiring, she shared her secret recipe with the people who set up Tien Ma's restaurant.
That's why it comes as no surprise that Xiao Long Bao is Tien Ma's specialty. The restaurant serves four variants: the Original Xiao Long Bao, the Cheese Xiao Long Bao, the Black Mushroom w/ Truffle Oil Xiao Long Bao, and the Fried Xiao Long Bao. Each order comes with 8 pieces.
If you haven't tried any of the variants, I suggest you get the Assorted Xiao Long Bao to test which one would appeal to you best. I prefer the Original Xiao Long Bao, because of the sweet and savory broth. While each piece only had a small amount of meat, the soup was more than enough to make up for what it lacked. The dumpling skin, which is the hallmark of a well-made soup dumpling, was firm enough to hold the soup. I wouldn't say it ranks close to Paradise Dynasty's or Din Tai Fung's versions, but it's a passable version, especially for its price.
Personally, I wasn't a fan of Tien Ma's Fried Xiao Long Bao because it had thick, flavorless dumpling skin. I'm a huge fan of Suzhou Dimsum, so I don't really mind thick skin for Xiao Long Bao, but Tien Ma's version of Fried Xiao Long Bao was doughy and flavorless.
Aside from Xiao Long Bao, Tien Ma's also offers several other types of dim sum. I tried the Hakao, which could be prepared better because the crystal skin didn't hold the pieces of shrimp well enough. The Pan-Fried Pork and Shrimp Dumplings were also dry, unappetizing and were the only things that were left unfinished on our table.
One of the problems I often have with Xiao Long Bao restaurants–and I can say this about Lugang Cafe, Crystal Jade, and Din Tai Fung–is that the meal always tends to go downhill after I'm done with the dim sum.
The case is almost the same when it comes to Tien Ma's. During my first visit, I ordered Taiwan Beef Noodle Soup. I expected the broth to be completely infused with the flavor of braised beef, but it couldn't be farther from what I had expected. The soup didn't feel like it was given enough time to simmer and develop the richness it needed. The noodles showed the same lack of enthusiasm. They were soft, boring, and lacked the springiness and chewiness you'd expect from well-made noodles.
For my next visits, I tried to order a few of the mains. My favorite was the Three Cup Chicken: tender cuts of chicken thighs coated in a perfectly blended salty and savory sauce. This traditional Taiwanese dish is named as such because it's made with equal parts of soy sauce, sesame oil, and rice wine. Unfortunately, though, while the dish was delightful and well-balanced the first time I tried it, I couldn't say the same when I ordered it again on a different occasion. The Three Cup Chicken from our most recent visit was dry, bland, and quite honestly, pretty disappointing.
The other mains were also ho-hum: the Salted Egg prawns were coated with a sauce that had a pasty and unappetizing consistency, while the Mapo Tofu had too much tofu and too little sauce. It also didn't have the "Mala" flavor I was looking for. Thankfully, the weak mains were saved by the full-flavored Taiwanese fried rice.
After visiting Tien Ma's three times, I finally saw a common theme: most of the dishes would be weak, but there would be one dish that would prevent the visit from being a complete letdown. Everything was too cluttered, too inconsistent–which makes me think that Tien Ma's would likely benefit from revamping its menu. An abridged version that contains its strongest dishes would likely lead customers to become more satisfied with what the restaurant offers. I'm often anxious about eating at restaurants with extensive menus, and Tien Ma's shows me why. When you try to offer everything, you end up serving mediocre versions of a lot of things. Play to your strengths, and let them shine.
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So, a week ago I went to see Dweezil Zappa and his 'Zappa Plays Zappa' show. This is the second Zappa extravaganza I've seen in a month - the first being the full orchestral performance of the opera 200 Motels (snooty, missing-the-point review attached), finally performed over 40 years after it was cancelled by the Royal Albert Hall on the grounds of obscenity (leading to a famous court case). It took a certain amount of self-justification to attend at least the ZPZ event, simply because about a year before (following a truly excruciating Michael Nesmith gig) I'd sworn on all that's holy that I would NEVER again attend anything that could be termed a gig by a 'legacy act'. Too many disappointing shows performed by creaking old men who should know better had finally worn me down. And rock music, no matter how expertly played, is a creaky, reactionary art form at best these days. (Notable exceptions, because I'm making the rules here, would be Todd Rundgren's full performance of A Wizard, A True Star: because it had never been attempted before, and the likes of King Crimson, because they always tended to challenge audiences despite their mounting age. However having said that, their last performances in 2008 struck me as stale - something that I could never have said before). Unlike jazz, electronica, experimental music and even the classical canon, rock seems to have served a purpose which becomes more irrelevant with each passing day. Let's not try and recreate the glory of our youth, let's go out and find something new etc.
But these are the gross generalisations of an ageing hipster. To return to Zappa, I'd already seen 'The Dweez' perform at his dad's 70th anniversary shows at the Roundhouse, and while I was, of course impressed by the skill of his band, it still had a weird smell of exploitation about it. If his son is so talented, how come I don't know any of HIS tunes (he's released six solo albums, apparently)? My friend Simon Nelson argued that if DZ didn't do it, then no one would be keeping his music alive (a fact negated by the amount of FZ stuff by others on Spotify). And I have nothing but the deepest suspicion for FZ's widow, Gail, who keeps a tight rein on her late husband's back catalogue. But again, this is badly-thought out sophistry based on nothing more than vague unease and the fact that we are still waiting for the release of the Roxy DVD. She's probably a marvellous woman, and Dweezil seems like a very well-balanced, eloquent man.
Anyway… while watching the ZPZ band run through the entire Roxy And Elsewhere album, I felt a little depressed. All the right notes were going on the tape, but it was so, well… dry and academic. The band may be accomplished but you sensed that you may as well have been watching a bunch of quantum physicists discussing string theory up there on stage. The jokes were 'in-jokes' in 1974; repeated in 2013 they were 'in-in-jokes'. A bit like nerds discussing the merits of Star Trek films, it didn't seem to offer any new light on the brilliance of the composer. It was a hyper-real painting of a photograph. Skilful and pointless. But then, something happened in the second half of the show. It may have been the lager, but during the band's rendition of 'The Torture Never Stops' I was granted an epiphany.
Two things did this. Firstly, Dweezil's solo demonstrated that as a guitarist he's matured. Flash gave way to feeling and it really took flight in an unexpected way. That took me completely by surprise. Maybe I will listen to his next album...
But more important, secondly I found myself really listening to the song for the first time in years. What a truly amazing song it is, too. It contains some of Frank's finest lyrics. Best known for his scatological take on the world of a touring rock band and their sexual shenanigans, only occasionally did his words (albeit finely chosen and delightfully pithy ones) transcend the merely humorous. But, for some reason 'TTNS 'comes across as a superb palimpsest of Zappa's obsessions, his wit and his amused yet objective world view. Let's write 'em down, shall we?
Flies all green 'n buzzin' in his dungeon of despair
Prisoners grumble and piss their clothes and scratch their matted hair
A tiny light from a window hole a hundred yards away
Is all they ever get to know about the regular life in the day;
An' it stinks so bad the stones been chokin'
'N weepin' greenish drops
In the room where the giant fire puffer works
'N the torture never stops
The torture never stops
Slime 'n rot, rats 'n snot 'n vomit on the floor
Fifty ugly soldiers, man, holdin' spears by the iron door
Knives 'n spikes 'n guns 'n the likes of every tool of pain
An' a sinister midget with a bucket an' a mop where the blood goes down the drain;
An' it stinks so bad the stones been chokin'
'N weepin' greenish drops
In the room where the giant fire puffer works
'N the torture never stops
The torture never stops
The torture
The torture
The torture never stops.
Flies all green 'n buzzin' in his dungeon of despair
An evil prince eats a steamin' pig in a chamber right near there
He eats the snouts 'n the trotters first
The loin's 'n the groin's is soon dispersed
His carvin' style is well rehearsed
He stands and shouts
All men be cursed
All men be cursed
All men be cursed
All men be cursed
And disagree, well no-one durst
He's the best of course of all the worst
Some wrong been done, he done it first
(Well, well) An' he stinks so bad, his bones been chokin'
(Yeah) 'N weepin' greenish drops,
(Well) In the night of the iron sausage,
(Well) Where the torture never stops
The torture never stops
The torture
The torture
The torture never stops.
Flies all green 'n buzzin' in his dungeon of despair
Who are all those people that he's locked away up there
Are they crazy?,
Are they sainted?
Are they zeros someone painted?,
It has never been explained since at first it was created
But a dungeon like a sin
Requires naught but lockin' in
Of everything that's ever been
Look at hers
Look at him
That's what's the deal we're dealing in
That's what's the deal we're dealing in
That's what's the deal we're dealing in
That's what's the deal we're dealing in
What, on the surface is a cartoon-y vision of hell is, in fact, a metaphor for something deeply unpleasant and still part of us all. In my mind it conjures the closest thing to a musical equivalent of the comic art of S. Clay Wilson, creator of the infamous Checkered Demon. In the same way David Lynch's best work presents us with a personal inferno that is simultaneously unbearable and utterly fascinating. From Bosch to Jake and Dinos Chapman, this portrayal of eternal torment has validity that always resonates. What Frank is doing here is painting a picture of something we all share: a deeper knowledge that we all create our own hells, our own torture. Like a cynical buddhist, FZ knows that all life is suffering. The evil prince is both the eternal bad-assery that all humanity can never escape, and he's also the sickness and perversion that exists inside of all of us. That's what's the deal we're dealin' in, indeed.
As stated, it's comic book hell for Frank. Just like his predilection for cheap monster movies of the '50s, his love for the kitsch of Halloween seeps through (another good example would be 'Zombie Woof'). It's a marvellously detailed portrayal of perdition ('a sinister midget, with a bucket and a mop, where the blood goes down the drain') that's both horrifying and oddly comforting at the same time. And it's a fine demonstration that his love of words could, when he really cared, approach the condition of poetry. 'In the night of the iron sausage' is so beautifully evocative, transgressive and hilarious.
I think, ultimately, that this (along with the well-documented musicological innovation that he brought to mere 'rock') is why Zappa is still loved and actually deserves to be re-visited by other artists. He wasn't a sardonic misanthrope (or even misogynist, although the original recording of 'TTNS' does feature some disturbing vocal accompaniment by a female accomplice), but a humanist and a realist. His world view was stunted by his profession ('touring makes you crazy'), but when I listen to this song I hear the words of a man who knew that we were all monsters, and that we just needed to understand our equality in the mess we call life.
So now, if someone asks why I would go to a performance of a dead man's music, this is what I will think of. Because if you go that extra mile, and make your business the business of all mankind, then one dead man's work can truly be art. And true art never dies. Which is why NO ONE should ever go to an Oasis tribute gig. Hotcha!


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Reading a column by Margaret Renkl in the New York Times this week made me aware that we have a time capsule in our living room each holiday season — a Christmas tree and surrounding decorations just full of family memories.
Some of our ornaments and Christmas-related figures are artifacts from three generations of Schraders. My grandmother Ethel Schrader's milk pitcher holding artificial poinsettias, a Hummel figurine from my mother's collection depicting Baby Jesus in the manger, the HO-scale train running under the tree bought for our boys some 40 years ago, and a German nutcracker I bought for Kay while taking part in a NATO "broken arrow" training exercise in the mid-1980s.
Just scanning the ornaments on our tree, I find a Christmas ornament made from dough and painted by one son and two popsicle sticks forming a cross wrapped in red yarn by another. There are custom-made ornaments from our California home—Livermore, and one depicting Waterman where I was born.
Then there is the winged ear ornament representing DeKalb Ag, where my father once worked, and a school bell reminding me that my mother was a school teacher in three country schools around Waterman, and then four "town" schools in Somonauk, Hinckley, Kingston and Genoa.
Looking further up and down the tree, I find the Dallas Cowboys globe added when one son followed that team, and an Elvis photo globe, our sons' favorite pop star in their early years (and mine too).
There are some hand-painted eggs beautifully decorated by Kay's Aunt Daisy back in the 1960s, and a gift ornament from Kay's PEO chapter in California. A Union Jack ornament reminds us of our trip to England. A hand-crocheted one was made by my mother, plus several more that I don't remember who made or gave them to us. I should have kept a Christmas tree journal so our kids would know and cherish each one.
The most valuable Christmas decoration in our home is a foot-tall hand-carved angel with delicately-painted features, made by two brothers in a small Russian village north of St. Petersburg. This was given to me by a good friend in Livermore who was a scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and traveled frequently to the Soviet Union to take part in scientific exchanges.
So many of our decorations and ornaments have special meaning to us and now I realize we have a family time capsule stored in our basement that we bring out once a year and have not really understood until now its part in telling our life stories.
In sharing this, I hope other families will record the memories surrounding their Christmas keepsakes with their children and grandchildren. Put them down on paper and store them with the boxes of holiday decorations so each year the story can be retold to the younger set. Then add a memory from that year and build on the tradition.
Maybe even record the voices of your grandparents or the oldest aunt or uncle, telling about their childhood Christmas memories and what toys and ornaments they cherished that have been lost or may still be stored in their attics. Don't forget to have them talk about those big extended family holiday gatherings where relatives you only see once a year share good tidings and photos of their grandkids.
• Barry Schrader can be contacted via email at email@example.com or through P.O. Box 851, DeKalb, IL 60115. Past columns can be found on his website www.dekalbcountylife.com.


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So my exams are going on.
So I mean I was thinking – yes, because when I am supposed to be learning facts and cramming stuff that I can guarantee I will never ever need in my life, I spend my time doing seemingly more doable stuff like *pause for dramatic effect* – thinking.
So I was thinking about the things people shouldn't do so that other people don't think they're complete jerks. And after having discussed with a few friends (Pabby, Adi, Pankhu 😀 ), we present before you, a list of What Not To Do :
1. Do not say "Er my gosh… ex-ciuze me?" in a Kim Kardshian-y voice when people bump into you. I mean, I'm sorry I hurt you but I obviously did not hurt you enough to make you stop being a dick about it.
2. Do not put a price tag on every. Damn. Thing. I mean, "I bought this phone for 20k lol." It gets more useless than that, "I went to see this doctor, his fee was 850 bucks." Did. I . ASK??
3. Do NOT criticize your own country. Sheesh you pathetic asses. 😐
4.Do NOT be a grammar nazi. Seriously,
Me : Hey. Happy birtday!
Person : Thanks. Improve your english
Me : English will be spelt with a capital 'e' you pompous ass. *goes offline*
5. Do not stand in front of queues like McDonalds, whilst there are a dozen people behind you waiting for their own food, and decide what you want to eat. My friend stood behind this chic for literally five minutes before she finally decided she wouldn't be able to down large sized fries with her chicken burger.
6. If you're a teacher, do not wish students luck before the paper. I mean, "Thanks… Satan."
7. Do not tell people you're gonna flunk the test if you've studied TWELVE FREAKING HOURS for it. Don't mislead us.


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Until Monday, the eruption of Mount Agung is still observed with a thick cloud of smoke reaching a height of 2,000 to 3,400 meters. The rays of fire are visible from inside the crater.
Explosive eruptions accompanied by a weak boom sounded up to a distance of 12 kilometers (km) from the peak of the mountain by the Balinese called Tohlangkir it. The rays of the fires that are more noticeable at night, Sutopo said, indicating a major eruption was imminent.
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- The impact of the eruption of Mount Agung, rain stones began to occur
November 27, 2017, from 00:00 am to 06:00 pm, local authorities recorded Mount Agung underwent one eruption with a weak 40 second duration, one nonharmonic tremor with a duration of 1.832 seconds, a single volcanic quake in duration of 31 seconds, and three times a shallow volcanic earthquake of 7-11 seconds.
Rising in the state of luminosity, the zone covers all areas within a five kilometer radius of the crater plus sectoral expansion to the north-northeast and southeast-south-southwest as far as 10 km from the crater.