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For the first time in Maine's nearly 200-year history, state representatives have called for the governor's impeachment, claiming that Republican Gov. Paul LePage has abused his power time and again.
"I wish we didn't have to do this, but unfortunately the governor put us in a position through his actions and his behavior that we have no other alternative. We have to go forward with this and we must hold him accountable," Rep. Ben Chipman, (D) of Portland, told local ABC affiliate WMTW. Representative Chipman is the sponsor of LePage's impeachment order, which Maine reps are expected to debate on Thursday.
That order summarizes eight charges of misconduct, from using threats to rescind the Speaker of the House's part-time job offer at a charitable organization to conducting a secret investigation of the Maine Human Rights Commission. LePage is also accused of preventing state officials from testifying and using state assets to force a college president's resignation.
"We have a broad pattern of abuse of power," Independent Rep. Jeff Evangelos told WGME.
But many believe that, despite a long history of crude speech, shaky approval ratings, and questionable dealings, LePage will weather the political storm yet again.
The infamously brash Mr. LePage has a penchant for rejecting "the norms of civility," as Colby College public affairs expert Dr. Dan Shea told the Associated Press. Last week, comments that drug-dealing "guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie and Shifty" were coming to Maine to impregnate "young white" women landed him in national hot water, but LePage has a long history of offending, often with allegedly racist remarks.
He's also "joked" about blowing up a Maine newspaper and admits that he threatened to cut off a charter school's funding if the parent organization hired the current House speaker, Mark Eves.
As of October, 32 percent of Mainers approved of LePage, and only 17 percent thought the state was headed in the right direction.
"How on earth did one of America's least popular and most divisive governors get reelected?" Politico asked when he won a second term in 2014.
But the LePage's "actions speak louder than words" mindset – an official campaign slogan – has won over voters (although never a majority) who worry about the state's struggling economy and local issues. While he's cut funding for social programs, LePage can point to his own difficult background, which included homelessness, to claim he knows what's best.
LePage has called the impeachment campaign "frivolous." While many in the state legislature may not agree, that doesn't mean they'll give the majority vote needed to move forward and create an impeachment investigation.
Many say the campaign is futile, since a Republican-controlled Senate would likely kill the motion, which would need two thirds of Senate votes to pass. But even in the Democrat-majority House, party leaders are wary of supporting it, although House majority leader Jeff McCabe is developing a resolution to scold LePage for his drug-dealer remarks.
"They haven't been crazy about it. I guess they're worried it's going to hurt the Democrats' ability to work with Republicans," sponsoring Rep. Chipman told the Atlantic. But Chipman also noted that the two parties have had to cooperate more recently, in order to override gubernatorial vetoes.
Lawmakers have also had a difficult time pinpointing the legal problems with some of LePage's heavy-handed actions. While he openly says he threatened Good Will-Hinckley charter school into rescinding their job offer to Eves, for instance – now the subject of a lawsuit – an earlier investigation did not determine if those threats were illegal.
Whispers of impeachment have swirled around LePage before, as the Eves hiring scandal unfolded. Asked for comment in June, LePage told reporters, "it's a free country. They can do whatever they want."

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Make a wish when you tie on this bracelet and keep it on every day. When the bracelet naturally wears away over time, your wish will come true! A great gift for women of all ages. Personalize the gift based on color or message.
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Three to See Saturday: Lucette free concert, Rocky Horror and Ben Sures
Lucette free show: NPR recently streamed Edmonton indie pop singer Lucette's album Deluxe Hotel Room, produced by Grammy-winning American country musician Sturgill Simpson. On her sophomore album, the singer turns her title phrase into a metaphor for experiences both highly specific and widely familiar: fleeting romance, emotional displacement, isolation, the gulf between the presumed glamour of the artist's life and the reality of getting by. Come see what all the hype is about at this free show at the sweetest new-release record store in town!
Details: 6:30 p.m. at Blackbyrd Myoozik (10442 82 Ave.), no charge
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975): Let's do the Time Warp again! The adventure begins where it always does, as newly engaged Brad and Janet encounter car trouble in rainy weather. When they stop to look for help, they find themselves at the castle of the charming transvestite, Dr. Frank-N-Furter. They're offered shelter for the night, but will they want to stay? Audience participation is encouraged. Dress up, bring props, and sing along! Banned props: large water guns, glitter style confetti, hot dogs, prunes, lighters/open flames, buttered/jammed toast. (Prop kits also available in the lobby for $10 if you're just that lazy.)
Details: 10 p.m. at Metro Cinema (8712 109 St.), $16 at metrocinema.org
The Ben Sures Three: For his return to The Blue Chair Ben is accompanied by Edmonton singing royalty Stephanie Suchy and Winnipeg based upright bassist Lindsey Woolgar. They will be playing an overview of songs, focusing on fan favourites from all of his albums. Ben's music is an eclectic mix of story songs, roots, folk and blues music. His live shows are lots of fun, plenty of stories and back and forth with the audience. Highly recommended!
Details: 8:30 p.m. at The Blue Chair (9624 76 Ave.), $15 at bluechair.ca, call 780-989-2861 to reserve a table


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4 July
1636 – City of Providence, Rhode Island, was formed.
1754 – Lieutenant Colonel George Washington is compelled to surrender "Fort Necessity" to a French task force from Fort Duquesne (present day Pittsburgh). Washington had been dispatched by Virginia's governor with a mixed force of soldiers of the Virginia Provincial Regiment and Virginia militiamen to remove the French from Duquesne which was located in an area claimed by colonial government. When his advanced was blocked by the French Washington had his troops build a quickly constructed log fort in hopes of holding the French at bay. However, he was soon surrounded and forced to surrender. The French commander granted him the "honors of war" by allowing him to march out with colors flying, retaining one piece of artillery and with his men under arms. This rebuff of the claim by Virginia, and by extension Britain, to this area led directly to the outbreak of war between France and Britain in 1756. Known in Europe as the Seven Year's War in American it's more popularly called the "French and Indian War." The men serving in the Virginia Provincial Regiment were full-time paid soldiers, mostly enlisted from the county militias. They were paid and equipped by the colony and used to garrison small outposts and patrol its western frontier. It was one of the first "professional" military organizations in British North America.
1776 – The Continental Congress approved adoption of the amended Declaration of Independence, prepared by Thomas Jefferson and signed by John Hancock–President of the Continental Congress–and Charles Thomson, Congress secretary, without dissent. However, the New York delegation abstained as directed by the New York Provisional Congress. On July 9, the New York Congress voted to endorse the declaration. On July 19, Congress then resolved to have the "Unanimous Declaration" inscribed on parchment for the signature of the delegates. Among the signers of the Declaration of Independence, two went on to become presidents of the United States, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
1776 – The Declaration of Independence was signed by president of Congress John Hancock and secretary Charles Thomson. John Hancock said, "There, I guess King George will be able to read that." referring to his signature on the Declaration of Independence. Other signers later included Benjamin Rush and Robert Morris. Of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, eight were born outside North America.
1777 – John Paul Jones hoists first Stars and Stripes flag on Ranger at Portsmouth, NH.
1785 – The first Fourth of July parade was held in Bristol, Rhode Island. It served as a prayerful walk to celebrate independence from England.
1796 – 1st Independence Day celebration was held.
1800 – The Marine Band played at Tun Tavern, Philadelphia, in their first public appearance.
1801 – First Presidential Review of U.S. Marine Band and Marines at the White House.
1802 – The United State Military Academy opened its doors at West Point, New York, welcoming the first 10 cadets.
1804 – Staging the first-ever Fourth of July celebration west of the Mississippi River, Lewis and Clark fire the expedition cannon and order an extra ration of whiskey for the men. Six weeks earlier, Lewis and Clark left American civilization to depart on their famous journey. Since their departure, the party of 29 men–called the Corps of Discovery–had made good progress, traveling up the Missouri River in a 55-foot keelboat and two dugout canoes. When the wind was behind them, Lewis and Clark raised the keelboat sail, and on a few occasions, managed to travel 20 miles in a single day. By early July, the expedition had reached the northeastern corner of the present-day state of Kansas. The fertility of the land astonished the two leaders of the expedition. Clark wrote of the many deer, "as plenty as Hogs about a farm," and with his usual creative spelling, praised the tasty "rasberreis perple, ripe and abundant." On this day in 1804, the expedition stopped near the mouth of a creek flowing out of the western prairie. The men asked the captains if they knew if the creek had a name. Knowing none, they decided to call it Independence Creek in honor of the day. The expedition continued upstream, making camp that evening at an abandoned Indian village. To celebrate the Fourth of July, Lewis and Clark commanded that the keelboat cannon be fired at sunset. They distributed an extra ration of whiskey to the men, and the explorers settled back to enjoy the peaceful Kansas night. In his final journal entry of the day, Clark wondered at the existence of, "So magnificent a Senerey in a Contry thus Situated far removed from the Sivilised world to be enjoyed by nothing but the Buffalo Elk Deer & Bear in which it abounds & Savage Indians." The next day, the travelers resumed their journey up the Missouri River toward the distant Pacific Coast. They would not pass by their pleasant camping spot in Kansas again until their return journey, two years and many adventures later.
1819 – The Territory of Arkansas was created.
1826 – John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the second and third presidents of the United States, respectively, die on this day, the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Both men had been central in the drafting of the historic document; Jefferson had authored it, and Adams, who was known as the "colossus of the debate," served on the drafting committee and had argued eloquently for the declaration's passage. After July 4, 1776, Adams traveled to France as a diplomat, where he proved instrumental in winning French support for the Patriot cause, and Jefferson returned to Virginia, where he served as state governor during the dark days of the American Revolution. After the British defeat at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781, Adams was one of the negotiators of the Treaty of Paris that ended the war, and with Jefferson he returned to Europe to try to negotiate a U.S.-British trade treaty. After the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, Adams was elected vice president to George Washington, and Jefferson was appointed secretary of state. During Washington's administration, Jefferson, with his democratic ideals and concept of states' rights, often came into conflict with Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, who supported a strong federal government and conservative property rights. Adams often arbitrated between Hamilton and his old friend Jefferson, though in politics he was generally allied with Hamilton. In 1796, Adams defeated Jefferson in the presidential election, but the latter became vice president, because at that time the office was still filled by the candidate who finished second. As president, Adams' main concern was America's deteriorating relationship with France, and war was only averted because of his considerable diplomatic talents. In 1800, Jefferson's Democratic-Republicans (the forerunner of the Democratic Party) defeated the Federalist party of Adams and Hamilton, and Adams retired to his estate in Quincy, Massachusetts. As president, Jefferson reduced the power and expenditures of the central government but advocated the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France, which more than doubled the size of the United States. During his second administration, Jefferson faced renewed conflict with Great Britain, but he left office before the War of 1812 began. Jefferson retired to his estate in Monticello, Virginia, but he often advised his presidential successors and helped establish the University of Virginia. Jefferson also corresponded with John Adams to discuss politics, and these famous letters are regarded as masterpieces of the American enlightenment. By remarkable coincidence, Jefferson and Adams died on the same day, Independence Day in 1826, the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Adams' last words were, "Thomas Jefferson still survives," though his old friend and political adversary had died a few hours before.
1831 – James Monroe, 5th President of the United States, died in New York City at age 73, making him the third ex-President to die on Independence Day.
1832 – The song "America" was sung publicly for the first time at a Fourth of July celebration by a group of children at Park Street Church in Boston. The words were written on a scrap of paper in half an hour by Dr. Samuel Francis Smith, a Baptist minister, and were set to the music of "God Save the King."
1834 – President Andrew Jackson ordered green and buff as the Corps' uniform colors.
1836 – The territorial government of Wisconsin was established.
1842 – First test of electrically operated underwater torpedo sinks gunboat Boxer.
1848 – The Communist Manifesto was published.
1848 – The Cornerstone of the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. was laid by President Polk. The white marble obelisk, which is 555 feet tall and 55 fee square at the base, was not completed until 1184. The public was admitted to the monument on October 9, 1888.
1850 – President Zachary Taylor stood hatless in the sun for hours listening to long-winded speeches. He returned to the White House and attempted to cool off by eating cherries, cucumbers and drinking iced milk. Severe stomach cramps followed and it is likely that Taylor's own physicians inadvertently killed him with a whole series of debilitating treatments. Taylor died July 9.
1861 – Union and Confederate forces skirmished at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
1862 – Battle at Green River, Ky. (Morgan's Ohio Raid).
1862 – U.S.S. Maratanza, Lieutenant Stevens, engaged C.S.S. Teaser, Lieutenant Davidson, at Haxall's on the James River. Teaser was abandoned and captured after a shell from Maratanza exploded her boiler. In addition to placing mines in the river, Davidson had gone down the river with a balloon on board for the purpose of making an aerial reconnaissance of General McClellan's positions at City Point and Harrison's Landing. By this time both Union and Confederate forces were utilizing the balloon for gathering intelligence; Teaser had been the Southern counterpart of U.S.S. G. W. Parke Custis, from whose deck aerial observations had been made the preceding year. The balloon, as well as a quantity of insulated wire and mine equipment, were found on board Teaser. Six shells with "peculiar fuzes" were also taken and sent to Captain Dahlgren at the Washington Navy Yard for examination.
1863 – Boise, Idaho, was founded.
1863 – The Confederacy is torn in two when General John C. Pemberton surrenders to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Vicksburg. The Vicksburg campaign was one of the most successful campaigns of the war. Although Grant's first attempt to take the city failed in the winter of 1862-63, he renewed his efforts in the spring. Admiral David Porter had run his flotilla past the Vicksburg defenses in early May as Grant marched his army down the west bank of the river opposite Vicksburg, crossed back to Mississippi, and drove toward Jackson. After defeating a Confederate force near Jackson, Grant turned back to Vicksburg. On May 16, he defeated a force under John C. Pemberton at Champion Hill. Pemberton retreated back to Vicksburg, and Grant sealed the city by the end of May. In three weeks, Grant's men marched 180 miles, won five battles, and took 6,000 prisoners. Grant made some attacks after bottling Vicksburg, but found the Confederates well entrenched. Preparing for a long siege, his army constructed 15 miles of trenches and enclosed Pemberton's force of 29,000 men inside the perimeter. It was only a matter of time before Grant, with 70,000 troops, captured Vicksburg. Attempts to rescue Pemberton and his force failed from both the east and west, and conditions for both military personnel and civilians deteriorated rapidly. Many residents moved to tunnels dug from the hillsides to escape the constant bombardments. Pemberton surrendered on July 4, and President Lincoln wrote that the Mississippi River "again goes unvexed to the sea." The town of Vicksburg would not celebrate the Fourth of July for 81 years.
1863 – General Lee's army limped toward Virginia after defeat at Gettysburg. 28,063 of 75,000 confederate soldiers were lost. General Meade's army suffered 23,049 soldiers killed, wounded and missing.
1863 – Paul Joseph Revere, US grandson of Paul Revere, Union brig-gen, died from wounds at Gettysburg.
1863 – Failed Confederate assault on Helena, Arkansas, left 640 casualties.
1863 – Skirmish at Smithburg, TN.
1864 – U.S.S. Hastings, Acting Lieutenant J. S. Watson, engaged Confederate sharpshooters on the White River above St. Charles, Arkansas. Lieutenant Commander Phelps, embarked in the 300-ton, 8-gun Hastings, commented in his report to Rear Admiral Porter: "I had been at a loss to know how we should celebrate the Fourth, being underway and having so much of a convoy in charge, but this attack occurring about noon furnished the opportunity of at once punishing the enemy and celebrating the day by firing cannon." It had been a year before, on 4 July 1863, that Union forces had commemorated Independence Day with decisive victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, the latter pivoting on the Union Navy. With control of the Western waters assured, the North was certain of victory."
1872 – John Calvin Coolidge (d.1933) 30th President of the United States (1923-29), was born in Plymouth, Vermont. Calvin Coolidge, also known as 'Silent Cal,' was a Republican; Vice President from 1921-23 and succeeded to the Presidency on the death of Warren Harding in 1923; elected President in 1924 and served a full term. He was especially known for his economy of language. A lady dinner companion during his presidency told him she had a bet she could get him to say more than two words; he replied: "You lose." "Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good."
1875 – White Democrats killed several blacks in terrorist attacks in Vicksburg, Miss.
1884 – The Statue of Liberty was presented to the United States in ceremonies at Paris, France. The 225-ton, 152-foot statue was a gift from France in commemoration of 100 years of American independence. Created by the French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, the statue was installed on Bedloe Island (now Liberty Island) in New York harbor in 1885. It was dedicated on October 28, 1886.
1894 – The Provisional Government under Judge Stanford B. Dole declared Hawaii a republic.
1898 – A US flag was hoisted over Wake Island during the Spanish-American War.
1901 – William H. Taft, later the 27th president of the United States, became the American territorial governor of the Philippines. Taft soon appointed Prof. Bernard Moses secretary of public instruction for the Philippines. Taft, who had been solicitor general of the U.S. under President Benjamin Harrison, was a federal circuit court judge when President William McKinley appointed him to serve as president of the U.S. Philippines Commission in 1900-01. Later in 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt named Taft the first civil governor of the Philippines Islands, a post he held for four years. Roosevelt named Taft secretary of war in 1904. A Republican, Taft was president from 1909 to 1913 and Supreme Court Chief Justice from 1921 to 1930. He was born in 1857 and died on March 8, 1930, shortly after his resignation from the court.
1902 – Pres. Roosevelt officially ended the Philippine-American War. Estimates for the civilian people killed ranged from 250,000 to 1 million. Creighton Miller in 1982 published "Benevolent Assimilation," a comprehensive account of the conflict.
1916 – Tokyo Rose, (Iva Toguri D'Aquino), was born in Los Angeles. She did propaganda broadcasts against the U.S. from Japan during World War II.; imprisoned after the war, then received presidential pardon in 1977.
1917 – During a ceremony in Paris honoring the French hero of the American Revolution, US Lt. Col. Charles E. Stanton declared, "Lafayette, we are here!"
1926 – The NSDAP (Nazi) party formed in Weimar.
1942 – Irving Berlin's musical review "This Is the Army" opened at the Broadway Theater in New York.
1942 – 1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW II). US air offensive against Nazi-Germany began. Six American planes join a RAF squadron attacking airfields in Holland.
1943 – On New Georgia, US forces advancing from Zanana to Munda encounter heavy Japanese resistance. The Japanese land 1200 troops from 3 destroyers at Vila on Kolombangara.
1944 – Attacks by the US 7th and 8th Corps (parts of US 1st Army) continue. The Canadian 3rd Division (part of British 2nd Army) captures the village of Carpiquet, west of Caen, but cannot secure the airfield.
1944 – 1,100 US guns fired 4th of July salute at German lines in Normandy.
1944 – Elements of US Task Force 58 attack Guam Island with carrier aircraft.
1944 – Elements of US Task Force 58 attack Chichi Jima Island with carrier aircraft.
1944 – Elements of US Task Force 58 attack Iwo Jima Island with carrier aircraft.
1944 – Japanese made their first kamikaze (god wind) attack on a US fleet near Iwo Jima.
1945 – On Mindanao, the US 24th Division organizes an amphibious expeditionary force to liberate Sarangani Bay, in the south of the island, south of Davao. Filipino guerrilla forces assist in clearing out the Japanese pockets of resistance.
1946 – The Philippines became independent of U.S. sovereignty. The Philippines, which officially became a territory of the United States in 1902, gained its independence. In 1932 a movement to implement Philippine independence began to grow. The Tydings-McDuffie Act of 1934, providing for independence after 12 years, was unanimously accepted and a Philippine constitution approved by President Roosevelt in February 1935. Manuel Quezon was elected the first president of the Philippines on September 17, 1935. In 1937 a Joint Preparatory Commission on Philippine Affairs was established by Roosevelt to recommend a program for economic adjustment. The Republic of the Philippines was inaugurated.
1950 – General MacArthur informed the communists that the U.N. expected all prisoners of war to be well treated.
1959 – A 49-star flag was raised for the first time at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., in honor of Alaska which had become the 49th state in the Union on July 7, 1958.
1960 – The 50-star flag made its debut in Philadelphia. A 50th star was added to the American flag in honor of Hawaii's admission into the Union on August 21, 1959.
1963 – Gen. Tran Van Don informs Lucien Conein of the CIA that certain officers are planning a coup against South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. Diem, who had been supported by the Kennedy administration, had refused to make any meaningful reforms and had oppressed the Buddhist majority. Conein informed Washington that the generals were plotting to overturn the government. President John F. Kennedy, who had come to the conclusion that the Diem government should no longer be in command, sent word that the United States would not interfere with the coup. In the early afternoon hours of November 1, a group of South Vietnamese generals ordered their troops to seize key military installations and communications systems in Saigon and demanded the resignation of Diem and his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu. Diem was unable to summon any support, so he and Nhu escaped the palace through an underground passage to a Catholic church in the Chinese sector of the city. From there, Diem began negotiating with the generals by phone. He agreed to surrender and was promised safe conduct, but shortly after midnight he and his brother were brutally murdered in back of the armored personnel carrier sent to pick them up and return them to the palace. Kennedy, who had given tacit approval for the coup, was reportedly shocked at the murder of Diem and Nhu. Nevertheless, U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge called the insurgent generals to his office to congratulate them and cabled Kennedy that the prospects for a shorter war had greatly improved with the demise of Diem and Nhu.
1968 – The radio astronomy satellite Explorer 38 launched.
1970 – 100 were injured in race rioting in Asbury Park NJ.
1976 – The nation held a 200th anniversary party across the land in celebration of America's 200 years of independence. President Ford made stops in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, Independence Hall in Philadelphia, and New York, where more than 200 ships paraded up the Hudson River in Operation Sail.
1976 – A government program was begun in 1937 to provide American flags, certified to have flown over the capital, to the public. Each flag was provided a certificate with the date it was flown and the name of the person for whom it was flown. By 1998 the program average 250-300 flags per day with a peak of 10,471 flown on July 4, 1976, and a record of 154,224 flown in 1991.
1982 – The space shuttle Columbia 4 concluded its fourth and final test flight with landing at Edwards AFB.
1987 – Discovery moved to Launch Pad 39B for STS-26 mission.
1994 – The United States opened its embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, with a Fourth of July party.
1994 – Cutters assigned to Operation Able Manner, which commenced under presidential order on 15 January 1994, rescued 3,247 Haitian migrants from 70 grossly overloaded sailboats in the Windward Passage. They rescued a total of 15,955 during the month of July, 1994.
1995 – The space shuttle "Atlantis" and the Russian space station "Mir" parted after spending five days in orbit docked together.
1997 – After traveling 120 million miles in seven months, NASA's Mars Pathfinder becomes the first U.S. spacecraft to land on Mars in more than two decades. In an ingenious, cost-saving landing procedure, Pathfinder used parachutes to slow its approach to the Martian surface and then deployed airbags to cushion its impact. Colliding with the Ares Vallis floodplain at 40 miles an hour, the spacecraft bounced high into the Martian atmosphere 16 times before safely coming to rest. On July 5, the Pathfinder lander was renamed Sagan Memorial Station in honor of the late American astronomer, and the next day Sojourner, the first remote-control interplanetary rover, rolled off the station. Soujourner, which traveled a total of 171 feet during its 30-day mission, sent back a wealth of information about the chemical components of rock and soil in the area. In addition, nearly 10,000 images of the Martian landscape were taken. The Mars Pathfinder mission, which cost just $150 million, was hailed as a triumph for NASA, and millions of Internet users visited the official Pathfinder Web site to view images of the red planet.
1999 – In Puerto Rico anti US Navy protests drew some 50,000 people.
1999 – In Russia troops were forced to delay their departure for Kosovo after NATO blocked air corridors on their route.
2001 – The US counter-terrorism group run by Richard Clarke sent a memorandum to Condoleeza Rice, national security advisor, that described a series of steps that the White House had taken to put the nation on heightened terrorist alert. It noted that all 56 FBI field offices were tasked in late June to go to increased surveillance and contact informants related to known or suspected terrorists.
2002 – Hesham Mohamed Hadayet (41), an Egyptian-born 10-year resident of Irvine, opened fire at Israel's El Al airline ticket counter in Los Angeles' airport. Victoria Hen and Yaakov Aminov were killed before Hadayet, born July 4, 1961, was shot to death by a guard.
2002 – American warplanes bombed an Iraqi air defense system after coming under attack from Iraqi anti-aircraft artillery.
2002 – Benjamin O. Davis Jr. (89), leader of the all-black Tuskegee Airmen during World War II and the first black general in the Air Force, died in Washington.
2003 – President Bush visited Dayton, Ohio, to praise the work of U.S. troops and celebrate the 100th anniversary of flight in the hometown of the Wright brothers.
2003 – US forces raided a Turkish special forces office in northern Iraq and detained 11 soldiers on reports that Turks were plotting to kill the governor of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk.
2003 – A voice purported to be Saddam Hussein's, aired on the Arab television station Al-Jazeera, said he is in Iraq directing attacks on American forces and called on Iraqis to help the resistance against the US-led occupation.
2003 – Liberia's President Charles Taylor, under US pressure to quit, said he had agreed to step down. A senior Nigerian official said Taylor had accepted an offer of asylum.
2004 – In NYC a 20-ton slab of granite, inscribed to honor "the enduring spirit of freedom," was laid at the World Trade Center site as the cornerstone of the skyscraper that will replace the destroyed towers.
2004 – The Army's 1st Armored Division stowed its flags and prepared to head home after the longest tour in Iraq of any American combat command — 15 months.
Congressional Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
Rank and organization: Major, 1st West Virginia Cavalry. Place and date: At Monterey Mountain, Pa., 4 July 1863. Entered service at: Washington, D.C. Born: 1883, Conemaugh Township, Cambria County, Pa. Date of issue: 7 April 1898. Citation: While commanding the regiment, charged down the mountain side at midnight, in a heavy rain, upon the enemy's fleeing wagon train. Many wagons were captured and destroyed and many prisoners taken.
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company B, 50th Massachusetts Infantry. Place and date: At Port Hudson, La., 4 July 1863. Entered service at: Rockport, Mass. Born: 3 November 1842, Bristol, Maine. Date of issue: 2 November 1895. Citation: Voluntarily exposed himself to a heavy fire to get water for comrades in rifle pits.
Rank and organization: Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, 6th U.S. Cavalry. Place and date: At Patian Island, Philippine Islands, 4 July 1909. Entered service at: Orangeburg, S.C. Birth: Hendersonville, S.C. Date of issue: Unknown. Citation: While in action against hostile Moros, he entered with a few enlisted men the mouth of a cave occupied by a desperate enemy, this act having been ordered after he had volunteered several times. In this action 2d Lt. Kennedy was severely wounded.
Rank and organization: Second Lieutenant, 6th U.S. Cavalry. Place and date: At Patian Island, Philippine Islands, 4 July 1909. Entered service at: Springfield, Ill. Birth: Springfield, Ill. Date of issue: Unknown. Citation: While in action against hostile Moros, when, it being necessary to secure a mountain gun in position by rope and tackle, voluntarily with the assistance of an enlisted man, carried the rope forward and fastened it, being all the time under heavy fire of the enemy at short range .
Private First Class William K. Nakamura distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism in action on 4 July 1944, near Castellina, Italy. During a fierce firefight, Private First Class Nakamura's platoon became pinned down by enemy machine gun fire from a concealed position. On his own initiative, Private First Class Nakamura crawled 20 yards toward the hostile nest with fire from the enemy machine gun barely missing him. Reaching a point 15 yards from the position, he quickly raised himself to a kneeling position and threw four hand grenades, killing or wounding at least three of the enemy soldiers. The enemy weapon silenced, Private First Class Nakamura crawled back to his platoon, which was able to continue its advance as a result of his courageous action. Later, his company was ordered to withdraw from the crest of a hill so that a mortar barrage could be placed on the ridge. On his own initiative, Private First Class Nakamura remained in position to cover his comrades' withdrawal. While moving toward the safety of a wooded draw, his platoon became pinned down by deadly machine gun fire. Crawling to a point from which he could fire on the enemy position, Private First Class Nakamura quickly and accurately fired his weapon to pin down the enemy machine gunners. His platoon was then able to withdraw to safety without further casualties. Private First Class Nakamura was killed during this heroic stand. Private First Class Nakamura's extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit on him, his unit, and the United States Army.
Private First Class Frank H. Ono distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism in action on 4 July 1944, near Castellina, Italy. In attacking a heavily defended hill, Private First Class Ono's squad was caught in a hail of formidable fire from the well-entrenched enemy. Private First Class Ono opened fire with his automatic rifle and silenced one machine gun 300 hundred yards to the right front. Advancing through incessant fire, he killed a sniper with another burst of fire, and while his squad leader reorganized the rest of the platoon in the rear, he alone defended the critical position. His weapon was then wrenched from his grasp by a burst of enemy machine pistol fire as enemy troops attempted to close in on him. Hurling hand grenades, Private First Class Ono forced the enemy to abandon the attempt, resolutely defending the newly won ground until the rest of the platoon moved forward. Taking a wounded comrade's rifle, Private First Class Ono again joined in the assault. After killing two more enemy soldiers, he boldly ran through withering automatic, small arms, and mortar fire to render first aid to his platoon leader and a seriously wounded rifleman. In danger of being encircled, the platoon was ordered to withdraw. Volunteering to cover the platoon, Private First Class Ono occupied virtually unprotected positions near the crest of the hill, engaging an enemy machine gun emplaced on an adjoining ridge and exchanging fire with snipers armed with machine pistols. Completely disregarding his own safety, he made himself the constant target of concentrated enemy fire until the platoon reached the comparative safety of a draw. He then descended the hill in stages, firing his rifle, until he rejoined the platoon. Private First Class Ono's extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit on him, his unit, and the United States Army.
Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company B, 7th Infantry Regiment, 3d Infantry Division. Place and date: Near Chich-on, Korea, 4 July 1951. Entered service at: Honolulu, T.H. Birth: Honolulu, T.H. G.O. No.: 83, 3 September 1952. Citation: Sgt. LeRoy A. Mendonca, distinguished himself by conspicuous gallantry above and beyond the call of duty in action against the enemy. After his platoon, in an exhaustive fight, had captured Hill 586, the newly won positions were assaulted during the night by a numerically superior enemy force. When the 1st Platoon positions were outflanked and under great pressure and the platoon was ordered to withdraw to a secondary line of defense, Sgt. Mendonca voluntarily remained in an exposed position and covered the platoon's withdrawal. Although under murderous enemy fire, he fired his weapon and hurled grenades at the onrushing enemy until his supply of ammunition was exhausted. He fought on, clubbing with his rifle and using his bayonet until he was mortally wounded. After the action it was estimated that Sgt. Mendonca had accounted for 37 enemy casualties. His daring actions stalled the crushing assault, protecting the platoon's withdrawal to secondary positions, and enabling the entire unit to repel the enemy attack and retain possession of the vital hilltop position. Sgt. Mendonca's extraordinary gallantry and exemplary valor are in keeping with the highest traditions of the U.S. Army.
Rank and organization: Private First Class, U.S. Marine Corps, 2d Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division (Rein), FMF. Place and date: Quang Nam Province, Republic of Vietnam, 4 July 1967. Entered service at: Cleveland, Ohio. Born: 27 September 1948, Wellsville, Ohio. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as a machine gunner attached to the 1st Platoon, Company F, 2d Battalion, on 3 and 4 July 1967. Pfc. Newlin, with 4 other marines, was manning a key position on the perimeter of the Nong Son outpost when the enemy launched a savage and well coordinated mortar and infantry assault, seriously wounding him and killing his 4 comrades. Propping himself against his machinegun, he poured a deadly accurate stream of fire into the charging ranks of the Viet Cong. Though repeatedly hit by small-arms fire, he twice repelled enemy attempts to overrun his position. During the third attempt, a grenade explosion wounded him again and knocked him to the ground unconscious. The Viet Cong guerrillas, believing him dead, bypassed him and continued their assault on the main force. Meanwhile, Pfc. Newlin regained consciousness, crawled back to his weapon, and brought it to bear on the rear of the enemy, causing havoc and confusion among them. Spotting the enemy attempting to bring a captured 106 recoilless weapon to bear on other marine positions, he shifted his fire, inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy and preventing them from firing the captured weapon. He then shifted his fire back to the primary enemy force, causing the enemy to stop their assault on the marine bunkers and to once again attack his machinegun position. Valiantly fighting off 2 more enemy assaults, he firmly held his ground until mortally wounded. Pfc. Newlin had single-handedly broken up and disorganized the entire enemy assault force, causing them to lose momentum and delaying them long enough for his fellow marines to organize a defense and beat off their secondary attack. His indomitable courage, fortitude, and unwavering devotion to duty in the face of almost certain death reflect great credit upon himself and the Marine Corps and upheld the highest traditions of the U.S. Naval Service.


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Little did I know back in 2007 that my grandfather had been rich and lost everything to gambling twice!
That's what I found during my search for my ancestors. I always thought my father's parents were poor.
Not quite.
That man told me.
I wrote about it on this post.
You can read it and read the next few posts.
I will see you next time.
There is a sequel to all this.


text: The date has officially been set for a community meeting and rally to learn about and discuss the proposed high voltage power line which is slated to cross Calhoun County. The rally will be held at the Arnoldsburg Community Building in Calhoun County, WV on Friday, October 17th beginning at 7:00pm with guest speakers, information, a petition to sign, and some great free entertainment. There will be bluegrass music from 7:00 to about 8:30 featuring local favorite John Truman, and an as yet un-named local rock band will finish the evening out from approximately 9:30 to 11:00. Donations will be taken happily to defray expenses. Mark this on your calendars. This could be our chance to help set a "green" precedent for the rest of the country.


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U.S. Men's National Team
Fabian Out, Benny In as Desperate Yanks Scramble
October 01, 2017
DEANDRE YEDLIN is healthy again, and will no doubt line up at right back as the United States men's national team plays two absolutely critical World Cup qualifers in the next week-and-a-half.
Before you get too excited about that piece of information, keep in mind that John Brooks (injury) and Fabian Johnson (coach's decision) were left off the squad, while a recovering Geoff Cameron will be shaking off considerable rust as the Yanks fight for their World Cup lives.
Think the defense is OK? You might want to think again. Eric Lichaj, now a sub with Nottingham Forest, and Timothy Chandler, who has fallen out of favor with the national team, did not make the roster. Neither did Gold Cup contributors Matt Hedges, Matt Miazga, and Justin Morrow. Michael Orozco, DaMarcus Beasley, and Graham Zusi did.
Tim Howard's ongoing struggles with the Colorado Rapids suggest the veteran may watch from the sidelines.
It's a big mess, people.
"Yedlin has been playing now over the past couple of weeks," Arena said, "and Cameron played 90 minutes this weekend, which is a good sign. We'll see what they look like when they come into camp."
Yes, we'll see. Here is the roster.
Brad Guzan (Atlanta United FC), Tim Howard (Colorado Rapids), Nick Rimando (Real Salt Lake)
DaMarcus Beasley (Houston Dynamo), Matt Besler (Sporting Kansas City), Geoff Cameron (Stoke City), Omar Gonzalez (Pachuca), Michael Orozco (Club Tijuana), Tim Ream (Fulham), Jorge Villafana (Santos Laguna), DeAndre Yedlin (Newcastle United), Graham Zusi (Sporting Kansas City)
Kellyn Acosta (FC Dallas), Juan Agudelo (New England Revolution), Paul Arriola (D.C. United), Alejandro Bedoya (Philadelphia Union), Michael Bradley (Toronto FC), Benny Feilhaber (Sporting Kansas City), Dax McCarty (Chicago Fire), Darlington Nagbe (Portland Timbers), Christian Pulisic (Borussia Dortmund), Gyasi Zardes (LA Galaxy)
Jozy Altidore (Toronto FC), Clint Dempsey (Seattle Sounders), Chris Wondolowski (San Jose Earthquakes), Bobby Wood (Hamburg)
"It's a roster we've selected that we believe will give us success in these next two games," Arena added. "We have a pretty balanced roster with experienced players and if any issues arise, I think we have cover in all positions. We need to anticipate some issues with players with injuries, as well as suspensions."
Arena, known for his no-nonsense approach to dealing with players and the media, seemed to be in spin mode as he announced the roster.
"In 2017 we've had one blip—in the Costa Rica game. All the other results went along as we expected, and maybe even an extra point in Mexico. I think if it comes down to where we need four or six points in our last two games, I think that's fine and we'll get it done."
"The players always give the commitment, that's never an issue. The issue is whether or not we get the results we need, and I think we're positioned to do that. When I took the job last November, if you said to me, "[If] you'd be in position in game nine to play a game at home that you had to win, would you take that? I would say 'Yes.'
Fair enough. But a win against Panama on Friday doesn't necessarily resolve anything. If the Americans finish third in the Hexagonal, they book a ticket to Russia. If they end up in fifth, they miss out. A fourth-place finish means the U.S. will face either Syria or Australia with a World Cup berth on the line.
You can scrutinize the different scenarios here, but the upshot is that the Americans absolutely need a win against Panama on Friday.
What do you think of the roster, and the Yanks' chances? Share your take below.


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Hello readers, here's a personal message from your friend, Trace.
This week has been a pretty fantastic one thus far. I've got a new apartment to sign a lease on, may have found a cat to help me occupy said apartment, and I became the newest member of the GeekBeat.tv & WebBeat.tv blogging team – the company is called Livid Lobster.
Thank you, thank you. Be looking out on WebBeat and GeekBeat for possible mention of my stories and you can always go to either site and find posts I've written! To watch GeekBeat go to Revision3 or subscribe on iTunes, to watch WebBeat subscribe on iTunes and I might even post on OneMansBlog!
I'll do my best to keep updating here, though as I often write about technology, social media and other cool web trends and issues, it will be tough to keep me from putting those on the Livid Lobster blogs. We'll have to wait and see. It's going to be an interesting February, which is good, as last February was #SnOMG, #Snomageddon, and #Snopocalypse all in a row. Regardless, I'll do my best to blog here, there and everywhere!
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Apparently, If you are a Commissioner of Education, the answer is YES! Lies abound from the offices of NYSED.
The lies are scary – intended, one can only imagine, to stop the recent vocal resistance through REFUSALS of the State Exams slated to begin in mid-April. The good folks at WNYers For Public Education ( http://www.wnyforpubliced.com/index.html) have done a great job of exposing the lies told to Superintendents, Principals, Teachers and Parents. (See FAQ)
They have also created a great "Tools" section which includes what_you_need_to_know_about_refusing_state_tests.
As a teacher, let me tell you one of the BIGGEST lies being told, being bought, and being argued as PROOF that we actually NEED and should LOVE High Stakes Testings. The lie is that:
"These tests and the results help teachers inform and improve their instruction for all children."
My beautiful, funny, intelligent, inquisitive, creative first graders have taken both the STAR Reading and the STAR Math tests twice this year, unless of course, they have been "identified" as needing intervention – those poor kids have taken the tests MANY, MANY times. After the test, each student's score is available to me immediately, you know, so that I can inform and improve my instruction. For my convenience, there is even an "Instructional Planning Report" for each child! Well, hallelujah, because you know – without it I wouldn't have a clue where each child has room to improve!
These are direct quotes, taken from multiple "planning reports" for both Reading and Math:
"Understand that nouns can also be verbs" "Identify the topic of a text" "Recognize playful uses of language such as riddles and tongue twisters" "Identify how words or phrases in literary text appeal to the senses" "Apply the vocabulary of position or direction" " Count back by ones between 20 and 100″ "Count objects to 20"
Guess what?? I already know those things about the students that these comments were generated for! I knew most of it within the first month of school, and I could have predicted for the makers of the STAR tests, which of my students would score in the "watch" "intervention" or "urgent intervention" bands of their lovely color-coded charts. Additionally, I have already planned my instruction based on my DAILY INTERACTION with my students!
For those who teach grades 3 and up, the idea that a test score helps them plan and inform instruction is even more laughable. Test scores are not returned until mid-summer – by then isn't it just a little too late to plan instruction?


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ball addiction
So in Canada my uncle Blue, the standard poodle, has major issues with balls. Me personally, they are ok, fun to chew on, and ok to chase for a while, but Blue my gosh, he is ADDICTED!! He always has one in his mouth, begging for someone to throw it, and he will NOT leave you alone until you do. Then once you do, don't dare stop.
I sware that dog has issues.
And I loved to toy with him. Here are some pics of me teasing Blue by stealing his balls and giving them a good chew while he watches in agony!!
Bahahhahah !!!
And its not like he has only one ball, he has literally a dozen or more, and everytime I touched one, he wanted it for himself….
I sure know what to send Blue for Christmas!!! 🙂


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Last Easter I was fortunate enough to spend a day at the Secret Garden Outdoor Nursery in Fife. It was one of those magical days which remain etched in my memory for many reasons. I was particularly bowled over by the numerous examples of literacy happening spontaneously. Very often, this is a concern raised by educators and parents... are the core skills being covered such as maths and language and if so, how, when children are playing in the woods?
There are many practical activities which precede literacy acquisition. The model in the above photo is an example of a miniature world carefully created by two children. They were totally absorbed in creating this for more than an hour. This sort of activity helps children understand and create settings when developing stories.
Many thanks to Cathy Bache, Lesley, Morven and all the children at the Secret Garden for making myself and Siw and Magnus Linde welcome in their woods. May your voices always be heard in the woodlands and beyond. May your story be listened to and your song sung now and in the future.
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Hi Brenda - If you like, I can send you my html code and you can repost the blog - as long as you state that it's a guest blog from myself. I'm just going to have a look at your blog - it's always good to meet other bloggers especially those blogging about children, nature and the outdoors.
this is a great way to connect reading with nature. so many ideas going through my heart -and head to share with my kids at work! thanks for sharing an encourging letter. I teach art in nature classes and have a blog to encourage parents to get outside and play with the children. would love to add this idea too!
Isn't that wonderful and encouraging. I feel what is important is that in all walks of life there are ambassadors for getting children outside. So in many ways, whatever someone ends up doing, they can influence others in little or big ways.
It certainly is. I will follow your blog in the future. I like how you place a positive emphasis on allowing children to roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty. I have raised four kids that way and even now, as adults, they still love the outdoors. My eldest, who is an accountant, will say he is really a farmer at heart.
Thanks ELizabeth - I have a blog, I'm a teacher, get me OUTSIDE here! where I post regularly. But this post I thought was especially relevant for others on this C&NN site.
What great examples of how nature can spark a love of learning. Thanks for sharing this.


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If, like me, you are totally sick of turkey after eating nothing else for the past week, then this should be the perfect antidote. A twist on everyone's favourite dish, spaghetti bolognese, this uses roasted vegetables to give a delicious flavour and an awesome texture, and the paprika also gives a depth of flavour that you don't find in regular bolognese sauce. It should be very healthy, although you might want seconds!
Leftover bolognese should be fine to reheat for around three days if kept in the fridge, or around a month if frozen.
Tip: I've kept this recipe very simple, but if you wanted to add extra vegetables then mushrooms or grated carrot, cooked with the mince, would go very well.
Serves: five people.
Cost per person: £0.82 (price based on Tesco Value ingredients).
- 400g beef mince
- 2 peppers
- 1 large onion
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1 can (400g) chopped tomatoes
- 3 tsps paprika
- 2 tsps mixed herbs
- Salt and pepper, to season
- Vegetable oil, for frying
1) Preheat the oven to 180C, and heat a pan drizzled with oil in the oven.
2) Slice the peppers into thick strips and the onion into quarters, and place in the hot oil, making sure they are coated on all sides. Cook for around 15-20 minutes, until they are starting to crispy at the edges.
3) Chop the garlic and fry with the mince for around 5 minutes, until browned.
4) Add the chopped tomatoes and season with paprika, mixed herbs, salt and pepper. Simmer for 10-15 minutes.
5) Once the onion and peppers are cooked, remove from the oven. The onion should have separated into strips, but pull it apart if it hasn't.
6) Add the vegetables to the sauce and simmer for 2 minutes.
7) Serve with pasta or spaghetti and enjoy!


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Named in 2000 as one of the 100 Graduates Who Shaped the Century by the U of T Alumnae Association, NOW magazine editor/CEO and co-founder/owner Alice Klein draws on her experience in politics, business and psychology to focus on issues related to archetypal evolution and the global economy. She is NOW's founding news editor, and the editor of NOW's annual Love & Sex Guide.
Klein is also a documentary producer, director and writer (2007's Call of the Hummingbird) and along with being a founding member of Green Enterprise Toronto (GET), and one of the co-creators of VoteforEnvironment.ca, she sits on the Boards of the Centre for Social Innovation, the Toronto Arts Council (TAC) and Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE).
Klein credits her first generation immigrant roots for the ability to do a lot with very little that has been fundamental to NOW's success from the very beginning.
Her lifelong passion for social change was awakened when, as a young child in Philadelphia, she was horrified by the inner city's slum conditions. Her connection to the cultural vanguard also started early. When she moved to Toronto in 1959, her U of T musicologist stepfather immediately founded one of the first electronic music studios in the world.
An anti-war activist and feminist pioneer while still in high school, Klein got her editing start in a crusading publication, the Velvet Fist, in 1971. Her first essay on working women in turn of the century Toronto was published as a Toronto Book Award winner while she was still an undergraduate at the University of Toronto.
Klein first worked with Michael Hollett as a participant in student politics and the campus newspaper while she was a social history graduate student at York University. These seemingly impractical pursuits paid off in spades a few years later when she undertook to shape and develop NOW's heavy-hitting and iconoclastic news section.
Facing the challenges of being an employer and a mother of two has led Klein to broaden her passion for social change to include the exploration of inner peace. As an accomplished writer for the paper, she continues to draw on her experience in politics, business and psychology to focus on issues that are relevant both locally and internationally. As its CEO, Klein combines a strikingly creative approach to problem solving with a hard-nosed and highly detailed financial appreciation of publishing.
Klein's commitment to community, culture and the environment have been a decisive force in shaping NOW Magazine's evolution as a publication that is both leading edge and enormously well-read.


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Winter took forever to show itself, and now it has, which is wonderful, the correlating flu season, is not wonderful and it seems to be hitting hard, so far still safe! Bone broth and Elderberry, and staying out of crowds is my game plan. This broth came from an amazingly delicious locally raised turkey. When I walked up with the farmer to get the turkeys out of his barn freezers, he said, "you want some turkey necks"? I guess many people say no to this, but to me he said do you want some gold? "How much", I asked? He said, "just take them, I don't know what to do with them all". I walked away with my 2 local turkeys and a mammoth bag of turkey necks which, when raised by my Mama, means SOUP! I was very excited about the prospect of so much bone broth. These jars were turkey broth from our yummy bird. I still have oodles of broth to make from the turkey necks!
The drive into our farm has changed so much over the years. These trees, 21 years ago, were like sticks, they were so little, being a girl from the suburbs, I had no idea that those tiny "sticks" would fill in so nicely in just 21 years, totally changed the landscape and for the better! He has vision, that I just don't have because he grew up in this life, and I learn so much from him.
This was taken prior to, what really was just our second good snow all year. Hubs left me well set with wood, to keep the house warm, before he went off to help his folks for a while.
So…I am doing a bit of flying solo, while Hubs is gone. Ironically we finally got a snowy month, and it started the day after he departed! Since it wasn't too windy, my flannel sheet covering the wood pile helped a lot, I just shake the snow off it when I go out to restock the supply for the fire in the house. Very nice to see dry wood underneath.
Then this happened. It takes just the right type of snow for this to happen, but the net over the chicken run filled with so much snow that it was hanging to about 4 feet off the ground. I needed a hat and two hoods for this job or else it would all go down my jacket, not what I wanted! I used our wide snow shovel upside down and just kept bouncing it till it all came off, I'm pretty sure I accumulated about 4 inches of snow on my hood, but the job was done, and I am hoping this next snow coming might be a different variety of snow flakes that don't stick again! This goes in the category of, "sometimes when you wake up you just don't know what you may be doing that day". Jumping up and down with an upside down shovel dumping snow on my head, was not really on my radar when I woke up that morning.
This is our road, almost to our house, I couldn't be happier to see Winter in all it's finery, I thought it might never happen this year, however, seems that February is going to try and make up for our January lackluster snowfall. This makes me a pretty happy camper. Planning a garden, when it doesn't even remotely look like Winter, is a big disappointment, but February pulled through and garden planning is happening. This year the garden plan is to focus on the fences, and grow all I can on the fences so I maximize actual garden space! Cucumbers, and Tomatoes, two things that really take up a lot of space will all be grown on the garden fences, which are made of cattle panels. We will just attach another panel higher up on the tomato side so we can adequately trellis them. I am now working on balance out there, last year there were things I had too much of, and things I couldn't fit and wished I could, so garden planning is taking a new direction this year, more on this soon.
Today I am looking forward to a visit from my Sister. We are truly the story of the City Mouse and the Country Mouse. I love visiting her condo, in the sky in Chicago, it is spectacular. She loves visiting our big farm and doing the country thing. It's a special time for us when we have time together, just two Sisters together on a snowy weekend, of course I have plenty of soup for us:)
Enjoying Winter, every morsel!


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Trevor Stewart Extends Championship AMA Big 6 WCGP points lead with dominant victory!
Thank you to the Viewfinders MC who put on a great Grand Prix. The racers were treated to an overnight rain shower that left course conditions epic for Sunday's AMA BIG 6 WCGP pro race. Lap times were approximately 11 min 40 sec for a race that lasted just over 1 and a half hours. The course was fast and twisty, with sand and hardpack mix, including traditional GP features such as paved sections, MX jumps, desert whoops and sandy berms. JCR/Honda's Trevor Stewart dominated the field, rounding the first corner in third place he outpowered the field on his Gage Day prepped CRF450RX. Trevor, managed the entire 1.5hr plus, winning by a 25-sec margin.
In the same event, JCR/Honda's Tarah Gieger took her CRF250R to the top box in the women's pro division. Preston Campbell raced the 250 Pro class aboard his CRF250R snagging a top 5.
"Trevor and the entire team did an impeccable job this weekend. Trevor has taken the next step in his race craft and showed great maturity. I would like to thank our crew for the hard work and focus. We are one step closer to clinching the WCGP championship!"
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A Recent Post from the Shape Of Love documentary film blog:
She was visiting for the summer and met him at the lake.
It was goose bumps and sun.
It was moon and stars and skin.
It was out of the ordinary.
It was a summer romance.
Maine has got to be one of the best settings on earth for a summer romance. How many hundreds of thousands (maybe millions?) has Maine hosted over the last 200 years…from stories like this one at a summer camp, to hometown love stories to visitor meets local in an idyllic Maine place for a peak season romance.
What makes a summer romance out of the ordinary, aside from bare feet in the moonlight, is its fated nature. A summer romance is self-contained; it starts when the rest-of-the-year's "ordinary" is left behind for a dive into the extraordinary. It ends when it's time to return to whatever version of ordinary waits on the other side: going home, going back to school, going off to work, going away.
One of my all-time favorite movies, Grease, starts when a summer romance between its two main characters has just ended. Set in the summer of 1958, it was built on a premise I'm wondering about as I work on the Shape Of Love film.
In Grease, Danny and Sandy didn't know anything about each other's "ordinary" except that she was from away and he was a local. They were free to be extraordinary, in part because the summer of 1958 offered them the space to explore, test, try, invent, learn, share and be in their romance. They were influenced by their "ordinary" but not defined by it or tethered to it.
I'm thinking a lot about that as I compare summer romances before and after digital connectivity. Connectivity puts a mighty spin on the phrase, "no strings attached." In a connected world in "connected" summers, what do the invisible strings do to the space and freedom to explore, test, try, invent, learn, share and be?
Is the premise and the possibility of summer romance what it used to be?
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Researching Maine summer romances, I'm reminded that endings come in all kinds of emotional flavors. To finish on a good one, I'm pleased to report I've heard many happy endings that go something like this, "The summer ended, but the romance didn't!" Looking forward to exploring flavors and themes and sharing stories about summer romance in the film.
When I looked up Grease to see what year the movie came out (1978), I saw that a prequel is in production which will show the story of Danny and Sandy's summer romance (we got to hear his-and-her versions of it through the song, Summer Nights, in the original). No coincidence, the name of the new movie takes a cue from the song!


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Aug 27, 2007 (CIDRAP News) – The full results of a trial of GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK's) H5N1 influenza vaccine were released recently, showing that the vaccine in combination with an adjuvant produced an acceptable immune response at a low dose and may provide cross-protection against nonmatching H5N1 strains.
Writing in the Aug 18 issue of The Lancet, Isabel Leroux-Roels and colleagues reported that the lowest dose of adjuvanted vaccine, 3.8 micrograms (mcg), induced immune responses after two doses that met or exceeded all US and European criteria for vaccine licensing. Further, more than 75% of volunteers who received this low dose of adjuvanted vaccine, based on a clade 1 H5N1 virus, were shown to have neutralizing antibodies against a clade 2 strain. Equal doses of the vaccine with no adjuvant yielded significantly weaker responses.
The new report fleshes out preliminary results that GSK released in July 2006 and March 2007. The British company's 2006 report raised hopes that adjuvants could substantially boost the supply of prepandemic H5N1 vaccines by reducing the amount of antigen (active ingredient) needed in each dose. Several vaccine trials have shown that the hemagglutinin, or H, component of the H5N1 virus triggers a weak immune response in humans, so vaccines must contain relatively large amounts of it.
Seasonal flu shots typically contain 15 mcg of antigen for each of three flu strains, about four times as much as the lowest dose in the GSK vaccine trial. The first H5N1 vaccine licensed in the United States, made by Sanofi Pasteur, required two 90-mcg doses to induce a good immune response in about half of volunteers. With an adjuvant, the vaccine was shown to induce a good immune response in about two thirds of volunteers who received two 30-mcg doses.
The Lancet report describes, apparently for the first time, GSK's proprietary adjuvant. It is described as an oil-in-water–based emulsion, with the oil portion containing DL-alpha-tocopherol, or vitamin E, and squalene, an oil found in some fish oils, and the water portion containing a small amount of polysorbate 80, a nonionic detergent.
The vaccine used in the study was a split-virus formulation derived from a clade 1 H5N1 strain isolated from a Vietnamese patient in 2004. The trial was conducted in Ghent, Belgium, and involved 400 healthy men and women between the ages of 18 and 60. The volunteers were randomly assigned to receive one of eight vaccine formulations—3.8, 7.5, 15, or 30 mcg, with or without adjuvant. Each person received two doses, 21 days apart.
The researchers assessed humoral immunity by measuring hemagglutination-inhibition (HI) antibody titers and also testing for the presence of antibodies that could actually neutralize the H5N1 virus in the lab.
All eight vaccine formulations were well-tolerated, and no serious adverse events were reported. Pain at the injection site was the most common symptom in all groups but was more common in those who received the adjuvanted vaccine. General symptoms such as fatigue and headache also tended to be more common in the adjuvant group.
The adjuvanted preparations induced significantly stronger immune responses than the nonadjuvanted preparations at all doses, the report says. The 3.8-mcg dose with the adjuvant yielded HI antibody titers of 1:40 or higher in 84% (95% confidence interval [CI], 70.9% to 92.8%) of volunteers and fourfold increases in neutralization titers in 86% (95% CI, 72.8% to 94.1%). Without adjuvant, 3.8 mcg of vaccine induced similar results in only 16% and 37% of vaccinees. Even at the highest dose, 30 mcg, vaccine without adjuvant triggered similar HI titers and increases in neutralization titers in only 43% and 65% of vaccinees, respectively, the report says.
After the second dose, a significant dose-response effect was seen in those who received vaccine without the adjuvant but not in the adjuvant group.
After two doses, the adjuvanted vaccine at all dose levels met the European Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) and the US Food and Drug Administration criteria for seroconversion and seroprotection, the report says. The unadjuvanted formulaton met the CHMP criteria only at the 30-mcg dose level.
To test the vaccine's ability to induce cross-protection against different H5N1 strains, the investigators assessed the generation of antibodies to an H5N1 virus derived from one isolated from an Indonesian patient in 2005 (a clade 2 virus). They found that after two doses, between 20% and 32% of vaccinees in the adjuvant groups generated protective HI titers, versus none of those in the nonadjuvanted groups. The neutralization assay showed a much stronger response, with 67% to 77% of those in the adjuvant groups showing a protective response, compared with less than 9% in the other groups. Mean titers of neutralizing antibodies were five to six times higher in the adjuvant groups than in the nonadjuvant groups.
The researchers write that the cross-clade neutralizing antibody responses imply that the vaccine could be used before the emergence of a pandemic caused by an H5N1 strain. "However, further analyses are warranted to confirm whether it could also confer high degrees of cross-protection against other pandemic drift strains," they add.
In an editorial in The Lancet, two flu experts who were not involved in the GSK vaccine trial hailed the findings as important progress.
The study "is the first to show significant antigen dose-sparing, high levels of immunogenicity in association with a novel adjuvant, and the induction of cross-clade immunity against A/H5N1 viruses," wrote Suryaprakash Sambhara of the Influenza Division at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Gregory A. Poland of the Mayo Vaccine Research Group at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
The findings suggest that the number of prepandemic vaccine doses could be stretched 20- to 25-fold, as compared with the 90-mcg dose required for the FDA-approved H5N1 vaccine, according to Sambhara and Poland. "This vaccine appears to be an important step forward in our ability to protect against the pandemic threat posed by highly pathogenic influenza A/H5N1 viruses," they add.
John Treanor, MD, a flu vaccine researcher and professor of medicine, microbiology, and immunology at the University of Rochester, said the key message of the results is that the adjuvant made a major difference in the immune responses.
"What has been demonstrated is that with the adjuvant you can use very low doses of hemagglutinin, which are as good as or better than what you see with higher doses of antigen without adjuvant," Treanor told CIDRAP News. The enhanced antibody response creates the possibility of cross-protection against nonmatching strains, he added.
He also said the report is helpful in that it describes the formulation of the GSK adjuvant, "so people know what they're talking about."
This study and several others "have, I think, demonstrated very convincingly that oil-and-water emulsions which contain squalene are a very good adjuvant for pandemic flu vaccines," he added.
Treanor said oil-and-water adjuvants were used as long ago as the 1950s. "I think the advance is that the formulation with squalene gives them a better toxicity profile," he commented, adding that the lack of serious side effects is an important finding.
But he stopped short of calling the GSK vaccine the most promising H5N1 vaccine tested so far. That's hard to judge, he said, "because none of these studies really compare vaccines of different types with each other," he said.
Also, he said, "There's a general problem in the field in that the assays are not very well standardized between labs, which complicates making comparisons between studies."
As for the idea that vaccines like GSK's could be used before a pandemic emerges, Treanor commented, "I think the balance of professional opinion is that we should hold off on vaccinating till there's a pandemic emerging. Not everyone agrees, but most think the best bet is to keep them in a stockpile." One reason for that, he said, is the swine flu episode of 1976, in which millions of Americans were vaccinated to prepare for a flu pandemic that never materialized.
Leroux-Roels I, Borkowski A, Vanwolleghem T, et al. Antigen sparing and cross-reactive immunity with an adjuvanted rH5N1 prototype pandemic influenza vaccine: a randomized controlled trial. Lancet 2007 Aug 18;370:580-9 [Abstract]
See also:
Mar 6 CIDRAP News story "Glaxo H5N1 vaccine may work against multiple strains"
Jul 26, 2006, CIDRAP News story "Glaxo says its H5N1 vaccine works at low dose"


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The Boston Marathon bombing was one of the biggest U.S. tragedies. It's shocking how a great city would face something so horrible. Leaving hundreds of people injured and three dead, it's a moment that none of us will ever forget, like with 9/11.
Unlike Patriots Day, where the main focus is taking down the terrorists, Stronger, the second movie about the bombings, focuses on one of the survivors' road to recovery. Known for making mainstream comedies (Pineapple Express, The Sitter) and independent dramas (George Washington, Prince Avalanche, Joe), this is the first real-life drama from director David Gordon Green.
Based on his memoir of the same name, Jeff Bauman (Jake Gyllenhaal) is an ordinary, everyday guy from Boston. He works at the local Costco and is big sports fan. One thing he is looking forward to is seeing his girlfriend Erin (Tatiana Maslany) run in the Boston Marathon. Jeff waits for her at the finish while holding a sign for her until the bombs detonate. After losing both of his legs, he begins fighting for his life. With the support from his parents and Erin, he tries to walk again. This time, with prosthetics.
This movie would have gone into sappy territory, but what Green and screenwriter John Pollono give the audience something inspiring and powerful. Gyllenhaal has delivered some phenomenal performances–from his first lead role in October Sky to his Oscar-nominated turn in Brokeback Mountain to becoming dark in Nightcrawler. His performance as Bauman is one of his absolute best. Becoming a symbol of "Boston Strong", he has the special opportunity to be introduced in front of thousands of fans while waving a flag at the Bruins game, or throwing the first pitch at the Red Sox game.
Most importantly, he wouldn't be anywhere without his girlfriend. In one particular scene, Jeff and Erin have an argument in the car about being there for one another. When she walks out on him, he crawls to the glass door, knocking on it, so Erin can come out. Then, he experiences flashbacks of the aftermath of the bombing. We see him lying on the ground, with his legs blown off, with the other spectators in agony. This is a heart-wrenching scene that makes the audience feel as if they are part of the incident.
With a strong supporting cast, Gyllenhaal and Maslay are the ones who carry it through with its raw true-story. Stronger is, by far, the best film about the Boston marathon bombing. Here's to one hundred more.


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Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the impact of feeding consumers of varying degree of doneness preferences steaks cooked to multiple degrees of doneness on their perceptions of beef palatability.
Study Description: Paired Low Choice frozen steaks from the posterior half of the strip loin were randomly assigned a degree of doneness of rare (140°F), medium-rare (145°F), medium (160°F), medium-well (165°F), or well-done (170°F). Consumer panelists, prescreened to participate in panels based on their degree of doneness preference, were served steak samples cooked to each of the five degrees of doneness under low-intensity red incandescent lighting to mask any degree of doneness differences among samples. Next, consumers were served steak samples under white incandescent lighting, with white fluorescent background lighting. Pre-screening consumers for degree of doneness preference allowed for a measure of the impact of "missing" the consumer's ideal degree of doneness and quantification of the impact of both undercooking and overcooking steaks on consumer beef palatability ratings.
Percentage change in consumer sensory ratings between the red- and white-lighted testing to assess the impact of undercooking and overcooking steaks.
abcde Means within the same sensory characteristic without a common superscript differ (P < 0.05).
The Bottom Line: When steaks are overcooked, palatability ratings decrease; however, undercooking has a positive effect on palatability perception regardless of the consumer's degree of doneness preference.
View full research report by authors L. L. Prill, L. N. Drey, J. L. Vipham, M. D. Chao, J. M. Gonzalez, T. A. Houser, E. A. Boyle, and T. G. O'Quinn at https://newprairiepress.org/kaesrr/vol5/iss1/.


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How to Become a Professional Gambler in 2020
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Becoming a professional gambler should not be on top of your priorities list.
Gambling professionally is risky, and the vast majority of those who decided to try gambling as a career end their adventure with less money than when they started.
In this article, I want to share with you some of the most important lessons I learned in the 15 years I spent in the gambling industry.
From the Casinos on Las Vegas Strip to the fancy halls of Montecarlo, from the midnight spaghettata at the Casino Sanremo to the astonishing collection of lobsters, Kobe beef, and black truffles at King's Casino — l believe I have a thing or two to tell you about gambling.
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You ended up on this page because you want to know how to become a professional gambler. My goal here is to make you change your mind. Or, if I don't succeed in my primary mission, I hope to at least open your eyes on what means to gamble professionally.
If you think becoming a professional gambler means you are going to make a fortune at the Blackjack or Roulette table, think again.
Winning money is only the result of what pro gamblers do.
The glam of big chip stacks and big online bankrolls is just the eye-catching result of a problematic multi-step process that requires time, dedication, and luck.
Professional gambling is like an iceberg — and money is just the tip of a massive mountain of ice that hides underwater.
For how unoriginal it might sound, I am going to use the iceberg metaphor to explain how to become a professional gambler and all the skills you need to acquire if you are serious about gambling professionally.
The Truth about Professional Gambling
Before we touch on elements like discipline, bankroll, and game selection — let me be clear about something: the vast majority of players lose money at the Casino.
Gambling is a legitimate form of entertainment, not an easy way to make quick money or a natural alternative source of income. The Casinos prosper thanks to an almost fail-proof business model that sees you spending money on games that you are not likely to win.
If you don't know what I mean, think about the Strip in Las Vegas ( if you have never been to Nevada, you can use Google Maps). Everything you see is built on the losses of players who did the wrong thing.
Inexperience, intuition and lucky guesses cost the vast majority of players a very high price, and you need to learn how to be better than them.
To become a professional gambler, whether you do it to earn money in the long term or to be a better player, means to understand the games and the odds behind them.
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Hollywood movies want you to think that card counting in Blackjack is a surefire solution to all your financial problems and that you need only an analytical mind and a few math formulas to beat the house and win a lot of money.
That's not how gambling works.
This article is the first step to turn the Casino odds in your favour and help you avoid the most common mistakes Casino players make. Use the pieces of advice you find here, study as much as you need to, and you'll be ready to live gambling in a completely different way.
A Note on Problem Gambling
According to the National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG), "Approximately two to three percent of Americans meet the criteria for problem gambling," meaning there's a total of about 6,5 million people who should not gamble — in the United States alone.
Problem gambling is real and you need to take it seriously.
According to Lifeline Australia, "problem gambling is when betting starts to create trouble in your life, such as debt; relationship problems; loss of a job; stress or depression; or it gets in the way of being a good parent."
I love gambling and I love to spend a good night out at the Casino or to fire up a live dealer game on my computer when I am at home. But I also know that this isn't healthy for everyone.
Do yourself a favour: before you start the process to become a professional gambler, try this three-minute test on problem gambling by Psycom. Answer to all the questions, read the results and let them help you understand if you should become a professional gambler or not.
The House Shall Always Win
There's a reason why professional gambler Kevin Blackwood calls this "the Casino's first commandment" in his book Card Games for Dummies."
Unlike it happens in professional sports where all teams start with equal chances to succeed, in gambling the Casino always has an advantage over the player.
The size of this advantage (the 'house edge') depends on the game you play. Craps is one of the games with the lowest house edge — provided you know how to play and how to avoid the wrong bets.
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Pro gamblers know that a correct game selection is crucial and that they can't play a game 'just because they like it'. Picking the right game is vital to get good chances to succeed at the table, and that's why you need to learn the specificities of each game on the Casino floor.
If you are not familiar with the differences between all the games you can play, I suggest you read this article on the Casino games with the best odds.
House Edge of the Most Popular Games
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|Video Poker
|Pai Gow Poker
|Three-Card Poker
|Let It Ride
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Set Goals for Each Session
Choosing the right games to play is only the beginning of your adventure as a pro gambler. Not only you need to know what to play — you need to know also why you play it.
Connecting your gambling sessions to specific goals is important and, with time, not as difficult as it seems.
Setting goals in gambling means to identify the amount of money you aim to win and can afford to lose every time you play. Some players set global goals per session ("I want to win $500, I can afford to lose $300") while others connect a specific goal to each of the games they play to play.
There isn't a right way to do this. I guess that game-specific goals can confuse beginners too much and is best for pro gamblers — but this is just my personal opinion and should not influence your decision.
You should set the goal you prefer, making sure that:
- The Upper Limit (the money you want to win) is big enough for you to care and yet realistic enough to be achievable
- The Lower Limit (the money you can afford to lose) is small enough for you to be able to lose it without this causing financial or psychological issues of any kind
To be successful means to be ready for the worst-case scenario, not just for the best one. While I am sure you know what you could buy with the jackpot win you have been eyeing for a while, have you ever taken the time to think about what happens if you don't win?
Bankroll Management Is Everything
You know what games to play, and you know that you want to get from A to B (but you calculate that there could be a diversion that takes you to C), so the question now is: how much should you play?
Setting goals isn't enough to succeed and to call yourself a professional gambler. At least not until you learn to manage your bankroll as pro gamblers do.
I have written plenty on the subject and I suggest you have a look at this guide to bankroll management in gambling if this concept is foreign to you. Otherwise, here's a bunch of actionable tips you can follow to become a pro at this:
- Get yourself a prepaid credit card to use only to gamble online (Skrill and N26 are two great options
- Set a monthly limit to the money you can gamble and upload that sum to the card
- Every time your balance exceeds that amount, move the extra cash into a savings account
This is the only way to make sure you will keep your winnings, and you won't be tempted to use the profits of one session to counterbalance the losses of another one.
Remember: gambling professionally exposes you to huge swings, so you always need to focus on the long-term. That's the only way to manage your bankroll effectively and to make sure a cold streak doesn't ruin months of hard work.
Know Yourself and Respect Your Emotions
You won't be able to gamble like a robot — not even if you try. To become a successful pro gambler, you need to become familiar with your emotional state, and you need to respect the way you feel at any given moment.
External factors can alter your emotions and have deadly consequences on your results. If something isn't going well in your life and your mind is not clear — you should not gamble.
Applying the right game and betting strategies requires a level of focus that you can't have if you are distracted by something else.
Respecting your emotions also means that you need to pay attention to how the results of your games influence the state of your mind. If you realise that big wins make you too euphoric and big losses make you willing to bet more 'to get back on your feet' — stop.
Don't lie to yourself, thinking you can ignore your emotions. Whenever you realise that your mind isn't clear enough to provide a logical explanation to each bet you place, stop and get some rest.
My Personal Tip: Download Calm
I find that a bit of meditation every day can go a long mile. That's why I am an avid user of Calm, a lovely little app that I keep on my iPhone and that reminds me that sometimes I need to sit down, relax, and detach from everything that I'm doing.
A great way to help your mind to perform at its best is to include some physical exercise in your day and take care of your body as you do of your mind and your bankroll.
Every professional Poker player I met in my life (from Phil Ivey to Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu) spend a significant amount of time on their diet and their gym plan. That's because the only way they have to make some real money come their way is to make sure they can always perform at their best — and, as the Romans used to say, "Mens sana in corpore sano1."
Study All the Top Strategies
Last, but not least, let's talk about strategies. Whether you play a card game or sit at the Roulette table — all the games offer something different.
To get the best possible result at every Casino game you play, from Slots to Baccarat, you need to know what are the top strategies other professional gamblers use and what are the betting patterns you should follow or avoid.
This is a rather tricky part of your journey to becoming a professional gambler, and it connects to your knowledge of each game and of mathematics.
The articles below help you learn how to play each of the most popular Casino games and show you both basic and advanced winning strategies to approach them like a pro gambler.
- Blackjack Strategy Guide
- Roulette Strategy Guide
- Baccarat Strategy Guide
- Craps Strategy Guide
- Caribbean Poker Strategy Guide
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