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My husband hates any kind of meat on the bone, so when football season rolls around, and I want to order/cook wings, I am on my own in eating them. He requires boneless wings (which lets face it, is a glorified chicken nugget). So as a compromise, I was inspired by Jaques Pepin's tutorial on creating chicken lollipops. While a Chicken Lollipop is still technically on the bone, you can literally just bite off the meat in one bite without having to navigate the bone at all…in fact the bone is more of a serving element like a fork in this application. The lollipops seem to be the only way the hubbs and I can compromise on wings, so they have been my go-to for football season.
I have been making these wings for the past few months, always coating them in cornstarch and deep frying them, but yesterday I came across a technique for tossing them in baking powder and then baking them. The recipe suggested that the chicken comes out super crispy on the outside, but juicy and tender on the inside – and I can tell you that this was in fact true…and I actually liked the result better than when I've deep fried them. Note that the recipe calls for baking POWDER not baking SODA – super important distinction!
I was so excited with the healthier results of not having to deep fry, that I needed to share this recipe.
Please also watch the video link posted below the recipe to see how Jaques Pepin creates these amazing chicken lollipops out of the wings of a chicken – it will clear up any questions you may have in my recipe's explanation of how to do this.
Also note, that the tip of the wing is not used to eat but would be great for stocks or Brodos!
Buffalo Chicken Lollipops
Baked Chicken Lollipops coated in the perfect Buffalo Sauce - Crispy and tender!
Click here to see how my Chef inspiration, Jaques Pepin, debones a whole chicken, but more importantly, in the first minute he shows you how to make chicken lollipops from the wings! This is how I learned how to do it!
The wings separated into drumettes and flats.
The drumettes and flats are made into lollipops and then coated in the baking powder.
The wings are placed on a wire rack and cooked for 50 minutes (flipped halfway through cooking).


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A lot has happened this week, including finding out my parents are moving back to Australia. For those who were not aware, I am originally from Sydney and moved here in 2009. My parents are leafing without me this time which is kind of sad. But oh well! It will force me to be independent at least. Well, semi-independent.
I also just have to express that I am ridiculously happy that Djokovic beat Nadal. I find his brattiness strangely endearing. I don't know. I also just think he looks like a sweet dinosaur / lizard.
Anyone know what I mean? I just like him.
What you must do...
You could also do this without lining, with the zipper on the outside, with normal pockets, whatever. This is just because I personally wanted a bag like this.
Also, here are a couple of recent outfits:
And and and also thankyou PerhapsDaily for making her dress using my tutorial. So exciting to see!

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NY Times: Don't Blink, or You'll Miss Another Bailout
-By Gretchen Morgenson
February 16, 2013- Many people became rightfully upset about bailouts given to big banks during the mortgage crisis. But it turns out that they are still going on, if more quietly, through the back door.
The existence of one such secret deal, struck in July between the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Bank of America, came to light just last week in court filings.
That the New York Fed would shower favors on a big financial institution may not surprise. It has long shielded large banks from assertive regulation and increased capital requirements.
Still, last week's details of the undisclosed settlement between the New York Fed and Bank of America are remarkable. Not only do the filings show the New York Fed helping to thwart another institution's fraud case against the bank, they also reveal that the New York Fed agreed to give away what may be billions of dollars in potential legal claims.
Naked Capitalism: Yes, Virginia, the Rich Continue to Get Richer: the Top 1% Got 121% of Income Gains Since 2009
-by Yves Smith
February 13, 2013- Yes, sports fans, you read that headline correctly. The top 1% has captured all of the income gains since 2009 and then some, roaring ahead while the rest of the population slipped behind. A new paper by Emmanuel Saez (along with his frequent co-author Thomas Piketty, a long-standing cataloguer of income inequality) estimates that the income gains to the top 1% from 2009 to 2011 were 121% of all income increases. How did that happen? Incomes to the bottom 99% fell by 0.4%.
Huffington Post: Inequality Is Much Worse Than You Think
-By Les Leopold
February 7, 2013-
• In 2010, the top hedge fund manager earned as much in one HOUR as the average (median) family earned in 47 YEARS.
• The top 25 hedge fund managers in 2010 earned as much as 658,000 entry level teachers.
• In 1970 the top 100 CEOs made $40 for every dollar earned by the average worker. By 2006, the CEOs received $1,723 for every worker dollar.
As the administration and Congress argue over cuts in social programs, inequality in America grows more extreme each day. Even the great financial crash didn't derail this trend. The richest 400 Americans, for example, increased their wealth by 54 percent between 2005 and 2010, while the median middle-class family saw its wealth decline by 35 percent.
SECRET AUDIO: Missouri Lawmakers, In Meeting AT THE MISSOURI CAPITOL, Threatened With Loss of Donors if They Don't Push "Right-to-Work"
British filmmaker Temujin Doran has released a new movie that is based on the book "The Death of the Liberal Class" by Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges. The film, titled "Obey," explores the rise of the corporate state and the future of obedience in a world filled with unfettered capitalism, worsening inequality and environmental changes.
Warning: Viewers may find some of the clips in the film disturbing.
The Contributor: Ending Corporate Tax Dodging Would Cut Deficit By Twice As Much As Hiking Medicare Age
-By Zaid Jilani
January 23, 2013- Some right-wing politicians want to raise the Medicare age to 67. This would reduce the deficit by $5.7 billion each year but pass on costs to seniors of $11.4 billion every year.
Rather than making health care more expensive for seniors, here's a progressive deficit reduction idea. Earlier this month, the Congressional Budget Office said we could raise $114 billion over ten years — twice as much as raising the Medicare age — by limiting corporate tax deferrals.
The way to do this would be to subject all income earned by foreign subsidiaries of U.S. corporations to U.S. tax laws by limiting or eliminating deferrals for overseas profits. Right now, large corporations like Microsoft will shift their profits to overseas locations — such as remote islands in the Caribbean or Switzerland — to avoid paying taxes on them.
AlterNet: 4 Bogus Right-Wing Theories About Poverty, and the Real Reason Americans Can't Make Ends Meet (Hard Times USA)
We have an economic crisis that is kept out of sight and out of mind.
-By Joshua Holland
January 22, 2013- When is a secret not at all secret? Consider the fact that one in three Americans are poor, if we define it as struggling to cover the basic necessities of life. That's according to a Census Bureau analysis, and it was reported in the New York Times, but I have yet to hear a politician or pundit make reference to this eye-opening reality of our vaunted "new economy."
In 2011, the Census Bureau took a new look at the "near-poor" – Americans with incomes between 100 and 150 percent of the poverty line. They found that this group, most of whom earn paychecks and pay taxes, represented a whopping one in six U.S. households – a figure that was almost twice as high as had previously been thought.


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Avett Brothers Boulder 2011
Original silkscreen concert poster for The Avett Brothers at The Boulder Theater in Boulder, CO in 2011. This poster features the Cardinal and the Dogwood, the state bird and flower of North Carolina. 17 x 24 inches on card stock. Signed and numbered out of 200 by the artist Dan Stiles.
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Condition: MINT
Date: 2011
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How to permanently keep your Home Tidy
"I just don't know what else to do, it seems my apartment is jinxed with being untidy"
"No matter how many times I try to put things in place, they always fall apart within a week max, and that's even the best case scenario"
"I'll just give up and keep living here like this, untidy mess and all, keeping my room all neat and properly arranged is simply impossible"
At some point or the other, I'm sure you've said one of the above or something similar, except you're someone with an OCD relating to cleanliness, or you're just a particularly neat person. However, there's nothing to get worried or be frustrated about, from time immemorial, keeping any residential apartment organized is always a herculean task. Add a couple of kids into the equation and it becomes nearly impossible to keep your place organized.
Despite how difficult it may seem, having a clean and organized living space is possible; in actual fact, it is even easier than you've ever thought if you know the right things to do. Below are a couple of tips that will help you to create the clean and organized home environment you've always dreamed of.
- Minimalism: If you've been into lifestyle blogs and internet articles recently, you've most likely come across the minimalist movement. If you have not, the basic idea, just like the name implies, is to have as few possessions as possible. You may be wondering how this has anything to do with keeping your house tidy. Well, it's basic logic, if you don't have many possessions in the first place, there will be nothing to disorganize. When your possessions are just few, you can easily keep track of them and conveniently get things rearranged when they start falling apart.
To live a minimalist life, buy as few things as possible, you don't have to purchase anything that you don't necessarily need in the immediate. Also, don't get too attached to items, as soon as anything (clothes, shoes, bags, and so on) gets old, either throw them away or give them back. Wardrobes or closets are one of the most difficult places to keep in proper shape. It's therefore sensible to keep them as lean as possible.
- Keep Rearranging: The reason why many tidying up plans fail is because we expect our stuff to stay arrange once we put them together. But this is wrong, life tends towards disorganization, no matter how well you arrange your stuff, they will always get back in disarray. Therefore, the only logical solution is to accept this fact, and just rearrange as soon as you notice your apartment looking untidy.


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ABOUT "New Mexico Military Institute"
It is said that the school has 38 ghosts. What exactly happened that there are so many ghosts? The most popular story is the Ghosts of the Blood Tower. The tower referred to is a three story tower on the front of the school gymnasium. It was intended to be an office area for coaches, but ended up just being storage. So, when I asked the merchant about the ghosts of Blood Tower, his face lit up and he got a knowing smile on his face. He then explained that on every third Saturday morning, cadets had to face a rigorous uniform, room, and wall locker inspection. Everyone, that is, except for the athletes on the football and basketball teams. During the inspections, the athletes would hide in the tower. The science geeks decided to do something about it. The night before the inspection, the geeks snuck up to the tower and rigged up a series of booby traps. At eight the next morning, as the inspection started, the booby traps started going off. He didn't specify what the booby traps were, but he did use the words sheets, a record player with ghost sounds, and red paint. The booby traps worked so well that the athletes ran outside, and right into the inspection party. Scratch one ghost. The next ghost on the list was the First Sergeant who roamed the stoops of a certain barracks. The story went that either the First Sergeant hung a cadet, or a cadet hung the First Sergeant. Since the story involved violence, I went to the campus Police Department. First off, they assured me that no murders had ever occurred on the campus. Second, they inquired of the Police Officer who was the one and only campus Policeman during the time era of the incident. He relayed that a frightened cadet had reported the apparition, but to date, he was the only person to report the apparition over the decades. Scratch another ghost. There was another ghost story involving the school Natatorium. Up until the 1960's, indoor swimming pools were referred to as Natatoriums. The Natatorium ghost story came about as an accident from the 1940 school prom, otherwise known as "Final Ball". The idea was to build a dancing platform around the pool. The theme of the party was "Atlantis, City Under The Sea". Several cadets, doing last minute touches for the party, had volunteered to place baskets of dry ice under the water. Dry ice is made up of frozen carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is heavier than air. The dry ice vapor that bubbled up went to the pool surface and stayed there. When the cadets surfaced for air, they received instead, a lungful of carbon dioxide and were asphyxiated. The ghost story was that, years and decades later, fresh wet footprints could be found coming from the pool. In the early 80's, a new pool was built for the school. The old pool was filled in and a museum now inhabits the building. Scratch another ghost. The next ghost story involved another tragedy at the school. At one time, polo was a well attended event there. During a polo game, three cadets had died, involving collisions of horses in the middle of the field. To memorialize the tragedy, a bell tower was built. It stands fifteen feet tall and has an old locomotive bell on top. The architect told me that the bell was salvaged from a wrecked Santa Fe steam locomotive. The story goes that when the bell is heard ringing, that a cadet will die the next day. I can confirm, that twice, while attending school there that there were incidents. Cadets quartered near the bell reported it ringing the night before. Hours later, someone was dead. Needless to say, the tower is paid great respect. The next ghost on the list involves the school auditorium. Built as a WPA project of the 1930's, it is a grand theater in the art deco school of design. The story mainly involves a troublesome seat on the first floor. Because the seat is located under the rim of the balcony, I don't have to tell you what the story is, but to reiterate that no murders ever took place there. Still, there is the issue with the seat. I went to see the head of maintenance. When I first asked him about the seat, he became uncomfortable, then relayed it is because his workers are genuinely spooked by the seat. Time and again, the seat has been repaired, only to end up on the floor the next morning. He even showed me a stack of work orders, on that seat alone, repaired, and on the floor the next morning. The campus Police are required to walk all of the buildings on campus. During my junior college years, the campus Police were all military vets with other types of Police experience in their backgrounds. On the auditorium, they would come in the front lobby and chain the doors from within. They would then move to a side door and lock that. Going outside, they would move to the back and chain the exterior doors shut from the outside. Because the building spooked the Police Officers so bad, they didn't bother with the backstage area, or the catacombs under the stage.
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Cartier Art Deco Wristwatch, ca. 1920
What I brought in today is a Cartier lady's dress watch with seeded pearls and diamonds. I think the circa is 1920s, but I'm not sure. This watch was inherited by my mother. And my grandmother purchased it in Baltimore between 1950 and 1960 from a friend of hers. My grandmother was a great horse lover and went to the racetrack a lot. And I think her friend actually might have placed a bet that didn't go so well, and he was looking to sell the watch. He needed the cash.
Do you know what she paid for it back then?
I think she might have paid somewhere between, I think, $1,500 and $2,500.
Have you ever had an appraisal on it?
In early 2000, I took it to a Cartier store close to Washington, D.C. And they sent it to New York, it came back and they said that, you know, they were 99% sure that it was a Cartier watch. But in order to have it completely authenticated, it would have cost me a great deal more of money. So we did not go through with the authentication at that time.
All right, we're going to talk first about the case, and specifically the back of the case.
This is what you see inside when you have the movement out. It is signed "Cartier, Paris." Okay. Inside, that's very important. Okay. Now, when we come over here next to it, we see a dial with the crown and hands, and it's clearly signed "Cartier." Yes. It has a round movement. Now, you can see in the case that we just looked at that somebody has milled the bottom of the case round to fit this movement.
I see.
This is the wrong movement.
It doesn't belong in this watch. Another thing wrong about this is that this dial here, although it says Cartier, was most likely refinished.
So for anybody that collects these kinds of things, it's not original.
Aw, that's too bad. But tell me more.
Well, you come in and you open up a little pouch, and then inside of it, to my surprise, is the original dial.
And even more fantastic is the original movement signed "Cartier." So somewhere along the line, somebody took out the original movement, put in the other movement so she could wear it. Now, if we come over here and we look at the watch, we clearly see a beautiful platinum frame. We have old mine diamonds. The seed pearls you're talking about, I really don't call these seed pearls. What these are, though, are natural pearls.
These pearls used to come from the Persian Gulf, and they're wired together with platinum wire.
And on top of that, you also have a rose gold deployant buckle. Everything on the bracelet is numbered. Everything on the deployant buckle is numbered. And a hallmark, French hallmarks. So here's what has to happen. You're going to have to go back to Cartier.
And you're going to have to spend that enormous sum of money.
Because we're going to hope and pray that it's going to come back right as rain.
I'm just going to take the dial. And what I want to do is lay it in here.
It's a beautiful watch. You know.
It's... It's a fabulous watch.
And it is from the '20s, you think, or...?
Oh, you hit it spot on. Right. 1920s, yeah. Well, everything that's wrong with this watch can be repaired.
And I shouldn't even say repaired, restored back to original condition. That's the beauty, that they just... they didn't destroy it.
Because sometimes that happens. If it does come back, and everything's correct about it, what are your feelings about how much it may be worth?
You know, I really have no idea.
Today, if this came up to auction, it would be $50,000 to $70,000.
Would it really?
It really would.
I can't believe it. My mom's going to be thrilled. That's unbelievable.
I suppose if you were going to sell it at auction as it sits right now, with all the parts, I would say $40,000 to $60,000.
Right. Wow. That's incredible.
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Muslim Responses to the Crusades
Robert Irwin on how Islam saw the Christian invaders.
In August 1099, al-Harawi, the chief Qadi of Damascus, preached a sermon in the Great Mosque in Baghdad: 'Your brothers in Syria have no home other than the saddles of their camels or the entrails of vultures'. Al-Harawi was surrounded by a throng of Syrian and Palestinian refugees who wept as he spoke, and their weeping made others in turn weep. Al-Harawi was preaching about the arrival of the armies of the First Crusade in Syria in 1097 and their successive occupation of Antioch, Edessa, and finally, in 1099, Jerusalem. Muslims from there and other places had fled to the larger Muslim cities of the hinterland, in particular to Damascus and Aleppo.


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Today I thought I would share with you my opinion about one of the best make-up powders on the market! I'd heard about Ben Nye powder for a while, specifically when contouring (Kim Kardashian is a huge fan), however I have struggled to find it on sale anywhere in the UK!
By chance, I was sent a marketing e-mail from a new company called TILT Professional Make-up. Never one to turn down the opportunity to buy more makeup, I rushed over to see what they had in store. Pleasantly surprised I discovered they did indeed stock Ben Nye! And not only was it a UK based company but unlike other UK Ben Nye Stockists the prices were actually affordable!
I ordered myself the Ben Nye -Banana Luxury Powder and the Ben Nye -Neutral Set Translucent Powder. I chose the Banana powder for a highlight because of my olive skin tone. There are other colours available such as Ebony (For darker skin), and Cameo (For paler skin).
I was so excited to receive these products in the post! Delivery was quite quick, roughly about 3-5 days and when I ordered delivery was free so even better! I did originally order these powders in January, however did not take the photos until last week; hence the battered appearance! I have used and abused these powders in the best possible way!
I love the banana powder. When contouring, I find it compliments my skin perfectly to give a flawless finish. The powder acts as a highlighter, when contouring applied on top of blended concealer; predominantly under your eyes, the bridge of your nose and your forehead.
(Banana Powder Applied)
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You can see in the bottom picture how the powder compliment the concealer underneath. The product is extremely lightweight, you use barely any to create the flawless look. I've had the same powder pot for 6 months now and I'm not even halfway through! Brilliant value. The only downside to this product is the packaging. The pot itself comes with a plastic sprinkle' top, however I struggled to get any powder through this.
Because of this I removed the 'sprinkle' top, but now whenever I use the product it spills everywhere, I have to be extremely careful! This is such a minor flaw in comparison to how great the product is!
The translucent powder is more or less the same. However as fantastic as this is, I found it's not much different to other translucent powders such as NYC Smooth Skin Loose Powder Transluscent or MAC Sheer/Loose Powder.
I typically apply the powder everywhere once my contouring is complete, to almost set and seal the make up underneath. You do have to be very careful that you don't apply too much and give yourself the dreaded cake face!
All in all, I would highly recommend both products (more so the highlight powders) to anyone, they're great value for money and honestly I would be lost without either!
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A bear's perfect Thanksgiving treat in Trinity County: frozen corn dogs
Not everybody had turkey, prime rib or another holiday specialty for Thanksgiving.
In the far reaches of Northern California, a large black bear, stuffing calories on the eve of hibernation, found its own feast.
My son Kris, who lives in remote Trinity County, uses an outside storage freezer to make up for the tiny freezer in his refrigerator. "The bear got into my storage freezer," Kris said. "There was a big pork loin, venison and all kinds of stuff. I figured he wiped me out."
Instead, close inspection revealed a surprise.
"On the ground next to the storage freezer was this perfectly stacked pile of little sticks," Kris said. He looked closer and couldn't believe what he found.
The bear had grabbed a box of 20 frozen corn dogs, Kris said. The bear then apparently took a seat alongside, and then, with the delicate skill of a surgeon, extracted each corn dog from its wrapper, placed it between his paws, and slurped the things right off the sticks, over and over.
"The bear went through all of the corn dogs," Kris said. "He completely ignored the giant pork loin right next to it. Then he stacked the sticks in a perfect little pile."
The topper: My favorite pre-hibernation bear story was at Tahoe, where a bear pried open a window and scrambled into a vacation cabin, hunted through the refrigerator and freezer, and found a gallon of ice cream. The bear then absconded with the ice cream up the stairs to the master bedroom, sat on the bed and slurped away — up to the point when the owner returned from dinner, as the story was described to me. The bear's face was covered with ice cream, he said, and after one last slurp, the bear ambled down the stairs and out the window, mission accomplished.
And last week: My orange fluff ball of a cat, Calvin, was a dark streak in the night on the deck outside a living room window. I opened the door and he bolted in. I heard a noise across the yard, and in the darkness, made out a faint silhouette. "Hey, Mr. Bear." It bolted and thrashed through the woods to make its escape. Over the weekend, I found its photo on a wildlife cam, a big black one.
Tom Stienstra is San Francisco The Chronicle's outdoors writer. Email: email@example.com Twitter: @StienstraTom


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There's a new book out by Jeffrey Bell, The Case for Polarized Politics, which makes the shocking argument that campaigning on "divisive" "social issues" can in fact be a winning campaign strategy for conservative politicians. (I learned of the book thanks to a review by Phil Lawler on CatholicCulture.org.) As I have not, as of yet, read the book, I will not discuss it further in this rant. But today I will rant on an old and more basic pet peeve of mine: the common and long-standing practice by those of the Left of denouncing everyone and everything to their right as "polarizing" or "divisive."
Whenever somebody says something or takes a stance that's in anyways at odds with liberal politically-correct orthodox opinion, you can always count on somebody on the left condemning it as "polarizing" or "divisive" – whether it's Republican congressmen who vote against any one of Obama's schemes, conservative talk-radio hosts, or anyone else not fully on board with the whole lefty program. Apparently we need to just shut up and gather together holding hands and singing Kumbaya in unified solidarity behind Dear Leader.
For instance, I recall a few years ago, while looking up local independent country singer Austin Cunningham's song "Guns and Religion," reading a post on a Texas music blog which denounced the tune as "divisive garbage" which should not receive airplay. I mean, how dare a musician sing a song with anything but a leftwing message! Of course songs with lefty protest undertones, for example, criticizing Bush or the Iraq War (actually not uncommon in the Texas indie music scene), are generally praised by the likes of that hipster music blogger as courageous truth-telling. But if you put out a little number singing the praises of guns and religion while knocking Dear Leader, you'd better shut up, lest your dissent stir up "division" amongst the hoi polloi.
When you strip away the attempts at high-minded rhetoric, this line of attack translates to simply, "Agree with us or shut the hell up!" Not exactly in keeping with lefties' self-image as rational, tolerant, open-minded folks immune from the constraints of authoritarian thought. In fact, I can't think of a stupider or lazier line of critique than condemning a point of view simply on the grounds of it being opposed to one's own.
And this whole "divisive/polarizing" line does appear to be the almost exclusive property of the Left. I've certainly heard folks on the right accuse folks on the left of many things, but being "polarizing" or "divisive" is not among them. If you hear someone bitching about "polarization" or "divisiveness," it's a sure bet that person's of a left-leaning persuasion. When I attack a liberal's or leftist's ideas or arguments, it's because I find them wrong-headed, destructive, morally repulsive, or simply stupid, but never just because I find them "divisive" or "polarizing" (which would simply be saying that they disagree with me or other conservatives, which should go without saying).
Does it ever occur to left-wingers that many of their own favorite views and agendas are in fact "divisive" and "polarizing" to those of us who don't share their worldview? Does it ever occur to them that there are in fact other points of view besides their own? Besides the utter lazy stupidity of the "polarizing" line of attack, I believe its prevalence in liberal rhetoric is revealing of the mindset of much of the current left.
For all its precious talk of "tolerance" and "diversity," the Left is consistently intolerant of any diversity of opinion from its own viewpoints. For the Left, its own is the only legitimate point of view, and opposing points of view must be relentlessly silenced or marginalized. This can be seen in the ruthless suppression of politically-incorrect ideas in much of the left-dominated worlds of academic and media institutions. (The great Mark Steyn refers to these folks as "Conformicrats" and the "Comformocracy.") Any dissent from the notion that man-made global warming is heading us towards environmental apocalypse–or that massive government taxing, spending, and regulation is needed to save us–is dismissed as "propaganda" or "anti-science" (even if it comes from solid research at ivy-league universities), and the powers that be will ensure that the results of such studies go unpublished. Likewise with any suggestion that anything could be behind the creation and evolution of the universe and life on earth beyond blind, mindless chance (despite some very compelling evidence to the contrary from serious scientific researchers). It can also be seen in the eagerness of many liberals to seek out any excuse to get right-leaning talk show hosts yanked off the air. Any arguments in favor of a return to standards of "traditional morality"are denounced off-hand as "bigotry and "hate." And any opposition to any aspects of statist "liberalism" and the notion that yet more government spending is the solution to all our ills is brushed aside as being driven by "racism" or other ugly motives, or is simply beyond the pale of educated opinion. Or, if that doesn't stick, you can always just denounce it as "divisive."
In countless online debates on any number of subjects I've read or been involved in, it seems that while conservative actually engage in reasoned argumentation, the "arguments" of those on the left consist overwhelmingly of labeling ("stupid," bigoted," "homophobic," "Islamophobic," etc., etc.), name-calling, and personal insults and ad-hominem attacks (all the while praising their own superior intelligence and open-mindedness). There are few people more narrowly conformist and doctrinaire than the "tolerant" "free-thinking" "liberal."
Formal censorship is in fact unnecessary when you can create a general culture of opinion in which any deviation from the party line is instantly dismissed and disregarded as simply unthinkable. Somewhere in the depths of Hell, Uncle Joe Stalin and Chairman Mao are beaming proudly.


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Mertz - Neuralgia Vea/Høymer Guitar Duo
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- Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806 - 1856):
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Sondre Høymer and Tormund Blikra Vea met as students at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, and together they formed a guitar duo based on their common love for the classical romantic guitar music.
Johan Kaspar Mertz (1806 - 1856) is one of the last major guitar virtuosos in the mid-1900s when the popularity of the guitar was definitely overtaken by the new mass produced, cheaper piano. Mertz's music is usually characterized by great drama and virtuosity, but in Nanien Trauerlieder it is the melancholy that prevails. Nanien Treuerlieder is a work consisting of three movements often used in funerals. The three movements "Am Grabe der Geliebten", "Ich Denke Dein" and "Trauermarsch" are sorrowful, thoughtful and heartfelt, but not without a hint of hope.
"Der Ball" is the piece that breaks with the mourning and melancholy. The piece is filled with humor and joy, including a polonese and a playful waltz.
"Deutsche Weise", "In German Manner", is a tribute to Mertz's greatest inspiration, Franz Schubert, also this more cheerful in the mood.
Mertz's guitar duo stands for themselves because they were all written in the mid-1900's, moving in a more romantic direction than what we have seen earlier with other guitar composers.
Vea / Høymer Guitar Duo plays on historical instruments from the 19th century, making them the first in Norway to record Johann Kaspar Mertz's music on historical instruments. Mertz's guitar duos is exclusively written for terz guitar and 8-string romantic guitar and we have selected some of the finest pieces from his duo repertoire. The instruments we are recording on are 19th-century instruments, a terzgitar, Panormo copy, from 1830 and an 8-string romantic guitar, Stauffer copy, from 1829.
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ICE is also an acronym for the International Congress of Entomology, and a trade show for the gambling industry. So if you lose your house in a business deal or you feel something unpleasant crawling up your leg, you may still be at the right conference. *drum fill*
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If you came to the site from the conference and clicked on the Blog Monster, you most likely want to see what we're all about. Our Games gallery is slim pickins these days, because all the interesting development is going on behind the scenes:
We're creating five games for a Canadian kids' teevee production company. The site will launch this summer.
We're building two games that will be accessible to both deaf and blind players (that is to say, players with one disability or the other … Helen Keller would have a bit of trouble).
Additionally, we have been invited by two different companies to create two massively multiplayer online game demos. One of these companies wrote the book on the genre. We are extremely excited to be working with them!
If you're here in the midst of a boring panel (hopefully not the one i'm on), here are a few Untold Entertainment articles for your interest:
The Democratization of Game Development
This year's trend at the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco was the sit back, relax, and let your players build the game for you. i approve.
Prince of Persia, Prince of Peace
A mercifully brief jog through the history of Christian video games, and why i'm thankful that Jesus forgives.
Ryan Creighton on The Agenda with Steve Paikin
Steve grills me on gaming for the elderly, mass market video games and how EA's Rock Band will save the music industry.
Kids Eagerly Await Nickelodeon's Next Shipment of Ass
How a supposedly legitimate children's broadcaster shovels schlock to its young audience, right under parents' noses.
Canadian Game Journalism: Not Worth It
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In the following weeks, a series of guest-blog posts will be published in anticipation of The Art Gallery's next exhibition, Streams of Being: Selections from the Art Museum of the Americas. This exhibition has been curated by Professor Abigail McEwen, Assistant Professor of Latin American Art in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland, and Ph.D. students from the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland. Professor McEwen, the graduate students, and The Art Gallery would like to thank and recognize the Art Museum of the Americas for their support of the exhibition, especially Andrés Navia and Adriana Ospina; as well as John Shipman, the former Director of The Art Gallery, for his work in orchestrating the show.
Visiting the Art Museum of the Americas
Last semester, the members of the graduate seminar, "Aesthetics of Exile: Borderlands, Diaspora, and Migration," under the guidance of Dr. Abigail McEwen, studied Latin American modernism through the lenses of various critical methodologies. We focused on the interventions of postcolonialism; diaspora and nomadism; studies of space, displacement, and border zones; globalization; and cosmopolitanism.
In partnership with the Art Museum of the Americas (AMA) in Washington, D.C., we had a unique opportunity to apply these theories to an exhibition of our own design, to open in March 2015 at the university's Art Gallery. We curated this exhibition through our selection of objects from AMA's permanent collection. The development of this show was a main aspect of our seminar work, which included lengthy conversations on the curation of objects; the design of gallery space; the creation of a digital exhibition by Cecilia Wichmann and Grace Yasumura to accompany the university show (which Grace discusses in our next post); and the development of our exhibition proposal, the critical theory behind which Raino discusses in another post to follow.
We achieved a breakthrough in our selection of objects for the exhibition during our first trip to AMA in October, when Adriana Ospina and her colleagues prepared over a dozen objects of our choosing, removing them from storage for a private viewing. Prior to our visit, we had browsed and selected a wide range of paintings, prints, and other works on paper through AMA's collection online. It was crucial, however, that we view and discuss these selections in front of the objects themselves.
The snapshots above and below illustrate the variability of even the best digital reproductions and the importance of viewing artworks in person. Seeing their true appearance during our visit to AMA naturally led us to a more critical understanding of these objects and a revelatory reconsideration of the show. Only in person were we able to accurately apprehend the size, color, and effect of the artworks we had chosen. Our viewing of the objects also facilitated discussions of related design considerations, such as framing and matting, as well as our interest in alternative forms of display, such as the use of vitrines or monitors. Two of the group's favorite object selections included Oscar Muñoz's 1987 still image Interior, originally selected by Eleanor Stoltzfus, and my initial selection, Filemon Santiago Avendaño's Untitled, a surrealistic watercolor from 1979.
Avendaño's watercolor incorporates beautifully subtle gradations in earth tones—ochers and browns—as well as blues, greens, flashes of red, and somber greys, all of which constitute the flattened, anthropomorphic shapes of fantastic animals and surrealistic, dream-like bestial bodies. While the subtleties of color are difficult to discern in the painting's digital reproduction, the full depth and range of color became evident upon closer inspection. Variations of recognizable forms—goats, rabbits, chickens, pigs, cats, and dogs—as well as other amalgamations of farm and domestic animals, descend together in a mass of flailing legs, ears, tongues, tails, and horns. Creatures peck, nibble, and pull at each other amidst the rush of bodies detached from space; some recede in their declination, as if tumbling from a spectral, unseen pen or precipice. In the upper right-hand corner, bizarre, block-like forms and incomplete animal bodies evoke a sense of amputation and slaughter, while the frenetic mass of seemingly carnivorous creatures, and their carnal contact with one another, elicit a sense of the "uncanny strangeness" discussed by Julia Kristeva in her discourse on cosmopolitanism.
This "uncanny strangeness" of the nomadic artist's encounter with other cultures is readily identifiable in his biography. A Mexican-born resident of Oaxaca, Avendaño spent much of his early artistic training and career in Chicago. In 1995, Avendaño's "cosmopolitan" career took him to the Netherlands as a professor. He has since reclaimed Oaxaca as his permanent residence and workplace. The Art Institute of Chicago is one of several American institutions to collect his work.
Through our exhibition, we hope to bring rarely exhibited objects such as Avendaño's watercolor to the university and the greater public. In foregrounding contemporary Latin American artists, often little known in the United States, and the critical discourse around them, we also hope to draw new connections within and between the university and its neighboring communities.


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Having a baby that sleeps through the night is every parents dream. But where do you begin?? There is so much information out there about teaching your baby to sleep. There are countless books, articles on the internet, and blogs but which one should you try first? All I can say, as a mother of two, start with the one that feels right for you and your family. Or combine them all together to make a unique sleep solution for your family.
A great article to take a look at is 26 Baby Sleep Solutions. I found the article on parenting.com. The article is featured like an alphabet book. A sleep solution for every letter in the alphabet! Some of my favorites are "B is for Bathtime": it talks about how warm water combined with loving strokes with the washcloth can relax just about anyone. This was an important part of our family bedtime routine. My youngest son is 4 1/2 years old and knows that as soon as I say, "it's bath time", he only has a short time before lights out.
I think my favorite one is "J is for Jammies": make sure your child has comfortable pajamas. Pajamas that are 100% cotton are great and should fit snug. Be sure to check out all of our great 100% cotton pajamas at www.mybabypajamas.com. Again, my youngest son gets excited about bed when he has "Cool" pajamas to sleep in. He loves his LazyOne Wide Awake Short pajamas because he's into alligators.
Another favorite is,"R is for Routines": Consistency is key. Enough said! Sticking to a routine can be hard especially if you have more than one child but it's well worth the outcome. A good nights sleep for you and your baby!
My Baby Pajamas has just put Skivvydoodles Short pajamas for boys and girls and Skivvydoodles nightgowns for girls ON SALE. We have marked them down 15% off their regular price. Skivvydoodles short pajamas and Skivvydoodles nightgowns are in sizes 2T to size 12, while supplies last.
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Since My Baby Pajamas is going to start blogging about sleep and our children, I decided to do some more research online and I came across something very interesting, Top Baby Sleep Myths. It's a list about the most common misconceptions and sleeping babies. I know we all have fallen in the trap to some of them or maybe all of them. I mean we are only human and sometimes parents try anything to get and keep their baby to sleep. Here are a couple of my favorite:
Myth #4 : Rice cereal before bedtime will help my baby sleep longer. Hunger is typically not the cause of sleep problems after 3 to 4 months of age. I know for a fact that my husband and I tried this one with our youngest son. He was tongue-tied and had a hard time sucking from a bottle. He would get tired trying to suck and could not finish his bottle. So at around 11 or 12 weeks old we tried putting rice cereal in his bottle. It didn't help at all! What helped was getting his tongue released (a small cut the doctor makes under his tongue) which they did around 4 months of age.
Myth # 6: It's easier to sleep-trian an older baby. The longer a habit is reinforced, the harder it is to break. Habits are hard to break no matter who you are or how old you are. Most adults have a caffeine habit, we get up in the morning and we say to our kids, "please just let me have a cup of coffee first". A lot of us are guilty of this one. My husband gets up every morning and turns on the coffee maker before doing anything. I must confess I don't drink coffee but I have one diet coke a day for my caffeine. If I do not get my caffeine I am not a pleasant person. Just ask anyone in my family. I would love to break this habit but it's been a on going habit for years. It's just not happening! Trust me, I have tried. Or maybe I just don't want to give it up. 🙂 Now try to tell a 3 or 4 year old it's time to start sleeping through the night. It's going to be a fight. Why not teach them early in life to sleep and enjoy sleep.
You can check out all the myths here : http://family.go.com/parenting/article-mm-178734-top-10-baby-sleep-myths-t/
Which one is your favorite?
Be sure to check out all the sale pajamas we have right now. Also, we received all of our Skivvydoodles Short Pajamas for boys and girls.
I have something to confess to you all-I LOVE SLEEP AND SO DO MY KIDS! Plus, my friends used to call me General, Sergeant, Sleep Nazi etc. I think you get the idea. This all started when I gave birth to my oldest son (who is now 10 years old and can still sleep a 12 hour night). My husband and I wanted our children to sleep and to learn to sleep in their own beds. That's not too much to ask, right?
Rewind to 1999: I was pregnant for the first time and did not want to give up my sleep. Selfish?? Some will say yes and some will say no. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. My opinion was, I wanted my child to sleep. Everything I read said that children that were good sleepers were smarter, less sick and a happier child. I started to read books about teaching a child to sleep. I read many!! Some of the ones that I read and re-read were "The No Cry Sleep Solutions" by Elizabeth Pantley, "Secrets of the Baby Whisperer" by Tracy Hogg , "Sleeping Through the Night, Revised Edition : How Infants, Toddlers and Their Parents Can Get a Good Night's Sleep" by Jodi Mindell PhD and finally "Baby Wise" By Gary Ezzo. After reading many books, I decided to take things I liked out of all the books and make my own recipe for sleep. Plus, I wanted something that would work for our family. The main thing I learned: Routine, Routine, Routine!!
Routine was the foundation for teaching my kids to sleep. They woke up at the same time everyday, had a feeding schedule during the day, napped at the same time and went to bed at the same time everyday. Rain or shine! Our bedtime routine was the same every night: bath, pj's and then book. This bedtime routine is still a constant factor in my 4 1/2 years old day. With this bedtime routine is where I fell in love with pajamas( but I will talk about that in another post).
Teaching your baby (kids) to sleep is definitely a controversial subject. There is no right or wrong answer, it's what works best for your family that is important. My Baby Pajamas Blog will be starting weekly sleep tips for babies, toddlers, and kids. We would love to hear from you and what works or worked for your family.
My Baby Pajamas believes every child deserves a good night sleep(with of course some comfy pajamas from mybabypajamas.com).
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Individual Time Preferences and Energy Efficiency
NBER Working Paper No. 20969
We examine the role of individual discount rates in energy efficiency decisions using evidence from an extensive survey of U.S. homeowners to elicit preferences for energy efficiency and cash flows over time. We find considerable heterogeneity in individual discount rates. We also find that individual time preferences systematically influence willingness to invest in energy efficiency, as measured through product choices, required payback periods, and energy efficiency tax credit claims. Individual discount rate heterogeneity is in turn significantly related to characteristics of the individual and their household, including their financial situation. Individuals with less education, larger households, low income, and low credit scores had systematically higher discount rates, as did black, non-Hispanic respondents. Our findings highlight the importance of individual discount rates to understanding energy efficiency investments, the energy-efficiency gap, and policy evaluation.
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Civic leaders have renewed calls for the Government to let the North East seize control of its own destiny – after Ministers announced a massive devolution package for Wales.
Newcastle City Council leader Nick Forbes and former council leader Lord Beecham, now a Labour shadow minister, said giving the region the same level of freedom as Wales would be a first step towards cutting unemployment and closing the wealth gap with the south.
It follows an announcement that Ministers have agreed to give Wales the ability to fund major infrastructure projects without going cap in hand to Whitehall.
But last night, Newcastle MP Nick Brown said devolving fundraising powers could actually lead to cuts in central Treasury grant – with the region's residents and businesses forced to make up the difference instead.
Under the Government's plans, the Welsh assembly will be authorised to borrow money to pay for schemes. It will also be given control of landfill tax and stamp duty tax, giving it a means of repaying loans.
And a referendum will take place so people in Wales can decide whether some of their income tax should be devolved, in the same way as it is in Scotland.
If the Welsh people vote in favour of the proposal, it will effectively mean the assembly is able to raise even more funding itself.
The measure highlights the lack of progress in devolving real powers to the regions of England, Coun Forbes said.
"It is important that we have devolved powers and responsibilities because we know best how to stimulate the economy here," he told the Journal. "We know where the infrastructure is needed in transport, housung, in economic sectors, far better than Whitehall does. I think we need a settlement for the North East that matches the settlement that's just been announced for Wales and which is already in place for Scotland."
In 2004, North East voters overwhelmingly rejected calls for an elected regional assembly in a referendum, with some areas voting against the plans by as much as 85%.
Since then, the region has lost various important regional bodies including the Regional Development Agency, One North East.
Now, campaigners say fundraising powers could be devolved to the combined authority, bringing together Durham County, Gateshead, Newcastle City, North Tyneside, Northumberland County, South Tyneside and Sunderland City, or to the region's two Local Enterprise Partnerships.
Lord Beecham, who led Newcastle City Council for 17 years, said: "They are devolving this to the Welsh assembly, but I would argue strongly that the same principle should apply to the North East. This is something that would allow us to mobilise resources for development and given that our youth unemployment is higher than that in Wales and we are one of the most deprived regions, I would have thought that what is good for Wales should be done for us."
But Mr Brown warned: "The obvious danger is that the central government devolves extra responsibilities, and devolves the ability to raise revenue to cover them, thus removing expenditure burden from the general taxpayer and placing it on the shoulders of the local taxpayer."
He added: "It's always the case that you get the responsibilities but not the money."
Lord Heseltine, the former Deputy Prime Minister, has urged the Government to devolve up to £70bn a year to LEPs. The North East economic review led by Labour peer Lord Adonis called for the creation of a £500m North East Infrastructure Fund, partly to pay for an improved transport network.


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