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Snowden affair chills US-Latin American ties
America's "backyard," as Secretary of State John Kerry once referred to Latin America, is sprouting angry weeds as the scandal involving intelligence leaker Edward Snowden lays bare already thorny U.S. relations with Latin America.
Taking the opportunity to snub their noses at the U.S., Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua have already said they'd be willing to grant asylum for Snowden, who is wanted on espionage charges in the United States for revealing the scope of National Security Agency surveillance programs that spy on Americans and foreigners. Ecuador has said it would consider any request from him.
Relations between the U.S. and these countries were already testy, and the Snowden affair is further complicating the Obama administration's effort to improve ties with friendlier nations in the region like Mexico and Brazil.
Snowden hasn't been the only recent setback. Leaders in the region harshly criticized the U.S. earlier this week when a newspaper in Brazil, which was privy to some documents released by Snowden, reported that a U.S. spy program was widely targeting data in emails and telephone calls across Latin America. That revelation came just days after an uproar in Latin America over the rerouting of Bolivian President Evo Morales' plane over Europe amid suspicions, later proven untrue, that Snowden was aboard.
And all this comes right after President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Kerry have all made recent treks to the region to bolster U.S. engagement in Latin America.
"What the Snowden affair has done to the reinvigorated effort to re-engage with Latin America is to dump a pail of cold water on it," said Carl Meacham, a former senior Latin America adviser on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "It won't stop trade deals, cooperation on energy, but it's going to be harder for the president to portray the image that `We are here to work with you.' It's a step back."
The U.S. has sought to downplay the fallout from the disclosure of information about its intelligence activities. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki acknowledged that the United States does gather foreign intelligence just like other nations.
"I can tell you that we have spoken with Brazilian officials regarding these allegations," she said this week. "We plan to continue our dialogue with the Brazilians through normal diplomatic channels, but those are conversations that, of course, we would keep private."
Psaki has also said that any country granting asylum to Snowden would create "grave difficulties in our bilateral relationship."
While other nations may spy on their friends, the allegations have fueled anti-American sentiment already simmering in the region. Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia and Ecuador are led by populist leaders who have balked at any dominance by the U.S. in the Americas and pursued policies that often run counter to Washington's wishes. Venezuela refers to the United States simply as "The Empire."
"What they're saying is `See, the U.S. hasn't changed. It doesn't matter who is in the White House, the U.S. is the same. The U.S. is the big imperial power ... they are not treating us as equals. Look, they are even spying on us,'" said Meacham, who directs the Americas program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
The flap over the rerouting of the Bolivian president's plane prompted a special session Tuesday of the Organization of American States' permanent council. Bolivian Interior Minister Carlos Romero delivered blistering remarks about the incident, calling it an "act of aggression" conducted "at the behest of the United States.
Countries like Ecuador, which has cozied up to U.S. rivals Iran and China, joined the verbal slugfest against the U.S. Ecuador has sheltered WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in its embassy in London for more than a year and has given mixed signals about offering Snowden asylum.
Latin America wants international standing and chafes at any attempt by the United States to downplay its stature, hence the ruffled feathers when Kerry referred to the region as "America's backyard." Latin America is now home to 600 million people. The U.S. looks to the region for oil and is heavily vested in bilateral trade agreements.
Together, Mexico and Brazil are responsible for 65 percent of Latin America's production, and some experts suggest that they are destined to jump into fourth and fifth place on the list of the world's biggest economies, behind the U.S., India and China. Last year alone, trade between the U.S. and Mexico totaled nearly $500 billion, making it the United States' second-largest trading partner and Mexico could eventually overtake Canada for the No. 1 spot.
The Snowden affair is not likely to unravel these strong U.S. connections to the region, but it is a roadblock to efforts to improve cooperation, said Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington-based policy forum on Western Hemisphere affairs.
"I don't think it's going to paralyze relations," Shifter said. "But I think it's a setback overall - even with countries that have been friendly."
Obama got off to a slow start with Latin America. The president spent little time on the region during his first term and uttered few, if any, words about the area during his re-election campaign, though he took more than 70 percent of the Hispanic vote in winning a second term. In May, he went south to Mexico and also traveled to Costa Rica to meet with Central American leaders.
Passing immigration reform would remove a major irritant in U.S.-Mexico relations and could prevent the U.S. from becoming more isolated in the region, but the U.S. was facing problems in the area before the Snowden affair.
In Bolivia, Morales on May 1 acted on a long-time threat and expelled the U.S. Agency for International Development, saying it was trying to undermine the government - allegations the State Department said were baseless. Morales said Washington "still has a mentality of domination and submission" in the region, and he also harangued Kerry for offending the region when, in congressional testimony in April, he said the "Western Hemisphere is our backyard."
Cuba - a possible transit stop for Snowden if he is granted asylum in a Latin American country - has a history of conflict with the United States. Fidel Castro's brother Raul, who now leads the government, has recently explored new diplomatic entrees with Washington. At the same time, he earlier this year assumed the rotating presidency of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States in what was a demonstration of regional unity against U.S. efforts to isolate the communist government through a 50-year-old economic embargo.
In Brazil, which wields the most influence in Latin America, former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva lent support to the Iranian government and also backed Venezuela's late president Hugo Chavez, who ranted against U.S.-style capitalism and formed alliances with Russia, China and Iran. The new president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, appears more moderate. Biden visited Brazil in May, saying stronger trade ties and closer cooperation in education, science and other fields should usher in a new era of U.S.-Brazil relations.
During his visit, Biden announced that Obama was hosting Rousseff at the first official state dinner of his second term. The October dinner is a sign of respect and Brazilian officials say the spying allegations won't taint it, yet Rousseff herself has said that any such data collection infringed on the nation's sovereignty and that Brazil would raise the issue at the United Nations.
U.S. relations with Venezuela have been a lot thornier.
While Nicolas Maduro, appears to be more pragmatic than his predecessor, he has loudly voiced his own anti-American rhetoric since taking office - even alleging that the U.S. had a hand in Chavez' death from cancer. Maduro expelled two U.S. Air Force attaches from Caracas, accusing them of trying to foment instability. The Obama administration responded by expelling two Venezuelan diplomats from Washington.
In a gesture that could have signaled a thaw in relations, Venezuela released an American documentary filmmaker who had been jailed for alleged espionage in the country. Timothy Tracy, 35, was released just hours before Kerry met with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua on the sidelines of a regional gathering in Guatemala. Kerry said the two agreed to take steps to change the dialogue between the two countries and hopefully, quickly move to appoint ambassadors, which haven't been in either capital since 2010.


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Rapper Professor Green has been banned from driving for a year and ordered to pay £525 fine and costs after pleading guilty to drink-driving.
The 30-year-old was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving on November 3.
Bromley Magistrates' Court was told that the star got behind the wheel of his Mercedes after being robbed of his £40,000 Rolex watch on the doorstep of his home in Tyrwhitt Road, Lewisham, south east London.
He got into his car because he feared his wife, Made In Chelsea reality TV star Millie Mackintosh, who had screamed and fled, was being chased by the attacker, according to David Hislop QC, defending.
Green, who appeared in court under his real name of Stephen Manderson, was found to have driven with 52 microgrammes of alcohol in 100ml of breath. The legal limit is 35.
The I Need You Tonight star confirmed his name, age and address and pleaded guilty to the charge.
He said he would take a drink-driver rehabilitation course so that his 12-month disqualification might be cut to nine months. His licence was also endorsed for the offence.
The rapper was arrested after police attended reports that a man had been robbed in Tyrwhitt Road at around 2.40am.
When officers arrived, they discovered that a Mercedes had crashed into a van.
Prosecutor Samantha Mitchell said police were alerted after a 999 call, made at 2.35am by Manderson using a mobile phone belonging to a passer-by.
She told the court: "The defendant was spoken to and explained he had been looking for the suspect of his robbery.
"He had driven his car to look for this person and, during the course of looking for this person, he crashed into a parked van, causing damage."
The police realised that he was drunk and told him he would have to provide a specimen.
"However he was quite hostile," Miss Mitchell added, and he was driven to Lewisham police station to be dealt with.
Mr Hislop suggested that Manderson, who had no previous convictions and a clean licence, had driven while over the limit for "some distressing and understandable reasons".
The court was told that he had been drinking while on a plane as he returned from working in Ireland.
He "did not consider himself to be drunk", Mr Hislop added.
The rapper then met his wife, who was "considerably more drunk than he", at a nightclub.
The couple then got a taxi home but found the lock was stiff when they tried to get in.
Manderson went down a flight of steps to the basement and was looking at his keys.
Mr Hislop told the court: "The first that he knew of the presence of the male was when he was grabbed. He panicked and screamed out to his wife as he was concerned for her safety."
He tried to wrestle with the man, who had recognised him, but heard his wife scream and gave up.
Mr Hislop told the court that the man had asked Manderson: "Where's your wife going?", leading him to believe that the robber was chasing her.
Mr Hislop suggested that the "measure of his (Manderson's) panic" could be linked to a previous incident in which he was nearly knifed to death.
Manderson, who survived a stabbing in May 2009, had good reason to believe he and his wife were in danger, Mr Hislop claimed.
He said: " This defendant was stabbed in the throat and nearly died. The assailant received eight years in prison for that attack."
He was "wrong" to have driven the car, Mr Hislop added.
Manderson had got about 50 yards down the road before hearing his wife scream. He then reversed and backed into a parked car.
He realised he had lost his mobile phone in the earlier scuffle and stopped some passers-by to call the police.
"He admits he was drinking and was the driver of the car," Mr Hislop said, but he did it because he believed "he was in an emergency situation".
Manderson had also been threatened with a charge of perverting the course of justice by officials who did not believe he had been robbed or his fear that his wife might be attacked, the court heard.
He was arrested for the alleged offence when he returned to answer police bail in November.
Mr Hislop described this suggestion as "ludicrous", especially as it would have meant he had "made up a crime", admitted his own responsibility and also ensured the police were called.
He said: "The police came to him with a deal - 'You admit the falsity about the act of the robbery. Plead guilty to drink-driving and you will not hear any more about perverting the course of justice'."
The barrister said "it is a measure" of Manderson's character that he refused the deal but the fall-out from his brush with the law has seen him dropped from a long-standing, money-spinning advertising deal.
"Police officers searched his house for two hours. He and his family were humiliated and his privacy was invaded," Mr Hislop argued.
"Matters got even worse - someone leaked the perverting the course of justice (allegation) to the press. We cannot say who it was but there are not many candidates.
"He loses a business partnership with a well-known brand he had been associated with for a number of years. His financial losses as a result of it are considerable."
Mr Hislop concluded: "This man has suffered quite disproportionately to the error of judgment that he made that night."
Manderson, who said he would pay his fine straightaway, then left the building hand in hand with his wife, who sat quietly throughout the 17-minute hearing at the back of the public gallery.

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And now for something completely different.
Click the image for this year's video slide show of my Haunt which took place over the last couple of months.
Below the image you'll see the button which will take you to my 2010 gallery page. My recommendation is to view the video first and then to view the pics.
Or click here for the youtube video
Did you watch the video?
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Halloween 2010: Creepshow
And now for something completely different.
47 comments:
- Jennifer MacNeill said...
That was amazing. You are the master of macabre!
- October 31, 2010 at 9:32 PM
- Jay's Shadow said...
DUDE! That was F**CKING great!
It is really hard to pick a favorite,Everything was really cool. I really like the abandond factory with the zombies walking around.
You really went into detail this time.
It was worth the wait.....wonderful!
- October 31, 2010 at 9:48 PM
- JD said...
Friggin cool!!! The one with the green eyes looks like an evil version of a jawa from star wars
- October 31, 2010 at 9:50 PM
- JD said...
Almost forgot: happy Halloween Pumkinrot!!!!!!
- October 31, 2010 at 9:54 PM
- Rot said...
Thanks, all : )
- October 31, 2010 at 9:57 PM
- Wikkedmoon said...
I am partial to the pumpkin heads in the cornfield. Thanks for the thrill.
- October 31, 2010 at 10:00 PM
- Rot said...
Happy Halloween, JD!
An evil jawa : D
I've been calling them the Pumpkinrot Tinies (after Edward Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies).
I intend to finish the alphabet with a bunch of tiny monsters.
- October 31, 2010 at 10:02 PM
- Grim said...
I love it! Great job, as always... Happy Halloween!
- October 31, 2010 at 10:16 PM
- Unknown said...
Awesome, my fav has to be the skeleton guys at the old warehouse. Watching the video was a sweet ending to my halloween weekend! Oh and I have to say the halloween spirits must love me, Finally found the pumpkin pie poptarts!!!! They are so delicious. Happy Halloween Rot!
- October 31, 2010 at 10:24 PM
- Damian Michael AKA HalloweeNut said...
I'm still a little confused: were all those (AWESOME) props in one yard display, or just photographed overtime? Either way, there great characters. Hope you had a happy Halloween!
- October 31, 2010 at 10:28 PM
- Rot said...
I took the yard out of yard haunting this year. Each photo set was a different story. 13 different locations were used and the shoots occurred over the last two months.
- October 31, 2010 at 10:36 PM
- NecroBones said...
Man, this is freaking awesome. I loved the B&W styling of the video, with the on-location shoots. The zombies in the old warehouse looked great, and I absolutely LOVED seeing the bog men in the water. Very wonderfully creepy! Congrats, this really rocks!
- October 31, 2010 at 10:53 PM
- Unknown said...
My dear friend Rot, I am completely and utterly lost for words. This is TOTALLY the most A-M-A-Z-I-N-G thing you have ever made! I can't believe my eyes!!!
First off, the Pumpkin Sentinels. Fantastically creepy. You told me in an email that there wouldn't be a pumpkinhead in sight this year. Cheeky...
Now, those zombies outside the factory. I recall you saying how you want to hang your wind ghost out in public, well this has taken that to a whole new level. They are DISGUSTING! I wish i was a passerby. I would have cried.
You NEED TO make a movie. We NEED this type of zombie on the screen. The type with huge gaping holes for noses. The type that's exposed teeth clack as their bony feet scrape across the pavement. The ones that have been dead and buried for a long, long time. Terrifying.
The way the just seem to just wander aimlessly in these photos is just like a zombie movie. But with better zombies. MUCH better zombies. They are jaw-dropping.
They yard display is also awesome. It's simple, yet stunning. That ghost in the gravestones just blew my flappy bit of plastic sky-high. And I hope that this is your house this time, because I will be tracking it down.
And then there's Jenny Greenteeth. Thats kind of personal. When I was little, we had this fantastically isllustated book about fairies and monsters. They had some of the creepiest fairies ever. Including Jenny Greenteeth, who my sister was TERRIFYED of. Really, TERRIFYED. I love the sticks protruding from it's back. And those long, thin fingers splayed out under the murky water. The black, wet cheescloth hair looks really, reeeaaallllllyyyy cool. A while back you did a post on recycling your props. Mrs Greenteeth's head is the same one used for one of the victims, hanging fronm the tree, in the corn witch display, am I right?
The Sleepy Hollow pumpkin is pretty cool, and that photo of the skull with her jars is great.
Finally, the PumpkinRot Tinies. Such a cool idea.
Akrid - I love the used of the vintage-style mask and candy basket (are those sticker sheets in it?). Reminds me of one of your corn witch victims, the one with the bashed open skull. Probably the same head.
Bretchen - I really dig the utra long witches hat and the puke-green face.
Crimm - Really very cool, looks like a little version of your phantom from 2007.
And Darq - ultra creepy. Like some sort of twisted, undead slasher movie villian. I you can do the whole alphabet, I will be floored.
I would love to see a little Pumpkinrot Tinies book. You are sure to get the rights, they are just too cool to say no to. Which brings me to Haunt Theory.
I am really, really, really, really excited for that book now. Extra ultra double bazooka excited.
Thank you for making my day (or month). And sorry for making this so long.
- October 31, 2010 at 11:19 PM
- crudedoodle.com said...
insane scope.
you are the master.
My favorite is the swamp creature with the skinny fingers...waiting to pounce on someone who walks too close.
wonderful twist on the haunt.
- October 31, 2010 at 11:37 PM
- John Rozum said...
Happy Halloween!
I'm looking forward to perusing the video and photos for this year's haunt, but now I've got to get some much needed sleep. I'll pop in tomorrow.
Thanks for keeping the Jack O'Lantern lit all year long.
- October 31, 2010 at 11:49 PM
- Pam Morris said...
absolutely fantastic--music perfect, as well. I think my favorites are the zombie guys in the old abandoned warehouse setting but the skelly in the water was outstanding, too. very creepy...just wonderful...you are definitely a master, rot!
- October 31, 2010 at 11:59 PM
- Valhella said...
You continue to be an evil genius!
The images are fantastic and the creatures! wow, I will likely not be able to go near water anytime soon.
or factories.
and the skeleton wraith is eerily beautiful and lifelike.
Thank you for sharing your masterpieces!
- November 1, 2010 at 12:02 AM
- Sara said...
Wow, really wonderful. The details are amazing, the traditional aspects are there and I LOVE them(especially the ghost on the door) and the photography was beautiful! I am really glad you waited to show us this.
I am glad I watched the video first, but I adore the gallery photos. So cool. I want some cards with those images printed on them! Really, really neat! And creep. Darq(sp?) is seriously disturbing.
Did you still dress up as Michael and hand out candy to all of the ToTers?
- November 1, 2010 at 12:10 AM
- OctoberHaunt said...
Amazing. Each of these photo shoots capture different elements of the season. And without speaking a word, they are each telling a story. With your final photo at the covered bridge, I am hearing hoofbeats in the distance.
Job well done for all the time and effort this must have taken and congrats! Thank you for this Halloween gift.
- November 1, 2010 at 12:14 AM
- K.O. said...
WHOA THAT IS SO COOL! What a perfect way to end my Halloween night: with the unveiling of your 2010 masterpiece(s)!!!! Truly awesome. Happy Halloween!!!! Your creativity and talent are inspiring.
- November 1, 2010 at 1:37 AM
- Rot said...
Thanks so much, everyone. I really appreciate it - a ton.
At first I thought this sort of haunt would be less stressful and easier than a one-night event, but that wasn't the case.
We spent Halloween carving pumpkins and watching horror movies and then we took a drive to a little colonial town which I've spoken about in the past. I'm convinced it's where Halloween lives. Every house had a real jacko..I saw at LEAST five sheet-ghost costumes (that never happens)...and everyone was so happy and laughing and generous. And, for the first time in YEARS, I got to say "trick or treat" when a nice lady offered us candy from her cauldron. I'll write an entry about 2010's display this week...with some background information on the locations.
Marrow, so glad you dug it so much.
And I do believe I said that there wouldn't be a Pumpkinhead Groundbreaker in sight. ; )
And yep, that's the corpse's head who was hanging in the tree last year...I always called that prop Jenny Greenteeth, so it was fun to actually make her into that prop.
Thanks again, everyone.
- November 1, 2010 at 6:32 AM
- Unknown said...
Absolutely stunning, iconic, memorable and beautiful images. The covered bridge and the smashed pumpkin one alone is a piece of art.
I also wanted to thank you for including me in your amazing site. I feel very privileged, thank you.
- November 1, 2010 at 6:55 AM
- Rot said...
We have TONS of extra photos we'll be posting over the next month.
And all the amazing instant photographs were of course taken by Bean. I removed the white boarders, but you can still tell them from the digitals.
- November 1, 2010 at 7:04 AM
- Arcane said...
UNREAL!! The video was a blast to watch. So many evil creatures combined with creepy locations that only you can pull off. Amazing!
- November 1, 2010 at 10:41 AM
- Dio said...
Perfectly beautiful, and everything that Halloween should be.
The ghoul in the water is even more disturbing than the creatures outside the factory, in a way that I love being disturbed!
- November 1, 2010 at 11:01 AM
- Darkrose Manor said...
Wow... just wow! You never cease to amaze any of us. Thank you for your amazing creativity and artistry!
- November 1, 2010 at 11:04 AM
- HerStrangeKind said...
How wonderful everything is! I love all of the different sites you used, did you set up and strike each set the same day? I can't get out of my head the reactions people would have to your props if they just come across them randomly..if I was out for an afternoon stroll and saw the swamp creature I might never go outside again! Gahhh!
The video and photos are amazing. Would be lovely to be able to purchase a print of some of those images.
- November 1, 2010 at 11:09 AM
- Rot said...
They were done on different days, but as it got closer to Halloween, it seemed we were running out nightly to scout for locations and to do the photo shoots. It was a blur near the end... and bad weather and work were delaying things like crazy.
A handful of people got glimpses of the props ...I really can't imagine what they thought. Like the cemetery ghost...cars were driving by as I had her standing next to my car...so someone saw a white ghost near a 1700s cemetery.
- November 1, 2010 at 11:21 AM
- Mantan Calaveras said...
Awl hail da King, aul hayle theh King, owl heyl deh King O' Halloween. Of Hallowe'en, they all hail de King ohv Hallowe'en.
- November 1, 2010 at 1:48 PM
- Jon Glassett said...
I'm speechless.
- November 1, 2010 at 2:55 PM
- Unknown said...
Oh my god. tell me bretchen ain't the tin man.
- November 1, 2010 at 3:18 PM
- Rot said...
Nope. Tin Man is still nice and safe in the cellar.
- November 1, 2010 at 3:24 PM
- Goneferalinidaho said...
My favorite is the skull witch in the tree with the witch jars. Amazing job. Several photo shoots sounds like an amazing time. I've literally taken hundreds of my yard and had a blast with each one. I'm going to take my time to pour over yours. I'd better get some of my own up today!
- November 1, 2010 at 4:14 PM
- Johnny said...
- November 1, 2010 at 5:25 PM
- Drop Gallow said...
Yeah, I was going to comment but it appears everything that can be said has been said ... so, I'll just go with : lovely.
Just lovely.
- November 1, 2010 at 5:55 PM
- Jason-v said...
Love it Rot!! Great work!!!!!!!!!!!
- November 1, 2010 at 8:34 PM
- Kenneth Mark Hoover said...
Great work as always. Stunning, artistic horror.
- November 1, 2010 at 9:06 PM
- Unknown said...
that's a releif. it got the same type of jaw. i should really put up my haunt photos now.
- November 1, 2010 at 10:30 PM
- Anonymous said...
Holy Tarra says,"As usual, Rot,.....Unbelievably awesome, amazing, inspiring and F**CKING SCARY! You just keep raising the bar. You are the King! I can't pic a favorite....they are all wonderful!"
- November 1, 2010 at 11:18 PM
- Stephanie D said...
After seeing AMC's The Walking Dead this am (DVR'd of course), the warehouse scene really creeped me out.
Second creepiest--that little thing with the green glowing eyes. I'll take tall monsters any day over quick-moving, almost-seen little things.
And your swamp gal? Gotta wonder about her fate.....
- November 2, 2010 at 12:12 AM
- JHMDF said...
Come on man... that was just to good. The zombies at the factory???... really?....it was to perfect looking... and Jenny Greenteeth??... could be one of your creepiest props yet. Who are you and what planet are you from?
So so spectacular Rot... you have truly taken the yard out of yard hauntng and I think you have struck new ground in being a "home haunter"... by leaving your home. Can't wait to see more pic's of the teenies and watch the alphabet continue. I know you have done on site photo shoots with props before, but I think seeing this many in such different locations made it that much more amazing. I hope you continue this method of haunting, because it has no bounds my friend.
Good job.
- November 2, 2010 at 1:32 AM
- "Strublay" said...
Wow. I'm loving all of the photo sets. This is great work. I love the Tiny Monsters, especially Akrid, I love the strips of candy buttons in Akrids Pail, and his neon devil mask. Cool little details like that make me smile.
Beautiful work man.
- November 2, 2010 at 3:55 AM
- Hopsy the beer drinking clown said...
Phenomenal, what a cool concept-doing several different photo shoots at such creepy locations. There is something about ol' Jenny Greenteeth lurking in the mire, love it! All that and a little Edward Gorey tribute, brilliant!
- November 2, 2010 at 11:01 AM
- SkullandBone said...
Fuggin love it! I love the mobile haunt content =).
- November 2, 2010 at 11:16 AM
- The Captain said...
HOLY SHIT MAN! Every year I wait to see what you'll do and I think "oh he can't top this or that from last year". But HOLY SHIT, this was huge and amazing.
Jenny Greenteeth is my new favorite prop of yours. I think its because she looks so perfectly at home in the water, and she's creepy as hell.
I don't even know how to express how impressive you stuff is this year! All I can come up with is "HOLY SHIT".
- November 2, 2010 at 10:04 PM
- The Gill-Man said...
Truly stunning work, Rot! I'm not sure if Crimm or Jenny Greenteeth takes my top spot! Oh, and the zombies! Those guys are truly fantastic in every way. Just mind-blowing, really. Fantastic work!
- November 3, 2010 at 11:12 AM
- Johnny said...
Been listening to that album non-stop. Great find! Thanks.
- November 4, 2010 at 9:46 AM


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Whatever I'm doing, I like to get right to the point. Here's what I think about redeveloping downtown into an exciting, interesting, vibrant and moneymaking place:
It's now or never.
Aldermen can make or break downtown's — and Rockford's — future depending on how they vote Monday night. That's how important the vote will be to OK the Ziock development.
For more than 40 years I've been reading newspaper stories, sometimes writing them, about pending deals on a hotel/conference center for downtown Rockford. Those developments never happened because the "developer" always was a version of Professor Harold Hill of "The Music Man."
Fast talker. No money. No trombones.
Meanwhile, I got darned tired of having to look at the empty Ziock building, or Amerock building (as I prefer), slowly losing its windowpanes after the screw company left more than 20 years ago. I eventually urged the building's demolition, and I can't resist a John Kerryism here: "I was for demolishing the building before I was against it."
That's because we finally have a "real" developer with a proven track record, Wisconsin-based Gorman & Co., which wants to put up $52 million to turn the 13-story building into a 150-room hotel and conference center.
The hotel development on the west bank of the Rock River will coincide with the transformation of the former W.F. and John Barnes (later Ingersoll) factory on the east bank into an indoor sports complex that can hold tournaments throughout the year. The two are a block apart, connected by the Chestnut Street bridge.
Other developers are watching this like hawks. The Rockford Trust building could be repurposed. Buildings in the 300 and 400 block of East State Street already are being remodeled. The BMO Harris Bank Center and Coronado Performing Arts Center are humming. Locally owned restaurants abound.
Justin Fern of Urban Equity wants to spend $10 million to turn the former Hanley Furniture building into shops and offices. If aldermen reject the Ziock project, Fern says, all bets are off.
Downtowns are being revitalized all over this continent. The leading example is right next door. Said Crain's Chicago Business in 2013: "According to Richard Greene, a Northern Illinois University geographer and urban researcher, Chicago's central population leaped 114 percent from 1990 to 2010, hitting 141,511. ... The city is so hot that this expanded downtown is adding residents faster than any other urban core in America, according to U.S. Census Bureau data."
Rockford has been late getting to the party. But the successful redevelopment of the old brewery into the Prairie Street Brewhouse on the east bank of the river, and the lively, trendy restaurants just east of the river on State, provide an exciting idea of what the central riverfront area could become.
There is a local cost to the Ziock project. Let's face it, downtown is a nightmare of pointless one-way streets and street segments that confuse the heck out of anyone coming here from out of town. I know this because truck drivers trying to make deliveries to our loading dock are totally perplexed. Then they have to ask directions for getting out of town because you can't go back the way you came. I have a hard time telling them the best way to go because there is no best way, only a variety of bad ways.
So Gorman wants the city to make long-needed traffic improvements and add a parking ramp. Altogether that will cost $18.6 million. One splendid way to get most of the money would be to cancel the planned $15.5 million downsizing of the Whitman Street interchange. This is a project without a constituency except for some propeller heads at City Hall. Put it in the closet where the Wallenberg Expressway is stored.
Every conference, every convention I've attended has featured a brochure picturing the inviting skyline, riverfront, lakefront or oceanfront of the host city. What are we supposed to picture? How about a bright, inviting riverfront that says "You need to see this place."
Yes, that's show business; everything in America is, political guru Zeke Giorgi once said. Are we ready for prime time? Or do we wish to skulk back into the comfortable negativity that has frustrated progress since our great-grandfathers ignored the forward-looking Rockford Plan of 1918 and slowly kill the city?
As I said aldermen, it's now or never. Let's see a 13-1 vote, because in Rockford, that's unanimous.
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LPS v1.2.2 is released
"And the advice given in the FAQs and manual, telling the user how to maintain security, as, for example, for making secure banking transactions to start up, "
Ctbankix is designed specifically for secure online banking
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Posted: Fri 22 Jul 2011, 18:33
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The perennial problem with doing banking, or anything else you want sure security for, from anywhere out and about is router insecurity. Router insecurity can be "router security", and is in most provided wifi settings. This because "for security", meaning for defense against being caught in a legal tangle for "culpably allowing" one's facilities to be used for an illegal purpose, providers engage in "monitoring" traffic through their wifi routers, so they may claim to have "attempted to prevent", which establishes them a victim, not a participant.
In publicly available situations the monitoring is not done by security-cleared individuals. Essentially, the monitoring soft-ware is there. For this everyone with access to the router (onsite and off) has access to monitored data, and anyone of those with access to decoding and decrypting programming can mine, even back in time, since it is always safer to save, in case someone (or agency) should ask. This means, in hotels, restaurants, coffee-shops, kiosks, etc., any tech-savvy waiter, busboy, janitor, counterperson, temporary, contractor, etc., or "friend of" any one can real-time monitor, or mine back. The router-in-the-middle is is a weak link.
So, if you are public even with LPS you are depending mostly on anonymity for security, that is, on your transmissions being lost in the flow of traffic. The best alternative is to make a tunnel to a secure router first, then transmit data through to that and on from there. This is what the CAC-secured connect-to-your-government-system capability that LPS developers will set up for government clients does for them.
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LPS is bound to have a backdoor installed for the control-freak spooks somewhere.
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Posted: Sat 23 Jul 2011, 10:07
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» one thing that makes it safer is lack of tools to mess with the hard disks as well as no ability to mount the partitions
» it is easy to install on the hdd
» one could easily modify init (the file with the programs) to personalize it
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Posted: Sat 23 Jul 2011, 16:21
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dawg wrote:
LPS is bound to have a backdoor installed for the control-freak spooks somewhere.
in general, one might say the same thing about "The Internet".
"you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go.."
- Cormac McCarthy - No Country For Old Men.
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Posted: Sat 23 Jul 2011, 16:24
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Bruce B wrote:
some observations
» one thing that makes it safer is lack of tools to mess with the hard disks as well as no ability to mount the partitions
Good thought. Recently worried about some thread on BarryK's blog where a few folks mentioned adding in auto-mounting as a feature. LPS security, like that of Puppy, seems to involve a couple of simple ideas - no automounting of drives, and non-persistence of the operating system. LPS forces non-persistence.
"you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go.."
- Cormac McCarthy - No Country For Old Men.
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Posted: Sat 23 Jul 2011, 17:29
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The initrd is a squashfs version 3
I can't mount it in Lupu 5.20 because it is an earlier version 3 than the one Lupu supports. Which brings me to this question. Which Puppies used the earlier squashfs version 3?
My idea is to modify, personalize, initrd.
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Posted: Sat 23 Jul 2011, 18:54
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I think earlier than p431.
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Posted: Sat 23 Jul 2011, 19:27
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Bruce B,
Under "Utilities" in the puppy menu there is an "SFSConverter" utility. It should be able to make 4-series sfs files 3-series. If not you unsquash a 4-series and resquash it a 3.
You would also have to install puppy's sfs mounting at startup system, in the boot-manager section of the set-up system, or the add sfs-files on the fly pet.
I don't think LPS allows user modification, though. It is part of the system's attacks-prevention hardening. See the documentation html file with the download, which lets you open pdfs of LPS documents, also provided with the download. These are also available in LPS when it is installed.
The hardening, preventing ANY modification is good for in-organization general use and users, who can trust the system as provided by fellow members of their organization. The problem for non-members (like us of the general public, around the world) is that we are not U.S. DoD, and need to be able to assure ourselves there is no DoD monitoring of our non-DoD systems. Once it would have been normal to assume the U.S. Dod would simply make a secure system and provide it for anyone to use. But nowadays spying and intruding have become so ubiquitous even those who one would normally trust one needs to confirm one can trust.
Puppies you can get into and look around in and remove what you don't trust from. That, with a vigilant community, active at programming levels, is about the best anyone can hope today for base system security.
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Posted: Tue 02 Aug 2011, 16:33
Post subject: Drones and Spy-planes you requested
Security....why concern yourself?
Someone, earlier commented, that they used LPS and "no drones ...." Well, here are the drones and the spy planes you asked for.
Firstly, Try to be a little conscious of finding some tool which is useful and offers resonable protection for what you envision your need(s) to be. There is no "perfect" solution. But, there are many useful ones.
Secondly, I've got to get me one of those "flying machines". Maybe I can convert its use to be a router or something....maybe.
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Posted: Tue 02 Aug 2011, 20:54
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I enjoyed the wasp link
Puppies you can get into and look around in and remove what you don't trust from. That, with a vigilant community, active at programming levels, is about the best anyone can hope today for base system security.
On the whole I think in terms of using what is insecure, securely.
As always the biggest liability is me.
I am using Android on my phone and realising that most apps request permission to spy on me, tweet on my behalf and empty my bank account at their discretion . . . it is a security nightmare
I would be quite happy using LPS, apart from transferring my billions of Ugandan dollars (have not heard from them for a while) from my favourite phishing expedition . . .
I would be happy using any wooflet and a few puplets that I keep an eye on . . .
Many people manage real money with their phones or with MS Windows (strange but true)
I tend to trust individual penguins and secure quantum tunneling (not yet available) but how about using an updated Onebone?
A command line Puppy might be secure enough?
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Posted: Tue 02 Aug 2011, 22:36
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And for a next generation of drone-craft... A combination of the hacking and cracking capabilities of the WASP project with the Flying Ball the Japanese Defense Tech people have developed, demonstrated in a youtube video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mUNIvlgYKk&feature .
Able to fly in closed spaces, to hover, to dodge around obstacles and into close spaces, to bounce off walls, to send back navigation and data video both, while it is cracking your encryption (or just reading your passwords from your fingers as you enter them, looking over your shoulder), it will be able to follow us over field and through forest, around rock and under tree, through thickets and culverts, right into our shelters! Perhaps even bouncing its signals off of our tin-foil hats, turning what has been our ultimate protection into its auxiliary aerial to use it against us!
Of course, the military's needs for security are the same as ours and everyone's (Who was first to recognize the wisdom of wearing tin-hats, after all?), they will have to watch out for the same things we do.
This means they have to watch out for alterations being made to their secure Light Personal Security operating system out in the field. Enemies or spies making altered forms and substituting them, swapping USB sticks on agents or service-members in the field, so their reports back would go the wrong way, or two ways instead of one. For this we can be pretty sure the LPS system does, or soon will, have a write-home as soon as a net connection is established, to send at least a hash to security check the field install, to make sure it hasn't been altered. The check will be a needed security for those of the DoD system, but it will be an insecurity for the rest of us, since the nature of spying is to use available resources.
For this nature, once it is known in bureaucratic circles that there is a civilian following using LPS for its security, and that there is a doorway, some agency will inevitably arrange to use that doorway "for security". Especially since, with the system closed, no one will ever know...
It's another reason the keys to personal security are simpicity and transparency, so wee can see where leaks might occur and how they might occur. Then we can patch as we go along, swapping info abut what leaks and what seems to work to patch in each case.
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Posted: Mon 22 Aug 2011, 03:43
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I really like LPS, but couldn't get my onboard via82xx ac97 sound to work.
Out of my 4 wireless cards only 1 didn't work.
Everything works fine in puppy though.
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I liked it and the oo version would be a quick easy way to have oo when I need it. For online, I can just dis-able the hdd and run Puppy.
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Post subject: LPS v Puppy
Subject description: Inability to Update Quickly is a Security Flaw
I think Puppy is basically better for normal user security (like online banking) than LPS.
For one thing, LPS does not (in the version I tried) have an ability to update the boot disc with browser patches. (Puppy supports DVD updates as new "sessions" on a multi-session boot DVD.) Not allowing updates is a problem because we know from Microsoft Windows that attackers do in fact reverse-engineer patches in hours or days, to find and exploit those faults. So this is a security hole waiting to be used, even in Linux.
Another LPS security issue is Java. Currently, almost all malware will not run under Linux (except for systems with Wine), because Linux is not Microsoft Windows. But Java holds the possibility of a single platform covering both Windows and non-Windows systems, which may be fairly attractive to some attackers.
The advantage of an optical disc is that it is "difficult or impossible" to infect (especially in Puppy, where the boot DVD can be removed). To some extent, Puppy discards the DVD advantage by checking for and using existing Puppy files as it comes up. Thus, it may be possible for Puppy malware to write such a file to a hard drive, thus infecting even a DVD boot (not the DVD, but all subsequent sessions) on that system. This would imply that any Puppy system with a hard drive (or flash drive) has a security hole, even with a DVD boot.
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2019-11-04 (URGENCE NEWS) | Welcome! Today I did some analysis on Azure Power Global Limited based on how it has behaved over the past few trading sessions. First of all, please note that this is technical analysis only (ie. analyzing how AZRE is trading, not digging into the company fundamentals), and therefore you should not rely only on this to guide you on whether you should buy or sell AZRE – take it with a grain of salt only, and pay attention to the disclaimer below. With that said, many traders find value in technical analysis and others even swear by it, so if that is you, I hope my analysis will be of use to you. Let's get to it…
First things first: during its last day of trading, AZRE opened at 12.84, got to a maximum price of 12.84 and dropped to as low as 12.6 before finishing the session at 12.81. In total there were 3239 shares traded, which is enough to conduct our analysis.
VOLUME ANALYSIS: Generally, the higher the volume indicators are, the better – you need liquidity to trade, after all. All of the volume indicators are as follows… (click here for an explanation on volume)
- accumulation-distribution index: 57.76
- on-balance volume: -12.91
- chaikin money flow: 0.50194
- force index: 0.032
- ease of movement rating: 0.0033
- volume-price trend: 1.86251
- negative volume index: 1000.0
VOLATILITY INDICATORS: These are what tell you how much the stock has really been moving around. We have calculated all of them (click here for an explanation on volatility)
- average true range: 0.14606
- bolinger bands: 12.65485
- upper bolinger band: 12.48515
- lower bolinger band: 12.6
- bolinger high band indicator: 1.0
- bolinger low band indicator: 1.0
- central keltner channel: 12.76
- high band keltner channel: 12.76
- low band keltner channel: 12.76
- high band keltner channel indicator: 1.0
- low band keltner channel indicator: 1.0
- donchian channel high band: 12.6
- donchian channel low band: 12.6
- donchian channel high band indicator: 1.0
- donchian channel low band indicator: 1.0
Now for the most important indicator of all, the trend. Is the stock bullish or bearish? Is it going up or down? Various trend indicators can give us a good indication… (click here for an explanation on trend)
- Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD): -0.00135
- MACD Signal: -0.00075
- MACD Difference: -0.0006
- Fast Exponential Moving Average (EMA) indicator: 12.6
- Slow Exponential Moving Average (EMA) indicator: 12.6
- Average Directional Movement Index (ADX): unknown
- ADX positive: 20.0
- ADX negative: 20.0
- Positive Vortex Indicator (VI): 1.0
- Negative Vorted Indicator: 1.0
- Trend vortex difference: 0.22935
- Trix: 10.60215
- Mass Index (MI): 1.8
- Commodity Channel Index (CCI): -66.66667
- Detrended Price Oscillator (DPO): -1.5922
- KST Oscillator: 144.64279
- KST Signal: 144.64279
- KST Difference: -1.36267
- Ichimoku rating: 12.84
- Ichimoku B rating: 12.84
- Ichimoku visual trend A: 11.36982
- Ichimoku visual trend B: 11.68548
- Aroon Indicator (AI) up: 4.0
- Aroon Indicator down: 4.0
- Difference: -4.0
Now for momentum. Relative strength is what you want to pay attention to here (click here for an explanation on momentum)
- Relative Strength Index (RSI): 50.0
- Money Flow Index (MFI): 100.0
- True Strength Index (TSI): 100.0
- Ultimate oscillator: 86.90099
- Stochastic oscillator: 50.0
- Stochastic oscillator signal: 50.0
- Williams %R rating: -50.0
- Awesome oscillator: -0.03717
And for the final and simplest part: the return. No complicated calculations needed here!
- Daily return: 14.46428
- Daily log return: -0.47733
- Cumulative return return: -0.47619
THE VERDICT: For today (2019-11-04), our analysis of technical indicators for Azure Power Global Limited ($AZRE) indicates the following (thanks to Trading View for the widget):
The verdict above will consider all these technical indicators and consider which are strong and weak, and then put them all together to come up with a conclusion stating whether AZRE is strong or weak. Again – this is not a reliable indication of whether Azure Power Global Limited is a good investment! None of these indicators consider the company fundamentals. All of this data is based on how it trades only.
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Mankind has caused no end of accidental extinctions, but there's one intentional one that we're rightly proud of: smallpox, which no longer circulates in the human population. But last year, humanity celebrated a similar success, eliminating another virus from the wild. It just didn't get as much attention because the virus in question targeted cattle. But, for those whose livelihoods depend on cattle, this was a major advance. And, according to a review of its eradication published in Science, our ability to wipe it out in a few remaining pockets of Africa may have important lessons for other diseases, including those that infect humans.
The virus in question, a relative of the measles virus, causes a disease called rinderpest. If it isn't familiar, that may be because it was such a problem that control efforts in Europe date back as far as the 1600s. Use of vaccines against it date back to the 1800s (and, the article helpfully points out, rinderpest control was the target of the first rectal thermometers). As a result, the virus has been largely in check in Europe.
But in the late 1800s, it made the jump to Africa, and the results explain why eliminating the virus is such a triumph: the paper cites a 90 percent mortality as the virus spread through the continent. That's also why it's generally been considered the animal disease that has the largest impact on human well-being.
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The vaccinations and control strategies that worked well in many parts of Europe also limited rinderpest in some parts of Africa. By the 1980s, the international groups and the governments of Africa attempted a continent-wide vaccination campaign, which severely limited the presence of the virus, confining it primarily to a remote area of Uganda and unstable areas in the Horn of Africa, such as Sudan and Somalia and their neighbors. By 1990, Ethiopia was using 21 million doses of vaccine in an attempt to wipe out the last pockets of the virus.
At that point, animal health authorities began to worry that "The eradication effort was drifting toward indefinite disease containment of remote endemic areas, with donor fatigue looming on the horizon." A fundamental rethink seemed to be required.
Fortunately, some of the pieces were already in place. In the 1980s, a vaccine that could maintain potency without refrigeration was identified as a research priority. In only four years, the animal health community had one that could go without refrigeration for at least a month.
Meanwhile, studies of the virus itself had provided some measures of the efficiency of its spread, and the size of unvaccinated populations needed for it to maintain itself in the wild. Key measures like the number of infections that result from each infected animal suggested that a herd immunity level of 80 percent immunity would be enough to wipe the virus out.
In areas with limited infrastructure and government, however, getting to that level of vaccination was going to be a challenge. So, the eradication program decided to forgo the usual infrastructure and train the animal equivalent of community health workers. These would both report on outbreaks of the disease, and help get vaccine to the remote regions and administer it there. To gain acceptance from the local communities, the local veterinary experts (both trained and informal) had to be assured that these new workers were not a threat to their livelihood.
With the new plan in place, Ethiopia went from administering 20 million doses down to doing 3 million annually, but targeting them to the areas where they would disrupt transmission of the disease and eradicate reservoirs. In Somalia, total immunity probably didn't get much above half but, with careful targeting, that was enough.
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Two factors were essential for the elimination of rinderpest: the relatively low rate at which infections spread from a single animal, and the fact that African cattle have an average lifespan of five years, which allows a single vaccination to have an extended benefit. The high rate of mortality also ensured that there was a high interest in getting rid of the disease.
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All of that assumes a that the local population has bought into the need for the vaccine. And, at least in the case of the human disease closest to eradication, polio, that has become a serious problem, as many local figures in the last remaining pockets have linked the vaccine to various conspiracies.
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ushroom caps are generously stuffed with a combination of sautéed baby spinach, chopped mushrooms, bacon, bread crumbs and Parmesan cheese. A lighter alternative to traditional stuffed mushrooms yet loaded with tons of flavor. The stuffing is so good, I could eat it by the spoonful!
I like the flavor of real bacon, so I buy center cut which is a bit leaner than regular bacon and I drain it well after cooking. Can you make them with turkey bacon? Sure, if you don't eat pork that would work.
Can you make these vegetarian? Why not replace the bacon with a little Feta cheese and chopped fresh herbs.
Can you make them ahead of time? Yes, you can prepare the stuffing ahead, then fill and bake them right before serving.
They are only 34 calories each or for those of you on Weight Watchers, only 1 point each so I know what some of you will be making Superbowl Sunday!! Enjoy!
Skinny Spinach and Bacon Stuffed Mushrooms
Servings: 11 • Serving Size: 1 mushroom • Points +: 1 pts • Smart Points: 1
Calories: 34.7 • Fat: 1.5 g • Protein: 2.9 g • Carb: 3.2 g • Fiber: 0.9 g • Sugar: 0.7
Sodium: 58.3 (without salt)
14 oz (1 package) fresh mushrooms, stems separated
2 garlic cloves, sliced thin
4 cups fresh baby spinach
4 slices center cut bacon
1 tsp olive oil
1/4 cup Italian seasoned bread crumbs
2 tbsp shredded Parmesan cheese
Smart Balance cooking spray
Preheat the oven to 400°F. Lightly spray a foil lined baking pan or baking dish with cooking spray.
Remove stems from mushrooms and mince fine.
Heat a medium sized skillet. Rinse spinach and add to the skillet; cook until it wilts, about 2
minutes. Remove from the pan, squeeze excess liquid and chop fine. Set aside.
Dry skillet, add bacon to the skillet and cook on low heat until bacon is cooked through. Set aside on a paper towel. Coarsely chop.
Clean skillet and add olive oil to the pan. Add garlic and saute until golden, about 2 minutes. Add minced mushroom stems and saute until soft, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat and combine mushroom stems with sauteed spinach, bacon, bread crumbs, and parmesan
Season mushroom caps with salt. Fill mushrooms with spinach mixture, rounding tops off. Place on an oven safe dish and lightly spray the tops with oil.
Bake 20 minutes or until golden. Eat warm.
Makes about 11 medium sized mushrooms.
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