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Tuesday June 13th is Cupcake Lovers Day 🙂
Coming up with a cupcake recipe for this awesome day should be so easy for me – after all, I am writing a cupcake cookbook! But as the day neared, I found myself surprisingly uninspired. So I decided to get my creative juices flowing by looking at the history of the cupcake and discovering why they are indeed called cupcakes.
Historically there are two types of cupcakes. The first is called a cupcake because the ingredients are measured by volume rather than weight. For this type of cake, most of the ingredients are measured in a cup. A popular cupcake of this type is called a 1234 cake because it is made with 1 cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 3 cups flour and 4 eggs. These cakes are usually baked in conventional cake pans.
The second type of cupcake is the cupcake we know and love today. They are called cupcakes because before the invention of muffin tins, these small, single serve cakes were actually baked in tea cups or mugs. Today, cupcakes are no longer baked in cups but are baked in muffin tins lined with decorative paper cases. They are usually topped with frosting or icing and can be filled or unfilled. They can also be decorated in many creative ways.
Did my trip down cupcake history lane whet my appetite? It sure did! After much thought and battling sugar cravings, I was inspired by the concept of the mug cake – quick, single serve cakes that are baked in mugs. But what I really wanted was to make a small batch of cupcakes baked in paper cases, not mugs. A quick bit of research and I happily discovered that there are many recipes for 1 or 2 cupcakes. The recipes for 1 cupcake required tablespoon measurements of egg white which I really don't have time for, so I explored the 2 cupcake recipes, most of which use a whole egg white.
I know what you're thinking. Why would you only bake 2 cupcakes? Well, I'd like to say it's because I'm worried about eating a dozen cupcakes on my own but I would be lying 🙂 I was really thinking that by making only 2 cupcakes at a time I can experiment with more flavours and more combinations. In fact, I could well end up eating more than a dozen! I also did think there may be people out there who would like to make small batch cupcakes. So here is the first of what I hope are many creations for my "two for me" cupcakes!
Two Brown Butter Vanilla Cupcakes
30g (2 tablespoons) unsalted butter
1 egg white
2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
pinch of sea salt
1 + 1/2 tablespoons milk
Preheat the oven to 180C / 350F.
Place 2 paper cases in either a 6-hole or 12-hole muffin pan.
Add the butter to a small frying pan.
Carefully swirl the pan for two minutes or until the butter is golden brown, being careful not to burn the butter.
Pour into a heat-proof bowl and allow to cool slightly.
In a mixing bowl, whisk together the egg white and sugar until combined.
Stir in the vanilla and melted butter.
Sift in the flour, baking powder and salt. Stir until combined.
Add the milk and stir until just combined.
Divide the batter evenly between the 2 paper cases.
Bake for 10 – 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the centre of a cupcake comes out clean.
Allow to cool for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
So how do you frost two cupcakes? Well the possibilities are endless. As you are not going to make a huge batch of frosting – unless you want to – you can be a bit more creative with your topping choices. For one of the cupcakes I went the simple route. I topped the cupcake with a dollop of double cream and grated some white chocolate over the top. You can do this with any of your favourite toppings and spreads. No recipe needed!
For the other cupcake, I challenged myself to create frosting for one, because who doesn't want to know how to make frosting just for yourself 🙂 There were many options available but I finally went for a peanut butter one. The thought of a brown butter cupcake topped with peanut butter frosting actually made me drool.
Peanut Butter Frosting For One
1 tablespoon unsalted butter, room temperature
2 tablespoons peanut butter
2 tablespoons icing (powdered) sugar
1 tablespoon milk
In a small bowl, whisk together the butter and peanut butter. You can use a small whisk or a fork.
Whisk in the icing sugar until combined
Mix in the milk and whisk until you reach your desired consistency.
Dollop onto cupcake.
Click Cupcakes for more of my recipes 🙂


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Rand Paul urges conservatives to fight with him for liberty
By Seth McLaughlin
The Washington Times
Friday, March 7, 2014
Sen. Rand Paul urged the thousands that turned out for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to imagine electing a "friend of liberty" to the White House who will defend the Constitution and push back against a federal government that is trampling over their individual rights.
Mr. Paul, a likely 2016 presidential contender, suggested that he might fit the bill, and said it will take a "national revival of liberty" to restore the constitutional rights that have have been under assault by the Obama administration.
"You may think I am talking about electing a Republican. I am not," Mr. Paul said. "I am talking about electing lovers of liberty. It isn't good enough to pick the lesser of two evils. We must elect men and women of principle, and conviction and action that will lead us back to greatness."
The remarks sparked a round of applause from libertarian-leaning crowd, which is champing at the bit for Mr. Paul to followed in the footsteps of his father, former Texas Rep. Ron Paul, by running for the White House.
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HCN received 71 entries to our Weird West 40th anniversary photo contest. Editors selected the top images voted on by readers, plus a few of our personal favorites, for this slide show. You can see all of the contest images and submit your photos and writings to our upcoming contests at our 40th anniversary website.
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Steps involved in orthodox tea manufacture: Majority of the processing steps are identical to that of CTC manufacture. The steps involved in orthodox tea manufacture include withering, preconditioning, rolling (roller or rotorvanes), roll-breaking and green leaf sifting, fermentation, drying, grading & sorting and finally packing.
Normally withering is carried out by spreading the leaves thinly on banks of trays or "tats" made of tightly stretched jute Hessian or wire-netting. The tats are kept 12 to 15 centimeters apart, to allow free access of air. There are two types of withering; open withering and closed withering. The open or "chung" type of withering accommodation admits of no control of rate of withering except by thickness of spread and the length of time of the withering phase. This is "natural withering" in its simplest form. The average length of time for withering is 18 to 20 hours where "tats" are used. In modern trough withering system 16-18 hours is the duration of wither with normal ambient air. In rainy season, to remove the surface moisture, heaters are used along with fans for two hours. Modern methods greatly reduce the withering time but they can also lower the quality of the final product by reducing the time for chemical withering. In general, south Indian tea manufacture is carried out with withered leaves having a moisture content of 60-65% for orthodox type of manufacture.
Rolling: When a satisfactory wither has been obtained the leaf is ready for rolling, which twists the leaf, breaks it up and expresses the juices (substrates and enzymes). The machines used vary in size and design but their principles are alike, they compress and turn the leaf over. This step facilitates mixing up of cell constituents viz., enzymes and substrate, thereby starting fermentation, while the maceration is complete in CTC, in orthodox only internal injury is imparted due to rolling. Enzymic oxidation of the catechins (polyphenols) begins at this stage.
Rotor Vane: The rolled leaves are fed into the rotor vane, which mixes the leaves thoroughly aiding in the cell maceration and extraction of the juice from the leaves.This step ensures proper coating of the leaf with the juice thereby facilitating subsequent processes viz., rolling and fermentation.
Roll breaking and green leaf sifting: These two steps are involved mainly for the orthodox type of manufacture. On discharge from the roller the leaf mass is more or less compressed into lumps. These are broken up in the sifting process by the machine which usually combines the operation of roll-breaker and sifter. The roll-breaker and green-leaf sifter in the first instance cools the leaf, secondly it aerates the mass, and thirdly by sieving out particles of small size it separates leaf into portions that will be reasonably uniform in their rate of fermentation.
Fermentation: Though actual fermentation starts at rolling it is continued in the next stage. The sifted leaves are spread out in thin layers on tables or perforated aluminum trays or into aluminum drums, in order to continue the oxidative process. During fermentation, the leaf changes colour and turns into a dark coppery tone. Typical aroma develops at this stage. The ideal conditions for fermentation are dhool temperature <30oC, moisture ~55%, pH 4.5 to 5.0 and relative humidity >90%. When the fermentation is judged to be sufficient (colour & nose assessment) the fermenting dhool is transferred to the drier. Googhie cum floor Drum fermentation is extensively used in south Indian tea Industry for orthodox type of tea manufacture.
Drying: Endless chain pressure driers as described in the CTC process are also commonly used in orthodox tea manufacturing. After firing, the tea is spread out to cool and then temporarily stored to wait sorting. Modern innovations on the drier are the hot-feed drier, where hot air is supplied separately to the feeder to arrest fermentation immediately as the dhool is fed, and the fluid-bed drier where the leaf moves from one end of the chamber to the other over a perforated plate in a liquid fashion.
Grading and sorting: Grading and sorting: Grading is carried out on mechanically oscillated sieves, similar to those used in the green leaf stage and fitted with meshes of appropriate size. Finished grades are stored in air-tight bins until a sufficient quantity has been accumulated to fill a consignment. The common grades of orthodox tea are as follows.
|Flowery Pekoe
|Whole leaf
|Fine Tippy Golden Orange Pekoe
|Tippy Golden Orange Pekoe
|Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe
|Flowery Orange Pekoe
|Orange Pekoe
|Broken Orange Pekoe one
|Golden Flowery Broken Orange Pekoe
|Broken Pekoe Souchong
|Golden Broken Orange Pekoe
|Flowery Broken Orange Pekoe
|Broken Orange Pekoe
|Golden Orange Fannings
|Flowery Orange Fannings
|Broken Orange Pekoe Fannings
|Orange Pekoe Dust
|Orange Churamani Dust
|Broken Orange Pekoe Dust
|Broken Orange Pekoe Fine Dust
|Fine Dust
|Dust – A
|Special Dust
|G. Dust
|Golden Dust
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Touhou 12 ~ Undefined Fantastic Object announcedWednesday, February 25th, 2009
Master ZUN has taken a break from drinking to post some screenshots for his next game; you can see Reimu's (nice) boat and some UFOs at his blog:
And it has playable Sanae!
A bad translation, with a guess at the name æ±æ–¹æ˜Ÿè"®èˆ¹:
A Special Day, Touhou Project #12 Touhou Seirensen
Note: not actually special.
"Touhou Seirensen ~ Undefined Fantastic Object."
Unlike the usual, I've made some pretty big balancing changes to the scoring system; it should be pretty challenging. I've paid close attention* to the difficulty level. It should be pretty easy on Easy(?).
The story is simply put:
"In the early spring of Gensokyo, everyone was talking about the treasure ship they saw fly through the sky. Thinking 'that's a good omen', everyone went chasing after its shadow, looking to be the first to board the ship."
It doesn't have a very serious feeling.
With Sanae added, there are now three playable characters. Each of them choose one of two objectives and go chasing after the ship at top speed. The surprisingly non-serious objectives will… but anyway.
The release is planned for 2009 summer. The demo is planned for Reitaisai on March 8th. After you're tired of the demo you can use it as a nabe stand. The demo will have three stages, as always. Actually the entire game will be "as always", as always. No matter how old it gets, it still remembers the old days.
* or it could be "I've reduced…", but that's not likely…
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Compatible with all Barco large venue and business projector series, the Projector Toolset provides your facility management with an intuitive way to manage an entire fleet of projectors. For example, in college buildings, museums, conference centers or other facilities with a complex visualization network, clicking one button from the comfort of a desktop computer to start up your projector fleet has a huge impact on your time management.
Because Barco strongly believes in supporting you with the right tools to make use of all features our visualization offers, we have made our Projector Toolset available as one package. And best of all – it's completely free of charge.


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Former SJ Merc sportswriter Ann Killion goes solo
Former San Jose Mercury News sportswriter Ann Killion, who left the newspaper at the end of July, now has her own sports blog at annkillion.com. You can also follow her on twitter @annkillion.
I would say her blog needs more frequent updates — the most recent post is 5 days old — but I think anybody who loses a job they've had for more than 20 years is entitled to some time for readjustment. I love her writing, so here's hoping for more of it.


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Michael Davis of the highly influential band MC5 died on Friday (Feb. 17) at age 68 following a battle with liver disease. The bassist played on all three of the group's studio records, including the legendary 1969 album 'Kick Out the Jams.'
According to the BBC, Davis's wife Angela revealed the news that her husband passed away over the weekend. He had been a patient at the Enloe Medical Center in Chico, Calif. during his recent health battle.
Davis helped solidify the classic lineup of MC5 (short for "Motor City Five," after their Detroit homebase and the number of musicians in the band) when he joined in 1965. The group quickly won over live crowds all over the nation with their ignitable blend of garage and psychedelic rock.
Along with vocalist Rob Tyner, guitarists Wayne Kramer and Fred "Sonic" Smith, and drummer Dennis Thompson, Davis recorded three albums with MC5 — 'Kick Out the Jams,' 1970′s 'Back in the USA' and 1971′s 'High Time.'
The band's popularity faded to the point that they broke up in 1972, but over time the influence of their music grew and they are now considered one of the earliest influences of the punk rock movement.
Tyner and Smith both died of heart attacks, in 1991 and 1994 respectively. The remaining members of MC5, including Davis, reunited for various shows and tours starting in 2003. Davis also formed the Music is Revolution Foundation to support musical education in public schools.
His goal for the organization is stated clearly on its website: "This is not about making kids sit through music that means nothing to them. It is about helping them use music as a way to express whatever is in their souls. If we can give this to kids, then we are giving them, and society, a gift that is priceless."


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Acute HIV infection
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Acute HIV infection is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a virus that gradually destroys the immune system.
Alternative Names
Primary HIV infection; HIV seroconversion syndrome; Acute retroviral syndrome; HIV infection - acute
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Primary or acute HIV infection occurs 2 - 4 weeks after infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The virus is spread by:
- Sexual contact
- Contaminated blood transfusions and blood products
- Injection drug use with contaminated needles and syringes
- Passing through the placenta from an infected, pregnant mother to the unborn baby
- Breastfeeding (rarely)
After someone is infected with HIV, blood tests can detect antibodies to the virus, even if they never had any symptoms of their infection. This is called HIV seroconversion (converting from HIV negative to HIV positive by blood testing), and usually occurs within 3 months of exposure, but on rare occasions can by delayed up to a year after infection.
Following the initial infection, there may be no further evidence of illness for the next 10 years. This stage is called asymptomatic HIV infection.
Acute HIV infection can, but does not always, progress to early symptomatic HIV infection and to advanced HIV disease (AIDS). However, the vast majority of patients do ultimately progress to AIDS. To date there are a small number of people who have tested positive for HIV, but later no longer test positive and have no signs of disease. Although this is relatively rare, it provides evidence that the human body may be capable of removing the disease. These people are being carefully watched and studied.
HIV has spread throughout the world. Higher numbers of people with the disease are found in large metropolitan centers, inner cities, and among certain populations with high-risk behaviors.
Note: At the time of diagnosis with HIV, many people have not experienced any symptoms.
Acute HIV infection can appear like infectious mononucleosis, flu, or other viral illnesses. If symptoms occur, they are usually seen 1 - 4 weeks after becoming infected.
Any of the following symptoms can occur:
- Decreased appetite
- Fatigue
- Fever
- Headache
- Malaise
- Muscle stiffness or aching
- Rash
- Sore throat
- Swollen lymph glands
- Ulcers of the mouth and esophagus
These symptoms can last from a few days to 4 weeks, and then subside.
Signs and tests
HIV ELISA/Western blot test is usually negative or undetermined during the acute infection and will become positive over the next 3 months.
HIV RNA test ("viral load") is positive in patients with acute HIV infection.
Lower-than-normal CD4 (white blood cell) count may be a sign of a suppressed immune system. The CD4 count usually improves 1 - 2 months after acute infection.
White blood cell differential may show abnormalities.
People with HIV infection need to be educated about the disease and its treatment so they can be active partners in making decisions with their health care provider.
There is still controversy about whether aggressive early treatment of HIV infection with anti-HIV medications (also called antiretroviral medications) will slow the long term progression of disease. You should discuss this option with your health care provider.
Follow these healthy practices in the early stages of HIV infection:
- Avoid exposure to people with infectious illnesses.
- Avoid settings and situations that could lead to depression. Maintain positive social contacts, hobbies, interests, and pets.
- Eat a nutritious diet with enough calories.
- Get enough exercise, but don't wear yourself out.
- Keep stress to a minimum.
- Practice safer sex. The disease is highly transmissible, especially in the first months after infection.
Support Groups
You can often reduce the stress of illness by joining a support group where members share common experiences and problems. See AIDS - support group.
Expectations (prognosis)
There is no cure for HIV infection or AIDS. However, appropriate treatment can dramatically improve the length and quality of life for persons infected with HIV, and can delay the onset of AIDS.
The treatments for conditions that occur with early symptomatic HIV disease vary in effectiveness. Some infections and diseases are easier than others to treat with medications.
- AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome)
- Autoimmune diseases
- Cancers, typically Kaposi's sarcoma and lymphomas
Calling your health care provider
Call for an appointment with your health care provider if you have had a possible or actual exposure to AIDS or HIV infection, or if you are at risk and have had symptoms like those of acute HIV infection.
For a comprehensive discussion, see the prevention section in AIDS.
Safer sex behaviors may reduce the risk of getting the infection. There is still a risk of getting infected with HIV, even if you practice "safe sex," because condoms can break. Abstinence is the only sure way to prevent sexual transmission of the HIV virus.
General guidelines:
- Do not have unprotected sexual intercourse with numerous partners or anyone who has multiple partners, uses IV drugs, or that has or may be infected with AIDS.
- Avoid injection drug use. If you do use such drugs, do not share needles or syringes.
- People with AIDS or who have had positive HIV antibody tests can pass the disease on to others and should not donate blood, plasma, body organs, or sperm. Do not exchange body fluids during sexual activity.
People who are at risk for HIV infection should have regular testing to ensure early diagnosis and prompt treatment.
Masur H, Healey L, Hadigan C. Treatment of human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 412.
Sax PE, Walker BD. Immunopathogenesis of human immunodeficiency infection. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 408.


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SailTime Franchise Opportunity
SailTime was founded in 2001 and since then we have prided ourself as an innovator in the fractional membership industry.
As the sharing economy continues to grow and expand, the booming demand for Easy, Affordable and Smart ways to get on the water seems indisputable. And the validation of our innovative, membership-based approach comes from the most important source of all: the 1000+ enthusiastic, paying members who are leading happier, healthier and less stressful lives thanks to SailTime. We are looking for the right people…individuals and groups with the resources, vision and dedication to excellence it will take to introduce the exciting SailTime concept to their market.
If you think the SailTime franchise opportunity might be right for you…and that you might be right for SailTime…please fill out and submit our confidential information request, or just give us a call with any questions today. Click here to research locations.
We look forward to hearing from you soon.
Todd Hess, President, The SailTime Group, LLC
A Business for You
- Do you have a Vision for building a successful boating business in your local area and waterway?
- Do you have a passion for the water and boating and the lifestyle that goes with it?
- Do you have the entrepreneurial talents and Sales and Marketing background that is required to build a successful business from the ground up?
- Do you have the time and/or flexibility in your schedule to be able to focus your energies where they are necessary to start a successful business especially in the start up phase?
- Do you have access to seed capital for operational and marketing budgets to start a new business?
- Do you have sufficient credit to finance your business' first boat?
We have made the process of starting a SailTime business as straight forward and easy as possible. We provide you with the tools and knowledge you will need to get started. We work with each our new Franchise candidates in person, on the phone and collaborative via on-line tools.
SailTime takes care of most of the logistics so you spend your time marketing your business and building your member base. You don't need an office or large staffs, a SailTime business can be run from your home office and then can grow and flourish from there.
SailTime is not a get rich quick scheme. SailTime is a Franchise business opportunity that requires hard work and investment, but allows you to be your own boss and provides the opportunity to make your escape from the corporate world. What SailTime has waiting for you is a rare opportunity to be a an industry leader in a growing business that is financially and personally rewarding, challenging, exciting and fun. Our program is not suitable for just anyone that wants a new way to get into a boat. Our program is for serious business professionals that want to build a business. Successful SailTime Franchisees are committed to providing the most professional service possible to our members. They are friendly, neighborhood based, business-oriented people with a desire to serve the local boating public. Our SailTime Franchisees have a commitment to Customer Service and excellence that is second to none in the boating industry. Our commitment to the boating industry is to be the Starbucks of boating and we are well on our way to achieving this lofty goal.
In fact, SailTime was named to the Inc 500 | 5000 Fastest Growing Companies!
Do you want to join our team?
Most businesses require a huge capital investment. With SailTime, you can build your fleet using the Owner Member Programs, i.e. other people buy the boats and you simply sell memberships into each boat. You'll still need to provide initial capital but you can easily build a large fleet without the levels of capital required from many other business.
The SailTime business model is rare since it does not require long term leases of space, labor investments, large inventory and equipment expenses. Talk to one of our SailTime experts and find out how SailTime is a winning proposition for all involved.
Please take the time to thoroughly review this website, it provides a wealth of information on our programs and how the business works.
Once you are familiar with our business, take some time and decide if this is something you want to pursue, if it is please fill out our information request form.
Franchise Training and Support
Below is a list of just some of the benefits we provide to you.
- Brand awareness and recognition that leads the industry and is now world renowned.
- International presence and a broad network of bases that even your membership can leverage to enjoy boating all over the world which creates a high barrier to entry for competition and also offers a product no one can match.
- Pioneering and refined Business Model accompanied by a thorough Operations Manual
- Access to a network of like minded business people running there own SailTime business
- National, Regional and local support
- Technology and Intellectual Property that was developed here : Scheduling software and Embark
- Comprehensive base owner training program
- A significant path of growth that includes new and exciting product offerings
- Professional Website
- A secure portal that you use to operate your fleet, maintenance, members, owners, etc. All the tools you will need to manage your business are built in to our support and backend software.
- Professional Print and Web Marketing Materials
- An exhaustive and simple to follow marketing plan refined and tested in North America and Europe
- Partnerships with major manufacturers and other industry leaders
- Startup and Operational support
- All legal Agreements
- Member Manuals
- Promotional Materials
- Insurance programs with leading Insurers
- Vessel financing program with leading national and regional financing companies
- Experienced Management Team
A Truly Unique Approach To The Fractional Boating Business
When you become a SailTime franchise owner, you are joining the team that pioneered membership-based fractional boating products. SailTime is committed to maintaining its position as the innovative leader in this industry in the marine marketplace.Attractive Membership Pricing Structure
Providing attractive membership pricing in exchange for an ongoing monthly membership fee is one of the key innovations of the SailTime concept.
The membership fee and automatic payment structure is designed to encourage ongoing member participation and visits, a steadier, more predictable sales cycle and to reduce administration time and billing time.
Aggressive Marketing Programs
SailTime and its individual locations deploy energetic marketing programs designed to attract first-time and experienced customers, to establish a strong referral network and to encourage high client usage and retention. Tactics include, website, PPC, SEO, email marketing, direct mail, print, public relations, phone directory, word-of-mouth, boat show and open house campaigns.
Fully Computerized Operations
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Before you look to Ebay for that last box of Hostess Twinkies, you might want to wait just a bit. Last week Hostess suspended operations of its 33 plants across the United States last week as it moved to start selling assets and consider this move as the best way to preserve its dwindling cash.
Today Hostess, its lenders and the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM), agreed to mediation at the urging of Bankruptcy Judge Robert Drain of the Southern District of New York. Continue reading


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(CNN) -- A 14-year-old American citizen has been found guilty in a Mexican court of torturing and beheading at least four people and kidnapping three others.
Judge Jose Luis Jaimes sentenced the teenager, known as "El Ponchis" ("The Cloak") to three years in a correctional facility -- the maximum sentence allowed under Mexican law because of his age. The teen also must pay a 4.5 million-peso fine (about $400,000).
Mexican authorities also said the 14-year-old was responsible for at least three kidnappings as an operative for the South Pacific Cartel.
The teenager's age -- and his on-camera description of the slayings -- brought international attention to the case. Analysts said the dramatic example showed how Mexican drug gangs were increasingly recruiting youths.
Neither the public nor the media had access to the trial because of the defendant's age. Only the judge, attorneys, family members and a human rights observer were inside the courtroom.
Prosecutors called 43 witnesses to the stand during six days of testimony that ended Monday, prosecutor Jose Manuel Serrano Salmero said. There were no witnesses for the defense, juvenile court spokesman Irvin Vergara said.
Family members were present, but Vergara wouldn't specify who was at the trial held in Miacatlan, near the central Mexican city of Cuernavaca.
According to Vergara, the defendant showed good behavior during the proceedings that normally began at 9 a.m. and lasted until the early evening.
"He was calm, relaxed, and serious. There were no interruptions or disturbances during the trial," he said.
Shortly after authorities apprehended him, the slim teenager with curly hair answered reporters' questions.
"How many have you killed?" one reporter asks.
"Four," responds the accused, who seems calm and collected in a video of the interview.
"How did you execute them?" the questioner continues.
"I slit their throats," the teen replies.
Authorities recorded the video only hours after they arrested the teenager near Mexico City last December as he was allegedly trying to catch a flight to Tijuana to flee to the United States.
A YouTube video that circulated last year purportedly showed the teenager beating a man with a two-by-four while the man was tied at the wrists and hanging from the ceiling, as other young people watched.
CNN's Krupskaia Alis contributed to this report.


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Genre: YA magical fantasy – available now 🙂
Book Description THE RITE OF WANDS by Mackenzie Flohr
One boy…one Rite… And a world of deadly secrets that could change the course of history—forever
And so begins the tale of Mierta McKinnon. When a horrible fate reveals itself during his Rite of Wands ceremony, he must find a way to change not only his destiny but also the land of Iverna's.
Forbidden from revealing the future he foresees to anyone, he is granted a wand and his magical powers, but still must master the realm of magic in order to save himself and those he loves.
But Mierta is not the only one with secrets…especially when it's impossible to know who to trust.
"Mierta!" Mortain shouted at the top of the stairs, hearing nothing but his own voice echo. Watching smoke drifting out of the open doorway, Mortain took in a deep breath and tried to slow down his heart. The aroma of acrid chemicals and burning flesh filled his nose.
"Mierta!" he shouted again. "Son, you all right?" He listened, hearing nothing more than what sounded like gasping breaths.
"Father," Mierta mouthed in response to Mortain's calls, unable to produce any sounds as he dropped to one knee. His heart was pounding. Each pulse matched the ache he felt in his temples. A deep burning pain seared through his chest every time he took a breath. It was like he was slowly being strangled and there was nothing he could do to stop it. The inside of his nose felt charred and his throat felt like he was swallowing tacks. He blinked, his eyesight blurring, the pain beginning to overwhelm him. Nausea built in his throat and droplets of sweat slid down the side of his face. He wished he could do anything to end the torture. He could not imagine dying would be much worse.
Mierta attempted to stand and tried to get away from the workbench. He managed a few staggering steps before his body was drained of all energy. He watched puffy white circling clouds fill his vision before everything was replaced by darkness.
Mortain felt his stomach drop at the sound of something breaking. "Mierta!" he screamed, racing down the stairs. "Mierta, answer me!"
When he reached the bottom, Mortain abruptly stopped, taking in the horrific scene before him. His son was unconscious; lying sprawled out on his back. What remained of a small culture tube lay shattered next to him, and chemicals dripping from a workbench bubbled and fizzled as they made contact with the hardwood floor.
Acidum salis, he thought, his eyes widening.
Mortain raised his arm to his mouth, careful to not inhale any of the smoke that was filling the room. He trembled as he came closer, observing the damage that had been done to the left side of his son's face.
The skin was mostly raw red with patches of peeling burned black skin hanging off his face. Blood was seeping from some of the deep crevasses caused by the acid. Most of the damage was confined to the cheek and jaw area. His eye was spared any damage.
"Oh, my dear Lord," he uttered, fear filling his heart. "My poor boy! What have I done?"
About the Author
Mackenzie Flohr grew up in the heartland of America, chasing leprechauns and rainbows and dreaming of angels. Her parents nurtured a love of fantasy and make-believe by introducing her at a very young age to the artistic and cultural opportunities that the city of Cleveland had to offer.
From the time she could hold a pencil, Mackenzie was already creating pictorial interpretations of classic stories, and by the age of nine, she and a childhood friend were authors and reviewers of their own picture books.
While following her love of adventure, Mackenzie found a second home, the Beck Center for the Arts Children's and Teen Theater School. It was there that a world of wonder was only a script and a performance away.
Yet it wasn't until she was on a trip to Indiana, viewing a Lord of the Rings exhibit, that the innermost desire of her heart became clear to her. She wanted to write a fantasy of her own, one that could inspire imagination in others and lead them into a magical world of their own making. She hopes The Rite Of Wands will do just that.
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MIAMI (AP) — A South Florida family is fighting to get their son, a Marine veteran, released from a prison in a dangerous area in Mexico while facing charges that he carried across the border a shotgun with a barrel that's an inch too short.
Jon Hammar and his friend were on their way to Costa Rica in August and planned to drive across the Mexican border near Matamoros in a Winnebago filled with surfboards and camping gear. Hammar, 27, asked U.S. border agents what to do with the unloaded shotgun, which his family said belonged to his great-grandfather.
"They examined it, they weighed it, they said you have to fill out this form," his father, Jon Hammar, told The Associated Press in a phone interview Tuesday from his home near Miami.
But when the pair crossed the border and handed the paperwork to Mexican officials, they impounded the RV and jailed the men, saying it was illegal to carry that type of gun. Hammar's friend was later released because the gun did not belong to him.
The family's attorney said Mexican law prohibits civilians from carrying certain types of guns, like sawed-off shotguns, which can be more easily concealed. Mexican law prohibits shotguns with a barrel of less than 25 inches (63.5 centimeters). Family attorney Eddie Varon-Levy said Mexican officials measured the barrel on Hammar's shotgun as 24 inches (61 centimeters). It has not been sawed off.
Family members said the gun was purchased at Sears and blamed U.S. officials for telling Hammar he could bring it across the border in the first place.
Varon-Levy also questioned the way Mexican officials measured the gun, because the measurements can differ depending on where they are taken on the barrel.
He said dealing with Mexican authorities has also been difficult. He said Hammar was brought to court a few weeks ago, where officials tried to convince him to plead guilty without a lawyer present. Varon-Levy said he didn't show up because he was told there was a continuance.
"I am fuming," he said.
Hammar could face 12 years in prison, but Varon-Levy said that's unlikely. He wants to get the charges downgraded, hoping Hammar can plead guilty to a lesser charge of carrying an unregistered weapon, which only carries a fine.
Hammar served in Iraq and Afghanistan before being honorably discharged from the Marines in 2007. His mother said surfing helped him cope after he was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
"Mexican authorities have fully guaranteed his right to Consular assistance; therefore Mr. Hammar has been in contact with U.S. Consular officers in Mexico who have regularly visited him," Ricardo Alday, spokesman for the Mexican Embassy, said in a statement. "The possession of any weapon restricted for the use of the Army in Mexico is a Federal crime, regardless of whether you declare it or not upon entering the country, and must be automatically prosecuted."
Alday said Harmmar was detained in Tamaulipas "and as any other detainee facing criminal charges he has the right to defense counsel and a fair trial. In addition, his life and integrity are protected by national and international laws."
Meanwhile, Hammar is being held in one of the most dangerous areas in Mexico.
Matamoros is the long-time headquarters of the Gulf Cartel, which has been engaged in a bloody struggle with its former security guards, the Zetas, since early 2010 for the lucrative drug routes along the eastern end of the Texas-Mexico border. An October 2011 fight among inmates at the prison left 20 dead and 12 injured.
At first Hammar was held with the general population, filled mostly with members of drug cartels. Now he is periodically chained to his bed in a cell by himself, said his father, he speaks with his son by phone occasionally.
"Sometimes he's got his head on good. We're like just, 'Hang in there. We're doing everything we can.' Other days, it's like, it's not as good," Jon Hammar said, sighing heavily and struggling to steady his voice.
In August, the family received a frightening middle of the night phone call from the cartel demanding money, said Jon Hammar, a 48-year-old software engineer.
"'Lady, this isn't about the police. This is our house. We have your son. We're going to kill him if you don't send us money,'" Hammar said, recounting the phone call.
The couple planned to wire the money to an account, but officials at the U.S. consulate intervened and contacted prison officials. His son was moved into a private cell the next day, he said.
A spokesman for the State Department said officials have visited Hammar three times, spoken with him by phone and contacted prison officials to stop them from chaining him to the bed.
"The safety and well-being of U.S. citizens is something we take very seriously," said Peter Velasco.
U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat, spoke on the Senate floor Tuesday, asking Mexican authorities to release Hammar.
U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen also urged the State Department to work incessantly to reunite Hammar with his family and said she's disappointed the agency has not told her what efforts have been made.
The Miami Republican said she plans to contact the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Patrol about Hammar's arrest. His mother emailed Ros-Lehtinen and asked for help.
"The Hammar family has suffered a great deal since their son's unjust incarceration in August and the details they have provided to my office are gripping and a clear abuse of Jon's human rights," she said in a statement.


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Fort Myers man receives two Purple Hearts in 44 years
While other Southwest Florida sexagenarians were busy sleeping in hammocks, golfing or watching the sunset, Fort Myers' Richard Crawford was climbing into mine-resistant military vehicles in the most dangerous part of the world.
At 61, the former Fort Myers DEA chief was talked out of retirement to serve as an embedded law enforcement professional in Iraq. After a tour advising the Marines on investigating roadside bombs, Crawford was recruited again in 2010. This time, the military shipped the 64-year-old to Afghanistan.
After destroying bombs on a sunny November day, Crawford's military vehicle was struck by a powerful roadside explosive. The 28,000-pound mine-resistant vehicle flipped in the air, injuring Crawford and the four other Marines.
Crawford suffered a broken left eye socket and a gash under his eye.
"The bomb was on the side of a paved road so that took some of the force out of the explosion even though it flipped the car," Crawford said. "Had that been a dirt road, I probably wouldn't be here."
Crawford will be honored with the civilian equivalent of the Purple Heart today in Camp Lejeune, N.C. Crawford's acceptance of the 2014 Medal for the Defense of Freedom award, given annually to civilians killed or wounded while serving with the U.S. military, adds a capstone to an astonishing military career. Crawford received a 1970 Purple Heart for his service in Vietnam.
"It's special because this makes it over 40 years between Purple Hearts," Crawford said. "There's an old adage: 'Once a Marine, always a Marine.' I think I raised the bar on that one."
Crawford's wife, Karen, and his two sons will be next to him this morning at U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, which is the unit Crawford assisted overseas. The military wanted to recognize him for working as an embedded law enforcement professional with the Marines of Regimental Combat Team-2 in Helmand and Nimroz Provinces in Afghanistan.
"The medal symbolizes the extraordinary fidelity and essential service of the Department's civilian workforce who are an integral part of the Department of Defense and who contribute to the preservation of national security," a Department of Defense statement read.
A life of service
As a 22-year-old, Crawford led a company of men in jungle combat in Vietnam. He spent three years with the Marines, including a tour fighting in Vietnam, where he led a company of 200 men and won the Purple Heart and two Bronze Stars.
Crawford said he received the awards after suffering a minor gunshot wound in a firefight.
Afterward, the Villanova University graduate went into a Drug Enforcement Administration career as an agent on the streets of New York. It was the beginning of a 25-year career that had him wrestling with the Cali Cartel and making groundbreaking drug busts.
Crawford served as Fort Myers DEA chief from 1992-97. His office seized 34,000 pounds of marijuana, 5,000 pounds of cocaine, nearly $15 million in cash and assets and made about 775 arrests during his five years.
His case against Paradise Club owner Jaime Carillo, one of the most publicized drug cases in Fort Myers history, ended with a cocaine trafficking conviction and, in 1997, he landed the all-time largest seizure of cocaine — 2,400 pounds — in Southwest Florida.
Out of retirement
After retiring as the Fort Myers anti-drug boss in 1997, Crawford thought he would enjoy retirement. It didn't happen. Citing his notable drug busts and investigative skills, the Department of Defense asked Crawford to join a new program started by the government to help Marines in combat.
"The insurgent groups who were responsible for these roadside bombs were working more like criminal organizations than traditional state armies," Crawford said.
Crawford said the experience of assisting the military during his twilight years stands out more than receiving any medals.
"It's all about the experience," he said. "How many people at this point in their lives have an opportunity to do something like this that has an impact?"
BORN: Long Island, N.Y.
EDUCATION: Business administration degree from Villanova University; military: tour in Vietnam with U.S. Marine Corps; professional: 25 years with the Drug Enforcement Administration in New York, Tampa and Fort Myers
MEDALS: 1970 Purple Heart, 2014 Medal for the Defense of Freedom award


text: Back Primer: What You Need to Know About Ecstasy Many young people abuse a so-called club drug known as Ecstasy. Learning about the drug can help you explain its dangers to your children and help them avoid the sometimes fatal consequences of taking it. What is Ecstasy? Ecstasy, or MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine)—called "Adam," "E," "Ecstasy," "X," or "XTC" on the street—is a synthetic, psychoactive (mind-altering) drug with hallucinogenic and amphetamine-like properties. It is chemically similar to methamphetamine and the hallucinogen mescaline. Because many different recipes are used in the illegal manufacture of Ecstasy, other toxic substances may be inadvertently created during the production. These other substances have been fatal to users. Ecstasy is not a legal drug. It is classified as a "schedule 1" controlled substance, along with other dangerous substances like heroin, peyote, and LSD. MDMA was developed in 1914 as an appetite suppressant. It was a legal prescription drug until 1985, given by psychiatrists and psychologists for certain psychological and emotional problems. As an illegal substance, Ecstasy is made as a tablet, capsule or powder, and is usually taken orally. Sometimes it is packaged to imitate prescription drugs. Users combine it with methadone, LSD, opiates, or anesthetics. Young adults and teens use Ecstasy most often—usually at clubs, rock concerts and raves (large, all-night dance parties). The number of 12- to 18-year-olds who use it is increasing. Many problems that users encounter with MDMA are similar to those associated with the use of amphetamines and cocaine. Among the problems: Psychological effects. An Ecstasy high can last six to 24 hours, with the average "trip" about three to four hours. At moderate doses, Ecstasy can cause euphoria, feelings of well-being, enhanced mental or emotional clarity, anxiety, and paranoia. Heavier doses can cause hallucinations, sensations of lightness and floating, depression, paranoid thinking, and violent, irrational behavior. There is no evidence that Ecstasy is an aphrodisiac. Physical effects include loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, blurred vision, increased heart rate and blood pressure, muscle tension, faintness, chills, sweating, tremors, reduced appetite, bruxism (grinding teeth), insomnia, convulsions, and a loss of control of voluntary body movements. Serious to fatal side effects include hyperthermia (elevated body heat) and "serotonin syndrome," a cluster of findings including hyperthermia, destruction of muscle cells (rhabdomyolysis), brain swelling (cerebral edema), liver failure (hepatic necrosis), and kidney failure (acute renal failure), adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC). The outcome to this constellation of problems is frequently fatal. Some effects may last up to two weeks after taking the drug. People who are pregnant, have a heart condition, are epileptic or have high blood pressure are at high risk of adverse effects. Users are also at high risk for heat exhaustion and dehydration, especially when the drug is taken during a dance party. Research also has found the possibility that Ecstasy damages the part of the brain that controls muscle movement. MDMA is related in structure to methamphetamine, which causes degeneration of neurons containing the neurotransmitter dopamine. Damage to dopamine-containing neurons causes the motor disturbances seen in people with Parkinson's disease. Symptoms of this disease include tremors and lack of coordination early on, and possibly paralysis in later stages. Nearly 18,000 young people were seen in emergency rooms in 2008 due to MDMA abuse. What about herbal Ecstasy? The herbal forms of Ecstasy are ephedrine (called ma huang) or pseudoephedrine and caffeine (called kola nut). The effects of these substances are nearly identical to Ecstasy. Herbal Ecstasy is sold in tablet form as Cloud 9, Herbal Bliss, Ritual Spirit, Herbal X, GWM, Rave Energy, Ultimate Xphoria, and X. The amounts of ephedrine and caffeine in these substances can vary widely. More than 800 adverse reactions have been reported, including high blood pressure, seizures, heart attacks, strokes, and death.


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As I write this, it's a whiteout outside my house. Blustery 30-mph winds and blowing snow have created ground-blizzard conditions. Our cattle spent the morning grazing cornstalks, but now are tucked tightly behind a windbreak waiting for the storm to pass. Availability of such shelter is extremely important, but when adverse weather conditions hit, it's also important to increase the feed intake in your cattle.
According to J.J. Barrett, a West Virginia University Extension agricultural agent, cold weather can increase livestock's feed intake up to 30% due to the increased maintenance energy requirements.
"Livestock will need more feed to combat cold stress during this harsh weather. Access to water, shelter from the wind and extra bedding will help until a warm-up occurs. As a general rule, healthy animals in good body condition that are acclimated to cold weather and have a good winter hair coat will do fine until the ambient temperature drops below 20°F. Below that, animals must compensate for heat loss by increasing their energy intake, to increase heat production and maintain their body temperature," Barrett said in a recent interview with NewsandSentinel.com.
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When the temperature drops, and its snowy and blowing, it's important to consider the cow's body condition score and the quality of the feed being offered. Depending on the weather's severity, a decision to increase the feed intake for the cow's energy requirements may be called for.
According to University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension, "If the total digestible nutrients (TDN) requirements of the cows are 12 lbs. of TDN/head/day for this week, you would consider bumping the ration to 15.5 lbs./head/day. This is an increase of 3.5 lbs. of TDN/head/day. If grass hay is 57% TDN, that's an increase of about 6 lbs./head/day on a dry matter (DM) basis. If the hay is 88% DM, that would mean each cow receives an additional 7 lbs./head/day. If these cows were being fed 24 lbs./head/day under current conditions, could they eat 31 lbs./head/day during the harsh weather condition? For a 1,200-lb. cow, this calculates to about 2.3% of her body weight on a DM basis."
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Jókai, Mór
Jókai, Mór mōr yō´koi [key], 1825–1904, Hungarian romantic novelist and journalist. Jókai was a fervent nationalist who, after the Hungarian defeat in 1848, became a fugitive from the Austrians. He was later a member (1861–97) of the Hungarian parliament. Often compared to both Dickens and Scott, Jókai was an enormously prolific and popular writer. His novels, national in character, often earthy and humorous in style, have been translated into 25 languages. Among them are An Hungarian Nabob (1894, tr. 1898) and Black Diamonds (1870, tr. 1896).
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Spotify today gave an update on the year to date and announced a host of new features.
5 Million Paying Subscribers
As expected Spotify has managed to hit the 5 million paying subscriber mark which is a fantastic achievement, as is the 1 million US paying subs also announced. That translates to 1 million new paying subscribers in just 3 months. Back in May I predicted that Spotify would hit 8 million paying subscriber in May 2013. It looks like that prediction is going to be in the right ball park. Spotify's official active user count is now 20 million, which interestingly is much closer to the Facebook reported 24 million – those numbers have been very far apart for the last 9 months or so. Which indicates that Spotify's marketing funnel has got bigger as its profile in the US has grown. i.e. more people are trying out the free service. (See the graphic at the bottom of the page for a summary of Spotify's numbers).
Spotify also announced it has paid out $500 million to rights owners, which is impressive, but to keep a sense of perspective is about 2% of all digital music service money paid to record labels globally since 2009 when Spotify burst onto the scene.
A Bold New User Experience
But of more interest, to me at least, was a slew of new features that collectively transform the Spotify experience. Spotify has made a bold UI transformation from a list-based approach to a rich visual experience with modules of music content (which visually looks like a cross between Rdio and Pinterest). These include music, artwork, bio information, reviews from Pitchfork, Songkick gig information, recommendations based on your behaviour. In doing this, Spotify has made a subtle but powerful transition from streaming music player to immersive music platform.
Spotify Thinks the Discovery Question Does Need Answering
Spotify also announced, as TechCrunch had correctly predicted, a new social discovery tool called Follow, whereby users can follow people's whose music tastes they want to keep up with. People can follow friends or music influencers such as artists, music bloggers, music journos etc. pretty much in the way they would on Twitter, but here they get sent playlists of music to listen to instantly rather than 140 characters of static text.
Spotify are trying to answer the big discovery question which has so far gone largely unanswered, despite plenty of well-intentioned efforts to come up with a solution. Discovery has been the centre of some pretty heated debate of late – as this and this post show – but whether or not it gets fixed in the wider music industry it is a huge issue for streaming music services. What is the point of having all the music in the world at your fingertips if a search bar is all you have to find your way around.
Good music discovery happens in two main ways:
- Someone who's reputation we trust (DJ, cool friend, family) makes a recommendation
- We serendipitously fall upon a piece of music that we love
Why Discovery Matters So Much to Streaming Services
Unlimited music services face the paradox of their being so much choice that there is in effect no choice at all. People need a way to navigate through immensity of the music world. Spotify's Follow function is a way of addressing this issue. It's a smart way to do it, because good music discovery isn't 'we've seen you like this song, so we think you'll like these three songs too'. It's much subtler than that. Following people who have great music taste can be exactly that sort of subtle discovery. But this isn't a new idea. Beyond Oblivion had built their entire service around the concept of following influencers (and they had a pretty cool atom-like visual navigation to let you get from influencer to influencer too). Of course Beyond never got to market, but Spotify have picked up the idea and run with it. Rdio also have the feature. In fact if I were Rdio I'd be feeling a little as if some of my clothes had been stolen.
Spotify's Follow feature gets really interesting in an artist context. If an artist posts a music playlist to his followers it gets delivered straight into their music collections. A great way to launch a new album direct to your fans. Though it does raise some interesting questions about whether this will increase or decrease album sales? Does getting your favourite artists' latest album delivered straight into your Spotify player sate your appetite straight away or simply whet it?
Spotify's Follow feature is not the answer to the discovery question, but it is certainly one important step in the right direction. In fact there won't be a single answer to discovery, because we all like to discover music in different ways. Some of us want to dive in and have an immersive experience, others want something music less. Some of us want both, but at different times. And Spotify recognize that by offering multiple other new ways of recommending music, ranging from recommendations based upon user behaviour, collaborative thinking and context such as the age of the user.
Spotify is Now A Music Platform
This set of new features is the most important change in Spotify's user experience, period. It transforms Spotify from an excel spread-sheet streaming app into an immersive, multimedia, context rich music experience platform and app ecosystem. Back in November 2011 I suggested that with the launch of its API platform that Spotify was taking the first step towards making music the API, and towards transforming Spotify into a music platform. Now just over one year on we can see the fruits of that labour.
Much of what Spotify has done isn't unique, but they have executed it in a manner akin to Apple in its digital music prime. Execution is everything. Spotify has just set the digital music experience standard for other music services to aspire to.


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Fussy JetBlue Flight Attendant Just Wants His Job Back
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According to an internal memo, JetBlue hates hero flight attendant Steven Slater for being awesome. But Steven Slater still wants to work for them. How does Slater not realize that this is never, ever going to happen?
Slater's lawyer, Howard Turman, held a press conference today outside Slater's home, during which Slater looked silently on. He told the press that Slater would like to keep being a flight attendant because flying "is in his blood." And he'd love to keep working for JetBlue:
"JetBlue is a wonderful airline which he has loved working for, and wishes to continue working for," said his lawyer.
Yeah, sorry Steven, but when you quit in an awesome way you don't get to ask for your job back. And Jet Blue is definitely not going to take you back. In an internal memo, the airline told employees, ""If Mr. Slater's story proves to be accurate, and even if there was a precipitating event that motivated his behavior, that still doesn't excuse his actions."
Just as JetBlue was Twitter-pissed at comedian Andy Borowitz for poking fun at the Slater debacle, the memo criticizes the media for lionizing Slater: "The most distressing aspect of the media coverage has been the lightness with which they are treating the deployment of the emergency slide," the memo says. "Slides can be as dangerous as a gun… It is an insult to all aviation professionals to have this particular element of the story treated without the seriousness it deserved."
Then the person who wrote this memo called his boss a "motherfucker," grabbed two beers out of the office refrigerator, activated the inflatable slide out of the office's third-floor window and slid out, on to a new life of fame and freedom.
Here's the whole internal memo, via NBC New York (Click to enlarge):


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Category: HOOD & RATCHET
CAIRO STREET FIGHTS: Egypt face divisive choice over political FUTURE.
CAIRO (Reuters) — Egyptians decide on Saturday on a constitution promoted by its Islamist backers as the way out of a prolonged political crisis and rejected by opponents as a recipe for further divisions in the Arab world's biggest nation.
Voting begins in a referendum on a divisive draft basic law that has pitted Islamist supporters of President Mohamed Mursi against a liberal, secular and Christian opposition in often bloody clashes in Cairo and other cities.
The opposition says the constitution is too Islamist and tramples on minority rights. Mursi's supporters say the charter is needed if progress is to be made towards democracy nearly two years after the fall of military strongman Hosni Mubarak.
In Alexandria on Friday, tensions boiled over into a street brawl between rival factions armed with clubs, knives and swords. Several cars were set on fire and a Muslim preacher who had urged people to vote "yes" to the constitution was trapped inside his mosque by angry opposition supporters.
In the capital, Cairo, both sides made low-key final efforts to rally supporters.
Flag-waving Islamists gathered peacefully at one of the main mosques, some shouting "Islam, Islam" and "We've come here to say 'yes' to the constitution".
Opposition supporters — who have been urged to vote "no" by their leaders — assembled outside the presidential palace.
The building remains ringed with police, soldiers and tanks after street clashes caused at least eight deaths earlier this month in violence prompted by Mursi's decision to award himself sweeping powers in order to ram through the new charter.
As darkness fell, there appeared to be more bystanders and street vendors present than opposition demonstrators. A woman addressed the crowd through a loudhailer, shouting obscenities about Mursi, but many in her audience seemed more interested in drinking tea or having their picture taken in front of a tank.
"I don't like Mursi," said Moustafa Ahmed, 25, a teacher. "But I haven't decided what to vote for tomorrow so I decided to come here to listen to the protesters and chat to them one last time."
The referendum will be held on two days — this Saturday and next — because there are not enough judges willing to monitor all polling stations after some in the judiciary said they would boycott the vote.
Egyptians are being asked to accept or reject a constitution that must be in place before a parliamentary election can be held next year — an event many hope can steer the country towards stability.
The measure is generally expected to pass, given the well-organised Muslim Brotherhood's record of winning elections since the fall of Mubarak. Many Egyptians, tired of turmoil, may simply fall in line and vote "yes".
If the constitution is voted down, a new assembly will have to be formed to draft a revised version, a process that could take up to nine months.
Just over half of Egypt's electorate of 51 million will vote in the first round in Cairo and other cities. Polling stations open at 8 a.m. (0600 GMT) and close 12 hours later.
Official results will not be announced until after the second round, though it is likely that details will emerge after the first round that will give an idea of the overall trend.
To provide security for the vote, the army has deployed about 120,000 troops and 6,000 tanks and armoured vehicles to protect polling stations and other government buildings
While the military backed Mubarak and his predecessors, it has not intervened on either side in the present crisis.
The charter has been criticised by some overseas bodies.
The International Council of Jurists, a Geneva-based human rights group, said it falls short of international standards on the accountability of the armed forces, the independence of the judiciary, and recognition of human rights.
United Nations human rights experts said the draft should be reviewed to ensure that Egypt meets its obligations under international law on equality and women's rights.
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EFFECTIVE DATE Section 4 of act July 1, 1946, provided that sections 1005 to 1007 of this title shall be effective thirty days after July 1, 1946.TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS For transfer of authorities, functions, personnel, and assets of the Coast Guard, including the authorities and functions of the Secretary of Transportation relating thereto, to the Department of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see sections 468(b), 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as modified, set out as a note under section 542 of Title 6. Coast and Geodetic Survey consolidated with Weather Bureau of Department of Commerce to form new agency in Department of Commerce known as Environmental Science Services Administration and offices of Director and Deputy Director of Coast and Geodetic Survey abolished by Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1965, eff. July 13, 1965, 30 F.R. 8819, 79 Stat. 1318, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. All functions of Survey, Director of Survey, and officers, employees, and organizational entities of Survey transferred to Secretary of Commerce and all personnel (including commissioned officers) and property of Survey, not already transferred by 1950 Reorg. Plan No. 5, deemed transferred to Administration. Subsequently, Environmental Science Services Administration abolished by Reorg. Plan No. 4 of 1970, eff. Oct. 3, 1970, 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090, set out in the Appendix to title 5, which created National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Department of Commerce. By order of Acting Associate Administrator of NOAA, organization name of Coast and Geodetic Survey changed to National Ocean Survey.


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Predicting 2013: Don't Worry, The Tea Party Will Be Fine
If you wait long enough without any expectation of regular victories in politics, it's not surprising that you eventually go searching for them in narrative. Which makes it understandable that "liberals" on TV have used the 2012 election results to claim that the Tea Party is over. The lights have come on; some abstinence pledges have to be torn up, and everyone needs to go home.
If there's one thing that the last two 2013 predictions have emphasized, however, it's that people rarely go broke predicting doom. Doom is reliable. If there's one group that has the market cornered on doom, it's the Tea Party. Those guys can sell an apocalypse of anything. And they aren't going away, at least in part because they've always been here.
If you spend enough time traipsing through American history, people who sound like the Tea Party crop up everywhere. Richard Hofstadter wrote an excellent essay called "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" in which he diagnosed behavior that anyone watching reactions to Obama's first term would recognize:
The paranoid spokesman, sees the fate of conspiracy in apocalyptic terms—he traffics in the birth and death of whole worlds, whole political orders, whole systems of human values. He is always manning the barricades of civilization.... He does not see social conflict as something to be mediated and compromised, in the manner of the working politician. Since what is at stake is always a conflict between absolute good and absolute evil, what is necessary is not compromise but the will to fight things out to a finish. Since the enemy is thought of as being totally evil and totally unappeasable, he must be totally eliminated...
That essay was written in 1964, to address the Goldwater movement, which is essentially the Tea Party's grandparent. Speaking of which, you can pick up Rick Perlstein's Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, choose a random page, and you will see someone familiar. There are the ancestors of the Koch brothers, funding newsletters defending civilization from workers with union rights, workers with living wages, workers in general. Or pick up his Nixonland and choose a page at random and see someone else you know. It's fun! I chose page 73:
Other activists went to war on a textbook—Negro historian John Hope Franklin's Land of the Free, which, their pamphlets insisted, "destroys pride in America's past, develops a guilt complex, mocks American justice, indoctrinates toward Communism, is hostile to religious concepts, overemphasizes Negro participation in American history, projects negative thought models, criticizes business and free enterprise, plays politics, foments class hatred, slants and distorts facts," and "promotes propaganda and poppycock."
Right there you have an echoes of everything awful about Free Republic and the Romney campaign. That book sounds like an apology tour for the United States! That pointy-headed black academic thinks he knows better about America's past! (AND HOW COME THERE'S NOT A WHITE HISTORY MONTH???) Then there's the familiar contempt for history's inability to conform to the lies we like to tell about ourselves. It's no different than the Texas Board of Education's absurd need to efface the Enlightenment, divorce the founding fathers from stuff like "science," and somehow make Thomas Aquinas a philosopher who foresaw America.
This is a depressing game, but it's remarkably easy to play. Just for the hell of it, I skipped nine pages ahead:
In Champaign, Illinois, leaders of peace demonstrations got stickers in their mailboxes reading, "You are in the sights of a Minuteman." In Queens, the DA seized an arsenal, to be used by the right-wing vigilante group the Minutemen in assaults on "left-wing camps in a three-state area," including mortars, bazookas, grenades, trench knives, over 150 rifles, a "half dozen garroting devices," and over a million rounds of ammunition.
All it's missing are corpses found outside the city, decapitated by Mexicans and yahoos blasting Toby Keith from their F-350s, playing sentry to the nation.
Flip ahead to pages 276-7, and there's Max Rafferty, sounding like Glenn Beck or Richard Mourdock:
[activists] seem to spend every waking moment agitating against ROTC, booing authorized congressional committees, and parading in support of Fidel Castro.... This sizable minority of spineless, luxury-loving, spiritless characters came right out of our classrooms. They played in our kindergartens, went on field trips to the bakery and studied things called "social living" and "language arts" in our junior high schools. They were "adjusted to their peer groups." They were taught that competition was bad. They were told little about modern democratic capitalism.... The results are plain for all to see: the worst of our youngsters growing up to become booted, sideburned, duck-tailed, unwashed, leather-jacketed slobs, whose favorite sport is ravaging little girls and stomping polio victims to death.
In case quotes like that lack the incoherence you expect from the Tea Party ("liberals are Communists and Nazis—the political group whose animating purpose was killing Communists"), Rafferty himself recognized how dated his violent Wild One descriptions of the youth sounded, and so updated his stereotype to fit hippies, who now were cowards, despite being created by the same set of conditions. It's magic! Luckily, on top of all his other bilge about secular education and proper socialization, he could play the instantly clichéd Berkeley card, where he claimed students were given a "four-year course in sex, drugs and treason." Rafferty knew what would correct all this: returning prayer to schools and teaching creationism alongside evolution. He was a two-term Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State of California. How do people like this get these jobs?
Watching politics for the last four years was bummer enough, but reading a book like Nixonland makes all of it profoundly depressing. Apparently it's not enough that people argue in bad faith, make things up, demonize their opponents via hysteria and butcher history—they can't even be bothered to try being original about it. The Tea Party isn't just running off a playbook, they're running off one that's already into its third generation. Hell, take the same xenophobia, hatred of immigrants and a purported American apocalypse at the hands of a global conspiracy of religious fundamentalists, and they're basically the Know-Nothing Party. It folded in 1860.
Given the above, it's tough not to hear commentators' predictions that the Tea Party is a spent force as anything other than wishful thinking. It's certainly possible that its ideological rigidity and purity tests for primary candidates will lead the GOP into fundamental dysfunction and collapse, but that's the same prediction people made after Goldwater, and that led to the last 50 years of essentially setting the terms of political debate in this country.
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Meet authors Johnson and Ringman
Mary Johnson and An Unquenchable Thirst:
An Unquenchable Thirst is a powerful, unforgettable spiritual biography about a woman's coming-of-age and her search for her true identity. With vivid testimony, Mary Johnson traces the yearnings, doubts, and revelations from her 20-year tenure as a nun within Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity to her return to the secular world. Mary's remarkable journey of self discovery — her magnetic pull to love, her search for understanding and identity — renders this story universal in scope and is sure to leave an indelible mark upon readers. Now available in paperback, this edition includes questions for readings groups as well as a wonderful conversation between Johnson and Mira Bartók.
At just eighteen years old, after seeing a photo of Mother Teresa on the cover of Time, Johnson made a life-changing decision to become a nun. Despite being a boisterous teenager, Johnson threw herself into the sisters' austere life of poverty and devotion, stripping herself of all things familiar — family, material indulgences, intellectual autonomy — to become Sister Donata, poor, chaste, obedient.
Yet beneath her white-and-blue sari Johnson's curiosity stirred as she grappled with her faith, her sexuality, and the politics of the order. Eventually, after twenty years of service, Johnson left the church in search of authentic spiritual fulfillment and to discover who she truly was beyond the cloistered walls of the Missionaries. On this new journey, Johnson experiences an awakening of her soul and a profound connection to her female spirit. She comes to learn that a full life is marked by the receipt and expression of unconditional love.
Johnson joined the Missionaries of Charity, the group commonly known as the Sisters of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, at age 19. For fifteen of Mary Johnson's twenty years as a sister, she was stationed in Rome and often lived with Mother Teresa for weeks at a time. Johnson also lived and worked as a nun in the South Bronx, Washington DC, and Winnipeg. Mother Teresa sent her to study theology at Regina Mundi, a pontifical institute aggregated to the Gregorian University in Rome, where she received a diploma in religious studies. Johnson was assigned to compose and revise some of the governing documents of the Missionaries of Charity, and for six years was responsible for the formation of sisters preparing to vow their lives as nuns. After leaving the sisters in 1997, Johnson completed a BA in English at Lamar University and an MFA in Creative Writing at Goddard College. She also married. A well-respected teacher and public speaker, Johnson has led retreats, workshops, classes, and training sessions of various kinds for nearly thirty years. Most recently she has taught creative writing and Italian to adults and is Creative Director of A Room of Her Own Foundation's retreats for women writers.
Kristen Ringman and Makara:
In the story, Fionnuala is such a daughter: a part-human, part-seal Deaf woman who falls in love with Neela, a Hearing woman in India. While growing up with Neela's family in Tamil Nadu, she struggles with her distant parents living apart in Ireland and Indonesia. Eventually her father brings her to Venice where she becomes a mime artist. What binds them all together is the unstoppable undercurrent of ache running through the sea of their lives. The book's title comes from "a Sanskrit word for a mythological water creature, sometimes seen as a selchie or half-seal ... it is also described as a hybrid or monster (between forms, neither one thing nor another); a form that is half-animal and half-fish."
Ringman is a deaf writer and poet currently living in Nottingham, NH. Her first novel, Makara, was published by Handtype Press in November of 2012. Her poetry, fiction, and non-fiction have been published in various anthologies and literary journals. She has a passion for teaching experimental poetry classes that incorporate the natural world around us, other forms of art, and yoga. In 2011, she was awarded the Kenny Fries Fellowship to AROHO (A Room of Her Own) Women's Writing Retreat at Ghost Ranch, NM. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College in June of 2008. Kristen has lived in India, Kenya, and Ireland. When she's not writing, she enjoys sailing, barefoot long distance running, hiking, and training her newest Service Hearing dog, Yemaya.
During her reading, Kristen will run a video of herself doing her reading in ASL, and there will be an interpreter on hand, as well as a handout of Mary's reading.
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PHILADELPHIA -- Former Phillies All-Star catcher Darren Daulton has been diagnosed with brain cancer.
A statement released by Philadelphia radio station 97.5 The Fanatic says Daulton has glioblastoma. The American Brain Tumor Association calls that form of cancer "highly malignant."
Daulton had hosted a nightly radio show at the station before doctors found two tumors on his brain on June 27. He had an operation to remove them on July 1.
The statement says Daulton has returned to his home near Clearwater, Fla., to continue recuperating with his immediate family and friends. He will eventually begin treatments there.
Daulton played 14½ of his 15 major league seasons with Philadelphia and was a key part of the Phillies' NL championship team in 1993. He finished his career with the 1997 World Series champion Florida Marlins.