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In New Mexico, all passengers in the front and back seats must be wearing a seat belt. All persons in a moving vehicle, in all positions, at all times, must be belted.
The law in New Mexico requires all children up to their 7th birthday, regardless of weight, and all children less than 60 pounds, regardless of age, to ride in a child safety seat. The law also states that children ages 7 to 12 must ride in a booster seat until the adult seat belt fits them properly.
All children must remain rear facing until they are at least 1 year of age and 20 pounds. However, ALL children should stay rear facing as long as possible, until the child weighs about 35 pounds.
Children should ride in a forward-facing child safety seat with a harness until they reach the height or weight limits of the seat – most models can be used up to 40 pounds, but some go to 60 pounds or more.
Children should ride in booster seats until the vehicle seat belt fits correctly. Booster seats must be used with both lap and shoulder belts. Booster seats cannot be used with a lap belt alone.
New Mexico has a primary enforcement seat belt law and a primary child restraint enforcement law. This means that a vehicle can be stopped for other reasons, and if the driver or any passengers are not wearing their seat belts, or children are not properly restrained, the officer can issue seat belt or child restraint violations.
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Single Review – Jon Pardi's "Night Shift"
Nobody's talking about it, but Jon Pardi is quickly developing into a serious modern country star. His latest record California Sunrise was released now over two years ago, and aside from Chris Stapleton's Traveller, it's been one of the most perennial titles on the Billboard Country Albums chart Top 15 over that time period. There are stadium acts that haven't sold 250,000 copies of their latest record like Jon Pardi has (see Kenny Chesney's Cosmic Hallelujah).
It's for these reasons that Capitol Nashville has decided to release a 5th single from the record, which is a feat and a victory for any album in itself. A 5th single means a label perceives continued strength from a title and an artist, and a willingness to continue to invest time and money in promoting them. "Night Shift" will try to bridge the gap between California Sunrise, and whatever new music Jon Pardi has planned, which has to be in the works at this point now two years removed from his last release.
There is a touch of grey in the silver lining though. Pardi's last single "She Ain't In It" had traditional country fans singing the praises of Pardi and his label for showing leadership for putting such a traditional song on the radio. To many, it was clearly the best song from the California Sunrise set. But it stalled out just outside the Top 20 on the charts, signaling that even though Pardi's popularity is on the rise, radio is still soft on singles that don't adhere to the latest trends. As a fourth single, it was worth throwing it out there as a wild card. The fact that it got to #21 could still be an important stepping stone.
"Night Shift" may not fare much better in such a crowded market for new singles at the moment, and it may not be nearly as traditional as "She Ain't In It." But it is indicative of the important place Jon Pardi inhabits in mainstream country. Don't shake your head that Pardi is out there on tour right now with Luke Bryan and Sam Hunt. Be happy that at least someone who knows how to pick out a cowboy hat and a pair of Wranglers is representing country on what is supposed to be a "country" tour. Let those fans be exposed to a little actual country music culture. Perhaps they'll like what they hear, and go searching for more.
The promise in Pardi is not that he'll be the next George Jones. But he could be the next Dierks Bentley, though an even more twangy version—helping to bridge the gap between contemporary and traditional, and offering the mainstream masses a healthier alternative. "Night Shift" most certainly falls into that categorization, with prominent fiddle right beside the lead guitar, and some steel tones working into a robust chorus hard not to find appeal in. The song ends with a guitar solo, which is about as rare as steel and fiddle itself these days.
Written by Tofer Brown, Phillip LaRue, and Billy Montana, the lyrics of "Night Shift" are pretty stock, but the idea of working 60 hours a week, yet saving enough energy for keeping the flames of desire alive at home is the kind of blue collar story indicative of actual country music, and can't be overdone. This is Jon Pardi doing what Jon Pardi does, which is keeping it a little bit safe, but also keeping it distinctly country. It's not too far off from the sensibility of some of Alan Jackson's radio material during his heyday.
If you try to appeal to both the traditional and contemporary, you run the risk of not appealing to either. We know Jon Pardi is a traditionalist, even if he also has the natural desire to have a successful career, and be heard. He sells actual records like more traditional and independent artists do, and it also means he is appealing to an older crowd, as well as the younger audience on radio where he's found success. You get the sense Pardi is still developing, and his next record could break either way. But for now, he's content straddling the lines between both country worlds, and has found surprising success doing it. A song like "Night Shift" is exemplary of that.

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Is it just me or is SEO a really scary word?
Like, when you see the word, do you instantly think of a bunch of convoluted tech mumbo jumbo that you'd never be able to understand even in your wildest dreams?
Well, that's the way that I felt up until a couple of months ago.
When I first started researching SEO and the technical side of blogging, I felt really intimidated. In fact, I felt so intimidated that I decided it just wasn't for me and stopped researching it altogether.
But after seeing so many blog posts about the life-changing magic that it utilizing SEO, I reluctantly gave it another go. And in doing so, I learned a lot about search engine marketing and advertising in the digital age. It's actually a pretty interesting topic—I highly recommend doing some yourself if you get the chance.
Anyway, as I was doing my SEO research, I had a hard time finding articles that explained SEO in its simplest terms. A lot of the pieces that I stumbled upon were very insightful and informative; however, as someone with no background in SEO, SEM, or content marketing, I wasn't quite sure where to start.
That being said, I have a feeling there are bloggers out there who are in similar positions. So, today I thought that I would write up a post about everything that I've learned since I started delving into the marketing side of blogging.
I'm still fairly new to the SEO thing, and by no stretch am I a search marketing expert. In fact, if you have any semblance of an understanding of SEO, this will probably be nothing new. But if you're totally new to all of it, hopefully this will be a good start.
What is SEO?
Search engine optimization (otherwise known as SEO) is a search engine marketing (otherwise known as SEM) strategy used to get posts ranked higher in search engine results. By utilizing SEO, bloggers, influencers, advertisers, and marketers are able to get their posts positioned higher up than other similar content on search engines like Google or, well, Google. (Does anyone actually use a search engine other than Google?) This helps them increase the likelihood of users clicking on their posts and ultimately brings people to their sites.
Think of it this way: Imagine you're interested in reading reviews for a new eyeshadow palette that was just released by your favorite brand. The first thing you'll probably do is pull up Google and type in something along the lines of "your favorite brand's name + eyeshadow palette review." And after doing this, you'll come up with millions of pages of results.
However, you probably aren't going to read millions of reviews. Instead, you'll probably end up clicking on one or two within the first few pages. This is why SEO is important. Because if you're one of the bloggers who has written a review on this eyeshadow palette, you're going to want your review to be read. And it's more likely that your review will be read if it shows up within those first few pages.
How do you use SEO?
There are many different ways to use SEO and most are past the extent of my knowledge. But one of the easiest and most effective ways to help your content rank higher in search engines is by using keywords. Tools like KWFinder allow you to look up keywords based on what your post is about. For example, if you're writing a blog post about working with brands, you can type that phrase into KWFinder's search bar and find several keyword suggestions. Using these keywords will help improve your chances of appearing at the top of the search engine.
Is SEO really that effective?
As I've said, I haven't been aware of SEO for too long, so I can't say for certain whether or not it has drastically improved my blog statistics. What I do know, however, is that two of my most popular posts of all-time (The Pros and Cons of Beauty Subscription Boxes and Tarte Pearly Girl Teeth Whitening Pen) happen to be two of my highest ranked posts on Google. I don't believe that's a coincidence.
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East End Film Festival at Whitechapel Gallery, Wednesday 29th April 7pm followed by panel discussion with Will Self, Iain Sinclair, Andrea Philips and John Rogers
"The cinema of John Rogers is like a combination of…the physicality of Kotting with the Deep Topography of Keiller."
– Iain Sinclair
Featuring contributions from Russell Brand, Will Self and Iain Sinclair
The London Perambulator is a documentary about our relationship with the edgelands of the city, the under-imagined liminal spaces at the fringe of London. This is the city that we deny, overlook, malign. But it is in these spaces that we find the key to the true soul of the city, it's past and it's future.
Three leading London cultural figures, Will Self, Iain Sinclair, and Russell Brand discuss the work of Nick Papadimitriou, writer and self-styled 'Deep Topographer', a man who had dedicated his life to mapping, archiving, forming an almost religious attachment to these locations.
"Nick knows about woodlands – he's been a conservation worker; he knows about ecology – he's written scientific reports on the subject; he knows more about the topography of London than anyone I've ever met. All in all Nick's psychogeographic credentials piss on mine from the height of Angel Falls, so when he says "Jump!" I politely request: "Broad? Triple? High?".
– Will Self, The Independent 22 April 2005
Brand, Self and Sinclair talk glowingly at length about the man who they see as being the perfect embodiment of engagement with the real city as opposed to the virtual metropolis of the property developers. Russell Brand describes Nick as "like some ludicrously pragmatic mystic, some dull trudging trainspotting alchemist. He hoovers up magic from stone and brick and concrete". This is a film that takes us beyond conventional notions of psychogeography and urbanism into a deeper engagement with the urban landscape and towards a future where the whole city becomes Edgeland.
The interviews are intercut with actuality footage as we follow Nick on journeys on foot through the heart of his London, invariably connected by underground water-courses. As Will Self says, "Places that feel left behind by the passage of history". Unseen, non-spaces that are passed in sealed pod-like cars on the way the airport and the out-of-town shopping complex. Edgelands that Iain Sinclair notes are, "between permitted territories". Brand also notes, "we've become so removed from a landscape that has been lacquered in concrete".
At Wormword Scrubs, Nick remembers his time inside where he befriended the notorious serial killer Denis Nilsen. He walks the Grand Union Canal with his friend of 23 years, Will Self, as they head out towards Heathrow. They talk candidly about addiction, how walking is laden with narrative and memory. In the industrial estates of Stonebridge Park, Nick connects his attachment to the neglected city with his own sense of alienation from the urban realm of Sunday Supplement living. He takes us inside his archive, Deep Library, consisting of found objects, journals, maps and photos salvaged from abandoned houses and suburban skips.
"(Nick) Is like a perfect figure at the edge of the city, a kind of freelance historian of great knowledge and a kind of archivist gathering up everything he could to do with Middlesex and writing, without any particular hope of publication, great tracts that were like strange rhapsodies and poems of the city."
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Here's a photo of the poster we presented two weeks ago at the European Academy of Design Conference in Paris. It's based on a research project conducted at HEAD – Genève which led to this book (we're working on a second edition). The diagrams depicts the different profiles of designers (regarding the way to carry out field research in their projects) and the set of steps they go through (from producing data to analyzing them and creating design elements out of it). This is the type of process I am using in my workshops about design ethnography, as a pedagogical tool to help participants. We're going to use it in the upcoming studio organized with Annelore Schneider at the Geneva School of Art and Design in order to explore the future of mobile photography.
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The Boy Scouts of Melrose Troop 68 chose geocaching as the theme for last August. A merit badge counselor came to one of the troop meetings and the monthly outing was based on that topic. The Boy Scouts had fun and seemed to enjoy the thrill of the hunt.
After the activity, the scoutmaster and his son stopped by my house to discuss how things went. It did not take long before we were on the geocaching.com website to learn how to create and record our own geocache site.
Over the last three months I have received five emails from geocaching.com informing me that people have been discovering our site and leaving comments. I am happy to report that all of the comments have been positive, even though one person was harassed by an injured goose While trying to find it.
I have not been back to our cache site since we set it up, so on Sunday I went for a walk and checked it out. I was pleased to see that most of the treasure hunters had signed our sheet. troop number patch was still in the 35mm case so I guess Boy Scouts from another troop have not yet discovered it.


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At a conference last year I tried to take to heart plenary speaker Sister Helen Prejean's words of challenge. I say, "try" as I wondered if I would have the same spirit of compassion and forgiveness under the same circumstances she witnessed.
Prejean is, of course, the central character in the 1995 movie, Dead Man Walking, based on her book of the same title. She related her experience in befriending a convicted murderer on death row and later serving as his spiritual advisor until his execution at which she was present.
She reminded us that two others were crucified on either side of Jesus, and that like Christ, we have to reach out to both – one hand to reach out to the victims of injustice and violence, the other hand to those who perpetuate violence. It is an exceedingly unpopular stance to take.
Her words came back to me recently as I try to make sense of something closer to home. Imagine the following: A child is killed by an alleged drunk driver not far from where you live, where you have been many times before, maybe with your own kids or grandchildren.
The community is shocked and outraged. Local stores sponsor fundraising efforts to support the bereaved family. As you pull into your favourite coffee shop one morning you see a sign reminding you to slow down for the sake of our kids.
You go into the store to get your coffee and there is a poster with the child's face, calling for justice. You donate money for the family.
But what makes the sign all the more personal and incongruous is that minutes before, you drove down the street on which lives the person charged in the child's death.
At least twice a day you are reminded of another side of this tragic story, a story invoking mixed emotions.
You think of Sister Helen Prejean and push her words away. It is difficult to reach out like Jesus to those both on your right and on your left.
In my 30 years working in Catholic health care, I have witnessed many hauntingly difficult tragedies, some due to the direct result or inadvertent actions of others.
I have never forgotten, for example, the Saturday evening in which a young family was killed in a motor vehicle accident. While providing support to the distraught family members who came to identify the bodies, others involved in the same accident received treatment in our stretcher bay, obviously overcome by shock themselves.
So much of my attention was focused on accompanying the family to view the deceased, but I knew the other family needed support, too. I trusted someone else would look after them, but on that Saturday evening, it could not be me. I could only see, respond and allow my heart to be moved by the people on my right.
There was a part of me that judged those on my left.
Tragedies have a way of triggering memories of past events, perhaps experiences that never quite heal. But they can also remind us of our capacity and moral obligation to reach out to all, recognizing every person deserves compassion.
Such lessons underscore the words of another great teacher of our age - the late Cardinal Joseph Bernadin who insisted we demonstrate a consistent ethic of life. An ethic requiring us to show equal concern for those harmed by the injustices of life as do the very people Sister Helen will not allow us to forget. An ethic calling us to encourage people to take responsibility for their actions rather than to simply blame and condemn them.
This is not a popular message, nor are the mixed emotions easily reconciled just by wishing them so. I question those who dismiss ethics as a mere academic exercise with no connection to real life.
I cannot think of a more profound way to engage the realities of life than being consistent in our moral choices, especially when our values call us to speak up, perhaps even at risk of offending others, in support of those equally deserving of God's mercy and compassion.
As Sister Helen prays, this requires grace: "God of Compassion, you let your rain fall on the just and the unjust. Expand and deepen our hearts so that we may love as you love, even those among us who have caused the greatest pain by taking life."
(Gordon Self is vice president, mission, ethics and spirituality for Covenant Health and can be reached at email@example.com.)


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Marlins seeing double plays in lieu of runs
MILWAUKEE -- One reason the Marlins are last in the Major Leagues in runs scored is because they rank near the top in an undesirable category.
Through Saturday, the Marlins have grounded into 89 double plays, the fourth most in the game.
Double plays have crippled the club all season.
"I think that's what happens when you're not swinging the bats well: You ground into double plays," Marlins manager Mike Redmond said. "That's what happened for [the first] two months. We were grounding into double plays.
"When you're going good, that's a line drive to right. Now, we're getting a couple of good at-bats from a couple of guys. That's it. Really, we're getting shut down, one through eight."
But grounding into double plays does not tell the complete story for a team.
What is telling for the Marlins is that they have a high number of double plays while not scoring many runs. Shut out in back-to-back games by Milwaukee in its current series, Miami remained stuck on 306 runs, the fewest in the Majors.
On the flip side, the team to ground into the most double plays is the Cardinals, with 98 through Saturday. The difference is, St. Louis had 474 runs, the most in the National League and third most in the game.
The Angels were second in double plays, with 95. But they tied for seventh overall in runs scored (436). And the D-backs were third in double plays (90) while 14th in runs (402).
Inexperience is certainly a factor for the youthful Marlins, who are striving to make steady progress in the second half.
"Offensively, we're just not getting anything going," Redmond said. "We're getting completely shut down. We're not getting guys on base. We're not getting big hits with the bases loaded. We've had a couple of opportunities to at least put a couple of runs across with a big hit, or a hit. We're not getting it.
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Rupert Grint: 'Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman' Photo Call & Press Conference!
Rupert Grint steps out for the The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman photo call during the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival held at Grand Hyatt Hotel on Saturday afternoon (February 9) in Berlin, Germany.
The 24-year-old British actor joined director Fredrik Bond and co-star Til Schweiger for the press conference immediately following.
Also starring Shia LaBeouf and Evan Rachel Wood, the film follows Charlie Countryman (LaBeouf) who falls for Gabi (Wood), a Romanian beauty whose unreachable heart has its origins in Nigel, her violent, charismatic ex.
As the darkness of Gabi's past increasingly envelops him, Charlie resolves to win her heart, or die trying.
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At the Fairville Inn, the nightly rate includes afternoon tea (hot and iced) with a spread of cheesy snacks and homemade pastries, and daily breakfast featuring baked goods and a selection of three hot dishes. (A sample multiple-choice quiz: Do you want the apple pecan pancakes; crustless quiche with spinach, portobello mushrooms, and ricotta and feta cheeses; or scrambled eggs?) Also: WiFi, parking, bottled water, satellite TV and local sightseeing advice. What's not rolled into the price: Ozzie the dog. 'I think your dog was trying to climb into our car,' said a departing guest, as she deposited the four-legged rascal at the two feet of Rick Carro, co-owner of the lodge and the pooch. Ozzie was not trying to escape the five-acre Chadds Ford, Pa., property for a better life in an SUV. He was just snuffling around for crumbs. 'He likes Cheerios,' said Rick, referring to the common detritus found in most family vehicles, including his own. The Carros - Rick and his wife, Laura, their two daughters and two pets, Ozzie and Harriet the cat - took over the Fairville in 2007, becoming the fourth keepers of the Brandywine Valley inn since 1986. In earlier times, the region's monarchs, the Du Ponts, occupied the 19th-century main house as a summer residence. The daffodil-yellow structure with the inky black shutters now contains five guest rooms, a curl-up den with a fireplace, and the dining room and kitchen, where Rick cooks breakfast and whips up such special-order desserts as chocolate truffle torte and fruit-stuffed crepes (no in-room flambes, reads the small print on the menu). An adjoining room holds the reception area and a corner gift shop selling pottery mugs, antiques (an 1880 china-head doll with 'original underwear' goes for $135), fuzzy grass plumes from the garden and wool rugs woven by Rick-of-all-trades. Around back, the four-room Springhouse stands on the site of the former barn, which is gone but not entirely forgotten: reclaimed parts such as wooden beams and doors have returned as interior decor. I stayed in the six-room Carriage House, which resides on the same land as the former (and smaller) 'garage.' Each of the inn rooms is individually decorated, with some overlapping elements: gas fireplaces in eight rooms and cathedral ceilings in two. My room's key pieces included a princessy bed framed by floaty gossamer panels and a pair of cushy chairs for princes-in-waiting. I was the only guest who could claim an It. 'We call the vine 'Cousin It,' ' said Rick, referring to the horticultural Afro sprouting from my back deck. 'We give it a haircut every spring.' My friend It blended in with the living Wyethian landscape of a cascading meadow, pervasive plantings and decorative and edible gardens. Rick is an adherent of the yard-to-table ethos, often incorporating his recent harvests into the morning dishes. Peppers, squash and tomatoes from his personal plot appear in omelets; melons land in the fruit salad; smoked and pureed pumpkins perk up pancakes and donuts. However, the black walnuts, so messy and tough to crack, remain unclaimed on the ground. When I arrived in the evening, the hotel was one bulb short of lights out. The front desk attendant issued a last call for ice, then led me to my room through the dark. I checked the stars from my porch (still twinkling), then kicked back on the snow-white bed, crawling to the edge for a better view of the very-small-screen TV. On weekdays, breakfast runs from 7 to 9 a.m. (weekends, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.), and guests must sign up for a specific slot, which helps stagger the hot entree orders. As the last visitor to check in the night before, I'd missed out on all the good (read: late-riser) spots. The solution: Below the last entry of 8:40, I scribbled in my name and 8:50. In hindsight, I should have added 'ish.' Guests were still scraping their plates when I wandered in. Laura, full of smiles, stopped at my table to refill my coffee. She inquired about my day's plan, throwing out such suggestions as visiting the nearby Longwood Gardens and the Wyeth artworks at the Brandywine River Museum. Crunched for time, I asked about the closer Fairville Gardens. 'That's Rick's garden,' she said. 'You'll see him out there pruning and tending to his pumpkins.' At that moment, Rick was on breakfast patrol, but once freed from the kitchen, he took me on a tour of the grounds. He pointed out the giant fir that wears ropes of colored lights during the holidays and the three-hole 'pitch-but-no-putt' golf course (the fourth hole went a-missing). We also peeked at the suites and into my downstairs neighbor's accommodations, a fairy nymph's fantasy of forest-green-and-white floral wallpaper and a tall wooden headboard with a bow. Eventually, the chef/gardener/weaver/innkeeper had to return to his duties and I had to check out. But before driving off, I quickly glanced around my car to make sure that Ozzie wasn't in the back seat, vacuuming up the cereal bits. - – - Fairville Inn 506 Kennett Pike Chadds Ford, Pa. 610-388-5900 Rooms from $175 a night
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Friday, June 01, 2007
A happy, if unusual, threesome: asparagus with coconut & lime
Asparagus with coconut & lime
(Sparglid kookospiima ja laimiga)
Adapted from Swedish Arla site
Serves 4 as a starter
400 grams green asparagus
250 ml thick coconut milk
a scant teaspoon of Marigold Swiss Vegetable Bouillon powder
grated peel of 1 lime and 2 tsp of pressed juice
a pinch of salt
coconut flakes
Snap off the woody bits of asparagus stalks, discard. Boil the asparagus in a slightly salted water for about 2 minutes, until cooked, but not soft. Drain and place on warmed plates.
Meanwhile, heat the coconut milk in a small saucepan to very slow simmer (do not boil!), season with bouillon powder, lime juice, half of the grated lime zest, and salt. Spoon over the cooked asparagus and garnish with the rest of the grated zest and some flaked coconut.
Other asparagus dishes @ Nami-nami:
Asparagus with pinenuts, lime and browned butter (May 2007)
Roasted green asparagus with feta cheese (May 2007)
Roasted green asparagus with Parmesan cheese (May 2006)
Wild asparagus with butter / Wild asparagus with pasta & garlic (May 2006)
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- Alanna Kellogg said...
Very creative! You should ask Rachel of Coconut & Lime if it can be part of her 3rd birthday celebration!
- 6:35 pm, June 01, 2007
Pille, I just made cocoa and raspberry muffins, your Cadbury recipe from a while back. They turned out PERFECT! Me and Stevie are stuffing our faces right now. Well done, girl!
- 9:18 pm, June 01, 2007
- Shaun said...
Pille - I am not a big fan of asparagus, but even I am tempted by this recipe. I like, too, how it precedes other great-sounding dishes, like coriander salmon. What a feast!
- 11:29 pm, June 01, 2007
- Kalyn Denny said...
Unusual, but it sounds quite intriguing. I'm pretty sure I'd love it!
- 4:17 am, June 02, 2007
- Dolores said...
What Kalyn said. :) I can't wait to try this!
- 6:33 am, June 05, 2007
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
This is an intriguing combo of flavors that I'd be game to try.
- 12:48 am, June 06, 2007
- Pille said...
Alanna - I would if I knew how!!
Roxy - good to hear that! I should make them myself soon again, too. K. hasn't tried them yet ;)
Shaun - I was quite happy how the different dishes complemented one another that night.
Kalyn - I've seen all those ingredients on your blog before, just not together :)
Culinary Curious- hope you'll like it!
Susan - unusual, but rather nice!
- 11:48 pm, June 11, 2007


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Yielding to political opposition, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday that 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged henchmen will be referred to military commissions for trial rather than to a civilian federal court in New York.
The families of those killed in the Sept. 11 attacks have waited almost a decade for justice, and "it must not be delayed any longer," Holder told a news conference.
Holder had announced the earlier plan for trial in New York City in November 2009, but that foundered amid widespread opposition to a civilian court trial from Republicans and even some Democrats, particularly in New York. Congress passed legislation that prohibits bringing any detainees from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the United States.
Monday, the attorney general called the congressional restrictions unwise and unwarranted and said a legislative body cannot make prosecutorial decisions.
Most Republicans applauded the turnabout, but Holder said he is still convinced that his earlier decision was the right one. The Justice Department had been prepared to bring "a powerful case" in civilian court, he said.
In New York on Monday, the government unsealed and got a judge to dismiss an indictment in the case that charged Mohammed and the others with 10 counts relating to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The dismissal was because the defendants will not be tried in civilian court.
The indictment said that in late August 2001, as the terrorists in the United States made final preparations, Mohammed was notified about the date of the attack and relayed that to Osama bin Laden.
Some 9/11 family members supported the switch to military commissions.
"We're delighted," said Alexander Santora, 74, father of deceased firefighter Christopher A. Santora. The father called the accused terrorists "demonic human beings, they've already said that they would kill us if they could, if they got the chance they would do it again."
Nancy Nee, whose firefighter brother George Cain died at the World Trade Center, said that the five men are "war criminals as far as I'm concerned and I think that a military trial is the right thing to do."
However, a top Democrat, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy of Vermont, said he is disappointed with the decision not to prosecute in federal court. "I believe that our justice system, which is the envy of the world, is more than capable of trying high-profile terrorism and national security cases," said Leahy.
Republican lawmakers welcomed the shift.
"It's unfortunate that it took the Obama administration more than two years to figure out what the majority of Americans already know: that 9/11 conspirator Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is not a common criminal, he's a war criminal," said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith of Texas.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Jeff Sessions of Alabama said he was "pleased that the Obama administration has finally heeded those who rebuked their decision and that the trial is being held where it belongs."
The American Civil Liberties Union criticized the administration's decision.
Cases prosecuted in military commissions now "are sure to be subject to continuous legal challenges and delays, and their outcomes will not be seen as legitimate. That is not justice," said ACLU executive director Anthony D. Romero.
Holder said it is unclear whether the five men could receive the death penalty if they plead guilty in military court.
The political fight over where to try the alleged 9/11 plotters is part of a bigger battle in which Republicans want no detainees from Guantanamo Bay brought into the United States.
In a letter sent Monday, Holder assured Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., that the administration has no intention of moving Guantanamo Bay detainees into a shuttered Illinois prison. Originally, the administration intended for Gitmo detainees to be housed there as part of a plan to close Guantanamo Bay. Despite Congress' restrictions on transferring detainees from Guantanamo, the administration still formally supports closing the military prison there.
During a military hearing at Guantanamo Bay in 2007, Mohammed confessed to planning the Sept. 11 attacks and a chilling string of other terror plots.
Many of the schemes, including a previously undisclosed plan to kill several former U.S. presidents, were never carried out or were foiled by international counterterror authorities.
Mohammed made clear that al-Qaida wanted to down a second trans-Atlantic aircraft during would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid's failed operation later in 2001.
The other four alleged co-conspirators are:
- Waleed bin Attash, a Yemeni who allegedly ran an al-Qaida training camp in Afghanistan;
- Ramzi Binalshibh, a Yemeni who allegedly helped find flight schools for the hijackers;
- Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, accused of helping nine of the hijackers travel to the United States and sending them $120,000 for expenses and flight training; and
- Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi, a Saudi accused of helping the hijackers with money, Western clothing, traveler's checks and credit cards.
Mohammed allegedly proposed the idea for the Sept. 11 attacks to Osama bin Laden as early as 1996, obtained funding for the attacks from bin Laden, oversaw the operation and trained the hijackers in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Mohammed was born in Pakistan's Baluchistan province and raised in Kuwait.


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Paramount's Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation delivered this weekend with a first place debut of $55.52 million. The well received fifth installment of the Tom Cruise led action franchise opened towards the higher end of its wide ranging expectations. Without adjusting for ticket price inflation, Rogue Nation claimed the second largest opening weekend take of the Mission: Impossible franchise; behind only the $57.85 million opening weekend of 2000's Mission: Impossible II. Rogue Nation opened 16 percent ahead of the $47.74 million debut of 2006's Mission: Impossible III, though it should also be noted that the opening weekend of Mission: Impossible III adjusts to $61.15 million when taking into account ticket price inflation. Pre-release tracking had been surprisingly soft for Rogue Nation, but the film was ultimately able to get off to a good start thanks in part to its very strong critical reviews and to the rest of the marketplace being fairly empty for this time of year.
Rogue Nation opened with $20.30 million on Friday (which included an estimated $4.0 million from Thursday evening shows), fell a slim 3 percent on Saturday to gross $19.65 million and declined 21 percent on Sunday to gross $15.57 million. That placed the film's opening weekend to Friday ratio at a solid 2.73 to 1. Early word of mouth appears to be very strong for Rogue Nation, as the film received an A- rating on CinemaScore and currently boasts a 92 percent audience score on Flixster. With that in mind, Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation is likely to hold up relatively well going forward, though the film will also face significant competition over the next two weeks from Fox's Fantastic Four, Universal's Straight Outta Compton and Warner's The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The audience breakdown for Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation skewed heavily towards moviegoers 25 years and older (81 percent) and towards male moviegoers (62 percent).
Warner's Vacation debuted in a distant second place this weekend with $14.68 million. The comedy franchise re-launch starring Ed Helms and Christina Applegate has grossed $21.00 million in five days since opening on Wednesday. That is below the already scaled back expectations for the film. Vacation is running a distant 45 percent behind the $37.91 million five-day launch of 2013's We're the Millers. Instead, Vacation performed much more in line with the $19.10 million five-day start of 2012's Hope Springs. Poor critical reviews certainly didn't help matters for Vacation and the film's R rating appears to have limited some of its potential with younger moviegoers as 64 percent of the film's audience was 25 years and older. Vacation skewed slightly towards female moviegoers (53 percent).
On a positive note, Vacation was quite back-loaded towards the weekend as it registered a five-day to three-day weekend ratio of 1.43 to 1. That suggests that the film may be naturally back-loaded going forward. Over the three-day frame, Vacation had an opening weekend to Friday ratio of 3.25 to 1 (the film took in $4.52 million on Friday, increased 28 percent on Saturday to gross $5.80 million and decreased 25 percent on Sunday to gross $4.36 million). Vacation may also be aided by the relative lack of new comedies arriving in the marketplace throughout the rest of August. On the other hand, the film's modest B rating on CinemaScore isn't the most encouraging early sign, though it does suggest that the film is going over better with moviegoers than it has with critics.
It was a close race for third place this weekend between Ant-Man and Minions. Disney's Ant-Man ended up on top with $12.80 million. The Paul Rudd led 3D superhero film from Marvel was down a sizable 49 percent from last weekend, as it clearly took a direct hit from the arrival of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation in the marketplace. Ant-Man has grossed a solid $132.33 million through 17 days of release. That places the film just 8 percent behind the $143.20 million 17-day gross of 2011's Captain America: The First Avenger.
Minions placed in fourth with $12.39 million. The 3D computer animated prequel from Universal and Illumination Entertainment trailed Ant-Man by just $415,269 for the frame. Minions was down a significant 46 percent from last weekend, as the film continues to feel the effect of mixed word of mouth (especially among adults). With that said, Minions has grossed an impressive $287.58 million in 24 days. That places the film 3 percent behind the $295.26 million 24-day take of 2013's Despicable Me 2.
Sony's Pixels rounded out the weekend's top five with $10.50 million. The Adam Sandler led 3D action comedy fell a sharp 56 percent from last weekend. The film's percentage hold was lackluster, especially on the heels of last weekend's much softer than expected debut. With a ten-day gross of $45.71 million, Pixels is running a disappointing 42 percent behind the $79.39 million ten-day gross of 2013's Grown Ups 2 and just ahead of the $44.56 million ten-day take of 2012's Battleship.
Trainwreck followed in sixth with $9.61 million. The critically acclaimed Amy Schumer led comedy from director Judd Apatow was down a respectable 44 percent. While Trainwreck has already registered a total gross to opening weekend ratio of 2.65 to 1, the film is also displaying more front-loading than is often usual for a film from Apatow; likely a result of Schumer's fanbase having rushed out to see the film. Trainwreck has grossed a strong $79.61 million in 17 days, which places it an impressive 35 percent ahead of the $59.09 million 17-day gross of 2009's Julie & Julia.
The Weinstein Company's Southpaw landed in seventh place with $7.62 million. The Jake Gyllenhaal led sports drama was down a sharp 54 percent, which does take a bit of the luster off of last weekend's stronger than expected debut. Even with this weekend's decline, Southpaw is still off to a solid ten-day start of $31.68 million. The film is currently running 22 percent ahead of the $25.98 million ten-day gross of 2012's End of Watch.


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If you would like to improve your running performance, now's the time. Suunto's current How do I run? contest offers you the chance to have your running form analyzed by professional coaches – for free! Whoever shares a clip of themselves running on Instagram and receives an analysis from the coaches goes in a draw to win one of six Suunto Ambit3 Run watches.
So far Carmichael Training Systems coaches Jason Koop and Nick White have analyzed five clips runners have shared on Instagram for the contest. Koop, as he's known in the running world, and Nick offered each runner useful feedback to help him or her make positive changes to their running technique. Watch each of the five clips below and read the feedback given.
Get involved with the How do I run? contest here
To help runners improve their performance, Suunto has also released new features to its Ambit3 watches. The new features were developed in cooperation with Firstbeat Technologies, Suunto's long term partner in sports sciences, and include running performance level, sleep recovery and quick recovery test functions. Read more about the new features here.
Feedback from the coaches
Click here to read Koop and Nick's 8 general tips to become a better runner
Feedback from Koop: Your overall posture is quite good. You have a slightly forward lean and good head position. Don't change anything there! Your footstrike is slightly forward of your hips. If you focus on your foot striking the ground directly beneath your hips you will be more economical and save some wear and tear on your joints!
Feedback from Nick: Your body position and footstrike are very good already. Upright body position with a slight forward lean, and your feet are landing midfoot directly beneath your hips. However, your speed would improve with some additional flexibility in your hips, pelvis, and legs. If you are more flexible all around, you'll be able to safely increase your stride length while maintaining your current footstrike. A good stretching or yoga class might be just the thing to get you running faster!
Feedback from Koop: Looks like some nice speedwork! At these speeds, focus on having a footstrike that is directly under your hips and where your foot is hitting the ground on the midfoot or forefoot. While your flight phase (in air) posture and mechanics are quite good, if you simply focus on changing where and how your foot hits the ground, you will have less stress on your body.
Feedback from Nick: Looks like a great path to put in an after-work run! You would definitely benefit from shortening up your stride slightly, and getting your feet to contact the ground directly beneath your hips. Right now you're landing on your heels just before the rest of your foot, and slightly in front of your center of mass/hips. This results in a "braking" action. Your running will be much more efficient if you can bring that foot strike backwards 6" or so. In the short term that might feel like you're shortening your stride, but in reality you'll just be getting more efficiency out of your effort, and faster overall!
Feedback from Koop: Turnover is the key here! Your foot strike and mechanics are very good and I would not change a thing here. However, your running cadence needs to be 10 strides per minute higher. You can correct this by counting the number of strides you take (one foot landing on the ground) for 15 seconds. Multiply by 4 and you should be in the 90 strides per min range. You can also use your Suunto watch to track this metric!


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I am a learner who can waterstart left and right just need more practice. Any good places for me?
I have heard that the west of the island is the best place.
Any other tips!
Thank you
2 years ago I've stayed in a villa (2 rooms + a huge balcony) in La Gaulette for 60 Euros, 4x4 included). There were cheaper single rooms as well. La Gaulette is ~4 km from the kite spot at Le Morne (Club Mistral).Pin Head wrote:ok. thanks for that.
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The Hornets guard is in Las Vegas, vying for a spot on the Olympic team, and he's telling anyone who will listen just how much he'd rather play in Phoenix than New Orleans. Coincidentally, he just agreed to a four-year, $58 million offer sheet with the Suns!
"Phoenix just showed a lot more interest, overall, and definitely in how they negotiated. I don't know what New Orleans' plans are for me. There are no negotiations right now ... They drafted another shooting guard, a combo guard like me, which tells me they have another plan
"Phoenix signed two other young guys that are very talented. They're already established and they're already going to get better."
Boy, it's going to be awkward when New Orleans matches the offer, since Gordon (besides the draft pick that turned into Austin Rivers) is the only real asset the Hornets got for moving Chris Paul and blowing up the team. Luckily, someone asked Gordon today what he'll do if the Hornets sign him:
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Swan lashes out at Newman Government over voting move
THE Deputy Prime Minister has likened the Queensland Government and its proposal to reform electoral laws, including compulsory voting, to the infamous Joh Bjelke-Petersen Government.
Speaking from the Sunshine Coast, Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer Wayne Swan lashed out at the Newman Government's move to overhaul the electoral system.
"These are the tactics of the Tea party in the US trying to stop people having their say," he said.
The Queensland Government released a discussion paper today calling for submissions on potentially scrapping compulsory voting and caps on political donations.
Mr Swan likened the proposal to the Joh Bjelke-Petersen Government.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard took to twitter earlier this morning to slam the move.
"Fight @theqldpremier's plan to end compulsory voting. Don't let the Liberals make our democracy the plaything of cashed up interest groups JG," she wrote.
Outspoken billionaire Clive Palmer has also weighed in on the debate.
The former lifelong LNP member said a proposal to return to voluntary voting was a blow to democracy.
"The more people who participate in a democracy the better and it is good for the whole country if citizens accept the responsibility to vote," he said.
"But obviously the Queensland government isn't confident that it has the support of the people and despite their substantial parliamentary majority they have proposed to scrap compulsory voting.
"The government is panicking about the next state election even though it is two years away. It makes you worry about what else the government has planned this term."
Meanwhile Australian Labor Party state president Dick Williams said the move showed immature political thinking.
"Queensland had a 91% turnout in March last year, compared to just 66% who turned out to vote in the 2010 British elections where voting is not compulsory," he said.
"That's something we should be proud of, not shying away from."
LNP consider ending compulsory voting in state elections
COMPULSORY voting could be a requirement of the past for Queensland state elections under a proposal for sweeping electoral reform.
In a discussion paper on possible electoral reforms released today, the Queensland Government has also asked Queenslanders to have their say on scrapping caps on big political donations.
Voting in Queensland had been compulsory since 1915, when it was first introduced to improve voter turnout.
The discussion paper outlines arguments for those against compulsory voting who claim it is undemocratic to force people to vote.
Compulsory voting also leads to the ill-informed forced to the polls and an increase in informal votes, the document states.
The discussion papers cites a Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters report which argued if Australia wanted to be a democracy it should abolish compulsory voting.
The Queensland Government is also looking at reforming campaign donations, including making it an offence to lie in political advertising.
The green paper submits the fairest and most effective way to regulate political donations is through disclosure and that caps on political donations unnecessarily restrict donors from participating in the political process.
As a result of law reform in 2011, political donations were capped at $5300 per year to a registered political party and $2200 per donor per year to a candidate.
The government has asked for discussion on whether caps on political donations impinge on freedom of speech and political association under the Commonwealth Constitution.
Upon releasing the green paper, Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie said it was a chance for the public to express their views on important policy reform.
Mr Bleijie said openness and transparency was a key priority for the State Government and this was a chance for the public to express their views on important policy reform.
"The Newman Government wants to ensure the state has an electoral system that meets high standards of integrity and accountability," Mr Bleijie said.
"Fair and effective electoral laws are central to the promotion of participation in our democracy.
"For that reason we have prioritised the review of the Electoral Act 1992, which governs political donations, public funding for elections and election campaign expenditure."
Mr Bleijie said the paper was open to all Queenslanders and encouraged the community to have a say on potential electoral reforms.
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The submission period is open until 1 March 2013.


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It was a valiant attempt by Tab Ramos' US Under-20 national team, but perhaps one always destined to end in failure.
The United States attempted to go toe-to-toe with Spain on Friday in their FIFA U-20 World Cup opener at Ali Sami Yen Arena in Istanbul. But, like so many before them, that gameplan failed to keep the reigning kings of tiki-taka from running roughshod to the tune of a 4-1 victory.
Jesé Rodríguez and Gerard Deulofeu each notched a brace for Spain, and Luis Gil answered back with a magnificent strike for the US as Ramos' side now face difficult matches against France and Ghana to get out of the group stage.
It didn't take long for Spain to display their class, with Jesé opening the scoring just five minutes into the match after a long ball in the right channel opened up the US defense. Deulofeu raced in behind Javan Torre to corral the ball at the endline, and with pressure late in coming, he curled the ball to the back post, where the Real Madrid attacker applied a cool volley that slipped past DeAndre Yedlin and goalkeeper Cody Cropper.
U-20 World Cup: How has the tournament helped blood the current crop of USMNTers?
The US didn't back down from their high-pressure gameplan, though, and Gil nearly created the equalizer after 13 minutes. After picking up the ball at the top of the 18-yard box, the Real Salt Lake midfielder flicked the ball through to Alonso Hernandez, but the striker dragged his right-footed shot wide of the back post.
From there, Spain had the better of the play, as the US showed occasional flashes but were undone by untimely turnovers and an inability to measure the final ball. Torre was lucky to avoid a penalty kick in the 18th minute after he tripped up Deulofeu and Cropper came up with big saves to keep the margin one until late in the first half.
That's when Spain picked up where they left off in the fifth minute, through Deulofeu. The Barcelona winger got on the scoreboard in the 42nd minute after finding a sliver of space on the left side to curl a shot inside the far post past a diving Cropper.
He wasn't involved on the third, as Javier Manquillo once against exploited the space behind the US backline in the right channel. After beating Torre to a through ball, Manquillo cut back and found the feet of Jesé, who took a touch before coolly slotting the ball inside the near post.
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US head coach Tab Ramos made one change at halftime, sending Mario Rodriguez on for Hernandez. He was also forced into another substitution 10 minutes into the second half after Danny Garcia took a blow to the head, replacing the newly signed FC Dallas Homegrown midfielder with Danny Cuevas.
Still, it was the US defense that faced the brunt of the pressure, conceding for the fourth time in the 61st minute. Once again, it was Deulofeu who made the decisive run into the right channel, finding himself one-v-one with Cropper, who came out of his net to snuff out the chance but couldn't keep the winger from rolling the ball into an empty net.
And although the tide of the match didn't turn, the US pulled one back in the 77th minute through Gil, who was the Yanks' most dangerous player on the afternoon. After a Spanish turnover, Gil found himself isolated at the top of the box, shook his defender and whipped a beautiful left-footed shot into the top corner.
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Call it lack or sparring or even too much compliance with the persons defense and I would hazard a guess as a Judoka that this is what they are talking about.
I hesitate to comment too much on aikido as I have never done it but I have read a lot about it and the books I read give it too many "supernatural" powers for my taste.
In my books Ueshiba could disapear and re-appear in another room.
He could pin multiple guys on the floor and hold them.
These kinds of things irritate me.
If I could appear and re-appear I'd be making a great living robbing banks, not teaching martial arts.


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With the action of Federal District Court Judge Ronald Lagueux yesterday, the state came a giant step closer to opening all 123 acres of the former Rocky Point Amusement Park to the public. Lagueux …
With the action of Federal District Court Judge Ronald Lagueux yesterday, the state came a giant step closer to opening all 123 acres of the former Rocky Point Amusement Park to the public. Lagueux cleared the way for the Small Business Administration (SBA), court appointed receiver for bankrupt Moneta Capital, to sell about 82 acres to the state for $9.65 million. The city already owns 41 acres of the Rocky Point shoreline that will be rejoined with the state parcel.
A closing on the property is expected next month.
The moment so many had waited for so long was brief – about 10 minutes – without drama, but filled with emotion.
Judge Lagueux set the mood, recounting how, as a legislative counsel to the late Governor John Chafee, he had worked on the acquisition of Colt Farm that later became Colt State Park. The act of condemnation was for $880,000.
Minutes later, after Thomas Carlotto, attorney representing the SBA, outlined how the agency had followed bidding requirements and there were no competing bidders, Lagueux said that the sales price fit the guidelines and was within the $7.6 million value established by an average of three appraisals.
"I'm very happy to confirm the sale of another great property," Lagueux said. He said he was proud to have had a role in the Rocky Point property and Colt Park.
"I suppose there was a time when a higher and best use would have been condominiums," Lagueux said.
"This is the best use for the public," he concluded.
Quietly, DEM Director Janet Coit applauded and then flashed a beaming smile to Mayor Scott Avedisian who sat at the opposite end of the bench.
In a statement later released by her office, Coit said, "The creation of a coastal park at Rocky Point that will benefit Rhode Islanders for centuries is now just a small step away."
Avedisian said city acquisition of 41 acres was a dream come true, and that he never thought all of the park could be saved. He also marveled at the connections between John Chafee, who he worked for, working to acquiring Colt Farm, and now how his son, Lincoln Chafee, is governor as the state moves to acquire Rocky Point. He said both Chafees share "the bedrock values of environment, conservation and the infrastructure."
SBA District Director Mark Hayward, who has been a part of the process since the amusement park closed, agreed that public use of the land is the highest and best use, adding that it is also best for the creditors.
"It's been a long road with lots of interesting turns and twists," he said.
Ward 5 Councilman Edgar Ladouceur, who attended the hearing, called it a "great day for Ward 5, the city and the state."
Public ownership of the former amusement park has been long talked about and, for a long time, thought as nothing more than a pipe dream.
When the park closed in 1995, developer interest was intense. The site, with its hilly terrain and vistas from one end of Narragansett Bay to the other, was considered prime property for condominiums and apartments. Rocky Point was touted as the largest developable waterfront property in New England and rapidly caught the notice of one of the country's largest luxury homebuilders, Toll Brothers.
The company was behind a $25 million bid for the park. It drew up plans for 399 housing units in a combination of townhouses and condominium towers. The company started the process of gaining city approvals and, in fact, held a public meeting where, to the amazement of some, a number of Warwick Neck residents welcomed the prospect of downsizing and buying on Rocky Point. But that's as far as it went. The housing market was softening and Toll Brothers walked away from the deal.
While there were stories of celebrities and foreign investors ready to snatch up the site, two Rhode Island developers – Universal Properties and Leach Family Holdings – each had turns on the land. Their plans fell victim to the economy and both backed out of agreements they had with the SBA.
But public interest in the park couldn't be snuffed out. When the state faced the prospect of losing a $2.2 million National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) grant to be used for property acquisition, Avedisian and the Department of Environmental Management (DEM) saw an opportunity of satisfying one of the park's larger creditors while gaining some of the land. A deal was put together for 41 acres of coastline for $4.4 million. The action was the impetus for the creation of the Rocky Point Foundation, a non-profit with the goal of preserving the entire park.
The foundation quickly gained momentum. It was successful in lobbying for a $14.7 million referendum that appeared on the 2010 ballot, of which $10 million was earmarked for the acquisition of Rocky Point. The question gained voter approval, but then nothing happened.
With a legislative grant, the foundation helped underwrite the cost of an appraisal that became the basis of the state's offer to buy the land. In September, the state and the SBA announced they had reached an agreement. Enabling that to happen, the City Council abated about $2 million in unpaid park taxes on condition that the state was the buyer.
Still, the park could have ended up privately owned.
While no alternative bidders for the property stepped forward prior to yesterday's court hearing, they could have made that appeal directly to the judge. None did.
Foundation member George Shuster, who attended the court hearing, called yesterday's action "the most important step so far in the decades-long process to bring back the park."
"Whatever the future holds for Rocky Point," he added, "all Rhode Islanders and not a lucky group of residents living in luxury townhouses will benefit."
Looking ahead, the state is faced with cleaning up the property. The two major remaining park buildings, the Shore Dinner Hall and the Palladium and Windjammer, are in various states of deterioration. Of the two, with its windows blown in and roof caved in, it appears nothing could be done to save the Shore Dinner Hall. Also on the Rocky Beach portion of the property there remain scores of cottages, remnants of a community where people built on leased land and would return summer after summer. The city has offered to assist in demolishing the houses.
Hayward said security would remain in place until the property is transferred to the state; an action he said can't be taken until expiration of a 30-day appeal period.
The Rocky Point Foundation aims to play a role in addressing how the park should be developed through a series of public meetings starting after the sale is completed.
In a release, Coit said that once the state secures the land, it would be DEM's responsibility to develop a work plan and secure funding to clean up the property so that it can be made available for public recreation. DEM has contracted to get an environmental assessment of the site, and expects to use a combination of state and federal resources – in close collaboration with the city of Warwick – to clean up the site. Governor Chafee has included $2.5 million for cleanup of the Rocky Point property in his 2014 budget proposal.
The governor and members of the Congressional delegation, who have all played roles in securing the park, offered their reactions to the court's action.
"Rocky Point, one of Rhode Island's most beloved natural assets, holds many special memories of the past. I look forward to it becoming available for all Rhode Islanders to enjoy," Chafee said in a statement.
Senator Jack Reed called the action "another important step toward a truly landmark acquisition."
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse said, "Today's decision ensures that the park's natural beauty and pristine shoreline will be enjoyed by generations to come."
And Congressman James Langevin said, "Growing up in Warwick, I spent many happy days at Rocky Point, which remains an historic venue and a very special place for me."
There must be a way to help preserve the Shore Dinner Hall. Maybe a small amusement park can be constructed on the site.I'm sure people would love to see that.


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Meleta was born in Indiana and she died sometime after 1900.
She and Wymer/Winer, etc. Teague had six children. This information is also provided in the blog posting for Wymer.
Elijah Teague (1841-1913) married Elisa Tuley. More information about them is on their own blog posting.
William Teague (abt 1846 IN to after 1860). No further information is knownrri about William.
Mary Teague (abt 1850 IN – after 1860). No other information is known about her.
Ellis (or Elias) Teague(1854 IN – aft 1920) married Evaline, last name unknown, about 1875. They had two sons and one daughter.
Samuel Teague (abt 1858 IN – after 1860). No further information is known about him.
Jane Alice Teague (1865-1953) married Alpha Frisby Crowder in 1880 in Neosho, Newton County, Missouri. At this time I don't know if they had any children.
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The new version of iOS, the software that runs Apple's iPhones and iPads, may be more important for what was taken away than for any of the things added.
Gone from iOS 6 are two formerly built-in Google apps that were integral to previous versions of the operating system: Google Maps and YouTube. (The latter, at least, can be reinstalled from the App Store.) Google's search capability is still there, but Apple's improvements to Siri, its voice-based personal assistant, provide an alternative way of finding more and more information.
And a new Apple app called Passbook represents a toe in the water of mobile payments, something Google has aggressively been pursuing with its Google Wallet software.
In short, while iOS 6 introduces some neat tricks into the iUniverse, it feels less like a major enhancement and more like another front in Apple's increasingly bitter war over Google's Android operating system.
The new software comes pre-installed on the iPhone 5 and is available as a free download for iPads, iPod touches and previous iPhones. I tested it on a variety of devices, ranging from a current-model iPad to a three-generations-old iPhone 3GS, and found it smooth, stable and responsive.
I also appreciated several of its new features, including bringing Siri to the iPad for the first time and allowing the iPhone 4S to take the same kind of panoramic photographs as the iPhone 5.
But the change that's grabbed the most public attention is the new Apple navigation app that has supplanted Google Maps. As I wrote in my iPhone 5 review last week, while the new app is gorgeous and the spoken turn-by-turn directions are a welcome addition, the software is too easily confused. In addition, it displays many fewer nearby points of interest.
In light of the furor over the app's flaws, it's worth noting that Google Maps suffered from similar problems when it launched on Android phones in 2009. Most memorably, while I was standing outside New York's Penn Station, it located me on Cheapside in London, even helpfully pointing out nearby Tube stations.
Still, it's obvious by now that the new application is inferior to the one it replaced, and I expect Apple to devote considerable resources to remedy it.
It's a path similar to the one the company is already following with Siri, which was introduced last year on the iPhone 4S. The voice assistant has proven to be a polarizing feature, some users enjoying the convenience of just talking to their devices and others disliking it for its miscues.
In general, I'm in the first camp, and like Siri's new tricks. She - it? - now provides sports scores (and even sometimes point spreads), can make dinner reservations via Open Table, passes fewer queries to Google web searches and has generally gotten better at understanding what I want.
For instance, when I asked the first version of Siri for directions to San Francisco's 9 Lombard Street, she interpreted the "to" as "two," and sent me to 29 Lombard Street; the software now interprets the question accurately. And the query "Do I need a jacket?" now yields weather information, rather than a list of nearby Men's Wearhouse stores.
The most intriguing new app in iOS 6 may be Passbook - not necessarily for what it does now but for what it may do someday.
Passbook is basically a single place for keeping tickets, boarding passes, loyalty and prepaid cards. But it has some wrinkles, like location and time awareness, that hint at more to come.
I used Passbook to store a ticket to a San Francisco Giants baseball game by clicking on an emailed link. When I arrived at AT&T Park, my iPhone recognized where I was and displayed a message on the lock screen prompting me to display the ticket. At the turnstile, the electronic ticket was scanned, and I was in. Easy.
Beyond the colorful look and slick animation - you'll have fun virtually shredding used tickets - there's nothing very revolutionary about an emailed bar or QR code. But the idea of presenting you with relevant information and offers, based on your device's awareness of where you are and what you're doing, is a critical step toward getting consumers to reach for their phones rather than their wallets to pay for stuff.
A number of iOS 6's 200 or so other changes amount to simple pleasures.
For instance, a handy new Do Not Disturb setting lets you silence your device between specified hours, while allowing you to note who should be allowed through, and under what terms.
Receive a call when you're in a meeting or otherwise engaged? A finger-flick sends an automatic can't-talk-now text. And if your data plan allows it, you can now conduct a FaceTime video chat over the cellular network.
Along similar lines, Mail lets you designate messages from VIPs in your life for special attention. You can post to Facebook as well as Twitter from the Notification Center and from within many apps. And you can also now share access to your iCloud-stored photos, perhaps one less reason you'd need to use You-Know-Who-owned Picasa.
Indeed, given Apple's war with Google, it isn't that far- fetched to imagine a day when even core search functions are handled by some Apple-designed replacement. But if the company wants to retain its reputation for putting the user experience ahead of all else, it had better be sure that anything it introduces is better than whatever it's replacing.


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The Berkeley Bake-sale BluesUploaded: Sep 26, 2011
The world needs a Berkeley. From the Free Speech Movement (FSM) days of Mario Savio and many others, this Bay Area burg has been synonymous with Progressive politics. The campus was in the vanguard of the movement that peaked in the student-led anti-war protests of the early 1970s. And it's easy to lose sight of the fact that the FSM was demonstrating for such radical causes as a faculty free of "loyalty oaths" and on-campus political organizing by anyone other than the tidy Republican and Democratic student "clubs" of the day. That's pretty prosaic stuff, from this vantage. Besides, Berkeley also proclaims itself a Nuclear-Free Zone, and we'll all need a safe place to go in case the Unthinkable happens.
Those political clubs are back in the news, as the College Republicans have organized a "diversity bake sale" for this week. Different ethnicities are to pay various amounts for their pastries. Albeit derivative of an identical stunt pulled by Fox News' John Stossel last year in New York, this self-proclaimed satiric event has had the desired effect of re-igniting debate on Affirmative Action. Specifically, the junior GOP draws attention to a bill on Governor Brown's desk that would reinstate race/gender/ethnicity-conscious admissions in the UC and CSU systems.
The bill, SB 185 appears to conflict with Prop 209, the 1996 Constitutional initiative that forbids the use of such factors broadly in California public processes, including college admissions. The new measure purports to allow minority-conscious admissions to the maximum extent allowed by the 14th amendment. Those boundaries were recently established by a pair of University of Michigan cases, in which the US Supreme Court approved the "critical mass" approach of the law school, but disallowed "points" policies of the undergraduate college that were not sufficiently "narrowly tailored" to meet Equal Protection muster. Its supporters claim they have threaded the Constitutional needle on this difficult policy matter if Governor Brown signs the measure, they will surely get a chance to test that theory in court.
Affirmative Action has always been a difficult concept for the American public to accept, in contrast, I believe, to the passive, "thou-shalt-not" commands of anti-discrimination laws. It creates identifiable winners and losers in its processes, and, by forcing the pace of a status-blind society, AA appears to simply turn the tables of discrimination, albeit narrowly and temporarily. Justice O'Connor, in her majority opinion in the Michigan Law case, expressed the hope that one day these policies might be unnecessary, and also the view that we're not there yet as a society.
So once again, we owe Berkeley the debt of consciousness-raising this time from the conservative side of the aisle. SB 185 has flown under a lot of radar to its current position. This issue does deserve debate, and thanks to those stalwart College Republicans it's likely to receive it very soon. It may get a bit heated around here fortunately, you can always head for those nuclear-free Berkeley bunkers.


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The TV musical "Glee" has a long history of pushing the envelope on sexual matters and promoting the homosexual lifestyle. The Valentine's Day episode of Glee, titled "Heart," marked a new low in Glee's campaign against traditional sexual morality, by mocking the Bible.
A lesbian student, Santana asked a group of Christians called the "God Squad" to sing for her girlfriend as part of a "singing telegram" performance. The idea didn't sit well with a new homeschooled student, who conveniently fit all the stereotypes liberals have of homeschoolers (the unsocialized, barefoot son of a Bible salesman who listens to talk radio but doesn't own a TV). His reluctance sparked a conversation among the so-called "God Squad" about the Bible's teachings on homosexuality.
The students of the "God Squad" claimed to respect his decision – and then mocked the Bible's relevance on homosexuality.
The leader of the "God Squad," Mercedes, declared: "They say one out of every 10 people are gay. And if that's true, that means one of the 12 apostles might have been gay. My guess is Simon, because that name's the gayest."
Mercedes' statistics are as faulty as her Biblical knowledge (two apostles were named Simion: Simon Peter and Simon the Zealot). Even the Williams Institute, which has as its mission "advances sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy through rigorous, independent research and scholarship, and disseminates it to judges, legislators, policymakers, media and the public" disagrees with that figure, declaring that around 4% of the population is LGBT.
Not that the rest of the "God Squad's" conversation was anything better than an atheist squad doing a shallow hit piece on the Bible.
One of them, Sam, chimed in: "The Bible says its an abomination for a man to lay with another man, but we shared tents in cub scouts and slept next to each other all the time – so that would make Cub Scouts an abomination."
Another character said: "You know what else the Bible says is an abomination? Eating lobster, planting crops in the same field, giving someone a proud look – not an abomination? Slavery. Jesus never said anything about gay people. That's a fact."
Sam replied: "Well maybe he wanted to, but he didn't want to hurt Simon's feelings."
Predictably, by the end of the episode, the homeschooled student saw the light, declaring "love is love" and singing for the lesbian cheerleaders.
The episode was full of "Glee's" usual instances where the gay lifestyle was pushed on viewers, featuring lesbian kissing in the hallways and a student coming out that he was gay. Lesbian cheerleader Santana complained: "All I want to be able to do is kiss my girlfriend, but I guess no one can see that, because there's such an insane double standard at this school."
In a singularly ironic way, she's right. There is an insane double standard at that school – in favor of the homosexual lifestyle.
By mocking the Bible, "Glee" has gone further down the rabbit hole in pushing homosexual propaganda on its viewers.


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