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We've been hemming and hawing for the better part of six months, telling you that there are "things happening", and that there are "rumblings", and other stupidly cryptic crap like that. So I thought I'd talk a bit more openly about TÖRdötCÖM's plans for ebooks.
You people have spoken, sometimes shouted (and cursed, and threatened, and cajoled…) that you want more ebooks, and that not only that, you supposedly want to buy them from us. With money (this is the part where we sat up and started listening). So over the past few months, we've been evaluating the market, focus-grouping our initiatives, and calculating our projected ROI from such a venture. We've also been working hard with our team of lawyers in order to suss out that magic-bullet: a rights-management scheme that serves our shareholders' interests best.
We've been doing research into book piracy, working hand in hand with the newly-minted BPAA, who have brought the expertise and forward-thinking, clear-eyed objectivism we've come to know from its sister organizations, the RIAA and the MPAA.
Some of us have been charged with looking into formats and workflow, and with trying to figure out what won't work in terms of readability, interoperability, and general usability.
This has led us to several conclusions which I'd like to share with you. Our conclusions are simple: ebooks are for chumps, and we're not gonna waste our time pandering to a handful of alpha geeks with aggrandized senses of entitlement, who can't possibly be bothered to read books on anything that's not bright and shiny.
Let me break this down for you, and explain how we came to our conclusions. I think that by the time I'm done, you'll agree with us.
First, the production process associated with creating ebooks is an incredibly complicated procedure, involving arcane incantations in PERL, convoluted HTML programing, and possibly a sacrificial chicken or two (depending on the day). Churning out one copy of one title as an ePub file is a herculean task that took our intern (Stuy High School represent!) no less than three weeks for the three books she actually tried to convert into ebooks. That's just a pain in the ass. Additionally, once we realized that this ebook-conversion process effectively cuts our printers, binders, and warehousers out of the equation, we realized that this change would hit us where it hurts the most: those three-martini lunches our printer's reps take us out for on a weekly basis. No thanks, dude. I'll take mine shaken, not stirred. And three olives.
We've also been looking into piracy, as mentioned above, and have come to some very worrisome conclusions. For starters, pirates are everywhere, lurking around every corner, waiting for one of our editors to slip up and leave a manuscript unattended for even two minutes, during which time the pirate will either sneak into said editor's office via the air vents, or swing on a rope and into a window (knife between the teeth in both instances, of course), very quickly photocopy and OCR the manuscript in question, and sneak away before our poor hapless editor has come back from her coffee break. We've actually seen this happenwe've got video (no, we won't show it to you. It's copyrighted content, and you're not allowed to see it).
After that, it's off to the races: the pirate will retreat to their cavernous lair, deep under Grand Central Station in New York, where, lit only by torchlight and LED status lights, they "upload" their spoils onto "servers", from which apparently these people can "download" the fruit of our hard work via "torrents" of data being piped into their very homes. Once a pirate has this "torrent" they can then apparently read at their leisure, on any device they choose. They can even pass along a copy to their spouse, or their friends! It's scandalous. I mean, not only are people recommending books to each other, they're freely engaging in federal crimes when they "share" these files! That's just not the way things have been done around here. Any recommendations for books need to come directly from our marketing departments, worded in very specific ways. We have people who do this for a living: they craft press releases and ad copy that is specifically designed to entice you into buying the big, front list books that we want you to buy, not some mid-list flop that your boy Herbie tweeted to you about.
Under the magnanimous tutelage of the BPAA, and its sister organizations the RIAA and the MPAA, we've come to recognize that piracy is a huge problem, and that it will gut our profits as former buyers become sharers, enthralled by this pirate mafiaa that traffics in stolen goods. Plus, don't forget: every time a pirate steals a file, a terrorist gets a new AK-47. Is that what you want for your children? Of course not, and neither do we. Our children are safe at our well-appointed homes on the Upper West Side, being watched over by our Swedish au-pairs while we go out on those three-martini lunches I was telling you about. We'd like to keep them that way.
After all this arduous research, we still weren't quite convinced that this ebook business was all bad. And then we took delivery of a Kindle 2. Boy, was that a disaster! Reading on a screen is downright painful. After five minutes of trying to read on the Kindle, my eyes felt like kindling. Besides, you can't take it to the beach, or to the bathtub, because you'll instantly be electrocutedit is a piece of electronics, after all. That's not even the half of it: When we complained to the people at Amazon about the horrible reading experience they told us that we could actually have the Kindle read a book to us, in a human voice! We tried it out, and sure enough, there was the voice of God Himself, Morgan Freeman, reading from the Eye of the World (yeah, we've got e-versions of all the WoT bookseven the ones that Sanderson hasn't finished yetlocked away in a vault, ready to be readand no, you can't have them. Ever). Of course, this is a huge breach of copyright, so we called our lawyers, who were more than happy to raise a big, big stink, as you may have heard about. It's what we pay them for, after all.
So in the end we realized that this ebook fad really isn't for us. For the most part, we've decided to sit this out, and wait till The Market comes full circle, because, as we all know, The Market self-regulates and has an extraordinary knack for making sure that big corporations make many millions of dollars in profits, regardless of economic conditions.
However, we do realize that a large part of our readership consists of the aforementioned alpha geeks who can't possibly be bothered to read books on anything that's not bright and shiny, so we're willing to throw you a bone: starting today, we do, in fact, have ebook versions of all our titles available. All you have to do is come down to the Flatiron Building in NYC, where we'll have our patented, trademarked, copyrighted, and bolted-down-to-the floor TÖRdötCÖM Rëedin'Stäishüns set up right in the building. Just go down into the sub-basement of the Flatiron and look for the disused lavatory with the "Beware of the Dragon" sign hanging on the door. These machines will be available to you on weekdays from 9:25AM to 9:35AM; again from 2:44PM to 2:54PM; and yet again from 5:23PM to 5:33PM EST (except for holidays), and, for the attractive fee of $49.99 USD per book, will display the book of your choice one page at a time, each page lingering in your field of vision for a period of five to seven minutes. Except for the WoT books. we've already told you: you can't have those. Ever. No, we don't have to give you a reason, our contempt for our customers is reason enough.
And to all those apologists out there who love all this open-source, creative commons, hippie-dippy 'culture of sharing' crap, quoting Cory Doctorow and Lawrence Lessig left and right: Give me a break. Doctorow's a hack. He's up there in his little ballon, with his silly cape, blogging about hippie hacker communes making toast with lasers and arduino boards, and zombies. You're gonna listen to some guy who writes about zombies? Really? Come on. And Lessig? Don't even get me started on Lessighe's to busy hamming it up on the Colbert Report and trying to bring down the government these days. Besides, he's a university professor. What does he know of running a business? Of making a profit? Lessig: stick to your ivory tower and leave the profit making to the professionals.
So come on down to the TÖRdötCÖM Rëedin'Stäishüns and join the revolution. Hell, we'll even throw in a free beer.


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It's our birthday! Well the website's birthday anyway. One year ago my best friend and I thought, "football is really stupid, let's make fun of it" so we did. Little did we know that so many people would enjoy reading our utter nonsense so here's to you and here's to me, best of friends we will always be. Should we ever disagree, then fuck you and here's to me.
The very first article we wrote about was Neymar having a banana thrown at him by a Scottish fan. That makes me so proud.
So much has happened in the last year, too much for me to speak about so I won't. Hopefully by this time next year we will have launched our line of Fitba Thatba banana hammocks. Keep an eye out.


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The iPhone Cocaine Scale
Look what I just found on my way to lunch in the centre of Amsterdam!
No, this isn't your ordinary iPhone knock-off! It is an iPhone with a built in scale so you can weigh your cocaine.
No, cocaine isn't legal in The Netherlands.
But this iPhone Cocaine Scale is and for the low price of €45 it can be yours.
"Hey, what kind of apps do you have on your iPhone?
Apps? Screw Apps! I have cocaine on my iPhone!"
Wouldn't it make more sense to have an iPhone which you can use to hide the cocaine in? That must be more useful that weighing right? I'll bet more people are trying to hide than weigh.
UPDATED: I like VICE magazines (@VICEMAG) tweet on this:
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Don't forget to sign-up for the Corn Roast Saturday, August 19 from Noon – 5p.m.
Please sign-up and pay at the guard shack or pay online via PayPal. The cost is $7/person $35/family and includes corn, crab soup and hot dogs/hamburgers. Guests to the Corn Roast will pay an additional reduced guest fee of $5/person $20/family!
Cut off date is Thursday, Aug 17th! You don't wanna miss this!
Once you click the PayPal link, click send and enter our email address email@example.com and the amount you are paying, it's that easy!
The General Meeting will be held Saturday, August 19 at 1pm, during the corn roast.
The PRSC Board encourages you to come and participate in the general meeting, even if you can't make it for lunch. The meeting with begin at 1p.m. and is your opportunity to exercise your right to vote on pool issues.


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Yasmin's Condition Deteriorates
Posted on July 25, 2009
I do not see how we as a Malaysian and for those who claims themselves as a muslim can leave such notorious comments (which I have deleted) in this blog about Yasmin Ahmad. Furthermore, all those words are written by those whom I believe never ever meet Yasmin in person. This blog will not tolerate this type of visitors. Please feel free to go elsewhere.
Yasmin, who ever she is, is a lovely person with such a kind heart. As a filmmaker, I would say, she has delivered to us the Malaysia story from a perspective of a true Malaysian.
Yasmin is one of a kind.
Sadly our prayers for Yasmin, has yet to be answered.
"The condition of critically-acclaimed movie and commercial director Yasmin Ahmad, who suffered a stroke last Thursday, has deteriorated.
Her brother-in-law, Datuk Dr Zakaria Zahari, said Yasmin remained on life support at the Damansara Specialist Hospital's intensive care unit.
"The family appreciates continued prayers for Yasmin," he said in a brief statement issued Saturday.
Dr Zakaria said the family had requested that no visitors congregate at the hospital.
He said a further update on Yasmin's condition would be given Sunday morning." – The Star


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1.30 Newbury – ALFIE SOLOMONS
The selection is a son of Acclamation who is a half brother to French 1m 2yo winner Luck Money out of a fairly useful Irish dual 7f winner who was a half sister to Group 1-placed 6f-1m winner (including at Group 3/Listed level) Queen Catrine (by Acclamation) out of a maiden half sister to very smart 6-7f winner (including at Group 1 level) Tamarisk and useful 8-10f winner Grand Selection. This colt is trained by Richard Spencer and sold for £85,000 as a yearling last summer, looking the part on pedigree, his dam only a fair performer but herself a half sister to the high-class Queen Catrine, who was also by Acclamation. She was a winner over this six-furlong distance as a two-year-old, while further back in the pedigree is the high-class sprinter Tamarisk (successful first time out at two), and it's perhaps notable he has been targeted at this traditionally-strong contest by his Coventry Stakes-winning handler. The stable isn't actually renowned for its prowess with juveniles, but it did have a first-time-out winner on Thursday in these silks, and an entry in the Redcar Two-Year-Old Trophy later in the year suggests this son of Acclamation is held in fairly high regard; absolutely no surprise to see him very much in the thick of things on debut.
4.15 Newbury – AL MUFFRIH (nap)
The selection, trained by William Haggas, is a well-bred son of Sea The Stars whose sole outing to date came in a 1m novice event at Newmarket last October (9/2 chance), taking a keen hold under restraint in midfield, ridden to try and close on front pair over two furlongs out, never threatening but keeping on well to draw clear of the rest of the field (beaten 3 lengths). It was a debut performance that promised much for the future, keen early and showing his inexperience but travelling well for much of the way and, under sympathetic handling, coming home well clear of the remainder. The winner has gone on to land the Lingfield Derby Trial since to give the form some substance, but this colt is almost certain to improve on the form he showed that day whatever the case, bred to excel with time and distance (dam a half sister to French Derby winner Le Havre and 12f Group 3 winner Astronereus (by Sea The Stars). His stable has been represented by some useful types in this race in the past and is currently in a rich vein of form, whilst multiple pattern-race entries indicate the regard in which this son of Sea The Stars is held; all in all, it would be somewhat disappointing if he couldn't make a winning return here en route to bigger assignments.
4.25 Newmarket – WADILSAFA
The selection, trained by Owen Burrows, is a resplendently-bred son of Frankel who debuted in a 7f maiden at Ascot last September (9/2 chance), close to the action from the outset and travelling well, shaken up to get on terms two furlongs out but outpaced and running green, staying on well inside the final furlong to take second behind the re-opposing Herculean (beaten 1¾ lengths). It was a most encouraging first effort from this colt, not least as the rain-softened conditions wouldn't have played to his strengths, from a family that is usually best on quick ground. He is now 7lbs better off at the weights with Herculean than when the pair met at Ascot, and that rival, for all his potential is undeniable, comes from a yard that has had a very muted start to the campaign for one reason or another. This colt's stable in contrast is starting to show signs of clicking into gear, saddling a couple of winners from this age group/in these silks in the past week that were making their seasonal reappearance; given the 7lb pull, the faster conditions and the contrasting form of the two stables concerned, it could well be that Herculean will be at his most vulnerable on this occasion, and it wouldn't at all surprise to see this particular son of Frankel take full advantage.
5.55 Hamilton – LIFE OF RILEY (nb)
The selection is a son of Showcasing who is a half brother to very useful 6-7f winner Battered, dual 7f winner Dutch Garden and 6f 2yo winner Sunflower, out of a 5f 2yo winning three-parts sister to Listed-placed prolific 5-6f winner Texas Gold and half sister to five winners out of a 6f 3yo Listed winner who was a half sister to the dam of 6/7f Group 3 winner Scarlet Runner. This colt is trained by Karl Burke and fetched 60,000gns as a yearling, making plenty of appeal on pedigree as a half brother to a trio of winners including a two-year-old debut scorer, whilst the dam was successful over this trip at two (went close on debut) and hails from a good family. He represents a top stable that is more than capable of having its youngsters ready to strike at the first time of asking, and it is perhaps notable he starts off in this particular event given his stable has won two of the past three renewals (also won it in 2009) including with the high-class Unforunately last year. Quite whether he'll prove to be in that one's class remains to be seen, but he starts out in a race where those with previous form set far from exacting standard; also bred to make an immediate impact, a winning start from this son of Showcasing would come as little surprise.


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Department: Finance & Operations
Reports to: Chief Financial & Operations Officer and Finance & Operations Manager
FLSA status: Part-time, paid, hourly, non-exempt position
Estimated Dates: September 1, 2018 – December 7, 2018. We are open to accommodate the intern's academic needs.
The F&O Intern is a committed, well organized leader. This person will wear a variety of hats and provide basic support in a variety of financial and operational tasks.
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Mission Capital multiplies the impact of mission-driven people and organizations. Last year we engaged with dozens of nonprofits and other organizations, provided training to more than 1,500 professionals, engaged hundreds more through our online membership community, and provided a variety of other services that contribute to getting complex community problems solved. Mission Capital has a dedicated staff of professionals with deep nonprofit experience.
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Starting my herb garden has been very slow going, mostly because much of it requires infrastructure: a dividing fence on the property line and removal of the current lawn. But we do have a good start on our alium planter, which is really a planter with rose bushes that will eventually have a carpet of onions and chives underneath (and maybe garlic). I planted chive transplants last year, and they survived to sprout again this spring. This year I've also planted chives from seed, so we'll see how that goes. Hopefully eventually my alliums can crowd out the weeds. My focus has been on chives since I can't get them readily from the farmer's market and I feel horribly deprived without a constant source of chives. But we do have some green onions, too, although they are the result of "cheating".
I think this was Mike's idea, although I don't really remember. Year before last, I think, he asked if you could grow a sprouting onion bulb to get more green onions. I didn't think it would root, but we decided to try it to find out. I dug a couple of holes in the soil in a pot whose previous resident had passed on, and we planted the sprouting onion bulbs that had inspired the question. And what do you know? They rooted and kept growing. We were able to harvest green onions (the leaves) for quite a while. Then again this winter we had a week or two in which all of our onions started to sprout, and since we like having a ready supply of green onions we tossed them out into the allium planter. It was midweek, so I literally tossed them in the planter to really plant later. And now I know that onions only have to be contact with dirt to root. By the time I made it outside with my trowel, half the onions (that had landed with the roots down-ish) had rooted right there on the surface, so I just half buried the rest and let them be.
They won't grow another bulb (at least the first batch didn't), but I'm not at this time growing them for the bulb. We're primarily growing them for the greens, and I'll consider it a major bonus if I can get a flower. But whatever we get I consider it a bonus since onion bulbs at the farmers market are pretty cheap, but now we're saving money by not having to buy green onions (of which part of the bunch usually goes bad before we can finish it anyway. You can see from the picture of the single bulb that you end up getting multiple sprouts from each bulb.
I didn't snap a picture of it, but I'm experimenting with cheater garlic, too. Again, it's just a couple cloves of garlic that had started sprouting, so I decided to plant it and see if I can start growing my own garlic. We'll pass on the green garlic since I predict the farmers market will soon be inundated with it, and see if we can get a bulb.


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Donors step to the plate Creative playground fundraising meets Labor Day goal of $50 grand
Creative playground fundraising meets Labor Day goal of $50 grand
There's optimism in the air for those with hopes of building a new creative playground at John Pettibone School in New Milford.
Donations are pouring in as the Labor Day target for fund raising draws near. The benefactors are many and they are varied.
From a gift of $200 collected by Ayden Gold at his 10th birthday party this summer to a $10,000 donation from MVP-SOS, the local not-for-profit that helps fund educational and recreational activities, the playground committee will realize its goal of raising $50,000 by Labor Day.
With that figure reached, an anonymous donor will make a matching gift to bring the total to approximately $100,000.
"It's really nifty," said Eleanor Covelli, the Parks & Recreation Department assistant director, "all the large donations we've received, the small donations, the in-kind donations of promises of labor."
"The NewMilford4 Recreation people have been the backbone of the fund- raising drive," she noted.
MVP-SOS board member Lou Alhage spoke Wednesday for that group.
"We are excited about the opportunity to support the kids in our community and get the fundraising effort close to its $50,000 goal," Mr. Alhage said. "We realize that not every child wishes to participate in an organized sport or activity. The creative playground provides an outlet for those kids to stay active in a safe environment."
This week, $5,000 donations were received from both the Village Fair Days Committee and the Greater New Milford Chamber of Commerce.
Individuals have stepped forward, too.
"Tom Pilla came into my office this morning and donated $2,000," said Mayor Pat Murphy. "Everyone -- businesses, organizations, individuals -- are stepping up."
The mayor said that, with the recent large contributions, the $50,000 figure has been met and surpassed. That does not mean that more donations aren't welcome, she added.
"These playgrounds in the area cost from $100,000 to $140,000 each," Mayor Murphy said. "The last day to donate for this campaign is Labor Day but we'll be happy to accept further donations after that."


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Beyonce Is "Dreaming" On Her '4' Bonus Track
If you've fallen in love with all the ballads on Beyonce's 4, well, bonus track "Dreaming" (off the Japanese edition of the album) is just more of a good thing. (For those who want something to shake your booty to, take your booty elsewhere.) The midtempo track features the Glastonbury headliner fawning over her man yet again, letting us know there's never enough ways for Bey to express her adoration for Jay-Z. Listen to "Dreaming" below.
Beyonce – "Dreaming"
"If this is a dream, then I don't want to know / Because I don't want to be without you, babe," sings Beyonce above a pulsing drum beat. The best line, though, is this slightly cocky/totally fierce lyric: "I never wished on a star when a star ain't got nothing on me."
Like many of the ballads on 4, Bey's voice is the best thing about this by-the-numbers love song. Though we kind of dig the "Single Ladies"-type "oh, oh oh"'s during the chorus, this bonus track is far from the best thing we never had on the US edition of the LP.
On a related note, Beyonce's video for her single "Best Thing I Never Had" will premiere on Vevo.com tomorrow.


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Coup de Nile: Egypt unrest imperils US military aid
Following a 1979 peace treaty with Israel, subsequent US largess for Egypt has been primarily military, with $68 billion in American support having been provided in the ensuing decades, according to the Congressional Research Service (CRS).
For 2013 the White House secured $1.3 billion in US aid to Egypt's armed forces, along with $250 million in economic assistance, maintaining the country's longstanding position as the second-largest recipient of US aid after Israel.
US financial critical to Egypt's military, as it accounts for 80 percent of Egyptian army material and close to a third of its budget, AFP reports, citing the CRS.
The aid has guaranteed US naval vessels priority access to the Suez Canal and maintained the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty. Further bolstering Israel's security, Egyptian security forces seize weapons bound for the Gaza Strip and fight to suppress extremist forces fighting on the Sinai Peninsula.
Bilateral military exercise between the two states, dubbed 'Bright Star', have been held biannually since 1980, with the next round of war games slated for December despite the recent turmoil.
Egypt has also benefited from US military hardware, as M1A1 Abrams tanks and F-16 fighters are both produced under license. Since 1980, Egypt has contracted for 1,200 of the armored fighting vehicles and 220 of the jet fighters.
Apart from financial support, many of the Egyptian armed forces' top brass were forged in American schools, creating strong bilateral military relation between the two states.
Between 2000 and 2009, more than 11,500 Egyptian military officers – approximately 2.5 percent of the country's entire military – have trained in US schools.
Chief among the US educated Egyptian officers are none other than General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi – the current Supreme Commander of the Egyptian Armed Forces – and Egyptian Army Chief of Staff Sedki Sobhi, both of whom spent a year at the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
"The two main military guys in Egypt right now both have
reasonably fresh ties to the US military," Stephen Gerras,
who taught a critical thinking course to Sisi at the college and
served as his faculty and thesis advisor, told AFP.
"[Sisi's] very serious, he's very smart, very pious and he's
very warm," Gerras continued.
Cutting purse strings?
The decision to unseat democratically-elected President Mohamed
Morsi on July 3 has threatened a relationship Washington invested
decades and billions of dollars to cultivate with Egypt.
US law forbids the conveyance of aid to a country in which a coup has transpired, resulting in White House reticence to draw a line in the sand over what exactly brought about the toppling of the Morsi government.
On Monday the White House was careful to avoid characterizing recent events in Egypt. When asked about the ouster of Egypt's first democratically-elected leader at the hands of the country's military, White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters, "This is an incredibly complex and difficult situation."
The US decision on whether to declare a coup will be "based on the timeline that is in the best interests of a democratic transition in Egypt, that is consistent with our legal requirements and our national security interest," Carney continued.
Several leading US lawmakers from across the aisle have been more direct in describing recent events in Egypt.
Immediately following Morsi's ouster, Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont said some of Egypt's $1.5 billion in aid should be cut off, and has subsequently called for a close review of the situation.
Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona has further said that funding should be halted under a democratic transition of power has taken place.
"If millions of Egyptians come to believe that democracy offers them no opportunity to advance their goals peacefully, it will only fuel violence and extremism," McCain said
McCain's assertion is in line with the 1961 Foreign Assistance
Act, which states in the event of a coup, aid can only be
continued after "a democratically-elected government has taken
Carney for his part noted that many Egyptians on the streets do not believe a coup transpired, as the military moved to intervene against creeping authoritarianism.
The issue is "highly charged for tens of millions of Egyptians
who have differing views about what happened," Carney said,
calling it "an extremely polarized situation."
Egypt remains on the precipice, with 51 people being killed in clashes between the country's armed forces and the supporters of the former Islamist president. Leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood have rejected a timetable for elections proposed by interim President Adly Mansour.
Political analyst Hussein Haredy told RT the violence will likely
continue unabated, as the Muslim Brotherhood "is following a
scorched-earth scenario in Egypt."
"They want to set the country on fire; they want to make divisions within the Egyptian military. And they said they are not going to budge until the former president returns to the presidential palace, which is next to impossible in this country."
Despite the apparent political headache for Washington,
researcher and writer Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich told RT that the toppling of Morsi is not a
step the Egyptian military would have taken without the White
House's "blessings."
"Since 2008, they would have young Egyptians coming to America, go to the State Department, meet at the time Condoleezza Rice and others, and learn how to use modern technology to start an uprising in Egypt.
So this uprising from the very start was aided by the United States and one of the favorite horses in the race has been and continues to be [Nobel Peace Prize winner and opposition leader] Mohammed ElBaradei. He is the one who actually met with the military to remove Morsi," she argues.
But Michele Dunne, director of the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, said rather than orchestrating unrest in the country, Washington "made a hash of its Egypt policy."
"US officials were late in seeing the crisis coming, and their advice – much of it out of step with events -- was ignored by all sides," he argued in the Washington Post.
Sabah Al-Mukhtar, President of the Arab Lawyers Association, told RT that while there is no doubt that a coup d'etat cool place, a lack of clear policy rather than conspiracy has led to instability in Egypt and beyond.
"They don't know whether they [Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood] should go or come…The US and Europe really have no policy because they want a designer-made government in these places. They didn't like Mubarak. They don't like [Syrian President Bashar] Assad. They don't like the [Muslim] Brotherhood. They don't like the nationalists. They don't like anybody. So, they all know whom they don't want, but they don't know that they must accept what the people want, otherwise, the strife will continue," he argued.


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In last week's newsletter I posted a comment from a survey I did a few years ago by someone who still gets The Fear after 15 books.
'Often I feel I can't write another good sentence.'
Shortly afterwards I had a message on Twitter from author Judy Astley:
It turned out it wasn't Judy who'd written the comment, but as she said,
'a lot of us feel the same every now and then, however OK we're doing.'
So I asked her to write a guest post for us about it. Here's what she says – what I find interesting is that the frozen feeling she describes is exactly what someone like me deals with, it's just the concerns that change. And if anyone knows the solution, it's someone who's written 18 books, right?
You can find Judy at www.judyastley.com, and she's @Judyastley on Twitter. Her new book, The Summertime, is coming out shortly.
I once said that the trouble with writing for a living is that every now and then you get those awful terror times and think, can I actually ever write another publishable sentence? It's a blankness of brain, the sense that the fickle Muse has flitted out from under my desk after more than 20 faithful years and flown away to shack up with some whip-keen young author whose talent is at that thrillingly fresh in-bud stage rather than close to running-to-seed.
For me this occasional horror is not so much Writer's Block as a feeling of being frozen – as if everything I've ever wanted to say has already gone into my books and that even if I come up with a good paragraph I have the sensation that I've used the same phrasing before. I've even gone and looked through the book I think it might be in (and there've been seventeen of them so there's plenty to check..), just in case.
The only way to deal with it is to write your way through it. Force yourself. Believe me, I've tried everything else, from re-painting the front door to going to Ikea for tea-lights I don't need and a lie-down on their beds. I go to Waitrose or tend my greenhouse seedlings but it's all sly procrastination and the longer you're away from the keyboard the more you end up sidling past it and putting off the moment. There might be the odd moment of inspiration in the bath but mostly, words come from more words: here, at the Mac.
And when you DO get to the moment, I think you've got to allow yourself to write any old thing to get past the mind-mud and into the flow – after all, it's not as if you can't delete the dregs and no-one's looking over your shoulder. Or write something completely different if you still can't get into the novel. I sometimes write little pieces for Paragraph Planet (paragraphplanet.com) which have to be exactly seventy-five words. That focuses the mind. A while ago I wrote a piece for an international Life Writing competition too – 1,800 words that were not fiction. That was exciting (and 2nd prize – yes!), working a style and topic that was something completely 'other'.
I thought I'd run right out of story ideas a year ago, but then I re-read my first novel, Just For The Summer, because someone had asked me how I knew what 'rules' to follow before I wrote it and I wanted to remind myself what I'd done (I hadn't known ANY rules, that was clear, and yet it worked) and I started wondering what happened to the characters. So I started (tentatively) on a follow-up, bringing back the same characters to the same Cornish village but twenty years on. There were moments in the middle when I could feel that same mild "what-next?" panic but really it wasn't too bad. I let myself just go with the rush of it and…relaxed. The result, In The Summertime, will be published by Bantam in July and Black Swan as a paperback in June 2014.
You can find Judy at www.judyastley.com, and she's @Judyastley on Twitter. She has a particularly fine list of likes (includes cashmere, graveyards and liquorice comfits) and dislikes (tiny dogs, rubbish eyesight and people who think they're in her novels) on her site, which you should check out.
*Amazon links are affiliate ones. You can, of course, just google her or buy on the links from Judy's site 🙂


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These pain's you feel are messengers.
Listen to them.
Turn them to sweetness.
~ Jellal ed-Din Rumi (1207-1273), Persian poet and Sufi master
April 27, 2012 by Green Tara
~ Jellal ed-Din Rumi (1207-1273), Persian poet and Sufi master
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Having chronic pain for a decade now, my journey started with a year in a chronic pain group and a lot of confusion. As I learned pain had many components and was a very complex mechanism influenced by the mind in many ways unknown to me.
I have seen the effects chronic pain has on individuals. It breaks many souls or their minds first then suffering and depression are companions. It is not easy and all want to be like they were before the accident. It will never happen.
One day while walking early on in my journey I was walking feeling sorry for my plight, a car with a wheel chair attached pulled into the parking lot. I thought the guy was going to eat at a near restaurant.
Instead this guy got out to exercise. That humbled me and I went home and threw my pain killers away and the next day I was challenging my pain physically and mentally.
Mindfulness has made pain a pseudo friend. Pain is just a warning signal, it does no damage until it reaches that intense point for us. otherwise it does no damage. The other way to adjust is to use aerobic exercise to challenge and bring forth our own endorphins.
I named my pain after Happy Days. Star dad Mr. C. So I named my pain Mr P.
Pain is like the wind, invisible, I gave it human qualities to battle it. In the end I exercise and challenge it, otherwise I ignore it and live happily.
Your story always amazes me Marty and I am humbled as I read it.
I am so glad you share your story, your work, and your passion with all of us, making this a better world.
Much love, Jen
thank you. you can do amazing things if you keep the mind empty and focused in present, right now. life can be enjoyed from this space.
dedicated daily practice can accomplish many things.
If you can let go of the delusion of control, then surrender to your fear.
people who suffer from complex Childhood PTSD have fears that have the same fight or flight drugs involved but the fears are not real. A part of the brain is in disorder from our stored trauma. The fears have been over with for decades.
A steady mind, empty of thought can observe these trigger thoughts without reaction and heal itself. It takes practice everyday. face any fear not real even if you do not have PTSD. Emotions come and go and with intense focus they fade quickly.
keep out of thought unless supervised and directed by us. Let the mind idle repairing and soothing the nervous system. Also support others, recognize suffering of others without turning away. live life and see all of it.
Over and out. You do amazing work!
Thanks for that Marty. Right now, I'm having a down day… still sick and having so much to do… I'm not feeling like I am contributing to much in the world and am lamenting a bit.
Thank you for the tonic of your friendship and words.
XO jen
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If you start to feel intimidated or under pressure then you should report them to Trading Standards.
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- any old, waste or discarded metal or metallic material
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- that the dealer must not receive scrap metal except from 9am to 5pm on any day; and,
- that all scrap metal received must be kept in the form in which it is received for a specified period, not exceeding 72 hours, beginning with the time when it is received.


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Gayathri Ramprasad
Adversity: Was debilitated by anxiety, panic and depression
Advocacy: Started a non-profit to give hope to others with mental illness
"What I used to see as a curse I now see as a blessing, because each time I journey through the darkness I gain greater insight into this human experience. I'm also that much more determined to not only remain well, but to help others get well and stay well."
Along with a group of mental health advocates, Gayathri founded ASHA International in 2006, a Portland-based non-profit that has touched the lives of more than 25,000 people worldwide with a resounding message of hope and healing. In addition to promoting mental health awareness, hope and holistic wellness through their Healthy Minds, Healthy Lives campaign, the nonprofit also aims to eliminate the stigma attached to people who suffer from schizophrenia, depression and other mental illnesses. In her personal life, she has adopted alternative healing techniques she learned in recovery like transcendental meditation and yoga, practices she weaves into ASHA International's wellness programs. She also spends her time communicating with others about wellness through her ASHA blog.


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"Hippity, hoppity Easter's on its waayyyy…."
I can never enter the Spring season without singing that song verse on more than one occasion. So, now that we're even closer to this years Easter holiday, it's in my crawl as much as one of my favorite festive recipes! These buttery crescents are shaped onto cone molds and when a tinted egg wash is applied and baked, resemble not only perfect vessels to stuff, but cutesy lil' carrots!
Depending on our Easter plans for each year, I'll either serve these at lunch, for an appetizer or bring to a potluck to rave oohs and aahhs. Plus, they taste great!
The Starting Lineup
- 2 (8oz) cans crescent roll dough
- 1 egg, whisked with 1 tsp water (can add food coloring if desired)
- 2 cups cooked chicken, shredded or cubed
- 1/2 cup grapes, halved
- 1/3 cup celery, diced
- 1/4 cup red onion, diced
- 1/4 cup pecans, chopped
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 1 tsp celery salt
- Salt and pepper
- Fresh parsley or dill, garnish
In a large bowl, combine the cooked chicken, grapes, celery, onions, pecans, mayonnaise, celery salt and salt and pepper to taste. Cover and refrigerate until ready to use.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees and line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Unroll the crescent dough and pinch seams together. Using a pizza cutter, cut lengthwise into 6-8 equal strips. Brush each with egg wash and roll each strip out to about 16″, like a thick spaghetti noodle. Repeat.
Using either a cream horn mold or foil shaped into a cone, wrap one strip of dough around the mold. Apply more egg wash. Place on prepared baking sheets and bake for 7-8 minutes until golden. Allow to cool for 5 minutes and then carefully remove mold.
Fill each "carrot" with chicken salad (or salad of choice) and top with a parsley or dill sprig, enjoy!


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Canvas, Zagajewski's second book to appear in English, features all of this poet's distinctive traits. In these sixty-one poems, syntax explodes, masses of detail spill from profuse catalogs, lines break in ways apt but unexpected, and compressed lyrics alternate with extended riffs. European culture is the poet's native province throughout these explorations, and time is a recurrent metaphysical concern.
Praise For Canvas: Poems…
"Zagajewski's shrewd, clear, passionate poems have a distinctive way of touching the relation of historical reality to the lives of individuals, and to art . . . [He] deserves the attention of readers accustomed to swerve away from poetry. And moreover, he is good: the unmistakable quality of the real thing." —Robert Pinsky, The New Republic
"[Though translated into] English, these are still powerful, original poems . . . [Zagajewski's] poetry, even at its most delicate, has the authenticity, the 'I've seen this, I've lived with what came of this,' the life-as-part-of-history, that few American poets can lay claim to." —Gail Mazur, The Boston Sunday Globe
"From his poetry we learn how deeply history and the individual interact, how cruelly mass culture threatens the frail psychological construct of the self, and how deeply poetry can penetrate the gray mist of power that conceals the seams of contemporary civilization." —William Doreski, The Harvard Review
"The 'canvas' in the title of this new collection by Polish poet Zagajewski refers primarily to the artist's canvas, on which surreal images and memorable collections of dreamlike objects are created. A portrait of Europe emerges--Europe as the home of Mozart, Schumann, Chopin, Schubert, and Bruckner, of Gothic cathedrals with their 'ribs of granite,' of philosophers like Nietzsche with his 'head like a bullet.' Zagajewski is a born phrase-maker, inventing 'tents of trees' and the 'weasels' of memory. And he wisely recognizes that the canvas can also be a shroud, because in the end everyone must swallow 'a dose of death.' Beautifully translated and recommended for all larger collections." —Library Journal
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 9780374523985, 96pp.
Publication Date: April 1, 1994
About the Author
C. K. Williams (1936–2015) published twenty-two books of poetry including, Flesh and Blood, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; Repair, which won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; and The Singing, winner of the National Book Award. Williams was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2005. He wrote a critical study, On Whitman; a memoir, Misgivings; and two books of essays, Poetry and Consciousness and In Time: Poets, Poems,and the Rest.


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"Famous Food
Author Mark Bego, whose Omnibus book on Glen Campbell's out in April, got a food blog. Recipes from the Mamas & Papas' Michelle Phillips, Mary Wilson of the Supremes, Boz Scaggs. Obviously, nonsingers don't eat . . ."
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"Best-selling author Mark Bego, has just debuted his cooking blog entitled "Mark Bego Cooks / Cook Like a Rock Star." Bego, who has cooked since he was a teenager, has taken his passion for great food, and his career as the most prolific rock & roll biographer in the business, and melded them together to become a website that is destined to morph into becoming his first all-star cookbook.
The blog feature over a dozen of Mark's personally developed recipes and he has also gathered together a growing list of rock star recipes. "The blog started out with a recipe from Mary Wilson of The Supremes and her 'Stir-Fried Vegetable Brown Rice Medley.' When I interviewed Boz Scaggs, I received his 'Tuscan Grilled Chicken' recipe from him. Then I got Jimmy Greenspoon to give me his 'Three Dog Night Three Alarm Chili.' One of the blog's big prizes is Michelle Phillips of The Mamas & The Papas and her amazing 'Organic Lemon Chicken' recipe."
According to Bego: "When Mary Wilson of The Supremes and I published a 2012 / 2013 magazine to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the release of the album 'Meet The Supremes,' we included a couple of 'Supreme' recipes. It was so much fun to make and photograph Mary's spotlight recipes, an idea lit up in my head: 'Why not gather recipes from all of my favorite rock & roll stars, and include them in one book?' However, to accomplish this I needed to have some of my own cooking credibility as well, and so was born the 'Mark Bego Cooks' side of the 'Cook Like a Rock Star' blog."
Bego's next book will be Life with My Father Glen Campbell (Omnibus) by his daughter Debby Campbell and Mark, set for an April 2014 release. Also to be included is a recipe from Glen Campbell via daughter Debby. "Maybe, Campbell's soup" adds Bego.
Although Bego has written and published 60 books on rock & roll, he had no public identity as a cook, so he started revisiting some of his favorite recipes, tweaking them, writing down the ingredients and processes, and photographing the results.
Why the sudden sidestep into food? As Mark explains it: "I have written books on what the sex life of the stars are like, what drugs they have used as a crutch, and what they have overcome on their personal road to the top. Now it's time for me to explore what it is they cook and eat when they are in their own homes."
Bego showed up at La Mia Tuscana restaurant in Tucson, Arizona, where he resides, and helped prepare a meal with chef/owner Giancarlo Stefanutto."
(Photo: Daniel Bini)
"BEGO du JOUR --- As his book, Life With My Father Glen Campbell (Omnibus), prepares for release next month, celebrity-author Mark Bego has begun a new venture: an online site called Cook Like A Rock Star. As Bego says, "Although the life stories of all of my book subjects are vastly different, they're also several things that they have in common: great music, and their love of great food that is exciting and delicious. In this website I intend on sharing some of my favorite recipes, and the personal recipes of some of your favorite "rock star" celebrities."
So far, Bego has included recipes from such stars as Boz Scaggs, Michelle Phillips, Angela Bowie, Jimmy Greenspoon, and, Mary Wilson.
The goal, adds the author, is to eventually launch a formal book with even more recipes. Last week, Bego showed up at Tucson restaurant La Mia Toscana and cooked with the owner and chef, Giancarlo Stefanutto."
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The Cry of the Schuhu
The Cry of the Schuhu
Dissonant History in a Late Schumann Song
In Robert Schumann's song "Warnung," Op. 119, no. 2, the composer both foreshadows Mahler in certain moods (austere textures, free counterpoint with bone‐on‐bone dissonances) and hints at postrevolutionary disillusionment, veiled in folklore and inference. This song is couched between harmless, nonpolitical songs on texts by Gustav Pfarrius (1800–1884) from his anthology Die Waldlieder (The Forest Songs) of 1850. Pfarrius was a liberal, Schumann the more radical republican, but both men tell in "Warnung" of the menace to artists—the "little bird" of Pfarrius's poem—whose song can be silenced by the horned owl symbolic of evil political power.
Keywords: Lieder, 1848 revolutions, Gustav Pfarrius, German forest symbolism, the symbolism of owls, Schumann's late style, Schumann's politics, German republican sentiments, Warnung
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This upcoming episode of Arrow season 4 will focus on the resurrection of Sara Lance. After Thea, Sara will be the next member of Team Arrow, who will be brought back to life using the mystical Lazarus Pit. However, it doesn't look like entering Nanda Parbat and taking a dip in the Pit, will be as simple as it sounds.
According to the official synopsis for Arrow season 4, episode 3 titled, Restoration, the growing tension between Oliver and Diggle will put both their lives at risk when they go after Damien Darhk and a Hive deployed meta-human.
Meanwhile, Laurel will talk Thea into returning to Nanda Parbat to ask her father, Malcolm Merlyn aka Ra's al Ghul, to put Sara (guest star Caity Lotz) into the Lazarus Pit. However, Laurel is surprised when Nyssa (guest star Katrina Law) refuses to do so.
Nyssa has been around The Lazarus Pit for much longer and clearly knows more about the dangerous after-effects of using it. And if she feels that it is wrong to bring Sara back from the dead using the Pit's powers, it has to be for good reason.
Well, one thing we know for sure is that Sara will experience adverse effects from using the Pit after she has been resurrected. In fact, it will take another DC superhero to help her deal with those after-effects, as teased in the episode 5 synopsis which states that, "When things take a turn for the worse with Sara, Oliver calls in a favour from an old friend who deals in the mystical, John Constantine.
In a recent interview with TV Guide, Arrow and The Flash spinoff series, Legends of Tomorrow showrunner Phil Klemmer revealed that Sara would return as a ruthless, cold-blooded assassin who's lost all humanity.
Where to watch Arrow season 4 episode 3 online
Arrow season 4 episode 3 titled, Restoration, airs this Wednesday, 21 October at 8pm ET/PT on The CW. You can click here to watch the episode online.


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When we think of a traditional seaside town most of us automatically think of the Victorian pier. Our Piers category brings all Coast Radar's Kerry listings related to the traditional seaside pier together, where most now offer family entertainment and places to eat.
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Sedation Dentistry
It is no secret that a significant part of the population has a fear of attending the dentist. Even if the thought of the simplest treatment fills you with anxiety, there is no reason to feel embarrassed. You are not alone. With comfort dentistry from Embrace Dental Care, we are invested in the oral health care of our patients. We offer a range of sedation dentistry options designed to meet the specific needs of our patients.
Oral Conscious Sedation
With oral conscious sedation, you are still awake during treatment. However, with the use of sedation medication you will feel much more relaxed. You will not feel pain or discomfort during treatment, and all your fears will evaporate during your time in the dentist's chair. As the name suggests, oral conscious sedation does not require the use of needles. Instead, you will be given medication a short time before treatment which will cause you to relax or become drowsy.
There are a number of options for oral conscious sedation, which we will discuss with you before any treatment is carried out. At Embrace Dental Care, we take pride in getting to know our patients. We will regularly check your medical history, including any medications you are taking, to ensure we recommend the best oral conscious sedation for you.
Nitrous Oxide
Laughing gas, as it is popularly known, is a form of sedation commonly used in dentistry. Patients are often so relaxed and drowsy that they have no recollection of treatment. The nitrous oxide gas is delivered by a qualified dental professional, so you will be safe at all times throughout your procedure. The gas is administered through a mask which covers your nose and allows you to inhale the sedative while you breathe.
If you have any concerns about visiting the dentist, speak to Embrace Dental Care about the sedation dentistry options we offer. Contact us today to arrange a checkup and we can help you address any fears you may have.


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Parlow China Trip
Bangkok and beyond
Nov 23
Checking out the flowers
We had fond memories of Bangkok from our last Asian trip 11 years ago. We had enjoyed the energy, the vitality and the enthusiasm the city exuded; the streets had been alive with flowers, markets, temples and food stalls.
Bangkok felt very familiar when we arrived from Jinghong. We stayed at a guest house in the travellers' district near Khao San Road and navigated the area partly from memory and partly with the aid of a map.
Our plan was to work through our list of administrative tasks and errands as quickly as possible before heading south to the island of Ko Phi Phi. We needed to book airline tickets home, find a hotel to spend Christmas in, buy books, etc. To our amazement, we were able to finish our tasks within 24 hours and found ourselves on an overnight bus to the southern town of Krabi. From Krabi, we caught a ferry to the island of Phi Phi, about 1.5 hours west of the mainland.
We were a bewildered and bedraggled group that staggered off the ferry in the dazzling sunlight of Ko Phi Phi. We were pale and tired and unprepared for the spectacular beauty of the island. We quickly found a place to stay the night and then set out on the daunting task of finding the perfect place to stay for the next month.
It was blazing hot as we set off down the beach inspecting the various bungalow resorts in search of one that would work for us. We had a detailed list of criteria which we quickly ditched when it became apparent that our choices would be fairly limited. Fortunately, we found a wonderful spot that met most of our needs and after a couple of nights in a smaller bungalow, we settled into our new "home"......bungalow L4 at the Phi Phi Paradise Pearl Resort on Hat Yao (Long Beach)................
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I've made these Chickpea Cutlets from "Veganomicon" many times, and have even posted them on here. But for some reason, I've still struggled to get the texture right. This time around, however, I made progress.
First, I made sure to thoroughly mash the chickpeas. Second, I baked them (instead of frying), which gave them a firmer, meatier texture. I'll definitely be baking them from here on out.
For the cabbage, I tried a new technique: I sliced a head of cabbage into 1-inch slices, brushed olive oil on both sides and sprinkled with salt and pepper. I baked the slices for about 40 minutes at 375 degrees — so easy and the cabbage was super-tender and caramelized. I could see grilling the slices, too.
Finally, I quickly mashed some potatoes with a little olive oil, lemon juice, oregano, salt and pepper. For the sauce, I just mixed whole-grain mustard with vegan mayonnaise. A dollop of apple sauce added a touch of refreshing sweetness to the meal.
This is a great weeknight meal because it comes together pretty fast and is pretty cheap to make.
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Did you know that seafood has numerous high-power health benefits. Not only is most seafood low in cholesterol, sodium, and fat, but it's rich in vitamins, such as vitamin A, B6, and B12, as well as minerals like phosphorus, magnesium, iron, zinc, and potassium. Need more convincing?
Fish contains fat, but it is a healthy form of fat that shouldn't be confused with your own body fat. When you're trying to lose a few pounds, the fat from fish is definitely what you shouldn't be nixing from your diet. Just think about the people you know who can't get enough of seafood. They seem to be slimmer, right?
Besides being a great choice for a meal, most seafood — such as salmon, tuna, halibut, and sardines — provides extraordinary benefits that comes from the omega-3 fatty acids they contain. Omega-3 fatty acids are considered essential fatty acids, meaning that our bodies cannot produce them, and so we have to get them through what we consume, adding new meaning to we are what we eat. Research suggests that the omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oil help reduce risk factors for heart disease, including high cholesterol and high blood pressure. They have also been shown to lower levels of triglycerides, providing even more reason to love fish, because it'll love you right back.
And if you still need more convincing about these power foods, you'll be glad to know that shellfish, such as mussels, shrimp, crab, and oysters, are rich in energy-boosting vitamins B12 and D, which are also important for bodily functions. Plus, shellfish serves up important minerals — iron, potassium, and magnesium — all which benefit nerve, musculoskeletal, and circulatory functions.
In my final effort to show what you shouldn't be missing, here's one more tidbit for you to chew on. Seafood contains all the essential amino acids (the building blocks of protein). Essential amino acids are those that the body can't produce and constructs from other nutrients in the food we eat. So whether you favor eating fish that swim or shellfish that don't swim, one of the greatest single benefits of seafood is the high-quality nature of the protein.
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To make steamed clams, first saute some aromatics like diced garlic and onions in EVOO with a little salt, then throw in some parsley, add some white wine and your clams, cover the pot, and heat on medium until the clams open up. You can do the same with mussels.
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When you feel you're short on time, nibble on canned sardines. Fairway has high-quality ones, such as any of the Connetable French sardines.
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Arctic cold and snow move through Midwest, Mideast
(NEW YORK) -- The first cold front of the week moved through the Northeast Tuesday night, bringing the first snow of the season to Pennsylvania, the Hudson Valley of New York and on into Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Temperatures in the Northeast on Wednesday will barely reach above 50 degrees in many areas. Highs for New York City and Philadelphia are forecast to be 52 degrees, with Boston reaching just 45 degrees.
But expect even colder weather over the weekend.
A second arctic cold front is forecast to bring record-cold morning temperatures to the Northeast Saturday morning.
Along with plummeting temperatures, snow is expected from the Midwest to the Northeast, especially near the Great Lakes.
The arctic front will move into the Midwest from Wednesday night into Thursday morning, bringing the coldest air since last winter.
The temperatures Friday morning in some areas of Minnesota could be below zero, with temperatures in the teens as far south as Chicago.
The arctic blast will reach the Northeast Friday afternoon and evening.
Winter Storm Warnings have been issued for Wisconsin and Michigan. As much as a foot of lake effect snow is possible.
New western storm
A new storm system moves into the West on Wednesday, bringing heavy rain to northern California and parts of southern Oregon. Gusty winds of up to 60 mph are possible.
San Francisco will see rain Wednesday evening that continues into the night. Flash flooding and debris flow is possible in areas recently affected by wildfires.
Some parts of northern California could see up to 6 inches of rain, with up to 30 inches of snow possible in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Cascades.
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Wednesday, 13 May, 1998, 20:14 GMT 21:14 UK
The tragic life of the Ediacarans
Strange, gentle creatures which lived in peace and harmony with their neighbours millions of years ago may have rivalled or even surpassed Man if they had they not been wiped out by our ancestors, experts have claimed.
They say the bizarrely-shaped creatures, Ediacarans, were neither plants nor animals but a totally unique order of life.
Experts believe the creatures appeared out of mould and algae that characterised the beginnings of life on Earth about 600 million years ago and evolved rapidly to become the Earth's most sophisticated inhabitants.
Mark McMenamin, Professor of Geology at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts in the US, believes the Ediacarans were literally eaten out of existence by the influx of new animal predators.
He goes further by controversially claiming that by the time they were killed off, the Ediacarans were already showing signs of awareness and intelligence.
The Ediacarans, named after the Ediacara Hills in South Australia where their fossils were first discovered, developed into a multitude of strange forms, including fronds and bulbs.
A pre-historic Eden
However they had no teeth, claws or other physical features with which to prey on their neighbours. Instead they inhabited a pre-historic Eden, photosynthesising their own food, absorbing nutrients from the water around them.
Some were attached to the sea bed, others were free-floating, and a few may have had crude fins.
But Professor McMenamin points out that about the time of their demise, 50 million years ago, the Ediacarans began to sprout intriguing new body parts such as simple antennae.
In Professor McMenamin's view the creatures were beginning to evolve senses and even crude brains.
A life cut short
"Ediacarans were on a trajectory in which they would have developed into intelligent life, but it was cut short," he said in a report published in the New Scientist magazine.
"They were developing ways to pick up environmental cues and process that information in ways that would allow them to adapt better and leave more progeny.
"Ediacarans represent the first evidence of anything like intelligence on Earth."
Other researchers have dismissed his ideas, claiming the Ediacarans were in fact the forebears of primitive animals such as jelly-fish.
For decades the accepted view was that Ediacarans were animal ancestors.
Then in 1982, Adolph Seilacher, from the University of Tubingen in Germany, announced that Ediacarans were not animals at all but a now-extinct class of life by themselves.
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Prefabricated Workshops for the Automobile Industry
At Miracle Span, we have been designing and installing prefabricated workshops for the automobile industry for over 30 years. We specialise in providing solutions that are completely tailored to our clients' requirements, which is why you'll find so many of our structures across the UK.
In the past few years, we've supplied buildings for MOT test bays, vehicle servicing stations, paint spray shops and valeting bays. We recently built an engineering workshop for the Eurac Group. They needed a secure and durable space that was large enough to accommodate the manufacture of brake discs. We built them a prefabricated workshop from our MiracleLite range, fully insulated and efficiently lit to ensure that high quality work could be carried out around the clock and throughout the year.
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Caleb Andrew Kortje was born on June 30, 1993. From the moment of
As a young boy, Caleb thrived on adventure and danger. Whether it was dunking contests in his pool,
Then as a teenager, Caleb discovered rock climbing . . . or maybe it would be better to say rock climbing discovered Caleb. He just seemed to be made for the sport, and it was rock climbing that gave Caleb his greatest confidence and friendships. People began to notice. A group of men even pitched in to anonymously buy him his first pair of aggressive rock shoes. Never telling him their names, they just wanted him to know that they loved his passion.
And passion is what climbing was to Caleb. He quickly became engrossed by the sport. Driven to make himself climb harder and better, he hired a coach with money he raised mowing yards and doing chores. Within a relatively short time, he established himself as one of the top boulderers in the
After his coach moved out of state, Caleb enlisted the help of his dad, David. Together they read every training book they could get their hands on, trained or climbed 4-5 days per week, and traveled around the country competing or just hanging out at crags. They became regulars at climbing gyms, pushing each other, encouraging each other, and cheering for each other. And that was really where the magic happened, those times together, just the two of them: celebrating victories, talking trash over techniques, nursing sore muscles and tender
It was during those times, as they traveled to some of the greatest climbing gyms in the nation, that Caleb would remark how much he would love to have a gym like that in his
Sadly, Caleb also suffered from severe depression. Like all of his life, he fought that battle well, but in the end, it was just too much for him. Caleb took his life on August 22, 2012. He was nineteen years old.
One of Caleb's favorite quotes was 'follow your bliss'. And so it was that quote, and Caleb's life, that inspired the passion to build Bliss Climbing and Fitness. We hope you will stop by and
From a vacant field to a full service bouldering and climbing complex David Kortje and his family made this place a reality. It didn't take long for a community of climbers to grow and improve when you have the available resources and route setters busting out new routes and cleaning holds every week. The staff has taken climber feedback and made the gym a symbiotic facility that has flourished. Myself and others are very grateful that he brought this to Wichita. Even our grass routes climbing club that was our main climbing location has grown and changed along with the growing climbing needs of the community. It is great to see such a strong climbing community emerge out of all of this development.


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Antonio Valencia is in line to captain Manchester United in the Europa League final.
Jose Mourinho's men take on Ajax in Stockholm on Wednesday as they bid to return to the Champions League.
Wayne Rooney and vice-captain Michael Carrick are due to start on the bench, while Smalling could also miss out, reports the Manchester Evening News.
Rooney and Carrick were unused substitutes against Celta Vigo while Smalling was injured, meaning Valencia took the captaincy in both legs.
It is unlikely the two seniors - Rooney and Carrick - will make Mourinho's XI in Stockholm.
Smalling has picked up a minor injury whether he features or not will be determined by Mourinho's centre back selection with Phil Jones and Daley Blind also in contention for the two positions.
If United do beat Ajax it could, however, be Rooney who picks up the silverware in what could be his last United appearance.
He lifted the Community Shield in August when he was a starter against Leicester City but also lifted the EFL at Wembley in February when he was an unused sub in the win against Southampton.
United's last Euro triumph in 2008 saw Ryan Giggs and Rio Ferdinand jointly hold the Champions League trophy aloft in Moscow.


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Damage Caused by Hurricanes
With hurricanes being the most powerful storms on earth, it is not surprising that upon landfall they can cause very serious damage and devastation. If the hurricane has not made landfall, the effects are still very dangerous but most of the damage caused by a hurricane is when the storm makes its way to land.
Hurricanes can produce a storm surge reaching 20 feet high causing major damage when it makes landfall and can extend out up to 100 miles. Ninety percent of all hurricane deaths result from storm surges (National Geographic, 2015).
High winds caused by hurricanes are very destructive and could cause tornadoes and torrential rain fall. High winds cause property damage and can even be fatal. Torrential rain fall can cause further damage by creating floods and mudslides, which may occur many miles inland (The Columbia Encyclopedia, 2014).
Here are some of the most common types of hurricane damage
- Roof Tile Damage
- Missing Roof Shingles
- Missing Roof Turbines
- Damage to Pool
- Broken Windows
- Flooding in basement/home
- Destroyed Doors
- Damaged Garage Doors
- Moisture Damage
- Water Damage to Electrical Wiring
- Damage to Siding
- Collapsed Side Walls of the Roof
- Lost or Damaged Boats
- Damaged Appliances
- Knocked Down Carports and Porches
Remember, stay prepared for a hurricane and make sure the foundation of your business or condominium is secure, especially your roof. Your roof is the foundation that could protect your business or condominium from serious damage from any type of weather.
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Hurricanes. (2014, May 27). Retrieved May 7, 2015, from http://www.ready.gov/hurricanes
Hurricane - Engines of Destruction. (2014, May 20). National Geographic. Retrieved May 7, 2015, from http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters/hurricane-profile/


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Another great video from Adam "Aminé" Daniel (previously featured here). Nice cameo by Issa Rae and a certain Spice.
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