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By David Sharp
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A federal jury apparently didn't believe seven men when they testified under oath that they were sexually abused by the founder of an orphanage in Haiti.
But things have changed since summer 2015. The number of men willing to testify about alleged abuse they endured as boys in Haiti has grown to at least 15, activist Paul Kendrick says, and the #MeToo movement has raised awareness of sexual misconduct.
Kendrick predicts a different outcome in a new defamation lawsuit targeting his claim that the orphanage was led by a serial pedophile.
"We have overwhelming amounts of evidence and testimony that this guy is a child abuser," Kendrick said, "and we're not done yet."
Orphanage founder Michael Geilenfeld and a U.S. charity contend unsubstantiated assertions ruined Geilenfeld's reputation and cost the charity several million dollars in donations. Geilenfeld also contends Kendrick's allegations caused him to be falsely imprisoned for 237 days in Haiti.
Neither Geilenfeld's attorney nor the charity, Hearts With Haiti, responded to requests for comment for this article.
The defamation case has been dragging on since 2013.
A federal jury in Maine awarded $14.5 million to Geilenfeld and Hearts with Haiti, despite testimony from seven men who said they were sexually abused as boys. But the verdict was overturned after a U.S. appeals court ruled that a federal courtroom in Maine was the wrong jurisdiction.
Now Geilenfeld and Hearts With Haiti are suing Kendrick again, this time in state court.
The lawsuit is in a holding pattern while the courts sort out Kendrick's attempt to dismiss the lawsuit on the grounds that his efforts to generate attention on behalf of abused orphans is protected speech. A judge rejected his motion, but Kendrick's attorneys are appealing to the Maine supreme court.
Geilenfeld, an Iowa native who has testified that the abuse allegations were "vicious, vile lies," is currently living in the Dominican Republic, according to court documents.
Kendrick, of Freeport, Maine, became an outspoken voice during the priest sex abuse scandal and founded a group called Voice of the Faithful. Known for in-your-face tactics, he began waging a campaign against Geilenfeld and supporters of his orphanage in 2011.
He isn't backing down from his claims.
He contends his case has been bolstered by a former federal agent hired to go to Haiti to investigate the sex abuse claims.
Former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Agent Rod Khattabi, who has been honored for protecting children from sexual abuse and exploitation, corroborated some of the activist's claims during interviews with accusers during three visits to the island nation, according to court documents.
The original trial painted two different pictures of Geilenfeld. One was a former Roman Catholic brother inspired to do good works. The other sexually abused powerless street kids, according to testimony.
Jurors chose the former.
If there's a trial, it will be against the backdrop of the #MeToo movement. And changing societal views could alter the questions asked to potential jurors, the way the lawyers try the case and ultimately the outcome, said Jim Burke, a professor at the University of Maine School of Law.
"The whole point of the jury is that is the voice of the community," Burke said.
As for Kendrick, he said he is re-energized — and saddened — after traveling to Haiti to meet with some of the eight additional victims he says have come forward since the first trial.
John Whitman, one of Kendrick's attorneys, said the defamation lawsuit will ultimately rise or fall on whether jurors believe Kendrick's assertions that Geilenfeld abused boys who were in his care. "We're prepared to prove that," Whitman said.
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Aliens may exist but contact would hurt humans: Stephen Hawking
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LONDON (AFP) – Aliens may exist but mankind should avoid contact with them as the consequences could be devastating, British scientistStephen Hawking warned Sunday.
"If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans," said the astrophysicist in a new television series, according to British media reports.
The programmes depict an imagined universe featuring alien life forms in huge spaceships on the hunt for resources after draining their own planet dry.
"Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach," warned Hawking.
The doomsday scenario is suggested in the series "Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking" on the Discovery Channel, which began airing in the United States on Sunday.
On the probability of alien life existing, he says: "To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational.
"The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like."
Glowing squid-like creatures, herds of herbivores that can hang onto a cliff face and bright yellow predators that kill their prey with stinging tails are among the creatures that stalk the scientist's fantastical cosmos.
Mankind has already made a number of attempts to contact extraterrestrial civilisations.
In 2008, American space agency NASA beamed the Beatles song "Across the Universe" into deep space to send a message of peace to any alien that happens to be in the region of Polaris — also known as the North Star — in 2439.
But the history of humanity's efforts to contact aliens stretches back some years.
The US probes Pioneer 10 and 11 were launched in 1972 and 1973 bearing plaques of a naked man and woman and symbols seeking to convey the positions of the Earth and the Sun.
Voyager 1 and 2, launched in 1977, each carry a gold-plated copper phonogram disk with recordings of sounds and images on Earth.


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2. Accessories can keep a space from getting locked into one time period or a thematic look.
3. I like to put something primitive next to something very refined. Each sets off the other, and the best of both comes into view.
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4. I'm always playing one period against another to bring out both similarities and contrasts. Look for elements that say the same thing, but from a different point of view.
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8. Irreverence is appealing. I might roll out an Aubusson rug on a concrete floor. The Aubusson cuts the edge of the concrete, and the concrete underscores the lyrical softness of the rug.
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3 teens charged after Australian player slain in Oklahoma
DUNCAN, Okla. (AP) -- With a motive that's both chilling and simple -- to break up the boredom of an Oklahoma summer -- three teenagers randomly targeted an Australian collegiate baseball player who was attending school in the U.S. and killed him...
DUNCAN, Okla. (AP) -- With a motive that's both chilling and simple -- to break up the boredom of an Oklahoma summer -- three teenagers randomly targeted an Australian collegiate baseball player who was attending school in the U.S. and killed him for fun, prosecutors said Tuesday as they charged two of the boys with murder.
Prosecutor Jason Hicks called the boys "thugs" as he described how Christopher Lane, 22, of Melbourne, was shot once in the back and died along a tree-lined road on Duncan's well-to-do north side. He said the three teens, from the grittier part of town, chose Lane at random and that one of the boys "thinks it's all a joke."
Hicks charged Chancey Allen Luna, 16, and James Francis Edwards Jr., 15, of Duncan, with first-degree murder. Under Oklahoma law they will be tried as adults. Michael Dewayne Jones, 17, of Duncan, was charged with using a vehicle in the discharge of a weapon and with accessory to first-degree murder after the fact. He is considered a youthful offender but will be tried in adult court.
Jones wept in the courtroom after he tried to speak about the incident but was cut off by the judge who said it wasn't the time to sort out the facts of the case. Jones faces anywhere from two years to life in prison if convicted on the counts he faces.
The two younger teens face life in prison without parole if convicted on the murder charge.
"I'm appalled," Hicks said after the hearing. "This is not supposed to happen in this community."
In court, Hicks said Luna was sitting in the back seat of a car when he pulled the trigger on a .22 caliber revolver and shot Lane once in the back. Hicks said Jones was driving the vehicle and Edwards was in the passenger seat.
A recording of an emergency 911 call obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press offers a chilling account of the next moments as a woman identifying herself as Joyce Smith tells the operator she saw Lane fall over into a ditch as she drove by.
"He's got blood on his back," the woman says.
Later relaying word from another witness on the scene to the 911 operator, the woman says: "He's turning blue. He's making a noise."
Edwards has had prior run-ins with the law and came to court Friday -- apparently after the shooting -- to sign documents related to his juvenile probation.
"I believe this man is a threat to the community and should not be let out," Hicks said as he requested he be held without bail. "He thinks it's all a joke."
The two younger boys were held without bail, while bail for Jones was set at $1 million.
Before the hearing, Edwards' father, James Edwards Sr., said he knew where his son was 95 percent of the time. He said his son was involved in wrestling and football, and was trying to forge the same sort of athletic career as Lane. He was heading into his sophomore year in high school.
Edwards Sr. said Luna was also like a son to him.
Luna's mother, Jennifer Luna, said her son likes to play basketball at a local court and play on his iPhone and Xbox.
"I know my son. He is a good kid," she said.
Lane played baseball at East Central University in Ada, 85 miles east of Duncan, and had been visiting his girlfriend and her parents in Duncan after he and his girlfriend returned to the U.S. from Australia about a week ago.
Duncan police Chief Dan Ford has said the boys wanted to overcome a boring end to their summer vacation -- classes in Duncan resumed Tuesday -- and that Jones told officers they were bored and killed Lane for "the fun of it."
Family and friends on two continents were mourning Lane, who gave up pursuit of an Australian football career to pursue his passion for baseball, an American pastime. His girlfriend, Sarah Harper, tearfully laid a cross at a streetside memorial in Duncan, while half a world away, an impromptu memorial grew at the home plate he protected as a catcher on his youth team.
"We just thought we'd leave it," Harper said as she visited the memorial in Duncan. "This is his final spot."
His old baseball team, Essendon, scheduled a memorial game for Sunday to raise funds for Lane's parents as they worked to have their boy's remains sent home.
Tony Cornish, president of the Essendon Baseball Club, said Lane played with the club for 12 years.
"He started out as a T-baller, right from the age of 7, " said Cornish.
Cornish said Lane was part of the club until he left to attend college in the U.S.
"Chris Lane was a good kid, just a great all-around guy," Cornish said. "We're still all in shock here."
Meanwhile, St. Bernard's College in Essendon, where Lane was a student, is planning a memorial Mass for Lane in November.
Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper reported that roses and a baseball were placed Monday on the home plate where Lane played as a youth with the message: "A wonderful young man taken too soon. Why?"
Tim Fischer, former Australia deputy prime minister, criticized the National Rifle Association and asked Australians to avoid the U.S. as a way to put pressure on its Congress to act on gun control.
"Tourists thinking of going to the USA should think twice," Fischer told the Herald Sun. "I am deeply angry about this because of the callous attitude of the three teenagers, (but) it's a sign of the proliferation of guns on the ground in the USA. There is a gun for almost every American."
AP sports writer Dennis Passa in Brisbane, Australia, and reporter Sue Ogrocki in Duncan, Okla., contributed to this report.
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Welcome to another Medieval Monday, my lovelies! Today's guest is Barbara Bettis who is sharing her snippet from The Lady of the Forest. Be sure to leave Barbara a comment for a chance at winning one of her eBooks, your choice. Happy reading!
"Sam'l doesn't whisper that loudly. What possessed you to follow them?" Kate knew she wouldn't like his explanation.
"To make sure they weren't hurt or—"
"Or nothing, my lad! I've told you not to put yourself in danger like that. You were to return here immediately after you visited Maude in the kitchen."
A new, sharper fear gripped Kate. If anything happened to this boy, she'd never forgive herself. He should be tucked into a warm bed right now, safe in a cottage and watched over by a loving mother and father.
Instead, he prowled a broken-down hut, too excited to sleep as he chattered about losing body parts. And God knew, Kate made a poor example for a parent—a lady who faked her own death to avoid marriage.
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Last July a power outage in India , showing just how much strain the nation's bursting population is putting on its power grid. India's government needs an infusion of electrical capacity, and the cleaner the better—the country is the world's third-leading emitter of carbon dioxide.
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To meet the demand, India's considerable legacy of building dams will turn into the stuff of legend: The country plans a new dam-building effort that could see as many as nearly 300 new dams near the majestic Himalayan mountain range in the next two decades. It's an enormous infrastructure endeavor that has plenty of observers asking just how many dams is too many.
Michael Kugelman, senior program associate for South and Southeast Asia at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., says the energy crisis "has gotten to the point where the officials in India are willing to look beyond the resistance to building dams and push forward given how urgent the situation is on the ground." While exact estimates are fuzzy, Kugelman says the best guess is that the Indian government plans about 290 dams in the Himalayas, which would produce enough electricity to double the country's hydropower capacity by 2030. The increase of about 100,000 megawatts may provide only about 6 percent of the country's energy needs, but it could play a major role is stabilizing India's power supply, Kugelman says.
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Samir Mehta, International Rivers' India program coordinator, says there's no way to know just how wide the impact of so many dams would be, especially considering the fact that the majority of them will be "large," higher than about 50 feet, under the International Commission on Large Dam standards. One thing is for sure, though. Adding 300 dams in the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra river basins means there will be a dam roughly every 20 miles, which represents 62 percent more density than the global average. And Mehta says there could be hundreds more dams coming even after the first 300.
"That's a lot," Kugelman says. "Given how intensive this construction is supposed to be, I worry about an oversatiation point."
The Indian government says something needs to be done to grow power resources in the country. Along with hydro, India is expanding its coal production, but the hydro option appears to be less dirty. "Hydro, from a polluting and global warming perspective, is a clean energy relative to coal, and you do hear that argument being made by government folks," Kugelman says. "It is a good argument to make, but hydro power is still an environmental risk. It can cause damage to forests and soils."
But Maharaj Pandit, a University of Delhi environmental studies professor who authored a recent study on Indian dams, says the environmental process is lax and that environmental concerns are being brushed aside. For example, Mehta claims that Indian officials are skipping siltation studies, which can quantify the possible adverse effects on not only the environment, but also power generation when river and silt conditions change—such as when sediment builds up behind a dam and reduces the flow of water. That means the official estimates for power-generation potential might be too optimistic.
Then there are the untold impacts of climate change, downstream impacts, changes to livelihoods, and environmental and ecological impacts, Mehta says. Even though the majority of dams constructed in the upper Himalayan region will be run-of-river, meaning water gets diverted via tunnels through power-generating turbines and then returned to the river without a major buildup of reservoirs, that still has an effect on fish, wildlife, and river flows.
And that doesn't even take into account the impact on the villages located in the vicinity of the dams. Hydropower projects have displaced somewhere between 16 and 40 million Indians, Pandit says—only neighboring China, which has built more dams than any other nation and owns more than half of the world's large dams, has displaced more people.
But India, the only other billion-person nation in the world, wants in. Although dams are massive construction projects, they are cheaper to build and maintain than coal or nuclear power plants, and create less concern for large-scale failure. China built the bulk of its dams in the past 60 to 70 years, including the world's largest, the $59 billion Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River, complete with 32 main turbines. India, then, is simply following its fellow burgeoning power in a dam-building craze.
Rather than playing catch-up with China, Pandit says that a less expensive and less controversial way to find immediate energy help in India could simply involve improving grid transmission and reducing power theft, eliminating the loss of nearly 30 percent of all the power the country creates. But India now seems set on a dam-building binge.
While small communities worry about dams ruining their way of life, the boom in dam-building also raises political tensions. "China is building its own dams that keep river water from flowing to India, and India's dams raise concerns in Pakistan and Bangladesh, preventing water from flowing into those countries," Kugelman says, noting that even run-of-river dams have the potential to interrupt and impact water flows. Legal complaints by the Pakistani government have already suspended at least a few dam projects in India.
Yet India's enormous power needs are real and worsening. "For a number of years, I would have said no [to building dams]," Kugelman says. "What I'm realizing now, given the sheer and immediate need for energy, is that I think these dams, unfortunately, should be pursued. If done right, they can produce a lot of supply. If these large dams are generated, there needs to be an effort to limit the risks by having better laws on the table and to ease displacement so that these projects don't have the bad social and environmental impacts they have had before."
"From a sheer supply–demand perspective, it is the right decision," he says, "but I still worry from a social perspective."
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Tim Newcomb is a journalist based in the Pacific Northwest. He covers stadiums, sneakers, gear, infrastructure, and more for a variety of publications, including Popular Mechanics. His favorite interviews have included sit-downs with Roger Federer in Switzerland, Kobe Bryant in Los Angeles, and Tinker Hatfield in Portland.


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Every kitchen eventually reaches the point at which it looks worn-out. That's the time to take stock of your options. Everyone is well aware that kitchen remodeling is costly and inconvenient. However, a simple and low-cost alternative is to paint the kitchen cabinets.
This option is one that many people fail to consider, despite the fact that older homes often have painted carpenter-built cabinets that have stood up to decades of use. The process is easier than ever, thanks to 100 percent acrylic enamels that produce little odor as they are applied and clean up with soap and water.
Step 1: Preparation
The cabinet painting process begins with preparation. The better you prepare the cabinets, the better the end result. Start by removing the drawers. Older drawers slide in and out of a cavity. Others move with side-mounted or bottom-mounted hardware. These slides may clip on to the drawers, or you may have to move the drawer out and tip it forward or back to free it from the slides.
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Step 2: Remove the Hinge
Remove the screws that hold a door hinge to the cabinet face frame. Then remove the hinge from the door.
Step 3: Remove Drawer Pulls
Use a screwdriver to remove the two screws that fasten a drawer pull or a door handle.
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Remove the mounting screws from door hinges and drawer pulls (Figs. 2 and 3). If you are replacing the pulls with new hardware, remember to measure the hole spacing to determine the correct size of replacement pulls. Remove adjustable shelves and any remaining hardware.
Step 5: Wash Cabinets
Next, use a sponge or nylon scrubber and gently wash all cabinet surfaces using powdered trisodium phosphate (TSP) cleaner dissolved in warm water. You can buy this grease-cutting cleaner in hardware stores and paint stores. Rinse the surfaces and let them dry. Fill dents and scratches with wood filler or drywall compound.
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Once the previous steps are complete, lightly abrade surfaces to be painted with 120-grit sandpaper. This process increases the surface area of the painted object and improves primer adhesion by providing a better mechanical bond.
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Begin by painting the interior surfaces of the cabinets. The best tool for this is a mini paintroller because it paints into corners.
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Use a brush to paint the back surface of each drawer face. Be sure the paint is dry before removing masking tape.
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Use a full-size paint roller to coat doors, cabinet sides and removable shelves. Paint a broad surface, let it dry, then paint the edges. Or, paint the edges first and then immediately paint the broad surface.
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Another option is to use an airless sprayer on these surfaces. Wear a respirator when applying paint with a sprayer.
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When the paint is dry, reinstall hardware, then remount the doors and drawers.


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Boy faces full recovery after pool fall, 5 minutes under water
Two-year-old Amin Abbassi's brush with death is now history.
The toddler will make a full recovery after being plucked lifeless from the family's backyard in-ground swimming pool Tuesday.
"It's a miracle," Fire Chief George Rogers said Friday after speaking with the child's mother, Rebecca Abbassi.
"He's off the ventilator, jumping up and down in his bed," Rogers said. "He'll make a full recovery."
Rogers estimates the child was under water about 5 minutes before being plucked from the pool of the family's 20 Stephanie Lane home about 6:45 p.m. Tuesday. A neighbor, Kathleen Greene, went to help, finding a frantic couple trying to revive the child and summon paramedics.
"They were very panic stricken," Greene recalled.
Police officer Robert Rae rushed the child to the first ambulance on the scene.
"He had no pulse, he was not breathing," firefighter/paramedic Carol Berghaus said the day after she and her colleagues revived the toddler. He was taken to a waiting emergency medical helicopter and flown to Children's Hospital in Boston where he is recovering.
Fire officials said the rescue combined all resources - civilians, fire, police and MedFlight - to save a life.
"The stars were aligned," Chief Rogers said.
"Everybody had a hand in this, even God," added Deputy Chief Thomas Levy.
It was all in a day's work, said the firefighters who respond daily to life-saving situations.
But, the call for a child in distress brings with an an extra sense of urgency, said Berghaus as she anticipates meeting a lively, healthy Amin.
"My reward will be when I see that child walk through the door," she said.


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Great post, I love it! ♥
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Glad you like it :)ReplyDelete
so cute choices!! I love this Rimmel lipstick shade, so cool!
thanks for sharing!
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Great picks! Really wish Catrice was sold here in Canada, that gloss is stunning. On my lips today is the Korres lip butter in Mango - nice coral for spring :)
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Thanks! I have never heard of the Korres brandReplyDelete
Thanks for stopping by :)ReplyDelete
It's sold at Sephora and Shoppers Drug Mart here in Canada, but its a great natural line!ReplyDelete
Wow! So cute!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whenever I go shopping I always seem to pick up the essence lip gloss and put it back because I don't know how good it is.
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Love that Kiko color. Really, really pretty.ReplyDelete
That Rimmel lipstick is gorgeous!! Lately I've been loving the NYX butter lipsticks :)
I'm doing a giveaway over on my blog, it'd be awesome if you went and checked it out!!
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I really like your selection, especially that lipstick from Rimmel has great shade :)
They are quite good and a great bargainReplyDelete
Will definitely check out the lipsticks :)ReplyDelete
nice products!
i like the red gloss <3
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Thanks :)ReplyDelete
Pretty shades! First one's my favorite.
I'd like to try out a lipstick from kiko!
You should. It is really nice :)ReplyDelete
cool lipstick http://mosaictrends.blogspot.com/ReplyDelete
I love Kiko products. Their lipsticks are super pigmented and moisturising :) X
I love Rimmel lipsticks, Amethyst Shimmer is such a pretty shade!
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Definitely :)ReplyDelete
I ththat it's really pretty :)ReplyDelete
Lovely lipsticks, they all seem really pigmented and perfect for spring!
Definitely :)ReplyDelete
The Kiko Smart Lipstick looks gorgeous!! xx
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I love MAC everything, but recently discovered my love for Rimmel lipsticks.
Lovely colors you have got there!
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Gorgeous shades, love the pigmentations especially the Rimmel lipstick :)
Take care always, love Christine ~ xx
Thanks :)ReplyDelete
Definitely :)ReplyDelete
It's so pretty ^-^ReplyDelete
They seem to be really interesting shades! I wish you could habe taken photos of how they look on your lips. Anyways I like the ones you choose - my favorite is the Rimmel lipstick :)
xx Ella
Glad you liked the post. I will try to next time. If you want to see how the rimmel one looks, I'm wearing it in the sidebar picture :)ReplyDelete
The KiKo lipstick looks stunning! Great post xx
Beauty Girl
Thank you :)ReplyDelete
I love Kiko lipsticks, they are so good but affordable x
Definitely :)ReplyDelete
Nice picks!
Thanks :)ReplyDelete
that lipstick shade is gorgeous Katie Maree BeautyReplyDelete


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Well, you have to hand it to KanColle, it wasted no time whatsoever declaring it was going to pour all of the compelling drama and peril and promise of the previous episode down the drain. Within the first thirty seconds, Fubuki arrives in the nick of time to save Akagi, as does the main battle force led by Yamato.
As such, this entire episode is, at its heart, a complete re-writing of history, which makes you wonder (or possibly not wonder at all) why the heck they bothered to set up battles with real-world parallels when they were only going to turn the result of those battles upside down.
But revisionism aside, this was never that exciting an ending at all because that early taking away of the stakes came with it the knowledge that this episode wouldn't even be sorta adhering to reality. The show failed to rise above its somewhat unsightly core reason for being: to promote the video game it's based upon, as well as its sundry characters.
Thus, the result isn't just a foregone conclusion (the Fleet Girls win it all without suffering any casualties), but the battle itself feels pointless and needlessly drawn out, infused with setbacks we know will be overcome by the time the credits roll. It's an extended victory lap, as well as a showcase for every Fleet Girl character.
As for the Abyssals, they disappoint to the last, as one finally actually says something, but only simply phrases like "SINK!" Gee, I sure wish a show in which the good guys fight the bad guys had bothered to, you know, give us something, anything, with which to understand what the bad guys were about. But nope, they're just evil.
Looking back, Mitsuki's loss of Kisaragi was the only remotely significant casualty the Fleet Girls suffered, other than the fancypants Admiral we neither saw nor heard for the extent of the show, and therefore wasn't any more a character than the Abyssals. I kept watching this show because it had the guts to take Kisaragi out. Unfortunately, that's all it had guts for.
Still, this episode is saved from total inanity by some nice moments between characters who actually were characterized in the past eleven episodes. Bonds like Nagato and Mutsu, Akagi and Kaga, Kaga and Zuikaku, and the core trio of Fubuki, Mitsuki, and Yuudachi, while nothing particularly special, got some pleasant closing beats.
As for this admiral dude, I'm just not sure why I should care about him, considering we never see or hear him. I guess the Admiral is really you and me, huh? Well, excuse me if I'm not going to get all that excited about myself, nor a great host of Fleet Girls getting all hot and bothered about me. Simply put, I'm not that special.


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For this week's review I was sent the Orion Cooker from Christian Fitzgerald, President of Orion Outdoors, Inc.
Orion Outdoors is an outdoor consumer products company focused on bringing innovative product solutions to the outdoor living market. Founded in 2004, when they introduced their flagship product the Orion Cooker. Orion Outdoors is based in Atlanta, GA with products sold in over 2500 retail locations across America.
The Orion Cooker is constructed of solid stainless steel. It's also an outdoor convection cooker that uses 3 cooking processes simultaneously: convection, steam and smoke.
The Orion Cooker has extremely fast cooking times, such as the ones listed on it's box in the picture below.
After removing all the contents of the box, it took very little time to put the Orion Cooker together.
Below is a picture of the inside of the Orion Cooker with the grates removed.
The Orion Cooker comes with 3 cooking grates which offers 3 levels of cooking space and provides 398 square inches of cooking surface. The picture below shows 2 of the 3 grates installed and the last grate would sit on top of the holders for the 3 rib hangers. All the included attachments are manufactured out of food grade stainless steel.
The 3 rib hangers allow you to cook up to 6 racks of ribs at a time.
Below are 2 pictures of the ash removal door. The ash removal door allows for easier cleanup.
With the Orion Cooker fully assembled it was time to cook some meat.
My family was in the mood for some pulled pork (that's a shock, lol), so I picked up a 7lb pork butt for the first cook on the Orion Cooker.
Once the water pan was foiled, I placed cherry wood chips around the outside of the water pan against the outer edge of the cooking chamber. This way the wood chips are in close proximity to the burning coals outside which will cause them to smolder. I then installed the grate and placed the pork butt inside the Orion Cooker. I did notice there was more than enough room for another 7lb pork butt.
For most foods you cook on the Orion Cooker you can just foil the water pan because of all the natural moisture that occurs during the convection cooking process. They do, however; recommend using liquids in the water pan when cooking brisket and seafood.
I then paced the lid on the Orion Cooker and filled the lower charcoal ring with a 12.5lb bag of Kingsford Match Light Briquettes. I also made sure to save back 10-12 briquettes to place in the upper charcoal ring on the lid. I know what you are thinking…but wait, that is going to make the meat taste like lighter fluid using those briquettes. Worry not my friends, the completely enclosed cooking chamber of the Orion Cooker separates the flame and smoke of the Match Light Briquettes from the meat inside.
As stated in the Owner's Manual & Cookbook, it is highly recommended to use the Orion Cooker in a safe cooking area away from buildings, dry leaves, or any combustible materials. You want to also make sure to keep children and pets away from the cooking area as well. This is mainly because of the flames and heat from the Match Light Briquettes at the start of the cook.
Once the charcoal was lit, it was hands off cooking for the remainder of the cook. The reason for this is that the indirect heat from the charcoal creates a constant convection current that circulates within the Orion Cooker and cooks the meat quickly and evenly. If you remove the lid during this process, the convection current will be lost and your cook time will be increased. I also knew from looking at the Owner's Manual & Cookbook that the cooking time for a 6-7lb butt was approximately 4 1/2 hours.
Once the 4 1/2 hours were up, I removed the lid and checked the temp of the pork butt. My Thermapen showed the butt was around 185 degrees, so it was time to pull it with my new Ro-Man Pork Puller.
You can see in the picture below that there really isn't any kind of smoke ring showing up in the pulled pork. I contribute this to the convection process of cooking the meat. I don't believe enough smoke penetrates the interior of the meat to create a smoke ring. I also think that's why the Orion Cooker is called a cooker, rather than a smoker.
I was really impressed with how moist and flavorful the pulled pork tasted. I also contribute that great flavor to one of my favorite rubs I used on the pork butt, Draper's BBQ A.P. Rub.
Our daughter was also a big fan of the pulled pork. 🙂
Below is a demo video of my pork butt cook on the Orion Cooker.
Next up for the Orion Cooker was a 15lb turkey. The Orion Cooker comes with a poultry stand and lifting handle which holds up to a 24 pound turkey.
I took this cool night shot below of the Orion Cooker while the turkey was cooking for it's 1hr 45min cook.
Once the recommended cooking time was up, I checked the turkey with my Red (fastest color ever made) Thermapen. It showed the temp around 175 degrees.
Then it was time to take the turkey out of the Orion Cooker and into the house to slice for our yummy meal.
I would have to say this was some of the juiciest turkey that I have eaten in a long time. I could also taste more of the smoke in the turkey since I used apple wood chips and more of them for this cook.
Last but certainly not least, I was eager to cook some slabs of ribs and try out the rib hangers.
I dry rubbed 2 slabs of St. Louis style ribs and then hung them from 2 of the rib hangers for their 1hr 15min cook.
Once the recommended cooking time was up, I spot checked the temp of the ribs with my Thermapen and it showed around 190 degrees. You may ask yourself why would Jay need to check the temp of his ribs….I did this because it was my first time cooking ribs and I also wanted to make sure they were up to proper temp since my 3 year old was eating them as well.
Here is a great blog post by Jesse Black from ThermoWorks on the topic of checking the temp of your ribs: "To temp, or not to temp: Cooking ribs with the Super-Fast Thermapen"
In the picture below you will see some little black trickles of moisture which have caused discoloration on the outside of my Orion Cooker. This is normal due to the heat and ash from the coals on the outside and this will in no way diminish the quality or performance of the Orion Cooker. In fact, the Orion Cooker community considers this a right of passage which many of the owners like to show off when they meet up for Big "O" Cookouts.
The ribs were wonderful and had great flavor. I used cherry wood chips for this cook and I could taste a slight hint of that in the ribs and I also contribute that great flavor to another one of my favorite rubs I used, Socks' Love Rub Original Seasoning.
Final Thoughts
I was extremely impressed with how well the Orion Cooker worked. All the food I cooked for my review turned out superb! Plus the cooking times listed in the Owner's Manual & Cookbook were spot on. I look forward to trying out some of the great recipes listed in the cookbook section of the manual, which were submitted to Orion Outdoors, Inc. by Orion Cooker owners.
I feel this is a great cooker for any backyard griller like myself that doesn't always want to spend all day cooking food. It's also great for when you have friends or family over for a cookout or even a Super Bowl Party and want something you can cook a lot of meat on in a fraction of the time.
I could only think of a few things that may be considered negative about the Orion Cooker. The first one is the Orion Cooker consumes large amounts of fuel. I used a full 12.5lb bag of Kingsford Match Light Briquettes for all 3 cooks. I did see in the Owner's Manual & Cookbook that for smaller cuts of meat or smaller quantities of food, less charcoal can be used. When less charcoal is used, just make sure that the charcoal briquettes in the lower charcoal ring are touching the cooking cylinder.
The second thing is the somewhat lack of smoke that is generated inside the Orion Cooker. I did notice that after adding more wood chips for the turkey and rib cook that the meat had a little more of a smoke flavor present.
The last thing that some may consider a negative is the fact that you can't easily check the temp of the meat with a thermometer during the cook. I thought this may also be an issue for me, but once I cooked these three different meats it was clear that as long as you follow the cook times listed in the Owner's Manual & Cookbook your meat should be up to proper temp.
You can find a great deal on the Orion Cooker here.
For more information on the Orion Cooker please visit their Facebook & Twitter pages as well as their Website and Forum.
Make sure to check back next week for another great BBQ Tools & Tech Review!
Jay Prince


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Michael Eble was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He received a BFA degree in painting from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and a MFA degree in painting and drawing from the University of Mississippi, in Oxford, Mississippi. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Studio Art and HFA Gallery Curator at the University of Minnesota at Morris since the fall of 2003. Over the past years he has shown his paintings, drawings, and prints in numerous regional and national exhibitions. Eble was a recent recipient of a Residential Fellowship from the Institute for Advance Study at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He has also received grants through the McKnight Foundation, Lake Region Arts Council, Yoknapatawpha Arts Council, Vermont Studio Center, and has received travel and research awards, from the University of Mississippi and the University of Minnesota. His most recent body of work, Endangered Lands address the growing problem of coastal erosion in the southern Louisiana


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