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Before I could even drag the box through the front door, my daughter was all over it. She must have known that something very special was inside. She was right! If you are looking for a stroller to take you and your child anywhere you want to go then look no further. The Baby Bling Design Company's Metamorphosis ATS (All Terrain Stroller) is your answer.
At my daughter's insistence, I wasted no time opening the package. Forget dinner, bath, pajamas. We were opening the "present" with great urgency!
What we find is an oversized carrying bag, all zipped up and ready for travel. This is a stroller?! I've never seen one come like this before.
So we dig further. The zipper comes open and we find the nine pieces that would eventually create the stroller and the five bonus items that come along with it, standard. Again - not your average stroller. How often do you get one extra item, let alone five! So, while my little curious monkey climbs into the seat as it sits on the floor, I go about assembly.
As I mentioned, I have a task master with no patience whatsoever demanding that we complete our mission and go for a test ride. Bedtime is looming, so I pull open the instruction booklet and get to work. My only struggle was comparing the pictures in the manual to the actual pieces and parts. I found the instructions a bit confusing and eventually did what I often do which is to open my eyes and use my brain! And in reality, the design of this stroller is so user friendly that I think the attempt to walk you through it verbally in the manual actually complicates things. The entire assembly is really all about sliding a male piece into its female counterpart and waiting to hear the "click".
Period. Every piece just slipped into place.
The key is finding the right place (not hard) and applying enough pressure.
In all of about 30 minutes (and this is while managing miss 2-year-old director) the stroller was ready to hit the road!
Off we went as the sun descended behind the hills. I found myself feeling very awkward at first because it was so easy to maneuver! For months I have been pushing a stroller that requires that I really give it some muscle when turning or traveling over uneven surfaces. So my body was all prepared to work and simply didn't have to. It was fabulous to realize that I could relax and enjoy the walk along with my daughter, who was all cozied up in the wonderfully padded seat. It was a quick walk, but I promised my precious little one that it was the first of many.
OK, let me pause this harrowing tale to tell you a bit about this stroller, its designer and the company that birthed it. Michael Sallus is a father of 2 and created this concept after researching the strollers already on the market and asking moms what they really wanted to see in a stroller. He was also motivated to support the growing number of dads who are taking a more active roll in their children's lives. You can tell by so many of the details that Mr. Sallus is very focused on his market and wanted to make sure they were happy with the result of his work. For example, the handle bar can be adjusted to accommodate height. What a blessing for someone like me who's all of 5'1" (or Mr. Sallus who is 6'5"!) Another is the convertible hood. It is designed so you can unzip the back half of the hood and pull it back leaving only a mesh screen, allowing airflow through the seat area. In southern California, hiking the hills in 95 degree heat, that's another delightful treat.
To get a real picture of all The Metamorphosis offers, here's what the company says:
"Since 2005, Baby Bling Design Co. focused on creating the most versatile stroller on the market today. We took the ideas that new moms wanted to see in a stroller and created the Metamorphosis ATS (All Terrain Stroller).
When purchasing the Metamorphosis ATS package, you will receive a Matching Fabric Diaper Bag, Matching Fabric Footmuff, Rain Cover, Sun Screen, Bicycle Pump, Wheel Bags and Master Travel Bag. In addition, you can personalize your purchase with unique accessories including the option of changing out your existing fabric with eight vibrant choices.
In April 2008 at Baby Celebration LA Baby Bling design Co. showed its GPS device called nanny Tracker for the first time to rave reviews by the public. Baby Bling Design Co. released its All Terrain Stroller (ATS) System, Metamorphosis, to the public in September of 2007 at the ABC Kids Expo in Las Vegas, NV. It received rave reviews by stroller critics from across the nation. Baby Bling Design Co. was endorsed by the industry as having one of the most structurally sound, innovative, and well thought-out strollers on the market today.
The Metamorphosis ATS has many special features. We have made the stroller slightly larger with a full-size hood to allow the child to grow into the unit rather than out of it. The 4-position seating section reclines completely flat for better sleeping and to be used as a changing table (just think, no more searching for a bathroom to change your baby's diapers). The seat and hood sections are removable from the chassis to allow your child to face you as an infant and reverse the parts back as they grow. The back of the hood zips off and a mesh screen remains allowing free-flowing air for your child. We have added "loops" for attaching toys on the inside of the hood. The trim of the stroller has reflective piping for nighttime safety. The front wheel swivel lock is positioned on the left side of the handle allowing the user to lock the front wheel on a whim. We have added lots of storage space and made the fabrics removable from the chassis for washing, or interchanging with other fabric combinations that we offer as Upgrade Kits and much more.
To top it all off, Baby Bling Design Co. has a line of optional accessories for the Metamorphosis ATS that no other stroller on the market offers. We have a portable I-Pod Speaker System, DVD Package, Lighting Package, Handle Bar Accessory Kit (attaches Cell Phone, PDA, Blackberry, or Portable Sirius Satellite Radio), Car Adapter Wiring Harness with Rechargeable Battery and Battery Charger (great for bottle warmers and cell phone chargers), Cup Holder, Removable Kiddie Tray, an elegant Swarovski Crystal Package upgrade and Fabric Upgrade Kits in eight (8) vibrant combinations. We at Baby Bling Design Co. are excited about this innovative design and concept. We enjoy the challenge of "Taking the Ordinary to the Extraordinary." Please continue to check back with us on new upgrades and products at www.BabyBlingDesignCo.com ."
OK. Now, pick your jaw up off the floor. Amazing, right? Now keep in mind, this is the Bentley of strollers. It is decked out and ready for all the "bling" you want to add. It is not meant to be the smallest or lightest in town. Do not expect to fit into a compact space anymore than you would your luxury car. However, the design allows you to dismantle the stroller so easily that you can fit it into a small space if you simply pop off the wheels and seat. As long as you have ample space in your garage, SUV or minivan, you will have to problem transporting or storing the Metamorphosis fully assembled and folded down.
One of the most unique aspects of this line is the fabric design. The average stroller generally offers you two or three color options based on coordinating solid-colored fabrics. Fairly understated and easy to blend in. Baby Bling Design Co. went for the pizzazz, the turning-heads options. You have 8 fabric choices and all will make a statement and have folks stopping to admire and comment. I took my third walk with this stroller through a farmer's market and was stopped with comments like "Now that's a fabulous stroller!" and they were only looking at it in passing. What fun!
My daughter has also gotten a wonderfully sound nap in this stroller. With the seat able to recline completely, the footrest adjustable for comfort and the high-tech design of the chassis making for a smooth and secure ride, sleep came quickly and maintained easily. She got to sleep and I got my exercise! That's a combination I can really use.
My final test was hiking the "great hill". Now, if you are a fitness buff then you will snicker at me calling it that. But for me, this was my morning delight before my daughter was born. Up at 6am and on the hill 15 minutes later, it's a paved 45 degree climb for about a quarter mile and then a modestly raked dirt hiking trail for another ¾ of a mile to reach the peak. Then you descend again, completing a 2.3 mile hike. This was my way of clearing my head every morning, getting in a great, but quick, workout and reconvening with nature. I was unable to keep it up once I got pregnant, but was determined to get right back to it once the baby was born . . .
Are all you mom's out there laughing at me yet? Well, suffice it to say, I had not been back to my precious hill until a matter of a few weeks ago. It was such a struggle to get my "ordinary" stroller up that hill that I though my arms were going to fall off. So I decided I had to get myself a stroller that could take charge of this hill and make it mine again. Well let me tell you, having the Metamorphosis as my sidekick, it was like reuniting with an old, close friend I hadn't seen in years.
I was able to maneuver myself and the stroller throughout the hike with all its uneven terrain, twists and turns, and could still breathe and speak by the end! Now that's saying something!
I even had another mother gape in wonder that I had managed to come up the hill pushing a stroller with a 26+ pound child in it. Glorious success!
Not surprisingly, Hollywood is all a buzz about the Baby Bling Design Co.'s Metamorphosis ATS. Check out this all star list of celebrities who have custom designed their very own "Bling-mobile" for their little ones:
"Julia Roberts (Actress), James Denton (Desperate Housewives), Alison Sweeney (Days of Our Lives), Elisabeth Hasselbeck (The View), Brittany Spears (Singer), Christian Bale (Batman Returns), Tiger and Elin Woods (Pro Golfer), Jillian Reynolds (Good Day LA), Nancy O'Dell (Access Hollywood), Sir Brian Voss (Star Trek Generations), Habitat for Humanity Hollywood, Melissa Peterman (Barbara Jean on the hit show REBA), Kristin Datillo (Local Hero's, The Office, Two And A Half Men and Veronica Mars), Notah Begay (Pro Golfer), Ali Landry (EVE, Doritos),
Ed Sanders (Extreme Makeover Home Edition), Tony Dovolani (Dancing with the Stars), Cynthia Daniel (Actress), Jodie Sweetin (Full House),
Kari Wuhrer (CSI Miami, Lincoln Heights, Stargate Atlantis, Fork in the Road), Scott and Renee' Baio (Happy Days, Charles in Charge),
Drew and Leah Lechey (Dancing with the Stars and Spamalot NY, 98 degrees), Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott (Actress and actor), Mary Lynn Rajskub (24), Marissa Jaret Winokur (Hairspray, Dancing with the Stars), Jamie Lynne Spears (Zoie 101) just to name a few……"
You don't have to go out and get this fabulous stroller just because Hollywood is doing it. You have to go out and get it because it's simply a great stroller! It combines safe and reliable structure with style and technology that you can customize as you please. No other stroller can you personalize like this and still know that you can take it anywhere and use for any purpose. And it should be mentioned that Baby Bling Design Co. is busy creating more stellar products to add to their line. I, for one, am waiting with baited breath to see what they come up with next! Bring on the "Bling"!
To learn more go to www.BabyBlingDesignCo.com


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Steve Wood on 'Loyalty to Our Drum' and Why the Group Is Like a Hockey Team
Tish Leizens
"If you believe in yourself, who you are, where you come from, your culture and more importantly your language, it will take you to places you have never even dreamed of," says Steve Wood, 51, founder and drum keeper of Northern Cree Singers—the hugely popular, award-winning First Nations group.
Northern Cree Singers were founded in 1982 by Wood and his brothers Randy and Earl Wood. The group originates from the Saddle Lake Cree First Nation but is made up of members from the Treaty 6 Area, most notably the Frog Lake Cree Nation, Onion Lake Cree Nation, Samson Cree Nation, Louis Bull Cree Nation, and the Poundmaker Cree Nation. They have garnered multi-Grammy nominations, multi-Juno nominations, and have been awarded multi-Native American Music Awards and Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards. They have also won numerous pow wow singing competitions.
But it is their adherence to their founder's philosophy that have made them role models for Native peoples everywhere. Their success is a testament and a message to youth that traditional Native music can be a star on the biggest stage, without sacrificing first principals.
In a recent interview with ICTMN, Wood talked candidly about a documentary on his group and their soon-to-be released album, the book he's writing and aspirations for the youth.
You started in the early 1980s with your brothers and now are quite famous. What is the popular guy doing these days?
I didn't think I was popular. I started in a small home—in an Indian reservation. Back in the 60s, my father used to sing. He was the drum keeper. People sat in benches. People used to come to our house, and my mother would feed them. I never dreamt of going to the Grammys, flying overseas and to remote communities.
How did you all come together?
I was about 16 or 17 years old. My brother Earl was married down in Lapwai, Idaho. We came to visit him—myself, Randy and my older brother, Charlie. We were actually there to play stick games. We didn't do so well and lost most of our money. We had a full tank of gas, a room that was paid for, and about $60 between us. We stood around the car contemplating our situation, and decided to try to get home with what we had. Then Earl said, 'Why don't you guys set up a drum? The celebration's pow wow was paying daypay and you should get enough to get home. I'll sing with you.' So we decided to set up and sing songs we had learnt from our father and uncles at the pow wow.
How did you come up with the name Northern Cree?
We were born Cree! But at the Lapwai celebration, we needed a drum. My brother Earl said he was good friends with the curator of a small local museum that kept various drums, and would ask him if he could borrow one. Next day we met before grand entry and Earl brought this drum wrapped in a blanket with a few drumsticks. We went to set up. The arena director came around and asked, 'What are you guys called?' We were from Saddle Lake, so I said, "I guess Saddle Lake.' He said, 'Do you have a drum group name?' Just then my brother Randy was taking this borrowed drum out of the blanket and he said, 'What about Northern Cree? It's right here on this drum.' In faded print, on the drum, was Northern Cree.
How involved is the Wood family in the Northern Cree group?
We are nine in the family, with four brothers and sisters. I am the third youngest of the nine siblings. My younger brothers Earl, 49, and Randy, 48 are part of the group. My oldest brother Charlie used to be our lead singer.
What are you working on right now?
We have a new recording coming out and bookings coming up. Right now the round dance season is ending and we are getting ready to do pow wows. We have a few bookings in California. We will be in places like Salt Lake, Utah, Arizona, Michigan, North Dakota and even overseas to London. We are performing pretty much every weekend.
How do you think Northern Cree has evolved over the past 20 years?
There are some changes in the face of the group; some have gone to the next world, while others are doing other things. The face of our drum group has changed but the spirit stays the same.
What makes your group different than the other groups?
There is a core group of 8 to 9 guys that has been performing together for ten years plus. We all now live in different communities. When we started the group, we practiced a lot. Now, we don't practice, we just sing. We are in tune with each other. We are like a hockey team. Everybody works together.
What is the title of the new album?
It is called Loyalty to Our Drum. There are 11 songs on it. We have practically been to all four corners of Turtle Island, and it was our drum that took us there. Without the drum, we would have never met the countless people we have been fortunate enough to meet, or see the places and things we have. We are loyal to our drum—it is the centerpiece and the spirit of our group.
What do you think is Northern Cree's contribution to the world of pow wow?
We have helped expand the attention of pow wow music and round dance from the many music we produced. Technology has helped like the YouTube. Not one of our guys has posted anything on YouTube, and yet our song "Driving Me Crazy" has probably a million hits. The spirit is perpetuating it—the Northern Cree spirit. (To see a video of Northern Cree performing "Driving Me Crazy," click here.)
What's this about a documentary?
There is a guy who has been documenting our group over the past several years. His team has been compiling information about us. They come to your house; they've been with us on the road and on our biggest pow wows. The documentary is probably about the reality of being a drum group—all the trials and tribulations. You know, it is not all about glory.
Do you want to tell your fans and supporters that you are writing a book?
I am currently penning a book about pow wows from the perspective of a drum group and what we've seen for the past 30 or so years. It will include our experiences as performers and some stories when we were at the Grammys. Some people will laugh and some might be offended.
Why will some be offended?
My wife Hilda said I should tell the truth. I am not a perfect man myself, but the truth happens behind the scenes. Let us not forget we are people. We are humans susceptible to a lot of things like alcohol, drugs and money issues.
When it is coming out?
It is going to take awhile. I've been wanting to take a year off to finish it. Next year I am taking time off.
What is the next chapter for you?
The next step is to help our people and the next generation in taking their rightful place in history. When it comes to pow wow or any type of traditional genre, it is not only about our dances, but also about the music. Some of our young people want to do rock or hip hop, and that's alright—more power to them. But I want them to know that they don't have to emulate anyone else, they can be themselves and still aspire to do great things.
Is this why the trip to London this summer is significant?
We want to open that door for our next generation of traditional musicians to take our music out of it's traditional setting and put it on stage, in concert just like any other mainstream music. It's all about how it is presented to the audience.

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San Francisco mourns passing of Vivian Brown _ 1 of 2 twins known for matching hair, outfits
SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco residents are mourning the passing of Vivian Brown, who along with her twin sister, became a local celebrity by walking through the city's streets in matching high-end outfits, identical hairdos and cheerful smiles.
The 85-year-old Brown died in her sleep on Wednesday at an assisted care facility in the city, Barbara Farber, director of development for Jewish Family and Children's Services, told the San Francisco Chronicle (http://bit.ly/WOxyf3 ).
For 40 years, the Brown twins could be seen walking along San Francisco's streets, greeting tourists and locals alike. Standing 5-foot-1 and about 100 pounds apiece, the twins were also seen in commercials, made cameo appearances in films, appeared on talk shows and frequented civic events.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee issued a statement saying Brown was a "truly remarkable woman who represented the best of our city."
Tom Sweeney, the Beefeater doorman at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, said that the twins were the only living attractions photographed as frequently as he is. And their hours were similar.
"Their day began when most people their age were going to bed," Sweeney said.
Vivian's twin, Marian Brown, said in August that Vivian suffered from Alzheimer's disease and had been admitted into doctors' care after a fall in July.
"My heart is aching for her," Marian Brown told The Chronicle on Friday. "We were always so close."
The Brown twins were born Jan. 25, 1927, in Kalamazoo, Mich., with Vivian being the oldest by eight minutes. They moved to San Francisco in 1973. They had no other siblings.
Attempts by The Associated Press to reach Marian Brown were not successful. A call to Farber on Saturday wasn't immediately returned.


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Hot Springs Lookout ( Lemhi )
Idaho : Flag of State
Hot Springs Lookout is a place of kind Locale belonging to the County of ( Lemhi ).
The closest populated place is that of Shoup that is10.56 miles far from Hot Springs Lookout.
Hot Springs Lookout is also 42.03 miles far from the closest airport or heliport, the Cumming Triangle Landing Area .
The weather forecasting are available for the town of Shoup , that is 10.56 miles far from Hot Springs Lookout .
The Zip Code of Hot Springs Lookout is 83469.
Besides Hot Springs Lookout in the County of ( Lemhi ) there are the following places of kind Locale . These are reported in what follows in alphabetical order:
Beartrap Lookout - Bernard Creek Guard Station - Big Boulder Meadow - Big Creek Camp (historical) - Big Creek Campground - Big Eightmile Campground - Big Indian Camp - Big Spring Creek Hatching Channel - Cache Bar Campground - Cache Creek Cabin - Camp Creek Access Area - Cassel Gulch - Cave Campsite - Clear Creek Recreation Site - Cobalt Mine - Cobalt Ranger Station - Colson Creek Guard Station - Cougar Point Recreation Site - Cow Creek Campsite - Crags Campground - Deadwater Campground - Deadwater Picnic Area - Deep Creek Recreation Site - Deer Gulch Access Area - Degan Ranch - Ebenezer Bar Campground - Fairview Guard Station - Falconberry Ranch - Fly Creek Campsite - Fort Lemhi (historical) - Friday Cabin (historical) - Gattin Ranch - Granite Mountain Guard Station - Hayden Creek Access Area - Hayden Creek Rearing Ponds - Henderson Cabin - Horse Creek Campsite - Horse Creek Hot Springs Campground - Horsetail Campsite - Indian Creek Guest Ranch - Indianola Field Station - Iron Lake Campground - Killum Point - Kingsbury Ranch - Lake Creek Ranch - Leacock Ranch - Leadore Ranger Station - Lemhi River Access Area - Lemhi River Salmon Trap - Lime Creek Access Area - Long Tom Campground - Lost Spring Campground - Lost Trail Pass Picnic Area - Lost Trail Pass Picnic Area - Lower Grouse Campground - Mahoney Campsite - Mcdonald Flat Recreation Site - McFarland Access Area - Meadow Lake Campground - Merritt Ranch - Middle Fork Campground - Middle Fork Peak Campground - Middle Fork Trailhead - Mill Creek Recreation Site - Miller Ranch - Mormon Ranch - North Fork Forest Service Station - North Fork Ranger Station - Oreana Lookout - Pahsimeroi Hatchery - Pahsimeroi Rearing Ponds - Parrott Placer Campground - Peterson Ranch - Pine Creek Ranch (historical) - Rattlesnake Creek Campground - Reno (historical) - Rock Creek Campground - Rood Ranch (historical) - Sagebrush Lookout - Simplot Campground - Simplot Ranch - Sleeping Deer Recreation Site - Smokeys Cubs Recreation Site - Snowshoes Cabin - South Fork Campground - Splettstosser Ranch - Stormy Peak Lookout - Swamp Camp - Tappan Island Campsite - Tappen Ranch - Twin Creek Campground - Twin Peaks Ranch - Upper Grouse Campground - Wagonhammer Campground - Wallace Lake Recreation Site - Warm Spring Ranger Cabin - White Goat Lookout (historical) - Williams Creek Ranger Station - Williams Lake Recreation Site - Wilson Creek Campground - Yellowjacket Campground - Yellowjacket Ranch - Yellowjacket Ranger Station .
Where to stay: Hotels and other Accommodation Hot Springs Lookout
Please find in what follows the full listing of the Hotels, Bed & Breakfasts and other accommodation available in Hot Springs Lookout.
A lot of pictures and fully detailed descriptions are available for the Hotels, Bed & Breakfasts and other accommodation, along with the ratings assigned by the guest of the same Hotels. The ratings are divided by age, sex and much more.
Idaho : Emblem of State
- Capital : Boise
- Inhabitants : Idahoan (Idahoer, Idawhore, Spudnut)
- State's Motto : Esto perpetua
- English translation : Let it be perpetual (Latin)
Map and road map of Hot Springs Lookout
View the interactive maps of Hot Springs Lookout and get road maps, satellite maps and much more. The maps cover a wide area centered on Hot Springs Lookout .
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Where can I get some information about training programs for electroplaters? Our company seems to have a problem with finding individuals who have some basic understanding of the plating process.
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Q. Where can I get some information about training programs for electroplaters? Our company seems to have a problem with finding individuals who have some basic understanding of the plating process. The end result is that we have high costs for rework and scrap. We are a U.S.-based company and strongly believe that we can effectively compete with foreign plating companies if we have a well-trained staff. M.C.
A. It is nice to hear that there are still U.S.-based companies that want to invest in improving the skills of their plating staff. Personally, I just assumed that somebody would come out with an iPhone or Android application that would take care of all of the plating problems that the plating industry experiences. So far this has not happened, and I doubt that it will in the near future. That means that we have to do something rather old-fashioned, that is, train our plating operators.
Some companies have instituted their own training programs that, if done properly, make a great difference in the quality and quantity of parts that are plated. There are two organizations that I recommend for either on-site training or seminar training: Kushner Electroplating School (platingschool.com) and the National Association of Surface Finishers (nasf.org). While I am no longer involved with Kushner Electroplating School, having retired more than two years ago, the school is in excellent hands and offers a wide selection of training options.
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'Frozen' Gets 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Mashup in 'Fifty Shades of Frozen' [VIDEO]by Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
They may be the movies on everyone's minds, but we never thought we'd see 'Frozen' and 'Fifty Shades of Grey' in the same category — let alone in the same video. But thanks to one awesomely talented YouTuber, that's exactly what we got. And let us be the first to tell you: It's amazing.
Appropriately titled 'Fifty Shades of Frozen,' this ridiculously epic mashup vid takes the audio from the 'Fifty Shades' trailer and matches it up with scenes from the Disney smash, perfectly edited to make it seem like Anna is playing the role of Anastasia Steele and Hans is Christian Grey. Be still, our hearts.
There are almost too many perfectly synched-up moments to call out, but some of our favorites include Hans showing Anna his (totally creepy) sex lair, a frozen Anna breathing out a breath of icy air and a surprise appearance by Rapunzel as Hans/Christian Grey's receptionist.
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Jan 29, 2006
Book Review: The Ha-Ha by Dave King
Imagine being a single, middle-aged man who can neither write nor speak but is perfectly average in every other aspect of his life.
The reader is introduced to Howard Kapostash as he assumes responsibility of looking after nine-year old Ryan, son of his ex-girlfriend Sylvia who is being sent away against her will by her sister into a drug rehab program for an undetermined length of time. The sister takes care of the cat and Howard takes care of the boy who is not his son.
Howard can't communicate due to a severe head injury that occurred sixteen days into his tour of Vietnam. He returns home to his mother and father a broken young man who can't communicate and is unwilling to try even though the mere fact that he survived such an injury is considered a miracle.
The book is told from Howard's narrative and it's an amazing story that unfolds to the reader because you learn in flashbacks why Howard never really moved forward when he returned from the war and how he lived in a self-imposed solitary existence with his parents until each of them passed away thus forcing Howard to take on borders in his parent's house (now his home) to help pay the bills. There's a young Vietnamese-American woman named Laurel who makes gourmet soups for a living and two housepainters named Nit and Nat (so named because Howard finds bother irritating and never makes an effort to learn their real names).
The sheer beauty of this book is the way Howard and Ryan learn to interact with one another and how the introduction of this boy completely changes the dynamic of all the tenants living in Howard's house.
But the frustration of the book is the reader clearly sees how manipulative and self-centered Sylvia is from the first pages of the story. We can't imagine how such a good man like Howard could still be carrying a torch for this woman who continually insults him and takes advantage of his feelings to get him to do things for her that she doesn't deserve—especially since she entrusts the care of her son to him and the care of her cat to her sister.
The big epiphany for me in reading this novel was how it felt to be unable to express myself just like Howard throughout the story. I wanted to reach through the pages and shout to Howard, "Can't you see that this can only end badly? She's going to break your heart! She is not the person you fell in love with at sixteen. She's only using you. Be careful!"
The satisfaction of completing The Ha-Ha is that you survive the journey right alongside Howard. The author Dave King does an impressive job at showing the dark side of Howard as he learns to deal with just what his injury has cost him in both his present life and the life he could have had were it not for being sent to Vietnam.
In the end, this book is about relationships. It's about how one person can come into your life and completely change the way you exist. It's a love story between a fatherless boy and the man that could have been such a good father to him had things been different all those years ago. It's a story about a man finally waking up to his life and learning that there are always possibilities around the corner if you're looking for them.
I highly recommend reading The Ha-Ha. It's one of the best books I've read in 2005 and you'll walk away feeling a new appreciation of just how important words can be—in any form.
Jan 28, 2006
For My Protection
This is a picture of something called a Sani-Seat. I first experienced it when I went to an Anne Murray concert at Mohegan Sun in Connecticut at the end of November. (Stop laughing! Snow Bird is classic) It's the coolest little automated device because you're forced to use the liner. Upon rising up off the seat, the Sani-Seat immediately replaces the used liner with a fresh one. Simple. No thought involved by you. Just zip up or pull up and go.
Jan 27, 2006
Is It Live or Memorex?
It seems animatronic Chimpanzee's are all the post-holiday rage. It all began with the original Chimp sold by Sharper Image.
My co-worker Andrew absolutely loved downloading the demonstration video showing both sight and sound features of this modern marvel all the way down to life-like chin whiskers. If he ever needed to interrupt the droning silence of work or lighten the mood of the office--he'd play the Chimp video and crank the volume. It always guaranteed a laugh.
As we approach February, I thought it might be a good time to check the clearance section of the Sharper Image website thinking I could get this toy for a great price--like fifty bucks. No such luck. "Alive" Chimpanzee has left the building. However, it's still being sold on Ebay at the princely price of $160.00 which is too rich for my non-anthropoid blood.
Never one to give up on a good hunt, I've discovered that my Chimpanzee has already evolved---into a much cheesier and paler version of the original. WowWee is about to release their own chimp and boy is he ugly. The facial details are so bad that he looks like a Chimpanzee with a crack cocaine addiction. Where's the supple skin? Where are the beautifully detailed glass-like eyes that shine brightly and make you feel guilty for looking away? I encourage you to compare both Chimps to discover what I already know--there is simply no comparison!
I guess the weird thing about this Chimpanzee head is I can't see who would want something like this other than office folks like myself who simply enjoy a manic burst of laughter now and then. But what really fascinates me is how someone invented this toy in the first place. Were they going through the attic one day looking at their old toys and came across one of those Barbie Stylin' Heads from the 70's and thought, "Hmmm. What if we used a monkey instead of a human?"
But I guess in an age where Bratz are the new Barbie's and technology is invading every aspect of our lives, it's no wonder that companies are trying to catch the latest trend in the toy industry. What's surprising is that I still care...
Jan 22, 2006
Supply Planner's FAVORITE TV Commercial
I am a Supply Planner at Bose in Framingham. Most of my friends have no idea what I do and when I attempt to tell them in my own words that I "...translate the Sales and Operations Production Plan into a time phased supply plan while executing schedules in a manner that factors capacity constraints with working capital goals while lowering the product cost through efficient production so that product is available, on time, to meet Customer needs, fabrication needs, or internal needs..." they get all glassy-eyed and translate my job into this: Kim works for that company that makes that expensive Wave radio advertised alot in Parade magazine.
So this is why I LOVE the Nextel commercial shown here. In a nutshell, this is my job minus all the spreadsheets and analytical process. I make sure the products are available for the customers. Everytime this commercial comes on, I have to rewind it on the DVR and watch it at least two times. It is brilliant.
Jan 12, 2006
Two Buck Chuck
Tomorrow is indeed a special day for me, but it's not because it's my 36th birthday. My co-workers are taking me out to lunch to celebrate my birthday at Ruby Tuesdays and we're topping it off with a Two Buck Chuck run to Trader Joe's.
'Course they are quickly finding out that I must have been living in a cave all these years because I didn't have a clue as to what they were talking about. I know they picked the restaurant because there was a Trader Joe's next to it. They patiently explained to me that Charles Shaw wine is exclusively sold at Trader Joe's and the wine tastes really, really good. Some of them were just baffled that I had never heard of a Two Buck Chuck.
Have you?
Now I'm no drinker. If you opened up my cabinet, you'd see a big bottle of Midori and a newly acquired bottle of Anisette (Thank You Katie!!) along with a large bottle of Parrot Bay rum. That's about it. I don't like beer or champagne. I stick to what I know and wine is too complicated. I get weary of bottles that I can't just screw off or flip off with a bottle opener. Cork Screw? Forget it. I don't even think I own one of 'em. So I'm going to have to add one of those to my shopping cart tomorrow.
My co-workers tell me that it's not uncommon to just go into Trader Joe's and buy a whole case for $35.99. That's a boat load of wine for someone like me who gets a buzz-on from a wine cooler. I'm the kind of drinker that looks for the rebates on a 4-pack of Bartle and James....pathetic, I know.
In fact, to further drive home their suspicion that I've lived in a cave all these 36 years--did you know that a Roy Roger was the 'boy' version of a Shirley Temple? Seriously...who knew? I tried to defend myself by telling them that being an only child didn't allow for many social outings with boys who would want the masculine version of my ginger ale with grenadine juice.
But here's the thing. I made a mini-resolution that this would be the year for me to try new things and imagine possibilities...I think this Two Buck Chuck run is a great way for me to start off my 36th year.
Next on the agenda...my first hangover from a cheap bottle of Chuck.
Jan 2, 2006
He's MY Weatherman for LIFE!
At some point in December, Channel 7 (WHDH) decided to get rid of the amazing Todd Gross. He was their chief meteorolgist after old Harvey Leonard moved onto to greener pastures with Dickie Albert. I'm not sure why Todd was asked to leave, but regardless it was a huge mistake in my opinion.
The thing that I love about Todd (and I can call him that because I have an autographed picture of the man) is how he always was working astronomy into his forecasts. It wasn't enough for him to report on the next full moon--he encouraged his viewers to reach for the stars. He made it exciting to want to see a planet on a clear night rather than just looking up into the sky. (Did you know he was the guy who coined the phrase 'The Perfect Storm'? Yes, the very same Perfect Storm that inspired the Mark Wahlberg movie. OK-it was more George Clooney, but everyone who knows me knows I love my Marky Mark)
But here's the great news! He's back on his own terms with an evolving weather website for all of us living in New England. I implore you to tell your friends, family and co-workers about ToddGross.com.
If you're hard up like me and really want to support the guy, you can even join the Todd Gross Support Group hosted on Yahoo. I'm already a member! Not a big surprise there...
I've also subscribed to his RSS Feed so his daily forecasts will be posted on My Yahoo. Screw that annoying little chirpy Weatherbug application that will only clog up your computer. Say good-bye to any other weather websites out there. I don't know where the man is getting his weather models to do the forecasts, but he's doing it and I'm supporting his endeavors.
Might I also suggest you provide some viewer feedback via email to WHDH telling them what a HUGE mistake they made in letting him go? If enough crazies like me and you send emails, maybe we can get him back on the air. (Remember-The Family Guy came back)
You can also email Todd. Just remember that he might not be able to answer your email as it appears he's getting inundated with support which is fantastic news. Plus he's still involved in lots of technical weather discussions with people that are really, really into meteorology.
Just knowing that Todd's got my back is already making this a great 2006.


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I'm assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency's photo lab in Washington D.C. after graduating second in my class from the Naval School of Photography. Wife Diane and I take an apartment in Alexandra, Virginia. I'm hoping to ride out the Vietnam War at DIA. Washington D. C. is a vibrant city that seems to be at the center of the World. It's a sweet job, but mostly boring work at the giant black & white intelligence photo laboratory. Redbrick and factory-like, the ugly Cafritz Building hides military secrets behind guarded and vaulted doors. I need a Top Secret clearance to develop miles of look-alike aerial photographs a day in the unmarked, structure that sits about a half mile south of the Pentagon. Most of the civilian and military people at the agency's photography division are young married couples and we are having the time of our lives. Frank Scott, Bobby McGee, Jim Ingram, Joann Adams, Suggar Bugger (who is her own long story), Jeannie and Bart Clapsaddle, Ray and Elinor Burkett, Steve Humlicker, and Morris Perry are people I never forget. Elmer Blair, Major Newsome, Coronal Brown, lead a secretive and strange band of Air force photographic geniuses. They work in special parts of the lab and talk in whispered tones of their U-2 days with Gary Powers. There are rooms in the Cafritz building where I may not go--my clearance isn't high enough to enter. The spooks come and go from these vaults with code locks over the doors. One sergeant has a photographic memory, and is an expert on a top-secret machine that scans photographic negatives onto rolls of light sensitive paper. Who would want to leave D.C.?Read More
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In 2006, American traveler Blake Mycoskie befriended children in a village in Argentina and found they had no shoes to protect their feet. Wanting to help, he created TOMS®, a company that would match every pair of shoes purchased with a pair of new shoes given to a child in need. One for One.


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Anna Rose Pleated Blouse With Necklace - Magentahttps://www.klass.co.uk/Anna-Rose-Pleated-Blouse-With-Necklace-Magenta
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An Anna Rose blouse that will fit and flatter your figure. Designed in an all over printed magenta and white pleat fabric with short sleeves and button fastening throughout the front. Finished with a gorgeous silver coloured beaded necklace that completes the look, just team with smart or casual bottoms. Back length 63cms.
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SETTLE(redirected from spindle epithelial tumour with thymus like differentiation)
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Acronym for spindle epithelial tumor (q.v.) with thymuslike elements.
SETTLESpindle epithelial tumour with thymus like differentiation. Any of a rare family of tumours of the soft tissue of the neck and the thyroid gland that histologically resembles foetal, mature, or involuted thymus and mediastinal thymomas, and range from completely benign to metastasisingly malignant; SETTLE occurs in the thyroid gland of young patients.
Thymoma, synovial sarcoma.


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You don't have to eat Peeps to enjoy them. From decorations to toys and even jewelry, here are 20 festive ways to use Peeps beyond taking a bite.
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It's easy to save money by packing a sandwich for lunch...unless you have a gluten allergy. Use these recipe ideas to brown-bag it while avoiding gluten.
Stocking these affordable items will make your experience safe, bearable, and even fun.
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CRESTVIEW � Dad did several things well in the kitchen, including preparing the most important meal of the day.
CRESTVIEW � Dad did several things well in the kitchen, including preparing the most important meal of the day.
Encouraging a pair of young boys to eat his scrambled eggs and home friesneeded some marketing. The eggs, a scrumptious mix of saut�ed onions and sometimes green peppers, became �Indian eggs.�
Dad didn't go for any PC nonsense.
The home fries, which practically cook themselves with minimal outside interference, were naturally cowboy potatoes. I guess today they'd be cowperson potatoes.
Together the two met in peace on the Great Plains of our plates.
Dad's bacon didn't need a fancy name. What more can you do with bacon, after all?
As my brother, Evan, learned from neighbors in Tennessee, where he now lives, there's bacon crack, with brown sugar and mustard.
Appalachia meets the Wild West in this breakfast for a family of four.
Bacon Crack
1 pound thick-cut bacon
Approximately 1/4 cup brown sugar
Approximately 1 1/2 tablespoons Dijon or spicy brown mustard
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
Lay the bacon strips on a rack set in a shallow baking pan and cook in the oven about 10 minutes so some of the fat cooks out.
Mix the mustard and brown sugar in a small bowl to a sauce-like consistency. Spoon the sugar sauce over each slice of bacon.
Bake the bacon until floppy-crisp. Watch it so the sugar won't suddenly burn. When it's finished, immediately remove it and place on a serving platter. As the strips cool, they tend to glue themselves to the rack.
Cowboy Potatoes
6-8 large red potatoes
1 large white onion
Montreal steak seasoning to taste
1 tablespoon bacon drippings or olive oil
Peel the potatoes and onion, and then slice thin using a grater or a V-slicer. (If you use your V-slicer, for heaven's sake, use the hand guard. A visit to the emergency room is not the way to start your Fourth of July!)
In a skillet, melt the bacon drippings over medium-high heat. Toss the sliced potatoes and onions in the fat or olive oil. Season to taste, cover and cook on medium-low heat.
Periodically toss the contents with a spatula, allowing some of the pieces to brown. Cook until everything is tender.
Indian Eggs
6-8 large eggs
1 green pepper
1 medium or large onion
Approximately 1/3 cup whole milk, half-and-half or cream
Garlic powder to taste
Seasoned salt to taste
1 teaspoon olive oil
1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese
1 teaspoon bacon drippings
Check the bacon crack and the potatoes. They should be nearly ready.
Chop the onions and green peppers into quarter-inch bits. Put them in a microwave-safe bowl or measuring cup. Mix in the olive oil and coat all the bits. Microwave on high for 40 seconds and stir the veggies. If they are still too crisp, nuke 'em again for 20 seconds, but don't make them soggy. Set aside.
Break the eggs into a bowl, add the milk or cream, and beat with a fork until they are just combined. Don't make them frothy.
Melt bacon fat in a skillet. Saut�e the veggies for about a minute and pour them into the egg-and-milk mixture. Mix well. Keep stirring to assure the eggs cook evenly.
When you detect the eggs are starting to cook � it usually takes a minute or so � dump in the grated cheddar cheese and seasonings and stir until the eggs are just cooked.
As your kitchen helpers put the bacon crack on a platter and the cowboy potatoes into a serving bowl, scoop the eggs into a bowl and serve immediately.
Ensure the oven and stove are off, and then dig in.
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Canon Selphy DS700The iP4000's driver lets you quickly setup the printer by simply choosing the Media Type (Plain Paper, Photo Paper Pro, Photo Paper Plus Glossy, Photo Paper Plus Double Sided, Glossy Photo Paper, Matte Photo Paper, High Resolution Paper, T-Shirt Transfer, Transparency, Envelope or Other Photo Paper), the Paper Source (Paper Feed Switch, Auto Sheet Feeder, Cassette or Paper Allocation [if Paper Allocation is selected, the printer switches the paper feed automatically according to the settings that you manually enter]) and the Print Quality setting (High, Standard, Draft or Custom). The optimum Quality is automatically selected depending on the Media Type but you can manually select it using the Custom option. By default the driver is set for Auto color adjustment or that can be manually selected as well. The default options produce the best quality printouts at the fastest print speed. The "Grayscale Printing" box if checked will cause a color image to be printed in grayscale. The "Preview before printing" box will enable the Print Preview feature.
Clicking on the Custom button for Quality lets you manually select the printing speed from Fast to Fine. You can also select the desired Halftoning options. By default when using the Standard quality setting this slider is at the "3" position, the High quality setting is "2" and you can manually select "1" by clicking on the Custom button. The lower the number, the longer the print time -- but on this printer even printing with the "1" setting was incredibly fast.
Clicking on the Manual button for Color Correction lets you manually adjust the individual colors as well as the intensity. Here you can enable/disable ICM color matching and select a Print Type (Auto, Photo, Graphic, None) and Brightness (Light, Normal, Dark) setting.
Clicking on the Print Advisor button brings up this screen. It's kind of a built in FAQ to educate you on what settings are best for what media and etc.
The Page Layout options let you select the Page Size (see below), Orientation (portrait or landscape), Printing Type (normal-size, fit-to-page, scaled, page layout printing, poster, banner), borderless printing with an adjustable amount of extension, duplex printing, number of copies, printing order and collate options.Available Page Size choices - Custom allows up to 23.39" length.
The Stamp/Background page lets you select an overlay stamp to print on your pages. Choose from Draft, Important, Confidential, Secret or define your own. You may also select a background image.
The Effects page lets turns your photo into a simulated color illustration, slide the lever to increase or decrease the effect. You can also create a monochrome effect like Sepia, Pink, Blue, Green or select a custom color. The Vivid Photo option enhances the green and blue colors and contrast and may be too much for some images. You can also enable or disable the Image Optimizer or Photo Optimizer PRO enhancements which help produce better enlargements from lower resolution images. The Photo Noise Reduction option helps reduce speckle noise often found in blue areas such as the sky. It has two settings: Normal and Strong.
The Profiles page lets you load, create or save custom sets of printer parameters for the type of printing jobs that you do frequently.
The Maintenance page lets you clean the print heads with options for a regular cleaning cycle or a "deep" cleaning cycle for really clogged heads. Because of the lower paper cassette, the iP4000 also has a Bottom Plate Cleaning option. There is also an option for aligning the heads or checking the print nozzles. You can also set the Auto Power Off time, Custom Settings and the Quiet Mode. From here you can also start the Status Monitor (see next frame.)
The Status Monitor shows you visibly the level of ink in each of the ink tanks. When one of the tanks is low the Status Monitor will pop-up to alert you. The low tank(s) will have a yellow exclamation mark over it to let you know that it needs to be replaced soon. The ink warning first comes on when there is still some ink remaining so you won't run out in the middle of a printout and waste a sheet of costly photo paper. The Status Monitor is an animated window, the paper will be shown coming from the lower cassette (as shown here) or from the top auto sheet feeder if selected.
Here's what a "low" ink tank looks like. The chamber on the left side is full of ink when the tank is new. As you can see it drained the left chamber completely and the foam-filled side that feeds the head is half empty. Unlike those opaque Epson and HP cartridges, you can actually see the ink level thanks to the use of clear plastic


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A while ago professor Martin Terry, a botanist at Sul Ross University in Alpine, Texas and the authority on Lophophora, appeared on the Cultural Baggage radio show talking about the peyote cactus. Below you find excerpts from the transcript of this very informative radio program.
Asked by the interviewer, Dean Becker, if it is fair to say that the US peyote populations are becoming almost extinct professor Terry replied:
You're heading in the right direction but I'd like to make a couple of tweaks in the way the situation is described. It's basically, peyote is not considered an endangered species, yet. It's a very patchy situation. In other words, on those large ranches with ten foot fences around them to keep deer in, trophy deer, which is their main business and to keep people out, on those ranches where there's no harvesting going on of the peyote, the populations are quite healthy.
There's plenty of peyote there and they're nice mature adults but once you get outside of that subset of large protected ranches then you find, everywhere where the licensed peyote distributors have access, there the populations are being hammered. And it's essentially a problem of too frequent collecting to maintain sustainability.
Dean Becker: Kind of like the way they're getting all the fish out of the ocean.
Professor Terry: Very much so. They're just going back to harvest before adequate reproduction and growth has replaced those ones that they harvested last time. That's a very good analogy, the one to the over-harvesting of the oceans.
Terry then goes on to discuss who are allowed to legally harvest peyote:
There are three DEA registered distributors of peyote who have a license, which they pay a license fee for, to send their people out to harvest peyote which then, they will sell to members of the Native American Church who have their papers to show that they're bona-fide Native Americans who are going to use the peyote in their religious ceremonies.
But that's not the only way that peyote gets harvested. There's nothing in the laws to prevent a duly registered Native American tribe member, member of the church, to make a contract with a landowner directly so that, in that situation, the licensed distributors are not involved. That never gets accounted for and we have to assume that's a sizable number of peyote plants that get harvested that way. And that never gets accounted for in the official statistics on peyote numbers and peyote sales.
Terry also elaborates on the growing scarcity of land areas accessible to peyoteros and other harvesters and the effect it has on the availability and price of peyote:
[...] there's been a change in land tenure over the past few decades. Whereas if you looked at the people who owned most of the land, say in the 1950s, you would have found that most of the people who owned the land were actually living on the land and were making a living from ranching. That is no longer the case. Now much of the land in South Texas, at least the larger tracts, are owned by people who have the money to afford such tracts now, which means they're not living in South Texas.
They're living in Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio where the money is made. Their primary interest is to use these tracts for the hunting of trophy deer. And that's how they make any income, any real income that they make. Cattle would be only for the tax exemption. The people like that are not going to be at all interested in allowing unknown people to be coming onto their land to harvest the peyote there for a few hundred dollars a year. I mean, that's absurd. That's totally uninteresting to the new landowners.
[...] if you look at what's been happening to the [peyote] sales over the last twenty years, and these are public figures, they are readily available, you see that the number of peyote buttons harvested by the distributors and their agents has fluctuated over the last twenty years.
It went up over two million buttons a year during, let's say the early 1990s, and then came down again. And now it's as low as it's been historically. It's down right around a million and a half buttons per year but the price, the total sales in dollars for those million and half buttons, it's just under $500,000. So that comes out to, yeah, a little over thirty cents a button.
Peyote is still too cheap when acquired through legal channels and that's one of the problems when you get to the field because the guys who go out to harvest for the licensed distributors, they're just interested in beer money and they will harvest these things in a willy-nilly way, not taking care at all because what are they going to get?
They're maybe get ten or fifteen cents when they sell the buttons to the licensed distributor who 'employs' them. And so they don't have anything invested in taking care of the peyote crop. It's cheap, it's just beer money, they want to harvest them as fast as they can, sell them and go buy their beer.
Dean Becker: Yeah. The point being that if it's done carefully, leaving the root, that the plant can in fact grow back, right?
Professor Terry: It can indeed. Now, to what extent that happens is a very live question. If you talk to people who have a vested interest in the peyote trade then they'll say 'Oh yeah, you cut the top off and in two years you've got another harvestable plant.' That's a gross exaggeration. You cut the top off and, first of all, you don't know what percentage of the plants are actually going to survive that decapitation. And it's weather dependent.
If people come along and harvest a ranch and leave the cut tops exposed and then you have this big rain you can get a lot of infection in those plants and they'll just die. They're not going to produce anything ever again. So that's one factor.
On the re-growth side, even those that do re-grow I dare say, from what I can gather as a botanist, you're not likely to see a harvestable button until about five years after the first harvest. So that re-growth, two things are happening. First of all, they're going to be smaller stems that grow back from the once harvested plant and secondly, it's going to take a long time for them to get to harvestable size.
And the fact that people are coming back after two years to re-harvest again they've got to be harvesting buttons that are much smaller than the average adult size. And this is one of the things that you see in that marketplace. You see that there's been a constant decrease in the size of buttons, certainly, over the past ten to fifteen years.
And so now, even though the price hasn't gone up dramatically, it's gone up sort of linearly and quite slowly, but if you figure in the fact that the buttons that are costing thirty cents apiece are perhaps one fifth to one tenth of the weight of what the buttons used to be at, say, when they were ten cents apiece...the price has gone up astronomically.
Dean Becker and Martin Terry discuss several other interesting issues including proposals for supplying the Native American Church with sufficient amounts of peyote. These proposals range from increasing the rate of peyote production in situ (by fertilizing natural populations) over greenhouse cultivation to whether the importation of peyote from Mexico is a feasible solution to the problems of the Native American Church of North America (Terry says no, it would basically just extend the problem with over-harvesting from Texas into Mexico).
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Chocolate Almond Butter Cups
Chocolate Almond Butter Cups
1 Packet (250g) Bittersweet Chocolate Chips
A Pinch Of Sea Salt
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
1 Cup Chocolate Almond Butter (or Creamy Peanut Butter)
1-Cup Brown Rice Crisp (or Rice Krispies)
24 Mini Cupcake Liners
A small pastry brush
A teaspoon
Melt the chocolate chips in a microwave on high for about 1 to 1 ½ minutes. Remove, mix in the sea salt and vanilla extract, and stir until smooth.
Brush the cupcake liners with the melted chocolate, and make sure the bottoms and sides have a thick coating. Chill the chocolate-coated liners in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes.
Melt the chocolate almond butter in the microwave on high for about 1 to 1 ½ minutes. Remove, and stir in the rise crisp until well combine.
Fill the chilled chocolate shells with rice crisp mixture, smooth it with the back of a teaspoon. Then spread the top with the remaining melted chocolate. Refrigerate the chocolate almond butter cups for another hour before serving.
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A Hodge Podge of Number 2 Ray's Moments in 2008
I was sitting at the computer this morning trying to pick out a second possible winning moment in 2008 for the Rays when it dawned on me that there are too many to even count. So I have decided to instead list all the important events, as per my opinion, that have made 2008 so great for Rays fans. I mean I truly sat there after deciding on number 3 yesterday, and decided that one was the easiest pick of the bunch.
If you get to go to the big show, it has to be a top 3 moment in your team's flight that season. There are a huge bunch of moments that helped define 2008 for the Rays. Be it a event in 2007 at shaped the look and feel of the franchise again, or the elimination of a curse in another stadium that served as a mental block to the team. 2008 was the Year of the Ray, and it is one I am glad I got a front row seat for all year long.
I decided to run this in chronological order from the first event in 2007, up until the final out in Game 5.5 of the 2008 World Series.
So let's begin with the first order of business way back in November 2007, when the Rays held a rally in Straub Park near the waterfront in St. Petersburg, Florida. The event was the unveiling of the teams new logo and colors. The Uniforms were fashioned to represent the old style of baseball with a new Rays logo on both the home and away jerseys. The "R" on the uniform front posed a new sweeping motion for the bottom of the letter, plus the sunburst between the lettering also brought about a new look and feel to the organization.
The ray of light was a new focal point of the team, which abandoned the former Ray on the cap and also on the team's official logo. But the Rays did get to stay for 2008 on the sleeve of the jersey, but might be retired in 2009. The event was to showcase the new look and feel of the team. And with it came a new spirit of winning and posting new attitudes for the team. And one of baseball's biggest supporters came out and celebrated with us. Kevin Costner and his band, Modern West came out and entertained the masses after the unveiling and rocked the house all the way up to the fireworks display.
Then came the last Spring Training reporting for the pitchers' and catchers' to the Ray Namoli Complex in Northwest St Petersburg. The team came out onto the field and Rays Manager Joe Maddon had a small speech in which he wanted to stress fundamentals and team work and chemistry in 2008. That was the day he unveiled his famous "9 =8 " formula for the world to decipher for the rest of the season.
Then came the first event that molded and formed this band of players into friends and bonded them for the rest of the year. In the day prior to this event, the Rays Elliott Johnson had made a hard charge into Yankees' minor league catcher, Francisco Cervelli a few days earlier. The event did not sit well with the Yankees' staff and during the March 12th rematch at Progress Energy Field, Yankees enforcer Shelly Duncan decided to take matters into his own hands.
Duncan was hustling on a hit into the outfield when he turned and made a move towards second base. It was apparent to almost everyone but Duncan that he would not be able to make it to the base in time to beat the throw. During his slide, Duncan brought his cleats up towards Akinora Iwamura and struck him mid-thigh with his metal cleats. Duncan came up immediately and contested the action before right fielder Jonny Gomes came into the action and leveled Duncan to the ground. It was an event that brought the team together for the first time in 2008.
Then two weeks later, the Rays said farewell to their present Spring Training home when the team played it's last game at Progress Energy Field ( Al Lang Field, Waterfront Park). The game was met with sadness and joy because of the memories of teams playing on these grounds since the 1940's in this present stadium. The event also was a visual point for the team to showcase the new proposed stadium that might some day rise on the same grounds.
Or could moments like Eric Hinske missing a cycle by a single. It is amazing to me that he went 3-4 on the night and got his triple and homer early in the contest at the Walt Disney complex, but could not get that elusive single. Hinske ended up being one of the true bright spots for the Rays in the Free Agent market. He signed for a low number, but produced high energy and some pretty impressive offensive displays during the 2008 season.
Then we have the first sweep of the Boston Red Sox at home this season. That would only be the icing on the cake as the Rays would send the Red Sox faithful home as losers in 8 of the 9 games at the Trop this year. The first series at the Trop. would end with a hard fought 3-0 shutout by James Shields.
Then comes the moment where Rays Manager Joe Maddon thinks the Rays season began to turn into its championship run. It was during a road trip up to Toronto when the Rays battled back from a possible loss. Edwin Jackson left the 8th inning with a Ray lead before Troy Percival gave up 4 straight singles to let the Jays tie the game at 3-all. The teams battled back and forth before Dioner Navarro, who went 3-6 on the day hit a screamer into the stands for a Grand Slam homer and sealed the victory for the Rays.
On May 13th the Rays got to celebrate for the first time in club history as the team officially took over first place in the American League East. It was the latest point in any Rays season that the team had enjoyed the top spot. The game produced one of the first moments in the Rays 2008 history for celebrations when pinch runner Jonny Gomes came on for Cliff Floyd after he singled in the bottom of the 11th inning. Gomes stole second, then sprinted home to seal the victory for the Rays 2-1.
Then came the L A Angels first visit to Tropicana Field, and the Rays shut them down to also sweep that series. Then came in the mighty Chicago Cubs for a three game Inter-League series that was deemed by many to be a possible World Series matchup. During this series, the Rays finally began to get some national exposure for maybe being a true team that could win it all in 2008.
But not until after the June 19th game, in which Carl Crawford hit a grand slam to propel the Rays. The team had officially beat the best team in baseball all three games did the national media begin to get on the Rays bandwagon. Cub's Manager Lou Pinella commended the Rays on their young squad, and you could see a small twinkle in his eye that he approved of the young team getting the best of his team that series.
On June 27th, Rays starter Matt Garza was on the mound in a game against the Florida Marlins and gave up a blast to Hanley Ramirez in the 7th inning to produce the only hit and run in the contest. Garza went on to shut down the Marlins' offense the rest of the game.
According to the Elias Baseball Bureau, It was the first complete-game no-hitter or one-hitter with a double-digit strikeout total in the majors this season. There was only one such pitching performance in each of the last three seasons: by Chris Carpenter in 2005, John Lackey in 2006 and Justin Verlander in 2007.
On July 19th, the Rays won their first game back after the All Star break to break the team's longest losing streak of the season. With the Blue Jays in town for a weekend series, the Rays went on to break up a perfectly good pitchers' duel on a Ben Zobrist homer on the first pitch he saw tonight. Toronto starter A J Burnett was on tonight, but the Rays caught a huge break on a hanging breaking pitch to Zobrist for the victory.
While the Rays were at home on August 30th they got to celebrate a first in Rays history. With the 14-3 win over the Baltimore Orioles, the Rays posted their 82nd win of the season. Marking the first time in franchise history they were guaranteed a winning season. It also marked the night of Scott Kazmir's 10th victory of the year.
The mystic of Fenway Park was beginning to get the better of the Rays in 2008 before Scott Kazmir took the mound on September 10th in a series the team needed to keep their lead on the Boston Red Sox. It also began one of the most storied moments in Rays history. During the contest the Rays batters went a combined 1-15 with men in scoring position and almost gave the game to the Red Sox several times. As the team fought back and forth before the Rays sent up a pinch hitter in the bottom of the 9th inning.
Dan Johnson had been summed from the Durham Bulls earlier in the day and would have started in left field if he had gotten to the ball park a little earlier in the night. But because of flight problems and transportation to Fenway Park, he arrived just moments before the game. In the 9th inning, Rays Manager Joe Maddon inserted Johnson into the game to pinch hit against Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon. Johnson worked the count to 3-2 before he hit a monster shot that cleared the right center field wall to give the Rays a 5-4 lead in the game. Jason Hammel ended up coming out in the bottom of the 9th and secured the win for the Rays. It was Hammel's first save of his career.
With the team away for their last series, it was actually the next day when most Rays fans learned that we had secured the American League East title the previous night in Detroit. With the Rays in Motown for the last series, many players came back to the clubhouse to celebrate into the wee hours of the morning. It was a wild fact, but players and staff went to area hotels sports bars to do a bit of scoreboard watching as the New York Yankees needed to lose for the Rays to be awarded their first title in team history.
After the hard fought season, the Rays staged a airport greeting for the team at St. Petersburg/Clearwater airport on September 29th. The event was attended by almost 5,000 people who flocked into the baggage area and loading zones to greet and cheer the team as they got off their chartered flight from Detroit. People filled the airport and also the outer traffic lanes of the airport to see their new champions come in from their road trip.
On October 6th, the Rays were in Chicago facing the White Sox when they secured their first series win in the American League Divisional series. The Rays won the series 3-1, and established that they were the team to beat to get to the World Series in the American League. In that series, the Rays battled back time and time again against the tough White Sox pitching staff before finally breaking through and getting right breaks.
When the Rays faced the Philadelphia Phillies on October 23rd, they sent James "Big Game" Shields to the mound. The game showed the waking up of B J Upton and Carlos Pena at the plate as both help produce much needed offense for the Rays. In a play featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated, Rocco Baldelli came across the plate for an apparent Rays run, but Phillies catcher Carlos Ruiz held onto the ball.
The game came down to great situational hitting by the Rays. B J Upton scored Akinora Iwamura from third to plate the first run for the Rays. In the 4th inning, the Rays took a hold of the game after Cliff Floyd hit a single and Dioner Navarro hit a nice liner up the middle to put two men on base for the Rays. Baldelli then hit a nice shot down the third baseline, but it was gloved by Feliz and the Rays had men on the corners. Jason Bartlett then came up and executed a safety squeeze perfectly in front of Phillies starter Brett Myers to put the Rays up 4-0. It would be the Rays first victory in the Fall classic.
Last, but not least is the Game 5.5 as I call it of the 2008 World Series. No matter what happened in this game, the historical significance was more pressing at the moment. The contest was a hard fought contest and each team traded runs and hits before the Phillies finally walked away with their second World Series Championship.
The game was a true test of everything that got the Rays here in 2008. The Bullpen, which was the team's focal point in 2008 had finally given up a run at the most critical moment in the contest. And the Rays offense could not close the gap when needed during their last at bats. with Eric Hinske striking out for the last out of the game.
All of these events made a different focal point for the Rays in 2008. I hope a few of your fond memories have graced the blog. If I forgot a moment that you found remarkable in 2008, please feel free to comment on the blog and I will check into it and might even make it my number 1 choice tomorrow. Again thank you to all the readers of Rays Renegade for their insights, comments ans readership in 2008.
Hopefully in 2009, I will have more outstanding Rays moments to record for you.


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A police pursuit that started in the San Fernando Valley lasted about 30 minutes Wednesday before the California Highway Patrol was able to spin an SUV to a stop and take the driver into custody.
Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department Van Nuys Division began pursuing an allegedly stolen 1993 blue Nissan Pathfinder at 10:11 a.m. near the intersection of Van Nuys and Magnolia boulevards, according to police.
Police were initially able to locate the SUV because it was equipped with LoJack, a stolen vehicle locating service, police said.
The majority of the pursuit -- which reached estimated speeds of 85 mph -- was limited to freeways. The driver took the 405 Freeway northbound to the westbound 118, exited at Tampa Avenue and then returned to the freeway eastbound.
By 10:30 a.m., the vehicle was traveling southbound on the 405 Freeway near Sherman Way.
Shortly before 10:40 a.m., aerial video showed the driver throwing something out of the SUV.
At 10:43 a.m., the driver took the Olympic/Pico exit. At the end of the off-ramp at the intersection of Sawtelle Boulevard and Tennessee Avenue, a CHP officer performed a PIT maneuver, spinning the SUV around.
The driver was ordered out of the car and taken into custody.
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TV's favorite former lifeguard and inexplicably popular German pop star David Hasselhoff was roasted on Comedy Central, but everyone came out burned.
"How do you make jokes about a joke? How do you embarrass a man who so thoroughly embarrasses himself?" said Roast master and "Family Guy" creator, Seth MacFarlane. "How do you put someone down when they are already lying shirtless on the floor?"
Roaster Jeffrey Ross, pounded the "Knight Rider" over his excessive drinking, which gained him some unwelcome publicity several years ago after a video surfaced on YouTube of an inebriated Hasselhoff eating a cheeseburger off the ground.
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"I'm so relieved you're wearing a shirt tonight because it will be so much easier than picking the vomit out of your chest hair later," Ross said.
Hasselhoff's former "Baywatch" co-star Pam Anderson got in on the fun, mocking her friend's abilities as a thespian.
"I remember how nervous I was on my first day of 'Baywatch' - because I can't swim. But David was so sweet - he pulled me aside and said 'Don't worry, I can't act.'"
Though Hasselhoff took the bulk of the abuse, other presenters took some heat as well. Comedian Greg Giraldo ribbed presenter Hulk Hogan over his recent divorce.
"I can't imagine why your wife left you. You're an old man who dresses like a Hooters waitress," he said.
Despite the sharp barbs, Hasselhoff enjoyed the night because he's learned to take his past mistakes in stride.
"It's what keep us alive, it's absolutely the thing that makes you live a long and fantastic life and it's proven. It's fun to make fun of yourself, it's always fun to enjoy life and not to take things seriously. Tonight I'm sharing my fun, my life, my past. I'm honored to still be here and I'm honored to be able to laugh at myself," he said.
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Katy Perry plans to have her own record label
Katy Perry's admitted that her breakup with ex-hubby Russell Brand was so devastating there were times she struggled to hold it together professionally.
In a recent interview with the Hollywood Reporter, the pop phenomenon said that when her relationship to the British actor/comedian really hit the skids, she had to stop herself from breaking down onstage.
"What was going on in my personal life was so overwhelming that I had to bend over to let those tears fall straight out of my eye sockets and not my false lashes just as I'm about to go up on that ramp and sing 'Teenage Dream,' " Perry said of that period, which was captured in a pivotal scene in her upcoming concert movie, "Katy Perry: Part of Me."
"I had to smack myself across the face and say, 'These problems are my problems, they are not my audience's problems - learn to separate that.'"
That work ethic has made Perry into one of the wealthiest singers around: according to THR, she made more than $44 million last year courtesy of her best-selling album, movie projects and sold-out tour. According to Billboard BoxScore, her "California Dreams" trek came in just behind the Eagles (and ahead of Lil' Wayne) as one of the most profitable of 2011.
And look for Perry's pockets to deepen even more due to the award-winning singer/songwriter's plans to launch her very own record label.
"I'm preparing for it now," she told THR about her untitled pending imprint. "And when this record label does come to fruition, I'm going to try and avoid the things that take away any fighting chance for an artist to have financial success. As people are coming to me with opportunities, I'm thinking, 'How would I want to be treated?' "
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