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Today is the Key Ingredients Blog Hop, and also a challenge for our subscribers to use their March kits as well!! The theme for March is "Spring into Organization", and I can admit...I racked my brain thinking of something to do for this. Then I thought...."how perfect would it be to create little tags that go into my card storage bins to let me know where each theme begins? It will be so much easier to find cards that I am looking for!" And this is what I came up with:
All of the product besides the pen came from the March Key Ingredients kit!! I chose to use my handwriting, but you could always print your different sections onto a sheet of patterned paper and then cut out the little banners as shown.
Don't forget that we do a subscriber challenge now as well!!
And be sure to check out what the rest of the Key Ingredients design team have created for this fun blog hop!!
Until later,
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August 30, 2018, 8:15 AM - 9:00 AM @ Sammons Community Center
Take that morning routine up a notch! Get your heart pumping and oxygen flowing. Easy to follow senior aerobic and fitness workout program for active senior adults ages 55 and over. Aerobic exercise can help build endurance and stamina. Cool down exercises completed this well-rounded workout. Movements can be performed standing or sitting; adaptable for all levels of mobility.
August 30, 2018, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM @ Sammons Community Center
Get Fit, Stay Fit! Join our energized instructor in this low-impact, core-strengthening program designed to improve balance, flexibility, coordination, and range of motion. This long-running fitness program uses light hand weights and elastic bands to strengthen the body and focus on functional fitness. Stretching exercises complete this well rounded workout. Adaptable for all levels of mobility.
August 30, 2018, 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM @ Sammons Community Center
Namaste! Lift your spirits and lower your stress levels as you achieve the physical and mental benefits of Hatha yoga. Enjoy simple, easy-to-follow movements in a soothing atmosphere. Yoga improves every part of the body; stretching and toning muscles and improving flexibility of the spine and joints and keeps the mind active and alert. Chair-friendly for those with limited mobility.
August 30, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM @ Sammons Community Center
Pushed for time at lunch, but want to get in some exercise? Why not bring a sack lunch to enjoy with Lynn and the gang before returning to work. Enjoy great tunes in a relaxed, fun atmosphere. Learn some popular line dances and impress your friends at one of our bi-weekly country dances.
August 30, 2018, 7:30 AM @ Third Floor Conference Room
August 30, 2018, 7:00 AM - 12:00 PM @ West Temple Park located off W. Adams Ave. behind Temple Fire Station #7
Wonderful fruits, vegetables, tastes, and smells await at the Temple Farmer's Market! On Tuesday, May 22nd , the Temple Farmer's Market will open for the season in West Temple Park (121 Montpark Road) located off West Adams behind Temple Fire Station #7. The market will operate every Tuesday and Thursday from 7:00 a.m. – Noon, throughout the summer. For more information on the Farmer's Market or to become a vendor, please call Mary Coppin at 254-778-2104.


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If anyone – anyone at all – can better Apple at building devices that people want to use, it is LG, the South Korean electronics giant, who more and more, prove themselves up to the task. LG are innovative. They are full of clever designers. When I sat with them in an informal Q&A last year about upcoming iPhone-killer smart phones, it was obvious they 'got it'. The problem I see with the iPad is that it is just so ungraceful; you can't type on it, you can't create on it – you can't do aught but consume media. That is the iPad's problem. Android will fix all that and LG will magically wave the form factor away. Combined with Android's wealth of productivity , its smooth, fragmentation-free hardware glut, and its simplicity will show Apple who is boss – that is, if LG can help them out.
If you've ever owned an LG phone, or read through an LG manual; if you've enjoyed their incredible style and poise in the marketplace, you know what I'm talking about. LG, if anyone can better than iPad, it is you, the Yoda of electronics.
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By Cris Carl, Hometalk
Having a clogged sink begs the old chestnut about an ounce of prevention being worth a pound of cure. There are a lot of things that should never go down a drain, especially if you have a septic system. To avoid clogs to begin with, you have to avoid allowing food particles, grease, and hair from going down the drain. It's helpful to have a small piece of wire mesh over your drains to catch food or hair particles. Just be sure to clean the mesh regularly or it will start to smell.
Now, for a dose of reality, no one is perfect. We have a lazy moment, or the kids are washing the dishes and aren't paying attention, or we get too busy to notice all that hair in the tub. Sooner or later, you'll end of with a clogged drain.
I have two drains that tend to clog more often in my house, the tub and the laundry sink. The tub drain gets clogged with hair and body care products. My washing machine drains via a plastic pipe into a laundry sink so fibers and lint build up in the drain.
The problem with commercial drain cleaners is they corrode pipes, are bad for septic systems, are toxic to ground water, and they can damage the materials that your sink or tub are made of. I recently had to change the drain and fixtures on my bathroom sink due to corrosion from commercial cleaners. After that experience, I decided to try non-toxic and far less corrosive methods for clearing pipes.
Before you try a DIY drain cleaner
It's best to remember to use your DIY drain cleaners routinely before the clogs happen. When you are trying a DIY drain cleaner, it will likely take longer than a commercial drain cleaner. You also may need to repeat your efforts more than once. Many DIY drain cleaners will take up to an hour to work.
Just like in the Heimlich maneuver, look first to see if you can actually see the clog. It's not a fun task, but put on your rubber gloves and dig the hair and goop out first. You may also want to try plunging the drain and running hot water alternately a couple of times. If the clog is minor, that may be all you need to do.
Baking soda, the top DIY drain cleaner
The most commonly used DIY drain cleaner is using one cup of baking soda and one cup of cider vinegar. The intense foaming action, followed by running plenty of hot water, is good routine maintenance. I have to admit I was surprised the first time I saw the drain pop open after trying this. The tub drain was still pretty slow, so I repeated the method.


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If there were a case for getting that second (or third…or fourth) piercing in our ears, Pamela Love would be the one to make it. Featuring everything from to-die-for earrings to massive arm cuffs and rad tribal bibs, the line we consistently crush on continues to evolve, this time, with a cool and earthy fall vibe we can't wait to get our hands (and arms and necks and lobes) on.
Though we're equally obsessed with every earring, bracelet, and necklace in the collection, the single and double-finger rings with turquoise bullets are seriously calling out to us — just enough color to amuse, but not so much that they'll feel alienated from our signature accessory parties.
Of coures, our Pamela Love obsession (and the tattoo-covered beauty behind the brand) is nothing new. This is the woman who enlightened us on the beauty of the messy ponytail and gave us the coolest free temporary tattoos, proving she's not only a jeweler with a cult following but also an all-around style icon. This latest lookbook just continues to proves our point. Click through if you don't believe us. Or, even if you do.
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''Our Art Is Not Politicised''
The members of Khoury Trio have developed a new style of music that is entirely their own. They love to experiment, creating soundscapes that open the senses, compositions that are permeated by oriental sounds yet are in harmony with contemporary music. Although the trio's music contains an entire gamut of timbres, it remains rooted in its oriental heritage and maintains its spiritual links to oriental art music. Based on traditional themes, the three Khoury brothers provide a whole new insight into Middle Eastern music with their improvisations and compositions.
You are Palestinians and grew up in Jordan. Do your roots play a role in your music?
Elia Khoury: We are Palestinians, but we have never seen our country. It is only 80 km from Amman – where we grew up and where our family lives – to Jerusalem. For me, however, it is easier to fly to Australia than it is to travel to Jerusalem. It is our cultural and social responsibility to show that we exist as Palestinians.
We now consider ourselves to be citizens of the world. It no longer matters where we are right now. The main thing is that we are giving something and are staying creative. Our art is not politicised. But the fact that we, as Palestinians, can offer people music is wonderful. That is our message.
When did you three start making music together as a trio?
Elia Khoury: The Khoury Trio developed at home, without us actually being aware of it. It just evolved that way. We are three brothers and we grew up with music. We began to learn music one after the other. I learned first, then came Basil, then Osama. Our interest in music developed at an early age. Our family home was a liberal one, and this atmosphere left its mark on us.
So your parents had nothing against the fact that you all became professional musicians?
Osama Khoury: Our parents supported us and encouraged us to learn music. They were always very interested in culture. They are our "official sponsors". Maybe they thought: we've got three boys at home, we have to keep them busy so that they don't get up to any monkey business.
Did you attend a school of music?
Basil Khoury: All three of us studied music at the conservatory in Amman. I began to learn violin at the age of five. I also learned to play the drums at the same time. But I later decided to focus on the violin. I attended master classes in France and in the USA and played in Barenboim's West-Eastern Divan in 2004. I learned a lot from him. I took lessons from him in the master class and attended a lot of his workshops.
Elia Khoury: I started out learning the oud at the conservatory in Amman. My teacher was the great master oud player Munir Bashir. I also learned cello at the same time. Munir Bashir's concept was always that one should learn two instruments – one western, one oriental – so that one would be open to Western music. I later got a scholarship and went to Istanbul, where I continued my studies with a Turkish teacher and wrote a dissertation on the Turkish and Arab schools of oud playing.
We are influenced by the Iraqi, Egyptian, Syrian and Turkish classical schools, but we try to develop our own musical style. All three of us are always searching and we love to experiment.
Later all three of you went to Paris. Why did you choose France?
Osama Khoury: We began with classical oriental music because we wanted to consolidate our oriental identity. But we went to France to learn even more, to continue expanding our knowledge of music. For us, Paris is the most important European city for oriental music. We have more opportunities here to meet musicians from all over the world. That is not possible in Jordan.
Do you work well together as brothers? After all, you are always together; you even live together.
Osama Khoury: There is always a lot of excitement when we work together; we often fight, even at a personal level; that's par for the course for brothers. We work well together as brothers, but sometimes it is strenuous too. But at the same time, we ultimately create something beautiful. Brothers fight with wooden swords, and wooden swords might hurt, but they don't kill. We breathe as one. Everyone does everything; there is no division of labour. We have reached the stage where we hardly need to speak to each other during a concert. We communicate with each other through glances. Each of us knows the other so well that he knows what the other wants.
You say that you all do everything. How do you compose together?
Elia Khoury: Sometimes one of us comes up with a musical idea. We then start to practice, and later on the idea develops into a musical piece to which each of us has contributed. Every piece has its own history. We don't have a specific approach to composition. We work together. Sometimes a new idea emerges during rehearsals.
How would you define your music?
Osama Khoury: Our music really can't be pigeon-holed. It is simply the music of Khoury Trio, a fusion of Middle Eastern music with a lot of elements from flamenco, jazz, and many other sources.
At the same time, it has a marked oriental style because we come from the region ourselves. Because all three of us studied western and oriental musical instruments, our heads are full of western and oriental melodies. Both kinds of music come together in us and what emerges is a completely independent, new kind of music.
You sometimes perform with European musicians. Are they in a position to immerse themselves in the oriental atmosphere of the music?
Osama Khoury: Yes, but they have to be open to other music cultures. We are currently performing with the French double bass player Guillaume Robert. His roots are in jazz, but he plays with a variety of Roma ensembles from all over eastern Europe. He has an open ear for the music of other cultures and, therefore, for oriental culture too. That makes it easier to work with him. There is a common denominator between the music of the Middle East and jazz. In both, there is a lot of room for individuality and improvisation, whether it is during a solo or when playing together.
Unlike European music, Arab music does not rely completely on notes. It is heterophonic. Do European musicians need to have everything noted down?
Elia Khoury: When we work with other musicians, we look for musicians with a different musical background. It is not about only being able to play off the sheet. We have to find a common basis. On stage there is a common love between us and the audience. The energy that comes from the audience influences our performance. The pieces that we play change depending on how we feel at that moment. That is the tradition of Arab music that we have developed so that it fits into the age in which we live.
Interview: Suleman Taufiq
© Qantara.de
Translated from the German by Aingeal Flanagan
Editor: Lewis Gropp/Qantara.de


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An Indian taxi driver told me about this movie, but I forgot the movie name
I found the plot to be very interesting. It is an Indian movie, about someone who report his well being stolen. The entire village being bribed to confirm that this guy had a well but lost it in the following morning.
I would like to watch it but can't find any clue from Google.
What is the name of this movie?


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On his first day in Huntington, W. Va., Jamie Oliver spent the afternoon at Hillbilly Hot Dogs, pitching in to cook its signature 15-pound burger. That's 10 pounds of meat, 5 pounds of custom-made bun, American cheese, tomatoes, onions, pickles, ketchup, mustard and mayo. Then he learned how to perfect the Home Wrecker, the eatery's famous 15-inch, one-pound hot dog (boil first, then grill in butter). For the Home Wrecker Challenge, the dog gets 11 toppings, including chili sauce, jalapeños, liquid nacho cheese and coleslaw. Finish it in 12 minutes or less and you get a T-shirt.
So much for local color. Earlier that day, Oliver met with a pediatrician, James Bailes, and a pastor, Steve Willis. Bailes told him about an 8-year-old patient who was 80 pounds overweight and had developed Type 2 diabetes. If the child's diet didn't change, the doctor said, he wouldn't live to see 30. Willis told Oliver that he visits patients in local hospitals several days a week and sees the effects of long-term obesity firsthand. Since he can't write a prescription for their resulting illnesses, he said, all he can do is pray with them.
Last year, an Associated Press article designated the Huntington-Ashland metropolitan area as the unhealthiest in America, based on its analysis of data collected in 2006 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nearly half the adults in these five counties (two in West Virginia, two in Kentucky and one in Ohio) were obese, and the area led the nation in the incidence of heart disease and diabetes. The poverty rate was 19 percent, much higher than the national average. It also had the highest percentage of people 65 and older who had lost their teeth — nearly 50 percent.
All of which makes Huntington the perfect setting for the next Jamie Oliver Challenge. While he understands the allure of Home Wreckers and Big Macs alike, this British celebrity chef has made it his mission in recent years to break people's dependence on fast food, believing that if they can learn to cook just a handful of dishes, they'll get hooked on eating healthfully. The joy of a home-cooked meal, rudimentary as it sounds, has been at the core of his career from the start, and as he has matured, it has turned into a platform.
Oliver became famous at 23 for his television series "The Naked Chef," which was broadcast from 1999 to 2001, first in Britain, then here, on the Food Network. The title referred not to his lack of clothing but to his belief in stripping pretense and mystery from the kitchen — the idea that anyone can cook and everyone should. He was loose and playful, measuring olive oil not in spoonfuls but in "glugs," making a mess and having a ball. In the years since, that laddish charmer has morphed, somewhat unexpectedly, into a crusading community organizer. "Jamie's School Dinners," his award-winning four-part series, exposed the shameful state of school lunches in Britain and made for riveting television — he and the school cooks working feverishly to prepare dishes like tagine of lamb that the students either refused to try or dumped in the trash after one bite. When he eventually succeeded in getting them to abandon their processed poultry and fries and eat his food, the teachers reported a decrease in manic behavior and an increase in concentration. The school nurses noted a reduction in the number of asthma attacks. Those findings, along with "Feed Me Better," his online campaign and petition drive, were the impetus for the British government to invest more than a billion dollars to overhaul school lunches.
In addition to TV specials like "Jamie's Fowl Dinners" and "Jamie Saves Our Bacon" (exposing the state of the British poultry and pork industries, respectively), Oliver got personal with his series "Jamie's Kitchen," based on the Fifteen Foundation, which he created in 2002. Each year it sponsors 15 (give or take a few) young adults from disadvantaged backgrounds, including those with criminal records or a history of drug abuse, and trains them in the restaurant business. To kick-start the program and to finance Fifteen, the upscale London restaurant that would employ them, he put up his own house as collateral — without telling his wife. In addition to the London flagship, whose customers have included Brad Pitt and Bill Clinton, branches of the restaurant have opened in Cornwall, Amsterdam and Melbourne. So far, the program has graduated 159 students at a cost of $49,500 each. Oliver endowed the foundation with proceeds from his book "Cook With Jamie," and it now operates as an independent entity.
If he were just a professional do-gooder, Oliver, who is 34, would be a bore. But food has given his life focus and meaning since childhood, and he has honored it ever since. Born and raised in Essex, northeast of London, Oliver, the son of a pub owner, grew up hyperactive and dyslexic. In school, he failed every subject except Art (he got an A) and Geology (a C). By the time he was 6, his tough-love father, Trevor, put him to work in the pub, cleaning up. His father's work ethic was such that on summer vacations he would aim the garden hose through Jamie's bedroom window, soaking his bed to get him out of it, at 6:30 a.m. "People die in bed," he liked to say.
It seems to have worked. By the time he was 13, Jamie was turning out between 100 and 120 meals on a Sunday night alongside the pub's chef. In a work-study program, he spent six weeks at a high-end restaurant, starting at the appetizers station. When the head chef quit, he took over.
Though his father was proud of him, Oliver says, he is mindful that the pub owner's motto remains "You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear." Having started out as the ear, Oliver has worked hard to prove his father wrong. Cooking saved his life. He wants it save yours too. "Being in the kitchen is the most simple part of life," he said. "People talk about it like it was some sort of science experiment."
In last year's U.K. series, "Jamie's Ministry of Food," Oliver expanded his reach past the school system into people's homes. He chose Rotherham, an industrial town in northern England with a high rate of obesity and related illnesses, where 20 percent of the working-age population was on public assistance. He built a community center where residents could learn to cook inexpensively for their families while instilling the idea that healthful eating is not a luxury. "They thought that cooking a meal and feeding it to your family was for posh people," he said. Some participants in the show had never even had a kitchen table. They ate takeout food on their floors.
That project has proved a success and the perfect model for Oliver's mission in Huntington. The community center here will be called Jamie's Kitchen and will teach both adults and children the basic skills for cooking healthful, economical meals at home. Oliver will also work with local schools on eliminating junk food in vending machines and in cafeterias, replacing reheated processed foods with meals cooked from scratch with fresh ingredients. But there is no guarantee of success. In spite of the resources the British government has allocated for school lunches, Oliver admits that only half the schools are functioning properly; the other half are still experiencing difficulty training cafeteria staff and enforcing new guidelines. And follow-up reports show that while students now understand the benefits of eating healthfully, many still opt out of their school-lunch plans, reverting to fast food instead.
What's really happening is about more than old habits dying hard or the love of frying. The reason the world is still waiting for the Messiah is that most people don't actually want one, no matter how many fresh fruits and vegetables he's carrying. Oliver expects some of the same pushback in Huntington, whether it comes from recalcitrant teenagers, petty bureaucrats or parents who don't like being told they've failed. It remains to be seen whether the contest between being threatened and resentful versus forthright and true can trump the American intoxication with show business: will this much-maligned area let a Member of the British Empire play Pygmalion and win? In this country, ordinary people seem willing to do or say almost anything to be immortalized in the latter-day vaudeville of reality shows. Oliver's goals here, no matter how authentic, can be thwarted if the balance between camera hunger and social reform goes off-kilter. The series, "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution," is a co-production of his company and Ryan Seacrest Productions. ABC will broadcast it in six parts in early 2010.
Like Rotherham's, Huntington's economy was buoyed for years by the coal mines nearby as well as by manufacturing jobs in the chemical industry, glassworks, steel foundries and locomotive-parts plants. In 1950 its population was near 90,000. Manual labor took care of excess calories, if not hardened arteries. When the coal industry was modernized and the changing economy resulted in the loss of manufacturing jobs, the population dropped to less than 50,000; hospitals became one of the city's largest employers. Another is Marshall University, home of the "Thundering Herd" football team and the subject of the 2006 film "We Are Marshall." Its students are aficionados of the delicacies at Hillbilly Hot Dogs (a sign out front reads, "If you hit it on the run, we'll put it on a bun"), and Oliver doesn't blame them.
"That was 15 pounds of madness," he said of the trademark burger, jumping into the car outside the restaurant. "But it tasted good." He had been shooting all afternoon and was 90 minutes behind schedule, an occurrence his publicist calls "Jamie Time." He gets so involved in what he's doing that he tends to lose track. He was due downtown in 30 minutes to hold a town-hall meeting to talk about the show. On the way there, he agreed to run through Kroger, a local supermarket, to see what Huntington residents were buying.
As we drove there, Oliver talked about his first day in town. He likes to say that the C.D.C. statistics on obesity in the Huntington-Ashland metropolitan area are only a few percentage points higher than the national average. In fact, the C.D.C.'s numbers vary from year to year: obesity rates in the last two years hovered near the national average, 34 percent, but the A.P. report that brought Oliver to West Virginia was based on 2006 figures that put the area's obesity rate at 45 percent. From what I saw in one day, the locals were plenty touchy about their collective waistlines, so Oliver was wise to tread lightly. That is typical of his style. Effortlessly charismatic, he has an easy warmth — happy to shake hands or pat a back, though he takes the business of listening to people quite seriously. When he finds a kindred spirit, a sharp focus, an open mind, he leaps, immediately connecting. He is genuinely polite, which is in itself so rare that it is genuinely winning. Though he is still hyperactive — if he's standing he's pacing; if he's sitting, a leg bounces — his mind seems insatiable.
Oliver is at the head of a multinational corporation that has produced 12 television series and assorted specials seen in 130 countries; he has written 10 cookbooks that have been translated into 29 languages and sold almost 24 million copies in 56 countries. In addition to the Fifteen Foundation and restaurants, he has opened six Jamie's Italian restaurants in the U.K. in the past two years, high-volume yet high-quality odes to a cuisine he loves; he sells his own brands of cookware, cutlery, tableware and gift foods; he publishes his own magazine; and he continues in his ninth year as spokesman for Sainsbury's, an upscale supermarket chain in England. Because his company is privately held, it does not release its annual earnings, but he is said to be personally worth at least $65 million.
All told, 2,150 people work for his businesses. He keeps every fact and figure in his head — no reading, no writing, no notes. The format he has worked out for so many of his series — Jamie identifies a problem, Jamie sets out to fix the problem, Jamie encounters evil forces along the way, Jamie triumphs — comes naturally to him because that's exactly how he has lived his own life so far.
Once inside Kroger we started with produce. "I find it fascinating looking at people's trolleys," he said. "The ones here are twice the size they are at home." He picked up a bag of salad greens. "A lot of these are washed in chlorine, so they lose their nutrition," he said, tossing it back. "It takes no time to get lettuce and spin it about." He picked up a bottle of salad dressing. "Four dollars? You can make your own for less than half that price." He looked at its ingredients. "Water. I've never been taught to put water in any dressing."
Well, how about those packages of cut-up fresh fruit? He shrugged. "I don't understand why people can't cut it up themselves. Don't they own knives?"
Two little girls ran past us, playing tag while an older man trailed them, his cart bearing bananas and M&M's. "Two things happen when shopping with kids," Oliver said. "You either give in and buy everything they want, or if you're a strong parent you make certain choices."
We headed toward frozen foods. No one recognized him. Six weeks from now he'd be mobbed doing this. "Or punched," he said. "I'm a respectful person, and I'm going to try to do things in the nice way. But it's almost as if parents here have stopped saying no. It's as if the kids rule the roost." We came upon a table of Krispy Kreme doughnuts. "They're a treat, there to be loved," he said. "But start having them every day, job done. It's harsh to say, but these parents, when they've been to the doctor and keep feeding their kids inappropriate food, that is child abuse. Same as a cigarette burn or a bruise."
Town Hall awaited. Oliver is so practiced at doing these series that he spoke automatically in sound bites, sensing it was the moment to build suspense. "Ultimately, I'm a foreigner," he said. "I've got no place being here, but I've got all the right reasons." He headed for the door. "I just bloody hope I pull it out of the bag."
THE DAY IN Huntington wasn't my first meeting with Oliver. He came to New York in August on business and, in a borrowed apartment arranged by his publisher, cooked us some lunch before we sat down to talk. His new cookbook, "Jamie's Food Revolution: Rediscover How to Cook Simple, Delicious, Affordable Meals," is based on the "Ministry of Food" series and will be published by Hyperion on Oct. 13. He prepared a dish from it that he often makes for his daughters Poppy, who is 7, and Daisy, who is 6: Mini Shell Pasta With a Creamy Smoked Bacon and Pea Sauce.
A timeout here for self-anointed Health Nazis. Oliver cooks and eats all kinds of meat and feels free to use butter, cream and cheese, in sane amounts. He is not a diet cop; he's about scratch cooking, which to him means avoiding processed and fast food, learning pride of ownership, encouraging sparks of creativity and finding a reason to gather family and friends in one place. If you can make pancakes or an omelet, a pot of chili or spaghetti sauce and know how to perk up some vegetables, you can spend less and eat a more healthful meal that's delicious.
Oliver's hyperactivity finds its perfect expression when he's cooking. His movements were almost balletic, charged and graceful, even when he stuck his finger straight into the pot of water to feel if it was near boiling. It was. He cut the pancetta with lightning speed. "I swear I could do that at 10 years old," he said. "Tuck your fingers in, you never get cut."
He dressed the salad, which he filled with fresh herbs, tossing it with his hands. Then he threw frozen peas into the pan with the pancetta. Two women who work for him moved in and out of the kitchen, talking on cellphones. "The key to life is to surround yourself with lots of women," Oliver said. "Men would just lie to me. Girls say, 'Give me half an hour and I'll find out.' They're intelligent, more loyal and they make things happen. Everything I do is about team, really. So 90 percent of my team are women." The dish was done within minutes. (It was also done within minutes when I made it at home, at a more leisurely pace, the following day.)
We sat at the dining-room table. "The key to life is to know what you're good at and stay away from what you're bad at," he said. Well, the pasta was certainly delicious. As for the bad part, we talked about school. He said he recently ran into his "special needs" teacher, Mrs. Murphy, and actually blushed as he told me, "I gave her a big hug and kiss, and she said she was really proud of me." Oliver has often recounted the story of being one of five children out of 150 pulled from regular classes each week to learn how to read and write, as the other kids taunted them, singing the phrase "special needs" to the tune of "Let It Be."
He left school at 16 and graduated from Westminster Catering College. After a brief stint cooking in France, he returned to London to work at Antonio Carluccio's Neal Street Restaurant, where he met his mentor, Gennaro Contaldo, who taught him to make bread and pasta and to love all things Italian. (Contaldo now supervises bread- and pasta-making at the Jamie's Italian restaurants.) Then Oliver moved on to the trendy River Café, where a camera crew came to shoot one day and found him to be a natural.
Since 2000, Oliver has been married to his longtime love, Juliette Norton. A former model, she is known to his viewers and fans as "the lovely Jools." They live in the Primrose Hill section of London and spend weekends at his farm in Essex, near where he grew up. His father's pub, the Cricketers, is still in business. Oliver says: "I have my two girls waitressing there. Poppy is gentle, sensitive. Daisy is sort of a bit mad, incredibly funny. She eats for England. She's only 6, and she'll eat squid, she'll try anything."
Poppy and Daisy have an infant sister, Petal. Really.
"That's Jools," he said, easily. "My opinions in the name department don't get much of a look-in. We live very segregated sort of lives, really. Jools isn't into anything workwise that I do. It means that home is home, and when I'm there I don't talk about work. Like a lot of working mums or dads, I see the girls a bit in the morning, and then I really don't see them until the weekend, which is the way it's always been, so I don't feel bad. Mum does a great job of being a mum." But Oliver doesn't just come home from work; he comes home from being an international entertainment conglomerate. That seems hard to leave at the door.
"It's the battle of life isn't it, trying to get the right balance," he said. "The problem with me is, no one truly understands how I tick as a person, even my wife." That includes his parents, he added. "When I started the Fifteen Foundation and opened that restaurant, I spent all my savings. It was kind of reckless, and the key people around me, the business accountants and my parents, it took them five years to get it. That's why I try and take them to every graduation to meet the kids. You know my old man's saying was 'You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear,' but I've spent the last eight years disagreeing with that. I like giving people a bit of extra."
But his father still doesn't understand him? Oliver's leg bounced ferociously. "He's really proud, but he doesn't know how I manage to multitask. I don't know if it's part of my dyslexia, but I can jump from one place into another, into another. So whether it's the restaurant or the charity or the direct-sales business or the next book — there's probably 30 things going on now — I think it scares my dad because he's always been very good at one thing. But he's starting to relax. I think he thinks I'm happy, and ultimately you're only as happy as your most miserable child, aren't you?"
What is his mother, Sally, like? "She's hilarious. A hundred-miles-an-hour avalanche of energy. She's superbright and fairly encyclopedic about stuff, but at the same time she's a complete liability. She just worries and flusters and runs around the place, saying inappropriate things. She's fairly similar to me, really. But growing up, she was a brilliant mum and a great friend. Dad was strict, hard core, waking me up with the hose."
Oliver got his revenge — or at least tried to. Before he started cooking in the pub, he and his friends set off a stink bomb there during dinner time, sending 30 people out onto the street without paying their bills. "That was just stupid, really," Oliver said, chagrined that I mentioned it and seemingly still ashamed. "That was an attack on a family business by a moron child."
High jinks aside, he said that his parents consistently supported him and his younger sister, Anna-Marie. "I was brought up in a family where they would wish the best for you," he said. "But doing these projects like 'School Dinners' and 'Ministry of Food,' it amazed me that around so many of these people there was no positivity. With one woman, if she started doing good stuff for herself, people that were her own flesh and blood got jealous. With Fifteen, one of the biggest problems we have is the students' families, the lack of positive role models. That's why I disagree with Dad." He spoke proudly of his graduates, mentioning one who works in New York at the renowned gastropub the Spotted Pig and another who is about to become the head chef at Jamie's Italian in Guildford. Five years ago, Oliver said, he was on the South Bank of the Thames in a courtroom getting that young man out of jail.
"Look, I think the brilliant and beautiful thing in life is that anyone can do anything," he said. "When I used to go to special needs, we got laughed at, but we're not supposed to all be academic. What is education? A bunch of stuff that people think we should know. Ultimately if you can put a wall up, if you can paint, if you can work with other people and, most important, if you find out what you are good at, that's the key. Kids can do detailed, technical things, and they can do them well. Have you seen them on skateboards and surfing? It doesn't have to be a BMX, it can be a pot and a pan and a knife, but we wrap them up in cotton wool and treat them like babies and they're not."
It certainly didn't hurt him to have started early. "No," he said, "but it's ironic that the one thing I hated I sort of specialize in now," referring to the cookbooks. He added, good-naturedly, "When I do writing, it's more imagination than sentences as we know it." But he is very visual — remember that A in art — and he works on every aspect of the books' photography and design. "Almost 24 million copies, by someone who swore he'd never ever do any revolting reading and writing when he left school," Oliver said with smile of pure delight. "It's funny how things work out."
AFTER OUR DASH through Kroger, Oliver arrived at City Hall and disappeared backstage. The auditorium was less than half full, and the front rows were filled with local reporters. Mothers brought young children with an eye toward the camera. One even armed her daughter with an oversize school menu as a visual aid. Another woman seemed to have mistaken scratch cooking for "American Idol" — she raced back and forth, trying to persuade someone, anyone, to ask Oliver to listen to her daughter sing.
Oliver picked up the mike. "Hi, guys," he began. "Some say this is the most unhealthy town in America. We're going to spend the next few days getting under the skin of the problem, and we're asking families, individuals, schools and churches to spread the word. Here, the odds are against you, you live an unhealthy life and die young. That's what the report said. So, this is not a sparkly, pretty show. It's about finding local ambassadors for change."
He asked people to raise their hands if friends or family were affected by obesity and bad health. Almost every hand went up. Oliver nodded. "What do you think the problems are?" Among the answers were: too much processed food in school cafeterias; a need for better prenatal nutrition; a call to stop putting Kool-Aid in toddlers' sippy cups (earlier, Oliver heard about infants' bottles filled with Coca-Cola); suggestions that restaurants offer smaller portions and that children's menus offer alternatives to burgers and fries.
Oliver took it in. "This isn't a freak show here," he said. "You're only a few percent away from the national average. Every child should be taught to cook in school, not just talk about nutrition all day. Good food can be made in 15 minutes. This could be the first generation where the kids teach the parents." That earned a round of applause.
"I got a billion dollars out of the British government and put it into the school system," he went on. "But it's still in transition, it's not all glossy yet. When parents get angry anything can happen. So I'll need your help. Hopefully over the next few months, we'll do some really good things together."
After he left the lectern, the crew restaged the applause they would use for his entrance. It was thin before, but now it ended with a standing ovation. The townsfolk seemed as quick a study on theatrics as they were on health reform; many angled to be interviewed, to establish themselves as characters.
They were actually so intent on chasing the limelight that few seemed to notice an untended table outside the rear of the auditorium. There, in what seemed the ultimate mixed message, was the 15-pound burger Oliver helped make that afternoon. Sitting near a bowl of candy and a half-eaten plate of sandwiches, it filled an enormous platter. It had been cut into pieces, but hardly any had been taken.
As Oliver spoke to the camera downstairs and audience members jockeyed for position upstairs, the table stood ignored. Until two little boys stormed it, prompting their mother to pull herself free from the media hubbub. They stopped just short and stared at the bounty before them.
"Is it free?" one son asked. She looked around, nervously. "Yes," she said. He reached past the burger and grabbed a box of Milk Duds. Then she got back in line, to be on TV.


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Ed Buckner has not received any gifts yet
Ed, I am so far unsuccessful in finding a way on Atheist Nexus to post high praise for your (and Michael Buckner's) recently released In Freedom We Trust: An Atheist Guide to Religious Liberty. It uniquely adds to the available literature of argument for secular government as the best protection for believers and nonbelievers alike. John
I also enjoyed our meeting! Nice connecting with you again. Edwin
Thanks Ed. Things going well in IA--in kind of a winter lull but local groups are active.
The most important project for atheists to accomplish from hence forth is to get critical thinking
instructions taught in all public schools!
Now get the ball rolling.
David M. Mandell
I sent your notice out to several freethinkers in the area and one in Alabama. As you may know, we have a freethought group in Chapala, Jalisco, MX. We have and average of 22 attendees each month. We are always looking for speakers. Hint! Hint!
Thank you, Ed, for the invitation and comments. This has been a whirlwind few weeks. Hopefully January will allow us to get together. OGH
Thank you so much. I am honored.
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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - When Guor Marial was 8, he sprinted through the darkness with the hope of escaping child slavery at a labour camp in Sudan.
Running then became something that brought back tragic memories.
As a refugee in the United States years later, he made a discovery: He was good at running long distances, and he could run them fast.
The Sudanese marathoner was to board a plane from Arizona on Thursday bound for London, where he will compete as an independent athlete at the Olympics. A runner without a country to call his own, he hopes he can use his Olympic moment to become a symbol of hope.
Marial qualified for the Olympics last year while running his first-ever marathon, but he couldn't compete for the United States because he's a permanent resident but not yet a citizen. He learned just weeks ago that he'd be able to compete, running under the Olympic flag. He turned down an offer to run for Sudan because he couldn't fathom representing a country in which so many Sudanese have suffered, including his own family members, and from which he fled as a boy. His native South Sudan — the world's newest country — doesn't have an Olympic team.
Marial isn't expected to win but that seems to matter little to him.
"I'm running for the support of the United States, that people of the United States will support me, who helped me, who show me this sport, who brought me here," the 28-year-old Marial told The Associated Press while training in Flagstaff. "I'm running for the refugees and I'm running for the South Sudanese, especially."
The marathon isn't an event in which Marial has much experience. His finished his first-ever 26.2-mile event, the 2011 Twin Cities marathon, in 2 hours, 14 minutes, 32 seconds — an Olympic qualifying time.
He knows he's not favoured to win a medal but has strong determination to do the best he can considering the circumstances.
"Unfortunately the time is not enough on my side do more quality (runs) in time for the Olympics," he said.
The International Olympic Committee cleared him last month to compete in the Olympics as an independent athlete after he didn't qualify for Sudan, South Sudan or the United States under its rules.
Marial trains amid the cool ponderosa pines of northern Arizona, in a community with a history of being a training ground for other elite runners. He was drawn to the city that sits at an elevation of 7,000 feet and has relatively cool summers while attending college at Iowa State. Flagstaff, which also was a training base for Olympic marathoner Ryan Hall, has been his home for the past year.
Beads of sweat ran down Marial's face, his knees reaching up to the sky as he exploded over hurdles, during one of his final training sessions before London this week. He had planned to squeeze in another workout Thursday — a 12- to 15-mile run — before boarding his flight to the Olympics.
Marial wasn't set to compete in another marathon until October in Chicago, so he quickly changed up his training regimen to include more quality runs.
He spends hours a day in the gym and on the trails and tracks in Flagstaff, alternating shorter, strength-based workouts with longer runs in which he's upped the tempo since learning he'll be an Olympic athlete. He has set aside his job at a group home to focus on running.
His journey has been anything but easy. When he was a child, he ran under the cover of night to escape a life of slavery. He was kidnapped by gunmen and forced to work. More than two dozen of his family members died due to violence or disease during the civil unrest that devastated the country and led to the breaking away of South Sudan last year.
"I myself was in danger. I was beat up, they broke my left jaw, and they broke my auntie's — my uncle's wife's — collar bone," he said. "So we were taken to (the) hospital."
An emergency that he didn't want to discuss cut the hospital stay short, and Marial eventually made it to Egypt and to the United States. His father still lives in South Sudan.At 16, Marial joined the Concord High School track team in New Hampshire, with the encouragement of a gym teacher who saw he never got winded during any sports activities in class. He graduated in 2005, earning a scholarship to Iowa State in Ames, Iowa. He became an All-America in cross-country his junior year.
Marial hasn't posted winning times, but that seems to matter little to him. Running in the Olympics gives a voice to the South Sudanese, he said, and highlights the country's spot in the world community.
In Flagstaff, others on the soccer field watch unaware of what led Marial to the mountainous city and of the next leg of his journey. Training in Flagstaff has allowed him to improve on his initial marathon time by two minutes.
"The best runners come up here," he said. "As a marathoner, this is a place that success would come."


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Water Training: More Than Swimming "Upstream" for Fitness
by Diane Voyatzis Norwood, MS, RD, CDE
If you think of swimming only as a leisure activity, then you are sorely mistaken. Water training has become a legitimate form of cross training for many people, from those who just want to be fit to serious athletes.
You can do more than swim in a pool. Water training may involve bathing caps and swimming laps, but it can also be much more engaging and fun, especially if you try innovative activities, such as water aerobics, tennis, or line dancing. Whatever the water activity, taking the plunge has many benefits, some of which make exercising in water even more desirable than exercising on land.
Why Water Exercise?
You may be able to run, take aerobics, and practice yoga on land, but water uniquely provides many benefits that land exercise does not, including:
Benefits of Water Exercise
There are many physical benefits that also apply to working out in the water, including:
There are also social benefits of water training, especially if you take group exercise classes. In addition, water training, like many forms of exercise, may foster a positive attitude, feelings of well-being, and relief from stress.
Types of Water Exercises
Other Creative Water Exercises
Adjusting Workout Intensity
Because water offers so much resistance, increasing the intensity of a workout often only involves relocating to the deeper end of the pool. The more work you have to do to keep yourself afloat to exercise, the more difficult your workout will be. Conversely, to decrease the intensity or to rest, you need only stand in shallow water or lay back and float.
Flotation and Other Optional Equipment
Also, using certain equipment may help you adjust the intensity of your workout, including the following:
For example, flotation belts or kick boards can help you work less to remain afloat, making the workout easier. Old tennis rackets may add more resistance and simulate land tennis movements, building those muscle groups needed for that sport.
Tips on Getting Started
So, whether you think you're able to dive right in or would rather ease into the water, talk with your doctor about whether water training is right for you.
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A pundit, of course, is someone who others look to when they want opinions. Here's how to become one in four easy steps.
- Post constantly. Preferably daily. Preferably put every inane little thought to come out of your head on a weblog, so the whole world can see you post constantly. The first step to having a following is to reliably offer an opinion.
- Always say the same things. It doesn't particularly matter if the things you say are right, or even if they make sense. What's important is that they sound good, and that they're always the same. Followers don't want leaders saying confusing or ambiguous things.
- Include what a great guru/authority/visionary/leader you are as part of your message. Don't worry if you aren't actually one, the important thing is that people think you are.
- Arrange pre-packaged stories for journalists to print. Journalists rarely have the resources to research a story properly, so if you give them a story they can just reword a bit and print, they'll do that. Don't forget to include how great you are as an important point in the story.
RedHat 9
Since the free download of RedHat 9 won't be available for a week after it becomes available to subscribers, this is a great opportunity to demonstrate BitTorrent. Unfortunately, I'm not a subscriber. Anyone who is a subscriber and has a decently fast pipe and would like to help download the ISOs and make them available via BitTorrent within a few hours of their release please mail me.
I'm going to be in Amsterdam from April 27th throug May 3rd, and New York City from May 18th till about June 1st. I'd like to meet some of the local open source hackers while I'm there. Anybody who would like to meet up mail me.
Bayesian filtering
I'd like to remind everyone that I already posted about Bayesian filtering, and gave some ways of fixing some of Graham's code's deficiencies. Highlight include
- Whether a word occurs in a message should be yes or no, multiple occurences should be ignored. Graham's code does something very funky with multiple occurences which can cause lots of problems.
- Everything should be changed to log scale so scores are simply added together. This makes everything much clearer. In particular, it makes it obvious that you might as well assume a default probability of spam of 1/2, since it just trades off with the cutoff threshold. It shows how thoroughly keeping things as probabilities obfuscates the process that many people, including Graham, didn't realize this.
- Adding up the 16 most extreme scores in either the positive or negative direction is very crude. For long messages it winds up throwing out all subtle details of exact values and just doing a vote count of the top 16 as to whether they're positive or negative. A much better approach is to add up the top 8 and bottom 8. Bruce Schneier and Joel Spolsky have recently complained about very long, easy to flag as non-spam messages of theirs getting rejected, and this is probably the cause and simplest fix.
Graham didn't specify what the behavior should be when you have 16 words which say 100% spam and 16 words which say 100% not spam, although it doesn't really matter, because the top and bottom approach is clearly better.
I hope I don't sound overly critical of Graham here. I think his approach is a great one. But it is a first version, and can be dramatically improved.
I wish someone had a backtracing setup for spam filtering algorithms, so we could get some real data about false positive and false negative values, instead of just having to guess.
Partial Busy-work Functions
ciphergoth: There are a few other criteria:
- The whole puzzle should require 2k time to solve
- If you have two nodes which aren't at opposite ends of the arc, then you still have to spend k time to solve the whole puzzle
Quick verification isn't a criterion I'm looking for, although that would be an interesting add-on. I'm thinking about this because it's related to circuit complexity, not because I'm looking for an especially practical crypto primitive.
The two cases with two nodes are easy. If the nodes are connected by an arc, then the puzzle is to compute the root of a binary hash tree, and each of the partial work functions is one of the two things pointed by the root. For the disconnected case, the puzzle is to compute the output of a hash chain, and the two values are both the value of the halfway point of the chain. For three nodes, I haven't figured out a solution to the case where all three nodes are connected and the case where only a single pair of nodes is connected.
Twisty Puzzles
I figured out some big improvements to my pentultimate design. Possibly even more interesting than having a working pentultimate is the internal pieces which move at half the rate of the external pieces. My basic ideas can be used in a much more robust design for an extension of the 2x2x2 rubik's cube in which the outside is transparent and internally there are a bunch of extra pieces which move at half the rate of the outer ones. This would be a very interesting and difficult new puzzle, and my design for it is extremely robust.
Now I just have to learn how to make precision plastic parts. Good thing I don't have lots of other projects to work on.
The Twisty Forum is great.
Certs against Spam
I've given some more thought to stopping spam, and have come up with the following approach, which is still a bit sketchy but seems to be on the right track.
When receiving a piece of mail, determine if you're willing to accept mail from the sender by the following process:
- Determine each peer's degree of spammerness. This can be done using a variant of the random walk method, which is used to calculate advogato's diary ratings.
- Back propogate spammerness. Oh, you wanted to know how to do that? For each spammer, calculate max flow from you to that spammer. In the flow diagram, try to even out the flow as much as possible, so if there's a possibility of offloading flow through one peer to other peers each of which are currently taking on less flow, do so. Calculate this for every spammer, then calculate each peer's degree of spammerness by adding up the flow through them for each spammer.
- Throw out all peers whose degrees of spammerness is above some threshold. If there's a path from you along certification edges over remaining peers to the sender of the mail being evaluated, accept it. Otherwise reject it.
The real innovation here is the second step, which does back propogation. It ensures that sending spam from fake certified identities is just as damaging as sending spam from the directly compromised identities.
The database for this could be easily populated using a Friendster-style interface. Unfortunately, to be maximally useful this database has to be global, meaning it's huge, and the steps involved in evaluating it look to be at least quadratic. Thankfully moore's law will make this much more manageable in due time, although the database will still have to be widely replicated in order to distribute computational load.
In case you wondered what one could ever do with vastly greater than videophone bandwidth, it turns out you can utilize it nicely propogating global databases.
An interesting graph problem
Given a graph, and a specification of a 'red' node and a 'blue' node, which wish to know if it's possible to remove k nodes, not including blue and red, so there's no longer a path from blue to red along node edges over remaining nodes. Is this problem NP-complete?
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For discussion around the qualifying round which consists of Sri Lanka, West Indies, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe.
For discussion around the qualifying round which consists of Sri Lanka, West Indies, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe.
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Does anyone know how long before the game starts ?
60 minutes, 10pm New Zealand time.
Thanks James.Originally Posted by James
I hope Bangladesh put up a good show . A loss to either team would mean they cannot afford to lose again during the remaining qualifiers.
SRL 26/0 after 6 overs. Morataza is bowling well whereas Rasel is leaking runs all over the place.
Forever 63* at the SCG
SL comfortable at 212/3 after 37 overs. Should be looking to set Bangladesh a target of 280+.
They'll make 330, you mark my words.
"The Australian cricket captain is the Prime Minister Australia wishes it had. Steve Waugh is that man, Michael Clarke is not." - Jarrod Kimber
RIP Fardin Qayyumi and Craig Walsh - true icons of CricketWeb.
Upul Tharanga's fifth century in ODI cricket, guys only played thirty odd games, very impressive.
I'll doubt it now but two hundred would have probably been enough on this wicket for this opposition.Originally Posted by LongHopCassidy
302 in the end. I'd like to see some fireworks from the Bangers instead of three quick wickets, and crawling to 8-190.
Big score for SL - just one question: Why did Bangladesh put them in? Do they fancy themselves to chase 300 or did they think their bowlers could restrict SL?
Well the conditions were quite helpful at the beginning and the Sri Lanka batsman were rather watchful to begin with. So the captain probably thought he could snare a few out but he must have been dreaming or on crack considering the bowling attack he has. Sri Lanka could have got 350 plus if they liked, hardly any of the batsman got out of third gear.Originally Posted by Poker Boy
Bloody Jayawardene. Was batting like a dream, and I have some cash on him to be SL's highest scorer this Champions Trophy. He could have easily tonned up if he didn't get carried away. He was putting away the Bangladeshi bowlers like they were from under 16s.
"I am very happy and it will allow me to have lot more rice."
Eoin Morgan on being given a rice cooker for being Man of the Match in a Dhaka Premier Division game.
Farhad Reza is going to get found out against the better sides, you can't bowl inaccurate 75mph medium-pace from a small frame and expect to get away with it.
Bashar was clearly reluctant to use Rafique while the fielding restrictions were in place, which should not be the case. Rafique should be the first spinner into the attack, as he is good enough to pick up wickets even if he does leak a few early on. I didn't see anything of Saqibul, anyone know how well he bowled?
Started off poorly and it didn't get much better, bowled far too much down the legside and then was just milked to high heaven. Bowled slow left arm but the Sky information bar had him down as a medium pacer.Originally Posted by Jungle Jumbo
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Anne Spurgeon:"The Popples! They were these little stuffed animals that transformed into a ball that you could kick around."
Nick Subic:"I was so young I barely remember them."
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We wouldnt have this LOADED roster if it wasnt for Stat signing on, plus busting his chops the first season by taking us on several winning streaks.
I notice the majority of our Knicks roster perform at their best to impress Stat/Melo/Chandler....this is why I didnt want to release Balkman, u give Balkman two peremeter shooters (Novak & Smith), Balkman will take care of the rebounding, shotblocking, and put backs.
I actually want Jefferies to return before Stat....the lineup of Jefferies, Melo, and Jorts in the frontcourt has not happen yet, and it need to happen so the trio could pickup some playingtime in 3 to 4 games to co-exist before Stat come back, although I dont want to mess-up the great chemistry of Jefferies & Novak as a tandem, but we have to work on some strong frontcourt lineups to put in when Tyson Chandler is resting on the bench or in foul trouble.


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A city cannot declare or impose martial law.
But the mayor and police chief of Paragould — a town of 26,000 in northeast Arkansas, approximately 88 miles northwest of Memphis, Tennessee — are doing it anyway. All in the name of fighting crime.
If their plan is actualized, Paragould residents could soon be asked to show their identification by police armed with AR-15 assault rifles, and answer questions as to why they're out and about in their own town.
Liz Klimas reports for The Blaze, Dec. 18, 2012, that "The martial law [was] recommended by the mayor and police chief of Paragould, in response to recent property-related and violent crimes."
The account in The Blaze's source, the Paragould Daily Press, however, makes no mention of martial law. However, having police patrol streets stopping citizens to ask for their ID and why they're out is to suspend their right of habeus corpus, which effectively means the imposition of martial law.
Ryan Salor reports for the Paragould Daily Press that Paragould mayor Mike Gaskill and police chief Todd Stovall said in a town hall meeting last week that the initiative to battle street crime would begin in 2013:
"[Police are] going to be in SWAT gear and have AR-15s around their neck," Stovall said. "If you're out walking, we're going to stop you, ask why you're out walking, check for your ID."
Stovall said while some people may be offended by the actions of his department, they should not be.
"We're going to do it to everybody," he said. "Criminals don't like being talked to." […]
"They may not be doing anything but walking their dog," he said. "But they're going to have to prove it."
The Daily Press reported Stovall saying that the crime statistics in the city were high enough to justify such action by law enforcement. It noted that an attorney was not consulted by the mayor or police chief before the street crimes unit plan was proposed.
After the martial law recommendation was met with backlash from citizens believing it infringes upon their civil rights, the mayor is backing off a little, saying that the city just wanted to make sure a law enforcement presence was felt in some areas. The police department issued a statement clarifying the proposed actions of the street crimes unit. Here's how they explain the unit working:
Once an area has been identified as a high crime neighborhood, the select group of officers will saturate the area in an attempt to curb the criminal behavior that is plaguing that particular neighborhood. Officers will accomplish this in a variety of different methods. Officers will be working to identify residents in the affected area so that we can better serve our affected neighborhoods. Most often, this identification process will be nothing more than making contact with a subject, handing them a business card, and asking if they live in the area and if there's anything we can do for them. During hours in which crime seems to be more prevalent (i.e. between the hours of 11pm and 5 am), our process will become more stringent. We will be asking for picture identification. We will be ascertaining where the subject lives and what they are doing in the area. We will be keeping a record of those we contact.
Many citizens, through various media outlets, have expressed a concern about the police "violating rights" or "violating the Constitution". We have to abide by the same rules, regulations, and laws that our citizens do. We are not out to violate anyone's rights. Once we have an area that shows a high crime rate or a high call volume, it is our duty and obligation to find out why this is occurring and what we can do to prevent the trend from continuing. Therefore, identifying subjects in those problem areas help us to solve crimes, and hopefully to prevent future crimes.
More town hall meetings are being held in Paragould Tuesday and Thursday where residents can join in the discussion.
l to r: Mayor Mike Gaskill, Police Chief Todd Stovall, and Cpl. Brad Snyder
Wikipedia says Paragould's racial makeup is 97.87% White, 1.33% Hispanic/Latino, 0.04% Black, 0.42% Native American, 0.22% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.56% from other races, and 0.86% from two or more races.
I looked up Paragould's crime statistics on CityData.com. The city's crime rates do not look to have drastically increased. In fact, compared to many U.S. cities, Paragould is downright pacific, with 0 murder for every year from 1999 to 2010.
Note also that a city government cannot declare martial law. Only an authority controlling military forces can do that, which means a state governor or the federal government. In other words, what Paragould's mayor and police chief propose to do is against the Constitution and violates the constitutional rights of Paragould's citizenry.


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Posted by Angie Fox at 3:00 AM
Excellent post today which is interesting. An opening line I enjoyed was I definitely should have lied from Hotel No Tell. Many thanks.
Love opening lines! The birds saw the murder - The Wayt the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald.
sorry The Way the Crow Flies - typo
My favorite is from Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451," "It was a pleasure to burn."
One of my favorite opening linesis from Mary Janice Davidson's Drop Dead Gorgeous.
"Jenny Branch watched as her boss was gently restrained from committing homicide."
Opening lines are memorable. I think some small part of me knew I was living an unsustainable life. From Left Neglected by Lisa Genova.
Great post, I love opening lines.
"A half of a million dollars". Jane Porter In Dante's Debt.
It wasn't a very likely place for disappearances, at least at first glance. By Diana Gabaldon.
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As part of its ongoing promotional and educational program, the Georgia Peach Council has launched a YouTube channel to inform consumers about one of the state's more popular crops.
The YouTube channel includes videos to introduce consumers to the prominent growers who bring their sweet Georgia peaches to grocery stores, as well as informational segments on how to pick the perfect peach, ways to know if a peach is ripe and why Georgia peaches are so sweet.
"More and more people want to know where their produce comes from and who grows it," said Will McGehee of the Georgia Peach Council. "These videos will help us better engage and connect to consumers by providing useful tips and information."
Here's the first of the Georgia peach videos — find out more by following the council at www.facebook.com/SweetGeorgiaPeaches and www.twitter.com/GAPeachCouncil.


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What does marijuana do to the liver? I have a liver disease, either crigler najjar or severe Gilbert syndrome and want to know if it is safe for me to use marijuana?
There is controversy about the impact of marijuana on liver disease progression in hepatitis C. I am concerned about daily marijuana use based on a report such as the one below. I am concerned about daily marijuana use as it MAY impact scarring of the liver, as well as not harmful to the lungs and brain when used daily. In my view not using marijuana at all or using once in a while is safer than daily use. Less is known about the impact of marijuana when the liver disease is crigler najjar or severe Gilbert syndrome, but it will be safer to use less and not to use daily.
Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2008 Jan;6(1):69-75. doi: 10.1016/j.cgh.2007.10.021. Influence of cannabis use on severity of hepatitis C disease. Ishida JH, Peters MG, Jin C, Louie K, Tan V, Bacchetti P, Terrault NA. Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA. Abstract Complications of HCV infection are primarily related to the development of advanced fibrosis and whether cannabis use is a risk factor for more severe fibrosis is controversial. METHODS: Baseline data from a prospective cohort study of 204 persons with chronic HCV infection were used for analysis. The outcome was fibrosis score on biopsy, and the primary predictor evaluated was daily cannabis use. RESULTS: The median age of the cohort was 46.8 years, 69.1% were male, 49.0% were white, and the presumed route of infection was injection drug use in 70.1%. The median lifetime duration and average daily use of alcohol were 29.1 years and 1.94 drink equivalents per day, respectively. Cannabis use frequency (within prior 12 months) was daily in 13.7%, occasional in 45.1%, and never in 41.2%. Fibrosis stage, assessed by the Ishak method, was F0, F1-2, and F3-6 in 27.5%, 55.4%, and 17.2% of subjects, respectively. Daily compared with non-daily cannabis use was significantly associated with moderate to severe fibrosis (F3-6 vs F1-2) in univariate (odds ratio [OR], 3.21; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.20-8.56, P = .020) and multivariate analyses (OR, 6.78; 95% CI, 1.89-24.31, P = .003). Other independent predictors of F3-6 were >or=11 portal tracts (compared with <5, OR, 6.92; 95% CI, 1.34-35.7, P = .021) and lifetime duration of moderate to heavy alcohol use (OR per decade, 1.72; 95% CI, 1.02-2.90, P = .044). CONCLUSIONS: Daily cannabis use is strongly associated with moderate to severe fibrosis, and HCV-infected individuals should be counseled to reduce or abstain from cannabis use.


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Do you hear the tick, tick, tick of the death clock?
What's the death clock you ask?
The death clock, is a website that calculates (with a little information you add in) the exact day you will die.
Sounds morbid, right?
I agree, but take this as a bit of fun and not too serious.
Playing with death–trying it on for size is one way humans deal with the tragedies of life–kind of like playing dress up with your mother's high heels and your dad's jacket.
So, I went to www.deathclock.com, (there's also a few others– http://www.findyourfate.com/deathmeter/deathmtr.html, http://deathdate.info, http://www.death-clock.org/) and put in my numbers.
I didn't really want to know when I'd die. But I have to admit, I was curious.
How can you not be curious?
I was raised in a uber-religious home and this sounded like fortune telling–something stricly forbidden to dabble in–which means it's even more tempting, dangerous, and oh so fascinating…(yeah, I've got a bit of a rebellious streak in me, I can't deny it).
So I typed in my info, and you know what? I feel better!
It says I'm going to live until I'm 100 years old.
Instead of feeling depressed about knowing my "D day," I felt expanded.
100 feels pretty far away. I'm not quite half there. I still have a a whole lotta livin' to do.
I do take in account I could get hit by the proverbial bus at any time–that lightening could strike me for visiting that heathen site, (sorry, Mama!) or a myriad of other diseases and accidents could come barrel my way–but I'm not the type of person to be paralyzed by the "what ifs" of life.
But I've seen the dark side of agin. I know what Alzheimer's looks like, about the challenges that come with aging.
My dad died of heart disease at 78, and my mother lived with Parkinson's and Alzheimer's and died at the age of 92 (they were my adoptive parents and older than most parents). I was her primary caregiver and she lived with my family and I the last three years of her life.
I wrote every day my mother lived with us.
I wrote what it's like for her to live with this disease, what it was like for me, her daughter to struggle with the challenges of being a sandwich generation-er. I wrote about our fears, our fights, our hurts, our day-to-day challenges, and the truth about the guilt and resentment caregivers and families are afraid to say out loud.
Our story became a book, Mothering Mother and has been read by thousands.
The fact is, if you live long enough, you stand a real strong chance of getting Alzheimer's.
Deal with it. Sounds cold, but what I mean is…do what you can now to take care of yourself.
Eat healthy, have a good attitude, walk every day. Forgive.
Those are the best ways I know of to stave off that dreaded disease.
And even if you get a diagnosis, don't just crawl up and die. You still have time–love your family–leave a legacy. Don't spend your precious time worrying.
I don't know if you want to try the death clock–if it all seems like a bunch of hoo-haa.–but if you're feeling brave, then take a twirl with the grim reaper and give it a try.
A few years ago, I wrote a "100 Things To Do in My Life" List.
I wrote it while we were on vacation. I wrote it around the margins of an old Rand McNally atlas we had in the car–apprapo, I guess.
I wrote things like:
- Go back to college and get my BFA
- Design and make a bronze sculpture
- Visit the Vincent Van Gogh Gallery in Amsterdam
- Publish books (plural)
- Take a cooking class in Napa
- Repaint all my favorite Van Goghs myself
- Create cool yard art–and sell it
- Be paid 500 bucks an hour to speak and inspire people
- Be on the board of a charity/organization and help make a difference
- Design an Italian garden
- Have a 30+year writing career
- Be a GREAT grandma
- Speak French, Italian and Spanish fluently
- Live in the South of France for several months
- Win a PEN award
- Stay married, stay healthy
- Forgive and not grow bitter
I wrote this in 1999. I was dreaming big,. I packed it away and didn't look at it for more than five years. My heart and my words guided me intuitively.
There are 126 items on my master list.
Of the 16 I listed here, 11 have already come to fruition.
I have 53 years to achieve the rest.
A friend of mine said she saw The Bucket List this week and that she loved it, but a friend of hers said they wanted a list of all the things they didn't want to do–a "Chuck It" list. I like that idea too.
Or you could do an "anti-list."
Remember that edisode on Grey's Anatomy when that guy found out he was dying and decided to video-taped himself chewing out all the people he hated/who had hurt and humiliated him? This is what he chose to do before he died.
How cleansing! To leave this world feeling like you said your peace. Perhaps is he had done this sooner, he wouldn't be dying.
What would be on your anti-list?
I'd love to never ever have another root canal…how about you?
So maybe I should rename the Death Clock to the LIVE clock.
After all, I have a list that needs a whole lot more check marks. Instead of counting down the days until I die, I should count each day I'm living.
Instead of following the old cliche, "Live a little." I think I'll rewrite it:
"Live A lot!"
Author of Mothering Mother: A Daughter's Humorous and Heartbreaking Memoir
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Space Marine. What's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear that phrase? MI dropping in from space? The Dorsai? William Mandella's group of Future Warriors? Corporal Hudson crying, "Game over, man! Game over!"?
If you read science fiction, you're very familial with the image of the grizzled solders who fight the goo d and not so good fight against all odds on whatever ball of rock your military overlords decides they need taken and/or held. It's a staple that goes back for some time; the Lensmen tales mentioned them, and Heinlein mentioned them by name in two stories. Wikipedia tells me that the term was first used by Bob Olsen in the short story, Captain Brink of the Space Marines, published in Amazing Stories in November, 1932. Needless to say, we're not dealing with something that erupted full-blown from Zeus forehead and plopped down upon the ground waiting for something to breathe life into the sucker.
If you're been keeping an eye on things–and by "things", I mean, "keeping up on strange things that happened"–you'll have heard about the little row Games Workshop got into with writer M.C.A. Hogarth, whose story, Spots the Space Marine was pulled from Amazon for a while because Games Workshop complained that her use of the phrase, "space marine", was giving their space marines–the ones found in the game Warhammer 40k, and the stores that are being created around said game–an unfair kick in the crotch. They threw a takedown order at Amazon, and the story was pulled in December of 2012.
Hogarth wrote about the incident, and made it pretty clear that GW was looking to corner the market on the phrase space marine, because, you know, they wouldn't want you to think about all the other times the phrase, or variation there of, has been used–no, baby. You better think Warhammer when you say space marine!
GW claims they were protecting their trademark, but as Cory Doctorow points out, Game Workshop can't go around demanding takedowns over a trademark; no, as Doctorow also points out, all GW is doing is showing the world how enormously dickish they could be.
As I write this, Spots the Space Marine is back up on Amazon, due in part because writers like Doctorow, Charles Stross, and John Scalzi, have also pointed out the dickery that was perpetrated by Games Workshop. Will this be the end? Hard to say. If not Games Workshop now, it's likely to be some other fool with a bigger legal budget that one of use who throws a takedown notice in our direction, exclaiming, "No, you can't call your story, Peter's Purloined Penis Pump, because we own the trademark on the expression penis pump!" Yes, heavens forbid I ever do anything like that.
This is where you gotta do your research. Find out if what you want to name your novel is okay. Remember, you can't copyright a title, otherwise you wouldn't get 86,931 hits on Amazon when you search, "Dead of Night". (I just did this, which is why I received the number I posted.) Then, when you get some bully who tries to intimidate you into crawling into a corner and giving up, let them know the errors of their ways, and explain to them why you can name your novel what you did, and they have no claim.
And if they're still giving you the bully stare, d what Hogarth did: go to the Internet and tell your tale. Because if there's one thing we know about the Internet, it's that they love going after a bully.
If none of that works, then nuke them from orbit–
It's the only way to be sure.


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Egg-less chocolate chip cookie dough quickly fried in an eggroll wrapper then served warm with ice cream and chocolate syrup.
I've been making this dessert for the last five to six years, yet never had the opportunity to post the recipe on here. Inspired by a small local bistro in a village of Nashville, TN, I basically whip up an eggless cookie dough, seal it in an eggroll wrapper and flash fry it. Then, I top it with a healthy scoop of vanilla ice cream and finish it off with a drizzle of caramel and hot fudge sauces. Can somebody give me an "A-men!?"
It's super easy…just take a look at the photo tutorial:
Seal cookie dough in eggroll wrapper…
…flash fry and drain on paper towel.
Cookie Dough Eggrolls
- 1/2 cup butter , melted
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 cup flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup chocolate chips
- 6 eggroll wrappers
- Vegetable oil
- Vanilla ice cream
- Caramel and hot fudge ice cream toppings
- In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter and sugars. Add the flour, salt and vanilla. Mix until fully combined, then stir in the chocolate chips.
- Position the eggroll wrappers on a flat, clean surface. Place a handful of the cookie dough in the center of each wrapper. Roll one corner up over the dough, then fold up the side corners before rolling the rest of the way. Brush the last corner with water to seal it.
- Heat about a 1/2-inch of vegetable oil in a large deep skillet. When hot, flash fry each eggroll, one or two at a time. Using tongs, turn the eggrolls so each side cooks for about 10 seconds. Drain on a paper towel. Repeat with remaining rolls.
- Serve immediately on individual plates with vanilla ice cream topped with caramel and hot fudge sauces.


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As part of his redemptive action, God 'calls' Israel (Isa. 49: 1) and individuals (Isa. 41: 25), and because the calling is sometimes to new or unexpected work an unexpected (Luke 1: 59–63) or new (John 1: 42) name is bestowed. The calling of God to people goes on in the apostolic Church (Gal. 1: 15); though all are called to share as equals in the Christian life, some have a calling or vocation to particular functions within it, as was the case with Matthias (Acts 1: 24) and Paul (Gal. 1: 15).
Martin Luther, and many since the Reformation, have maintained a high doctrine of vocation or calling to one's secular occupation, but this sense of a calling is unknown in the NT.


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The History of Brazil
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Brazil is a vast, complex country with great potential but an uneven history. This engaging study will introduce readers to the history of Brazil from its origins to today. It emphasizes current issues and problems, including the country's return to democracy after more than two decades of harsh military rule and the economic consequences of adopting free-market policies as part of the creation of the global marketplace. Levine, a noted Brazilianist, explains the legacy of slavery on race relations, the stubborn persistence of barriers to upward mobility, and the characteristics of Brazil's exuberant culture. The author draws not only from a broad array of traditional sources but from oral histories and postings on the Internet. The history of Brazil unfolds in narrative chronological chapters beginning with the Portuguese conquest, then moving on to the colonial period, Independence, the nineteenth-century monarchy--the only one in Latin America--the Republic, the nationalist regime under Vargas, the eclipse of democracy under military rule in the 1960s and 1970s, and the current democratically elected government under Cardoso, who was elected in 1998 to his second term. Short biographical sketches of 40 prominent Brazilians, a glossary of Portuguese terms, and a bibliographical essay add reference value to this work. This is the only up-to-date history of Brazil, current through 1999.
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