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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and clean the grill. Just kidding. No one cleans their grill. The hot fire will burn the dirt away! LET'S GO!
NBA FINALS, GAME 1 – 9:02PM (ABC) Last July, LeBron James made himself Public Enemy #1 by openly ditching his hometown team on national TV. Now he gets a chance to prove that he made the right choice as his Miami Heat take on the Dallas Mavericks for the NBA title. Keep in mind that LeBron has been to the Finals before with Cleveland and come up short, so just because he's made it here doesn't mean he's already been vindicated. In fact, the Mavericks are no slouches themselves, what with Dirk Nowitzki balling out of his mind right now. The series will hinge on whether or not Dallas will able to make these high-scoring affairs, or if the Heat's defense will slow everything down to a crawl. I really hope the latter doesn't happen. Jimmy Kimmel is on at 8 o'clock for his annual "Game Night" pregame show. ANTICIPATION: HIGH!
MILLION DOLLAR DECORATORS – 10:00PM (Bravo – an NBC/Universal network) Bravo's new reality series tails five interior decorators in Beverly Hills as they argue with filthy rich people about where the wagon wheel coffee table should go. Tonight's episode features a guest house renovation that is endangered by a couple's divorce. And really, you hate to see something like that happen. I wish more couples would stay together for the sake of the guest house. ANTICIPATION: FANCYPANTS!
LOVE HANDLES: COUPLES IN CRISIS – 10:00PM (Lifetime) Lifetime's newest reality offering profiles overweight couple who battle both weight issues and the relationship complications that are a direct result of their obesity. Like "Biggest Loser: Couples," only way depressing. Tonight premiere episode is called, and I swear this is true, "I Never Planned On Marrying A Fat Girl." Does Lifetime even LIKE women? ANTICIPATION: SAD!
DECEPTION WITH KEITH BARRY – 10:00PM (Discovery) Discovery also has a new show premiering tonight, this one featuring Keith Barry, a trained Navy SEAL chef who teaches you how to make desserts that look like the faces of famous people. Just kidding. It's not about that at all. It's about deception, which I just pulled off effortlessly. ANTICIPATION: NOT A REAL SHOW, OR IS IT?!!
AMERICA'S GOT TALENT – 8:00PM (NBC) Sixth season premiere. Watch as a bunch of jugglers and child singers prove the show's title unfounded. ANTICIPATION: TALENTY!
Tuesday Watch List: NBA Finalsmania!
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So my friends and I ate a little over half of the zebra bundt cake, but then Rachel and Josh went out of town and it got to the point where I wasn't sure if it was a good idea to eat it anymore. Since the cake hit its one week bakeday today, I deemed it finally inedible which was confirmed by a couple fuzzy spots that had started to develop on the ganache. Ick!
But of course I couldn't just throw it away…I dissected it!
Still looks pretty! :)
And guess what I got in the mail today??
Thanks for the button, Mary the Food Librarian (and JustJenn)! Mary posted her National Bundt Day 2010 Round Up today, and it's super impressive. My bundt is in there! :) I can honestly say I've never seen so many bundts in my life. Check it out!

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Yesterday, 89 Midd-West High School seniors left on their senior class trip to Boston. They wouldn't say exactly where they were going for security reasons, but said they are planning a weekend full of educational and fun activities.
I've never been to Boston.
I've been around Boston – I've been to the Cape, Salem, Plymouth, etc. – but never actually into the city. I think there's just so much to do in New England, I think I've just never really thought about what I've been missing, per se.
So yesterday made me curious to see what there is to do in Boston – a city many have described as "Boston strong" since the tragedy at the Marathon more than a week ago.
Here's what I found from USA Today:
- The Freedom Trail: Journey back to Revolutionary Boston by exploring the Freedom Trail's 16 locations.
- Fenway Park: The Boston Red Sox play in historic Fenway Park, the oldest Major League ballpark still in use. [Note: I'm a Yankees fan …. so….. ]
- Duck Tour: The best way to see the city, according to the American Red Cross, is from aboard one of Boston Duck Tours' amphibious, World War II-style vehicles. You'll pass through Boston's most noteworthy neighborhoods and landmarks before taking a splash into the Charles River. [Note: I have been on Miami's Duck Tour, and loved it]
- Institute of Contemporary Art: The Institute of Contemporary Art's cantilevered building, completed in 2006, is one of Boston's most recognizable structures according to AOL Travel, which ranks it — and its glass elevator — among the city's top attractions.
- New England Aquarium: Atop AOL Travel's best Boston activities list is the New England Aquarium, which features penguins, sharks, sea turtles and jelly fish. Hold sea stars and hermit crabs in the touch tank or be dazzled by the 3D programming at the Simons IMAX Theatre, the largest screen in New England.
- John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum: AOL Travel and the American Red Cross deem the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum a must-see. View the 35th president's ship model collection and outfits worn by first lady Jacquelin. You can also relive the 1960 presidential campaign and the space race Kennedy so fervently supported.
- Museum of Fine Arts
- Prudential Building's Skywalk Observatory: The ultimate view of Boston, says the American Red Cross, is from the Skywalk Observatory on the 50 floor of the Prudential Building.
- Museum of Science: Not to be missed, according to the American Red Cross, is the Museum of Science, which offers live presentations and 700 exhibits on the natural and physical sciences and various technologies.
- Boston Public Garden: According to AOL Travel, a stroll through Boston's Public Garden, the oldest botanical garden in the country, is perfect for visitors seeking relaxation.


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Meatballs are one of those things I just don't like. To be clear, I do like meatballs, just not in sauce. I don't really like any meat in my spaghetti. I know, I'm weird. Anyway, I actually make them quite often since it's one of those meals everyone will eat and love.
To start, I pull out my Pampered Chef chopper. I have no clue what it's called, I just know I love chopping food into pieces with it. I usually use one large clove of garlic, but since these bulbs were small, I used two.
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Sorry for not posting in two months. Lately I've been feeding my unhealthy habit of doing nothing.
Monday, December 27, 2010
Computer Classes
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Thursday, November 4, 2010
Well it was my birthday on Saturday (I know, I'm a bit late). On Saturday I was woken up at 7:30 to do a treasure hunt for some of my presents (headphones, a T-shirt, and a Modest Mouse CD "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank") and got ready for the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. We picked up my friends at 9 and headed toward the metro. My friends and I were wearing the Guy Fawkes masks from V for Vendetta. My dad got on one of the trains while the doors were closing so we got separated and had to ride a different train. My dad said there was much jocularity on his train. Meanwhile on ours, everyone was silent except for one guy who was shouting about how Halloween was for the devil.
Once in DC, we walked with our masks on and a few people even asked to take pictures of us. When we got to the rally, we saw even more people with masks on. Once the rally ended, that's when the real fun began. Everyone was walking in the streets and we saw the most funniest signs then. We met up with Hallie in Chinatown and ate with her in a noodle restaurant.
Once home, I opened more presents (Tim Gunn's guide to life, the beauty cookbook, An Abundance of Katherines by John Green, and silk pillowcases).
After that I went to a friend's house and spent the night, where we watched Rocky Horror Picture Show, did the time warp, ate brownies, and fell asleep at 3 in the morning.
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Sunday, September 5, 2010
NEST Time
Now some of you may know that with my new 1-hour lunch (called NEST time, which stands for something but I won't bother you with the ridiculous acronym) comes clubs and study periods that can be attended during that time. With the urging of family (i.e. Lona) I'm posting the list of things available that they gave us on the first day of school. They are broken up in to A and B. A is the first hour of lunch and B is the second half. I've starred the things that are relevant to my classes and crossed out things that are not, including sports.
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Monday, August 23, 2010
I seemed to have fallen in to an unhealthy habit of being nocturnal, but not by choice. Lately, I haven't been able to fall asleep until 9 or 10 in the morning, and then waking up sometime in the afternoon. Last night I was lucky and managed to squeeze in a two-hour long nap between 10 and midnight. Then after I woke up, I made a smoothie, watched Wealth TV, and went on the computer until 7, where I went upstairs to drink coffee and watch the sun rise. It's giving me headaches and I think it's affecting my appetite too because often my stomach will be growling but I won't feel like eating anything.
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Thursday, July 1, 2010
Lona's List
1. Grow something (a flower?, a tomato?)
2. Take a long bike ride on the rail trail
3. Write a short story
4. Design a hat
5. Participate in library summer reading program or read items on my randomly selected list (Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, The People's History of the United States, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Huckleberry Finn, The Beekeeper's Apprentice, The Education of Little Tree)
6. Fly a kite
7. Attend Hut Building Workshop
8. Invent a cookie recipe and serve it at a social event
9. Make a movie
10. Collect and eat some wild food
11. Camp out and cook over a fire
12. Clean up your room and donate unused items to charity
13. Make a batch of jelly or pickles
14. Do some kind of art project with Aunt Lona (beads?, concrete?, tie-dye?)
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Monday, June 21, 2010
Day 2
Today we tried to start the boat up, but we were having some trouble. Ysa had to keep on pumping the hand pump since water wouldn't go to the boiler. Pops made me turn the boat around five times as we got steam and lost it. Also, the whistle wouldn't work and we had trouble with the walkie talkies. Later Ysa and I went to the pool but since the water was so cold we just chilled around it (with sunscreen on of course). After the I took a nap and woke up to the sound of our whistle blowing. It was a pretty laid back day, but tomorrow's going to be bigger.
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Sunday, June 20, 2010
Day 1
We are here in Canada! Ysa and I did our ritual of sitting alone at dinner and then stealing the bread rolls to feed the fish down at Chaffey's lock. It's so hot in our cabin, Hemlock. For those who know the Opinicon, it's near the place where you keep your trailers. We haven't taken the boat out yet, but we do have it docked. Tomorrow we plan to cruise around and them come back in time for lunch.
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Monday, May 17, 2010
I have been sleeping on the couch ever since a spidor in my room fell onto my bed a week ago. I then freaked out when there was a spidor on the ceiling above my couch. A spidor on my monitor caused a mental breakdown when I couldn't find the spidor again so my mom could get rid of it. More tears were added when mom found another spidor on the stairs. I use the word Spidor for spiders that freak me out, which are most of them.
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Bedroom Problem
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Thursday, May 6, 2010
Things I Like
- PostSecret
- Tom Lehrer
- Lady GaGa
- Richard Dawkins
- Demotivational posters
- Admiral Ackbar puns
- Lasagna
- Nerds
- Fable
- Historical fiction
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Technologically Challenged
Headphones stop working, mp3 players freeze, computers get viruses. This stuff frequently happens to me. I go through headphones fast because one side always loses it sound. Every week or so I have to wait patiently for my mp3 player to run out of batteries, because once it's frozen the only thing I can do is wait for it to die so I can charge it again. This is the second time my computer has gotten something major that makes me want to bang my head against a wall. Commonly the internet on my parents' computer would go off when I touched it. I bet I could be a great hacker just by pressing random buttons and watching it explode.
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Monday, February 15, 2010
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Thursday, February 11, 2010
WHAT'S ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? Well it's not mine, but it's black.
FAVOURITE BOARD GAME? Monopoly
FAVOURITE MAGAZINE? Washington Post Magazine
FAVOURITE SMELL? Lavender
WORST FEELING IN THE WORLD? Failure
FIRST THING YOU THINK OF IN THE MORNING? Arghdeblargh...snooze
HOW MANY RINGS BEFORE YOU ANSWER THE PHONE? It depends on if someone else is in the house.
FUTURE CHILD'S NAME? Don't want children
FAVOURITE COLOUR? Cerulean blue
WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT IN YOUR LIFE? Humor in everything.
FAVOURITE FOOD! Lasagna
IF YOU COULD PLAY AN INSTRUMENT, WHAT WOULD IT BE? Harmonica of course
SLEEP WITH A STUFFED ANIMAL? No, but I do have a blankie
FAVOURITE ALCOHOLIC DRINK? Mudslides
DO YOU EAT THE STEMS OF BROCCOLI? Yes
IF YOU COULD HAVE ANY JOB YOU WANTED WHAT WOULD IT BE? Hanging out in an observatory all day
GLASS HALF EMPTY OR HALF FULL? Depends on how it looks. If it looks slightly more than half, then it's half full. If it looks slightly less than half, then it's half empty.
FAVOURITE MOVIE? Zoolander! "I can't help that I look really really ridiculously good looking"
WHAT'S UNDER YOUR BED? Another bed lol
WHAT IS YOUR GREATEST WEAKNESS? Fear
IF YOU COULD BUILD A HOUSE ANYWHERE WHERE WOULD IT BE? Somewhere in Maine on the coast.
WHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE ARTICLE OF CLOTHING? Bell-bottoms.
BEACH, MOUNTAINS OR CITY? City
TECHNOLOGY OR ART? Technology. I had to choose 6 electives for next year. Half of them were tech credits, and only one was a fine art credit.
COMEDY OR HORROR? Comedy
FAVOURITE TIME OF DAY? When it's the weekend, and you're up late, past your parent's bedtime, and you just chill with your friends online.
THE LAST CD YOU BOUGHT? Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume 3
WHAT TIME DO YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING? 6 am on weekdays, and between 9am-3pm on weekends.
WHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE KITCHEN ITEM? The boombox that chills out there.
WHAT MAKES YOU REALLY ANGRY? Close-minded people. And liars. And posers. And teenagers.
DO YOU BELIEVE IN AFTERLIFE? No
WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE SEASON? Autumn
IF YOU COULD HAVE ONE SUPER POWER, WHAT WOULD IT BE? To read minds. Gawd, that would be awesome.
CAN YOU JUGGLE? No. I tried to get dad to teach me once, but the only thing he told me was "If you can drop stuff, you can juggle"
WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE DAY? Fridays.
WHICH DO YOU PREFER SUSHI OR HAMBURGER? Sushi
WHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE SOAP? The one that's in reach
WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE MEAL? Anything that tastes scrumptious....
IF YOU COULD TAKE A VACATION ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD WHERE WOULD IT BE? I would go to Canada or England with ma cousines et ma sœur.
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Friday, February 5, 2010
What's a better way to beat the winter downs than with brownies! Me and mom were making brownies in my totally awesome brownie pan, when something smelled like it was burning. We were preheating the oven at the time, and when mom opened the oven door, she immediately yells for dad, and dad comes. Apparently dad forgot to clean up the potato that exploded in there two nights ago, and they looked about ready to burst in to flames. Regardless, I'm still looking forward to some delicious chocolaty goodness.
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Wednesday, January 6, 2010
What's with the youngins today and their disdain of plain white socks? I admit I am guilty of it. In the beginning of the year I had yellow boat shows, so I decided wearing white socks with it would look weird, so I would wear yellow socks. Well since one person has a limited supply of yellow socks, I went without socks. My feet were freezing when I would walk through the wet grass. I was excited when mom bought me running shoes, but they were low, so I wore socks everyone would see them. I wore them without socks and my feet were so sweaty I had to peel them off. With the shoes I have now, I can wear the brightest, whitest, most embarrasing socks without anyone seeing them. One of my friends had low-top Converse, and she would complain how you could see her socks when she crossed her legs, so she said she should get some high-tops instead. Sure enough, when we came back from break, she got new shoes. I know this post is strange and random, but I haven't posted in a while so
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Father Pat's Pastoral Ponderings
Sunday Before the Transfiguration
August 1, 2010
When God the Father — according to Luke — declared to Jesus, at His baptism, "You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased" (3:22), our Lord could not have failed (nor can we) to recognize an historical and literary reference in that declaration. He called to mind, at that moment, how God had told Abraham, "Take now your beloved son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering" (Genesis 22:2 LXX).
The Father's declaration at the baptism thus introduced into Christian reflection a theological correspondence between Isaac and Jesus — and, therefore, between Abraham and God. This correspondence was acknowledged in Paul's affirmation that God "did not spare His own Son [tou idiou Hyiou], but handed Him over [paredoken] for us all" (Romans 8:32).
This correspondence conveys two Christological truths:
First, the Father's unique love for Jesus as His dear Son, foreshadowed in Abraham's paternal affection for Isaac.
Second, the Father's will to hand over His Son in sacrifice, prefigured in the willingness of Abraham to sacrifice Isaac. Paul's vocabulary renders this correspondence unmistakable: God "did not spare [epheisato] His own Son." No one familiar with the story of Abraham could miss the reference: "you have done this thing, and have not spared [epheiso] your beloved son for Me" (Genesis 22:16 LXX).
I do not believe — -let me be clear — it is Paul's point to allude to Genesis 22. The allusion is made en passant, rather, as the supposition in a larger argument. It is important to regard the whole context: "He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?" That is to say, the reference to the story of Abraham pertains to the argument's premise: "Because God did not spare His own Son . . ." The Apostle's intended inference is, "how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?"
As for the premise — "He who did not spare His own Son" — Paul assumed the Romans were familiar with it. They already knew it as a Christological theme, whether in catechesis or hymnography. The correspondence between Isaac and Jesus — and between Abraham and God — came to the Church through the revelation our Lord received from the Father's voice.
Eighteen years earlier (Compare Luke 2:42 and 3:23), Jesus had declared He "must be about the things of My Father," en tois tou Patros mou dei einai me (2:49). Now, in the baptism, He begins to comprehend more specifically what are these "things of My Father." From this moment on, the necessity (dei, "must"), of which Jesus spoke to His parents in the Temple, starts to assume a more defined shape.
The Cross, foretold by Simeon when our Lord was yet an infant (2:34-35), begins now — at His baptism — to cast a grim shadow over His sense of vocation and destiny. As enemies reject Jesus' mission, the threat grows more defined and explicit: "The Son of Man must [dei] suffer many things" (9:22). "I must [dei] journey today, tomorrow, and the next day, for it cannot be that a prophet should perish outside of Jerusalem" (13:33). "For as the lightning that flashes out of one part under heaven shines to the other part under heaven, so also the Son of Man will be in His day. But first He must [dei] suffer many things and be rejected by this generation" (17:24-25). "I say to you that this which is written must [dei] still be accomplished in Me: 'And He was numbered with the transgressors'" (22:37).
When Jesus first spoke of God as "My Father," the context of this self-awareness was His participation in Israel's corporate study of Holy Scripture: "they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions. And all who heard Him were astonished at His understanding and answers" (2:46-47). This "understanding" (synesis) of Himself and the Scriptures — doubtless identical with the "wisdom" (sophia) in which, Luke tells us, Jesus continued to grow (2:40,52) — took on a more exact and exacting shape at His baptism.
According to the Epistle to the Hebrews, our Lord, "though being a Son, learned obedience by the things which He suffered" (5:8). It is chiefly Luke, I believe, who tells how — through experience — this obedience was learned.
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Thursday, October 14, 2010
Modifikasi Cross Suzuki Satria FUPosted by eightq at 4:27 PM
"Deliberately throwing banty consequence and angry into a aisle to get out into the forest," said Thinq from Thinq Cycles (TC), which adapt this Hyperunderbone duck
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Front tire: 100/70-19 Swallow
Rear tire: 3.50 to 17 Swallow
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Holy heck, people. Now that is an eyeball. Beach-walker Gino Covacci encountered the monstrosity yesterday while ambling about the Florida coast, and while scientists have yet to identify the creature from whence it came, the consensus seems to be that whatever it was, it was big.
According to the Sun-Sentinal, the waters of Southern Florida abound with large-eyed candidates, including tuna, whales, swordfish and sharks. Charles Messing, a professor at Nova Southeastern University's Oceanographic Center, says he hasn't ruled out the possibility that the eye is from a giant squid, but that his money is on an unlucky swordfish.
For now, the eye has been preserved on ice and shipped to researchers at the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla., where it will be subjected to further analysis. We'll keep you posted on the verdict.


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Bye Bye Disney Passes
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Our passes are expiring today. Our final trip to the mouse house has come. But I think we got our money's worth for the year.
Maggie Beth got to see Merida.
We also got to ride the Jingle Cruise, for the holiday season.
Hezekiah certainly is Goofy!
Checking out the amazing decorative treats, but not eating any!
Maggie is rocking her Disney side on the Mine Cart ride!
And our final fast pass for the season was the Seven Dwarfs Mine Cart Ride.
Farwell Disney, till we meet again.


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PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) - Shares in France's biggest bank BNP Paribas fell sharply on Friday on concerns a possible U.S. fine for alleged sanctions-busting could be big enough to restrict its dividends and force it to raise money to boost its capital.
France's central bank said it was following the case "with the utmost attention" after a report in the Wall Street Journal said the U.S. Justice Department wanted $10 billion from the bank - double the amount which had been previously reported.
BNP declined to comment on the report.
Shares in BNP dropped as much as 6 percent on Friday to their lowest in more than eight months, slashing almost $5 billion off the bank's stock market value.
The decline took its loss to 18 percent since Feb. 13, when the bank first took a 1.1 billion euro ($1.5 billion) provision for a potential sanctions fine as part of a total litigation provision of 2.7 billion euros.
"We don't dare accumulate more (shares) at this stage," said Yohan Salleron, fund manager at Mandarine Gestion in Paris, who cut his exposure to the bank at the start of the year.
Analysts at Citigroup noted a fine of the magnitude reported would cut BNP Paribas' capital ratio to below 10 percent - a level seen as key to staying out the danger zone under tighter post-financial crisis guidelines.
The latest round of European Union "stress tests" of banks' financial health are under way with results due in October.
"This is not good news as we approach the stress tests, which BNP cannot afford to fail. A capital increase may very well be a solution," said Salleron.
"Potentially the bank may not pay a dividend for the next two years ... There is a very real reputation risk here. It could spook certain counterparties into staying away from BNP," Salleron added.
The U.S. Justice Department's investigation is a criminal probe into allegations that the French bank evaded U.S. sanctions against Iran and other countries for years.
The newspaper report said the final settlement could be less than $10 billion. Still, the multibillion dollar figure would put the fine among the largest penalties imposed on a bank and is far higher than what BNP has provisioned for.
HSBC HSBA.L was fined $1.9 billion in December 2012 for compliance failings in Mexico, which U.S. prosecutors said allowed drug cartels to launder money, and for enabling clients to avoid U.S. sanctions on dealings with countries such as Iran, Libya, Sudan, Myanmar and Cuba.
U.S. regulators were criticised after that fine for being too lenient on HSBC.
Investors also fear BNP could face being excluded from activities in the United States should it fail to accept a hefty fine and want to see a quick settlement to avoid continuing uncertainty.
France's government has said little about the issue since early this year when the issue first came to a head. President Francois Hollande was sharply critical of banks and their part in the financial crisis ahead of taking power in 2012, calling the world of finance his "main adversary".
An official of Prime Minister Manuel Valls' office said it was being kept informed but the issue was "a matter between a private business and U.S. justice".
However, since Credit Suisse agreed to pay more than $2.5 billion for helping Americans avoid taxes, French central bank chief Christian Noyer has expressed some concerns about U.S. prosecutors' pursuit of European banks.
A week ago Noyer, also a member the European Central Bank's governing council, said: "Obviously we are very attentive towards risks related to what could be a development in American jurisprudence."
A central bank spokeswoman said on Friday in response to a query about the latest reports: "The Bank of France has no comment to make for now since negotiations are still in progress. The governor of the Bank of France is following this case with the utmost attention."
The finance ministry and the office of Hollande also declined to comment.
The bank's stock was down 5.2 percent at 49.88 euros by 0918 GMT.
(Additional reporting by Jean-Baptiste Vey and Brian Love, with Sudip Kar-Gupta and Steve Slater in London; Writing by Andrew Callus; Editing by David Holmes)


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There's a reason that we're all still carrying physical keys around with us: they're simple, they're reliable, and while you might forget the key itself somewhere, you don't need to remember anything else besides how to put the key in a lock. A recently-spotted patent from Apple suggests that it's trying to make laptop chargers work the exact same way.
Apple's thinking here is that as the battery life of mobile devices improves to the point where we're getting reliable all-day use, people will start leaving their chargers at home. And if your charger stays in a safe place, you might as well use it to unlock your computer or cellphone or tablet or whatever else ends up with this technology in it. When your device isn't plugged in, it'll have a password like normal (you do use passwords, right?), but as soon as you attach a charger, the charger will be all "hey you're safe now," and the password protection will disable itself. As an added advantage, if you ever forget your password, you can just use this method to get into your computer and change it, kinda like having a spare key.
This concept potentially extends beyond chargers to any other hardware that your devices can connect to. Like your cellphone, for example. Or your home wireless router. Wouldn't it be handy if all of your gadgets would automatically unlock themselves whenever they knew they were safe and sound at your house? And then whenever they were outside, they'd switch back over to asking for your password again.
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The obvious downside here is that if anyone ever steals your laptop and your charger (or your cellphone or wireless router or whatever your laptop happens to be linked to), they'll have immediate access to all of your data. But, for people who carry their iWhatevers around with them everywhere, this should help protect you and your files from casual thievery.
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The Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center (VIC) at Massachusetts General Hospital has a straightforward goal: It aims to speed up the development of new vaccines and treatments capable of combating cancer, diabetes and deadly infectious diseases. But for director and founder, Mark Poznansky, MD, PhD, and the researchers involved, that mission requires a level of nerve and determination that defies simple explanation.
Most of the potential breakthroughs that make headlines fade into footnotes before they produce an actual treatment. Tougher regulatory requirements have increased the difficulty of getting them from the laboratory to the bedside, a journey that can take 15 years and cost more than $1 billion.
Recent economic troubles have reduced the chances of lining up funding. The availability of grants for basic research has tightened. Biotech concerns and pharmaceutical companies have grown wary of investing in projects that aren't already far enough along to be ready for human testing. For every 5,000 to 10,000 compounds that enter the research and development process, just 250 successfully reach the stage of preclinical animal testing, where VIC typically considers projects. Of them, only about five move on to human trials. Some call the resulting gap in the process the "valley of death."
To cross it, Mass General's Satoshi Kashiwagi, MD, PhD, is relying on VIC. He is trying to boost the protective power of vaccines using laser light. The former Soviet Union once treated the underlying theory as a military secret. Dr. Kashiwagi's initial lab results have been promising. Even so, the thought of singlehandedly negotiating the development barriers ahead is daunting. "If I was just working alone in one laboratory at Mass General, I would be lost," Dr. Kashiwagi says.
VIC focuses on locating the most promising research and safely accelerating its transformation into new lifesaving products. VIC shepherds researchers through the early steps of the development process. The intended result is a more compelling investment for venture capitalists, pharmaceutical concerns, foundations and other entities that can support such a project through the final stages and to approval. "There is a great need for new vaccines and immunotherapies for cancers and infectious diseases but the rate at which these are being developed is extremely slow," says Dr. Poznansky. "We are trying to accelerate that development by leveraging expertise broadly from both academia and industry."
A Sharply Defined Strategy
"There is a great need for new vaccines and immunotherapies for cancers and infectious diseases but the rate at which these are being developed is extremely slow," says Dr. Poznansky.
Backed by a cadre of philanthropists that VIC seeks to expand, Dr. Poznansky has assembled a panel of physicians, scientists and business executives with deep experience in the process. Dr. Poznansky and the committee choose VIC's projects and guide the researchers involved. Their input ranges from market intelligence on competing research to advice on gathering specific safety data that can increase the chances of final approval. Their support can also include help in developing more effective delivery devices, such as handheld lasers or microneedles.
One objective is to make a sharply defined development strategy part of a research project's plan from the start. While some VIC projects have immediate commercial potential, others focus on so-called neglected diseases, such as cholera, which primarily impact impoverished people. In all cases, VIC selects projects it believes can have a significant and immediate effect upon the lives of patients. "Whatever we deliver out of VIC has to be broadly applicable," explains Dr. Poznansky, whose own career focuses on discovering previously unknown ways that the body fights infection and cancer and then using his findings to develop new treatments.
VIC underscores the array of assets Mass General can bring to the development arena, asserts Frances Toneguzzo, PhD, executive director, Research Ventures and Licensing for Partners HealthCare, the nonprofit healthcare system that owns the hospital. It's also reflects the missions of Mass General and Partners, she adds. "It is about helping people even when you know you are not going to make a huge financial impact," says Dr. Toneguzzo, who also serves on VIC's advisory board. "Primarily, we are about helping sick people."
New vaccines are urgently needed to combat drug-resistant bacteria. Meanwhile, vaccines and immunotherapy continue to show promise against cancer. "VIC addresses both of those very real needs," says Eugene Hill, a managing partner of SV LifeSciences, a venture capital concern, and a member of the VIC advisory board. Mr. Hill and his wife, Joan, are among the center's key philanthropic supporters.
Tackling Regulation and Finance
Universities and academic medical centers still evaluate researchers based largely on their capacity to land basic research grants and write about lab findings in scholarly journals. Tackling development-related regulation and finance isn't typically required. Dr. Poznansky says VIC's researchers are highly talented scientists with important ideas. Professionally, it is inefficient for them to focus on the nitty-gritty of development. "The fact that they are willing to contemplate this is extraordinary," he marvels.
Jennifer Wargo, MD, has personal reasons. The Mass General surgical oncologist is working with VIC to develop a strategy combining genetic targeted therapy and immunotherapy designed to halt the growth of melanoma cells and make them more susceptible to the body's immune system. Cancer took the lives of Dr. Wargo's parents. A surgeon who was a beloved mentor in medical school succumbed to melanoma. Dr. Wargo's research received crucial philanthropic support from Leslie Schlesinger, a close friend who died in July. "Leslie was an inspiration. She lives on through all of us and through this work," Dr. Wargo says. Dr. Wargo is motivated through the care of her patients. "I am reminded daily that we need to do research to improve treatment options for people with cancer," she explains.
VIC researcher Edward Ryan, MD, feels the weight of numbers. As chief of Tropical Medicine at Mass General, he has devoted more than two decades to studying cholera, an acute diarrheal disease that strikes as many as five million people a year, most of them in high-poverty areas of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Dr. Ryan is co-leader with Stephen Calderwood, MD, chief of Infectious Diseases at MGH and Firdausi Qadri, PhD, at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research in Bangladesh, of an effort to harness the memory power of the human immune system to develop a longer-lasting cholera vaccine that is easily administered.
Because a new vaccine isn't likely to generate enormous profits, Dr. Ryan hopes VIC can help stir interest among philanthropic donors. For a physician who has treated countless cholera patients, merely publishing studies feels like an inadequate response to a disease that continues to kills more than 100,000 people a year. "It's tiring to your soul to see patients with cholera rolling through the door again and again and again," Dr. Ryan says.
Jeffrey Gelfand, MD, former dean for research at Tufts University School of Medicine, and currently a physician and immunologist at Mass General, has an emotional investment in VIC's development efforts on behalf of the Jantibody molecule. Designed to make the immune system attack cancer cells in the same way they might try to reject a transplanted organ, the molecule is named for Dr. Gelfand's late wife, Janet, who died from ovarian cancer in 2006. "This is a deeply personal battle for me," says Dr. Gelfand who, as VIC's senior scientist, provides the center's other researchers with the benefit of more than 30 years of experience in navigating the obstacles involved in bringing laboratory breakthroughs to the bedside.
Dr. Gelfand was involved in a State Department effort to find peaceful pursuits for Russian scientists previously involved in research related to biological weapons. As a team leader for the Center for Integration of Medicine & Innovative Technology (CIMIT), a consortium of Boston universities and teaching hospitals that includes Mass General, Dr. Gelfand assessed once secret Soviet research.
At one hospital, he saw Russian researchers applying laser beams to the skin of cancer patients to boost the power of a tumor vaccine. The results were stunning and researchers also indicated lasers were effective in enhancing vaccines for flu and hepatitis B. Dr. Gelfand and his American colleagues were intrigued but cautious. "Not all of the research in Russia was well done," says Timothy Brauns, VIC's strategic planner. "It needed to be validated and in a disciplined way so that we could then find out how you build a device to do this."
Dr. Poznansky, Dr. Gelfand, Mr. Brauns and other VIC advisers are helping Dr. Satoshi Kashiwagi develop the laser treatment with the precision that can pass U.S. regulatory muster.
Real and Tangible Impact
Dr. Kashiwagi's initial studies, with laboratory mice, found that the protective power of the flu vaccine can be increased significantly by briefly focusing a narrow laser beam on the injection site. Dr. Kashiwagi is now working with hepatitis B vaccine and VIC, the project's sponsor, is seeking philanthropic support to begin related testing in humans. The work might one day be applied to various diseases. Indeed, Dr. Kashiwagi and Dr. Poznansky recently received a Gates Foundation grant to support the application of the laser technology to increase the effect of polio vaccination.
VIC has changed Dr. Kashiwagi's outlook. Rather than simply concentrating on how laser light interacts with the skin's immune cells to enhance a vaccine, he has also gathered safety data related to the machine that produces the beam. With VIC's help, Dr. Kashiwagi is working on the development of an inexpensive, handheld laser device, one that would be a safe and simple tool for use anywhere.
His goal is to embrace the development process and have a real and tangible impact on the lives of children and families. "I want to see that happen in my lifetime," Dr. Kashiwagi says, adding that VIC's support make such dreams achievable.
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By Amy Lignor
Was it pretty? Absolutely not. It was, however, unbelievably freezing!
Although there were two NFC wild card games yesterday, it was the game between San Francisco and Green Bay that was real and utter football. It was the game you want to see. It's the game you wait all year to see. Rivals. Dynasties that have broken each other's dreams almost every single year when one beat the other to move forward or head straight to the Super Bowl and win the whole darn thing. You expect that when the Packers meet the Niners it should not only be good…it should be great. And yesterday, neither team let the fans down.
The Ice Bowl returneth! The white breath filled the air and when players were smashed on the turf (which, oh, boy, they were constantly), no one bounced. It was amazing that more of the players didn't just stay down. But again, these two dynasties have that killer instinct, the drive to win, and they've been to the 'big show' so many times they know exactly how to get there.
Kap, the young Montana in some peoples' eyes, ran a whole lot more than he passed. This is last year's rookie who went to the Super Bowl last year (and most say he won it because of the messed-up refs that will go down in history as being completely and utterly bad at their jobs that day.)
Aaron Rodgers, the Green Bay QB who has been absent for quite a while this season, was coming off the awesome win last week, ready to lead his team straight through the Niners in front of his home crowd. Then, he would look toward the state of Washington with hope that they could defeat the Seattle Seahawks. Well, yes, there is another game before then, but Seattle truly looks like the 'sure' bet to represent the NFC side of the ball in the Super Bowl this year. (Hopefully, we'll be wrong).
At the beginning of the season it was the Niners being called the sure NFC bet; Kap would lead his team back to the Super Bowl without a problem. The only decision to be made was whether or not Manning and the Broncos, or Brady and the Patriots would stand across from him on the field to bring home the Lombardi trophy.
Well…things change, don't they? Although the AFC is still looking like a Peyton Manning versus Tom Brady shoot-out, it would be thrilling to see the Colts, after this weekend's amazing game, head into MetLife stadium when the big day arrives.
Drew has one notch on his belt, taking the New Orleans Saints one step closer by crushing the Eagles hopes. The Bengals said goodbye (although pat them on the back, considering no one said they would even have the chance to say hello). The Chargers forge ahead, and the Colts and Chiefs monumental game definitely showed NFL fans everywhere that the power of Luck can win a game!
So the Chargers head to the land of the best, wondering if it's even possible to push Peyton Manning off his perch. (No, by the way, it's not).
Colts will face the Patriots, and even though Brady is considered the man (or the second man, after Manning), Luck and the Colts do have a very good chance to be the ones who…Did! Go! All! The! Way!
The Carolina Panthers are about to host the 'Ice Bowl 2014' survivors, with most experts and fans already calling the Niners to be the ones moving forward to the NFC Championship.
But when it comes to wild card games, both the Packers and the Niners can be proud. The Pack will be back next year – everyone knows this. Aaron is their spine and he is now healed, ready to go, and will have a whole off-season to get primed even more.
Perhaps the greatest part of yesterday's Ice Bowl was watching Niners Head Coach Harbaugh jump up and down and dance wildly on the sidelines. Usually this is done because he's really mad about something, or he's really thrilled with his team. Yesterday, it was basically just to keep the blood from freezing in his veins.
Yet another awesome Packers/Niners post-season game that was completely up-for-grabs the entire time. THIS is what football is all about. Now go home and defrost, guys. Game well played!
Until Next Time, Everybody,


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As Roman Catholic cardinals meet to choose the future pontiff, Wabash music professor James Makubuya recalls the blessing Pope John Paul II gave him and his work more than 20 years ago.
Makubuya was a student in his early 20s when he traveled to Rome in 1980 as director of the National Choir of Uganda. His 150-member ensemble of singers and instrumentalists offered the first presentation of indigenous African worship music at the Vatican during a Mass at St. Peter's Basilica celebrated by Pope John Paul II. The pontiff was so moved by the sound of voices in eight-part harmony and African rhythms and instruments that he halted the recessional.
"I could hear him saying to his aides, 'I need to speak with this man,' but I didn't know why he'd need to talk with me," Makubuya recalls. "I was concerned when he motioned me over."
Walking cautiously to where the Pope was standing, Makubuya knelt to kiss the Papal ring.
John Paul stopped him.
"He said, 'No, no—you don't need to do that. I just want to thank you.' And he gave me a hug. I didn't know what to say.
"God bless you, and God bless your choir," the Pope told Makubuya. Then he smiled and walked away."
As surprised and gratified as their director by the Pope's affection and appreciation, Makubuya's choir began to clap while journalists snapped photographs of the moment.
It was a high point of Makubuya's life that almost didn't happen.
The choir's visit had been sponsored by Ugandan Cardinal Emmanuel Nsubuga, but the day before the were to appear before the Pope, the Vatican's liturgical director questioned the group's technical ability. The Basilica's highly trained choir traditionally sang at Masses celebrated there by the Pope. The Vatican director saw little reason to depart from the tradition.
So Cardinal Nsubuga convinced Makubuya to present a preview to the Vatican director. First they sang Western-style worship music to near perfection. The official said he'd heard all he needed to hear. But Makubuya insisted he stay to listen to a rehearsal of the African worship music, as well.
"When they finished, this man asked to speak to the choir," Makubuya recalls. "He stood before them and, in his best English (with an Italian accent), said, 'Tomorrow you shall sing in St. Peter's Basilica.'"
When John Paul died April 2, Makubuya found the photographs others had taken that day at St. Peter's.
"I felt very sad when he died, and I used these pictures to help me remember that meeting, to remember him."
Makubuya recalls a story his sister told him about the Pope's visit to her village in Uganda in 1993.
"He was on his way to celebrate Mass at the site of the Ugandan Martyrs when he saw a lame child," Makubuya says. "He stopped, asked the mother to bring him the child, then he blessed the boy and hugged him. In Uganda, no one had seen anything like that—such a man stopping to bless a lame child.
"But he was a man to whom everyone was the same," Makubuya adds. "In 1980 when we performed at the Vatican, I was just a young man from that same village in Uganda. Who was I to be so honored?"
John Paul's words to Makubuya proved prophetic—his life and work have been blessed. He is married with four children, and he has started African musical ensembles at UCLA (where he earned his doctorate as an ethnomusicologist), then MIT, and, most recently, at Wabash. Here his Wamidan world music ensemble has performed the same offertory dance and song his National Choir of Uganda once presented to the Pope.
Makubuya recalls the final words John Paul spoke to him that day more than 25 years ago:
"He said, 'You are going to come back to St. Peter's Basilica and sing again,' and I started to interrupt him, to explain that would not be possible. 'No, he said, you will come back, though maybe I won't be the Pope. There may be another Pope, then. But you must come back.'"


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Malloy wins in a landslide
Dem race for gov: Former city mayor beats Lamont
Dannel P. Malloy is Connecticut's newest comeback kid.
Four years after losing a primary for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, and two months after falling behind Ned Lamont by 17 points, Malloy easily secured a place on the November ballot for the office he has long coveted.
A landslide win over Lamont Tuesday night set Malloy up for a battle against another Greenwich multi-millionaire, as Tom Foley won the Republican nod with a victory over Malloy's fellow Stamford resident, Lt. Gov. Michael Fedele.
Malloy, the former mayor of Stamford, captured 58 percent of the vote, compared with Lamont's 42 percent.
Malloy will be the party's standard-bearer this fall, as Democrats try to regain the governor's office for the first time since William A. O'Neill completed his term in January 1991. Malloy, 55, a former mayor of Stamford, will continue his campaign with his choice for lieutenant governor, Nancy Wyman.
Though the campaigns of both Malloy and Lamont became increasingly bitter as the primary grew near, Malloy pledged they would work together to "make sure the next governor of the state of Connecticut is a Democrat."
"We have got to unite Democrats, independents and Republicans to change Connecticut," Malloy told his supporters during his victory party at City Steam Brewery in Hartford.
Of his own political future, Lamont said "tonight is not a good night to ask that question ... maybe I'm not a natural-born politician."
Still, he said "tomorrow is a new day." He said he will meet with his advisers to "talk and start healing."
Malloy called on Democrats throughout the state to come together and "re-create the state of Connecticut."
"The next administration begins by telling the truth to the people of Connecticut," Malloy said to hundreds of cheering supporters. "For too long Connecticut's leadership has failed to inform the public, to bring them in and make them partners. That's going to change. It is the hallmark of the new Malloy administration."
Malloy said the difference between this year and 2006, when he lost to New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr., is that his campaign has stayed intact.
"I've worked really hard. We've had wonderful support across the board, across the state," Malloy said. "We split labor support, but I think I got the hardest workers. What really is the difference is that our team never came apart from four years ago. It always stuck together and it only got larger. I went from winning a convention by one vote to winning a convention by 2-to-1. Our team never broke apart."
Lamont became a two-time statewide political loser, adding the gubernatorial primary campaign to his 2006 loss in the U.S. Senate election to Joe Lieberman. He caught lightning in a bottle in the primary four years ago, using his opposition to the war in Iraq as a wedge to defeat the incumbent, who then won the November election as an independent.
The mood at Testo's, a large ballroom restaurant and catering hall owned by Mario Testa, the Bridgeport Democratic town chairman, was never charged with pending victory Tuesday. Returns never showed Lamont in the lead and the crowd of supporters never numbered more than 300.
Lamont and his running mate, Mary Messina Glassman, appeared just before 10 p.m. and tried to put on their best faces, urging supporters to join the Malloy-Wyman camp.
"So we're driving over here and my cell phone goes off," Lamont began in his concession speech. "And my daughter in the back seat says `Oh God, I hope is not another of those Ned Lamont robo-calls.' "
"You have to keep a sense of humor about this," he said.
Lamont pledged his support to Malloy and began chanting "Don't look back, look forward."
"That's the way you win and that's the way Dan will win -- by telling the truth."
Lamont said the Democrats need to show voters they can deliver an honest, balanced budget and create the first new jobs Connecticut has seen in more than 20 years.
Nancy DiNardo, of Trumbull, chairwoman of the Democratic State Central Committee, said earlier Tuesday night that she expected the loser to work for the winner during the remainder of the campaign.
"As I've traveled around the state, both our gubernatorial candidates were saying come Aug. 11, we have to come back as one," DiNardo told reporters at City Steam Brewery while Lamont was publicly conceding in Bridgeport at 9:45 p.m.
When asked if he thought it was worth dropping $9 million of his own fortune on the gubernatorial run, Lamont quipped "You had to remind me" before adding "it was an honor to run for governor" and try to get to Hartford "with no strings attached ... I'm proud to have invested in a campaign to change Connecticut."
Malloy, a 55-year-old lawyer who served 14 years as mayor of Stamford, used $2.5 million in the state's voluntary public financing program to defeat Lamont, a cable TV executive.
Malloy held his own in Bridgeport, New Haven and Hartford, despite the endorsements of local Democratic leaders for Lamont.
While Malloy was the party-endorsed candidate during the May convention, Lamont, using support from some unions and legislative leaders -- pressed for the primary.
The campaign was marked by dueling Lamont and Malloy TV and radio ads, in which the latter charged that Lamont laid off 70 percent of his workers. Lamont's ads suggested there was something shady about Malloy's home renovations and said Malloy's claims of creating 5,000 jobs while mayor were erroneous.
Lamont claimed employees of a division he sold off were placed in other jobs, while the former chief state's attorney who investigated the work on Malloy's home has said no wrongdoing was found in a year-long investigation.
Lamont made the concession phone call to Malloy's fifth-floor suite at the Residence Inn in Hartford at about 9:15 p.m.
"It was pretty moving," Malloy said in an interview. "I've won a primary and I've lost a primary. Winning is better."


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Shiraz wine, walnuts, Camembert cheese, and dark chocolate could be wine bar fare at its best. In my cupcake-centric world, however, they are the ingredients in wine and cheese cupcakes.
Serve these wine and cheese cupcakes at your next wine party. In fact, plan a wine party around them. These wine and cheese cupcakes are worth it! Don't be scared by the Camembert. It's a stinky cheese, for sure, but once it's baked into the cupcakes, your guests won't detect it; they will only note a that these chocolate cupcakes have a sublime sophistication. They are chocolate cupcakes all grown up.
Note: While it's a common practice to nose wine before drinking it, be careful about nosing the cupcakes. You may end up with a frosting-covered schnoz.
About the Camembert
I received the Camembert cheese as a gift from Ile de France. I have had the good fortune to get to sample quite a few of their cheeses and I am never disappointed. Here are some of the other Ile de France cupcakes that I have made:
- The Devil and the Monk cupcakes, using Chaumes cheese.
- Peach pie cupcakes with brie cheese.
- Black bottom cupcakes with goat cheese.
Wine and Cheese Cupcake Recipe
Cooking With Wine inspired these cupcakes in a roundabout way.
I created this recipe by modifying a chocolate red wine cake recipe that I found on Eric Hazzard's Wine Hazard. It's worth heading over there just to read the way Eric writes the recipe. It's different and fun. The recipe originally came from Food and Wine magazine and was inspired by Anne Willan's Cooking with Wine.
Here is my adaptation of the recipe:
Wine and Cheese Cupcakes
- 2 C all-purpose flour
- 3/4 C unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 C unsalted butter room temperature
- 4 oz Camembert cheese
- 1 3/4 C sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 1/4 C dry red wine I was looking for a wine that would pair well with Camembert and ended up using a Shiraz, thanks to Miranda McElhiney's suggestion on my Facebook page. Feel free to experiment with other wines.
- 1 C walnut halves
- In a medium-sized bowl, whisk the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt.
- In another medium-sized bowl, beat the butter, cheese, and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Mix in the eggs one at a time and beat until incorporated.
- Mix in the vanilla.
- Alternately mix the dry ingredients and the red wine into the butter mixture until just combined.
- Fold in the walnuts. (You can chop them if you prefer, but I liked the nice big chunks.)
- Fill cupcake liners 3/4 full.
- Bake at 350 F for 20 minutes or until cupcakes bounce back when lightly touched.


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Skin Folds
Inverse psoriasis can occur in skin folds such as the armpits and under the breasts. Friction and sweat can irritate this form of psoriasis.
Weaker corticosteroids are often used to treat inverse psoriasis in skin folds. These areas can be prone to yeast or fungal infections, so corticosteroids are sometimes used in combination with other medications.
Other topical treatments, such as calcipotriene (Dovonex), coal tar or anthralin, can be somewhat effective in treating psoriasis in skin folds. However, they may also be irritating. They should be used with caution and under the direction of a doctor. People with severe inverse psoriasis may occasionally require systemic medications to control the condition.
Your doctor may prescribe a product called Castellani's Paint, which is used to treat inverse psoriasis. This product is compounded by a pharmacist or bought over the counter as brand name Castederm. It is a liquid that can be painted on the affected skin. It can help dry the moist lesions of psoriasis in skin folds. Powders may also help to dry the moist lesions. Some people use creams at night and powders in the morning.
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Home Alone…
Time keeps passing. I don't know where it goes to.
This weekend has been somewhat strange. The bloke is away for the weekend at a stag do and I'm home with just the doggy for company. I don't remember the last time I was here on my own overnight, let alone for a whole weekend, so I don't really know what to do with myself. Aside from my trip in the summer, there have been so few times when I've been without the bloke for more than a day since we went to uni. I was "well" in the summer too and now things are not so easy. I am managing, but it has made me realise how used I am to having him around and how much his presence keeps me functioning. Without him here, the temptation to give in and give up is so much greater.
Getting up and dressed is a struggle at the moment and I feel even less urge to conform when I don't have reminders from the bloke. The guilt wears on me when he's about and it serves to push me into action. It was only the desperate requests from the dog to be let out, that dragged me out of bed this morning. The thought of having to clean up any mess was enough to force me downstairs, but I climbed back in when she was sorted. I had to get up in the end as I was going over to a new friend's for her kiddy's 1st birthday party, but it took me literally hours to work myself up to that. Without that commitment today, the temptation would have been to stay in bed all weekend.
Food is another problem. The bloke is the cook in our house. I can bake cakes, but when it comes to a proper meal I don't tend to bother. I don't have the best appetite these days, but when food is presented to me I do tend to eat. Without the bloke around to cook for me, I don't tend to bother. I'm even less inclined to cook at the moment as both our oven and the microwave are broken.
The dog is a commitment too and she does keep me going, but she isn't as effective at nagging as the bloke is and I find the commitment straining. She did get me up this morning and she gets me into the kitchen, prompting me to eat at the same time that I feed her, but she is also tiring and I feel guilty when I just want to stay in bed and ignore her. She also got me to go outside for a walk, which I know is good for me, but at the same time I wish I didn't have to. It's so tempting not to bother, but I cannot deny her a walk for long or she turns into a great big bonkers thing, which is even more draining to live with than the walk.
I'm really tired. I want to sleep forever, yet sleeping for just a few hours seems to be enough of a challenge. It was late when I finally dragged myself upstairs to bed last night and I sat and knitted up there for a while because I couldn't sleep.
Before the bloke left, I had to promise I'd be safe this weekend. He has been somewhat paranoid over the past few weeks that I'm suicidal again. The last two years have been particularly difficult at this time, in the run up to my birthday, so I know he is on edge. He doesn't trust me at all and although I know his fears are not unfounded and it is only because he cares, it is still hard. One day last week I had nipped out and wasn't home when he was due back from work. My mobile phone battery had died so he couldn't get hold of me. I'd even left a note to say that I'd be back in a minute, because I worried that without my phone he would wonder where the hell I was, but he didn't see it and just flew into a tailspin instead. He completely jumped to conclusions and panicked that I'd gone out to kill myself.
I'd actually nipped out to rescue the dog's ball because she had lost it on our walk and I couldn't get it out of the brambles and control her at the same time. She has a habit of diving head first into all the brambles and rose briers to rescue her ball then getting stuck – we both end up cut and bleeding, as I have to battle to rescue both her and the ball. I literally had to drag her home, shut her in the house and then go back out to dig out the ball from the bushes. By the time I got home I was greeted by the bloke just about to drive off in my car to try and find me, ranting and raving with anger. This isn't the first time this has happened, but it the first time in a long while and I was disappointed that things had not moved on and that the trust hasn't been rebuilt by now.
It turns out that he mainly panicked because he had been reading my mood log. I was updating one online and I had no idea he had been reading it. I tended to keep my notes in there very short and they were only for me, so a note mentioning suicidal planning thoughts did not necessarily mean what he thought it did. I was angry that he had invaded my privacy again, but I know it only comes from fear and concern. I don't feel able to update the log any more though. It was meant to be for me and no one else. A reminder of how things are, because so often I cannot remember what my mood was like a week or a month ago.
But anyway. I agreed that I will be safe. I am safe, but it doesn't mean the temptation isn't there. My mood is low and I'd be lying if I said I didn't think about it. This weekend would have been the perfect opportunity and there are times when I cannot help the thoughts, but I have resigned myself to sticking around for a while yet.
I know the fact it is winter and in the run up to my birthday can't be helping. I have been in hospital at this time for the last two years, and both times I was desperately suicidal and determined not to be around for my birthday. This year I seem to have accepted that I will be around and although I am not overly happy about it, I'm resigned to it. I am low and I don't really want to be alive, but I feel the obligation to be. Also, I'm not sure why, but being 25 seems like a much better idea than 24 anyway – something about round numbers I think. My worry is that I'm already having to battle the thoughts that 25 is a good age to die. I have no desire to see 26, even if I am sure I will see 25. I hope that my mood will pick up before those thoughts get too strong or that the approach of my 26th birthday gets too urgent.
As for my 25th birthday, as Seaneen will recall, my invite for a smear test arrived. I went and had it a couple weeks ago and it was fairly painless and straightforward, although I bled quite a bit afterwards. Unfortunately though I got a letter on Thursday saying the result was "inconclusive" so I have to go and have another one in three months. I think this was just a case of not enough cells, at least that's what I'm hoping, but it's still pretty annoying to have to wait before they do it again.
In other news, I've had a review form for DLA to fill in for a couple of weeks now and I've failed to do it. I wrote to them before Christmas at the same time I wrote to notify the DWP that I was starting work part-time for ESA purposes, to say there had been *some* improvement to my condition since my initial application for DLA. I felt I had to, as I have been receiving Higher Rate Care and I am not sure I should be getting that rate any more. They sent me out a review form and I started to complete it, but I made a complete mess. I filled in my surname in the first name section, my date of birth wrong and made mistakes all over the place, because I couldn't concentrate enough to fill it in and my memory is so shoddy I kept forgetting things. After some frustration, I rang them to ask for another form because I had made so many mistakes. I got this replacement two weeks ago now and I have still not even started it. Thankfully because I requested the review rather than them, there is no deadline for me to get it back, but I know I need to do it. I can't face it though. I can copy across the stuff that was correct on my first attempt, but I don't know what to do about the rest of it. The form is overwhelming and I don't know what to write, especially as my mood has been so unstable of late. Sometimes I look at the form, think nothing is wrong and answer everything as if I was fine, but other days I look at the form and realise I can't do any of the things it asks, including filling in the form for that matter. I know you have to say how your good and bad days very and highlight what the worst case scenario is, but I just don't know what to write. I don't even know what to put in the diagnosis section. Should I have told them that my diagnosis is under question back when it was first questioned a year ago, or can I just tell them I don't know any more? I guess the latter is the truth, I don't know, but I'm not sure if I should have told them I don't know. As far as DLA and ESA are concerned, I assume they think my diagnosis to be Bipolar II disorder, which is what it was when I applied. As I don't know what it has been changed to, I guess I can't tell them, but I worry about what Dr M or Dr N will write when asked. I hate having to evaluate how bad I am. I honestly don't know.
Hmm I don't know what else to write. There are things I keep thinking about to write, but I just don't know what to say. It has been the same all week. For weeks really. I am meant to be keeping a diary for therapy again and I haven't managed to write anything properly. I just don't know what to say. Brain is mush. I cannot think, I can barely feel. I just want a new head.
I am feeling increasingly agitated this evening. I am not sure why. Maybe now is the time I stop and knit for a bit to see if it calms me down. I spent a lot of yesterday knitting – I made a hat for the little boy's birthday today and started a frilly scarf and it kept me busy and distracted whilst I was on my own. It's the first thing I've done for a while. I haven't had the motivation or the concentration for a while. Sometimes I get the urge to knit and think of a million projects I could be doing and other days I cannot even comprehend lifting the needles. There has been a lot of the latter lately, yet yesterday my head was buzzing with ideas of things I could knit. I can only knit so much though and when my concentration is so crap lately as much as I want to make these magical creations, there's no way I'm actually able to. I end up having to undo as much as I do.
hmm. Head is starting to spin. I'm both tired and agitated and feel like I may need to throw things soon if things get any worse. I don't know why I am feeling like this. I have been good lately and I'm avoiding caffeine in the hope that would ease the occasional agitation, but it doesn't seem to be helping. Maybe I should just go to bed and try to sleep or maybe I should have a bath. Perhaps I'm just grouchy and tired. I don't know.
This is a bitty post. I don't seem able to write properly at the moment. I started writing this about 4pm and it's now 11.30pm. It's not even very long. I have found it really hard to try and get things down or to concentrate on it. I have watched bits of TV and fed the animals and stuff in between, but the rest of the time I have just been staring at the box wondering what to put in it, or more likely how to slow down and speed up and unravel my thoughts to try and type them. Some of the time it feels like my brain is like treacle and the thoughts are just so slow and other times they are bouncing around and rattling off the sides and at the moment both is happening at the same time and it just feels like a big ball of mush. It all makes no sense.
Anyway I am going to stop and kick the dog outside. She's already taken herself to bed, but she needs to go out or I'll get woken up very early in the morning! I don't intend on being up early. The bloke isn't due back until at least mid-afternoon and I think I'm leaning towards a morning of hibernation.


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Chiisai-u (ゥ) is a Normal/Ground glitch Pokémon in the Generation I games.
It occupies slot 205 in the game and evolves into the Pokémon Spearow at Level 9 and then into Fearow at Level 20. The game crashes when the Pokémon is encountered or sent into battle. It can only be obtained in the wild through method #3 of the Mew Glitch with a Special of 193. It can be found on Red, Green, Blue, and Yellow.
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- 64-bit Support—Family Tree Maker 2014 is 64-bit compliant. It will install as 32-bit or 64-bit depending on the system you are using. If you have a 64-bit system (hardware and operating system), you will now have access to additional memory beyond the 4GB 32-bit limit. So any high-memory consuming actions that were not possible with the 32-bit version may be possible with the 64-bit version.
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Japanese bento boxes have come with anti-bacterial silver ions for some time, like these ones. This helps to prevent your food from going bad, especially in hot weather.
Now Lock n Lock's EZ-Lock range also some with Ag+ ions. After you remove the cardboard packaging, the Ag+ boxes can be distinguished by their lids of a slightly lighter shade of blue compared to standard EZ-Lock. View the latest 2009-2010 Lock n Lock catalogue here (only works with Internet Explorer).
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I'm still holding to the thought -- Dan has a super veto power to use on the HOH comp. That's my twist!!
welcome to the forum Iheart we are so glad you stopped lurking and started posting! I was a big memphis fan and think he is a cutie but his arrogance has turned me against him I am puling for keesha ....I know dream on right? Anyway glad you are here with us welcome to our happy but a little crazywhich is just how we like it by the way family
Welcome, Iheart! I don't think memphis is hot/sexy. He's pudgey!!!! But, I'd rather look at him vs the old troll!
Personally I think Memphis is an arrogant pudgey snot!!!
Quote from: bbjunkey on September 09, 2008, 12:46:04 PMI'm still holding to the thought -- Dan has a super veto power to use on the HOH comp. That's my twist!!I like your thinking BBjunkey
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bistro dinner
Somehow I managed to pull off a major win tonight with dinner. Skirt steak, green beans, and mashed potatoes doesn't sound all that groundbreaking—or even interesting—but it managed to kind of be both.
First, I marinated the skirt steak for about half an hour, maybe a touch longer, in a mixture of lime juice (2 limes), soy sauce (less than 1/4 cup), olive oil (also less than 1/4 cup), and a dash each of Worcestershire, cumin, and paprika. I seared the steak for about 3 1/2 minutes on each side in a cast iron skillet with some sliced sweet onions. Once out of the pan, I let it rest for a couple of minutes before slicing against the grain.
I sautéd the green beans in a touch of olive oil with salt and pepper for about 6 minutes, then poured in about 2/3 cup of water, covered the pan, and let the beans get tender. After I took the lid off, I let the water evaporate, then threw in a mixture of butter, garlic, and paprika and cooked until the beans got a little wrinkly.
The potatoes were nothing special—just one russet potato, boiled with skin on, and mashed with some sour cream, butter, and a little salt and pepper. I should have added some garlic, but they didn't really suffer for the lack.
The whole meal was so balanced and the flavors were full without being overwhelming.
The skirt steak was my own creation—it's pretty much the same marinade I use for fajitas—but it turns out it's also pretty similar to an Alton Brown recipe. The green beans were from a Cook's Illustrated recipe and, typically, there are several variations with different aromatics and flavors, and I want to try them all because it was such a good veggie. The potatoes . . . well, mashed potatoes are mashed potatoes. I would have used milk instead of sour cream, but we're out; otherwise, the potatoes were, you know, standard.
All in all, a filling, delicious, and reasonably healthy meal. Oh, and total cost? The skirt steak was $5.99, the green beans were $1.99, and the potato was probably about a buck. Under $10 for a delicious meal for two? FTW.


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Six agonizing, frustrating years in the making, Christine Girard offered a golden message about drug-free sport after finally receiving her long overdue Olympic weightlifting gold medal.
"Good things take time," Girard said, wiping away tears after a lavish ceremony Monday at the National Arts Centre. "It's the long-term game and that's what we have to believe in. It was so long, but it was worth it."
Girard originally won the bronze in the 63-kilogram class at the 2012 Games in London. After a re-testing of blood samples in 2016, however, the gold and silver medal winners — Maiya Maneza of Kazakhstan and Svetlana Tzarukaeva of Russia — were stripped of their medals, along with their dignity, for steroid use.
Girard learned of her golden upgrade in April, but it was formalized Monday as she received the royal treatment in front of family and friends.
Girard stood on a makeshift Olympic podium as a children's glee club from Montreal sang O Canada and a Maple Leaf flag was raised to the rafters.
Back in 2016, Girard also learned that she had won a bronze from the 2008 Games in Beijing, bumped up from fourth place when original silver medallist Irina Mekrassova of Kazakhstan also tested positive for steroid use.
In the process, Girard became the first Canadian woman to win an Olympic weightlifting medal.
As part of the festivities honouring Girard, Mounties brought Girard's gold and bronze medals into the NAC.
"Today is a victory for our country, our values and it's a victory for clean sport," she said. "It goes way beyond my name. I have my name associated to such a great story, but everybody needs to believe in their dreams. There's a lot of hard work and patience. That's what my medals mean to me."
Under similar circumstances, many other athletes might have chosen to become bitter or turn inward about their misfortune.
They might also have chosen to bad mouth the athletes who took the clean out of the clean-and-jerk while stressing what was lost rather than what was gained.
By not being awarded for her medals amid the spotlight of the Olympic moments, Girard unquestionably lost out on significant endorsement and sponsorship possibilities. Trampoline star Rosie MacLennan was Canada's only other gold medallist in London.
Girard originally received $10,000 from the Canadian Olympic Committee for winning the bronze in 2012, but says she has been promised the additional $10,000 that is awarded to gold medallists.
"I'm convinced that I lost a lot," she said, candidly. "I trained in a carport that was barely heated, but that's also where I built a gold medal from London. If I had those medals (at the) time, I would have had a different life. That's for sure. But now I have to chance to go out there and tell my story and say, 'Hey, it's worth it to believe. It's worth it to do it the right way'."
While she says she was never once encouraged by a Canadian coach, trainer or official to take steroids to increase her strength, she recognizes that's not necessarily the case for weightlifters elsewhere.
Her message to the athletes from Russia and Kazakhstan who tested positive and to the others who might think about taking that path?
"To believe that it's possible to do it right," she said. "To respect our bodies. That's what I would like them to learn."
Girard, 33, is now a mother of three and her days of competing are behind her. At the same time, she has taken part in a number of committees aimed at cleaning up the sport around the world.
"I have been to a few symposiums and I can see how hard people are working to make those values spread," she said. "I just hope Tokyo (Olympics in 2020) will be a cleaner Olympics and so will the next one. We're on a good path now."
Girard has paid a price for competing clean, but she's earned endless respect along the way.
"It's a lot of what ifs," said Jeane Lassen, who also competed in weightlifting for Canada at the 2008 Olympics and was Girard's longtime training partner. "What if that day she won a gold medal? What if she got to see the flag go up? How different would her post Games have gone? But Christine is the most adaptable, resilient athlete there is. She has taken the unfortunate turn of events and is using this as a platform to spread the message of drug-free sport."
Girard is looking ahead.
"There are always two sides of the story," she said. "There's the side that it has been so long (since 2012) that it makes no sense any more … or you can make it have sense. And that's what I choose to do. I wanted to share it and make it so that Canadians can be proud of the moment."
And then there's this, which never would have happened on the Olympic stage.
The long overdue celebration allowed a beaming Girard to pose on the podium Monday surrounded by her three children, four-year-old Philip, two-and-a-half-year-old Alianna and nine-month-old Samuel.
That was a picture of pride.
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Dir: Chloe Ruthven. UK-Palestine. 2013. 74mins
A highly personal, frequently baffling, documentary set in occupied Palestine, The Do Gooders is directed by, and stars, Chloe Ruthven (Death of A Hedge Fund Salesman). Ruthven's heart is clearly in the right place, but, over the course of 74 minutes, it's in several places too many as she experiences great difficulty deciding what her film is ultimately about.
It's interesting to note how many of Ruthven's interview subjects take her seriously when her approach is so devoid of rigor.
Ruthven's scattergun approach – she bolts in several directions during the course of the film – undermines some of the film's more pertinent points and its relentless self-focus should see this enjoy very limited play.The film premiered at the London Film Festival.
At the outset, The Do -Gooders is intriguing. Ruthven sets off – to Ramallah, Nablus, Jenin, amongst other troubled spots - with her camera and a book written by her grandmother about her family's decades of aid work in Palestinian refugee camps. She doesn't elaborate on her grandmother - Lady Diana Cooper - but her goal is to examine aid workers and their permanent place in an "annual summer camp for gap year students looking for adventure".
Here, Ruthven makes some salient points – more volunteers per person than anywhere on earth with an NGO set up to manage them – at the expense of her blithely un-self-aware subjects. Ruthven, who follows this with a sequence in a Jenin art-house cinema, is unsparing here, which makes it difficult to in turn to be sympathetic towards her when The Do-Gooders starts to fall apart.
Heading off to Gaza during the last siege, Ruthven suddenly takes part in a protest, getting herself in the firing line, before she starts to hone in on USAID and the thorny issue of aquifiers.
She is joined in her increasingly muddled mission by a woman called Lubna, a bad-tempered Palestinian (apparently fresh from the European Parliament where she has been lobbying) who doesn't like aid workers, doesn't really seem to like Ruthven very much, but still agrees to be paid to drive her around for three weeks, pontificating endlessly about how annoying foreigners are. They end up arguing, there's a woman called Allegra who is upset about roads, and the film hits a dead end at a remarkable speed, Ruthven sobbing along the way.
It's interesting to note how many of Ruthven's interview subjects take her seriously when her approach is so devoid of rigor, something a stronger producer and development process might have helped with. Perhaps they were right to - there is a film in The Do Gooders and the fiery Lubna makes some very valid points indeed. Sadly, however, they will need to be made again to reach an audience.
Production company/contact: Roast Beef Productions, www.roastbeeftv.com
Producers: Chloe Ruthven, Olly Lambert
Executive producers: Lara Agnew, Mike Lerner
Additional camera: Olly Lambert
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We like to keep folks updated through this space — or through Business Editor Matt Wickenheiser's blog, depending on the subject matter — when Portland or the people therein get national kudos.
And, well, those kudos and "Top Whatever" lists published by national and international magazines have been recognizing Portland a lot lately. Forbes, Men's Health, Draft Magazine and Outside are a sampling of the publications touting some aspect of Maine's largest city recently.
One of the magazines that keeps coming back for more is Travel + Leisure, which in 2010 called Portland's farmers' market one of the country's best, then just a few months ago celebrated 555 restaurant as one of the nation's top brunch spots.
Now, Travel + Leisure, in a neck-and-neck race with Forbes to see who can get more Maine mentions published this year, is back naming Portland the seventh "greenest city" in the country.
No. 1 on the list is the other Portland, in Oregon. Flanking Portland, Maine, in the Travel + Leisure rankings are Seattle at No. 6 and San Diego at No. 8.
Here's the blurb that corresponds to the Portland, Maine, listing in the greenest cities feature:
Between the farm-to-table restaurants, homegrown microbrews, and all that lobster, you can literally taste the great outdoors here. A few popular restaurants, such as Miyake or 20 Milk Street at the Regency Hotel, even have their own farms. Voters preferred Portland in the summer over any other city in the survey — the ideal time to fish, enjoy the parks, or stroll the Old Port area.
Update: 4/4/2012
Two days after this post first went up — and as news of the listing began circulating to a wider audience — Mayor Michael Brennan issued a statement about the latest plaudits:
It's nice to see the city get this well-deserved national attention. From our farmers markets to miles of trails, the city has embraced policies that make it easier for our residents and businesses to live safe, healthy lives in a clean and supportive environment. This green quality of life doesn't just make Portland a great place to live and work, but attracts new people and businesses looking for a community that shares their values.


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Looks like Mark-Paul Gosselaar may soon be a single man again.
Gosselaar, 36, best known for his former role as teen Zack Morris on TV's "Saved By the Bell," has filed for divorce from wife Lisa Ann Russell, 38, Jun. 18 in L.A. Superior Court, People magazine reported. The filing comes two weeks after the news of their separation.
The couple, who married in 1996, have two children: Ava Loren, 4, and Michael Charles 6. Gosselaar is seeking joint custody of the kids.
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"They both remain focused on their family and are jointly committed to their children," Gosselaar's rep told People at the time of the announcement that the actor and his wife split.
Gosselaar, who was most recently on the series "Raising the Bar," will star in the new TBS series "Franklin & Bash" with Breckin Meyer.