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A Note from your Killer
Greetings, my love! You may be wondering what is going on around here. If the latter is so, take a look around! (Might as well take a look around, because this place is the last place you'll EVER see, Bwahahahaha!) If the latter is not so, consider counseling (Oh, wait, you can't, because you're trapped! *laughs*) If you haven't already noticed, I have placed a small, but powerful bomb inside this very article! It is set to go off in exactly 10 minutes! Trying to escape is useless, as I have closed off every possible escape route. Trust me, I have planned this for months, so don't think I would leave one loophole here. Cherish these last remaining moments of your life, before everything goes boom and your life fades into the deepest depths of oblivion for all eternity! This shall be your fate, which, I should mention, can not be changed. Think of it like an old Windows 95 computer. It functions for a while, and then dies a horrible death when you try to run Crysis, or some other piece of fancy-schmancy software that pleases the eye. If you thought that metaphor was bad, then you should have seen the shit my school teachers used to pull out of their asses, too bad you can't though, because I'll have to pull you out of this situation and delay your death, which will be happening shortly! (In about 9 minutes to be exact.) We wouldn't want that to happen, would we now? *chuckles*
Why have I decided to kill you?[edit]
Hmmm... interesting question, <insert name here>, interesting, indeed. Why would I decide to mercilessly end your life all of a sudden? Surely I wouldn't murder you without reason. It just doesn't work that way, does it? (Or does it?) Anyhow, the reason I have decided to commit homicide... is not important. I do what I want, I pick my goals and stick to them. *laughs* I am my own man. I know this totally contradicts what I just said, but I have to have something to do, or I would surely die of boredom. (I'm surprised you haven't done so yet from reading this corny letter of all corny letters.) Now that that's out of the way, I would like to tell you something more, to help you feel better... (By the way, you currently have about 7 and a half minutes left, Ha Ha Ha!.)
I would try not to think about it[edit]
Right now, you're probably huddled up in the corner, hopelessly watching the time. That's right, stay there. Panicking won't help nothing, so don't shit yourself just yet, you probably still have about 7 minutes of your lifetime left, anyways. This will be less scary for you if you just try not to worry. I know what you're going through, I have been through quite a few hopeless situations like the one you're in right now. Just try not to think about it. Imagine, you're on the beach, with hot nude chicks (or dudes) surrounding you. Hentai Addict? Make those sexy Anime Catgirls... That's a pleasant thought, isn't it. (Oh yeah... it sure is for me!) Surely, if you keep thinking nice, positive thoughts, you might forget about your sudden death until... it happens. If you choose to do so, I'd recommend you stop reading this depressing note now. Don't worry, you still have 6 minutes left. No worries, less than half of your final moments have passed. Hey wait, why am I trying to help You? I'm your killer, so I'm supposed to be against you. Bwahahahaha!
Still there, Eh?[edit]
If you're still reading this because you're so emo that there's nothing good to think about, think of it this way, you're getting what you've always wanted during your misery, death. That's... sort of a pleasing thought, is it not? If not, then nevermind, I guess nothing can cheer you up in your last 5 minutes of life, emo boy. Look forward to nothing but despair and gloom, Mr. Negativity! I guess nothing but woes, doom, and gloom can pass the most inner barriers of your Mind and Spirit! Don't worry, I have enclosed a knife so you can live your favorite pasttime, slitting your wrist, once more before your ultimate demise. You can also choose to end your life and knife yourself if you want, But hurry, as only 4 minutes remain of your precious (Or, in your case, not so precious) lifetime! You and I both know that there is absolutely no chance to survive, so make your time, before the bomb I set up you explodes.
3 Minutes Left[edit]
If you have read this far without committing suicide, about now would be the time to stop reading and say your final prayers to your God or whatever, and repent all bad deeds before it's too late. The time is ticking, only 2 minutes and 45 seconds are left. If you're a confident atheist, feel free to stay here and await your unpleasant death without hope or regret. Just don't blame me if you find yourself in a pit of fiery tortures, being gang-raped by demonic figures resembling Micheal Jackson! I am not 100% sure that will happen, but as I, myself, am a Christian, that's what I can assume. But hey, if God exists, maybe he isn't so strict, and will let you into his happy realm, if you're really lucky. Or, maybe you'll be reincarnated into a flower or something. For all we know, the Flying Spaghetti Monster could be watching our every moves.
2 Minutes Left[edit]
Well, it's definitely too late to repent, <insert name here>, so abandon all hope right now. There is absolutely no way I will free you from this nightmarish situation, so enjoy these last 2 minutes while you can. If you want, you can think positively as I had suggested earlier, maybe this is all a bizarre dream. Yes, a dream. You can try pinching yourself, although that will do nothing but leave a painful mark, because this is all real. Of course, that mark will not be nearly as painful as what will be happening in a mere 1 and a half minutes. Look on the bright side, you will never have to worry about any wars or whatnot anymore, because you'll be too preoccupied with rotting away in your grave. If you want nothing but despair, I would very strongly advise you not to read the section below. If you do, your soul will likely be so frightened that it will jump out of your body. Then again, when the bomb goes off, your soul will probably do so anyways, so go ahead, read onto the last passage before your final journey begins!
1 Minute Left[edit]
You know what, I am actually starting to feel very, very sorry for you. *sheds tear* I just can't think of anything that will make you calm anymore. It seems nothing can, as you are still reading this dreadful note of mine. I feel sympathy for you, unlike I did when I started writing this note. You sure have a lot of balls to read this far without going insane and committing suicide. I appreciate your patience, I consider it a virtue. I really do, in fact, I will be there to mourn your grave when you die, maybe I'll even... turn myself into the police...


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What is it with succesful jazz musicians that are so appealing for what Americans call "haters"? Whatever it is, Brad Mehldau has enjoyed some success, a lot of it in jazz terms, and some have enjoyed bad-mouthing him (and if the average jazz listener is really a white, middle-aged male, it's time to revise women's presumed superiority at bitching).
Today Mehldau is 42. Although this is sometimes forgotten in the English-speaking world, he recorded his first trio album in Barcelona for Fresh Sound New Talent in 1993, and two years later, at 25, he moved to Warner's (have things changed!) I discovered him in 1997, recommended by veteran producer and writer Ira Gitler, no less, at Jazzaldia, San Sebastián's Jazz Festival. Shortly afterwards I moved to London, and one of the first CDs I bought, in a street market was The Art of the Trio, Vol. 1. That was my last review for the local newspaper I used to write for back in Spain.
Music can be appreciated at several levels. For a music writer, there can be an understanding of the merits of a given piece, she or he can also like it as a fan, and in a few instances, it can reach deep inside of you and help keeping you sane. The piece above, "Elegy for William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg", has been a refuge through the years.
Thank you and happy birthday, Brad Mehldau.
Thank you and happy birthday, Brad Mehldau.


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There's always a lot happening at the Houston Museum of Natural Science – especially during the holiday season. We've put together 12 ideas for fabulous family fun for you, which we're sharing here every day until Christmas Eve. You can also check them all out now at the spiffy new 12 Days of HMNS web site.
The Third Day of HMNS has passed – but you can still meet our reindeer friend Prancer in the video below, and learn about his species in the fabulous facts under the video – as well as help us count down the 357 days until next years' Snow Flurry!
Santa's Reindeer Facts:
The name "reindeer" comes from a word meaning "snow-shoveler," referring to their habit of pawing through the snow for food.
Santa's reindeer are all female – male reindeer lose their horns every year.
Reindeer love snow so much they prefer to eat it than drink water.
You could also call them "Santa's Caribou" – reindeer and caribou are the same species.
The impressive antlers sported by reindeer can grow up to an inch per day – making them the fastest growing tissue in the animal kingdom.
Santa got the idea for sleigh-pulling reindeer from the nomadic Saami people of northern Scandinavia – they've been using reindeer to pull sleighs there for over 5,000 years.
Santa's Reindeer are well-suited for their life at the North Pole – their sense of smell is so good that they can detect food buried three feet under the snow, and their fur is so thick that they can withstand temperatures 80 degrees below zero.
Learn more about The First Day of HMNS – the debut of The Birth of Christianity: A Jewish Story, a new special exhibition and The Second Day of HMNS – a great place to buy fun holiday gifts. And, check back daily – we've got 9 more days coming up, with great ideas for family fun this holiday season. You can also check them all out now, at our spiffy new 12 Days of HMNS web site – or watch them roll out here until Christmas Eve.


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original article : http://www.lakewood.de/uk/news_details.php?id=26
Sungha Jung with new own web site
Everybody who saw him at the Frankfurt Music Show this year will
remember this young man. Sungha Jung, the lad from Korea that has got
so much incredible talent as if to the manner born. But there's more
behind the apparent easiness.
Years of practicing and lots of discipline are another part of the
result we see today. Sure, you can't deny a lot of great talent – but
also a nose for new and useful media. More than three years ago he
found a new channel in YouTube through which he could address the
world. YouTube opened a door for him to the acoustic music world that,
without YouTube, would not quite have been impassable but surely more
difficult to reach.
Musicians like Ulli Bögershausen or Trace Bundy are in close contact
with Sungha nowadays, because even the "big ones" appreciate his
abilities. Many times he's been invited to large events and concerts.
And you could follow up all that through Sungha's YouTube channel…
There has been a new web site for a few weeks now that meets the
requirements of an individual and special musician such as Sungha Jung
much better. An own and personal web site: www.sunghajung.com.
The makers and supporters of the web appearance must have had similar
feelings like we had at Lakewood when we started supporting Sungha with
a guitar: The fun of supporting someone like him is absolutely in the
first place. The new web site offers a variety of information: there's
a news section and a page about Sungha's history and development. They
even arranged a FAQ page to handle the most frequently asked questions
better. Furthermore the site contains galleries of videos and pictures,
a discussion board and a tour schedule.
Everybody that wants to obtain info on Sungha Jung at first hand is
well advised to paying this new site a visit every now and then. We can
recommend it.
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Argentinean Empanadas
By jtoro_318
Delicious Chicken Empanadas
Empanadas Argentinas are chicken empanadas that Argentineans serve as appetizers at parties or as a simple, everyday lunch or dinner.
Empanadas Argentinas are always baked instead of fried, so your family can enjoy
them regularly, too. Make them in no time with authentic, pre-prepared GOYA®
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These chicken empanadas—seasoned like empanadas you find in Buenos Aires—will delight anyone, no matter where you are.
- 1 tbsp. GOYA® Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 4 bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs (about 2 1/2 lbs.)
- GOYA® Adobo All-Purpose Seasoning with Pepper, to taste
- 1 pkg. (3.5 oz.) GOYA® Chorizo, finely chopped
- 1/2 onion, finely chopped (about 3/4 cup)
- 1 tsp. GOYA® Minced Garlic, or 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 1/2 tsp. paprika
- 1/4 cup GOYA® Manzanilla Olives Stuffed with Minced Pimientos, chopped (about 12 olives)
- 1/4 cup raisins
- 1 packet GOYA® Cubitos Chicken Bouillon mixed with 1 cup water
- 1 pkg. (11.6 oz.) frozen GOYA® Puff Pastry dough for Turnovers, thawed
- All-purpose flour, for rolling out dough
- 1 egg, lightly beaten with 1 tsp. water
Preparation time 10mins
Cooking time 120mins
Adapted from goya.com
Step 1
1.Heat oil in large skillet over medium-high heat. Season chicken with Adobo. Add chicken to skillet skin side-down. Cook, flipping once, until golden brown on both sides, about 8 minutes; transfer to plate. Add chorizo and onions to same skillet. Cook, stirring occasionally, until chorizo is warmed through and onions are soft, about 4 minutes. Stir in garlic and paprika, cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds more. Add olives, raisins and chicken bouillon mixture to skillet; bring to boil. Add chicken skin side-up. Tightly cover skillet; reduce heat to low. Simmer, covered, until chicken is cooked through, about 20 minutes. Remove skillet from heat.
2.Transfer chicken to cutting board; reserve sauce in pan. Remove and discard skin and bones. Shred chicken; transfer to skillet with sauce, mixing to combine. Cook over medium heat until sauce reduces and blends into chicken, about 5 minutes more. Transfer chicken mixture to heat-proof bowl. Let sit until steam subsides. Refrigerate until cold. (Note: Chicken filling can be stored covered in refrigerator for up to 5 days).
3.Heat oven to 425°F. On lightly floured work surface, using rolling pin, roll out puff pastry round until about ½" larger in diameter. Spoon heaping tablespoon cooled chicken mixture into middle of dough. Moisten edges with beaten eggs and fold in half to form half-moon shape. Gently press down edges and twist to seal; transfer to greased baking sheet. Repeat with remaining puff pastry rounds and filling to make 12 empanadas. Brush empanada tops with beaten egg.
4.Bake until empanadas are puffed and golden brown and filling is hot, about 20 minutes, rotating pan after 10 minutes for even browning. Transfer empanadas to cooling rack. Serve warm or at room temperature.


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Accessibility Award - Past Winners
2009 Award
The Steve Cutway Accessibility Award was awarded to Christine Fader, a Career Counsellor in Career Services.
Christine was nominated for the valuable role she plays in supporting Queen's students with disabilities as they progress through their university education and prepare for transitioning to the labour market. Principal Williams spoke about initiatives that Christine has been involved in over the years, in particular Employability Day. This annual event brings together students with disabilities and employers from across the province to discuss and hopefully overcome some of the common misconceptions that persons with disabilities and employers often have about each other.


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Because our society, New Zealand society, Western society in general, has been hijacked by a conspiracy of Silly Little Girls. They're everywhere; in the schools, in the media, in the public service, in the judiciary, even in Cabinet. Everywhere we turn, the foundations of masculinity, the pillars of male-ness which have underpinned the construction and development of our very civilisation, are being undermined, by Silly Little Girls. And we are putting up with it.More here. I like this one too:
ON 'LIBERALS': "I mean if people want to be weak, stupid, effeminate, erectile dysfunctional, naïve, apologist, namby-pamby, thumb-sucking, lefty pinko fantasy-land morons, let them find their own word for themselves, and leave "liberal" for us genuine freedom-loving, gonad-equipped, libertarian go-getters".
I trust our MSM pay him as much attention as they did with David Garrett (and shamelessly continue to do).
Hat Tip: The Lady Garden


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- Design and Direct Your Job Search Strategy
Monday, August 13, 2018
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A plan is a great place to start or refocus your job search. We'll start with an overview of the elements of a job search and work together on the planning and organizing skills you need to maintain momentum and land your next position.
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Ordinary Time is the name settled upon to refer to the twenty four to twenty nine weeks of the year for which the Church could not come up with any great celebrations for you and I to participate in.
The word ordinary and its derivatives occupy fourteen columns in the Oxford English Dictionary, a space larger than all of the words for all the other seasons of the Church year combined. 'Let this be a sign unto you,' I think to myself. Words like common, usual, unremarkable, settled, regular, simplest appear often in the fourteen columns. Ordinary Time, to use the words of one of the definitions in the OED, is 'our customary fare.'
Of the 365 days given to us each year, the church has designated on average 55.6% of them as something less than festive, and not even suitable for something uplifting like putting ashes on our foreheads and remembering that we are but dust. Add together all of the days of the great seasonal celebrations of the church year, and there are still more ordinary days than festive ones.
'Give us this day our daily bread — our customary fare,' if you will. If we are to celebrate anything during Ordinary Time, we are largely on our own. The Church is happy to lead the celebratory charge from December until the end of April or so, and sometimes go as far as the end of May. ( Dependent, oddly enough, on the phases of the moon. ) After Pentecost, it is up to us.
The Church leads the parade for Christmas and the manifestation of Christ among us and spring and Easter and the coming of the Holy Spirit and we are assigned the dog days of summer, the back to school sales, and Labor Day. This year we also get an oil spill, floods that keep killing people, new rounds of ethnic cleansing on two continents, the noise of midterm elections, unemployment that is heartbreaking and the truth that not a single one of us has grown younger since this time last year.
According to the metronome of the calendar, our search for the balance between the borders and the margins of our lives, between the struggles with the bustle and the meaning of our daily rounds, between a way of marking time that will lead us to the Divine amid the clamor of the marching orders that would lead us somewhere else — all of that work is now up to us.
But just now, whether or not the deep rhythms of the Story are alive and ticking in me in late June is the real question, I am afraid. And I must answer it myself.
Lord, have mercy. Christ have mercy. Lord, have mercy.


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Dear Marvin,
I read with great interest your column in the August 2005 issue applauding "powerful men" for their courage to publicly engage in the enjoyment of fine hand-rolled cigars. I, too, choose to thwart popularity and pursue what I find enjoyable—and legal—in our society: fine cigars, single-malt Scotch and a perfectly aged piece of red meat.
I live my life under the mantle of personal freedom of choice—I choose the things I enjoy in my life and it shouldn't be anyone else's business what I choose to do in the privacy of my own home. However, there are other personal freedoms that I also endorse. I believe it shouldn't be anyone else's business if two people of the same sex choose to commit to a life together. I believe a woman should have the sole right to choose what she does with her body and her reproductive choices. I believe that religion has no place in public education or within the structure of our government.
Ironically, the rationale within which I believe these things is the same rationale that you use to endorse smoking, drinking, gambling and other activities. Under what authority do conservative Republicans—such as the "powerful men" you list—feel it is right to appropriate this mantle of freedom? Why do they feel it is only freedom for their views and beliefs at the expense of contrary beliefs? (Personally, I am ashamed to be from the same state as Tom DeLay and George W. Bush.)
I am a somewhat rare bird—a cigar-smoking, golf-playing, Scotch-drinking, steak-eating, fish-catching Democrat and damn proud of it! The cover of Cigar Aficionado has recently been graced by many people who share some of these same beliefs: Alec Baldwin, Morgan Freeman, Bill Murray and Jimmy Smits, to name a few. It's too bad you chose not to include them in your list.
Fred Morales
Spring, Texas
P.S. By the way, if George is so powerful, why doesn't he have the cajones to fire up in public? He's a second termer…who does he have to impress?!
Dear Marvin,
As the publisher of one of the most respected lifestyle magazines, you should have a pretty good idea about the meaning of life. In reality, life is empty and meaningless. The real meaning poses a challenge and therefore a risk not everyone is willing to take. Some try to stick with the "usual"; others try to live by the "expected." I say winners live by their own rules. Society has come a long way in the quest to find the perfect formula for balance, but it is yet far from accomplishing anything remarkable. As Americans, we claim our freedom and our pride, when the rest of the world looks at us in disbelief.
The purpose of this letter is to touch base on a subject that you've been addressing lately, and on a matter of principles of society. I was absolutely astounded when I heard the news that Fidel Castro had completely banned smoking in public places in Cuba. We thought Castro had lost it thirty-some years ago, but now we know for sure. It doesn't get any more stupid than this! A smoking ban in the capital of cigars, as it is in many places in the United States and the rest of the world, is taking away our freedom by the minute.
Why do we read your magazine? Why do we subscribe and keep ourselves informed about something that could be about to disappear? Does anybody in Congress really believe in and fight for our rights as cigar smokers?
I call these bans a loss of freedom. The kind we're used to seeing imposed in dictatorships. The lack of space and freedom to enjoy our cigars in public places will make smoking a less enjoyable activity. Don't get me wrong; I'd continue to enjoy my smokes even in a dark attic, if it came to that, but let's face it, that wouldn't be a lot of fun. We are sociable beings. We all like company as well as trying different ambiences, places, events, drinks and food around our cigars, right?
Imagine how boring and dull it would be if there were no musicians allowed to play live, no arenas to watch sports and concerts. Imagine being reduced to TV as our only source of entertainment, which seems to be the case these days when the average American watches TV for an average of 5.5 hours a day! This will lead us to social isolation, shamelessly shrinking our groups and manipulating our minds and beliefs.
Nobody, man or woman, will ever wear their best suit or dress for the purpose of "trying it at home"; we don't buy luxury or sport cars to keep 'em inside the garage.
I'd like to express my frustration and my indignation through your magazine, because cigars are a simple pleasure ranking at the top of the list of things to make life a bit more interesting and meaningful. My best moments have been shared with friends, family and cigars. Cigars are a sign of company, trust, success, friendship and more. Culturally, I've been around cigars and cigars have been around me for decades.
Shame on those whose lacking of souls have taken away our right to smoke and are threatening smokers into becoming an endangered species. You know what the real problem is with our society? We have never been able to live in one. The U.S. lack of culture and history defines us as a shallow group on the worldwide map. We have never been able to respect differences. We have never been able to live together as one. As to Fidel Castro, let's hope he won't be around for too much longer. He's done enough damage. Will it prevail?
As to myself, I'll continue to live by my own rules; standing out from the crowd has never tasted so good, specially in the company of a big cigar!
Gerry Porraz
Denver, Colorado
Editor's note: Your sentiments are shared here. And we will continue to call on our cigar smokers to find ways to fight for their personal rights, no matter how small their efforts may seem.
Dear Marvin,
"What's Happened to the Constitution?" Your editorial in the April issue was, well, preaching to the choir. But I'm left asking, where else can we turn, to whom can we start shouting, "Enough already!"?
I live in the village of Woodbridge, a planned community in Irvine, California. Woodbridge has about 42 parks and pools available to our 30,000 residents. These parks and pool facilities are all privately owned and maintained by us. As a homeowner, I have a deeded interest in all the common-area holdings; thus, unlike public lands owned by the city, I have a private property interest in these "community" facilities.
Just recently our Board of Directors passed a ban on all smoking in any and all of these facilities! My routine for the past 25 years has been to go to the local Jacuzzi late at night to unwind in the hot tub while smoking a cigar. This particular facility has always been 24-hour and restricted to adults only (many others exist for families), and late at night it is usually vacant. This facility is outdoors, with the nearest neighbor either across a street or across a park; at least 50 to 75 yards away in any direction. Yes, that's right, an outdoor facility, 75 yards away from the nearest neighbor, restricted to only adults, and in which I have a private property interest in, yet now I am no longer allowed to smoke a cigar!
Twenty-five years ago, the community rules were already published, I purchased my property understanding such rules, and everyone else who has purchased since then also has been made aware of the rules. So how can the politically correct pinheads now come along and change them, imposing new restrictions, when they affect the use of my private property? To ban smoking in public city parks is bad enough, but this is an ex post facto deprivation of my private property rights! Haven't we fought in wars with other countries over confiscating private citizens' property?
This issue had been brought up in a November board meeting, remanded to committee, which responded to the board that the issue should be dropped as there was no need for it. Yet the board on its own initiative then voted to pass the ban in February, ostensibly in the interest of the community. Yet at that meeting, nobody was in attendance supporting the ban! A couple of us were there opposing it, but nobody in support of it. No discussion of reasons took place, no facts or figures presented to support a ban, just a comment that "several e-mails" were received supporting it. No other support. So this kangaroo court of a board meeting has now been able to shackle my freedom of enjoying my private property. (OK, this presumes compliance...yeah, right!) Do you have any suggestions on where I can go to vent my anger or possibly even challenge the board's ability to have made such a ban? When is enough, enough already?
Jim Peebles
Irvine, California
Editor's note: Short of hiring a lawyer, you could reach out to your neighbors with a petition demanding another public hearing on the matter. Call your local newspaper. Ask how to write an Op-Ed piece about the unilateral confiscation of your personal property rights. Those are just two suggestions. You have a strong point. Make it publicly.


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There was something evil about the walk, and the eyes. The man seemed like a borderline obese monster dressed in a fine suit and polished boots. His gait both wobbled and strutted into public buildings. The protruding, balding head had tufts of oiled hair pasted on the side, and the beard possessed a stench mix of tobacco reek, whiskey, rancid beef and pungent perfume. A grotesque and large cretin at first glance, this fetid human specimen was also one of the most powerful politicians in the United States, from the 1850s to the 70s. Boss Tweed was the name of infamy.
He started his nefarious political career as a gang leader in New York City within the rough neighborhood of the Lower East Side, or L.E.S. for short. He grew into one of the top gang leaders through swinging a large axe on rival fire fighter guys during street fights. Houses were of wood in those days, and so for those poor unfortunates that lived inside of those hovels, fires were quite common. Poor tenants had to pay protection money to the fire gangs – if they wanted to save their personal stuff and lives from the flame inundations. And if business was ever slow, the fire and cop gangs could do a little arson action on tenement buildings too.
The obese, axe wielding brute soon caught the greedy eyes of some corrupt NYC officials needing some muscle in extorting votes from the lower class lowlifes, the white ones living in the L.E.S. The politicians were members of a notorious Democratic machine and gang called 'Tammany Hall.' Boss Tweed gleefully took on the role as the ward boss, and then slithered into becoming the greatest boss of the city, where even national Democratic and Republican party politicians sought out the chubby thug of destiny.
Starting his illustrious career in public service, He purchased for himself a phony attorney credential, which the state government of New York duly certified as legitimate. Next, he continually got himself 'elected' to various political positions, such as city alderman, chairman of the NYC Democratic Club, city commissioner, NY state assemblyman – and even a stint as a NYC congressman in the House of Representatives. Every time he placed his name on the ballot, he miraculously won the election and served out his time in office. Yet with all of his important and innovative political work, nothing ever changed in NYC.
Meanwhile, behind the scenes, he constructed a stronger pre-mafia gang at Tammany Hall where all the parasites received their cushy jobs. They did not have to work at all really, yet they regularly collected nice salaries and pensions. He also handpicked local, rich bums with distinguished faces to run as mayors of New York. Most of them were from the Lower East Side wards of Irish Catholic immigrants. All of his mayoral candidates fantastically won. Everybody understood: the real power behind city hall government mob was Fat Bastard Tweed.
Tweed monopolized most government posts, and he also monopolized all NYC government construction contracts. Any building that needed repairs or a new facelift had to go through 'his companies.' Tweed further capitalized on his loot and became the biggest property pimp landlord in the City through buying up expensive buildings on Fifth Avenue, and then purchasing farm landholdings in the Harlem section of Manhattan.
Some years later, the railroad capitalists Jay Gould and Jim Fisk put up some flim flam municipal bonds in order to raise the stock in their 'new company'. They needed the master con man Tweed to certify the deeds. Tweed made sure the stock hoax was legit – and demanded that his horde rob a few inflated dividends.
Tweed was such a corrupt master, that the rival Republican machine gang in the City, finagled a deal with the all-powerful boss to completely rewrite New York City's Charter. Most importantly, Tweed successfully used the different NYC cop gangs as his personal foot soldiers, whether the Municipal Police Force or the Metropolitan Police Force.
Crap historians often look at the Tweed and Tammany Hall Era of New York history as a type of aberration in American urban government. Those historians are not just bad historians, they are also liars. This corrupt urban system in Amerika still functions marvelously, and not just in megalopolis cities, such as New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit and Los Angeles, but also in supposedly progressive cities, like San Francisco, Seattle and Portland, Oregon – and this Amerikan urban gangrene exists in even medium to small cities across the country.
Amerika's urban juntas have represented the most foul epitomes of criminal neglect against the poor and lower classes, while those same city bosses have continually colluded with urban elites in order to shortchange the local political economy. Amerika's city father hoodlums have consistently brutalized the poor lives of those unfortunates that must survive inside those infernos of cruelty.. They legally steal, cook the books, monopolize, extort, graft, bribe, and they rewrite the tax codes, public education system, criminal laws, and urban boundary lines to their sick whims.
They have even used the police as paramilitary murderers and jailers against those honorable people who have resisted such tyranny. While the official US propaganda system has brazenly extolled the lies of freedom and democracy, Amerika's urban states of sinister corruption and criminality have crafted the inner city horrors of abject slums and ghettos.
We are not dealing with Boss Hogg buffoons. These are shrewd card sharp players that know how to filch and swindle through legal fiat and institutional switch and bait. They are merciless to the working class and lumpen populations that lack money, while they offer innumerable monetary benefits to corporations, real estate conglomerations, large business owners and white yuppie transients with money. These municipal crooks have coated their own pockets for their very own individual perks, like free travel and multiple bodyguards, permanent post-retirement mega-salaries and hoarding public tax monies for their own private initiatives.
A short list of some of their more contemporary frauds and rackets will suffice. These gangs of respectable criminals have often used the improper use of TIF monies and economic gerrymandering of 'enterprise business zones.'
In order to receive more property and city taxes, which also increase their personal salaries, the city hall bosses continually extend the city limits. Once they illegally rob the outlying lands, they hand over the cheap disused fields or farmlands within those 'limits' to a low-cost private developer who then receives a monopoly on all work contracts. This nefarious practice also limits other companies from competing for scarce work opportunities and jobs.
Ultimately, a sprawling area of real estate either sits vacant or fills-up, whether for residential or commercial use. Even if it is a bust for the local economy, the privileged property owner continues to pay the low tax rates, while the city government stooges collect their tax bribes.
University administrator hacks have also worked in tandem with these legal gangsters. Local city judges in on the fix will then allow a 'eminent domain' section to enter the urban map plan. A new satellite university campus is now under construction. The university administrators pay nothing, while the students pay another tuition increase.
The city bosses have used another popular money laundering-bribery scheme through increasing municipal taxes in order to pay for professional sports stadiums. The multi-billionaire sports team owner pays very little and receives his very own team stadium.
City Hall has even more legal and legit frauds under its sleeves, such as Community Development Block Grants, Corporate Income Tax Credits, Industrial Revenue Bonds, Property Tax Abatements, Sales Tax Exemptions and Tax Formula Changes. Meanwhile, the average citizen living in the cockroach and rat infested tenement building receives the icy stare of the donut cop.
Most of Amerika's City Hall overseers are also the most rabid supporters of gun confiscations among the local citizens. They are not anti-gun for their own bodyguards or for the local donut brigades, but they will imprison the average citizen for even possessing a shotgun in the home. Crime in these urban Amerikan cauldrons is often rampant and brutal. The urban citizen that defends himself from a criminal act often has to endure a long legal battle or a hard prison term.
These urban bullies only want more control, and more money flowing in to their bank accounts. They also want some extra desserts for their rich friends. The only other group that they tend to stomach are transient yuppies with white skin privilege – as long as they have money to spend. They say they like 'artists' too, but the 'artistes' only work as the first wave of rent paying transients for their gentrification projects. They have to displace the African-American and Latino poor first. And then the privileged landlords will come for them too.
The cycle of deceit and legal crime continues within Amerika's cities. Politicians, Financial Banks, Real Estate Conglomerates and Insurance Fraudsters are always the big winners in urban sprawl Amerika. Now we understand why so many big cities in the United States have had all-powerful Mafia families. The regular people have always known that City Hall was on the take, so they went to the wise guys instead for some meager justice. And for the rest of us in the city, we just have to sell ourselves on the rigged market for the bare basics of life: a wage slave job that robs our time and our energies, while paying the rent debt for some privacy and some sleep.


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Filmed at Celebration VI's "As You Wish" exhibit, George Lucas says Boba Fett didn't die in Sarlacc, calls him a "survivor."
[UPDATE: See how this fits in to the larger picture of what's official / canon in our guide, "Is Boba Fett dead or alive?"]
Lucas was looking at the "Scavenger" helmet made by Cari Finken and Michael O'Brien of Legacy Effects, which sold for the most (over $19,000) at the auction, which ended yesterday.
Jump to 2:58 in this video and take a look:
This is a notable, hot-mic comment because it goes against what we last heard, which was in 1997.
When the Special Editions were released, George Lucas told MTV that Boba Fett was dead. We have the video here.
On a side note, just recently, Dark Horse Comics published a four part comic series called "Boba Fett is Dead."


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Dave Grohl Back With Queens of the Stone Age
Well, now we know how Dave Grohl was planning on spending the Foo Fighers hiatus. He has returned to Queens of the Stone Age, the alternative band fronted by former Kyuss guitarist Josh Homme that he drummed for in 2002.
Speaking to BBC's Radio 1 today, Homme confirmed that drummer Joey Castillo was no longer in the band. However, shortly before Homme made the announcement, the band posted the above picture of a mixing board to its Facebook page. "Dave Drums" is written on the strip to denote which tracks are used for the drums.
This is Grohl's second stint with Queens of the Stone Age. He played on one album, 'Songs for the Deaf,' which is their most commercially successful album to date, having sold close to 1 million copies and spawned two hit singles, 'No One Knows' and 'Go With the Flow.' Castillo replaced Grohl for the tour in support of the record.
Grohl has also worked with Homme in Them Crooked Vultures, which featured John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin on bass. They released a self-titled album in 2009. The new Queens of the Stone Age record is expected in early 2013.
Grohl has stated that he remains committed to the Foo Fighters, even though they are currently taking a break of indefinite length.


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I don't get annoyed very easily. However, nothing gets under my craw more than hearing the word "manipulation" tossed around so recklessly whenever a stock does not perform as investors expect. It infuriates me. I hear this claim all the time from investors of low priced stocks such as Sirius XM, Sprint and Citigroup before its reverse split last year. But now, it has escalated to a different level.
Stop the Double Standard
This week, no other stock has been more closely linked with the word "manipulation" than Apple. As an Apple shareholder myself, I can tell you that I have seen some "irregularities" on its stock chart. However, my aggravation is not due to the use of the word "manipulation" itself, but because of the constant double-standard that comes with it. It makes it hard to have an intelligent conversation.
It seems when it comes to Apple, the stock can only be "manipulated" in one direction - down. Cries to the SEC and demands for investigations only come when the stock is going the wrong way, never when the stock is going up. But how can that be?
On Wednesday, shares of Apple dropped over 6%, or essentially the company lost $35 billion of its value. There were considerable amount of speculation as to why that happened. And depending on who you ask, you will be given a host of answers. Some might be true, but others might be complete lunacy. Or there may be a combination.
However, investors should ask themselves what did we really know about Apple on Wednesday that we didn't already know? Not a whole lot. At least I don't recall any news coming from Tim Cook. Instead, investors panicked and forgot why they invested in the company in the first place.
Nonetheless, it was funny to see that as the stock was being punished, investors of rival companies such as Research in Motion, Google and Microsoft were cheering Apple's so-called demise. They think all of a sudden the company has lost its ability to innovate. Really? The company is only a week removed learning that it has just overtaken Google in U.S. smartphone market share. Let's not get carried away.
It is hard to imagine that Apple would be on the receiving end of criticism from RIM – on innovation, no less. After all, RIM is still shedding government contracts left and right because its BlackBerries are perceived unreliable. Think for a moment what an indictment that would be.
It is Manipulation or Paranoia?
Making matters worse what that several Apple longs started believing all of the noise and making a mockery of themselves on Twitter with claims of "manipulation" to anyone that would listen. Instead, the smart thing to do would be to have taken the drop as a buying opportunity rather than deceiving ourselves into thinking that the company was somehow really in trouble.
Does manipulation occur? Absolutely it does. But I will never accuse anyone of doing it. Sure, if one looks closely enough into any stock chart some "abnormalities" might stand out. But is it "manipulation" or paranoia? This is the question I'm beginning to wonder when certain investors who believe that Apple deserves special attention.
In other words, the company has become a victim of its own popularity. To say it more plainly, the SEC should start monitoring Apple's trading for criminal activity. But why? I think as an Apple investor, this would hurt my chances of making money.
For instance, how quickly we forget that just a few weeks ago shares of Apple soared over 7% in one day. After closing on 11/16 at $527.68, the stock closed the very next session at $565.73, or a jump of $38. This happened on basically no news. Where were the cries for manipulation then?
Another example is that from the period of July 25 to September 21, shares of Apple soared 24% or $135 in just 42 trading sessions. That means the stock was up an average of $3.21 per day for 42 consecutive days. Do you know how impressive that is?
Even more remarkable was that it followed a Q3 earnings announcement that was pretty uninspiring. Again where were the cries for manipulation then? The stock saw a quick run-up to $705 and now it is taking a slight pause. Call it a correction if you like, but it is certainly not being manipulated. Call me naive, so what – I can't have it both ways. It's childish to think that I can.
Bottom Line
In the stock market, the word "manipulation" helps us explain something that we can't understand. It's also another way to deflect blame off ourselves and to someone else – this is even though we can't prove it. However, I will argue that every stock on the market is manipulated. If you can't agree to this, then none of them are.
It sounds very cliché to say, but "stocks go up and stocks go down." Here's another one, "if you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen." And here's my favorite," if you can't prove it, don't say it."
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By Sherri Ellington
After six years of holding the line, the Lamar County board of education is expected to raise the millage rate this year from 16.576 to 18 mills, bringing in an extra $625,000. This will help fund the 2013-14 school year.
School taxes likely going up
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By Karel C. Ancona, Carson Now
"American Mustang, The Story of A Girl, A Cowboy and A Wild Horse," shows to a sold-out audience, Thursday at Galaxy Fandango in Carson City.
Sponsored by Cafe at Adele's and Lone Mountain Veterinary Hospital, organizers hope to bring additional showings to Nevada's Capitol later this fall.
"I think it is because it is a 3-D film, we could not move it to a bigger theater," said Margie Quirk. "There will be a showing coming up in Sparks and we are going to try to get more showings scheduled for September."
"American Mustang" played two weeks in Portland, five sold-out shows a day.
"Of course, we're not Portland, but we have a wide area from which to draw," Quirk said.
The movie was the brainchild of Ellie Phipps Price, the life-long equestrian and wild horse advocate and steward who has rescued 172 of Nevada's horses, including the Deer Run herd.
She purchased Montgomery Creek Ranch, a 2,000-acre sanctuary near Willows, Calif., in 2009, where the horses now roam and are cared for.
"We are lucky that she is financially able to help where others can't," Quirk said. "This is a way to raise awareness about our herds and what has been going on."
The wild horse management debate and conflict between wild horse advocates and Bureau of Land Management and the Department of Agriculture has been long and arduous and at this point, there no end is in sight.
"There is no middle ground in the debate from what I see," Quirk said. "People are either for the horses or against them and it is very frustrating and heartbreaking to see what is happening."
There is great romanticism in the minds of folks around wild horses and their place in the west, Quirk said, adding there is now, especially among European tourists a heightened interest in ecotours focused solely on wild horses, which could become an economic benefit.
"There are many aspects to be considered," she said. "But at the end of the day, they are living creatures that deserve respect."
"As in all good things that take place in the world, this event has been undertaken by a woman," said Charlie Abowd, whose restaurant is co-sponsoring the viewing. "This has come about thanks to Margie and we're here to support her in any way she needs."


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They may suffer from poor (Chinese workmanship) and there is nothing wrong with getting a control board rebuilt. But even with better workmanship you still need to replace the component that is in the failed circuit of the board. Here's a helpful guide to the Neptune resistors and related components to help discover what part need to be replaced when either rebuilding the board or replacing the board.https://www.dropbox.com/s/dnk5p3ly2xhrn7b/TDL-0052A-B%20Failed%20Resistor%20Guide.pdf


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Miami Heat superstar Chris Bosh was in court Thursday for two hours trying to defend his residence to a judge and Allison Mathis' attorney Jane Carey.
Bosh is currently in a custody battle with ex-girlfriend Allison Mathis over his 3-year-old daughter. Mathis is trying to get an increase in child support and her attorney is trying to prove she deserves it because of child support regulations in Florida.
However, Bosh is arguing he is not a resident of Florida but in fact, is a resident of Texas.
Yesterday in court Bosh was constantly contradicted of this. At one point Bosh even had to read a signed affidavit to the court where he had told a Deutsche Bank in 2010 he was making his home in Florida his primary residence.
Bosh was also forced to read his mortgage papers for his $12.5 million dollar Miami home aloud to the court.
The judge also grilled Bosh about his residence, asking the NBA star about not having a Florida driver's license, she said, "Are you aware that the state of Florida requires anyone living in the state for more than 30 days to have a Florida drivers license?"
If Jane Carey is able to prove that Bosh is indeed a resident of Florida there will be a huge increase in child support. Currently, Bosh pays $2,600 a month that a Texas judge ordered him to pay three years ago.
If Florida residence is proven, Bosh's child support will jump to approximately $30,000 dollars a month.
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Bird Species Discovered, and Promptly Marked for Drowning
Posted by Richard Conniff on September 5, 2012
Take a look, and hear it sing.
It's relatively rare to find a new species of bird, like this one in Colombia. But it's apparent fate is not so rare. Having been described for the first time in July, it's already facing extinction with its habitat scheduled to be submerged by a new hydroelectric project.
Here's the press release from the American Bird Conservancy:
(Washington, D.C., September 5, 2012) Celebrations over the discovery in Colombia of a new species of bird were short lived when it was revealed that much of its habitat – also the habitat for a threatened macaw – is in danger of being flooded by a new hydro-electric dam project.
The July edition of The Auk – a leading, peer-reviewed ornithology journal – announcing the discovery of the Antioquia Wren (Thryophilus sernai) in the Central Andes of Colombia, came one year into a seven-year construction project for what is to become the largest power station in the country. The nearly $5.5 billion, 738 foot tall Pescadero-Ituango hydroelectric dam will flood 15 square miles of habitat, drowning all six locations where the newly identified bird has been confirmed so far.
Of equal concern is the likely flooding by the dam of habitat for the last colony in the region of the threatened Military Macaw. This spectacular green, red, and turquoise parrot has scattered, sparse populations throughout Central and South America, including one colony 15 miles (25 km) upstream from the dam—well within area targeted for flooding.
"The timing of this discovery of a new species seemingly couldn't have been worse, especially given the dam project has been in the pipeline for decades and just recently has gotten a green light. Despite the seriousness of the threat to these birds posed by this massive engineering project, here is still some hope to mitigate impacts to the birds," said Benjamin Skolnik, Conservation Project Specialist for American Bird Conservancy, who oversees the organization's conservation work in Colombia. "This region of Colombia is a world-class birding tourism destination, and the government understands how valuable birds are to the economy. This may help in the survival of the new wren and the macaw."
One potential mitigation action that could be taken by the government to aid the new wren is the protection of non-flooded habitat upstream of the dam. If enough suitable habitat is protected as a new protected area, it may be possible to safeguard viable populations of the macaw and wren populations against loss to logging, cattle grazing, and agriculture. Detailed environmental impact studies should explore these possibilities as well as other measures to conserve remaining habitat.
Colombia is home to 1,890 bird species, over 100 of which are threatened globally and 70 of which are endemic to the country. Some of the key species that are threatened are the Santa Marta Parakeet, Dusky Starfrontlet, Gorgeted Puffleg, Chestnut-capped Piha, and Blue-billed Curassow. In addition, the country boasts extensive birding infrastructure such as reserves and lodges. ABC has worked with Fundación ProAves, a leading Colombian environmental group, to establish fourteen such reserves encompassing around 50,000 acres.
"Bird conservation efforts have a history of giving back to local communities for the long haul in a fashion that has been a win-win for all concerned. The conservation programs are helping to not only protect and rehabilitate the land and forests but they also provide improved habitat for birds and other wildlife that ultimately bring in tourism dollars. And we've demonstrated a variety of conservation and farming techniques that benefit wildlife while at the same time offer equal or even higher farming returns," said Lina Daza Rojas, Executive Director from ProAves.
The new wren is predominantly brown and white, and differs from similar species in several ways, including, plumage coloration of the upper parts, the pattern of barring on the wings and tail, overall smaller body size, and unique vocalizations. It prefers patches of dry forest at 820-2,800 feet (250-850 meters) in elevation in the dry Cauca River Canyon, a narrow inter-Andean valley enclosed by the rainforests of the Nechí Refuge and the northern sectors of the Western and Central Andes of Colombia.
According to The Auk, the resultant flooding from the dam would lead to the loss of an important area for the conservation ofthenew wren, precisely in the sector with the least-disturbed dry forests of the region, and where other bird species of conservation concern occur. This new wren is presently known from six localities within an estimated total area of about 650 square miles (1,700 km2), and the extent and quality of its habitat are expected to decline. Thus, the species would be classified at least as "vulnerable" under IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List Criteria.
2 Responses to "Bird Species Discovered, and Promptly Marked for Drowning"
September 5, 2012 at 3:19 pm
Alwaysexciting to hear of new species being discovered. We have to be optimistic and hope there is a positive outcome!
October 1, 2012 at 2:33 am
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An interview with Marion Cotillard, who worked alongside whales to film the upcoming movie "Rust and Bone."
"Usually when I read a script and I fall in love with a character, most of the time I know who the person is, right away," said Marion Cotillard, in Toronto last fall with her new film "Rust and Bone" (opening Friday). "In this case, it was really different. I found it very exciting to take a journey that would lead me to eventually know who she was."
Cotillard, a native of Paris, has made more than 20 films in her international career, including "La Vie en Rose" (for which she won an Academy Award for her portrayal of singer Edith Piaf), "Inception," "Midnight in Paris" and "The Dark Knight Rises."
"Rust and Bone" was her first collaboration with French writer/director Jacques Audiard ("A Prophet"). Cotillard' s character, Stéphanie, is a whale trainer at a marine park in the south of France; midway into the film, she suffers a terrible accident at work that leaves her forever changed.
In Toronto, Cotillard's effortless glamour seems worlds away from the gritty milieu of "Rust and Bone." (In true movie-star fashion, the lighting in the room almost seems to change as she enters.) But she spoke happily of a role that took her far from her comfort zone — and that brought her up close with trained whales, an idea she initially found upsetting.
"I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of taking an animal out of his natural environment and training this animal to be like a clown or something," she said. "It makes me sad to see those magnificent animals in a swimming pool."
But to play Stéphanie, she had to go through training at Marineland, the Antibes animal-exhibition park where "Rust and Bone" was filmed. Though reluctant, she found herself moved by the passion of the park's trainers for their work and "the love that they have for the animals."
Due to several marine-park incidents that happened just before filming (including one at Sea World in San Diego that resulted in the death of a trainer), new rules were put in place for whale/human interactions that caused Audiard to have to rewrite parts of the film, particularly a sequence in which Stéphanie re-connects with a whale, gesturing to it from behind a glass wall. It's a remarkable scene, with Stéphanie and the whale finding an uncanny, eerie intimacy.
"Originally it was not written like it is in the movie, because I was supposed to be above the water with the whales," Cotillard said. "I was not even allowed to put my arm in the water, or to touch the whale. "
Trainers suggested it was possible to still have a connection with a whale while safely behind glass, and Cotillard did the scene using the arm movements she had learned in training.
The first rehearsal was filmed, and Cotillard was astonished by the scene's power.
"It was really a conversation between me and the orca. We were deeply moved by what happened that day."
Leaving Stéphanie behind, at the end of filming, was difficult, said Cotillard — "I loved being her." But at this point in her life — she has a toddler son, with actor/director and longtime boyfriend Guillaume Canet — it's easier to say goodbye to characters at work.
"I have to take care of a marvelous human being, and so it's easier to go back to myself because someone is waiting for me, the entire me without anyone else," she said.
Though she said she'd love to do more comedy (a la "Midnight in Paris" — an "amazing" experience), or to sing again ("Nine"), or to work again with Christopher Nolan, Cotillard said she's now giving herself the great luxury of taking a break, and isn't sure what her next role will be. (She has two films completed and due out in 2013: "Blood Ties," directed by Canet, and "Lowlife" directed by James Grey.)
"I'm enjoying the fact that I know that one day I will be very excited by a new project," she said.
"It's going to be a surprise. I'm going to read something and I'll know that it's where I need to go."


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Centrotherm's training focuses on InnoFlue
Centrotherm Eco Systems participates in staff and customer training for venting with InnoFlue for Goodman and Amana brand products.
Centrotherm Eco Systems' VP of Business Development Jim Molloy recently conducted training sessions with the manufacturing staff of Goodman and Amana brand products at their factory location in Houston, Texas.
|Centrotherm Eco System's VP of Business Development Jim Molloy
Customers and technical service managers were trained on venting with InnoFlue. Goodman hosted the training, which included the latest product improvements and accessories.
The training focused not only on the ease of installing and using InnoFlue on Goodman and Amana brand's 90% efficiency condensing furnaces, but on the multiple safety benefits utilizing the only UL-1738 listed polymeric vent on the market. According to Molloy, "It was a pleasure to be involved in a training program where all parties present were so enthusiastic about new products and technologies."
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Fresh cherry cake with a hint of cinnamon
Nutrition and extra info
Nutrition: per slice
- kcal247
- fat12g
- saturates7g
- carbs32g
- sugars12g
- fibre1g
- protein3g
- salt0.46g
- 140g self-raising flour
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- 50g golden caster sugar
- 1 egg
The ultimate convenience food, eggs are powerhouses of nutrition packed with protein and a…
- 4 tbsp milk
One of the most widely used ingredients, milk is often referred to as a 'complete' food…
- 85g butter, melted
Butter is a dairy product made from separating whole milk or cream into fat and…
- 350g juicy, ripe cherries
One of the delights of the summer, cherries are much loved for their succulent texture, flavour…
- icing sugar, for dusting
For the topping
Preheat the oven to fan 160C/ conventional 180C/gas 4. Grease and base line a 20cm round cake tin, about 5cm deep. Sift the flour, cinnamon and caster sugar into a bowl. Make a well in the centre and add the egg, milk and melted butter, then combine with a wooden spoon or electric whisk. Beat well to make a thick, smooth mixture. Spoon into the tin and spread evenly.
Remove the stalks and stones from the cherries, using a pitter if you have one to keep the fruit whole. Scatter the cherries over the mixture and gently press them in.
To make the topping, tip all the ingredients into a bowl. Rub in the butter with your fingers to make a crumb-like mixture, then work the mixture until it comes together in pea-sized pieces. Scatter the topping over the cherries.
Bake for 30-35 minutes until a skewer pushed into the centre comes out clean. Leave in the tin until cool enough to handle, then run a knife round the edge, remove the cake from the tin and leave on a wire rack until completely cold.
For a picnic, make the cake up to 24 hours ahead and return it to the clean tin when cold. Dust liberally with icing sugar, then wrap in cling film or foil.


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Home Tree School operate within statutory requirements in the educational, health and care arena. There is a policy review cycle that means that our policies are constantly under review and amended at regular intervals. Key localised policies can also be found below:
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The parents of Home Tree School students should be aware that the school has a duty to safeguard the promote the welfare of the pupils. This responsibility necessitates a safeguarding policy and the school may need to share information and work in partnership with other agencies when there are concerns about a child's welfare. This policy complies with guidance from the DfE and the Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB). The School recognises it is an agent of referral and not of investigation. Anyone can make a referral to children's social care, if necessary. The designated safeguarding leads (DSL) for the school is Kicha Mitchell and the Deputy Safeguarding Lead is Melanie Higgs.
Complaints Procedure
We know there will be times when students, carers, parents or placing authorites will want to give us feedback about our school and we will always be happy to hear from you. If you feel that you would like to make a suggestion, let us know about something you were pleased with, or tell us we did not meet your expectations, please contact the school via the details on the main page. A complaints procedure allows for both formal and informal complaints.
Informal complaints can be dealt with quickly, while formal complaints should be made in writing. Our full complaints policy is available above or from the school on request. This policy is designed to help you raise concerns and ensures your complaint will be dealt with fairly. Should you wish to take your complaint further or if you feel you are unable to discuss the details with the school, please contact the Director of Education here, especially if you complaint relates to the school leadership.
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1On hearing what had happened, those still in their tents were horrified. 2Overcome with fear and dread, no one kept ranks any longer. They scattered in all directions, and fled along every path, both through the valley and in the hill country.a 3Those who were stationed in the hill country around Bethulia also took to flight. Then the Israelites, every warrior among them, came charging down upon them.
4Uzziah sent messengers to Betomasthaim, to Choba and Kona, and to the whole territory of Israel to report what had happened and to urge them all to attack the enemy and destroy them. 5On hearing this, all the Israelites, with one accord, attacked them and cut them down as far as Choba. Even those from Jerusalem and the rest of the hill country took part in this, for they too had been notified of the happenings in the camp of their enemy. The Gileadites and the Galileans struck the enemy's flanks with great slaughter, even beyond Damascus and its borders. 6The remaining people of Bethulia swept down on the camp of the Assyrians, plundered it, and acquired great riches. 7The Israelites, when they returned from the slaughter, took possession of what was left. Even the towns and villages in the hill country and on the plain got an enormous quantity of spoils, for there was a tremendous amount of it.
Israel Celebrates Judith's Victory. 8Then the high priest Joakim and the senate of the Israelites who lived in Jerusalem came to see for themselves the good things that the Lord had done for Israel, and to meet and congratulate Judith. 9When they came to her, all with one accord blessed her, saying:
"You are the glory of Jerusalem!*
You are the great pride of Israel!
You are the great boast of our nation!
10By your own hand you have done all this.
You have done good things for Israel,
and God is pleased with them.
May the Almighty Lord bless you forever!"
And all the people said, "Amen!"
11For thirty days* all the people plundered the camp, giving Judith the tent of Holofernes, with all his silver, his beds, his dishes, and all his furniture. She took them and loaded her mule, hitched her carts, and loaded these things on them.
12All the women of Israel gathered to see her, and they blessed her and performed a dance in her honor.b She took branches in her hands and distributed them to the women around her, 13and she and the other women crowned themselves with olive leaves. Then, at the head of all the people, she led the women in the dance, while the men of Israel followed, bearing their weapons, wearing garlands and singing songs of praise. 14* Judith led all Israel in this song of thanksgiving, and the people loudly sang this hymn of praise:
* [15:9] In the Lectionary of the Catholic Church, this passage is one of several choices for feasts of Mary (e.g., the Presentation of Mary). These words of praise are also echoed in antiphons for the Liturgy of the Hours on Marian feasts.
* [15:11] Thirty days: the central actions in each half of the book are accomplished in a total of thirty-four days. Bethulia was without water for thirty-four days (7:20). Judith spent four days in the enemy camp and the Israelites plunder the Assyrian camp for thirty days.
* [15:14–16:17] Judith's hymn of deliverance is patterned on the Song of Miriam (Ex 15:20–21).
a. [15:2] Gn 9:2; Dt 11:25; 1 Mc 7:18; Sir 4:17.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee State men's basketball team will host its first home contest of the season on Monday at 7 p.m. against the Bisons of Lipscomb.
TSU (0-4) will certainly welcome the brief road reprieve, as the Tigers have fallen to four teams that made the postseason a year ago, including Saturday's, 85-71, defeat by Wichita State, a team that made the Final Four in 2012-13.
While the Tigers dropped its fourth straight game to start the season, something they had not done since 2009, the team did show marked improvement even while facing its stiffest competition in the nation's No. 16 ranked team.
TSU's offense had its finest output of the young campaign against the Shockers, setting new season highs in points, field goal percentage (.448), three-pointers made (4), free throws (15) and free throw attempts (24).
Those numbers are a big jump for a team that entered Saturday scoring 54 points per game, shooting 35.4 percent and having made just 31 freebies in its first three contests.
The Tigers also boasted three players who scored in double figures for the first time all season against WSU in Patrick Miller (23), M.J. Rhett (16) and Jaleel Queary (10).
Queary's total on 4-of-8 shooting is especially important to a team that is searching for a third scoring option to Miller, who leads the Ohio Valley Conference with an average of 21.3 points per game and Rhett's 10.8.
The Tigers have another reason to be excited about coming home, as they are 33-6 at home during the last three seasons and have won 21 out of their last 24 contests in their home arena.
TSU was 11-2 at home in 2012-13 which matched the team's record for home wins in a season while playing in the Gentry Center.
TSU's opponent on Monday will not have to travel far as the Tigers will play host to the cross-town rival Lipscomb Bisons (1-2).
The Bisons have only had one home contest of their own so far this season, but the squad still has not left Nashville. Lipscomb opened the season with an, 87-83, loss at Belmont and fell at Vanderbilt, 80-69, on Friday.
The Bisons have incredible balance as they currently have five players who average in double figures in Carter Sanderson (15.7 points per game), J.C. Hampton (15.3), Khion Sankey (13), Martin Smith (12.3) and Malcolm Smith (12.3).
Lipscomb is a great three-point shooting team, converting on 35.2 percent of its attempts, but not as efficient at the free throw line, canning just 60.9 percent.
The squad is also plus-5.7 in rebounds per contest, but has turned the ball over 44 times in only three games played.
TSU is 1-2 all-time against Lipscomb, but the sides have not met since the 2002-03 season, a, 97-85, Bisons victory.
Tennessee State will go for its first victory of the season on Monday with tipoff slated for 7 p.m.


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The Stations of the Cross began as the practice of pious pilgrims to Jerusalem who would retrace the final journey of Jesus Christ to Calvary.
Later, for the many who wanted to pass along the same route, but could not make the trip to Jerusalem, a practice developed that eventually took the form of the fourteen stations currently found in almost every church.
Similarly, the 150 Hail Marys that were recited for the rosary were an adaptation of the medieval monastic practice of reciting the 150 psalms in the Psalter.
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Slain doctor Mehdi Ali Qamar was 'servant of humanity'
A Canadian cardiologist shot dead in Pakistan was remembered Wednesday as a selfless humanitarian who was "murdered because of his faith," with mourners making impassioned calls for Ottawa to better pressure the South Asian country on religious freedoms.
Dr. Mehdi Ali Qamar, a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim sect, had just returned to his birth country to do volunteer work at a hospital when he was gunned down by assailants in front of his wife and two-year-old son on May 26. They were visiting his parents' graves.
At a funeral service in Vaughan, outside Toronto, Qamar's nephew Nasir Chaudhary read a family statement that remembered the heart doctor as a "real servant of humanity" who cared for all, regardless of their beliefs.
"He possessed a strong sense of service to humanity. His compassion knew no bounds," Chaudhary said to a solemn crowd.
"The only comfort we find in his passing is that he gave his life doing something he loved: helping others."
A dual citizen who had lived in Ohio for the last decade, Qamar's open casket was draped in both Canadian and American flags as a ring of mourners wearing traditional black-and-white scarves stood silently around it.
Relatives spoke of Qamar as a positive, generous man who was always cracking jokes and penning poems. A niece recalled one such piece, written to honour her brother after his sudden death.
Speakers mourned Qamar, 51, not only for the loss of his life, but as what they see as another sectarian killing of members of their religious group, who in Pakistan have long been the target of Islamic extremists, accused of blasphemy and are not officially recognized as Muslims.
"Dr. Mehdi Ali Qamar was murdered because of his faith," said Lal Khan Malik, president Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at Canada, a group representing Ahmadis.
He said Qamar's death was the "direct result of the state-sponsored extremism that is practiced in Pakistan," and called on the Harper government to pressure the South Asian country to end what he called the persecution of Ahmadis.
"As loyal citizens of Canada, we ask the government of Canada to urge the Pakistan government to stand up to extremists and promote freedom of religion."
He noted that last year Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited the same Ahmadiyya mosque hall where Qamar was remembered to name the first ambassador to the Office of Religious Freedom, meant to spread religious tolerance abroad. Malik said Qamar's killing tragically underscores the importance of the initiative.
"I did not think I would be standing here a year from that day burying one of my community members to demonstrate the critical need and work of that office."
He said the Qamar's slaying was part of a "pattern" that has seen 137 other Ahmadis killed in Pakistan over the last four years.
Federal, provincial and local politicians were in attendance, as were officials from the U.S. consulate in Toronto along with friends and family stateside.
Local Liberal MP Judy Sgro said the Harper government must get tough with Pakistan to act against extremism targeting minorities, saying options such as trade sanctions should be on the table. "We must not let him die in vain," she said of Qamar.
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Having laid the foundation of the doctrine of the church, Pastor Todd moves into the functions of the church in this lesson. We were added to a church to work for God. This work is done corporately as a church body. We hope this sermon challenges every church to embrace the Great Commission.


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Shingles is a potentially painful virus that hits when your immune system is down and your stress levels are up. There are more than a million cases reported each year in the United States and researchers say the number of new cases is exploding.
There's something else that's changing: It's not just your parents suffering from shingles anymore.
College life for Carline Radaj was fun, but stressful. And that was before she ended up with a painful case of shingles.
"It felt like either I had a pinched nerve or that just someone was constantly stabbing me," she explained.
When a rash popped up on top of the pain, an internet search led her to the diagnosis. A campus doctor confirmed it, but even they seemed stunned.
"It's something that happens in older people, so for it to happen to a young college student they were a little bit baffled at that," said Radaj.
In fact, a lot of people are surprised to hear of someone in college suffering from shingles. But researchers say cases are up six-fold across all age groups, and college kids are no exception.
"Instead of maybe one every three or four months, you may be having two or three each month in the college and that stands out," said Barbara Yawn, MD, MSc, FAAFP.
Yawn authored a study on shingles recurrences. She says it's tough for someone in college already stressed out to miss class because of shingles. Technically, they're not contagious, but it can be agonizing.
"This was going on for about a week and it was excruciating pain," said Radaj.
Researchers don't know why it's on the rise.
"We've looked at several factors like are there more people that are immunosuppressed, uh ,was it around the time the chicken pox vaccine in children? That isn't true. Did it have to do with when antivirals were introduced? No. Does it have to do with more people coming to the doctor when they have shingles? Well, a six-fold increase is a little hard to believe for that. So, we're actually right back where we started. We don't know," explained Yawn.
They also don't know if these younger shingles sufferers will get it again and again.
"If you got your first at 80 its not very long till you won't have to worry about it. But if you get your first episode of shingles at 18 or 20, you've got another 60-70 years that you're at risk and our data suggests that the risk of recurrence is higher than the risk of occurrence," said Yawn.
Well, what can they do about it? A shingles vaccine exists but can currently only be used on people 50 and older.
"So we really don't have anything to offer these people," added Yawn.
That's not much comfort to Radaj and others like her.
"Hopefully I don't get it again," she said.
Researchers say stay tuned the next five years or so for answers. Meantime, they expect that the numbers of younger people getting shingles should start to drop, since many of those students received the chickenpox vaccine. You must have already had the chickenpox in order to get shingles.
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featuring Fred McDowell, Robert Wilkins, Bukka White, Blind Willie Johnson, Muddy Waters, Blind Willie McTell, Edward W. Clayborn and Charlie Patton
Many southern blues musicians performed and recorded gospel songs; spirituals or church songs as they were called. Some, like Blind Willie Johnson and Edward W. Clayborn, strictly adhered to a religious message earning them the handle "guitar evangelists", while others, like Fred McDowell and Charlie Patton, blurred the socially imposed lines and mingled gospel with the blues.
In this anthology of Bottleneck Gospel Guitar Tom Feldmann highlights the fervent and aggressive slide playing of Fred McDowell, Robert Wilkins, Muddy Waters, Bukka White, Blind Willie Johnson, Edward W. Clayborn and Charlie Patton. Each player offers a distinct style and Tom breaks down their techniques allowing you to imitate the masters as well as build a repertoire of classic bottleneck gospel blues.
A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. In addition the original old recordings of all the tunes are included.
Titles include: OPEN D TUNING: FRED McDOWELL Jesus Is On The Mainline ROBERT WILKINS Wished I Was In Heaven MUDDY WATERS Why Don't You Live So God Can Use You BUKKA WHITE I Am In The Heavenly Way BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON It's Nobody's Fault But Mine BLIND WILLIE McTELL I Got To Cross That River of Jordan OPEN G TUNING: EDWARD W. CLAYBORN Gospel Train Is Coming and There'll Be Glory CHARLIE PATTON Lord I'm Discouraged and I'm Going Home
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Review: Got Religion? Tom Feldmann's Bottleneck Gospel Guitar's got gobs of it, testifying up nasty licks in the name of the Lord. And, on his DVD lesson, the Minnesota slide whiz patiently shares step-by-step instruction to 10 such offerings from that blurry sinner-saint zone where bluesmen (like Fred McDowell and Blind Willie McTell) dabbled in gospel and gospel men (Revs. Edward Clayborn and Robert Wilkins) dabbled in blues. You'll learn how to make a slide vocalize "Lord, I'm Discouraged,""I Got To Cross That River Of Jordan" and Blind Willie Johnson's "Nobody's Fault But Mine." How to gash "Wished I Was In Heaven" with glassy stabs. And how to invoke Bukka White's immediately recognizable fishtailing chug or some Charley Patton fatalism in "I'm Going Home" (aka "Prayer Of Death - Part 1"). The sacred shocker? Muddy Waters - yes, Muddy Waters' "Why Don't You Live So God Can Use You," originally recorded in his Mississippi sharecropper's shack back in 1942. Plus, always count on Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop to add extra bells and whistles to any lesson. Here it's a bonus audio library with all the original songs, along with video of Son House in full rapture, clapping up and stomping out that Muddy gospel. – Dennis Rozanski/BluesRag


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The standing rib roast
A few supporting elements, a basic spice rub, kosher salt, medium grind multi-pepper blend, some dry mustard, paprika, ground clove and fresh ground nutmeg and a solid whack of garlic, actually only half of that went into the paste. Here are the spices...
Fresh garlic and some spices
And then some herbs, in this case, fresh parsley, oregano and sage, were finely chopped, added to the garlic, which was grated, and all was muddled with some olive oil to create a slurry.
Fresh parsley, sage and oregano
Slurry, a beautiful culinary word, no?
I will apply the dry rub, allow the roast to sit for 30 minutes, then apply the slurry. The idea, I hope is to get the rub to form into a pellicle of sorts, then apply the slurry over it. I often wonder if this matters as it all seems to blend together in the end. I could be making things more complex for no reason at all.
Rubbed and slurried (Sp?)
This whole mess was shoved into a kettle, with wildly fluctuating temperatures, in the rain, it ran somewhere between 400F and 200F for 5 hours. I also did not have a Maverick, which, due the the wildly flcutuations temperatures, meant I had to go out into the rain often to manually check the temperature. A note about grass fed and finished beef, it is quite lean, and does not take to overcooking at all well. My target temperature was 130F and I really felt anything over 135F to pull was going to be bad. Oddly, I hit 134F at 5 hours and pulled it. What a bothe, still, the steer died, all I did was get wet. Here it is, done and on the board after a 20 minute rest.
Rested and Ready
Next, there was slicing, always the moment of trurth, to see if the color looks right. If you will notice, there is a small yellow nub of what look like fat near the top of the roast, that is actually a tendon and needs to be removed. I like to take a thin bladed knife, run it along the top of the rib bone, then cut slices. The bones form a nice stable base for cutting.
Nice color
You will notice, this is lean meat, and we like the flavor, which is a little stronger than most beef you buy. It is largely unaged, maybe a few days in cryovac is all. This lean quality means you must not cook it past medium rare or it gets a little tougher. I think this shot really shows it taken right to where it wants to be.
Nice shot
I really like the color of these slices. The following shot was a mistake, for some reason, the red tablecloth made the color in this image horrible. Still, some nice slices on the table.
Horrible shot
Yum, purple meat! Geez, you just never know.


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Photosynth was one of the cooler apps for Windows Phones, when it finally hit Windows Phone 7.5 in spring last year. However, until today it wasn't compatible to Windows Phone 8, even if it was a Microsoft app. Also available since 2011 for iOS, Photosynth for Windows Phone is a panorama app that makes it easy and fun to capture and share interactive panoramas of places, people, and events. Using the latest in computer vision techniques, Photosynth is the acknowledged leader in mobile panorama creation. It is the only app available on Windows Phone that allows you to capture 360° horizontally and vertically, making a perfect "sphere".
Once a Photosynth was created, users can share it as an interactive panoramic experience on Facebook and Twitter using the free Photosynth.net service. It's also possible to publish panoramas to Bing, where millions of people will see the panoramas on Bing Maps and in Bing search results.
Now, with version 1.5, Microsoft has not only added support for its latest mobile OS version aka Windows Phone 8 but also added a camera lens integration which allows to cuickly capture panoramas by launching Photosynth directly from the built-in camera app lens picker. View shared panoramas allows to view panoramas on the mobile device, which were shared via E-Mail, Facebook or Twitter. The more camera controls allow to adjust for various lighting conditions by using new exposure and white balance locking options and for sure the latest update also comes with general improvements with various bug and stability fixes.
As before, the used Windows Phone doesn't need a gyroscope to install or use this app. However, if the used Windows Phone includes a gyroscope, the app uses it to enhance the Photosynth panorama capture experience.
Photosynth for Windows Phone requires either Windows Phone 7.5, which every Windows Phone should have received by now, or Windows Phone 8. However, since Photosynth still requires a significant of memory for stitching the photos, it's only available for phones with at least 512 MB of RAM.
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The AMT WS Studio version combines the AMT WS Clip-On Double Microphone system with the AMT AP40 floor pre-amp. The AP40 converts the microphones to low impedance, it regulates the voltage to each microphone, and with certain models creates a specific frequency curve. The curve is necessary on certain models or musical instruments in order to maintain the most natural reproduction of sound in conjunction with achieving the most amount of gain before feedback in a live application. The output of the preamp is an XLR Low Impedance balanced output. The output sends signal at Mic Level.
The AMT WS is a low profile double condenser microphone system that attaches to the clarinet, alto and bass flute, or oboe with a ultra-miniature low mass clamp. It is specifically designed for the timbre of the clarinet. The microphone provides pure tonal reproduction while being unobtrusive. It has an even reproduction of sound across the entire instrument. The AMT WS features a flexible gooseneck, allowing the player to position the microphone for the best possible tone reproduction. It's rugged construction of anodized aviation aluminum makes it highly durable, while being lightweight and non-corrosive.
The AMT WS Studio comes with two isolation rings. Both instrument microphones are suspended in AMT's iso-ring technology which allows more gain before feedback and less handling noise. The AMT WS Studio version is meant to be used either in a Studio setting where close miking of an musical instrument is desired or in a professional level setting where the sound engineer needs control of the microphone.
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- Max input SPL: 140 dB
- Dimension: 13" Flex Arm
- Cable: 10'
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