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Doesn't matter if we like the new Windows 8 Metro look and feel or we argue about the missing Start button, Windows 8 is Microsoft's future of Windows for all kind of PCs, laptops, tablets and well - even USB sticks! While it's clear that a Windows OS will for sure work on PCs and laptops, the support for ARM based, so called SoC (System on Chip) tablets, is something new but Windows 8 comes with another feature which hasn't caught too much attention yet, something Microsoft simply calls "Windows To Go". Windows To Go allows to install a full version of Windows 8 on a USB stick which then can be booted on any PC. In my humble opinion, this is idea is big and ground breaking.
Running apps and programs from a USB stick isn't anything new. One of the best known and most likely widest used apps is "Portable Firefox" which is a fully functional package of Firefox but optimized for use on a USB key drive. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster as well as a specialized launcher that will allow most of extensions to work as computers are switched. Theoretically, Windows To Go isn't anything different but rather than just being a program, it's a full bootable Windows 8 installation. While there are a lot of discussions and thoughts, how powerful today's smartphones and tablets are and if they might replace the PC anytime soon by connecting them to a big screen, network and keyboard, Windows To Go goes a different way by keeping the PC hardware alive but just making the OS mobile, or in this case portable.
Windows To Go comes with Windows 8 itself, all drivers, all apps and programs, the Windows 8's Metro design and so on. And if a driver isn't available, it simply downloads it via Windows Update because most common LAN and W-LAN drivers are aboard. After Windows 8 was installed on a USB stick, it behaves like a regular Windows installation. If used for the first time, the user has to set it up which includes to enter the Windows 8 serial number, creating an account, selecting the design and so on; like turning on a PC the first time which comes with a preinstalled version of Windows 7.
After, all these settings and account data are stored on the USB stick but not on the used PC. As a matter of fact, the USB stick itself becomes the C:\ drive and therefore it even allows to install apps and programs. Doesn't matter if these apps are Metro apps which come from the Windows 8 Store or third party installations from CD-ROMs or DVDs. The only limit is USB stick memory but if you think about a 64 GB USB 3.0 stick, it's virtually enough memory to install the most important apps and programs, making the USB drive a kind of SSD. A typical 32 Bit installation of Windows 8 takes roughly 9 GB of storage memory, leaving enough space for personal stuff.
However, since Windows 8 comes with inbuilt support for Microsoft's SkyDrive, documents and files can be stored in the cloud and even if Windows To Go allows to install programs and apps on the USB stick, for some programs like Microsoft Office 2010 or today's announced Office 365 aka Office 15, it's not necessary at all since SkyDrive features the so called "Web Apps" which are browser-based versions of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint and even Microsoft OneNote. Other programs like a mail client, address book and calendar are already part of Metro anyway which means it's even not necessary to install Outlook on the USB stick. For sure are the full versions of Office offering more features but it's not necessary for a "to go" installation. But then again, if you have any company related programs you need to install to make such a portable Windows 8 installation useful, you can easily do it. The stick's storage capacity is the only limit!
Unfortunately, Windows To Go has one flaw: It's not designed for the average user but was designed for corporate customers and system administrators. It was designed to be deployed by administrators and handed out after to the employees. And while Windows 8 unfortunately lacks an automated wizard, which helps the consumer to create a Windows To Go installation, prosumers with some knowledge of the command prompt (you know, this old thing which looks like DOS) can easily create their own Windows To Go installation; there are plenty of great how to's available on the web. All it needs is a legit copy of Windows 8, some tools and a large enough sized USB stick. The creation of a Windows To Go stick doesn't take longer than an hour or so. But after, you can put Windows 8 on your key ring and have it with you - wherever you are; doesn't matter if it is at a friend's home, an Internet Café or the hotel's lobby PC. All data are safely stored on on the stick and aren't copied to any of these computers.
A Windows To Go installation is best used with a USB 3.0 stick and PC since USB 3.0 has transmission speeds of up to 5 Gbps, which is 10 times faster than USB 2.0 which only came with 480 Mbps. However, since USB 3.0 is backwards compatible to USB 2.0, a USB 3.0 Windows To Go stick can also be used with PCs only featuring USB 2.0 ports. For sure is such a combination not a hardcore gaming machine, nor is a USB 3.0 powered Windows To Go PC a gaming machine, but for regular Office use, web surfing, E-Mail, Facebook and Twitter it's way enough.
For my tests, I've used a Kingston UFD3 DataTraveler Ultimate G2 32 GB USB-Stick USB 3.0 (Amazon.de affiliate link/Amazon.com affiliate link) which worked quite well on all my tested home and office PCs, Notebooks and Netbooks which all have USB 2.0 ports only. It even worked fine on an Apple MacBook Air. Depending on the PC, booting from the Windows To Go stick takes around 1 minute or so, a typical Windows 7 or Windows Vista PC isn't that much faster, and the system was operational instantly. Windows 8 is even pausing the entire system if the USB drive is removed but Windows 8 resumes operation immediately when the drive is inserted within 60 seconds of removal. If the drive is not inserted in that time-frame, the computer shuts down after those 60 seconds to prevent possible confidential or sensitive information being displayed on the screen or stored in RAM. This worked well on some of the tested systems but not on all. However, all PCs weren't accessible anymore after the stick was removed, adding an extra security feature for fast system-lock. Furthermore, Windows 8 supports Microsoft's BitLocker technology which allows to to encrypt a Windows To Go drive.
Final Conclusion
Windows To Go is plain simple and straight forward! It brings your Windows 8 installation, your apps and programs, your settings and your files to a PC, laptop or tablet around you. For sure it's not 100 % hassle free, for instance I was unable to get any of my inbuilt 3G modems working but that's not the point. Windows To Go isn't made to replace a standard Windows 8 installation or made as a kind of fallback dual-boot for Windows 7 but it's the portable version of Windows. I can really see scenarios where such a installation becomes handy. Doesn't matter if it is for personal or business use. Imagine to go into your summer holidays, only taking your smartphone, and maybe an iPad or Kindle with you but if your manager calls you, or you get the greatest job offer ever, you can immediately start to work on your CV or documents.When I was last year in Uzbekistan, I left all my Netbooks and Notebooks at home, for security reasons because I traveled around and because I wanted to travel around light weighted. With such a USB installation of Windows, I could have done some necessary work easily from one of the business centers in the hotels, which I've used for web browsing and web-based E-Mail. Or another example: When I worked in Angola last year, my colleagues got robbed their laptops on the street which was a real problem after since they brought them from Europe. As a matter of fact they had to leave earlier to get replacements in Europe. With such a USB drive in your pocket, your laptop would be still stolen but all you need is one of the spare PCs in the office and your are ready to continue your work. Excellent!
Unfortunately, as I said, is Windows To Go not designed for the average users but during a Windows 8 workshop three weeks ago, Microsoft told me its for corporate use and system administrators. Therefore it's not part of retail packages but end users have to do it on their own. Nevertheless, with the help of the Internet, this process is straight forward and the required USB thumb drive isn't too expensive at all. As far as I know, it will be also possible to create Windows To Go installations with the commercial version of Windows 8, which will be available later this summer. For this article I only used the publically available "Windows 8 Consumer Preview" which nevertheless shouldn't differentiate too much from the release version.
All together, Windows To Go is - in my eyes - on of the best features Windows 8 will bring. Unfortunately not many of us will hear about it or use it but the few which will have it in their pockets will love it, I'm sure!
Cheers ~ Arne
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ART AID FOR KENYA NOW"In Kenya, an estimated three million, mostly poor, people live with intellectual and mental disabilities, according to NGO and United Nations figures. At the same time, the ratio of psychiatrists to the population is dismal -- just one psychiatrist to half a million people."
Those who have survives the many terrorist attacks in the last two years need care now! Through training local caregivers how to use simple art therapy activities, they can offer counseling anywhere, anytime with the simple tools of crayon and paper.
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The work week starts out crisp and clear, according to the National Weather Service in Melbourne.
The work week starts out crisp and clear, according to the National Weather Service in Melbourne.
Temperatures dropped into the mid to high 30s across much of inland Volusia and Flagler Monday morning, with a low of 35.9 at 3:30 in Pierson. Other low temperatures in Volusia were 42 at Daytona Beach International Airport, 39 in DeLand, 37 in Ormond Beach and 45 in New Smyrna Beach, according to the National Weather Service. At low of 37 was reported at the Flagler County Airport in Bunnell.
Today, look for a high of 73 degrees with plenty of sun and a northeast wind at just five mph.
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Panic disorder is a type of anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent and unpredictable bursts of terror known as panic attacks. A panic attack is accompanied by physical symptoms that may feel similar to a heart attack or other life-threatening condition.
Intense anxiety often develops between episodes of panic. As panic attacks become more frequent, people begin avoiding situations that could trigger them. Panic attacks can lead to agoraphobia. This is a fear of being trapped in places or situations where escape could be difficult or impossible.
Panic disorder is likely to be an interaction of:
Panic disorder is almost twice as common in women than in men. Other factors that may increase your chance of panic disorder include:
Panic attacks usually occur unexpectedly and repeatedly. Panic attack symptoms may include:
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You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will also be done. The diagnosis can be made if you have had a panic attack with at least 4 of the symptoms listed above and persistent worries about the attack for more than 1 month.
Tell your doctor about your physical symptoms and how the symptoms make you feel. Your doctor will want to know if the panic attacks interfere with your normal activities. You should also tell your doctor if you:
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Education helps people to better understand what panic disorder is and how it can be treated. It focuses on the concepts that symptoms are not life-threatening and are common. It also helps the person to understand the course of treatment and develop realistic goals for overcoming the disorder. People who undergo treatment have an improved quality of life.
In some people, learning about panic disorder is enough to help relieve symptoms.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) can prepare you for situations that may trigger panic attacks. Therapy focuses on:
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Could an online quiz be the future of continuing medical education? In a twist on the "edu-gaming" phenomenon, Cleveland Clinic and physician site MDLinx aim to answer that question with The Smartest Doc, a daily one-minute quiz that aims to keep doctors up to date on the medical literature by appealing to their competitive spirit.
Cleveland Clinic furnishes content for the multispecialty quiz, which consists of five or fewer questions and is scored based on speed and accuracy. Participants can view leader boards showing where they've placed regionally and nationally.
"Some physicians have chosen to make teams," said MDLinx's Stephen Smith. "Some use it as a more local competition. If you're an oncologist in Omaha, you can play the quiz, then when you talk to each other you have bragging rights."
Physicians can see the correct answer to any question they get wrong and a couple clicks takes them to a full CME course on the topic from Cleveland Clinic.
Tailored to internists, family physicians, oncologists, pediatricians, diabetes experts and neurologists, the quiz is ad supported, and MDLinx will entertain sponsorships by pharmas, whether of the online quiz by specialty or for exhibit booths at national meetings of medical societies, where the quiz could serve as a lure, drawing physician foot traffic.
Other ventures, including QuantiaMD and some medical journals, have run quizzes, but Smith said MDLinx's quiz is distinguished by its daily schedule and competitive element.
"It's every day, and after a month, participants will have been exposed to the most current literature and best practices," said Smith, who is chief marketing officer of MDLinx parent M3.


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From LONG ISLAND – by Ann Parry (ann-parry.com)
October 15, 2011
Yesterday, October 14, 2011, at 12:24 PM I signed for my iPhone 4S, my first iPhone ever.
iPhone 4S photo: I took the above unretouched photo on Oct. 16, 2011, during Long Island Center of Photography's Reception for the Family Portrait Day exhibit at the African American Museum in Hempstead, NY.
When the doorbell rang and I saw the UPS delivery person with the smaller-than-a-brick-size brown box, I smiled, rhetorically asking, "Is that it – the iPhone?" I explained I was happy to see him, since I'd planned to stay home that day until I could sign for the phone, however long it took. He laughed, saying I sure wasn't the first to tell him that.
After listening one last time to voice messages on the 2+ years old LG Dare and backing up Contacts, I connected the black iPhone 4S to the Mac via USB, followed easy directions to activate the phone, synched it with my apps, music, books, enabled iCloud and iMessage, downloaded the Verizon Contact Transfer app… in short, I was adding a tiny computer to my network.
The least fun was after I synched apps. I ended up with 11 screens of apps, so – from iTunes on my Mac – I spent about 20 minutes organizing the apps onto 2 screens. Then when I hit "synch" a message asked if I really wanted to delete a particular app, and I wasn't 100% sure, so I hit "cancel." But that didn't just cancel deleting the app (which it turns out I did want to delete), but I was back to 11 screens of apps! So I had to start all over again.
The second least fun was when I synced Contacts. I over-synched, using gmail, Calendar apps, iCloud, Microsoft Exchange…, and ended up with up to 6 duplicates of certain contacts. Less (synching) would have been more (efficient).
iPhone 4S photo: I captured the above photo the night of October, 14, 2011, in a corner of room, with lens inches from cat's face. Auto white balance is great.
Siri seems promising, though I haven't given it much of a test run yet. When I asked it, "What will tomorrow's weather be like?" it said "It looks windy" and showed the week's weather forecast for my town on the screen. The biggest iPhone 4S fun I'm looking forward to is having face time calls with my brother's family, once their iPhone 4S phones arrive later this month.


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Towson Finished As NCAA FCS Runners-Up
CENTERVILLE, Mass. – The Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) announced today that Towson University has been named as the 2013 ECAC Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) Team of the Year.
This is Towson's first-ever ECAC Division I FCS Team of the Year honor and fourth overall, as the Tigers had previously won the ECAC Division II Team of the Year in 1983, 1984 and 1986. Towson was selected as the most outstanding team by the coaches within the ECAC Division I FCS membership and members of the media.
The Tigers will be honored on March 27, at the Eastern College Football Awards Banquet, hosted by the ECAC at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. The Eastern College Football Awards Banquet with feature the presentation of the ECAC Football Awards as well as the Lambert Meadowlands Awards. Towson was also recently chosen as the Lambert Meadowlands Division I FCS Award winner.
Coach Rob Ambrose and the Tigers were one of the nation's elite teams this season, compiling a 13-3 record en route to an appearance in the FCS National Championship game. The Tigers finished the regular season with a 10-2 record. They went on to defeat Fordham University, Eastern Illinois and Eastern Washington in the NCAA FCS Playoffs before falling to North Dakota State University in the championship game.
"What a great honor it is for Towson University to be named as the ECAC FCS Team of the Year," said Ambrose. "It is quite validating that the hard work done by so many has once again garnered another great honor for our institution."
Led by a group of 19 seniors, the Tiger offense averaged nearly 40 points per game this season (38.5) and was No. 12 in all of NCAA FCS in total offense.
Junior running back Terrance West (Northwestern H.S./Baltimore, Md.) was the catalyst of the offense, as he produced a record-breaking season in 2013. West, the ECAC Division I FCS Offensive Player of the Year, rushed for an FCS single season record 2,509 yards, shattering the previous mark of 2,326 yards held by Colgate's Jamaal Branch. He also set the FCS single season record with 42 touchdowns, eclipsing the previous total of 39 set by Delaware's Omar Cuff.
West scored at least one touchdown in all 16 games the Tigers played this season and rushed for over 100 yards on 12 occasions, four of which went for over 200 yards. In Towson's NCAA FCS quarterfinal win over Eastern Illinois, West set an FCS playoff record with 354 yards on the ground and scored five touchdowns.
Senior quarterback Peter Athens (Huntingtown H.S./Huntingtown, Md.) was just as impressive, throwing for 3,461 yards and 19 touchdowns. He completed over 64 per cent of his passes and had a quarterback efficiency rating of 151.6
The Tigers outscored their opponents by over 15 points per game, due in large part to a strong defense. Junior defensive end Ryan Delaire (Bloomfield H.S./Bloomfield, Conn.) spent most of the season in the opponent's backfield, registering 17.5 tackles for loss and 11.5 sacks. Senior linebacker Telvion Clark (Granby H.S./Norfolk, Va.) made 145 tackles on the season, including 89 solo stops and 10.5 tackles for loss. Clark also forced five fumbles and recovered three. The Tiger defense forced opponents to turn the ball over 34 times, recording 18 fumble recoveries and 16 interceptions. Sophomores Christian Carpenter (Aberdeen H.S./Aberdeen, Md.) and Donnell Lewis (Woodside H.S./Newport News, Va.) each picked off four passes and returned one for a touchdown.
Duke University was selected as the ECAC FBS Team of the Year while West Chester was honored as the ECAC Division II Team of the Year. Wesley College was named as the ECAC Division III Team of the Year.
About the ECAC
The ECAC is the nation's largest athletic and the only multi-divisional conference in the country with more than 300 Divisions I, II, and III colleges and universities. The ECAC stretches from Maine to North Carolina and westerly to Colorado. Established in 1938, the ECAC, a non-profit service organization, sponsors nearly 100 championships in 37 men's and women's sports and assigns more than 4,400 officials in 12 sports. The ECAC also administers nine affiliate sports organizations and six playing leagues, and through the public relations arm of the conference, more than 2,500 student-athletes in 23 sports are recognized annually. Finally, the ECAC serves as the primary conference for select members in the sports of men's and women's ice hockey and men's lacrosse.


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Silver Lining to the Cloud of Terror
Can some good come from terror?
Perhaps this story, which appears in the new work "Aleinu Leshabeach" of Rav Yitzchak Zilberstein, provides some sort of silver lining for the cloud of terror which darkens the lives of Jews in Eretz Yisrael.
Two Jews were in the final stage of a business deal conducted in the lobby of a hotel. To conclude the deal the prospective buyer had placed a large wad of dollar bills on the table to be handed over as soon as an agreement was signed. Then came an announcement on the P.A. system that the hotel must be evacuated immediately because of the discovery of an object suspected of being a terrorist bomb. In his haste to run for his life this fellow left the money on the table. When he returned it was gone and all the attempts of the police to find the thief were of no avail.
A day later another Jew who had heard of the incident visited the lobby of that hotel and noticed a large flowerpot standing in a slightly tilted position. When he walked over to investigate he saw a dollar bill sticking out, and when he came even closer he discovered that this was the place where the thief had concealed the stolen money.
After tracking down the victim of this theft and informing him of the good news he was surprised to hear from him that he had already despaired of recovering the money and it was therefore the property of the finder. The finder stubbornly insisted that the money belonged to its original owner and hit on an idea how to break this bizarre impasse.
"Do you have a son?" he asked. "Yes," answered the other, "and he is waiting for me in the car below." Well," continued the finder, "I have a daughter, so how about introducing them!"
This brilliant solution eventually led to a successful shidduch with the disputed money given to the young couple to establish their home.


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Friday, April 6, 2012
"Eggs"-perimentation in Pre-K
We've been learning about oviparous animals as part of our Spring activities. We talked a lot about animals that hatch and played some fun games where we pretended to be animals hatching from eggs. We also read some wonderful books about eggs, including "Chickens Aren't The Only Ones" by Ruth Heller.
I got a few toy eggs (a chick, a duckling and a turtle) that hatch in water and we put a new egg in each day. I wanted them to wonder, guess and talk about them as they observed, so I hadn't told the children what animals were in the eggs. I was a bit disappointed that they didn't hatch as planned. The eggs were supposed to hatch within a day or two, but when we left for Spring Break, only the chicken egg had hatched so far. I'm sure the School-agers using our room during the break will take them out and save them for us when we return next week.
The teacher (Ms. H) that uses my room for the School-agers saw a neat experiment on Pinterest and decided to try it with her kids. She read that if you place a raw, shelled egg in vinegar, the vinegar will eat away the shell and leave an egg that is almost translucent, contained within the membrane. The white foam at the top of the cup is actually the disintegrated exterior shell.
I planned on just observing her eggs, but my mom mentioned that they had some brown eggs, and a chicken that had been laying double-yolked eggs, so I brought a few in to compare them.
We watched as the vinegar bubbled around the shells. You could really see the shell in the water with the brown eggs.
A day or two later, we were able to see some of the inside of the egg. The outer layer still had to be scraped a bit to make it easier to see inside.
When the egg broke, the membrane could be pulled off. We observed that it was soft and pliable, but when we let the membrane dry out a bit, it hardened and became brittle. It was a very interesting exploration.
Thanks for visiting! Leave a little "comment love"~I'd love for you to share your thoughts!
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I am not familiar with this book Ayn. I love how the eggs turned out - I will have to share that with my Prekers!ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing, I just pinned this onto our LOVE BOOKS board, a resource of books and activities for parents and teachers. We'd love for you to link it up to our LOVE BOOKS page too. http://theeducatorsspinonit.blogspot.com/p/love-books.htmlReplyDelete
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WASHINGTON (AFP) President-elect Barack Obama on Sunday announced several key members of his White House staff ahead of his January 20, 2009 inauguration.
Obama in a statement announced that Pete Rouse will serve as senior advisor, while Mona Sutphen and Jim Messina will serve as deputy chief of staff.
"These individuals are important additions to a team with the experience and ability to help our nation overcome pressing challenges at home and around the world," Obama said in a statement.
Rouse is a years-long US congressional staffer. Sutphen, a former foreign service officer, a member of Obama's transition team. Messina, also a member of the transition team, has served as an aide to various US lawmakers.


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Nicolas Cage in his Academy Award-winning performance as a suicidal alcoholic in "Leaving Las Vegas" (1995).
Roger Ebert called Cage "fearless" - which was an understatement. In a career that includes more than 70 films, the actor has never failed to create characters that suck the oxygen from the room, whether it's in comedies ("Raising Arizona," "Moonstruck," "Adaptation"), dramas ("Bringing Out the Dead"), or big-budget action fare ("The Rock," the "National Treasure" films).
"I don't believe in the term 'over the top,'" Cage told CBS News correspondent Lee Cowan. "I believe in the term 'outside of the box.' Let's take chances, let's keep trying new things, and that's how you reinvent yourself. And that's how you stay fresh."
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A nephew of director Francis Ford Coppola, Nicolas Kim Coppola grew up in Long Beach, Calif., where his family name meant little. A skinny kid, he was bullied by the boys on his bus until one day, when he found that acting just might save him.
"I put these cowboy boots on," he told Cowan, "I put these like sunglasses on, I put chewing gum in my mouth and my older brother's leather jacket, and I went on the bus with all this attitude. And they said, 'You're Nicki Coppola.' And I'm like, 'No, I'm Roy Wilkinson. I'm his cousin. I'm gonna kick your ass.'"
It worked; they stopped. "It was just the power of attitude. It was the power of committing to a character."
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Cage's first film appearance, as Nicolas Coppola, was a bit part in the 1982 comedy "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," opposite Judge Reinhold.
He kept running into an obstacle - the Coppola name - which made auditions difficult. "It wasn't so much tough being a Coppola as it was, I'm in an audition, trying to remember my lines for the audition, but all the casting people wanted to talk about was the wonderful movies my uncle made.
"And by the time it was time for me to do the audition, I'd forgotten all my lines. I couldn't do the audition!"
So he changed his screen name to Cage, and the next audition he went on, for "Valley Girl," was a success.
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In the 1989 comedy "Vampire's Kiss," Nicolas Cage famously ate a cockroach.
"I was trying to get on the map," Cage told Lee Cowan. "I was trying to make a big noise, like punk rock, and say, 'Look at me. I'm here, and I want you to remember me.' I heard stories about Ozzy Osborne and all that, and I thought, wow, that's wild.
"I could tell you it was the most disgusting, horrible memory I have of any experience on a movie set," he continued, "but people are still talking about.
"Now, I did get a call from the animal rights people on the set. 'Well, excuse me, do you have a can of Raid in your house?'" he laughed.
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In "Lord of War" (2005), Nicolas Cage starred as
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killing following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The film costarred Jared Leto, Ian Holm and
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In "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (2010), directed by
Joe Turteltaub ("National Treasure"), Nicolas Cage played a sorcerer
in modern-day Manhattan, out to stop one particularly evil nemesis (Alfred
Molina) from destroying the world.
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charged with helping to lift a witch's curse from the land in the 2011
supernatural fantasy, "Season of the Witch" (2011).
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In "Joe" (2014), Nicolas Cage plays a Southern ex-con at war with himself, who becomes a father figure to Tye Sheridan ("The Tree of Life," "Mud").
Brooding and funny, it's a film full of quieter moments.
"I wanted to see how minimal I can be and get to the truth of the performance, truth of the character with emotion and with feeling," Cage told Lee Cowan.
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The Kent community has been divided as downtown commercial redevelopment orphaned an 1858 Greek Revival house, the Wells-Sherman House. Plans were made to move it to a vacant lot on N. Water St. with large trees and improvised gardens and play areas, that has been used for 20 years by Standing Rock Cultural Arts (artists and people committed to building community through the arts) as a venue for performances, gardens, and displays.
Personally, I believe this little informal park serves several endangered species in our increasingly consumerized and politicized society: poets, players, musicians, artists, and children of all ages – a little oasis of freedom where weeds can grow and kids can swing from a big old tree. It's equally accessible to the homeless and the affluent, the ignorant and the learned; it's indefinitely sustainable and infinitely resourceful. I hope a more suitable site may be found. I think we need to balance our ties to the past against our responsibility to keep all options open for the future.
I'm more concerned about our increasing tendency – locally, nationally and globally – to try impose the past on the future. It seems that we are trying to write in advance all the scripts for the next five years, the next 20 years, the next 100 years, not only for our nation, but for the entire world.
Grover Norquist's "Taxpayer Protection Pledge," asks legislators to commit themselves in writing to opposing all tax increases. This takes away the power of lawmakers to write laws and make budgets in response to constituents' expressed needs as well as whatever national or global contingencies may arise.
I am alarmed by the attitude that we can and should nail down tax rates, spending, medical costs, funding for infrastructure, priorities for education, and policies to deal with global warming, in order to save future taxpayer's money.
Pat Buchanan (http://buchanan.org/blog/ Nov 23, 2012) notes that in the present crisis between Israel and Gaza, our Secretary of State can't even talk to Hamas because we have designated Hamas as a terrorist organization: "We tie our own hands and wonder why we cannot succeed," Buchanan observed.
Even more frightening is President Obama's attempt to secure his power to use extrajudicial killings as a president's prerogative, safe from legislative or judicial review. Immediately the question arises: "What's to stop a president from using the program to slay his own political rivals?"
Indeed, if a president can decide who should die, why not ordinary citizens? As weapons grow deadlier, cheaper and more user-friendly, and we persuade ourselves that killing bad guys is right, good, and necessary, it is only a matter of time until our right to bear arms will be construed to include drone ownership, and the right of anyone to kill anyone perceived to be a threat. (comment by Cunudiun: "... Soon the technology will get cheaper ... and you'll be able to defend yourself with your own Personal Drones. Remember: Drones don't kill people. People kill people. Fight for your Right to Bear Drones."
Despite the efforts of prophets, saviors and saints, throughout history we have tried to control violence with greater violence. It always works, short term, until technology devises bigger, better, cheaper and more precise weapons. But we now have technologies to kill anyone, anything, anywhere, any time, and to destroy anything and everything – right up to the ecosystems on which life on this planet depends.
Finally, I'm most concerned by the effort to set policies in concrete and deprive those who come after us of the power and ability to develop their own solutions to the challenges they face.
We skimp on spending for education, then blame teachers for failing, and our youth for being ignorant. We saddle our college students with debt to secure profits for banks.
We should be giving our young people the skills, tools and freedoms they will need to manage the challenges they face, according to their visions, values and principles.
Instead we have allowed predatory capitalism to shape our youth into the tools and slaves of old men of wealth and power, programming them with videos and First-Person-Shooter games of unspeakable violence.
I believe that placing Wells Sherman House on an open, "unprogrammed" plot of land on N. Water Street will reduce the degrees of freedom of future generations for that space, and tend to establish just a small number of past-oriented scripts to play out there. But I know that the Kent community will find a way to balance our ties to the past with our shared responsibilities for the future. We'll resolve the issue civilly and remain friends.
I am not hopeful about the national, international and global scenes. Are we so rigidly committed to killing "terrorists" that we will let our president launch killer drones? Can we pursue restorative justice instead of punishment? Can we develop a sense of collective responsibility to replace blaming and punishing others? Have we already given too much power to private corporations, and taken too many decisions out of the hands of coming generations?


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World Press Freedom Index 2013 - Africa
East Africa: journalists' graveyard
In Somalia (175th, -11) 18 journalists were killed, caught up in bomb attacks or the direct targets of murder, making 2012 the deadliest in history for the country's media. The Horn of Africa state was the second most dangerous country in the world for those working in news and information, behind Syria. In Eritrea (in last place in the index for the sixth successive year), no journalists were killed but some were left to die, which amounts to the same thing. With at least 30 behind bars, it is Africa's biggest prison for journalists. Of 11 incarcerated since 2001, seven have died as a result of prison conditions or have killed themselves. Since the independent media were abolished more than 10 years ago, there are no independent Eritrean news outlets, other than outside the country, and terror prevails.
East Africa is also a region of censorship and crackdowns. Omar al-Bashir's Sudan, where more newspapers were seized and the arrests of journalists continued during the summer, is stuck firmly in 170th place, in the bottom 10 of the index. Djibouti (167th, -8), which also has no independent media, detained a correspondent of the foreign-based news site La Voix de Djibouti. Despite the release of two Swedish journalists arrested in 2011, Ethiopia(137th) fell ten places because of its repressive application of the 2009 anti-terrorist law and the continued detention of several local journalists.
Political unrest in Mali and the Central African Republic
Mali (99th, -74), which was long presented as the continent's star performer in democracy and press freedom, was prey to the political events that overtook it during the year. The military coup in Bamako on 22 March and the seizure of the north of the country by Touareg separatists and Islamic fundamentalists exposed news organizations to censorship and abuses. Many northern radio stations stopped broadcasting, while in the capital several Malian and foreign journalists were assaulted. All these occurred before the external military intervention in January 2013.
The Central African Republic was ranked 65th in 2012. Events after the outbreak of the Seleka rebellion at the very end of the year (radio stations ransacked, one journalist killed) were not taken into consideration in this index, thus preventing the country from falling more than 50 places. These will be included in the 2014 version. In Guinea-Bissau (92nd, -17) a media blackout and military censorship that followed the coup on 12 April explain that country's drop.
Africa's predatory censors
Yahya Jammeh, King Mswati III, Paul Kagame, and Teodoro Obiang Nguema, together with other heads of state such as Issaias Afeworki (Eritrea) and Ismael Omar Guelleh (Djibouti) are members of an exclusive club of authoritarian African leaders, some eccentric others stern, who hold their countries in an iron grasp and keep a firm grip on news and information. Their countries, respectively Gambia (152nd), Swaziland (155th), Rwanda (161st) and Equatorial Guinea (166th), are all among the bottom 30 in the index. Media pluralism has been whittled away and criticism of the head of state discouraged.
The biggest losses
Chad, which fell 18 places to 121st, saw journalists harassed and roughed up, the publication of the newspaper N'Djamena Bi-Hebdo temporarily halted and its publisher sentenced to a suspended prison term, and a highly repressive bill kept under wraps. The slow but sure progress that followed the formation of a national unity government in Zimbabwe (133rd, -16) in 2009 and the granting of publication licences to several independent newspapers appeared to have stalled. Violence and arrests of journalists still niggle and if elections go ahead as planned in 2013, the atmosphere for the media promises to be tense. Relatively high placed in 2011-2012, South Sudan (124th) fell 12 places after the murder of a columnist – the first killing of its kind in the new country – as news organizations and journalists awaited the approval of three new laws on the media.
Despite the holding of a national media conference in Cameroon (120th, -23), the future of the sector remains both uncertain and worrying. In the upper reaches of the index, Niger (43rd) nonetheless fell 14 places as a result of the irresponsibility of a few journalists who succumbed to the temptation to abuse the freedom that they enjoyed. Within the space of four months in Tanzania(70th, -36), one journalist was killed while he was covering a demonstration and another was found dead, a clear victim of murder.
Burundi (132nd) fell only two places but remains a low position. Summonses of journalists declined but the case of Hassan Ruvakuki, given a life sentence reduced to three years on appeal, has created an atmosphere of fear among the media.
Return to normality
After a dreadful year in 2011, marked by the dictatorial behaviour of the late President Bingu Wa Mutharika, a violent crackdown on demonstrations and the murder of the blogger Robert Chasowa, Malawi (75th) recorded the biggest jump in the entire index, up 71 places, close to the position it held in 2010. Similarly, Cote d'Ivoire rose 63 places to 96th despite persistent problems. It had plummeted in the previous index because of a post-election crisis and the murders of a journalist and another media worker, as well as the civil conflict that broke out in Abidjan in April. Uganda (104th) was up 35 places thanks to a better year, but things were far from satisfactory as far as the media were concerned. The year ended with President Yoweri Museveni making open threats to several radio stations.
Promising gains
For Senegal (59th, +16), 2012 was a year of hope. The presidential election took place in a peaceful atmosphere for the media, despite a few regrettable assaults on journalists, and President Macky Sall, who had declared himself willing to decriminalize press offences, took office. Much remains to be proved in 2013, as was illustrated by the prison sentence handed down on a journalist in December.
In Liberia (97th, +13), the presidential election in November 2011 had been tainted by the closure of several media outlets and attacks on journalists. In 2012, the atmosphere improved greatly. In the summer, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf became the second African head of state, after Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger, to sign the Declaration of Table Mountain, thereby undertaking to promote media freedom.
Namibia (19th), Cape Verde (25th) and Ghana (30th) maintained their record as the highest ranked African countries.
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After the "Arab springs" and other protest movements that prompted many rises and falls in last year's index, the 2013 Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index marks a return to a more usual configuration.
The ranking of most countries is no longer attributable to dramatic political developments. This year's index is a better reflection of the attitudes and intentions of governments towards media freedom in the medium or long term.
The same three European countries that headed the index last year hold the top three positions again this year. For the third year running, Finland has distinguished itself as the country that most respects media freedom. It is followed by the Netherlands and Norway.
Although many criteria are considered, ranging from legislation to violence against journalists, democratic countries occupy the top of the index while dictatorial countries occupy the last three positions. Again it is the same three as last year – Turkmenistan, North Koreaand Eritrea.
"The Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders does not take direct account of the kind of political system but it is clear that democracies provide better protection for the freedom to produce and circulate accurate news and information than countries where human rights are flouted," Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Christophe Deloire said.
"In dictatorships, news providers and their families are exposed to ruthless reprisals, while in democracies news providers have to cope with the media's economic crises and conflicts of interest. While their situation is not always comparable, we should pay tribute to all those who resist pressure whether it is aggressively focused or diffuse."
Reporters Without Borders launches media freedom "indicator"
Coinciding with the release of its 2013 Press Freedom Index, Reporters Without Borders is for the first time publishing an annual global "indicator" of worldwide media freedom. This new analytic tool measures the overall level of freedom of information in the world and the performance of the world's governments in their entirety as regards this key freedom.
In view of the emergence of new technologies and the interdependence of governments and peoples, the freedom to produce and circulate news and information needs to be evaluated at the planetary as well as national level. Today, in 2013, the media freedom "indicator" stands at 3395, a point of reference for the years to come.
The indicator can also be broken down by region and, by means of weighting based on the population of each region, can be used to produce a score from zero to 100 in which zero represents total respect for media freedom. This produces a score of 17.5 for Europe, 30.0 for the Americas, 34.3 for Africa, 42.2 for Asia-Pacific and 45.3 for the former Soviet republics. Despite the Arab springs, the Middle East and North Africa region comes last with 48.5.
The high number of journalists and netizens killed in the course of their work in 2012 (the deadliest year ever registered by Reporters Without Borders in its annual roundup), naturally had an a significant impact on the ranking of the countries where these murders took place, above all Somalia (175th, -11), Syria (176th, 0), Mexico (153rd, -4) and Pakistan (159th, -8).
From top to bottom
The Nordic countries have again demonstrated their ability to maintain an optimal environment for news providers. Finland (1st, 0), Netherlands (2nd, +1) and Norway (3rd, -2) have held on to the first three places. Canada (20th, -10) only just avoided dropping out of the top 20. Andorra (5th) and Liechtenstein (7th) have entered the index for the first time just behind the three leaders.
At the other end of the index, the same three countries as ever – Turkmenistan, North Koreaand Eritrea – occupy the last three places in the index. Kim Jong-un's arrival at the head of the Hermit Kingdom has not in any way changed the regime's absolute control of news and information. Eritrea (179th, 0), which was recently shaken by a brief mutiny by soldiers at the information ministry, continues to be a vast open prison for its people and lets journalists die in detention. Despite its reformist discourse, the Turkmen regime has not yielded an inch of its totalitarian control of the media.
For the second year running, the bottom three countries are immediately preceded bySyria (176th, 0), where a deadly information war is being waged, and Somalia (175th, -11), which has had a deadly year for journalists. Iran (174th, +1), China (173rd, +1), Vietnam(unchanged at 172nd), Cuba (171st, -4), Sudan (170th, 0) and Yemen (169th, +2) complete the list of the ten countries that respect media freedom least. Not content with imprisoning journalists and netizens, Iran also harasses the relatives of journalists, including the relatives of those who are abroad.
Big rises...
Malawi (75th, +71) registered the biggest leap in the index, almost returning to the position it held before the excesses at the end of the Mutharika administration. Côte d'Ivoire (96th, +63), which is emerging from the post-electoral crisis between the supporters of Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara, has also soared, attaining its best position since 2003. Burma (151st, +18) continued the ascent begun in last year's index. Previously, it had been in the bottom 15 every year since 2002 but now, thanks to the Burmese spring's unprecedented reforms, it has reached its best-ever position. Afghanistan (128th, +22) also registered a significant rise thanks to the fact that no journalists are in prison. It is nonetheless facing many challenges, especially with the withdrawal of foreign troops.
...and big falls
Mali (99th, -74) registered the biggest fall in the index as a result of all the turmoil in 2012. The military coup in Bamako on 22 March and the north's takeover by armed Islamists and Tuareg separatists exposed the media in the north to censorship and violence. Tanzania(70th, -36) sank more than 30 places because, in the space of four months, a journalist was killed while covering a demonstration and another was murdered.
Buffeted by social and economic protests, the Sultanate of Oman (141st) sank 24 places, the biggest fall in the Middle East and North Africa in 2012. Some 50 netizens and bloggers were prosecuted on lèse majesté or cyber-crime charges in 2012. No fewer than 28 were convicted in December alone, in trials that trampled on defence rights.
Journalists in Israel (112th, -20) enjoy real freedom of expression despite the existence of military censorship but the country fell in the index because of the Israeli military's targeting of journalists in the Palestinian Territories.
In Asia, Japan (53rd, -31) has been affected by a lack of transparency and almost zero respect for access to information on subjects directly or indirectly related to Fukushima. This sharp fall should sound an alarm. Malaysia (145th, -23) has fallen to its lowest-ever position because access to information is becoming more andmore limited. The same situation prevails in Cambodia (143rd, -26), where authoritarianism and censorship are on the increase.Macedonia (116th, -22) has also fallen more than 20 places following the arbitrary withdrawal of media licences and deterioration in the environment for journalists.
Varied impact of major protest movements
Last year's index was marked by the Arab spring's major news developments and the heavy price paid by those covering the protest movements. A range of scenarios has been seen in 2012, including countries such as Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, where regime change has taken place, countries such as Syria and Bahrain where uprisings and the resulting repression are still ongoing, and countries such as Morocco, Algeria, Oman, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, where the authorities have used promises and compromise to defuse calls for political and/or social and economic change.
Some of the new governments spawned by these protests movements have turned on the journalists and netizens who covered these movements' demands and aspirations for more freedom. What with legal voids, arbitrary appointments of state media chiefs, physical attacks, trials and a lack of transparency, Tunisia (138th, -4) and Egypt (158th, +8) have remained at a deplorable level in the index and have highlighted the stumbling blocks that Libya (131st, +23) should avoid in order to maintain its transition to a free press.
The deadliest country for journalists in 2012 was Syria (176th, 0), where journalists and netizens are the victims of an information war waged by both the Assad regime, which stops at nothing in order to crack down and impose a news blackout, and by opposition factions that are increasingly intolerant of dissent. In Bahrain (165th, +8) the repression let up slightly, while in Yemen (169th, +2) the prospects continue to be disturbing despite a change of government. Oman (141st, -24) fell sharply because of a wave of arrests of netizens.
Other countries hit by protests saw changes for the better and worse. Vietnam (172nd, 0) failed to recover the six places it lost in the previous index. The world's second biggest prison for netizens, it has remained in the bottom ten. Uganda (104th, +35) has recovered a more appropriate position although it has not gone back to where it was before cracking down on protests in 2011.
Azerbaijan (156th, +6) and Belarus (157th, +11) both fell last year after using violence to suppress opposition demonstrations and this year they just moved back towards their appalling former positions. Chile (60th, +20) is beginning to recover after plummeting 33 places to 80th in last year's index.
Political instability puts journalists in the eye of the storm
Political instability often has a divisive effect on the media and makes it very difficult to produce independently-reported news and information. In such situations, threats and physical attacks on journalists and staff purges are common. Maldives (103rd, -30) fell sharply after the president's removal in an alleged coup, followed by threats and attacks on journalists regarded as his supporters. In Paraguay (91st, -11), the president's removal in a parliamentary "coup" on 22 June 2012 had a big impact on state-owned broadcasting, with a wave of arbitrary dismissals against a backdrop of unfair frequency allocation.
Guinea-Bissau (92nd, -17) fell sharply because the army overthrew the government between the first and second rounds of a presidential election and imposed military censorship on the media. In Mali (99th, -74), a military coup fuelled tension, many journalists were physically attacked in the capital and the army now controls the state-owned media. This index does not reflect the January 2013 turmoil in the Central African Republic (65th, -3) but its impact on media freedom is already a source of extreme concern.
"Regional models" found wanting
In almost all parts of the world, influential countries that are regarded as "regional models" have fallen in the index. Brazil (108th, -9), South America's economic engine, continued last year's fall because five journalists were killed in 2012 and because of persistent problems affecting media pluralism.
In Asia, India (140th, -9) is at its lowest since 2002 because of increasing impunity for violence against journalists and because Internet censorship continues to grow. China (173rd, +1) shows no sign of improving. Its prisons still hold many journalists and netizens, while increasingly unpopular Internet censorship continues to be a major obstacle to access to information.
In Eastern Europe, Russia (148th, -6) has fallen again because, since Vladimir Putin's return to the presidency, repression has been stepped up in response to an unprecedented wave of opposition protests. The country also continues to be marked by the unacceptable failure to punish all those who have murdered or attacked journalists. The political importance ofTurkey (154th, -6) has grown even more because of the armed conflict in neighbouring Syria but it has again fallen in the index. It is currently the world's biggest prison for journalists, especially those who express views critical of the authorities on the Kurdish issue.
There is no comparison with South Africa (52nd, -10), where freedom of information is a reality. It still has a respectable ranking but it has been slipping steadily in the index and, for the first time, is no longer in the top 50. Investigative journalism is threatened by the Protection of State Information Bill.
Democracies that stall or go into reverse
The situation is unchanged for much of the European Union. Sixteen of its members are still in the top 30. But the European model is unravelling. The bad legislation seen in 2011 continued, especially in Italy (57th, +4), where defamation has yet to be decriminalized and state agencies make dangerous use of gag laws. Hungary (56th, -16) is still paying the price of its repressive legislative reforms, which had a major impact on the way journalists work. But Greece's dramatic fall (84th, -14) is even more disturbing. The social and professional environment for its journalists, who are exposed to public condemnation and violence from both extremist groups and the police, is disastrous.
Japan (53rd, -31) plummeted because of censorship of nuclear industry coverage and its failure to reform the "kisha club" system. This is an alarming fall for a country that usually has a good ranking. Argentina (54th, -7) fell amid growing tension and clashes between the government and certain privately-owned media about a new law regulating the broadcast media.


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The soccer facility has a seating capacity of 1,500 and provide fans with a whole new game experience. The parking lot located just west of the facility will be open on game days an hour before and after matches for fans to utilize. Parking is free on game day.


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GCH CH The Echo Hills Kennel Club Of Ohio is in Troy OH today for their first of two shows. Marilyn Spacht had the day one final and her pick of the Vizsla, GCH CH Grouse Point Semper Fi Pretty in Pink, the Longhair Dachshund, GCH CH Gemdach Don't Blame Me, the Standard Schnauzer, GCH CH Black Hawk Finnegan's Wake, the Sky Terrier, GCH CH Jay-Roy Byren'n Hot for You, the Shih Tzu, GCH CH Hallmark Jolei Bells Will Be Ringing, the Dalmatian, GCH CH Bret D N Engine Co To The Rescue, and the Pyrenean Shepherd, GCH CH La Brise Sun Bear.
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Our next report is from Armada MI where the Macomb Kennel Club is parked for two days. Dr Carol White-Moser had the day one final and her pick of the Golden Retriever, GCH CH Easthill Broxden Woodland Turnip The Volume, the Afghan Hound, GCH CH Elmo's Martian Chronicles, the Doberman Pinscher, CH Cambria's Quasar, the Skye Terrier, GCH CH Jay-Roy Byrne'n Hot for You, the Pug, CH Hill Country's Tag I'm It, the Lowchen, CH Touche's Vindication, and the Bouvier des Flandres, GCH CH Quiche's Grand Finale.
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Scalloped Sweet Potato/Potatoes
My "Aunt" Olive died recently and I wanted to do something extra special in her memory. Scalloped Sweet Potato/Potatoes was the answer. Not just to donate money, that is easy but to give of myself to remember her. She was a very fine lady. My memories of her are so pleasant, she was always so lovely dressed and full of smiles, stories and warm hugs.
Every year we take a meal down to The Mustard Seed, which is our local shelter. I have done it to replace a gift when someone says "oh don't send me something" I then give a gift to The Mustard Seed. I have done this for many years and have almost always done a minestrone soup. We all love that soup and it makes a huge pot.
This year I wanted to do something extra special. So Ken brined and smoked two chickens and I made two pans of the scallop potatoes. I also donated a huge bag of frozen corn. I sure hope some poor soul enjoyed a nice home cooked meal. In a rush for us to get out the door I forgot to include a card that I wanted to say in loving memory of Olive Owen. I told them so when I dropped off the meal but then thought that I would share the recipe with you in her memory.
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- 1 lb. sweet potatoes (orange fleshed)
- 1 lb. baking potatoes
- 2 cups half and half cream, more if needed
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1 tsp. sea salt
- 2 tsp. fresh thyme
- black pepper to taste
- Fresh grating of nutmeg
- Preheat oven to 400F. With 1 Tbsp. butter grease a 8½" deep baking dish. Wash, peel and slice potatoes. Layer potatoes into the dish alternating sweet and baking potatoes.
- In a small saucepan add the rest of the ingredients and bring up to a boil. Pour over the potatoes. Dot the top with the remaining butter. Cover with foil and bake for 50 min.
- Remove the foil and if the potatoes are dry add a small amount of cream, ¼ cup drizzled on top if necessary. Continue to bake uncovered for 25 min. Cool slightly and serve.
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A couple years ago, I talked with a friend who was a teacher. We put together an idea for a website to help teach. It never made it off the planning stages, but I knew something would eventually come along.
It's hailed as the "eBay for teachers". EduFire is a site that has been around for a year and has over five thousand teachers creating hundreds of classes with over 30 thousand students. For $30 a month, you get a Superpass to all courses.
Teachers get a cut of all students that take their lessons. EduFire gets 85% commission. It's not unlike a musician renting a practice room for lessons or a personal trainer for a Pilate session. A good teacher that gets hundreds of students per course could easily make some good extra cash.
But is it a quality education system?
With five thousand teachers and growing, you would have to keep up with the content being published. There seems to be no accreditation needed to teach or tutor. Sign up for an account and go.
There is a "Tutor score" to weed out the bad ones. 1-4 = minus 1 point, 5-6 = 0 points and 7-10 – 1 point.
Still, it might be a great place for your kid to get the extra help needed to pass the ACT, or improve an individual academic. It even looks like a place to help those kids who have English as a second language. The flash card section is also pretty interesting.
Bottom line – if your child is partaking in the course, keep an eye on it. Make sure they are not giving misinformation. If you are a teacher, it could be some good extra money, but make sure it's not going to cause any problems with your regular job.
As for my friend, I am going to point her in this direction. It looks like everything we discussed a couple years ago. I think this will be right up her alley.


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The mother of a Sandy Hook Elementary School teacher who made the ultimate sacrifice is condemning the developer of an online simulation that allows video gamers to copycat the madman who ambushed 20 children and six educators last December.
The release of "The Slaying of Sandy Hook Elementary," which directs gamers to storm virtual classrooms with an AR-15 assault rifle in the same vein as Adam Lanza and displays a kill ratio at the end, comes less than a month before the first anniversary of the Dec. 14 massacre.
Donna Soto, the Stratford mom whose late daughter, Victoria, 27, was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal for shielding her students from the gunfire during the rampage, is calling on the site's developer to pull the plug on the controversial game.
"It's absolutely disgusting that somebody thinks this is funny," Soto told Hearst Connecticut Newspapers Tuesday. "We're all suffering. All the families are suffering. We're coming up on December.
My daughter's birthday just passed. It just adds insult to the suffering that we're dealing with. It's just incomprehensible that someone would think this kind of thing is wanted."
The credits section of the site identifies the game's creator as Ryan Jake Lambourn of Australia and strangely includes links that direct visitors to gun control websites and to their elected representatives.
A request for comment was sent to Lambourn's Twitter account by Hearst.
The game opens by directing users to grab a Glock handgun and shoot their mother while she is sleeping, just as Lanza did. The game closes with an alert that police have arrived, with the shooter turning a gun on himself.


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We Chat with Will Horowitz of Ducks Eatery
"We're purely about the food—there's nothing else. There's no gold foil or anything. It is what it is."
Chef/owner Will Horowitz is a hard dude to categorize. He was a teenage ping pong champion, has trekked all over the globe as an adult (sometimes cooking, sometimes meditating, sometimes ping-ponging), and came back to New York to open the eatery-side of Spin (the ping-pong club notoriously co-owned by Susan Sarandon). His paternal grandfather owned two Jewish delis in Manhattan and his maternal grandmother was a French-trained classic chef.
He now owns Ducks Eatery, a small east village space, with his sister, Julie, and turns out dishes like a "Thrice Smoked Lamb Sausage Corn Dog" and shrimp ceviche served in a sealed Mason jar, which emits apple-wood smoke when opened. The chairs are from an elementary school in Long Island and they built most of the bar themselves. The building is some sort of stable-area-of-yore or something like that, with lots of exposed brick and curved ceilings.
But what drew us to Will was his food; his pastrami was a standout at Brisket King of New York and we had to worm our way over to learn more about him. Ends up, at the end of a long conversation, he still can't be pegged.
Why did you come back to New York from Burma? The biggest reason was I ran out of money. That sucked.
What were you doing there? Were you cooking? I originally went down there to consult for a restaurant in Bangkok. I found myself on this small island between Burma and Thailand in a bungalow system that had gotten wiped out by the tsunami in 2004. So I was able to barter a deal and stayed there for a little bit. I was mainly meditating and cooking a lot, living very sustainably fishing and hunting and gathering. I had a little satellite phone that I would use to call my sister now and then to help me identify poisonous snakes and which sea urchins I could eat or couldn't eat. Stuff like that.
Both you and Julie had pretty atypical lives before you came back to open Spin. Julie was actually living on a small island off of Madagascar. Somehow I convinced her (or conned her) to come back to the States. She's still probably angry about that.
Was your childhood eccentric? Not many people can say they were adolescent ping pong champions or stomped the earth before opening a restaurant in New York. It was pretty mixed. Our grandparents traveled a lot; one had the delicatessen and on my mom's side my grandmother was a French-trained chef and my grandfather was a fisherman. They lived on Long Island and part of the year they would live in Pienza, in Tuscany—a really picturesque, gorgeous town where they actually shot the first Romeo and Juliet. That was a huge influence on us growing up: our grandma teaching us how to make homemade bread and pasta. But then our father is a very well-to-do cardiologist. So it was half that and half, like, tofu. It was kind of funny...
So not a very typical childhood? I think it was pretty far off. Especially with ping pong. Most of the ping-pong community is Chinese or West Indian, so a lot of Jamaican and Caribbean and Guinea. A good portion of my childhood I was training in Flushing or Jackson Heights.
How did you find out you had this skill? I kind of got pushed into it a little bit; my father was a competitive player. He was one of the top players of his time.
So even though he's a "well-to-do cardiologist" he wasn't pushing you to play soccer or something. Yeah. I played very competitively, the top of my age group when I was younger. Then when I was 15 or 16 I moved out of White Plains to Colorado and pursued skiing; that was my big thing out there. Then Buddhism and sustainability.
Your family's not Buddhist, right? No, I went to a very "out there" sort of college started by Allen Ginsberg and a very famous Tibetan monk in Boulder.
Okay, one more parent question. Were your parents supportive of all of this, even of you moving out when you were fifteen? Well, I got into a lot of trouble when I was younger...
That makes sense to me for some reason. I think New York just wasn't a great place for me growing up. It was too easy for me to find myself in trouble.
What kind of trouble? Just smoking a lot of pot, the usual stuff. Nothing too crazy. I had no real interest in school. Ducks Eatery is fun for me because we're very passionate about what we do and New York is a great city. But I'm more at home and at peace in the mountains, living more sustainably.
At the time you left New York didn't have as much of a "welcoming the rural in" vibe it does now. Honestly, I had zero interest in coming back to New York, so Spin was fantastic but didn't even remotely resemble anything that I ever dreamt of doing. At a certain point after Spin it was either "do we disperse this whole idea and go back to traveling" or, if we are going to stay here, let's do something that's really us and the type of lifestyle that we love.
I'm not asking you to define or give a label to your food, but what about your menu most directly connects you as a chef to your guests? I think history. That's the biggest focus for me right now and has been since we opened. When we create a dish a lot of it is just a creative stream of consciousness. But so much of it is rooted in heritage techniques—drying, aging, curing, fermenting, pickling, smoking—and then a lot of it is a study of history and trade routes and wars and civilization and immigration. Every culture has this beautiful way of taking their techniques to a new foreign land, then using what's there and doing something cool and sometimes even greater than the original with it. We start connecting the dots to build a flavor profile, and we end up coming up with very beautiful products from it.
There are so many chefs working without borders on their menus right now. Do you think we're creating a real "American cuisine"? Where else would be better, you know? Absolutely.
Maybe we're finally beyond the idea of "fusion." God, I hope so. People say that all the time and it's ridiculous. It's the difference between calling someone who came here fifty years ago an immigrant and calling a white person who came here a couple hundred years ago an American—there's no real rational sense to it. There are so many awesome techniques and things we think are part of our culture that came here 200 years ago from another culture. It depends on how far of a step back you take.
Do you feel you're taking a bigger gamble by presenting yourself in the food scene in this way? Yeah, 100%. It's one of the reasons we wanted a small spot—we knew that we were going to run into this issue where people don't know what we are. We have live music one night and crawfish flown in the next; we're completely laid back, but then we're doing techniques you're not going to find in many other places. We're doing it in a "cut the fat," laid back, ego-less fashion. We're purely about the food—there's nothing else. There's no gold foil or anything. It is what it is.
What would you say to someone who challenged you on the ego-less thing? You're doing what a lot of restaurants are doing now; using reclaimed furniture, literally building your own space with a hodgepodge design and menu with no label. How would you defend that? Argumentatively it's easy with the reclaimed stuff because, well, we're fucking poor and we're lucky to be handy. And in terms of the food and stuff like that, it's just... if I'm passionate about something I'm going to go with it and I'm going to trust that I think this is really interesting. The trend is going to come and go but the product is going to speak. Half of our clientele are "foodies" and chefs, and the other half are just people from the block that we're already good friends with. To have both of those and be able to do something genuinely and honestly (I hope) is going to be the foundation for something that's going to be long lasting. So we'll see.
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So Fresh and So Clean!
Special guest post by Mr. Cleaner
Hi VBR fans! I'm really excited to be guest-blogging on what I consider to be the best blog on the internet for compassionate and eco-friendly ladies. I know this site is typically very feminine, and being a dude, I don't intend to disrupt too much, so I am going to talk a little bit about a product that both genders can enjoy equally: Dr. Bronner's Magic Pure Castile Classic Soaps.
My personal favorite, and the one I've been using for literally decades, is the liquid version of the good Doctor's Peppermint Soap. Now, Doctor B. also makes a bar soap version and offers many other scents as well, but peppermint is, and has always been, my all time favorite because it leaves me feeling tingly and minty-fresh from head to toe. I brush my teeth with minty freshness, so why not scrub my naughty bits with minty love as well?
If pepperminty freshness is not your cup of tea (see what I did there?), here are the other flavors the kind Doctor offers:
Eucalyptus, Almond, Rose, Baby (Mild), Citrus, Lavender, and Tea Tree
You can find Doctor Bronner's soaps at most health food stores including Trader Joe's and Whole Foods.
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james spooner is no longer at Time Less tattoos he has his own vegan studio in Hollywood check his work out at 213 546-668. hes a really nice guy
I do an all vegan tattoo procedure and Dr. Bronners is what I use instead of greensoap (which Ive read contains animal based glycerine). Thanks Dr. B!
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I have the rose right now, but I've tried and loved most of them! 🙂 I love to mix up my own household cleaners using Dr. Bronner's!
I second Mr. Cleaner's glowing comments about Dr. Bronner's products. My favorite of these is lavender and I love the fact that these soaps, like many of the products reviewed on this blog, don't sacrifice any quality yet are completely cruelty free. Yes, you may pay a buck or two more but that's a very, very small price to pay to put a substance all over your body that wasn't shoved down a rabbit's throat or pumped into the eyes of cats to ensure its "safety".
Exactly! 🙂