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Greetings, everyone. Thea here today. This past weekend I had the pleasure of speaking at t CTRWA March meeting about writing erotic romance from my perspective. Which admittedly goes back at least twenty years, when one of my historical romances, Beyond Desire, was the first romance to be reviewed as erotic romance — a totally new designation at the time. And not one that publishers jumped on either.
That took the publication of the anthology, Captivated, in 1999. Labelled "tales of erotic romance," it flew onto the USAToday bestseller list in no time. And even then, the industry sat back and watched as the follow-up anthology, Fascinated, zipped onto USAToday as well.
There were constraints at the time as to what terms you could use, what body parts you could name, how far you could go.
Twenty years later, 50 Shades changed everything.
Now everything is on the table (and in the bed) as far as combinations and sex — front, back, side, upside down, inside out, casual, meaningful, manacled, chained, blindfolded, whipped, flipped, one night stands, one day, one hour get it on and get off, no commitment, scratch the itch and over you go.
So now that there are readers for every sexual taste, where's your line? How far will you go? You could push the bar even further — male/male, female/ female, triads, quadrads, and any multiple combination of that; bestiality, hard core bondage/domination/punishment, corset discipline, flogging, gagging, needle play, fire play … .
And so my question to you, which I asked at the meeting as well, is — do you feel the need to compete with 50 Shades? To push further? To define the bar rather than straddle it? To be the one to make waves? Or you do have your own strict won't-go-there parameters?
Thea Devine's books defined erotic historical romance. She's the author of 27 historical and contemporary erotic romances and a dozen novellas. Look for "Beyond the Night", the sequel to "The Darkest Heart," to be released as a Pocket Star eBook, fall 2014.


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Former Bell City Manager Robert Rizzo will serve 33 months in federal prison for tax evasion after being sentenced Monday. Rizzo is also ordered to pay nearly $256,000 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.
In January, Rizzo pleaded guilty to one count each of conspiracy to defraud the IRS and filing a false federal income tax return. From 2005 to 2010, prosecutors said Rizzo claimed more than $770,000 in non-existent losses.
As Bell city manager, he gave himself an annual salary and benefits package worth $1.5 million. The claimed losses were used to offset the inflated wages, authorities said.
- Timeline: Bell Corruption Scandal
The U.S. Probation Office recommended that Rizzo receive a sentence between 27 and 33 months, but prosecutors sought a sentence at the higher end of the guidelines.
"The government recognizes the factors in mitigation cited by the Probation Office, but nevertheless believes a sentence at the high-end of the advisory guidelines sentencing range is appropriate," prosecutors said in court documents. "Defendant's crimes in this case are an extension (or a continuation) of the crimes for which he has been found guilty in state court, and overall, defendant's conduct can only be described as corrupt."
The prosecution added that Rizzo "abused his position to fleece the City of Bell of hundreds of thousands of dollars that he paid to himself in excessive salary – monies that could have been spent for the benefit of the people of the city he served."
Prosecutors also remarked that Rizzo showed an extraordinary amount of greed by finding it necessary to defraud the City of Bell and the IRS at the same time.
On Wednesday Rizzo is scheduled to be sentenced on 69 counts of fraud, misappropriation of public funds and other charges linked to Bell's corruption scandal. He pleaded not guilty to these charges.
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Rizzo is expected to serve both sentences concurrently, if convicted on more than just the tax charges against him.

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USOC confident in plan as threat to Austrians surfaces
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SOCHI -- The U.S. Olympic Committee said Tuesday it will not change its security plans in wake of a kidnapping threat against two Austrian Olympians.
The Austrian Olympic Committee said its Vienna office received an anonymous letter from Russia containing a threat to kidnap Alpine skier Marlies Schild and skeleton pilot Janine Flock during the Sochi Games, according to the Associated Press. The threat was first reported by the Austrian daily newspaper Kronen Zeitung.
The USOC said it is confident in its existing plan. "We go into the Games with a high level of security to protect our athletes and delegation. We will continue to keep the highest level in place throughout the Games," USOC spokesperson Patrick Sandusky said.


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Any excuse to bash science in order to promote his brand of Bible literalism. The simple answer is probably that world temperatures have not been 3.8 F (around 2.5 C) higher than today within the last 10 million years.
"This is very inconsistent." That is deliberate dogma designed solely to confuse and promote false scepticism.
This article is full of lies. "Those who believe in catastrophic, man-made climate change usually start with an evolutionary view of the past." Evolution is totally irrelevant. What is relevant is the proven age of the Earth - which is definitely not just 6,000 years! "So even minor climate change, they argue, is alarming and probably man-made". Liar. They do not, I repeat not, believe it is alarming simply because Earth is not just 6,000 years old. They believe it is alarming because it is provably (from evidence and from direct measurement) caused by humanity and not 'natural' (or related to any fictional 'worldwide flood'), and because the speed of temperature rise that has already occurred, around 1 Celsius in just 100 years, is almost unprecedented in known Earth history. And the fraud still hasn't finished. He admits that "climate change is real" but then tries to eat again the cake he's just swallowed - "but whether it's primarily man-made or natural cycles of climate is an entirely different issue". Oh no it isn't. And the rest of the paragraph following this agenda-driven blatant falsehood is total hogwash that brings shame on Christianity. It is an insult to intelligence - but his bigoted fans will doubtless swallow it without question even though it abuses or misuses Genesis 1:31 and apart from speculation that God has 'cursed' the climate (only when there is artificial warming or previously too when there was some natural cooling during the 'little ice age'?) not one iota of the rest of the remarks can be supported from Genesis and indeed are contradicted by Genesis notably Genesis 8:22.
This man is a liar and an extremist.
His oft repeated claim to 'love' science is a hypocritical disgusting lie.
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Following receipt of documents from the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh it has been firmly established that Fraserburgh Golf Club was founded on 14th April 1777. According to display boards in British Golf Museum, St Andrews Fraserburgh Golf Club is the 5th oldest golf club in Scotland and the 7th oldest in the world and it would appear to be the oldest golf club in the world which is still operating under its original name. The course was redesigned in 1922 by 5 times Open Championship winner James Braid and much of his design remains to this day.
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College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources and CRCH launch Hawaii Foods website
Find valuable nutrient information, recipes on local foodsUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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HONOLULU — How many calories are there in a Spam musubi? How much potassium in an apple banana? Answers to those questions and nutrient information about local foods commonly eaten in Hawaiʻi are now available on a new Hawaiʻi Foods website (http://hawaiifoods.hawaii.edu). This rich resource is the collaborative effort of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa's College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) and Cancer Research Center of Hawaiʻi (CRCH).
"The Hawaiʻi Foods website is designed to provide food and nutrient information that will assist people in making healthier dietary choices" said Dean Andrew Hashimoto of CTAHR. "People in Hawaiʻi eat not only foods common to a Western diet, but also foods that are found in Asian and Pacific Islander diets as well. We now have an easily accessible website with data regarding the calories, protein, carbohydrate, fiber, fat, and other nutrients in foods like apple banana, bittermelon, breadfruit, poi, poke, inari sushi, lau lau, meat jun and about 150 other items."
In addition to nutrient information, the Hawaiʻi Foods website contains recipes and publications focused on local foods and an interactive "My Diet" feature that allows visitors to assess the quality of their personal diets. The nutrient intake recommendations for this feature are based on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture's Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the Dietary Reference Intakes set by the Institute of Medicine.
Carl-Wilhelm Vogel, Director of CRCH said, "Nutrition information is a tool that can be used to prevent certain diseases and to maintain good health. This is especially important now with the rising rates of obesity, cancer, diabetes, and other conditions. The Hawaiʻi Foods website will be useful to professionals who counsel others regarding dietary choices, as well as to members of the general public who want to learn more about the many foods produced and consumed in Hawaiʻi." The Hawaiʻi Foods website will be updated frequently with new information and resources.
For more information, contact Cyndy Kahalewale at 956-9114, kahalewa@hawaii or visit http://hawaiifoods.hawaii.edu.
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Bill seeks to remove dangerous chemicals from products
Legislation would also identify 49 chemicals of high concern
A new bill in the state legislature proposes to identify hazardous chemicals in household products and to begin reducing exposure to them.
"An Act to Further Protect Pregnant Women and Children from Toxic Chemicals" will identify products that contain 49 of chemicals of high concern, which is a list of chemicals proven through scientific evidence to cause cancer, reproductive problems and hormone disruption, a release from the Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine said. Maine Senate Majority Leader Seth Goodall has introduced the bill.
"Protecting children's health is a top priority for Maine families. They are looking to the Legislature to help them get good information about which household products contain the most harmful chemicals, and to get unnecessary, dangerous chemicals out of everyday products," the Richmond Democrat said in the release. "This is an issue we can all come together on."
The bill also closes a loophole that exempts most food packaging from Maine's Kid-Safe Products Act, which could lead to a ban of BPA in packaging.


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Emmy voters (rightly) love the flashy, testosterone-fueled 1960s-set "Mad Men," but apparently don't have a place in their hearts for the more ordinary, angst-driven and contemporary "Men of a Certain Age."
They've thankfully warmed to the smart and quirky "Parks and Recreation," but don't seem to appreciate the boldly surreal "Community."
And while they get laughs from the delightfully often-cartoonish "Glee" and "30 Rock," Emmy voters apparently still are reluctant to include durable, funny animated fare like "The Simpsons" and "South Park" in the Outstanding Comedy Series category.
Once again, Emmy is playing it safe: The latest nominations, announced Thursday morning, represent a mixed bag of hits and misses, in which the misses largely come at the expense of favoring familiar critical hits.
Don't get us wrong: "Mad Men," still the best drama on TV, deserves recognition for a strong fourth season that peeled away new layers from the image-reinforced emotional armor of Don Draper. And we're thrilled that "The Good Wife," the best drama on big-network TV, notched seven nominations for a sophomore season that offered another intensely intelligent and often surprising take on power and relationships, wrapped in the most compelling courtroom action since "Law & Order."
But we're sorely disappointed by the virtual snub of "Men of a Certain Age," TNT's brilliantly understated serio-comic look at three pals – played by Ray Romano, Andre Braugher and Scott Bakula – navigating life at 50. The best the Emmy voters could do was toss the excellent Braugher a best supporting actor nomination. The general disrespect for one of TV's finest shows is a particular shame given that a best drama nod might have guaranteed "Men," whose future is in limbo, will be back for a third season.
Still, we're pleasantly surprised that Louis CK notched a nomination in the best actor in a comedy category for playing (what we hope is) an exaggerated version of himself in "Louie," his often hilarious, depressive's slog through life. At least his unusual effort got some notice: Chevy Chase's great, layered performance as the manipulative, ultimately pathetic sixty-something student who's alienated even the misfits who populate the innovative "Community," was snubbed – along with the show. Which is a double disgrace: "Community" has morphed into a must-watch meta sitcom that alternately mocks and salutes the TV conventions to which it owes its twisted inspiration.
Perhaps the best example is last season's Claymation-style holiday special, which went from gimmicky to oddly touching in the click of stop-motion animation camera. The episode was an affectionate nod not only to the old Rankin/Bass shows of years past, but to long-running animated fare like "The Simpsons," "South Park, – and, to an extent, "Family Guy" – that have helped free the imaginations of writers of boundary-pushing live-action sitcoms like, well, "Community."
But the animated shows still have a hard time breaking out of the cartoon ghetto ("The Flintstones" scored a nomination in the best comedy category 50 years ago and "Family Guy" made the cut in 2009). This year's animation shutout is especially disheartening considering the 22nd season of "The Simpson" marked one of the show's best outings in years. Our favorite installment was the "Angry Dad" episode, an instant classic that spoofed Hollywood's obsession with awards, as seen through the ultimately disappointing journey of Bart's movie about Homer.
As we mull the Emmy nomination miscues – even as we look forward to watching Jane Lynch host the awards show in September – Homer's words of consolation to Bart seem particularly apt: "Don't worry, son. Everyone makes mistakes. Yours is just public and expensive."
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Emmett Conn is now a fully-Americanized 92-year-old man living in Georgia in The Gendarme. But his story fades back in forth in time, to when he was still Ahmet Khan, a 17 year old Turk charged with deporting a large group of Armenians from Turkey to Syria at the start of World War I. Emmett has recently been diagnosed with a brain tumor; it is unclear whether the tumor of the medications used to treat it are causing him to have vivid, sometimes terrifying dreams. Or perhaps these dreams are the truthful but shocking memories of a past he has long forgotten?
A central figure in Emmett's dreams is the beautiful Araxie, one of the Armenian refugees who first captivates him by her unique appearance, but with whom he later becomes obsessed. He is determined to protect her — indeeed the odds are stacked against her. The conditions in the refugee camps are abysmal; food and water are scarce and many die from dysentery. Of the original 2000 deportees, possibly only fifty are expected to make it alive to Aleppo.
It is an alarming fact of history that these forced death treks occurred. But more alarming is that so few people know about it, and I include myself in that group. Initially, I felt guilty about my ignorance, but these feelings were somewhat assuaged when the author (Mark Mustian, who is of Armenian descent) stated that he himself had not heard of the atrocity until well into his thirties. Indeed, even the World Book Encyclopedia barely mentions it. I quote: "The campaign reached a peak during World War I. By 1918 about 1,800,000 Armenians had been murdered and thousands more had fled to other countries."
This was a fascinating book with a little something for everyone — adventure, danger, romance, much of it in an exotic setting. Even the secondary characters, such as Emmett's daughter, Violet, were multi-dimensional. Still, I think the best part of the book was how the author almost subliminally imparts a deeper message of peace and forgiveness, about how love can transcend race, religion and politics.


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The city's building department hasn't inspected the Kindred Transitional Care and Rehabilitation nursing home on McGrath Highway in more than six years. Quincy's three other nursing homes were all inspected last summer.
QUINCY – The city's building department hasn't inspected the Kindred Transitional Care and Rehabilitation nursing home on McGrath Highway in more than six years. Quincy's three other nursing homes were all inspected last summer.
The disparity between inspection times was recently discovered when the husband of a former worker complained to the city that the Kindred facility had a faulty fire-alarm system and other building deficiencies. The home, with 139 beds and 50 employees, was last inspected by the city's building department on June 15, 2007.
"We're going to take the complaint seriously and we'll do our inspection and make a determination of whether the building is maintained in a safe condition," said Jay Duca, the city's director of inspectional services.
When the Kindred home, at 11 McGrath Highway, was inspected by the state Department of Public Health in January 2013, it met 127 of 132 requirements. The average nursing home in the state meets 125 of 132 requirements.
The state, which licenses nursing homes annually, conducts unannounced health and fire-safety inspections because the facilities rely on public Medicare and Medicaid funds. The state renewed the Quincy Kindred's license last March.
Kindred's inspection certificate with the city expired in June 2009, when the city performed inspections every two years. Today, city buildings with high occupancies, like schools, restaurants, daycare centers and nursing homes, need to be inspected every year.
Kindred Healthcare operates hundreds of nursing homes, assisted-living centers and transitional-care programs throughout the country. In a statement faxed to The Patriot Ledger on Friday, the nursing home said it cooperates fully with the city and was unaware until recently that the building was overdue for inspection.
"However, once we learned that we were overdue for an inspection, we contacted the city as soon as possible and have scheduled an inspection with the City of Quincy Inspectional Services Department," the statement said.
Duca said city inspectors determine whether facilities are being properly maintained and whether the owner is performing fire-alarm and sprinkler tests through an independent contractor.
Kindred's expired certificate went unnoticed for so long because the city's building department is still transitioning to a digital record-keeping system that alerts officials when certificates have expired, Duca said.
"This nursing home was not in the (electronic) database," he said.
The owner of the building at 11 McGrath Highway, Ventas Finance, requested a city inspection on Jan. 27 of this year. A city inspector is scheduled to inspect the facility Wednesday.
Duca said building owners are responsible for making sure their inspections are up to date. However, he said Kindred will not be fined or penalized.
Anne Roach, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Public Health, said a nursing home's license is based mostly on state inspections, which occur once every nine to 15 months. The state inspected Quincy's Kindred home in December 2010, November 2011 and January 2013.
"Local building code requirements do not impact the DPH license, though failure of a facility to comply with local requirements would be a deficient practice and could lead to loss of licensure and certification if corrections were not made as might be ordered by the town," Roach said in an email.
Quincy Fire Chief Joseph Barron said his department conducts quarterly fire-safety inspections at city nursing homes. Barron said he is not aware of any problems at Kindred.
"If there was an issue, I would expect to have heard about it," he said.
Quincy's other nursing homes are the Marina Bay Skilled Nursing Center, the Hancock Park Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in downtown Quincy and the John Adams HealthCare Center in South Quincy. The city's building department inspected these facilities between June and August of last year.
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skiing has been called the most entertaining discipline in the sport of
water skiing. It is fast-moving, exciting, graceful, and most of all,
fun to watch. Virtually all aspects of the sport – including
barefooting, jumping, slalom, tricks and kneeboarding – are
choreographed into one grand performance.
its simplest form, show skiing involves a group of skiers performing a
variety of acts with the primary objective of providing entertainment.
Even at the most advanced and technically difficult levels (professional
shows such as LEGOLAND and Tommy Bartlett's), the basic format and
entertainment concepts remain the same.
Show Ski National Championships gives the best amateur show ski clubs in
the country a chance to compete for the coveted national title. As a
spectator then, what should one look for at this particular event?
is critical in show ski competitions. Each club is allowed 20 minutes
prior to its show to set up. At one end of the beach the next club to
perform has unloaded its gear and props into a staging area. When their
set-up time begins, the entire cast, often as many as 70 people –
youngsters, in addition to parents and friends –race about placing
thousands of dollars worth of equipment – including sound system,
boats, skis, ropes, costumes and stage props – along the beach.
the set-up deadline nears, a horn sounds warning the crew that it's
almost curtain time. When the second horn sounds, it's time to begin
and the club now has one hour to present its show.
the conclusion of the one-hour show, the club is then given a maximum of
10 minutes to break down and remove its equipment so the next club can
prepare for its show. If everything is not off the beach and out of the
staging area, the offending club is given negative points.
the tournament are five certified USA Water Ski & Wake Sports-rated judges. They are
selected for their past experience and technical expertise in the field
of show skiing.
the one-hour timing clock starts, the judging begins. Each club is
required to perform a minimum of 13 acts within the one-hour time
period. For the most part, clubs will perform a wide variety of acts,
both on and off the water.
announcer, of course, plays a very important role in that he or she is
the spectators' official host. The announcer establishes the
environment and tempo of the show and will often play out a character as
part of the show's overall theme. In addition, the announcer has the
added responsibility of explaining the acts as they relate to the
technical aspects of water skiing.
clubs incorporate numerous types of water skiing into their shows,
however they generally focus on five major areas which include:
the variety of acts, skiers and show formats, how does a judge
differentiate between clubs and ultimately decide on a winner? Each club
is awarded points in two major categories. First, each of the 13 acts is
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This 2011 file photo shows the Cathedral of St. Helena in Helena, Mont. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Helena was filing for bankruptcy protection Friday in advance of proposed settlements for two lawsuits that claim clergy members sexually abused 362 people over decades and the church covered it up.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Helena, Mont., filed for bankruptcy protection on Friday to pave the way for a $15 million settlement of lawsuits alleging clergy members sexually abused 362 children over five decades, according to a diocese spokesman.
"The settlement here will be as much help financially as we can offer to claimants," the spokesman, Dan Bartleson, told NBCNews.com. "And the bankruptcy puts us in a place at the diocese where we can care for the Catholics who are currently part of the church."
The lawsuits, originally filed in 2011, claimed that clergy members had abused children from the 1940s to 1980s and that the diocese knew or should have known what was happening.
"It's widespread … (and) some of the most horrific abuse we've dealt with," Dan Fasy, an attorney with law firm Kosnoff Fasy, which represents 268 of the 362 claimants, told NBC News.
Although the settlements are not official yet, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Montana would supervise the disbursement of $15 million if the Chapter 11 protection is approved, with an additional $2.5 million set aside for victims who have not yet come forward, Bartleson said.
All of the claimants lived within the diocese's geographical boundaries, which span western and north central Montana.
In August 2012, the Rev. George Leo Thomas, bishop of Helena, wrote a letter published in a diocese bulletin asking those who may have suffered to come forward.
"As I have personally listened to survivors' heart-wrenching stories, I have been saddened by their reports of shattered innocence, broken trust and the spiritual and psychological toll that abuse takes on innocent victims," Thomas wrote. "Words cannot adequately express our sorrow or convey the depth of our apology."
Fasy, the attorney representing most of the claimants, said the deal worked out with the diocese will help the sexual abuse survivors turn the page.
"We're all working toward the common goal of getting healing and closure for the survivors we represent," Fasy said. "Although we didn't choose to file for bankruptcy protection, it may be an effective resolution to these claims."
Although most of the settlement will be funded by insurance carriers, a press release from the Helena diocese said it will need to pay at least $2.5 million to fund claims and the costs associated with the lawsuits, which has led to a reduction of staff, services and the limitation of parish building projects.
The Ursuline Sisters of the Western Province, a Catholic order that has been involved in mediations, is not part of the settlement , Bartleson said.
Another case that has also been filed and is pending is against the Diocese of Great Falls-Billings, which covers the eastern part of the state. A resolution from the bankruptcy filing would not impact that case.


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Newspaper editor freed on presidential pardon after four years in prison
Reporters Without Borders is enormously relieved that Realny Azerbaijan editor Eynulla Fatullayev was finally released yesterday on a presidential pardon after four years in prison. "We share the joy of Eynulla Fatullayev's family and colleagues," the press freedom organization said after confirming that he arrived at his home at around 6 p.m. yesterday. "He had become the symbol of abuse of authority by a regime that used every kind of ploy to keep him in prison as long as possible. The pardon is just one more act by an all-powerful government. It will not compensate for the four years he spent in prison just for doing his job." Fatullayev described his release to the Reporters Without Borders Baku correspondent, who went to his house last night to celebrate with him. "The prison director came to see me and told me to gather up my belongings," he said. "At first I thought it was another provocation. But then I was asked to sign my release (...) and I was sent home." Fatullayev thanked all the international bodies and NGOs that kept calling for his release. "The international pressure had a very big impact," he told Reporters Without Borders by phone this morning. "I am definitely going to resume working as journalist but I do not yet know if it will be in Azerbaijan or abroad," he added. "I will first see whether the conditions exist for me to be able to work in my country, especially from the security point of view. If they do not, I will be forced to go into exile." This is a historic moment inasmuch as, to our knowledge, Azerbaijan no longer has any journalist from the "traditional" media behind bars. There has nonetheless been an increase in harassment of the media during the past two months are so. Journalists with opposition media, especially Azadlig, are constantly being hounded and several youth activists and bloggers are currently serving jail sentences. (Photo: Turan) --------------- 17.03.2011 - Azerbaijan turns a deaf ear Reporters Without Borders is alarmed by a deterioration in newspaper editor Eynulla Fatullayev's prison conditions. Held since 2007, Fatullayev was transferred on 2 March to Baku Prison No. 1, where he has received serious threats from fellow inmates, his lawyer, Anar Gasimov, said at a news conference yesterday. Confirming the information, leading journalist Shahveled Chobanoglu said some inmates were even ready to kill Fatullayev because of his past investigative reporting. The situation is so serious that he prefers to stay in solitary confinement, despite serious health problems. "He is under great stress and is coughing constantly," Gasimov added. Fatullayev is so desperate that he has written to President Ilham Aliyev asking him to intercede to get him released. Reporters Without Borders joins the International Partnership Group for Azerbaijan in welcoming the decision by the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers on 10 March to urge Azerbaijan to respect a European Court of Human Rights ruling last April that Fatullayev was illegally detained and should be released. A series of trumped up charges have been used to keep Fatullayev in prison since April 2007. The latest was possession of heroin in prison. Joint Statement :


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The CFCA project in Legazpi, Philippines, recently sent us success stories from young adults who were sponsored through CFCA.
Here's one from Jeffrey, who is hoping to graduate from college after many challenges along the way.
My name is Jeffrey. I am 19 years old, the second-oldest child in a family of seven. My father is a hard-working farmer, and my mother is a housewife.
I am very proud of them both, and I am a witness of their unending love, care and support.
I was in grade four when one of the biggest changes in my life happened.
I was recruited as one of the members of the CFCA family through the sponsorship program. It gave me additional self-confidence to pursue my studies.
My father struggled to support my and my brother's educational needs. So my mother decided to work as a housemaid.
It is very hard waking up early in the morning knowing that your mother is not there, and enjoying those days were never easy for us.
She once said to me, "Anak, kahit mahirap tayo, sainyo naming ibubuhos lahat n gaming pag-asa sa buhay (My child, even though we are poor, we will give to you all we can because you are our hope in our life)," and after saying this, she would surprise me with a big hug.
After finishing grade six as a class salutatorian, my self-determination grew.
I was given the opportunity to become a sports editor for my school publication. This opportunity has brought out my potential to write and edit articles.
I finished high school and graduated with an honorable mention in 2005 ó another stepping-stone toward my dreams and aspirations in life.
I am very glad I was chosen to become one of the CFCA service scholars. It gave me an opportunity to serve and get to know other friends who are sponsored. The CFCA Scholarship Program enables me to become a better and new me.
I took the college entrance exam to obtain a bachelor's degree in elementary education.
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Using The Cloud To Solve The Healthcare Storage Storm
Healthcare IT is facing the perfect storage storm. The amount of objects that need to be stored is growing rapidly. The size of those objects is increasing dramatically and there are more legal requirements than ever to retain and protect that data. All this is happening while budgets are growing slowly—if at all.
Join Storage Switzerland and Nirvanix for a live webinar "Using the Cloud to Solve the Healthcare Storage Storm" on Tuesday August 23rd at Noon Central. This informative webinar will feature subject matter experts who will discuss the key challenges that Healthcare IT storage managers face, outline the key ingredients—multi-level security, global namespace, ability to ingest and store millions of large images, guaranteed SLAs—that a cloud storage solution must provide, and will show how leveraging cloud storage can help survive the oncoming storm.
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Live Webinar: 5 Steps to Seamless Storage Operations During a Pandemic
Jul 23 2020
5:00 pm
60 mins
George Crump and Gal Naor with StorONE
As we continue to work through the devastating impact, both personally and on businesses of COVID-19, organizations realize that IT operations need to change to support the new normal. One area that needs special attention is Storage Operations. The storage infrastructure needs to be more flexible, more resilient, better protected, and less expensive.
In this live webinar Gal Naor, CEO of StorONE and George Crump, CMO, discuss the five steps IT professionals need to take to meet the demands of the new normal that pandemics like COVID-19 cause. During the webinar, Gal and George will share the results of our survey, "How has COVID-19 Impacted Your Data Center." Listen in to learn how your peers are coping with our present situation.
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Demo - 1 Million IOPS - 300k Write IOPS
Jul 9 2020
8 mins
George Crump
Join StorONE for a live presentation of the performance of our All-Flash Array.next. In this demonstration, we show you the performance capabilities of our entry-level All-Flash Array.next. With just 4 Optane Drives and 4 QLC drives, you'll see our system deliver over one million read IOPS and hundreds of thousands of write IOPS. In less than 10 minutes, we'll show you the future of high-performance storage. Then you can go to our TRUprice page and see that this system sets a new record in $ per IOPS. It will cost you less than $60,000!
All pre-registrants get the complete lab report in advance of the live presentation.
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Introducing The All-Flash Array.next powered by Intel Optane and StorONE
Jun 30 2020
61 mins
George Crump with StorONE and Joseph Nielsen with Intel
Join Intel and StorONE as they introduce the All-Flash Array.next (AFAn) live on June 30th at 1:00pm ET / 10:00am PT. Learn all about this new product category which combines Intel® Optane™ SSDs and Intel® QLC 3D NAND both acting as storage tiers, not as cache. In this live interactive webinar StorONE will provide an overview of the solution. Pre-register now and get an advanced copy of our lab report that demonstrates the AFAn delivering over 1 million IOPS and 300K sustained write IOPS.
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Get Your Customers Excited About Storage with Transparent Pricing
Jun 10 2020
47 mins
George Crump and Gal Naor with StorONE
Times have changed your customers need a new solution to their storage problems. Their new priority is dramatically reducing costs, but they still have to meet demands for more capacity and performance and not sacrifice data integrity. StorONE's S1 Storage Software is available in turnkey configurations from TechData.
Last month StorONE upset the enterprise storage status quo by publishing its pricing online. StorONE's TRUprice, powered by Tech Data, enables customers to configure and price an enterprise storage system. It highlights StorONE's S1 storage software's unique ability to deliver maximum performance on midrange servers while providing complete data protection and data services.
What's the partner's role? The TRUprice solutions are all available from Tech Data as complete, simple to order packages. Partners can sell any TRUprice configuration with excellent margins. Tech Data partners are also welcome to rack and install the equipment and install the software.
Are you interested in learning more? Join StorONE's CEO, Gal Naor and CMO George Crump as they discuss new tactics that resellers need to take to continue to create and create and close opportunities in 2020, while still making a profit.
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Learn the TRUth about Storage Pricing and Efficiency
May 14 2020
59 mins
George Crump and Gal Naor with StorONE
Enterprise Storage costs too much! In this webinar learn why, even though server and storage media are decreasing in price, enterprise storage systems still cost more than ever. By attending this webinar you will learn:
– Why Inefficient Storage Software Makes Storage Expensive
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– A Live Demo of Configuring and PRICING an Enterprise-Class Storage System
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Demonstration: Contactless Enterprise Storage Installation
May 7 2020
54 mins
George Crump, Scott Armbrust and Jack Aboutboul with StorONE
The aftermath of COVID-19 is a new economy with new pressures and expectations. The new standard is less physical contact. Companies that sell enterprise storage solutions can no longer send a team of engineers on-site to install their products. A new requirement for enterprise storage is contactless installation. At StorONE, while we are happy to come on-site, our standard installation process is remote installation. In this webinar, we will remotely install our StorONE S1 Enterprise Platform so you can see how easy of a process it is.
Contactless installation is just one of the new requirements of enterprise storage. During the webinar, we will also discuss the other changes in enterprise storage requirements caused by the new economy:
1. Extreme low-cost storage that provides performance and data integrity
2. A significantly simplified operation that requires fewer administrators
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Learn how to change your storage infrastructure to be affordable, manageable, and ready for the new economy. All attendees will receive exclusive access to our new eBook, "Designing Storage for the New Economy."
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Reduce Backup Costs with Better Primary Storage
Apr 9 2020
60 mins
George Crump and Scott Armbrust with StorONE
Learn how better primary storage can reduce backup infrastructure costs. There are five key features that primary storage solutions must have to protect themselves and reduce an organization's dependency on backup software and hardware. Achieving that goal means the organization can realize immediate cost savings by reducing the number of data protection solutions they use.
Many storage systems have minimal capabilities, like snapshots and replication, which can't reduce backup infrastructure investments. Replacing backup requires a primary storage solution with complete and robust data protection. Any gaps in protection leave the organization exposed to the risk of data loss.
Join us for our on-demand webinar with StorONE's Chief Marketing Officer, George Crump, and Technical Account Manager, Scott Armbrust. During the event you'll learn what capabilities primary storage must have so you can reduce the cost and importance of your backup infrastructure. We also provide a live demonstration of those capabilities during the session.
Attendees will also receive a copy of our latest eBook "How to Create Invincible Data Storage"
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LightBoard Video - What's New in StorONE's Q2-2020 Release?
Apr 8 2020
10 mins
George Crump
StorONE's mission is to help IT professionals be Storage Heroes by driving down storage costs, improving data protection, and increasing performance. Our Q2-2020 release continues that commitment. Join StorONE's Chief Marketing Officer, George Crump, as he uses the LightBoard to explain how the new capabilities in our Q2-2020 release can help you become a storage hero.
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Webinar and Demonstration - Reduce Storage Costs and Risks
Apr 2 2020
58 mins
George Crump and Ittai Doron with StorONE
Learn how to reduce storage costs and risks, while improving performance. Join StorONE's Chief Marketing Officer, George Crump, and Ittai Doron for this webinar. During the webinar, we discuss how the new features in our Q2-2020 can help you lower storage costs, increase data integrity, and improve performance. The webinar also features a demonstration of the new features in our Q2-2020 update.
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Webinar - Customer Insight - Affordable Extreme Performance With StorONE
Mar 26 2020
52 mins
Guy Loewenberg, Guy Meir and David Leichner
In this webinar, you will learn how to design a cost-effective, extreme performance storage infrastructure, useable by traditional enterprise applications and performance demanding modern applications. StorONE customer and partner SQream join us to explain how they use StorONE's Enterprise Storage Platform to reduce the cost of high-performance storage.
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Be a Storage Hero - Crush Storage Costs
Mar 20 2020
41 mins
StorONE's George Crump and Scott Armbrust
Now more than ever IT is facing pressure to reduce the cost of its storage infrastructure. Its time to get proactive, be a storage hero and learn five ways you can reduce the cost of your storage infrastructure while improving performance and making it more future-proof. Join StorONE's Chief Marketing Officer, George Crump, and Scott Armbrust Technical Sales Manager for this interactive webinar.
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Webinar: Future Proof Your Storage - Eliminate Storage Refreshes
Mar 12 2020
47 mins
George Crump and Gal Turchinski
Every few years, IT professionals must start a storage refresh project. These projects are time-consuming, high risk, and costly. The problem is getting worse because the time between refresh projects is shrinking thanks to new technology, new performance expectations, and increased pressure to protect and retain data.
In this webinar, join StorONE CMO George Crump and Product Manager, Gal Turchinski, for an interactive discussion on how to create a future-proofed storage infrastructure by moving away from a legacy storage system approach to towards an Enterprise Storage Platform.
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* The top three causes of storage refreshes
* The problems with the storage system per use case approach
* How to eliminate storage refreshes, improve performance and reduce storage infrastructure costs by 45%
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Introducing The Enterprise Storage Platform
Mar 5 2020
64 mins
George Crump and Guy Loewenberg
Join George Crump and StorONE VP of Strategic Accounts, Guy Loewenberg, this webinar and demonstration where they explain what an Enterprise Storage platform is and how it can radically simplify storage management and reduce storage costs while improving performance. Then watch as Loewenberg demonstrate the S1 Enterprise Storage Platform in action.
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Three Reasons SRM is Broken and How to Fix It
Feb 20 2020
34 mins
Storage Switzerland and Clear Technologies
Storage Resource Management (SRM), given the growth in storage capacity, the increased emphasis on performance, and the number of storage systems IT is implementing, should be the most popular application category within the storage market. The reality is that SRM is far from the most popular; it may be the least popular.
Most organizations have not adopted an SRM solution and often count on siloed vendor tools or worse, Excel spreadsheets. The primary challenges to adoption are that SRM offerings are often more complicated than the stand-alone solutions, don't provide a complete view of the storage infrastructure, and are incredibly expensive.
In this webinar, George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland, and Phil Godwin, President and COO at Clear Technologies, discuss the problems with current SRM solutions and how to solve them.
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Are You Treating Unstructured Data as a Second Class Citizen?
Feb 13 2020
43 mins
Storage Switzerland and Aparavi
Unstructured data is the fastest-growing segment of data within most enterprises today. This data set contains the creative output of the organization's employees as well as unique data captured by sensors and machines. Unstructured data is large in terms of capacity and number of files. It is also the prime target of ransomware. Organizations are paying hefty ransoms to regain access to their data.
Protecting unstructured data is challenging. Most organizations can't protect it frequently enough, and are unable to restore the data quickly enough. The problem is most data protection solutions are protecting unstructured data incorrectly. Data protection vendors count on image-based backups to bypass issues associated with high file counts. Image-based backups, however, sacrifice the granularity required to meet regulations like GDPR and detect ransomware. Being able to see inside all those files being saved, in order to either make intelligent decisions about the data or to put it to use in another way, is a critical new requirement for organizations.
Join Storage Switzerland and Aparavi for our live webinar to learn how to improve your ability to protect unstructured data while at the same time gaining insight into it.
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Designing Storage Infrastructures for AI Workloads
Jan 23 2020
43 mins
Storage Switzerland and Panasas
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) workloads are fundamentally different from any other workload. These workloads deal in data sets measured in dozens of petabytes of capacity, and large percentages of it can go from dormant to active at any moment. The high storage requirement and highly active data set make using all-flash arrays or even large flash caches impractical.
IT planners need to rethink their designs to create infrastructures that are highly parallel and leverage high capacity hard disk drives to strike the right balance of performance and capacity. These infrastructures also need metadata efficiency, since AI and ML workloads are metadata heavy.
Join us to learn:
* Why all organizations need to prepare for AI and ML
* The challenges of AI/ML at scale
* Why current storage infrastructures can't meet the AI/ML at scale challenge
* Requirements of an At-Scale AI/ML Storage Infrastructure
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Wolves in Sheep's Clothing?
Dec 4 2019
25 mins
Storage Switzerland, HYCU
Beware of Backup Software Claiming to provide Cloud Data Management
Organizations are already multi-cloud. They often have a cloud-like infrastructure on-premises like VMware or Nutanix. They may also have cloud-native applications based on SQL, SAP HANA or PostgreSQL. Even if the organization doesn't have a cloud-native application, they may want to use the cloud for off-site storage or disaster recovery. In any of these uses cases the organization needs a multi-cloud data management strategy and backup software can deliver on many of the requirements. IT planners, however, need to closely examine the sacrifices that these solutions might force them to make. Legacy solutions may require an external and potentially foreign user interface, and so-called cloud-native applications may not provide on-premises protection.
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Learn How To Solve Your DR Nightmare in Less Than 30 Minutes!
Nov 21 2019
27 mins
Storage Switzerland and Veeam
What is your disaster recovery (DR) plan? Most organizations today do not have a formalized process. When disaster strikes, IT scrambles, hoping to pluck victory from the jaws of defeat. A DR plan prioritizes recovery efforts so that personnel can focus on recovering the most critical applications and their dependencies first. DR Plans also enable anyone in IT to guide the organization through the disaster recovery process. Not only does the lack of planning puts the company's reputation at risk, but Storage Switzerland also finds that organizations without a DR plan often spend significantly more on data protection than those with a formal strategy.
The reality though is most organizations don't have the time to create a DR plan. Even if they do take the time to develop a plan, they don't have the time to maintain it and ensure that it is up to date. The good news is the latest advancements in data protection solutions include orchestration and automation, which enables organizations to create, maintain and execute workflows that guide the organization to a successful recovery no matter how severe the disaster.
In Less Than 30 Minutes Learn:
*. The challenges with a "best efforts" DR plan
*. How a DR plan can save Money
*. How orchestration and automation can make DR plan creation and maintenance possible for even the busiest IT teams
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15 Minute Webinar: Do You Really Need to Consolidate Backup?
Oct 21 2019
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Fundraiser for Kaylee Helton on Feb. 8 at Lincoln Knights of
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[January 20, 2014]
On Feb. 8 the Lincoln
Knights of Columbus Hall will host an afternoon fundraiser for Kaylee Helton.
Donations for the auctions are welcome and needed. People with
auction items to donate are asked to contact any of the following:
Dawn McAllister,
Marcy Booth,
Tami Grigg,
Tiffany Davidson, 217-737-9439
Admission and meal tickets will be available at the door, with
the proceeds going to support Kaylee and her family as she deals
with a serious illness that requires a great deal of medical
Kaylee is the daughter of Missy Helton and J.R. Eskew. Kaylee
fell ill on Oct. 30, 2013, and has since been undergoing treatment
at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
She has been diagnosed with primary antiphospholipid syndrome, an
autoimmune disorder that causes abnormal clotting of the blood. She
developed catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome, a very rare subset
of the syndrome, which caused multiple blood clots in several
different organs.
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While undergoing testing and treatment, she developed
heparin-induced thrombocytopenia, a condition that causes blood
clots and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, a heart condition.
Although there is no cure for antiphospholipid syndrome, she and
her family will continue to travel to and from St. Louis for
An account has been set up at CEFCU for the family. To make a
monetary donation, visit any CEFCU location or mail a check to the
Kaylee Helton Benefit.
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By Bill Spiegel Kansas Wheat
This is Day 4 of the 2013 Kansas Wheat Harvest Reports, brought to you by the Kansas City Board of Trade, the Kansas Grain & Feed Association, the Kansas Wheat Commission and Kansas Association of Wheat Growers.
While farmers in central Kansas are enjoying a better than average harvest so far, farmers in western Kansas are not quite as fortunate.
Matt Overturf with Skyland Grain in Johnson says much of the crop in Stanton and Hamilton counties has already been abandoned due to drought and freeze stress; what's left is yielding between 5 and 15 bushels per acre. Company-wide, red wheat is averaging 58.8 pounds per bushel; white wheat is 59.7 pounds per bushel but no protein values have been reported. Overturf says he expects the company to take in just 10% of a normal crop.
Darwin Ediger, Meade, planned to finish wheat harvest Monday. It's been a disappointing crop, with yields ranging from 10 to 20 bushels per acre, with test weights averaging about 58 pounds. About half the wheat in the Meade area was destroyed, making for a dismal harvest.
Paul Weber, manager of the Pride Ag Resources location in Hanston says harvest has been in full swing since last week. So far the location has taken in 100,000 bushels of good wheat, with a 59 pound per bushel test weight average but protein levels averaging about 14. He says it is too early to tell how this year's crop will compare to previous years.
The crop is doing better near Otis, where Kansas Wheat Commissioner David Radenberg had cut 100 acres before a rain shower Monday morning stopped harvest. He estimates yields in the area will exceed 40 bushels per acre, although test weights vary from 56 to 61 pounds per bushel. Radenberg says there is some lodging in many of the area wheat fields, and some of his crop was hit hard by a hailstorm a few weeks ago.
Ken Wood, KAWG Director from Chapman, began harvesting Sunday afternoon and is pleased with test weights early on; the crop averages about 61 pounds per bushel, but no protein values are available. Although farmers in northern Dickinson County are just starting the harvest, Wood expects the crop to be above average, with early yield results ranging from 55 to 60 bushels per acre.
The 2013 Harvest Report is brought to you by the Kansas Wheat Commission, Kansas Association of Wheat Growers and sponsors Kansas City Board of Trade, and the Kansas Grain & Feed Association.


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Serious Eats Neighborhood Guides: Eli Collins' South Slope and Greenwood Heights
Locals' guides to New York neighborhoods.
Eli Collins' culinary path wasn't exactly traditional: he studied painting and spent a summer in the South of France, which awakened a passion for French cuisine. Luckily, he had a talent for food as well as art, and after working in the Oak Room and Bar at the Plaza, he landed a job as part of the opening team at Daniel Boulud's DBGB. As Executive Chef, he's known for both his hefty sausages and warming, hearty work with vegetables. A study in contrasts, it's fitting that Eli lives with his family in an unusual intersection of Brooklyn: in between Greenwood Cemetery and Park Slope, in a tight neighborhood called Greenwood Heights, or maybe South Slope, depending on who you ask.
Eli's Picks
Pizza: Toby's Public House has a great pub feel with a fantastic wood oven pizza. It's a good place for my family and me, because it's not a big deal if we get a little rowdy. I go with the D.O.C. (buffalo mozzarella, tomato, and basil), or the quattro formaggi (they put gorgonzola dolce on it, which is really nice). They usually have a pretty seasonal and local selection of beer on draft. If someone comes into town, we usually take them to Toby's, because it's interesting: a bar atmosphere in a pizza restaurant.
Burger: Dram Shop has a fast food style burger, like Shake Shack or Five Guys, that's two thin patties cooked on the griddle, served on a potato roll. It's kind of a surprising place to have that burger, since its just a little bar that you wouldn't expect to have a good hamburger like that. Being the chef at DBGB and serving burgers all the time that are sort of considered upper-class burgers, I sometimes crave a fast food-style burger.
Coffee: Roots Cafe is a quiet place to hang out. The owner is always behind the counter, and there's a lot of local musicians that hang there, because there's a studio next door. They serve Stumptown, so their coffee is the best choice in the neighborhood. In the morning I get a drip coffee with cream, but on my day off, I go later in the afternoon for a latte, because I'll usually have had two coffees by then.
Bagel: I go to the Bagel Factory every day for coffee, bagels, or lunch with my son. It's at the bottom of my street so it's very convenient, and the guys behind the counter are super friendly. They know me there; they call me "the chef." On my day off, I usually stop in for an everything bagel with cream cheese, or a bacon, egg, and cheese on an everything bagel. My son's go-to is a corn muffin, toasted with butter.
Delivery food: Nuevo Mexico is a pretty decent little Mexican place. I've never actually gone in there, but I found out about it when I read that the owners of Mile End go there. My wife and I always get a large cup of posole and the chorizo dip, which is chorizo, black beans, and queso fresco. It's like nachos; it's a little over the top, but it's good.
Dive bar: Freddy's Bar is a place that was originally over by where the Barclay's Center is. When I was a lot younger, I used to hang out there really late in the night. They re-opened just down the street from us a year or two ago. It's just a kind of old school New York bar hangout. They have live music there, and the beers are relatively inexpensive. It's a fun, rowdy place to hang out.
Wine bar: Brookvin is a wine bar with a really nice selection. They always have some tasty small plates: stuff on toast and good cheese. My wife and I go there on dates, and we munch on small plates and have a couple glasses of wine. Everything is really seasonal. They use a lot of stuff from the farmer's market by the park.
Chinese: Hunan Delight is just our local Chinese food place. I love their pad thai: I always order that and an egg roll. It's actually a nice place to sit down too, but we usually get delivery because it's a little further into Park Slope.
Austrian: I've been living in South Slope for four years, but before that, my brother lived here, and we used to hang out at Cafe Steinhof. They have nice Austrian food, especially a sausage and sauerkraut plate that's really good.
Date night: Talde does a really nice job. When it opened, it was a great option in the neighborhood—nice to see someone who had a national rep open a casual, fun place to eat—but the food is really good. It's one of my favorite spaces—huge plate glass windows—it used to be a laundromat, and I remember thinking it was an awesome space. A little more serious and grown up, but the food is really fun. We really like the wedge salad with "sri-rancha" dressing.
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On Wednesday October 2, 2013 Cast members and directors attend screening of Love That Girl (written and produced by Bentley Kyle Evans) and My Crazy Roommate at Xen Lounge's "Indie Night" located at 10628 Ventura Blvd., Los Angeles, CA.
The room was packed and it a pleasure to see nearly the entire cast, including the writer/producer Bentley Kyle Evans at the viewing. Both shows had fun filled cast members that displayed a lot of unity on the sets.
Indie Nights founders Joseph Alvarez and Dave Brown put on weekly screenings at the Xen Lounge owned by Duane Martin. Free before 8:30 with a 2 item minimum is a great deal for the meet and greet with the screenings. Valet or street parking is available. Gift bags by Adrienne Bowe Events were given to attendees of yummy popcorn and cookie treats. Some of the cast members received custom postive energy jewelry from KD Luxe Jewelry.
Follow the social media: @TVOneTV, @DaveBrownUSA, @Joseph_Alvarez, @LiftedPRInc, @BentleyEvans, @Bounce_TV, @XenLounge, #Lovethatgirl, #Indienight, #Mycrazyroommate, #IndieFilmNight, #XenLounge
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|US Catholic Church
Priest Explains the Big Sign that Proves Things Are Not Well in the Church
· by Fr. Bill Peckman - June 9, 2018
According to stats on the Catholic Church in the United States, there are 74.3 million Catholics in the US. There are an additional 30 million who self identify as former Catholics.
I have the following observations:
First, with only 23% participation, the Catholic Church runs a vast array of schools, hospitals, and services for the poorest of the poor. We are able to do a great amount with just 23%. Imagine what could be done with 50%, or 75%, or even 100%. This is chump change, though, as the Catholic Church is not primarily a social work, or community organizing entity.
No, the Church is, first and foremost, about an eternal relationship with God and, through God, with the rest of the Body of Christ. This is the second and much more important point.
With only 23% bothering to engage in the central tenet of that relationship, the Eucharist, it is easy to say the relationship is severely damaged. If more than 3/4 of the family doesn't see being with the family as important, then something has gone wrong.
Some want to blame Vatican II. It is a cop out. It allows us to to play the 'if only' game. I will agree that tossing most of the transcendence from Mass (not called for by Vatican II or in the General Instruction of the Roman Missal) has had grave consequences. But more of our problem lies in the tyranny of relativism. We treat faith like we treat so many other things; we cobble together a set of comfortable and convenient premises which allow us to contort reality into what we want it to be, no matter how ridiculous the end product is.
Aided and abetted by liberal clergy who knew better, we have people who say that they are Catholic but are okay with abortion, artificial birth control, not going to Mass, and so on. Severing Mass starves the soul of grace and gives deep root to rebellion in other areas.
Saying I am a Catholic but I rarely if ever go to Mass is like saying,"I am an athlete even though I do not exercise or play sports…but because I watch sports on TV, or play video games, I am an athlete."
Parishes would do well at least to start doing Mass as the Church intends. You would be surprised at how few do. Transcendence needs to find its home again. Pastors of souls would do well to start challenging the 77%, who rarely practice the faith, to practice the faith…start by calling their people to the Eucharist. We might start with families whose parents send their children to any part of the Catholic education system (school, High School, PSR/CCD, etc.).
We might fool ourselves into believing God will be happy with whatever we cobble together, and call being Catholic… but the Scriptures would certainly counter such approval of self deception.


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If you get a notice in the mail from one of your lenders – whether it be auto, boat, home or any other item you are paying for with a loan – make sure you read it. Lenders can require you to prove the item they've paid for is insured against damage or loss with an auto, homeowner or other applicable policy.
If you fail to prove the item is insured, the lender has the right to apply its own insurance policy, called "force placed" or "vendor's single interest (VSI)," to your loan. The policy doesn't protect you against property loss or liability—its sole function is to pay the lender the loan balance if you default on the loan. These policies are very expensive, they are added to your loan balance and you pay interest on them. One consumer was charged $2,680 for a policy on a $15,000 loan—that's nearly 18 percent of the loan, not counting the interest the consumer paid.
The good news is that lenders typically allow you to drop the policy once you prove you have your own insurance on the item.
Don't get stuck with a huge insurance cost that could have been prevented. When you get notices in the mail from a lender, read them.
If you have questions, contact our consumer advocates at 1-800-562-6900 or through our website.
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First up is my card for sketch 111 at CPS this week. We were sponsored by My Cat's Pajamas this week...and we got some of the most DARLING stamp sets. For this CPS card I used the stamp set called "Puppy Love". So freaking cute...love them! Be sure to check out all the fabulous cards at CPS if you haven't yet this week...the girls all did a great job!
I also got a second set of stamps from My Cat's Pajamas that I didn't use for my CPS card...but I did make a mini card set with them. The set I used for these cards is called "Beans & Bunnies & Peeps, oh my!". I really don't think the set could BE any cuter. Love all the fun sentiments in this set. I think the first two are my favorite in the set of 4...but I do like all of them! What about you?
And I finally had some time to head over to the 2 Sketches 4 U blog this week...it has been forever it seems. Life has just been a bit busy. This is my card for Kazan's sketch 24 this week...using some of the MME Bella, Bella papers that I recently received. They are SO pretty...love them!
And last but not least is the card I did for Use It! challenge #6. The challenge this week was to:
1. Go out of your comfort zone (subdued colors)
2. Use something you have been hoarding awhile (red heart jewel)
3. Use some of your new favorite items (MME Bella, Bella tree paper)
4. Heat emboss (sentiment)
This card also features the "Roots and Wings" and "Roots and Wings add-on" stamp sets by Renaissance by Design. I adore these stamps...they are so wonderful. Be sure to check out the link....they are fabulous!
Well ya'll...wish me luck for the weekend! The weather is supposed to be just perfect...which I am very excited about! I hope that your weekend is perfectly wonderful!
Until later,
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Wow! You have some mad talent! I love ALL of your cards! Good luck on the pics! I'm sure you'll do an awesome job!ReplyDelete
Your cards are all gorgeous & I love the Easter ones you did. It is strange seeing a more "subdued" color card from you, but it's beautiful!! Good luck w/the pics this weekend!!ReplyDelete
Darling cards, Lea! And, YES those are some super cute stamp sets!! Have a great time this weekend. I know you'll be superb! ♥♥ KayReplyDelete
What an awesome set of cards. Love them all. You 2s4y card is incredible.ReplyDelete
wowza!! You've been super busy! Love all your projects! Have a great weekend at the wedding!ReplyDelete
Knock me out and call me Bubba!!! These are the prettiest cards I've seen today. What amazing talent you have my dear.ReplyDelete
Lea! I already knew I was madly in love with that first card - that red and white is just perfect but OHHHHH how I love the rest of your cards! Great job on that adorable set and the other cards!ReplyDelete
the stamp sets are adorable, and i LOVE the bling on your 2s4u card--so pretty!ReplyDelete
have fun & good luck!
These cards are awesome, love theReplyDelete
2S4Y card!!!!! This is great...
OMG....you always surprise me with your gorgeous cards, Lea. I love the red polka dot ribbon and buttons on your CPS card. And your take in Kazan's sketch....STUNNING! Thanks for the inspiration.ReplyDelete
What a fabulous array of cards. I particularly like the 'Life with you is sweet' one, but they're all super. I'll be back!ReplyDelete
first card: Totally hot, fun and cute! LOVE it!ReplyDelete
Second set: Extremely cute lil things!
Third card: This one is the MOST beautiful! I love the papers tooo!
Fourth card: Elegant!
Love them all, especially that funky paper-pieced rocket.ReplyDelete
I couldn't pick a favorite from the group here!!! Each one is as good as the next! What a talent you have, love your "snarky" cards too!!! Hide the eggs is hilarious.ReplyDelete
Have a great day, and enjoy your weekend at the wedding.
fabulous cards Lea! thanks for playing along with this week's Use It! challenge!!ReplyDelete
Absolute gorgeousness, my friend!!! No one makes cards like you!!! Thank you for all the inspiration!!!ReplyDelete
Stunning as always Lea! Kazan is out of town this week so I am taking over:) Thanks for playing & good luck photographing your cousins wedding!ReplyDelete
Wow wow wow, I think I say that a lot here on your blog! Love everything! Are those little embossed hearts???ReplyDelete
OMG! These cards are just so stankin' cute (the tree card is probably my fave!)ReplyDelete
way to hit those challenges!
These are all gorgeous Lea!ReplyDelete
Your cards are all gorgeous!!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous!! What type/color ink did you use on the tree? It's very muted and lovely!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 17, 2009 at 12:42 PM
Gorgeous creations, Lea!!! Everything is fabulous! yum! :)ReplyDelete
Love your cat's pajamas cards. They're adorable!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 17, 2009 at 1:49 PM
Lea you Def `Rocked` these sketches!!!Fab Fab cards...ReplyDelete
Have a fabulous time at your cousins wedding...
Yahh :)♥
You have amazing talent! WOWZERS! I especially love the last two cards...so beautiful! Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
my gosh, you make very beautiful cards! love the rhinestones on the 2S4Y card sketch! very cute embellishments and butterfly!ReplyDelete
Clouds :o)
Love the card set you made! Simple with really nice accents! Awesome set!ReplyDelete
Wow, what an AWESOME card you made.ReplyDelete
I love the colors......I love it all!
Wow Lea...i love them all!!! Great work!ReplyDelete
Wow, you made some amazing cards! Great!ReplyDelete
I'm absolutely in love with each and every one of your cards!! wow! so amazing! to have that kind of talent...sigh!ReplyDelete
You did such a great job with all. I love the cats pj's stamps. Too too cute. LOVE LOVE LOVE the card for Kazan. Just GORGEOUS!!!ReplyDelete
OMGosh, Lea, these are all fabulous! Love the bright colors, the subdued colors, the fun chicken and bunny....you were quite busy! lolReplyDelete
Great job with all these styles Lea!
Your very talented!!!!
Blessings, Maria
These are some seriously gorgeous cards, girlie! Love them all!ReplyDelete
Wow, totally gorgeous work! I am adding your blog to my reader list -- I love every piece. Thanks for stopping by my blog.ReplyDelete
These are all so flippin' gorgeous--where do I start?! You ROCK!!!ReplyDelete


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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Two faculty members in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences are among five people honored by the University's Office of Global Programs with 2013 Spirit of Internationalization Awards.
These annual awards honor women from Penn State and the local community who embody the "spirit of internationalization" through academic achievements, artistic excellence and volunteerism in international organizations or dedication to advancing the status of women.
The college's honorees were Kathleen Kelley, associate professor of horticultural marketing and business management, and Audrey Maretzki, professor emeritus of food science and nutrition. They received the awards at a March 12 breakfast commemorating International Women's Day, which was observed worldwide March 8 to bring attention to global women's issues.
Kelley has been instrumental in developing international/multicultural learning opportunities for students, according to Deanna Behring, director of international programs in the College of Agricultural Sciences, who nominated Kelley for the award.
"Since 2006, she has co-led international embedded courses to Holland, France and Ireland to introduce students to a variety of landscapes, horticultural businesses and cultural sites," Behring said.
She noted that in 2007, Kelley was recognized by the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation for more than 500 hours of volunteer work with the Citizens Network for Foreign Affairs. "Dr. Kelley worked with farmers in Ukraine to help determine potential markets for their fruits and vegetables, with agribusiness dealers to help develop business plans and marketing strategies, and with groups of farmers to help develop cooperatives for business growth."
Behring said in addition to leading the charge to develop a strategy for the internationalization of the college's Department of Plant Science, Kelley is pursuing international research opportunities in the wine industry to help Pennsylvania wine growers understand global market opportunities.
"She spent a sabbatical in New Zealand in 2011 to learn new wine-marketing strategies and also is working with colleagues in Australia. In addition, she has visited wineries in Argentina, Chile, Germany, Greece, Italy, South Africa and Turkey."
Maretzki is a pioneer in the study of the social, political, environmental, family and community influences on how populations secure the foods they eat, according to Robert Lumley-Sapanski, facilities coordinator in the Department of Food Science, who has worked with Maretzki on the board of directors of the United Nations Association of Centre County.
"In many cultures of the world, food acquisition is a responsibility of women, and thus her research involved empowering women to understand and take a greater role in the process," he said. "She became involved in research projects on nutribusinesses, the goals of which are to enable rural women to elevate their own economic status while improving the health of infants, children and other nutritionally vulnerable individuals."
Lumley-Sapanski also cited Maretzki's work as co-director of the Penn State-based Interinstitutional Consortium for Indigenous Knowledge, the only active global indigenous knowledge resource center in the United States. She helped organize the first International Indigenous Knowledge Conference at Penn State, which was attended by more than 100 guests from 17 countries.
"She also has been very involved in the Norman E. Borlaug African Women in Science program at Penn State," he said, noting that the program she led brought women scientists from Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia, Kenya and Mali to conduct research at the University.


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Sioux Falls Canaries Pitcher Ben Moore Talks About His Career [VIDEO]
In the ever changing world that is the American Association, one thing will be very familiar to Sioux Falls baseball fans when the Canaries start their 2013 in Sioux City Thursday night - the guy on the mound.
Ben Moore is back for his fifth season in a Sioux Falls uniform, his first with the team since 2011. Moore is 2nd all-time in franchise history in wins (39), complete games (9), innings pitched (529.2), and strikeouts.
His numbers in American Association games are even more impressive: first in strikeouts and tied for first in wins all-time. With Sioux Falls, Moore is a two-time American Association Pitcher of the Year (2010 and 2011).
2013 is his tenth season of organized baseball, his eighth in independent ball. Moore originally signed with the Yankees as an undrafted free agent in 2003.
On his baseball passport, Moore has stamps from Tampa, Battle Creek, Trenton, Joilet, Calgary, Winnipeg, Perth, South Maryland, and Taiwan. 11 different cities in four different countries on three different continents; and while the scenery has changed, his love of the game and desire to compete at a high level hasn't waivered.
Ben Moore visited with ESPN 99.1's Jeff Harkness at the Sioux Falls Baseball Stadium this week:
Moore gets the start against Sioux City in the season opener Thursday night in Iowa at 7:05. The play the Explorers in Sioux Falls Friday night at 7:05.