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I had lunch today with Jack Warren, the Executive Pastor at Fellowship. Among other things, his duties include developing and implementing strategy to help the church reach it's goal, and overseeing staff.
Jack's an extremely relational individual, and self-proclaimedly borders on ADD. We have a lot in common.
The topic of conversation was sweet-spots. If you're not familiar with the terminology, picture a golf club. Although you can advance the ball by hitting it anywhere on the club face of your nine-iron, the club was designed to produce maximum effectiveness when hit in a specific place: the sweet spot.
The theory is that all of us have sweet spots as well. We can each do life and ministry a lot of different ways. From a human standpoint we could participate in many activities and "advance the ball." But we've each been designed with a specific gift-mix and certain abilities to allow us to be maximumly effective in certain areas.
My sweet spot seems to be preaching. Jack's is helping staff members and others through the really tough situations in ministry. Often that includes hard conversations and difficult decisions, sometimes in which a staff member needs to be reassigned or terminated. Jack thrives in those situations.
I don't.
How can you be highly relational and still enjoy those conversations? Most of the people I've known in the best who were direct and confident in hard conversations were not the type of people you'd play golf with. But Jack is. And for the life of me I couldn't figure out how he balanced the two.
So I asked him.
What he said is worth repeating. He said, "Chris, when you're highly relational and analytical, you realize that the hard conversations are often the very best way to love a person, and they're almost always best for the overall health of the church. What it comes down to is this: people crave someone who will tell them the truth. I see it as a privilege to be able to be honest with people that I care about, even when that honesty means a little discomfort for me on the front end. If we aren't willing to tell them the truth, who will?"
You Can't Handle the Truth
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Innocent man is freed after 7 years
COURTS Wrongful conviction in Oakland shooting overturned
In an emotional courtroom scene, a 51-year-old man who was wrongly convicted of a 2006 shooting in Oakland wept Friday as he was ordered released by a judge after spending nearly seven years behind bars.
Hours later, Ronald Ross stepped out of Santa Rita Jail in Dublin into a bright afternoon, vindicated by a team of volunteer lawyers who argued that he had been the victim of poor police work and lies by a series of witnesses.
"I can feel sunshine and breathe clean air again," said Ross, who hugged his private investigator, Keith McArthur, before facing a bank of television cameras. "Today is a lovely day. It's past a good day. It's a blessed day."
The pinnacle of the day was Judge Jon Rolefson's order to release Ross just after 10 a.m., which prompted the exonerated man to break down in an Oakland courtroom, dropping his head and sobbing for about 10 minutes.
"Congratulations, Mr. Ross," Rolefson said. He said the justice system had failed him for a while, but that "the important thing is that in the final process, justice is achieved."
Alameda County prosecutors agreed with defense attorneys that Ross' conviction should be thrown out. Rolefson did just that Wednesday, vacating Ross' 25-years-to-life sentence for attempted murder and assault with a firearm.
All that was left was for prosecutors to drop the original charges, which they did in court Friday.
'Thank you, Jesus'
Before the hearing ended, the judge allowed Ross' mother, 77-year-old Thelma Ross, to give him a hug. She walked slowly with a cane to the defense table and then began to weep as the two embraced.
"Oh Lord," she cried, over and over. "Thank you, Jesus."
Outside the Alameda County Superior Court building, Thelma Ross said she felt "like I was in the Garden of Eden. God brought me through. It felt good."
Ronald Ross said after being freed that he had once been deeply angry about his plight, and that life behind bars - much of it spent at San Quentin State Prison - had been tough. He referred to fellow inmates who committed suicide or were stabbed.
But he found hope, he said, in the Scriptures and his attorneys, whom he called his "dream team of angels."
'A second chance'
Ross said he hoped to go on vacation, take two nieces to a Los Angeles Clippers basketball game and reunite with his four children in Louisiana - who range in age from 26 to 33 - and his father, whom he hasn't seen in almost 30 years.
"God is showing me a second chance," he said.
Ross was convicted of shooting Renardo Williams in the chest April 15, 2006, on Williams' doorstep at the Campbell Village apartments in West Oakland.
Williams told police that he believed he had been shot as a result of a previous dispute with a 14-year-old boy and his mother, Nikki Stuart. He said the boy had been with the gunman, who he believed was the boy's father.
That man is Steven Embrey Sr., 40, who has a violent criminal history.
Fateful photo
But the investigating officer, Sgt. Steven Lovell, testified that he had put a picture of Ross - not Embrey - in a photo lineup that he showed to Williams as he lay wounded at Highland Hospital.
Lovell said Ross' only connection to those involved in the case was that he was once a neighbor of Stuart's. He said he had presented the lineup to Williams to "show that the police department was at least doing something."
Williams told Lovell his assailant was bald. But he picked Ross, who had a full head of hair, out of the six-photo lineup.
Lovell's police report says that when Williams identified Ross, he said he thought he was picking out the 14-year-old boy's father.
After that, Ross became the focus of the investigation. At his trial, three people identified him as the shooter: Williams, Stuart's son and another 14-year-old boy who claimed to have witnessed the shooting.
Lead not pursued
Lovell testified that he had never tried to find Embrey during his investigation. The officer, who retired from the Oakland force soon after the shooting, has not responded to messages from The Chronicle.
Ross lost an appeal of his conviction in 2008. After that, his case was taken on by attorneys from the San Francisco law firm Keker and Van Nest and the Northern California Innocence Project at Santa Clara University.
McArthur, the private investigator, tracked down the key witnesses, some of whom had moved away from Oakland, others incarcerated.
Witnesses recanted
Ultimately, attorneys said, Williams and Embrey's son recanted their identifications of Ross, while new evidence showed the third witness hadn't actually been in a position to see the shooting.
Prosecutors said this week that they had lost faith in the conviction after confirming that Stuart lied at trial when she said she knew nothing about the shooting. In fact, prosecutors said, she told a close friend that Embrey had shot Williams.
Embrey is now at Santa Rita Jail, accused of an Oakland crime spree in July 2011. Prosecutors have no plans to charge him with shooting Williams.
Oakland police are planning a review of the case and how it was handled, said Sgt. Chris Bolton, chief of staff to Police Chief Howard Jordan.
One of Ross' attorneys, Jo Golub, said Ross had "always believed it would come out right in the end. He was unshakable about that."
Golub recalled one of the first things Ross said on the day she met him at Corcoran State Prison in Kings County. It was the summer of 2008.
"I'm just waiting," he said, "for this nightmare to be over."
Demian Bulwa is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @demianbulwa

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|Rafale config for long range strike
The scalp-EG is a stealthy subsonic cruise missile using IIR terminal guidance with a range between 250 and 400 km. It is in Service in the French Air Force / Navy on the Mirage 2000D and Rafale B/C/M since the F2 version (2006).
It was developped with the UK (where it is known as the Storm shadow and carried by the Tornado GR4) and was exported to Greece and the UAE for their Mirage 2000-5/9
A typical Rafale load for a long range strike is 2 scalps, 3 RPL741 2000L tanks and 4 mica, a configuration allowing the plane to remain out of the range of ennemy SAM defenses to attack high value ground targets while at the same time being capable of conducting its own escort agains air threats.
A capability apparently too dangerous to be exported to Libya. Indeed, it is worth noting that such a weapon would threaten strategic facilities in Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt and even on the south cost of France... a risk that French authorities are apparently not willing to take.


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gardendog: Honeylove Swarm Capture
"When a swarm of honeybees showed up at my work, my colleagues were eager to get in on the action. Everyone pitched in – from keeping track of the roving swarm and talking to the neighbors, to helping me get to the bees and bravely documenting the capture.
All the bees made their way into the box, and luckily just a day before I'd built a top-bar hive for a friend who Chelsea persuaded to let us keep bees in his backyard. Later that evening Chelsea and I showed up to his house with a buzzing box, and after some assurances (*and a tiny amount of peer pressure) we installed the bees successfully.
We checked up on them a little over a week later and they were already building lots of comb and looking happy. We'll see in a couple of week if they choose to stick around in my DIY top bar hive. Check back to see how the CG bees take to their new home."


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How is your sex life? Does it have the passion, intimacy, and orgasmic release you desire? What if you learned a method of having passionate sex life no matter if you are in a relationship or single? I'm here to tell you that not only is it possible, it's very doable.
Face it, life is busy, overscheduled, and stressful making it so that you may not always be willing to be intimate with your partner or if you're single, find an intimacy partner. However if your sex drive is in neutral or worse yet you forget what a sex drive is, guess what? According to leading sexpert, Dr. Pepper Schwartz, if you do not use your sex drive you lose it.
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But who has the time for an active sexual life? I know as a single self-employed mother, having a sex life is very difficult to do. Finding the energy alone was a challenge, not to mention finding someone to date and possibly have sexual relations. Out of this frustration I developed the techniques in this course by merging out of body experiences with physical sex. This form of sexual enhancement can be done with a physical partner or by solo exploration. Participants can be in the same geographical area or in two different parts of the world. No matter how it is enjoyed, the sexual benefits of increased physical and sexual energy, better health, and positive attraction remain the same.
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DIG THIS DEAL: Save $4 on Mutt Munchers All May Long!
We all know that April showers bring May flowers, but we think that our May Treat of the Month is better than flowers. All May long, Muttropians will be able to save $4 on our locally-made Mutt Munchers, and by popular demand we're bringing back a sweet favorite – Banana Split!
Our Mutt Muncher treats are perfect for the sweet or savory treat lover. Flavors include: Bacon, Blueberry, Meatball, Salmon, Liver, Dessert Mix, Meat Mix and, of course, Banana Split! These extremely delicious treats are locally made in Carlsbad, are grain and gluten free and include only all-natural, human-grade ingredients. Garbanzo beans take the place of grains, resulting in a tasty treat packed full of protein and dietary fiber without the guilt. How can you say no to that?!
What makes us so excited about the return of our Banana Split Mutt Munchers? Besides the fact that they're grain-free, they're made yummy ingredients like bananas, carob, sweet potatoes and molasses. That mix of flavors makes us think that these Mutt Munchers may taste better than the real thing and are sure to make any pup's tail wag!
Delicious, nutritious and cost efficient, Mutt Munchers make a great addition to any dog's diet! Visit us online or in one of our Southern California store locations to enjoy these Anniversary savings! Online customers can redeem their discount by entering MOREMUNCH at checkout.


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Explore Milwaukee Historic Photos @ MPL!
Did you know that the Humanities Room at Central Library is home to thousands of historic photographs of Milwaukee in the Historic Photo Collection? The image above is just one example. It captures a moment from the 4th of July celebrations at Lake Park in 1918. Members of the Ladies Home Defense group can be seen marching in the center of the field.
A selection of these photographs, including the one above, have been digitized and are available online to browse or search in the Milwaukee Historic Photos digital collection, one of MPL's many Digital Image Collections.
To explore further in the Historic Photo Collection, take a look at the general subject headings listed in the Historic Photo Collection Index online, and then visit into the Humanities Room during its open hours to browse the more detailed volumes of the Historic Photo Index in print and request photographs for in-person viewing!


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Three students earn grant to help Tibetan villagers launch business
April 02, 2010
Sara Eichelberger '10, Jesse Schouboe '10, and David Willis '10 earned a 100 Projects for Peace Award from philanthropist Kathryn W. Davis for their project proposal titled "Peace Through the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance." The three students will spend their summer collaborating with Tibetan villagers in Mekou, the Pentok Institute in China, and Lewis & Clark Associate Professor of Chinese Keith Dede to develop a motorcycle repair shop that will serve as a vital economic and transportation resource.
The Projects for Peace grant program is designed to encourage and support motivated youth to create and implement their ideas for building peace throughout the world in the 21st century. Each of the more than 100 projects will receive $10,000 in funding.
"Kathryn Davis was motivated to establish Davis Projects for Peace because she felt a great sense of urgency about an elusive goal: peace in the world," said Philip O. Geier, executive director of the Davis United World College (UWC) Scholars Program. "She felt frustrated that older generations had failed in that great quest. Kathryn's vision has motivated young people, and they have drawn inspiration from Kathryn."
Eichelberger, Schouboe, and Willis describe the Tibetan village and project this way:
"Mekou is a nomadic Tibetan village with approximately 100 families. Remotely located in Western China, the village is 385 kilometers from Xining, the capital of Qinghai Province and one of China's poorest. Mekou is not easily accessible due to poor roads and infrastructure; it is a nine-hour drive from Xining. Limited transportation routes, poor roads, and the high cost of cars in China make motorcycles and mopeds the primary mode of transportation in such rural areas. Villagers rely on them to take their children to school in most parts of Xinghai County, to go to markets to buy food and clothing, and to receive medical care.
"The motorcycle repair shop will provide extra income to villagers, make transportation easier and more reliable, and connect the village with surrounding communities. Although not all families choose to send their children to school, the project will give Mekou children who do attend school a more consistent means of getting to schoolhouses in faraway villages. By creating opportunities for education and economic gain, the project will promote peace by aiding integration of minorities into Chinese society."
Davis Projects for Peace is open to partner schools in the Davis UWC Scholars Program plus students at International Houses Worldwide, Future Generations, and the Graduate Institute in Geneva to submit plans for grassroots projects for peace, to be implemented during the summer of 2010.
Lewis & Clark students have earned Projects for Peace grants each year since its inception in 2007.


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CARNIVORE's management has issued the following update:
There seems to be some confusion regarding a website that some believe is an 'official' CARNIVORE website and also a CARNIVORE logo/T-shirt, that some believe is also an official CARNIVORE item.
The ONLY official CARNIVORE website is the MySpace one and this site is not. Also this logo/t-shirt are not official items.
"It would be appreciated if this information could be sorted out now before the Wacken festival as there already seems to be some confusion.
"If anyone sees that t-shirt... it is NOT official merchandise. There is a difference."
As previously reported, photographer Linda Aversa has uploaded a number of pictures of CARNIVORE's "secret" warm-up show Friday night (July 28) at Fontana's in New York City, where they appeared under the name THE BENSONHOIST LESBIAN CHOIR. Check out the photos at this location.
CARNIVORE has scheduled the following dates in September:
Sep. 02 - Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom
Sep. 06 - New York, NY @ B.B. King Blues Club
Sep. 08 - West Springfield, VA @ Jaxx
CARNIVORE 2006 lineup:
Peter Steele (TYPE O NEGATIVE) - Vocals, Bass
Paul Bento (METAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION) - Guitar, Vocals
Joey Zampela (LIFE OF AGONY) - Guitar, Vocals
Steve Tobin (METAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION, ex-DUST TO DUST) - Drums, Vocals
CARNIVORE has been confirmed to appear at the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 3-5 in Wacken, Germany.
Natives of Brooklyn, N.Y., CARNIVORE spent their early years in the 1980s earning a reputation as one of the area's most dangerous bands. Crowds would stare in utter shock as these instrument-wielding warriors would take the stage clad in futuristic outfits that typified the meaning of CARNIVORE.
Dressed to the hilt in fur-covered shoulder pads, spikes, hockey equipment, nails and anything that gave them the appearance of flesh-eating monsters (photo), CARNIVORE frequently drenched the front rows of their audiences with blood, brains, and innards, provoking a maniacal reaction like frenzied sharks being taunted with buckets of chum.
Original CARNIVORE guitarist Keith Alexander (later of the short-lived PRIMAL SCREAM project) was killed in a bike accident on July 11, 2005.


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When I first arrived in Vancouver in the mid-1970s, the city had just stopped a freeway from entering downtown. It had blocked a massive hotel from being built at the entrance to Stanley Park. These were seminal moments in our history, signalling Vancouver's radical departure from the accepted idea of the North American city.
For once, government observed the sanctity of the neighbourhood. Livability trumped the car culture. This had happened earlier and elsewhere, most notably in Manhattan in the late 1960s, when urban theorists like Jane Jacobs stopped the construction of the Lower Manhattan Freeway through Greenwich Village; and in Toronto in 1971, when the Ontario government halted the completion of the Spadina Expressway (which Jacobs, who by then had moved back to Canada, also campaigned against).
But in Vancouver, it gave rise to urban experimentation unlike anywhere else in Canada — which, with typical Best Coast narcissism, was christened Vancouverism. (And they say Toronto is full of itself.)
It's a vague, catch-all term that means different things to different people, but is best symbolized by the downtown core of tall condo highrises set on commercial bases, and by a liberal sprinkling of public amenities and mixed uses. Rather than abandon the downtown core, we colonized and densified it. We encouraged walking and a nascent bike culture as transportation alternatives. Trains and bus routes fed the downtown, not freeways.
Which is lovely, if only because of its futuristic sheen.
It is also utterly at odds with the reality around it.
Vancouverism may have global influence, as its admirers claim, but its local reach is short, and if I had to put a boundary on it, I would say it would be no farther than Main Street to the east and Broadway to the south. Anything outside of that small pocket of urbanity and you find the real Vancouver, a deeply, deeply conservative expanse of conventional neighbourhoods that could just as well be in the suburbs. Their residents view densification with loathing and wish to preserve what is left of their leafy pasts. Vancouverism has found little purchase there.
It is these neighbourhoods that Vancouver city council has run up against lately and found nothing but push-back. Densification? Somewhere else, please. Highrises? Up yours.
These complaints are not unique to any neighbourhood nor are they new. They were levelled against previous councils — Sam Sullivan's mayoralty comes to mind — and helped bring about their defeat at the polls. It could bring about the defeat of Vision Vancouver in the next election.
At the same time, there are undeniable pressures that say we must densify. There is the urgency to make our cities more environmentally benign. Meanwhile, established residents complain about high housing prices, and their children fleeing Vancouver because they are unable to buy in the neighbourhoods in which they grew up.
How many of those residents, though, see themselves as the cause of those unaffordable housing prices? Their reluctance to densification contributes to housing scarcity, and scarcity means rising prices. A good example of this is Greenwich Village. Jacobs may have saved it from a freeway but it has since gentrified and become affordable only to the very affluent.
It's at that collision between the human reluctance to change and the urgent need for new direction that Vancouver now finds itself: It's a city in stall. The shiny new theory that has got us this far has begun to fail us, or maybe more precisely, disenchant.
(What, I wonder, would Jacobs make of it if she were alive? Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, fought for the preservation of neighbourhoods. But she was also a great believer in the benefits of density — as opposed to the evils of overcrowding, which she found in the worst of New York's housing projects.)
But there are even greater problems to address than those outside of Vancouver, areas where the ideas of Vancouverism seem like nothing more than an urban conceit.
The real change is in what we still mistakenly call the suburbs. Here, the pace and scope of change make the furor over a bike lane down Point Grey Road seem hilariously parochial.
The enormity, cost and complexity of the South Fraser Perimeter Road — which is an industrial highway, not a road — has to be seen to be appreciated. We have just finished building the widest bridge in the world, every lane devoted entirely to car traffic. The Port of Vancouver is bent on opening up the Fraser River to supertankers and deep-draught freighters, to be made possible once the Massey Tunnel is removed and replaced by a bridge. Meanwhile, a dismaying abundance of rural and agricultural land is disappearing from Delta to Surrey to Port Coquitlam and being replaced by the march of thousands of overbuilt suburban tract houses, none of them with access to public transit.
No one out there pays much attention to Vancouverism, though they should. Urban planning is a contradiction in terms. Out there, there's no sense of stalling. It's full speed ahead, and the internal combustion engine is still king and the road to hell is paved.


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DENVER - It was the altitude. It was the Denver Broncos playing way up there and the Eagles below sea level that gave Peyton Manning a few more records Sunday in a runaway 52-20 victory at Sports Authority Field at Mile High.
The Eagles were within one point in the second quarter and trailed by just eight at the intermission. But they managed just one touchdown in the second half while the Broncos tallied four.
'We didn't play well offensively, we didn't play well defensively, we didn't play well on special teams,' Eagles cornerback Cary Williams said. 'We just got a good old-fashioned butt whipping.'
Manning set a record with four touchdown passes. It gives him 16 in a 4-0 start for the Broncos, who scored the most points in their history, snapping a 50-year-old record.
The Eagles (1-3) were close. They pulled within 14-13 and had the momentum when Chris Polk crashed in from four yards out for his first NFL touchdown with 11:06 left in the first half.
But they scored on just one of their last five possessions, the touchdown coming on a Nick Foles throw to Jeff Maehl when the game was hopelessly out of reach.
Chip Kelly, by the way, said Michael Vick remains the starting quarterback. Vick, who completed 14 of 27 attempts for 248 yards and no touchdowns, sounds like he wants to call a team meeting. Vick said he and his teammates 'looked drained.
'Coach Kelly has addressed this to our team,' said Vick, who also rushed for 41 yards. 'I feel like a lot of guys on this team should be stepping up to be leaders right now. That is part of our responsibility. I'm going to keep a watch on these guys to see who is stepping up and who is staying optimistic and who continues to believe in the man next to him. That is what it's going to take.'
It's also going to take more effort from Kelly.
The water cooler talk will be about the possession Kelly gave up on. Facing fourth-and-six at the 37-yard line of the Broncos with 3:15 left in the first half, Kelly punted the ball … to Manning and the Broncos.
'I just didn't want to give them field position if we didn't get the field goal and just make it that much shorter for them,' Kelly said. 'I thought we had been good on plus-50 yard punts. I thought we could pin them and make them go the distance.'
The Eagles had the momentum. They trailed just 21-13 in a game that was a track meet. A small handful of players were brave enough to reveal they were surprised Kelly wasn't aggressive. His plan of pinning the Broncos with a punt, holding Manning and possibly getting the ball back with good field position and enough time to score seemed like a fantasy to players. Conservative doesn't beat Peyton Manning.
'Yeah, umm, I won't say yea or nay,' veteran receiver Jason Avant said. 'But we stopped them. It ended up fourth down, we just didn't play well enough on offense to win the game. Maybe with a team that doesn't have the same offensive capabilities you can stall a drive or two. But a team like that you've got to produce points at a rapid rate. A defensive stop is huge. With a team like that you've got to continue to score.'
Kelly said basically the same thing later in his news conference. There was no mention of attempting a field goal, though, with 10:46 left and the Eagles trailing by 36 points. It was poetic justice that Alex Henery pushed it wide right.
This is the same Kelly who went for two points after the Eagles' first touchdown in their previous game and broke the backs of the opposition weekly while at Oregon.
The Eagles nearly paid for the late conservatism in the first half when Manning threw a 52-yard pass to Eric Decker, who rolled all the way down to the 40-yard line of the Eagles.
Rookie Earl Wolff, outclassed in his first start, rotated out of the two-deep alignment used much of the half and gave Williams no deep help.
The Broncos reached the 33-yard line but Knowshon Moreno was flagged for roughness, Cedric Thornton sacked Manning and on third-and-12, Broncos head coach John Fox decided to punt with the lead and 18 ticks left.
Oh, and the Broncos marched 80 yards and 10 plays after getting the ball first in the second half to take a 28-13 lead, their largest of the game to that point, on Manning's second TD pass.
A questionable holding penalty on cornerback Bradley Fletcher, who didn't appear to initiate the contact, turned what should have been third-and goal at the six-yard line into first-and-goal at the one.
By then it was all over for the Eagles except the math.
The good news is they seemed to have escaped serious injury. Running back LeSean McCoy, who rushed for 73 yards, exited after apparently being affected by the altitude. He says he's OK.
Wide receiver DeSean Jackson declined comment to get treatment on his right knee.
The Broncos scored 31 straight points in the second half.
Steve Johnson blocked a Donnie Jones punt and rolled 17 yards for a touchdown giving the Broncos a 49-13 bulge with 13:54 left.
The Eagles entered the game with just one three-and-out in 38 possessions. It was two three-and-outs after their first series. And it wasn't like the Broncos tested them.
The Eagles almost positioned themselves to knot the game but Brent Celek dropped a perfect pass from Vick at the four-yard line in the first quarter. Henery kicked a field goal.
Henery's kickoff wasn't deep enough and the Broncos got away with a brutal hold by David Bruton right in front of referee Peter Morelli. It enabled Trindon Holloway to go 105 yards for that score.
It was almost impossible to miss Bruton's tie-up of Jordan Poyer, for it was at the point of his burst up the sideline.
It was that kind of game for the Eagles.
'It's always tough to lose,' Avant said. 'But we're 1-3. And that's who we are. We've got to work hard to get out of the hole and win the next game against the Giants.'


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Revive at 5 Summer Concerts
Date: Wednesday, 30th May 2018 05:00 PM
Venue: Old Town Pocatello | City: Pocatello, United States
The Bannock Civitan Club is excited to once again host the Revive @ 5 Summer Concert Series. Please plan to join us at the Old Town Pavilion every Wednesday from 5-8pm all Summer long! The evening features free admission, a live band on stage each week, a different restaurant offering a dinner menu, the Wednesday Portneuf Valley Farmers Market, cold beverages, ice cream and tons of fun for the entire family!
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420 N Main St, Pocatello
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In an exclusive interview with RT, President Bashar Assad said that the conflict in Syria is not a civil war, but proxy terrorism by Syrians and foreign fighters. He also accused the Turkish PM of eyeing Syria with imperial ambitions.
Assad told RT that the West creates scapegoats as enemies – from communism, to Islam, to Saddam Hussein. He accused Western countries of aiming to turn him into their next enemy.
While mainstream media outlets generally report on the crisis as a battle between Assad and Syrian opposition groups, the president claims that his country has been infiltrated by numerous terrorist proxy groups fighting on behalf of other powers.
In the event of a foreign invasion of Syria, Assad warned, the fallout would be too dire for the world to bear.


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Chametz-Free NYC, Day 4: When Salad Becomes a Meal
Editor's note: For eight days I'll be keeping a diary on eating well in New York while staying kosher for Passover. The goal: never feel hungry or desperate enough to touch matzo unless I want to. For the rules I'll be keeping, see here. All remarks and recommendations are personal and not intended as religious/cultural commentary.
I'm writing this post forcibly stuck to the couch. Our Seder ended over two hours ago, but I still can't move.
Let's recap: matzo ball soup, once and again. All the haroset we could eat. A many-part main course. Two helpings of pavlova. A...fair share of wine.
There are few times that I say to myself, "I just want a salad for lunch today," but Passover's one of the few holidays that follows up a feast day with another consecutive feast day. I think Tuesday morning will be one of those times.
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And salads are one of few categories of food that barely rely on chametz at all. You don't need to work hard to find a good chametz-free salad. At worst you skip the croutons and order two different ones to make a meal.
The Greek salad category is a good start. Take the horiatiki from Souvlaki GR for example, a substantial bowl of tomatoes, cucumber, feta, and olives. It's one of the few salads where it's a really good idea to to do the "$2 extra grilled protein of choice," because here it's the restaurant's near-perfect souvlaki, and the only thing better than a crouton in a salad is a meat crouton.
This is also a good day for the Italian-inspired but really New American kale salad, you know, the one with a citrus vinaigrette and Parmesan and nuts for crunch; the kind you'll find at Northern Spy, 606 R&D, Birdbath Tribeca, and The Smile To Go.
I like to get my meal salads at places that treat their food seriously but don't worship their greens. Worshipful salads too often mean overly delicate things, garnished and garlanded but not the kind of nourishing meal I need on a day like today. When I'm looking for salad as a form of culinary art I'll aim higher, but right now I just want something that won't leave me hungry two hours later.
This is all just the tip of the iceberg, of course. Have a go-to chametz-free salad to share? Let us know in the comments.
More Chametz-Free New York
- Day 1: Eating Well in New York During Passover
- Day 2: Can I Eat any Asian Food?
- Day 3: When We Screw Up
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LINCOLN, R.I. — The decision to award Massachusetts' slot parlor license to Plainridge Racecourse left officials in Rhode Island as cold as the state's famous Del's lemonade, and facing a budget disaster they can do little to stop.
The Plainville harness racing track is just 20 miles by car from Twin River Casino in Lincoln, a cash cow that pours about $300 million a year into the Rhode Island state treasury.
About half of that money comes from Massachusetts residents, many of whom now drive past the Plainville site on the way to Rhode Island — and probably will not want to do that when they have a choice.
"It was the worst-case scenario," said Gary Sasse, Rhode Island's former director of administration and revenue, who would have preferred if the slots license had gone to a Leominster proposal in north-central Massachusetts.
Rhode Island's dilemma is a relatively recent side effect of the gambling industry's relentless US expansion. New casinos are now much more likely to steal customers from existing casinos than they were in the past.
"If you take Interstate 95 from Rhode Island down to Maryland, the market really hasn't grown over the past couple of years," casino consultant Frank Fantini said. "It's just been a shifting of revenue."
The Plainville slot parlor, to be developed by Penn National Gaming at the junction of Route 1 and Interstate 495, will be in a strong location to intercept traffic to Rhode Island when the slots open next spring.
And the competition is only going to get tougher for Rhode Island, which also makes money from a slot parlor in Newport. Massachusetts plans to license gambling resorts this year in Springfield, the Boston area, and possibly Southeastern Massachusetts, where tribal and commercial casino plans are pending.
Casino expansion in Massachusetts is expected to cost Rhode Island state coffers $422 million from fiscal 2015 through fiscal 2019, according to a forecast from Governor Lincoln Chafee's administration. The anticipated loss is going to have a significant impact on the ability of the state to finance its services, Sasse said.
Once gambling customers are lost to newer properties it is extremely difficult to get them back, specialists say.
Part of the problem is that casinos generally offer similar games, so day-trip gamblers tend to default to the closest, most convenient casino, said Mark W. Nichols, a professor and casino expert at the University of Nevada Reno.
"It's tough for casinos to respond to increased competition that has a locational advantage," Nichols said. "They will try with marketing to differentiate themselves, but if you're a casino 10 miles from a population, you have a huge advantage over a casino that's 30 or 40 miles away."
Nowhere is the effect of competition more dramatic than in Atlantic City, the modern casino industry's East Coast beachhead, which opened for gambling in 1978. Atlantic City was a whopping $5.2 billion gambling market in 2006, but casino expansion in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and elsewhere has ravaged the city's bottom line. It was a $2.9 billion market last year, according to the Center for Gaming Research at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. The decline continues despite an improving economy.
A more relevant harbinger for Rhode Island may be the southeastern Indiana market, which historically relied heavily on business from Ohioans.
In March 2013, a casino opened in downtown Cincinnati, undercutting profits at the casinos over the border. Last month revenue at three properties in southeastern Indiana was down more than 30 percent, compared with February 2013.
"You're going to have a lot of states relying on their own citizens for gambling revenue and the tax revenue it generates," Nichols said. "Because the days where you can get it from other states are — by and large — over."
Twin River's vast parking lot was busy this week with what looked to be an equal number of cars registered in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Several Massachusetts residents visiting the property agreed they probably will patronize whatever casino is most convenient once the new facilities open.
"It's about travel time, really," said Karen, 68, from Grafton, who declined to give her last name because she did not want her friends to know she was at the casino. Travel time is so important that she has measured her drive to Twin River: exactly 32 miles, she said.
Grafton to Plainridge, depending on the route, can be slightly shorter.
Rhode Island and Twin River officials have been planning for competition from Massachusetts since 2010, said John E. Taylor, Twin River's chairman.
The Rhode Island casino has strengthened its staff training to improve customer service, worked with state leaders to win a 2012 ballot question legalizing table games, and "got our balance sheet in order," so the company would be poised to act on attractive investment opportunities, said Taylor.
Twin River's parent company struck a deal to acquire the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Biloxi, Miss., and supports gambling expansion in Colorado, where the company has a horse track. In announcing the Hard Rock deal in December, Twin River said the acquisition "strengthens the company at an important time in our history as we brace for the eventual impact of Massachusetts casinos and racinos."
"We're focused on the things we can control," Taylor said. "No one is going to be able to take away our convenient location," off Route 146, about 40 minutes from Worcester and an hour from Boston.
"Obviously, this will be a more competitive market," he said. "We do believe the market will expand. We think we're going to be able to compete, as we have been competing with two of the biggest casinos in the world," Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun.
Fighting toe-to-toe against the massive Connecticut casinos, Twin River has increased its share of the regional slot market from 18 percent in 2007 to 28 percent last year, according to the company.
Twin River offers about 4,500 slot machines and 80 table games.
The Plainridge slot parlor will be limited to no more than 1,250 slot machines and will have no table games, which will mitigate the initial damage to Twin River's bottom line, said Clyde Barrow, a casino specialist at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
"Given the number of customers that Twin River draws out of Massachusetts, even at full capacity Plainridge could only capture about half that traffic," Barrow said.
But planned resort casinos in Springfield and in Southeastern Massachusetts would pull additional customers from the Rhode Island facility, Barrow said.
The Massachusetts gambling commission expects to award the license it controls for Western Massachusetts in May. An MGM proposal for Springfield is the only project in the region.
The license for Greater Boston will be awarded in May or June. Two proposals are competing: Mohegan Sun in Revere and Wynn Resorts in Everett.
The license for Southeastern Massachusetts is on a later timetable.
Barrow believes the gambling expansion planned in Massachusetts will bring the region to the brink of its capacity, even as New Hampshire flirts with casino legalization.
"At what point is new market growth less than the cannibalization?" Barrow asked. "I think once Massachusetts is up and running, we're at that point."
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"Move the Web Forward" is a grass roots movement that engages the community and challenges those passionate about the web to act on their desire for a better web. "Test the Web Forward" is exactly in that spirit: there are implementation or interoperability issues which the community of developers is painfully aware of, let's try to enable developers to do something about this and contribute to better test suites which are an excellent way to improve the web.
Following that train of thought, Adobe and others in the community such as Microsoft, Mozilla, Google, W3C and Facebook have started to engage the community to contribute to web standards tests with a series of events call "Test the Web Forward". To date, three events have been held: one in San Francisco (in June), one in Beijing (in October) and one in Paris (also in October). So far, about 700 new tests have been created that will be contributed towards web standards test suites. The events are typically held over a day and a half. During the first half day, experts from the standards working group (such as the CSS or SVG working groups in W3C) give short presentations about standards testing frameworks, browser bug filing and other topics related to reporting issues, isolating problems or ready a specification carefully to identify testable portions. The full day that follows is dedicated to 'hacking tests' in groups where the web developers work with the experts to write new tests, convert tests that may need reformatting or review existing tests so that they can be integrated into official test suites.
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While the Test the Web Forward events are fun, there is a desire to find ways to keep engaging between events and at the recent W3C Technical Plenary meeting in Lyon, France, Adobe suggested concrete ways for interested web developers to keep contributing. There are also very interesting discussions about how the "Test The Web Forward" movement relates to the Web Platform Docs effort and a lot of suggestions that the two efforts should be closely related.
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|Sherry fino--perfect with Spanish tapas.
It's World Sherry Day tomorrow! What better excuse to enjoy this unique wine? At my house, not only am I sipping Sherry, but I'm cooking with it too (recipe for Chicken With Sherry is below).
We're talking about Sherry with a capital "S". That's "S" as in Jerez, a town in southern Spain where this extraordinary wine is made. In Spanish, Jerez is pronounced "hare-ez." But, if you were an Englishman or Frenchman and attempted to pronounce the town's name, it might come out as "sherez." Forget anything you ever heard about lower-case "sherry" from Britain, Australia or California. It's not Sherry—any more than does Port come from any place but Oporto; Burgundy or Champagne from anywhere but those regions of France.
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Jerez de la Frontera, in the province of Cádiz, is Sherry's home base, where most of the long-established bodegas, or wineries, are located. Two other towns in the region—El Puerto de Santa María and Sanlucar de Barrameda—are also authorized Sherry producers. The grapes must be produced within a 35-kilometre radius. Real Sherry is made from the Palomino grape varietal.
Sherry is made by a very special process, called criadera, meaning "nursery." New wine is added to casks at the top and gradually blended with older wines in lower barrels, before being drawn off from the bottom rack, the solera. This blending and aging process gives the wines depth and richness of flavor and aroma.
Sherry with a capital "S" is further designated with lower-case names which describe the type of wine. Here they are, along with some suggestions for serving them and for using them in cooking.
|Barrel is lit to show flor on fino Sherry.
In cooking, fino Sherry combines with fish, shellfish, soups, chicken, meat, poultry, cheese and a large etcetera. Classic dishes such as riñones al jerez, kidneys in Sherry, are made with a dry fino. Which is not to say you can't create a new taste by substituting a different Sherry. Usually the Sherry is added during cooking, so the flavor blends with the sauce and the alcohol is cooked off. Sometimes the wine is added at the very end of cooking, so the volatile alcohol helps waft the wine's aroma to the nose and taste buds. In the case of a soup or sauce, add some wine during cooking and a dash more at the end of cooking.
Manzanilla. This is also a fino, but specifically from the Atlantic town of Sanlucar de Barrameda. Salt-air breezes and ocean humidity make this wine a little paler, a little drier, a little more delicate than other finos. Manzanilla, with its salty, olive tang, goes especially well with fish and shellfish.
In cooking, add a splash of manzanilla at the very end of cooking, so the alcohol is not dissipated. Blend it with mayonnaise and seafood dressings.
Amontillado. These are dry fino Sherries that are allowed a degree of oxidation during the aging process, giving them a rich, mellow, hazelnut flavor. Between topaz and amber in color, amontillado wines are still aperitif drinks. Their depth of flavor makes them superb additions to many dishes, especially meat and poultry. Add to cream of mushroom, asparagus, chicken and other soups. Combine with cheese for dips and spreads.
Incidentally, amontillado means "in the Montilla style". Briefly, so as not to confuse the issue too much, wines of Montilla-Moriles are made in the province of Córdoba by the same process as Sherry, the criadera-solera system. Different grape varietals and different soil and climate produce wines which are at the same time similar to and completely different from Sherry. Or, anyway, much more like Sherry than one of those "lower case" wines from another country.
Oloroso. Wines not marked with flor become oloroso. But within this designation are several styles, ranging from dry to almost sweet. Their color is deep old-gold, the mellow flavor is reminiscent of walnuts. Serve oloroso as an aperitif with Spanish sausage, with aged cheeses. It is a sumptuous accompaniment to after-dinner savories and the fruit and cheese board. This wine is especially rich in cooking. Add it to chicken dishes, poultry stuffing, organ meats, consommé. Within this category, rayas, palos cortados and olorosos secos present a range of styles. Use oloroso seco to lace a classic consommé.
Cream. Mahogany in color, velvet in texture, these wines are made of a combination of mellow olorosos and sweet wines from the Pedro Ximénez grape varietal. An exquisite dessert wine. Use it to macerate fruit or add to dessert sauces. It gives a complex sweetness which complements some savory dishes when balanced with tart flavors such as orange, lemon, rhubarb. Try it for a new twist on duck á la orange.
For some suggestions for cocktails made with Sherry, see this blog post.
|Chicken simmers in Sherry with mushrooms.
Chicken with Sherry
Pollo al Jerez
Any type of mushroom works in this recipe. I used oyster mushrooms, torn into strips, for the version pictured here. Pour fino Sherry to accompany the meal.
Serves 6.
3 pounds chicken pieces or a cut-up fryer
Salt and pepper
1 ounce pancetta or bacon, cut into ¼ -inch dice
1 tablespoon olive oil
3 spring onions, sliced, or 1 small onion, quartered and sliced
½ pound sliced mushrooms
1 tablespoon flour
1 cup dry Sherry
½ cup chicken stock
2 bay leaves
Strip of orange zest
¼ cup chopped parsley
Sprinkle the chicken pieces with salt and pepper. Heat the pancetta and oil in a deep skillet, cazuela or heavy pot. Brown the chicken pieces on all sides and remove them.
Add the onion, garlic, carrot and mushrooms. Sauté on a medium-high heat until the onions and mushrooms are slightly browned. Stir in the flour.
Add the Sherry to the pot and stir to combine the ingredients. Return the chicken pieces to the pot. Stir in the stock, bay leaves, orange zest, half of the parsley and salt and pepper. Bring the liquid to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer, covered, 30 minutes. Turn the chicken pieces and cook until tender, about 30 minutes longer.
Remove bay leaves and orange zest. Garnish the chicken with additional chopped parsley.
|Dinner is served--tender chicken braised in Sherry.
|Sip Sherry with the meal too.
|HAPPY SHERRY DAY, from my kitchen in Spain. (Photo by Ben Searl.)


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Contactless cards have several different names but they are bank cards that are placed next to a machine in order to carry out a quick transaction – rather than swiping or inserting the card.
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He believed current technology would allow interaction within close proximity of those carrying the tap-and-go cards, which would allow card details to be obtained.
The technology required would be obvious but could be hidden within a large briefcase.
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He said employing the technology from a distance of several metres would require much larger and obvious antennas.
Mr Hannay said the only thing that could block signals between contactless bank cards and other devices was magnetic metal.
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Mr Hannay said that while he did not expect technology to make it any easier for criminals to access people's bank cards, he did expect such fraud cases to become more common as the technology was embedded in new cards.
"A couple of my colleagues who have got new cards have asked about it and they've been told that if they want a bank card, they have no choice," Mr Hannay said.
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He said that data drawn from a card in someone's pocket was "effectively rendered useless" because additional information was required to use those details to make an online purchase, including the CVV code.
While major retailers and most other online outlets require the buyer to enter the CVV code to make a purchase, not all do.
Mr Vukasovic questioned why thieves would go to such lengths to obtain details from a card electronically.
"Every time you shop, that data is on there anyway, why would someone invest so much to get these details that are available to anyone who sees that card," he said.
Mr Vukasovic said technology called CVC3 was built into the chip to increase a card's security.
Mastercard's security factsheet on their PayPass technology describes how the CVC3 technology makes it nearly impossible to "replay transactions because a code that accompanies an authorisation request changes every time an authorisation request is made".
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I arrived at St. Mary on the northeast side of Glacier National Park in the early evening and found Sue and Fred at the KOA campground there. For the next few hours I was entranced with tales of their trip north and impressed with the incredible pictures that they took. I will also admit to a touch of envy – the trip was amazing!
Monday, September 19th - - It rained during the overnight hours of Sunday. It was wet, foggy, and very cloudy this morning with temperatures in the 40s. A mid-morning attempt at taking a hike was aborted when we arrived at the trailhead in the pouring rain. We returned to the campground where we relaxed and chatted some more while it continued to rain off and on.
At about 2:30 we noticed that blue sky was beginning to show through the thick layer of clouds. It was truly amazing how quickly the wind blew those clouds away! And then we saw that Mother Nature had left behind a light dusting of snow on those mountains.
Well, maybe more than a light dusting!
We decided to try the hike to Virginia Falls again, hoping that the clouds and rain and snow would be gone by the time we arrived at the trailhead. Considered one of the easier hikes at Glacier, the trail was 1½ miles long, dropped 260 feet to St. Mary Falls then gained 285 feet on the way to Virginia Falls. It was a well maintained trail but had some rocky areas and other areas with tree roots, which meant you had to watch where you were stepping much of the time.
The trail ultimately takes you to Virginia Falls but a little more than half way there you cross the St. Mary River (shown above, looking East) on a foot bridge.
The view from the footbridge, looking west! I will never cease to be amazed at the power of flowing water and how it can cut through hard rock. This is the lower portion of St. Mary Falls.
And this is the upper portion. Standing on the footbridge you could feel the power of the water hitting the sides of the canyon walls – the bridge was quite solidly built but it was moving ever so slightly and vibrating as the water passed beneath it.
The trail meandered through the forest. We were thankful for the patches of sunshine as it was a fairly brisk 45 degrees. There was just a light breeze, otherwise it might have been a bit uncomfortable.
These pretty little flowers were seen all along the trail.
We passed several small waterfalls while continuing on to Virginia Falls. That golden colored spot on the lower left is a bit of sunlight coming through the foliage and striking the water.
Virginia Falls is a multi-tiered cascading waterfall that simply takes your breath away. I'm including two shots of it because I couldn't decide which one I liked best... You really do need to double-click on the images for a larger version to truly appreciate the falls.
Not quite as sharp as the previous photograph, I was attempting a more "artistic" slow-motion representation of the moving water. (No tripod, balancing the camera on one of the nearby rocks, and trying to hold it steady!)
Sue and Fred at the lower portion of Virginia Falls.
Yours truly, standing at the base of Virginia Falls. Thanks to Sue for taking the photo. It was a wonderful hike, except for a slight slip at one spot, thankfully though no damage was done.


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How ironic that in the week Liarbour's taxcuts, which they had to be dragged kicking and screaming to implement,, Contact Energy increases power prices by 10%.
Government ministers say they will scrutinise the increase.
I just saw OneNews who reported the rise, adding Mercury and Meridean have also just announced power price rises.
How interesting, as who owns all three power companies, but the government!
Thus, as Homepaddock blogged earlier, government gives with one hand and takes with the other.
Political Animal Darren Rickard also highlights further government culpability.
Government policies are restricting extra power generating capacity and its beloved ETS spell for further power price rises.
Indeed, and what are the effects of expensive power? People dying through not paying their bills?
We all remember the Muliaga scandal , don't we?
For of we are to blame Mercury Power, then equally Dear Leader has blood on her hands as Mercury is an SOE, meeting finance targets set by Finance Minister Michael Cullen.
So yes, trust Mickey and Helen to take with one hand and give with the other, and trust them to be responsible for all/most of the problems in the power industry.
They talk about lack of competition but they have certainly left it late to be tackling the issues now- nine years after they too office.
So when you get you next bigger power bill, you know who is to blame, but Liarbour!


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More Band-Aids for the Federal Budget
Congress will avert a government shutdown, but the budget process remains gummed-up.
Once again, Congress will fail to pass a federal budget before Oct. 1, when the new fiscal year begins. A bipartisan agreement that resolves a dispute over providing disaster relief will keep federal agencies and functions operating, sparing the country the spectacle of a shutdown. But the deal is merely a short-term resolution that funds federal programs at levels Congress already approved for the current fiscal year.
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Even as it is applauded by House and Senate leaders, the stopgap measure masks a much deeper shortcoming in Congress: the continuing inability to pass annual appropriations bills on time.
The Oct. 1 deadline is for enacting the entire federal budget, not just for passing a short-term funding patch. But emergency, short-term bills have become commonplace, and there's little bipartisan resolve to pass appropriations legislation on time.
So far this year, not one of the regular spending bills for 2012 has been sent to President Obama for his signature, and most are not even close to being completed. The GOP-run House has passed six spending bills this year; the Democrat-run Senate has passed only one.
A similar budget snafu occurred last year when Democrats controlled both chambers on Capitol Hill and not one of the 12 annual appropriations bills became law. Instead, congressional appropriators ended up combining all of the unfinished spending bills together in a giant omnibus package.
The same is likely to happen this year. The catch-all will be thousands of pages long, and lawmakers will have little time to review or debate it before voting on it. And if members can't agree on a giant bill, Congress will have no other choice but to pass more short-term funding legislation later this year to keep the government going. It's government in fits and starts, hardly the way they system is supposed to work.
Note, too, that there's also no budget resolution in place this year — again, for the fifth time in 10 years. The annual budget resolution sets spending and revenue levels for the entire government and serves as a blueprint for the whole budget process. It helps guide lawmakers through the appropriations process, making spending decisions easier and more deliberate. The absence of one is yet another factor in what has become an annual deadline-rushed ritual.


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How to Make Homemade Suet
Readers share their best money-saving suet recipes for feeding birds.
Suet attracts many insect-eating birds, such as woodpeckers. But nuthatches, juncos, chickadees and jays will also stop at backyard feeders for a high-fat treat. True suet, and especially the kind made with animal fat, provides a good source of energy for many feeder birds. Try these suet recipes in your own backyard and see which suet recipe your backyard birds like the most!
Pseudo Suet Recipe
I work at a Wild Birds Unlimited store, and I'm always encouraging my customers to make their own recipes filled with fat (rather than sugars and grains) to best benefit the birds. Here's my simple method for making suet-type food.
- 2 cups shelled, unsalted peanuts
- ½ cup raisins
- 2 to 3 tablespoons cornmeal
Process peanuts in a food processor until they're the consistency of peanut butter. Then add the raisins and process for another minute. Add the cornmeal and process again. Press this mixture into a mold of your choice. This recipe will have the greatest nutritional value for your feathered friends. -Linda Popejoy, Concord, North Carolina
Out on a Limb
I like to spread my suet on tree limbs so more birds can get to it at one time. Here's a recipe I've put together. The birds can't get enough of it, even the juncos.
- 1 cup cornmeal
- 1 cup sugar
- ½ cup flour
- ¾ cup water
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 1 cup lard
- 1 cup raisins
In a medium bowl, mix the dry ingredients. Then add the water, and mix. Put peanut butter and lard in a small bowl and microwave for 2 minutes. Add to the cornmeal mixture along with the raisins. Refrigerate for about two hours. -Naomi Manalo, Middleton, Delaware
Tropical Treat
Attract woodpeckers, as well as chickadees and nuthatches, with this suet recipe made with coconut. The best part is this suet mix won't melt when it's warm outside.
- 1 cup lard
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 1⁄3 cup coconut
- 2 ½ cups oats
- 2 ½ cups cornmeal
- Raisins, nuts or birdseed, optional
Melt lard and peanut butter. Stir in coconut, oats and cornmeal. Add optional ingredients. Pour the mixture into a pan and chill in refrigerator over-night. Cut into squares and wrap in plastic for easy storage and removal. -Rebecca Beiler, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Recipe for Hanging Suet Cakes
Make this "bird cake" treat and hang it from trees or bird feeders in mesh bags.
- 1 cup lard
- 1 cup crunchy peanut butter
- 1 cup honey
- 2 cups whole wheat flour
- 1 cup oats
- 2 eggs
Mix all ingredients and pour into a greased 9-inch square pan. Bake at 350° for 30 to 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. -Mary Hochstetler, Milford, Indiana


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Banana leaf rice fueled Lewis Hamilton's win in Singapore GP - oops, wrong headline, it's just Splashie Boy enjoying Moorthy's banana leaf rice in Mayflower
Brickfields may be well known for its Indian food, located at every street corner in a form of humble stalls covered with zinc roofs or flashy looking restaurants with familiar names like Gopala or even Gandhi. Spend some time here, dig a little deeper and you will find that Brickfields is way beyond that.
Peter's pork noodles is one helluva popular stall here; be prepared to wait
Prepping up Peter's pork noodles is akin to a military march; organised and precise
Not being very religious nor in the need for that kind of solace, both of us wandered the streets here to seek a little consolation for our tummies. Mayflower's coffeeshop is a charming contrast. On the first look, it is just a normal coffeeshop with people sitting down slurping down noodles but observe a little longer and you will find banana leaves intermingling with bowls of pork noodles on long tables.
After the fiery onslaught of banana leaf rice, cool down with a colourful shaved ice treat
Originally located at the Peking Hotel, Moorthys or Mathais' banana leaf rice is one of our favourite places for banana leaf rice. Introduced to us by a very good Indian friend, he called this his ultimate banana leaf rice, without any of those frills you get at the more commercial shops. Zoom in on his mutton curry (the dry one with loads of spices) and his famous thick fried fish. I also liked his fish cutlet, shaped like a large fishball packed with fish, potatoes and chillies.
batter heaven
the making of the oh so humble! yet divine kuih bakul
A pre-prepared porcine broth (with a huge ham bone) is ladled in the large metal pot to be boiled. Once bubbles start to emerge, in goes the pork slices, liver slices and minced pork to cook. Time is of the essence here, hence once the pork broth is ready, it is quickly ladled into the ready bowls.
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After a bout of fiery spices, the best way to cool down is with a little ais kacang next to the 7-11. Also popular for their coconut water, they do a unique ais kacang here topped with fresh coconut flesh. Sadly, the coconuts were too young this time round, hence we just had the normal version. Tables and chairs are not many (2 to be precise) and when the rain starts, you find a few of us huddled under the umbrella for shelter.
quick, quick...customers waiting!
After the cool respite, it was time to join the queue across the road for a little snack of kuih bakul, goreng pisang (banana fritters) and curry puffs. The 27-year old stall has many fans, hence be prepared to wait for your order. While waiting, observe the unusual way, they have organised their way of working. Since space is a constraint on the sidewalk, they prep the food items at a nearby shophouse (above the newsagent). An intercom connected with crude wires at the stall, passes the message up about the additional orders and they use a basket to bring down the goods from the first floor. It is a sight to behold especially when they break into a run carting curry puffs or prepped up slices of yam, sweet potato and nien koh to make kuih bakul.
curry puffs fresh & crisp from their hot oil bath
waiting is needed here as they take pride in getting their products right
There's even a method on how he fries his curry puffs - placing it on a round rack and submerging it in the hot oil. When he brings it out from the hot oil, the golden brown and fat curry puffs with layers and layers are a sight to behold. Tastewise, you ask? Simply divine and gorgeous that one had to eat it piping hot in the car risking crumbs all over the black interior. Best of all, I had some leftover at night and they still tasted great. So next time, if you're visiting Kuala Lumpur, drop by here and do a mini food crawl around this area to discover tummy satisfying goodies. For more pictures, see my Flickr set.
Moorthy's Banana Leaf Rice & Peter's Pork Noodles
May Flower Seafood Restaurant & Food Court
144A, Jalan Vivekananda
Off Jln Brickfields
Banana leaf rice is pork free but not the noodles. To get here, look for B'Sentral behind the main road, the shop is located next to it and the carpark. The food court is below and accessible from the carpark. Banana leaf rice stall is at the end with Peter's pork noodles next to it.
Jalan Padang Belia
Opposite 7-11 & YMCA
Pork free. Also sells coconut water, cendol. Open from 10am to 7pm. Previous blog post is here.
Mr. Chiam's Pisang Goreng Stall
Corner coffeeshop opposite entrance to YMCA
Pork free. Open from 12.30 to 6.30. Call the number in the picture, if you want to order extra.
*Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here is entirely based on my personal tastebuds and may vary for others. This review is time sensitive; changes may occur to the place later on that can affect this opinion. The reviewer also declares that she has not received any monetary or non-monetary compensation from this place for writing the review.
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Tailor #100MILESTOUR - Cottage Club
Date: 29 April 2018
Venue: Cottage club, 33 2nd Cres, Fish Hoek, Cape Town
Tickets: R150 bookings at email@example.com or call 021 782 0931
Rumbling rumours of yet another South African Tour is finally upon us and it is no longer just a rumour.
TAILOR heads back to South Africa from the UK this April for her 1000 Miles Tour. Known for her jaw dropping, raw and energetic live performances she is set for an exciting line-up of nine exclusive shows around South Africa.
TAILOR's tour will embrace the stars transition from her first record, "The Dark Horse" as well as second record "Light" and will feature more of an introspective look into Trust Part1.
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TAILOR recently concluded touring with Johnny Clegg on his Final Journey Tour and has been writing extensively on new material.
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- Friday 20th – Barnyard, Rivonia @ 8pm - tickets R150.00 from barnyardtheatre.co.za or 087 236 3088
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