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With a third birthday party approaching, Stephanie turned to her daughter Alyssa's favorite things for inspiration. Lyssie's love for sorting things by color and the rainbow at the end of The Berenstain Bears Get in a Fight provided the inspiration for a vivid celebration with lots of colorful DIY details.
Stephanie used plenty of white to avoid an over-the-top color scheme. Since she doesn't own a sewing machine, Stephanie improvised a handmade table skirt using plastic tablecloths that she cut into strips, ruffled using twine, then hot glued to a base tablecloth. The dot garland was made with colored paper circles, fishing line and hot glue.
The party hats, banner and favor tags were all made by Stephanie, who runs PaperCuts. Stephanie had a baker make the rainbow cake and cover it in plain white fondant, which she decorated herself with candy dots. Outside there was plenty of kid-sized furniture for lounging, stations for colorful sand art and glitter tattoos, and plenty of balloons staked into the lawn with golf tees. Alyssa and her friends had a fantastic time, and her mom managed to pull all of this off while extremely pregnant; a few weeks later Alyssa got a little brother named AJ. Happy birthday to Alyssa and AJ!
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Andy Murray confessed he is living his own personal nightmare after losing in the Wimbledon final, but he retains belief that he will one day crack the code to claiming the SW19 title.
Murray produced an admirable display in Sunday's final against Roger Federer, which saw him take the first set in impressive fashion. He eventually lost in four, but can take plenty of consolation in the fact he lost to the widely acknowledged greatest player in the history of the sport.
The immediate aftermath to the final saw Murray deliver a tearful address to the crowd, but he was rather more measured when attending his media duties later in the day. Always one to take inspiration from other top sportsmen, the British No. 1 once again turned to LeBron James, admitting he needs to follow the basketball star's lead in ending his "nightmare" sequence of hard-luck stories.
"When you lose, it's hard. It's tough to take but you need to try and show strength of character to come back from it. Hopefully, one day, you get there," Murray said.
"Sometimes guys take much longer than others. I received some good-luck messages from the NBA player LeBron James.
"He said after he lost in the NBA finals last year that he's having to go through lots of nightmares before reaching his dream.
"To me, I'm in a similar situation right now."
The suggestion was put to Murray that, with Rafael Nadal exiting his side of the draw early, 2012 might have been the best chance he will ever get to win the tournament. Showing his dry humour, Murray raised an eyebrow at the possibility that beating the game's greatest player could be his best opportunity.
"Was it my best chance? I don't know. It was my first time being in a final," he said. "You know, it was good to get there.
"I lost to a guy that's now won this tournament seven times and is No. 1 in the world. So if that's your best chance, then...
"We're talking about one of the greatest athletes of all time here, like we were saying. You've got to put it in context a little bit."

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The Archbishop of Burgos admitted that he had invited her to come and talk about founding a convent in that city. But he was greatly annoyed, she wrote, when she arrived with seven other Carmelites: "He said that he had meant me to come alone to discuss the matter with him: It was quite a different matter to bring all these nuns, and Heaven knew how much I had distressed him!"
The voice here is unmistakable. There is none other quite like it in the chronicles either of literature or of sanctity, to both of which histories that writer belongs. It is the wise and witty voice of Doña Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, who for the last 20 years of her life was known more simply as Teresa de Jesús and is known today at St. Teresa of Avila.
That was January 1582 when the archbishop was behaving petulantly, and the ailing Teresa was to die the following October at the age of 67. This month marks, therefore, the fourth centennial of her passage to eternal life. To observe the occasion, Seabury Press has brought out an American edition of Stephen Clissold's Si. Teresa of Avila, a short but highly satisfactory biography that first appeared in England in 1979 [272p $8.95 (paper)].
Mr. Clissold is a retired diplomat with a life-long interest in Spanish culture and Spanish saints. He is also a lucid and graceful writer so thoroughly at home with the sources that he can select just the right detail to bring the wonderfully human and heroic figure of St. Teresa into focus against the lowering background of 16th-century Spain.
First among those sources are, of course, St. Teresa's own writings. Most of them were done at high speed by candlelight in an unheated cell late at night after the day's business had been suspended, and they make a copious collection. When Teresa died she left behind not only 16 convents and 14 priories in which she had established the Discalced Carmelite Reform, but also pages enough to fill nine volumes in a definitive 20th-century Spanish edition.
There are 450 letters and a number of short pieces along with four major works. The Book of the Foundations, written between 1573 and June 1582, is a record of the convents she opened and includes the incident of the cranky archbishop. The other three books are the famous spiritual treatises: her autobiography, called the Life (1562-65), The
Way of Perfection (1566), which gives advice on living the Christian life, and The Interior Castle (1577), which discusses the progressive stages of mystical experience.
In her own day, the Inquisition gave Teresa considerable trouble over the Life, but by now the authority of these three books is so great that in 1970 Pope Paul VI declared St. Teresa a Doctor of the Church, the first woman to be given that distinction. Together with St. John of the Cross (1542-1591), the first friar to follow the Carmelite Reform, St. Teresa is pre-eminent in the school of Spanish mysticism. But unlike most theologians, she is also a popular writer. E. Allison Peers (1891-1952), the great Anglican scholar who translated the writings of those two saints, said of Teresa: "Her works are read and reread by Spaniards to this day and translated again and again into foreign languages. Probably no other book by a Spanish author is as widely known in Spain as the Life or TheInterior Castle of St. Teresa with the single exception of Cervantes's immortal Don Quixote. "
What gives these books their continuing allure is the fiavor of Teresa's personality. During her lifetime, she enchanted nearly everyone she met not only when she was a beautiful and mettlesome dark-haired girl but also when she was a worn old nun with blackened teeth and moles on her face. She could employ this gift to good purpose, but she also dismissed it casually. "The Lord gave me the grace of pleasing," she once said. That was, however, a striking understatement. European history has been starred by many gifted or virtuous people along with those who, like Charles II of England, were engaging but ambiguous. But no one so far has matched St. Teresa of Avila for her dazzling combination of holiness, genius and charm.
Those endowments made for a life of greatness but not tranqujlity. Teresa was the third of the nine children bom to Don Alonso Sánchez de Cepeda by his second wife, Doña Beatriz Dávila y Ahumada, who was only 14 when she married and 33 when she died. Since Don Alonso also had three children by his first wife, whose life had been even shorter than Doña Beatriz's, Teresa would say at the beginning of her autobiography: "We were three sisters and nine brothers: all of them, by the goodness of God, resembled their parents in virtue, except myself, though I was my father's favorite."
The history of that family evokes echoes of both the dark and glowing sides of Spain's Golden Age. For instance, Teresa's paternal grandfather, Juan Sanchez, was a Jewish convert and a successful merchant in Toledo. There in 1485 he and more than 2,000 others were subjected by the Inquisition to degrading public penance for having retained some minor Jewish practices.
After that terrible experience, Juan Sanchez moved to Avila where he rebuilt his fortune and even secured some manufactured certificates of nobility. Teresa's father was, therefore, accounted an hidalgo. One of his sons died as a soldier. Several others voyaged to New Spain where Rodrigo was killed fighting the Indians in Chile and Lorenzo became rich in Peru. But it was, of course, Don Alonso's favorite child who was to make the family's name immortal and whose life was to become the stuff of legend.
Stephen Clissold's book provides a firm chronology for the familiar episodes in that life and identifies the persons and places involved. Here, for example, is Teresa as a child persuading Rodrigo, the brother she loved best, to run away from home with her in the hope of being martyred for the love of God in the land of the Moors—they were overtaken by an uncle shortly after leaving town.
And here is Teresa entering the Convent of the Incarnation in Avila in 1536. She is already 21 and is to be a nun there for 27 years. Eventually she came to think that the regimen at the Incarnation was rather too relaxed, although by today's standards it seems to have been poor and austere. Shortly after taking her vows in 1537, Teresa became mysteriously sick, and for three years she was confined to bed and practically paralyzed.
Long afterward, she would write in The Interior Castle: "I know a person who cannot truthfully say that from the time the Lord began 40 years ago to grant the favor that was mentioned she spent even one day without pains and other kinds of suffering (from lack of bodily health, I mean) and other great trials."
That person was, of course, herself and the favor mentioned belonged to the constellation of exceptional mystical graces which she began to experience about the time of her sickness. Mr. Clissold has a helpful account of these in a chapter erititled, "Voices and Visions." They included "locutions," or "words which suddenly crystalized in her consciousness as she knelt in prayer" and were understood by Teresa to be the voice of Christ Himself; raptures and even such physical phenomena as feeling "one's body being lifted from the ground." In the Life, she says this lévitation "makes one's hair quite stand on end" but it also inspires a great fear of offending God and a burning love for Him.
These voices and ecstasies did not dampen Doña Teresa's brilliance and wit but over the course of more than two decades they did transform her mind and heart. In 1560, when she was 45, she set out to found a small convent in which a handful of nuns, living only on alms, might follow the original Carmelite Rule whose primitive austerity had been officially mitigated in 1432.
It took two years to launch in Avila the first of these houses. The last was that convent opened in Burgos in 1582. The intervening 20 years were filled with incessant business: travels from city to city; complicated dealings with benefactors and contractors and continuous discussion with an assortment of puzzled or nervous bishops, confessors and theologians. In her books, she is fond of telling the nuns that they are only poor weak women who can do little, but they might have wondered if she really meant that. In any case, her own accomplishments make her the prime candidate for patron saint of feminists. "I have had a great deal of experience," she wrote in The Interior Castle, "with learned men, and have also had experience with half-learned, fearful ones; these latter cost me dearly."
Her days were pervaded by a continuous sense of God's presence and punctuated by a continual series of temporal crises, large and small: in the Avila convent, an infestation of lice that Teresa routed by organizing a little procession and sprinkling holy water in each cell; perilous journeys in mule-drawn wagons that nearly toppled into ravines; opposition and intrigues organized against her even by some of her Carmelite associates, both men and women, and always the unrelenting pressures of illness and fatigue.
But one will never do anything, she wrote, unless one resolves once for all to accept ill-health and death. She not only pushed on but scattered jokes and wisecracks as she went. She could be stern and witty by turns and sometimes simultaneously. A certain nun resolved to cultivate humility by never expressing any clever thought that might occur to her during the recreation period. But Teresa told her to cancel that resolution. For it is bad enough, she said, to be stupid by nature without trying to be stupid by grace.
Resignation to life's hardness is not, however, an anaesthetic. When Teresa was 65 she wrote to Father Jerónimo Gracián, an attractive and gifted Carmelite who was 30 years younger than herself and whom she cherished with remarkable intensity: "The further joumey in this life—God help me—the less comfort I find."
There was certainly little ease at the journey's end. In the summer of 1582, Teresa was trying to return to Avila from Burgos. The provincial of the Discalced ordered her to detour to Alba so as to console the Duchess of that place, a benefactress who was anxiously awaiting the birth of a grandchild. But shortly after arriving there, Teresa had a massive hemorrhage and died on Oct. 4.
Mr. Clissold gives a succinct but sufficiently disturbing account of the way in which St. Teresa's body was not only sliced up for relics but shuttled back and forth between Avila and Alba, each of which cities wanted to be her burial place. But her real legacy was bequeathed not just to Carmelites or Spaniards but to the world, and the more it is distributed, the greater it becomes for it is the legacy of her example and her teaching.
Since it is so rich a bequest, it has been variously drawn, upon by different admirers at different times. The baroque sculptor Bernini and the 17th-century English devotional poet, Crashaw, like many of their contemporaries, were particularly exhilarated by the image of the ecstatic Teresa whose heart, as she says in the 29th chapter of the Life, once seemed to have been pierced by an angel wielding a golden spear tipped with fire that infiamed her with divine love. But at least equally moving and exemplary is the Teresa who carried on her labors with serene good humor even when, as she said in the very next chapter of that autobiography, she sometimes felt "so peevish and ill-tempered that I seem to want to snap every one up."
We are awed by Teresa the mystic, but we understand the saint who was as troubled by the problem of evil as ordinary people are. Thinking of John of the Cross who for nine months had been kept by his Carmelite brethren in the solitary confinement of a cramped cell, Teresa wrote: "I don't know how God can allow such things."
Her record of raptures and visions answers to nothing in the experience of most Christians. But elsewhere, her coefficient of accessibility, as was said of St. Francis de Sales, is great indeed. For instance, in the Life, she advises people beginning the practice of prayer to have an appropriate book at hand so that they may recollect themselves quickly. (Her great 19th-century spiritual daughter, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, would have added that this book should always be the New Testament.) Moreover, Teresa suggests that others might recollect themselves as she herself did: "It used to help me to look at a field, or water or fiowers. These reminded me of the Creator—I mean, they awakened me, helped me to recollect myself and thus served me as a book."
And for those who find prayer tedious, this great mystic has encouragement. In the Life she says that for some years she was more occupied during prayer with wishing that the hour were over and listening for the clock to strike than in thinking of things that were good. But by persevering, she learned, she said, that "mental prayer is nothing else, in my opinion, but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him Who, we know, loves us."
In a short but perfect book, Personal Religion (1927), Léonce de Grandmaison, S.J., a French theologian of the first decades of this century, pointed out that for Christians this friendship with God almost always begins with the love of Jesus Christ and is often identified with that love. It is the mystery of Jesus that introduces us to the mystery of God because God made fiesh is more easily apprehended, more readily approached and more instantly loved.
Christians have learned this in every age and not least in our own, although not always by way of routine church membership. "I grew up a Catholic and knew about Jesus Christ in my mind but never in my heart," Steve Foley, a 29-year-old professional football player with the Denver Broncos, told a reporter last autumn. But more recently, he said, he has discovered that it is faith in Jesus that really changes one's life.
It is precisely here that St. Teresa's experience intersects with that of many quite average believers. She, indeed, was profoundly Catholic and on her deathbed she kept repeating: "Lord, I am a daughter of the church." But her books speak to Christians everywhere because they are penetrated with devotion to what she called "the sacred humanity of
our Lord Jesus Christ."
Even those raised to the highest stages of prayer, she writes in The Interior Castle, must not give up meditating on the life of our Lord: "For if they lose the guide, who is the good Jesus, they will not hit upon the right road." And to emphasize this conviction, she quotes a key verse from the Gospel of St. John: "Whoever has seen me has seen the Father" (14:9).
But borrowing another phrase from Père de Grandmaison, one may say that these words are the very definition of specifically Christian mysticism. There has been no more compelling evangelist of that mysticism than St. Teresa of Avila, and generations have been her debtors. In The Idiot, the young Ippolit who is dying of consumption says: "I meant to do so much . . . . I wanted to live for the happiness of all men, to discover and proclaim the truth." Like every saint, but with better reason than even most of them, Teresa de Jesús could have truthfully said that she had lived just that way.
There is a novel by Barbara Mujica, called Sister Teresa, that tells the story of Teresa's life as told by a fictional close friend and maid. It is another good way for people today to meet Teresa. There is also an wonderful film biography of Teresa (Teresa de Jesus) that is based on Life and many of her letters. The acting in the film is superior (Concho Velasco, a famous screen star of Spain, plays Teresa) and it follows Teresa's life very closely and in detail. The movie is in Spanish with English subtitles, but after awhile I found myself understanding the Spanish (though not really - it was just that I became unaware that I was reading the subtitles). The film was a 7-1/2 hour mini-series on Spanish television that PBS broadcast in the States back in the 80s. It is now available in DVD.


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Colon struggles as A's lose grip on first place
OAKLAND -- The A's lost Tuesday night's game with the Rangers at the O.co Coliseum, 5-1, and with it their share of the lead in the American League West.
Coco Crisp doubled and circled the bases on consecutive fly balls to give Oakland the 1-0 lead in the first inning, but it wasn't a sign of things to come. The A's finished with nine hits, but went 1-for-9 with runners in scoring position.View Full Game Coverage
OAKLAND -- The A's lost Tuesday night's game with the Rangers at the O.co Coliseum, 5-1, and with it their share of the lead in the American League West.
Coco Crisp doubled and circled the bases on consecutive fly balls to give Oakland the 1-0 lead in the first inning, but it wasn't a sign of things to come. The A's finished with nine hits, but went 1-for-9 with runners in scoring position.View Full Game Coverage
Bartolo Colon, who hasn't pitched past the fifth inning since July 31, gave up four runs on eight hits in five innings. Only one run was earned, thanks to his struggles to field his position in the Rangers' three-run fifth.
Texas' first run came off a fourth-inning homer by Mitch Moreland, who tied the game, 1-1, as well as the record for home runs hit at the Coliseum by a visiting player in a season with five.
In the fifth, Craig Gentry slapped a ball up the middle that went in and out of Colon's glove for an error. Jurickson Profar then doubled on a sharp line drive to right field that was played poorly by Michael Choice -- making his Major League start in the outfield -- allowing Gentry to score.
"I pitched the ball well," Colon said. "The one play that made the difference was the ball they hit to me that I dropped. ... It's a routine play."
After Ian Kinsler's grounder deflected off Colon's bare hand for a single, moving Profar to third, Adrian Beltre drove Profar in with a RBI groundout to third baseman Josh Donaldson, who nearly prevented two runs with a tag on Kinsler before throwing to first, but the Rangers second baseman eluded Donaldson's glove. A.J. Pierzynski capped the rally with an RBI single on a soft fly ball to center field one batter later.
Alex Rios added a home run in the eighth off Jesse Chavez, the second of four relievers used by the A's.
"We didn't need any dramatic hits," Rangers manager Ron Washington said. "Just put the ball in play and good things will happen."
Pierzynski was also on the receiving end of Donaldson's attempt to bowl the Rangers' backstop over after overaggressive baserunning in the third inning left him hanging out to dry at the plate.
Donaldson rounded third on an infield single to shortstop Profar by Yoenis Cespedes and missed the stop sign by third-base coach Mike Gallego, heading home, where the throw beat him easily.
"I saw him catch it, but I once I hit third I started breaking it down a little bit," Donaldson said. "And then for some reason I thought I heard, 'Go.' I know it wasn't Gallego because once I took two steps he was saying, 'Stay here. Stay here,' and it just kind of ended up being a really bad play for us and for myself."
"It was a great play by Profar just to get to the ball," Pierzynski said. I wish he would have gotten it to me sooner. I know their third base coach was trying to stop him. It looked like that play gave us some energy."
Donaldson made up for the blunder in part after making a sensational catch in the sixth inning when he made a leaping grab over the rolled-up tarp in foul territory on the third-base side, a play that went nicely with two sliding catches by Choice that drew praise from manager Bob Melvin. Choice also recorded his first Major League hit with an infield single in the fifth inning.
"It's going to end up looking like a line drive in the box score," Melvin said. "You get your first hit, it doesn't matter how you get it."
The A's allowed seven runs over the first four games of their homestand and had homered in 15 consecutive games leading up to Tuesday night's contest. They would have gained sole possession of the AL West lead for the first time since Aug. 6 with a win.
"I think you just look at it and say, 'Hey, we've been playing very good baseball.'" Donaldson said. "They caught a couple breaks today, got a couple timely hits and it's just one of those days where it's the game of baseball. We hit some balls pretty hard, especially early, that they got right underneath. And when those balls fall in we win games."
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Beverly Hettrick's Sand Dollars 1 cup (250 mL) unsalted butter, softened 11/4 cups (300 mL) sugar 1 egg, beaten 2 cups (500 mL) all-purpose flour 1/4 cup (60 mL) sugar 1/2 teaspoon (2.5 mL) cinnamon 1 egg white pecan halves
Jennifer is a long-time server with a great sense of humour and keen sense of observation. This is one her mother Beverly's favourite Christmas cookie recipes.
Cream the butter until light. Gradually add the 11/4 cups (625 mL) sugar, and beat until light and fluffy. Alternately add the flour in fourths and egg in thirds, ending with the flour. Wrap and chill the dough for 1 hour or up to overnight.
Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Line baking sheets with parchment paper. Divide the dough into quarters and roll out one of the quarters on a lightly floured surface to the thickness of a toonie. Cut into rounds with a 3-inch (7.5 cm) cookie cutter.
Combine the 1/4 cup (60 mL) sugar and cinnamon together. Beat the egg white until foamy. Brush each cookie with the egg white and sprinkle heavily with the cinnamon sugar. Press a pecan half in the middle of each cookie.
Bake for 9-10 minutes until pale gold on the bottom. Cool on the baking sheets for 2 minutes then transfer the cookies to rack and cool completely.
Makes approximately 40 cookies
Julie Schnekenberger's Nanaimo Bars
Bottom Layer 1/2 cup (125 mL) unsalted butter 1/4 cup (60 mL) granulated sugar 5 tablespoons (75 mL) cocoa 13/4 cups (475 mL) graham wafer crumbs 1 egg beaten 1/2 cup (125 mL) finely chopped almonds or pecans 1 cup (250 mL) unsweetened coconut
Middle Layer 1/2 cup unsalted butter 2 tablespoons, plus 2 teaspoons cream 2 tablespoons Bird's vanilla custard powder (at grocery stores) 2 cups icing sugar
Top Layer 4 1-ounce squares of semi-sweet chocolate 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
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For the bottom layer, melt the first three ingredients in the top of a double boiler. Add egg and stir to cook and thicken, about one minute. Remove from heat, and stir in crumbs, coconut and nuts. Press firmly into an ungreased 8-inch (10 cm) square pan.
For the middle layer, cream together butter, cream, custard powder and icing sugar. Beat until light. Spread over bottom layer.
For the top layer, melt chocolate and butter over low heat. Cool. When cool, but still liquid, pour over second layer, and chill in the refrigerator. Lightly mark into 36 squares before chocolate hardens completely. Cut into 36 squares with a hot knife.
Makes 36 pieces
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Almond Raspberry Thumbprints 1 cup (250 mL) whole almonds, toasted 1/2 cup (125 mL) sugar 2 cups (500 mL) all purpose flour 1/2 cup (125 mL) icing sugar 1/2 teaspoon (2.5 mL) baking powder 1/4 teaspoon (1 mL) sea salt 1 cup (250 mL) unsalted butter, softened 1 large egg yolk 1 teaspoon (5 mL) pure vanilla extract 1/2 teaspoon (2.5 mL) almond extract 1/2 cup (125 mL) seedless raspberry jam, approximately
Ron, a sous chefs, has been with the restaurant for five years. He worked his way up from garde-manger station to where he is now.
Combine the almonds and 1/2 cup (125 mL) sugar in food processor and pulse until the almonds are finely chopped.
Whisk the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in medium bowl. Beat the butter, egg yolk and almond mixture in large bowl to blend. Beat in vanilla and almond extracts. Mix the dry ingredients into butter mixture in 3 additions. Cover the dough and refrigerate until firm, about 1 hour.
Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). Line baking sheets with parchment paper. Roll a generous tablespoonful of dough for each cookie into a ball. Place the cookies on the baking sheets, spacing 2 inches (5 cm) apart. Make depression in centre of each cookie with your fingertip or the handle of a wooden spoon. Bake the cookies for 10 minutes.
Press the back of a teaspoon into the cookies to re-form the depressions. Fill each depression with 1/2 teaspoon (2.5 mL) raspberry jam. Continue baking until light golden brown around edges and on bottom, about 8 minutes longer. Cool on the baking sheets for 2 minutes then transfer the cookies to rack and cool completely.
Makes about 35 cookies
Wayne Sych's Tiger Butter 1/2 pound (250 g) milk chocolate 1/2 pound (250 g) white chocolate 1/2 cup (125 mL) peanut butter
Wayne Sych and Karen Barnaby ran the kitchen for nine years until he moved to the sister restaurant The Cannery as executive chef.
This is called tiger butter because when the two chocolates are mixed lightly it makes dark and light stripes that resemble tiger stripes. Wayne likes to make this with his kids.
Line an 8-inch (10 cm) square pan with parchment paper. Place the chocolates in two separate, heat-proof bowls.
Set each over a pot of simmering water. Add the peanut butter to the white chocolate and stir until well combined. Add the melted milk chocolate to the white chocolate mixture, stir once, then pour into the prepared pan. Place in the fridge until hardened. Cut into 36 squares, or break into irregular pieces.
Makes 36 squares
Trina MacDougall's Shortbreads 1/2 cup (125 mL) corn starch 1/2 cup (125 mL) icing sugar 1 cup (250 mL) all-purpose flour 1/4 teaspoon (1 mL) sea salt 3/4 cup (180 mL) unsalted butter at room temperature icing sugar, optional
Another long-time server, Trina is sweet and lovely, just like her shortbreads.
Whisk the cornstarch, sugar, flour and salt together. Beat the butter until smooth. Add the flour and mix until well blended. Form into 2 2-inch (5 cm) diameter logs. Wrap and chill until firm, about 1 hour.
Preheat the oven to 300°F (150°C). Line baking sheets with parchment paper. Slice the dough into 1/2-inch (1.25 cm) slices and place 2 inches (5 cm) apart on the baking sheets. Bake for about 20 minutes until pale gold on the bottom. Cool on the baking sheets for 2 minutes then transfer the cookies to rack and cool completely.
Sift icing sugar thickly over the cookies if you wish.
Makes approximately 30
Victor Miral's
Ginger Spice Cookies 2 cups (500 mL) all-purpose flour 21/2 teaspoons (12 mL) dried ground ginger 2 teaspoons (10 mL) baking soda 1 teaspoon (5 mL) ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon (5 mL) ground cloves 3/4 teaspoon salt 3/4 cup (190 mL) chopped crystallized ginger 1/2 cup (125 mL) vegetable shortening, room temperature 1/4 cup (60 mL) unsalted butter, room temperature 1 cup (250 mL) dark brown sugar 1 large egg 1/4 cup (60 mL) molasses sugar
Victor is the backbone of the kitchen. He started as a dishwasher 16 years ago and worked his way through all the stations before settling in as prep supervisor. He knows and remembers everything and Karen Barnaby would be quite lost without him.
Combine the flour, ginger, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves and salt in a bowl and whisk to blend well. Mix in crystallized ginger.
Beat the butter and shortening together until smooth. Beat in the sugar, egg and molasses until incorporated. Add the flour mixture and beat only until blended. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour.
Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. Place 1/2 cup (125 mL) of sugar on a small plate, replenishing as necessary. With wet hands, roll dough into 11/4-inch balls and then roll in the sugar to coat completely. Place on the baking sheets, spacing 2-inches (5 cm) apart. Bake until the cookies crack on top but still soft to the touch, about 12 minutes. Cool on the sheets 1 minute then carefully transfer to racks and cool.
Makes about 30 cookies
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Republican strategist Vin Weber talks about the latest in the GOP nomination race and the upcoming health care battle.
This morning we asked if Rick Santorum had gone too far by saying it would be better to vote for Barack Obama than an Etch A Sketch Republican like Mitt Romney.
Well, Santorum has now tried to walk back the comment -- and he lashes out at the Romney campaign, blaming it for causing the dust up.
"I would never vote for Barack Obama over any Republican and to suggest otherwise is preposterous," Santorum said in a statement released by his campaign. "This is just another attempt by the Romney Campaign to distort and distract the media and voters from the unshakeable fact that many of Romney's policies mirror Barack Obama's. I was simply making the point that there is a huge enthusiasm gap around Mitt Romney and it's easy to see why - Romney has sided with Obama on healthcare mandates, cap-and-trade, and the Wall Street bailouts. Voters have to be excited enough to actually go vote, and my campaign's movement to restore freedom is exciting this nation. If this election is about Obama versus the Obama-Lite candidate, we have a tough time rallying this nation. It's time for bold vision, bold reforms and bold contrasts. This election is about more than Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, or Rick Santorum - this campaign is about freedom and I will fight to restore your freedoms."
But it was Santorum who said yesterday, "You win by giving people the opportunity to see a different vision for our country, not someone who's just going to be a little different than the person in there. If you're going to be a little different, we might as well stay with what we have instead of taking a risk with what may be the Etch A Sketch candidate of the future."
Newt Gingrich and Romney pounced, with Gingrich saying any of the Republicans running would be better than Obama, and Romney calling Santorum "desperate" and frustrated.
"I want to start with something Rick said tonight that I frankly was very surprised that he said and that I hope he's taking back," Gingrich said, adding, "I may have some very substantial disagreements with Gov. Romney. There is no doubt in my mind that if the choice was Gov. Romney or Barack Obama, we would have no choice," Gingrich said. "The danger of Obama is so great that I would hope that every candidate running -- Ron Paul, Gov. Romney and Sen. Santorum – that we would all agree that whoever becomes the Republican nominee, we have one common goal and that is to defeat Barack Obama."
On Hugh Hewitt's radio show this morning, Romney said of Santorum, "Desperate polls call for desperate pols."
He added, "I know that there are a lot of people across the country that are saying we need to consolidate behind the guy who has now weathered, I think there are 38 different contests we've had, if you include all the little islands as well. … I'm sure that the Senator's hearing from some of those people saying hey, let's get going, let's move on and get our nominee ready to go against President Obama. and perhaps he's striking out with frustration from those kind of questions."
"I'm afraid that Rick increasingly thinks this race is about him," Romney said. "It's not about him. It's not about me. It's not about a personality. It's about the country. And I'm really disappointed in Rick's statement. Obviously, he endorsed me three years ago when I was running for president. He had no problem calling me a real conservative, a solid conservative. But now that he's in the race, it has become all about Rick."


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Amulette de Cartier long necklace, XS and small models
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Amulette de Cartier necklace, XS and small models, 18K pink gold, malachite, white and gray mother-of-pearl, set with 10 brilliant-cut diamonds totaling 0.54 carats. Diameter of motifs: 12 mm and 17 mm. Chain: 90 cm.
Amulette de Cartier, an enchanting collection of colorful lucky pieces symbolizing a myriad of wishes. This collection consists of natural gemstones, each one different and unique, each carrying a wish promising to be revealed. The contrast of materials unites the simplicity and elegance of the talisman's polished curves, closing like a padlock to hold luck and unlock your wishes.


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Personalised Hand Engraved 7mm Plain Sterling Silver Square Edge Bangle
- Hollow 7mm Plain Square Edge Sterling Silver Bangle
- Hinged Opening.
- Square flat edge on the outside.
- Hallmarked Sterling Silver.
- Gift Box Enclosed.
Please enter the amount of characters required in the Customise & Add Engraving Details box to calculate the engraving cost.
You will be able to select the engraving style here too.
Please note - Do not copy and paste your engraving details as the engraving cost will not calculate correctly. If you require something other than letters, numbers or characters please contact us for a price.
We specialise in Hand Engraving, as the name suggests all of our work is done by hand. This is a traditional way of engraving before machines came along.
Every process is done by hand and as the silver is actually cut out with small chisel like tools the engraving will last forever. Hand engraving gives an item an artistic feel and gives a far superior finish to machine engraving which only scratches the surface.
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Douche in a Rolls
Well if this isn't a douche alert…
Check out Ryan Phillippe, in track pants and a nipple-hugging white t-shirt, after lunch yesterday in LA cruising around in a ROLLS ROYCE.
A Rolls Royce?
Like, who ARE you?
And why is Amanda Seyfried so stupid?
How do you get hard when a guy pulls up in a Rolls Royce steering it with his dick?
Sit DOWN Ryan Phillippe.
I suppose I'm showing my age. Out of touch with what makes hearts for the modern girl. I would be embarrassed to be seen with the douche in a Rolls Royce. It's not just a car. It's a statement. It says a lot about a person. It says about the person that it's all about him and his cheesy penis.
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LKS Design necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 54 diseños de 27 diseñadores freelance.
LKS Consulting
Lisa Kay Solomon has over 15 years combined experience applying a "design thinking," experiential approach to developing leadership potential and building strategic growth opportunities. As a strategy consultant and coach, Lisa combines traditional approaches to strategy with multidisciplinary elements of scenario planning, visual thinking, facilitation and innovative collaboration.
Lisa is now the principal of LKS Consulting, dedicating her practice to the design and facilitation of strategic leadership discussions. Among her corporate clients, Lisa works very closely with the Women's Leadership Initiative at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and has been assisting in their renowned "High Performance Leadership" class. Lisa's has designed and delivered programs such as "The Strategic Value of Visual Thinking","The Design of Strategic Conversations," and "Innovative Leadership: Visions for the Future."
Lisa spent 6 years as a practitioner at Global Business Network, where she ran long-range strategic planning process for organizations in the private and public sectors. Lisa holds an MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business, and a BA in government from Cornell University. She has taken extensive training in the fields of facilitation, scenario planning, strategic planning, graphic recording, visual storytelling, and organizational design.
Decision makers within organizations that are responsible for bringing in innovative thinking, processes and perspectives to their traditional strategy processes. These could be people who directly report for the innovation leads (if there is one), or who is responsible for developing new growth opportunities for their organization or business unit.
I would like to appeal to forward-thinking, creative thinkers/organizations who get the power and possibility of outside-in,future oriented collaborative processes.
Logo should be clean looking -- not cluttered or overwhelming with information. I happen to like the exisiting logo and color scheme I've been working with but it does not represent the name of the company (LKS consulting). I like that it is subtle and elegant with a clean design. I am not wedded to that look and feel, but I like that direction.
I might even be open to a new name (beyond LKS Consulting) if someone was so inspired to come up with one.
The logo should look good on different formats -- the website, business card, powerpoint presentations, printed materials, etc.
There may be much more future work associated with this logo work if chosen.
Attached are two sheets providing more background on my work, including an example of the logo I've been using.
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Bringing Music & Tech Together To Move Things Forward Productively
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Along those lines, I'll be doing a panel at 9:25am tomorrow morning, with one of my favorite musicians, Zoe Keating and Mike McGeary from Engine, to talk about how artists and entrepreneurs can, are and should be working together to help each other. This session will actually be a brief "preview" into a bigger effort that we're working on. The following day, Wednesday, we're hosting a whole bunch of artists (not just music, but film, books, graphic artists and more) and entrepreneurs, for a daylong productive "working group," to try to help everyone understand each other -- the challenges we all face and the opportunities we all see -- and to figure out if there are specific, actionable things that we can all do to help each other. We haven't set up this working group as a "conference." There are no talking heads. There won't be any panels. There's a very loose agenda. But the focus is on having an open discussion and finding common ground -- recognizing that entrepreneurs and artists are often more alike than different. In many ways, we're all running our own businesses -- and creating something new and wonderful.
At the same time, obviously, there are some very real differences between being an artist and an entrepreneur -- and one issue that both sides often run into is a failure to fully understand those differences. So part of the goal of the one day event will be to foster better understanding of those issues, but with a focus on figuring out how we can actually get something done to help each other, rather than just talking about it all. We'll give a glimpse into that discussion tomorrow, and then will spend most of Wednesday working through these issues with a wide range of artists and entrepreneurs. We'll then be taking what we learn from the working group and creating a paper out of it, that we'll (of course) release to the world. It should be an exciting week!
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Buffington Completes Doubleheader Sweep
Shaun Buffington completed a sweep of the Moat Mountain Road Course Series race weekend with the help of a pre-race pit call. Buffington put his rain tires on the car, while other drivers stuck with their slicks, and that helped him run away with the lead on the damp track as the precipitation began to fall.
The weather affected several drivers, but didn't deter Trevor Bleau and Patrick Dillon, who finished second and third, respectively. It was Bleau's first career podium finish at NHMS and just the second for Dillon.
The final two races of the season will be run at 11:15 p.m. on October 19 and 20.
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Shaun Buffington won the first leg of the weekend's doubleheader in the Moat Mountain Road Course Series. He ran away from teammate Tom Gray, who finished second, and Alex Vorrilas, who finished third.
Buffington has now won 10 road course races at NHMS in 2013 and increased his points lead to nine points on Gray with three races left in the season. He started on the pole and led all 12 laps in the caution-free event.
While Gray was unable to keep up with Buffington, he clearly had the second fastest car on the track and was unchallenged for his spot on the podium.
The biggest battle took place for the third position. Vorrilas ran third early before Mike Alton, who won the most recent road course race in mid-August, got around him. The cars took the white flag side-by-side and made contact entering turn one, which resulted in Alton spinning out. From there, Vorrilas held off a hard-charging Trevor Bleau for third.


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Six talented young musicians will perform at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the annual Honors Recital at Northern Illinois University. They are the recipients of a talent scholarship awarded by the NIU Community School of the Arts after a rigorous audition held in early January. The students each receive a prize of $250.
A total of 102 students have been awarded talent scholarships by the community school since they were established in 1996.
Ranging in age from 12 to 16, this year's winners are from DeKalb, Glen Ellyn and Rockford and will perform works by Gretry, Joplin, Corelli, Bruch, Debussy and Kreisler.
The recipients all are students in the NIU Community School of the Arts, where they receive private lessons from Ann Montzka-Smelser, Jaina Krueger and Jui-Ching Wang.
William Jiang, 14, is an eighth-grade student at Marshall Academy in Rockford. He is the son of Yiwei Jiang and Sumei Zhoi. He is a violin student and will perform Praeludium and Allegro by Fritz Kreisler.
Christine Ryzhov, 12, is a sixth-grade student at Clinton Rosette Middle School in DeKalb. She is the daughter of Victor Ryzhov and Natalia Vinokur. She studies violin and will play Tambourine by A. Gretry.
Alyssa Leston is the daughter of Stephen and Heather Leston. She is a seventh-grade homeschool student and lives in DeKalb. She is a violinist and will perform La Folia by A. Corelli.
Chance Hostetler, 16, is a homeschool student in the 10th grade. He is the son of Chris and Anna Hostetler and lives in DeKalb. He studies piano and will play Bethena by Scott Joplin.
Allison Kozinski, 16, is the daughter of Ted and Melanie Kozinski of DeKalb. She is a homeschool student and is in her junior year. She studies piano and will perform Prelude for Piano by Debussy.
Leo Thomas O'Malley, 15, will perform on violin the first movement of the Concerto in g minor by Max Bruch. He is the son of Christopher and LeMarie O'Malley. He is a homeschool student and is in the ninth grade.
The recital is free and open to the public. It is in the Recital Hall of the Music Building on the campus of Northern Illinois University.
The money for the awards comes from the community school's scholarship fund. In addition to the talent scholarships, the program also awards need scholarships. Since 1993, more than 700 scholarships have been awarded to area students to pursue the arts.
The NIU Community School of the Arts offers lessons, classes and ensembles in music, art and theater. More information is available at www.csa.niu.edu or by calling 815-753-1450.


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Changing your template background colour in Joomla 3.1
As we continue to review the available settings within the Protostar template of your Joomla 3.0 hosting, the next setting we will look at is the Background Colour setting:
Background Colour
Choose a background colour for static layouts. Default is #F4F6F7
Adjusting the Background Colour setting will do exactly what you expect, adjust the background of your template. The default color is #F4F5F7 and in our testing we changed it to #8cb7e6. You can see the results below:
|Background Colour: #F4F6F7
|Background Colour: #8cb7e6
The steps for changing your background color within the Protostar template are very similar to those of editing your link colors. The main difference will be that you are changing it from a light gray to the blue color as seen above. Make sure to check your website after changing colors in order avoid elements of your website from becoming difficult to see or unviewable. Additionally, keep in mind that you may need to clear your web browser cache after making a change.
To change your Protostar template background color in Joomla 3.0:
- Log into your Joomla 3.0 Admin Dashboard
- In the top menu, click Extensions and then click Template Manager
- In the list of templates, find and click on the Protostar template. In our testing, we clicked on My Default Style (Protostar)
- Click the Options tab towards the top of the page
- Find the setting labeled Background Colour, and then click the box to the right. A color swatch will appear. Select the color of your choice and then click the Save button in the top left of the page to change your setting.
‹Section 1: Adjusting the Protostar Template Colour in Joomla 3.1
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Hi Jelena!
If you want to change article color open template.css via template manager on your administration panel then find this line: 6959 background-color: #ffffff; <- here you can put your another color.
But changing this line applied to whole page/site.
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hello plz can u help me.l have download a joomla template but fail to edit it.who can guide me the way l can do.thx
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Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) Endorses Equinix Tokyo Data Centers as Preferred Locations for Interconnection to TFX
TOKYO, Japan — May 13, 2009 — Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, today announced that Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX), Japan's largest financial derivatives exchange, has endorsed Equinix's Tokyo International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers as preferred colocation sites for interconnection to TFX.
Equinix's TY1 IBX center, located in Heiwajima, along with its TY2 center in Shinagawa, offers premium data center infrastructure and a network-rich ecosystem of leading high-bandwidth carriers, networks and other connectivity providers.This provides an ideal environment for clients and partners seeking high-performance and low-latency access to TFX and its futures and options products.
"I am pleased to welcome Equinix as one of TFX's colocation partners," said Jiro Saito, president and CEO of TFX. "Equinix is well known as operating some of the most reliable and highest quality data centers in the world. We believe that their Tokyo centers will enable us to provide even greater access to our products, within a low-latency environment."
"As TFX has grown and expanded its client base, it is seeking to provide greater options for its customers to access its services," said David Wilkinson, Representative Director of Equinix in Japan. "At Equinix's state-of-the-art Tokyo data centers, TFX can more easily expand its regional and international reach by leveraging the base of networks operating within our centers. Equinix has seen a heightened interest in the Tokyo market from our existing base of U.S. and European electronic trading firms, and we look forward to creating a robust, neutral marketplace in Tokyo, just as we have done in Chicago, New York, London and Frankfurt."
About Tokyo Financial Exchange
Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) is widely known as the "Home Market for Euroyen" to a broad range of domestic and international investors. The most heavily traded contracts are Three-month Euroyen Futures and Options on Three-month Euroyen Futures. TFX is also actively introducing new products and schemes. In fiscal year 2009, TFX will launch a new Equity Index Future based on the Nikkei 225 stock average*. In 2008, TFX was the first exchange in Japan to successfully launch a Remote Membership Program which enables overseas investors to access the TFX market directly.
*Nikkei Inc. shall own copyrights, intellectual rights and any other rights with respect to the term "the Nikkei Stock Average" and the calculation method.
About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) provides global data center services that ensure the vitality of the information-driven world. Global enterprises, content and financial companies, and network service providers rely upon Equinix's insight and expertise to protect and connect their most valued information assets. Equinix operates 42 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers across 18 markets in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
The Equinix Financial eXchange is a neutral marketplace consisting of financial markets participants including execution venues, buy and sell side firms, market data providers, technology providers and financial networks; that locate servers and infrastructure within Equinix data centers in order to support highly reliable, low latency connectivity for a broad range of market participants. Learn more at: www.financial.equinix.com
Important information about Equinix is routinely posted on the investor relations page of its website located at www.equinix.com. We encourage you to check Equinix's website regularly for the most up-to-date information.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from expectations discussed in such forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such differences include, but are not limited to, the challenges of acquiring, operating and constructing IBX centers and developing, deploying and delivering Equinix services; unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to the integration of companies we have acquired or will acquire into Equinix; a failure to receive significant revenue from customers in recently built out or acquired data centers; failure to complete any financing arrangements contemplated from time to time; competition from existing and new competitors; the ability to generate sufficient cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay new or outstanding indebtedness; the loss or decline in business from our key customers; and other risks described from time to time in Equinix's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see Equinix's recent quarterly and annual reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which are available upon request from Equinix. Equinix does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press release.
Equinix and IBX are registered trademarks of Equinix, Inc. Internet Business Exchange is a trademark of Equinix, Inc.


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Stocks End Higher: A Romney Rally?
Financial and materials shares led stocks higher Thursday, as stocks rose across all sectors. Steve Russolillo on The News Hub looks at whether a strong performance by Mitt Romney in last night's presidential debate had anything to do with it. (Photo: Bloomberg News)
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Opening Everywhere: One Direction: This Is Us, Getaway, Closed Circuit
Opening Somewhere: Passion, The Lifeguard
Movie That I Excluded Last Week Even Though It's Not Playing Anywhere Near Me: Short Term 12
FilmDrunk Suggests: I'm actually really excited to see Getaway, because I've been salivating over this movie for my Worst Movies list ever since I read that Selena Gomez plays a computer whiz simply named, "The Kid." That this film stars Ethan Hawke and not Nic Cage blows my mind, but the commercials still make me giddy as hell every time they play.
One Direction: This Is Us
Rotten Tomatoes Scores: 73% critics, 80% audience
Gratuitous Review Quotes:
The fact is that they are as criminally cute as a basketful of puppies. This Is Us manages to frame that boyish appeal astutely … – David Hiltbrand, Philadelphia Inquirer
"One Direction: This Is Us" leaves the larger questions it points toward teasingly unexplored, making the film little more than a harmless keepsake. – Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times
Armchair Analysis: I don't know if it's because it was directed by Morgan Spurlock or because I'm just slipping in my old age, but I don't mind One Direction nearly as much as I typically loathe pop stars. I think it definitely helps them that Justin Bieber has developed into such a colossal sh*thead and these vanilla ice cream dorks just seem to do their things and not harm anyone. Hell, even Harry Styles and his punchable face have won me over because of his penchant for getting hit in the balls by random objects. Plus, he pissed off Taylor Swift, and I just appreciate the hell out of that.
Rotten Tomatoes Scores: 2% critics, 55% audience
Gratuitous Review Quotes:
The only participant to emerge with its reputation intact–though not its paint job–is the Shelby Mustang muscle car, which also delivers the film's most nuanced and psychologically complex performance. – Christopher Orr, The Atlantic
Getaway has some of the crass trappings of a charmingly crass, go-for-broke action pic like the delightful Crank. But it's too dumb – and far too cynical about what audiences want – to even know how to have fun with them. – Adam Markovitz, Entertainment Weekly
Armchair Analysis: Again, SELENA GOMEZ PLAYS A COMPUTER EXPERT NAMED "THE KID." Someone paid money to make this movie. Several people might pay money to see it. Look, I'm a blue-blooded American male and Gomez's new "I'm a sexy adult" routine works for me, but she should have stayed far, far away from this one.
Closed Circuit
Rotten Tomatoes Scores: 45% critics, 51% audience
Gratuitous Review Quotes:
The lawyers are supposed to be former lovers, but the film doesn't allow the leads to display any chemistry; likewise, it doesn't generate any suspense from its tried-and-true conspiracy premise. – Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader
It's a film that eschews intrigue and insinuation for government agents who monologue about the dangers of free speech and fair trials while garroting their victims. – Barbara VanDenburgh, Arizona Republic
Armchair Analysis: I saw a commercial for this and immediately forgot about it.
Rotten Tomatoes Scores: 38% critics, 30% audience (OUCH)
Gratuitous Review Quotes:
I have no objection to DePalma laughing at himself. But his heart's not in it. Neither is his libido. Passion lacks the promise of its title. It's dead inside. – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"Passion" is often sleek and enjoyable, dispensing titillation, suspense and a few laughs without taking itself too seriously. – A.O. Scott, New York Times
Armchair Analysis: This is the movie that has Noomi Rapace and Rachel McAdams making out. I'd be excited about that, but I've seen Black Swan like 2,000 times now, so this better be really good.
The Lifeguard
Rotten Tomatoes Scores: 13% critics, 34% (OUCH TIMES INFINITY)
Gratuitous Review Quotes:
The central character simply comes across as whiny and entitled instead of troubled and dark, and the central theme of getting your groove back by acting like a kid again has been done many times by much more talented filmmakers. – Kyle Smith, New York Post
The movie's being billed in some quarters as a comedy, which is a hell of a stretch given that the plot expands to take in statutory rape and teen suicide. – Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Armchair Analysis: I said it before and I'll say it again – this movie looks creepy as hell. I don't really want to see any actress – even geek queen Kristen Bell, who I admittedly just don't get – having an affair with a high school boy. It's just weird.
Short Term 12
Rotten Tomatoes Scores: 98% critics, 87% audience
Gratuitous Review Quotes:
An emotionally authentic examination of the lives of those who live in and work at a children's home where the lines between the inhabitants and the caretakers isn't as clear as one might suppose. – James Berardinelli, ReelViews
"Short Term 12" is that rare movie gutsy enough to tell the truth about love: that it's not a poetic longing or a magical-thinking happy ending, but a skill. And, the film suggests, we all have the capacity to learn it. – Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
Armchair Analysis: I received a message through the UPROXX tubes last week that I should have included this movie in last week's WMG because it's better than The Mortal Instruments. Well, for starters, everything is better than The Mortal Instruments, but this movie appears to only be in theaters in New York City and Los Angeles. I try to only include movies with wide or limited-but-on-demand openings, in case you're ever wondering why my choices are sometimes so limited. But if I ever miss a movie, feel free to let me know and I'll add it, and if you live in one of those cities, let me know how this is, because I'd like to see it eventually.


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In August 2012, Jack Link's Major League Fishing chose Chautauqua Lake in western New York to hold its six day General Tire Summit Cup competition. Produced by the Outdoor Channel, the event features seven episodes which will premiere at 9 p.m. ET on Thursday, January 3, 2013 and run for six weeks. The Championship Round will air on the NBC network on February 9, 2013 at 1 p.m. ET, re-airing on the Outdoor Channel the following week. Each day of the competition comprises one episode with the seventh episode showcasing insider fishing tips.
"We had a great event at Chautauqua Lake, and I can't wait for sports fans to watch how these top-level anglers performed with no practice on one of the finest venues in the country," said Major League Fishing Commissioner Don Rucks.
This is the second televised event for Major League Fishing, a partnership between Outdoor Channel and 24 of the world's best anglers. The league features made-for-television bass fishing events designed to bring high-level challenges to participants and entertainment, as well as insight, to audiences.
Tom Hornish, Outdoor Channel President and CEO, said "Major League Fishing is among the cornerstone original programs appearing on our network in the first quarter of 2013. We know there is significant interest in the world of pro bass fishing among our viewers and are pleased to have worked closely with the league to offer the series on both Outdoor Channel and NBC."
Major League Fishing's made-for-television events utilize a format that allows anglers to weigh all the score-able bass that they catch. The bass are immediately weighed after they are caught, then released back into the water. Anglers know where they rank in the standings at all times via real-time leader boards in their boats. The competitors are not allowed to practice before events and knew the Chautauqua Lake destination only two days prior to the start of the Summit Cup.
At 18 miles long, one to three miles wide, and 1308 feet above sea level, Chautauqua is western New York's largest inland lake, supporting recreational and tournament fishing for large and small mouth bass, muskellunge, northern pike, and walleye. The Summit Cup tournament was sponsored by the Chautauqua County Chamber of Commerce, the Chautauqua County Visitors Bureau, Chautauqua Institution, and Chautauqua Suites Hotel and Expo Center.
For more information on fishing on Chautauqua Lake, contact the Chautauqua County Visitors Bureau at 716-357-4569 or visit the website at www.tourchautauqua.com/fishing.aspx. Information on fishing regulations can be found in the NYDEC Fishing Guide online.
The Outdoor Channel is an independent cable network dedicated to the outdoor lifestyle and conservation and provides a complete spectrum of hunting, fishing, shooting and adventure entertainment. Outdoor Channel is received by 39 million U.S. households – the largest outdoor TV footprint in the country – and is available in more than 50 countries internationally.


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Phone: 503-823-7740
Fax: 503-823-6995
MAILING ADDRESS: 1120 SW 5th Ave, Room 1000, Portland, OR 97204
Phone: 503-823-7740
Fax: 503-823-6995
MAILING ADDRESS: 1120 SW 5th Ave, Room 1000, Portland, OR 97204
Stormwater runoff in a large part of Portland drains into a combined sewer system. As part of the Tabor to the River Program's integrated approach, Environmental Services works with private property owners to manage stormwater on their properties to help keep runoff out the combined sewers. Environmental Services can help property owners install rain gardens, stormwater planters, swales, ecoroofs, and pervious pavement on sites that meet program criteria.
These facilities collect runoff from roof and paved areas and allow it to soak into the ground instead of flowing into the sewer system. Using natural processes to manage stormwater at its source helps control combined sewer overflows to the Willamette River and reduces the risk of sewers filling to capacity and backing up into basements during heavy rains.
These kinds of stormwater management facilities also reduce sewage treatment costs, replenish groundwater supplies and beautify neighborhoods. The city provides substantial financial and technical assistance with project construction and the facilities remain private property and are privately maintained.
Participation in these projects is completely voluntary. Environmental Services contacts property owners in targeted locations about the opportunity to take part in the program.
A big thanks to the 33 southeast Portland home and business owners who installed rain gardens to work with us for clean rivers
Private Property Retrofit Program example projects


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A "trading computer" is a computer that has been specifically built for use with stock trading software platforms. A day trading computer also is built, generally, with the ability to run multiple monitors or trading screens (trading monitors). multi-screens play a significant role in a trader's ability to see all market data as it happens in real-time. Being able to execute a trade efficiently and in a timely manner, with a day trading computer, is the whole reason to have a trading computer and to use multi monitors with it. Why do trading computers seem more expensive than regular computers? The simple answer is that, a trading computer generally uses higher quality components in it's system and also because of the extra care that has to go into building a machine to run multiple monitors effectively. Many people think that throwing a couple of video cards in a prebuilt machine is a cheap way to get a trading computer with multiple monitors, they're wrong. Many traders need lightening fast refresh rates and CPU response times, that can only be achieved with cutting edge, high quality components in a trading computer.
Also, having fast trading monitors makes a huge difference in the ability of the data that is streaming from the internet to your screens. Multiple trading displays are great for use a stock trading computer. Choosing the right forex trading computer company for your multi-screen computers and multi-monitor array displays can be tough. It's best to look at the quality of the components that goes into a trading computer system before making a purchase with any one multiple monitor computer company.
With the surge in trading stocks online, day trading has become quite a unique industry. The day trading computer is now even more needed as it plays a large role in trading stocks efficiently. Day trading computers are generally offered with quad monitors capability with the option to upgrade to more! Be sure that you add to your trading computers with trading monitors for a complete package.