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When I graduated from Borden in 89 I stopped by the Second Chance factory in Michigan on my way to my first posting in Calgary. I purchased a vest which I wore under my uniform for many years afterwards. Yes it was hot in the summer, however, I've worn external armour too in the summer. They're both hot. Of the two, I prefer the innie not not outtie. It is I suppose a matter of choice and preference. At least they're buying them for the guys. Mine was not not cheap, it would have been nice to have had the system provide.
Now that I've moved up into the Junior Leagues from tee-ball and awaiting draft by the Pros, we have an option to wear internal or external.
However the whole thing about "external vest provokes people"/"Makes officers less approachable" is a load of horse-feces. People are intimidated by police because we're police/law enforcement and carry a gun, especially in the light of every single foul remark and "Excessive Force" being put into the public eye (ex: RCMP lately) people are just generally intimidated and are incredibly biased these days. The vest is not the repellent, it's the firearm, the uniform, the badge, the authority that further divides the people and the police because a handful of bad apples is ruining the orchard.
One of our favourite supervisors got canned after he took time on his days off to go around to every hospital in the region and surveyed 100 people at each location on what they thought of having Protective Services/Security personnel equipped with body armour. The results? Majority of the nearly 1200 people surveyed said they felt more comfortable knowing that the people protecting hospital-goers and staff, having to restrain violent people and such; were protected with body armour.
That sounds pretty high speed. Just to be on the same page here, who are the junior leagues you're with now and who's the pros you're awaiting to join?
In response I gotta say this sounds like horse crap, too. While I'm not a LEO it sounds like a mix of ego, leg humping and inexperience.1. Saying why exactly people are intimidated by the police is a pretty big assumption. I don't think you can rightly speak for all Canadians, can you?
2. Canadian police don't seem to have the same image that US State Troopers do. I don't think most Canadians have had police pull pistols on them or are very much intimidated by police because of their handgun.
3. You should do some reading. You might be surprised at what kind of difference wearing something large and visual like a vest can elicit from people. In Bosnia we noticed a huge difference in our interactions with people when we took our LBVs off. Something even as silly as how you arrange crap on your desk can have a considerable reaction on a conversation you have with someone.There is a lot of psychology involved. Like the difference between crossing your arms by your chest and crossing your hands over each other by your crotch.
I don't remember hearing about that in the news. Your old boss interviewed 1200 people on his own time? That's pretty big, he must have really believed in what he was doing. Was this survey posted anywhere or was it word of mouth?
Sorry, I was in the process of editing to clarify my post. I am currently an Alberta Sheriff and I'm hoping on moving up into municipal or military policing in the near future.
Well, yes, I am making an assumption as it is also my opinion, it is what I think people are intimidated by; I'm not saying it's fact. In roughly 4.5 years of experience as a Community Peace Officer and Sheriff (CPO being the greater bunch, I've been a Sheriff only for about 8 months now, outside of Staff College trg) that the people regardless of "friendly" or "unfriendly" encounter are not paying attention to and do not care about the body armour, they're too busy looking at what's on your belt, your hands, the insignia on the uniform. I've had more stops and warnings and warrants go south from a calm verbal discussion simply because I'm "a fake cop" or "a power trip" "abusing my authority", "are you going to beat me?" "I know my rights" etc. into people gesturing and beaking off (Mind you, these were only say about 30 out of hundreds of contacts with the public). These people were likely biased to begin with, however I have many of what would appear to be "average Canadians" tell me off to "go fight real crime." However, the majority were pleasant and cooperative.
I dunno, the name sheriff sounds pretty badass. That's surprising. I'd think that Alberta would be a province most accustomed to firearms.I've never dealt with the public as a LEO. I'm just saying that there's examples in the context of body armor/low profile body armor, helmet/no helmet, rifle/pistol etc.. where some people seem to feel it makes a difference. Not saying it's always the case but how I read your response you just brushed it off as irrelevant. Mix up in communication I guess.I'm not dismissing the rest of your response but I think getting into RCMP, good cop/bad cop might be taking the thread off topic. I remember reading about prison guards not being allowed body armor because it upset the inmates or some crap like that and couldn't believe it. LEO's should be allowed to use whatever body armor their department feels they should be using. Being flexible, agile and fast is never a bad thing. If low profile body armor can provide the same level of protection it may not be that bad of an option to consider.
In regards to effectiveness, I'd personally rather go external. Then again, I'm not law enforcement or an MP who has to worry about physical altercations. In most stereotypical combat, if it comes down to a hand to hand fight, you screwed up and if their buddies show up before yours, you're just as dead whether you have the body armor or not. The only place firefights regularly end up going hand to hand is in video games.
Also, if you do receive an injury, I would theorize that it's probably much easier to get someone's body armor off and then cut their clothing as is necessary to treat a wound than it would be to have to remove everything covering the body armor first.
You guys do know that this post has been dormant for almost 3 years, right?
Thanks for pointing out the obvious. But since amancalledhawk reactivated the conversation I choose to contribute.
amancalledhawk is a new member, Necroposting - Not always a bad idea http://army.ca/forums/index.php?topic=87278.0"A new member posts a question in a dormant thread in order to gather more information on the topic in particular and is immediately jumped-upon by more experienced members for the inappropriateness of necroposting."
He's 3 for 3 now.
While s/he didn't contribute much to this conversation, if amancalledhawk had started a new thread, he would have been told to do a search before posting.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
We have the option of internal or external. Most choose external for comfort and ease. I have received some comments from the public but mostly just curiosity. Now if we can just get load bearing vests like the Brits to save my aching back...
While s/he didn't contribute much to this conversation, if amancalledhawk had started a new thread, he would have been told to do a search before posting. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.Since this was brought up again:After this thread was originally posted I sent an email/memo up the chain regarding the specs for the next SBA. I wasn't expecting much from it, but I never even heard if it made it past Coy level. Considering I had some pretty solid sources and used some good research (that you again Dr. Roberts), I am a bit disappointed that I never got any sort of response.


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Los Angeles - OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network posted solid ratings over the weekend with its popular original primetime series "Welcome to Sweetie Pie's" and "Oprah's Next Chapter."
"Welcome to Sweetie Pie's" hit a series high on Saturday, April 7 (9-10 p.m. ET/PT) posting a .60 W25-54 and 593,000 total viewers. The episode grew +22% from the prior week's spring return (Saturday, March 31) and was cable's highest rated original series of the night in its time period for African American women 25-54. The series also ranked #11 in its time period in W25-54 among 97 ad-supported cable networks.
"Oprah's Next Chapter" Sunday, April 8 (9-10 p.m. ET/PT) featuring Bishop T.D. Jakes from his church in Dallas, Texas scored a .70 W25-54 with 759,000 total viewers, up triple digits versus year ago numbers in the key female demo.
"Welcome to Sweetie Pie's" (Saturday, April 7 from 9-10 p.m. ET/PT)
· .60 W25-54 and 593,000 total viewers
· Growth versus prior week: +22% W25-54, +16% total viewers
· Growth versus year ago: +186% W25-54, +121% total viewers
· #1 original program in its time period for AA W25-54 among 97 ad-supported cable networks
· #11 in its time period for W25-54 among 97 ad-supported cable networks
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· Growth versus prior week: +67% W25-54, +55% total viewers
· Growth versus year ago: +133% W25-54, +85% total viewers
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"Welcome to Sweetie Pie's" follows former Ikette Miss Robbie Montgomery and her dynamic family at their St. Louis soul food restaurant Sweetie Pie's. A backup singer for the soul duo sensation Ike and Tina Turner in the 1960s, Robbie Montgomery spent much of her time on tour cooking for the band. After her lung collapsed and she could no longer sing, Robbie took her mother's age-old soul food recipes and opened the restaurant known as Sweetie Pie's. Now with two successful locations, Miss Robbie is upping the ante and preparing to open a third with the help of her son and business partner, Tim. As Tim and his fiancée, Jenae, tend to their newborn son and plan their wedding, Miss Robbie - who, at 71, has never been married - continues to look for love and keep her family in line, especially her wise-cracking nephew Lil' Charles. "Welcome to Sweetie Pie's" follows the loud, loving and still very musical Montgomery family as they struggle with the demands of expanding their family-owned business and creating a legacy to pass on to future generations, one soulful dish at a time. Produced by Pilgrim Studios, Executive Producers are Craig Piligian, Jenn Duncan, Jeff Keane, Tim Brietbach and Steve Luebbert.
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Something you didn't know about Minister Avigdor Lieberman
She was waiting at a hitchhiking post to catch a ride home, when a big car stopped to give her a ride.
She got in, and the driver drove her to her town along the way.
They didn't talk during the ride, but she kept glancing at him, thinking to herself that something was very familiar looking about the driver.
It turns out, the driver was none other than Foreign Minister of Israel Avigdor Lieberman, and it was his security guard sitting in the back seat.
Apparently Foreign Minister Lieberman often picks up hitchhikers and drives them home, even going slightly out of his way when it's a nearby town. And he drives the car, not some Knesset driver and not his security guard. I've now heard this from a few people he's given rides to, and if the hitchhikers talk to him, he's happy to talk to them in return.
That's a real mensch in so many ways. That's simply unusual.
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10 comments:
He's a fascist who doesn't give rides to Arabs.
- 7:55 PM, August 17, 2011
Thanks for sharing that. Wouldn't it be great if more of our politicians were menches:)
- 8:00 PM, August 17, 2011
- Juniper in the Desert said...
What a great guy! :))
- 8:07 PM, August 17, 2011
Your female friend got in a car with 2 male bruisers she didn't know or recognize and she didn't even have to think twice about it!
What a country!
- 8:13 PM, August 17, 2011
972mag, he doesn't give rides to people who are likely to attack him. He'd gladly give a ride to a Druze.
- 9:55 PM, August 17, 2011
Any Israeli politician who is consistently vilified by self-hating Jews like Tom Friedman and Roger Cohen in The New York Times must be a true menche.
- 10:18 PM, August 17, 2011
Rule number one of tremping is not to get into the front seat of a car if someone is in the back.
- 12:16 AM, August 18, 2011
A dictionary, please! What the hell is a "mensch". "Oy vey", I never understand those weird and ugly sounding yidish slangs.
- 9:13 AM, August 18, 2011
@ anonymous 9:13 am
- 12:35 AM, August 19, 2011
- how to start a security company said...
Who is the usual self-hating Jews like Tom Friedman and Roger Cohen in "The New York Times" must be a real menche defame any Israeli politician. Your female friend got 2 male fanatics in the car, she does not know or admit that she did not even think twice!
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The end of a war brings its own logistical challenges. Getting the troops home from the theater of war takes plenty of planning, especially in an environment still significantly unsecure, as in Afghanistan (and in Iraq, for that matter), but the question of retrieving heavy equipment is even more complicated. With the drawdown date set by Barack Obama approaching, the Pentagon has decided to scrap billions of dollars in equipment rather than deal with the logistical and economic consequences of retrieval:
Facing a tight withdrawal deadline and tough terrain, the U.S. military has destroyed more than 170 million pounds worth of vehicles and other military equipment as it rushes to wind down its role in the Afghanistan war by the end of 2014.
The massive disposal effort, which U.S. military officials call unprecedented, has unfolded largely out of sight amid an ongoing debate inside the Pentagon about what to do with the heaps of equipment that won't be returning home. Military planners have determined that they will not ship back more than $7 billion worth of equipment — about 20 percent of what the U.S. military has in Afghanistan — because it is no longer needed or would be too costly to ship back home.
That has left the Pentagon in a quandary about what to do with the items. Bequeathing a large share to the Afghan government would be challenging because of complicated rules governing equipment donations to other countries, and there is concern that Afghanistan's fledgling forces would be unable to maintain it. Some gear may be sold or donated to allied nations, but few are likely to be able to retrieve it from the war zone.
Therefore, much of it will continue to be shredded, cut and crushed to be sold for pennies per pound on the Afghan scrap market — a process that reflects a presumptive end to an era of protracted ground wars. The destruction of tons of equipment is all but certain to raise sharp questions in Afghanistan and the United States about whether the Pentagon's approach is fiscally responsible and whether it should find ways to leave a greater share to the Afghans.
This may well be the best policy, at least economically speaking, but it looks bad. The cost of bringing back heavy equipment is obviously going to be enormous, and not just because of the space needed for transport back to the US. In Iraq, we had a fairly direct option in lines of communication to transport such equipment, through the port at Umm Qasr. Afghanistan is not only a landlocked country, which means that everything ships by air, but even those lines of communication are complicated. The cost of getting out on this timetable will be that much more expensive.
However, the optics of the decision could be costly, too. If we were leaving as a successful pacification/occupation force, we would have allowed ourselves plenty of time to retrieve our equipment despite the logistical challenges that presents. The need to have that heavy equipment on the ground in an accelerated withdrawal schedule points to the fact that we have not in fact succeeded in Afghanistan in anything other than achieving a stalemate after twelve years of fighting.
We wouldn't be the first world power to end up leaving under those circumstances, and we can argue that we did better than the Russians and the colonial British in leaving on our own terms. The haste of our exit, as exemplified by our abandonment of billions in military resources, makes that argument a little tougher to make, and in that region, the image of weakness is not a good impression to make.


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10 Things Every Pregnant Woman Should Take To The Hospital That ISN'T On Your List
First delivery, we weren't nearly as prepared for the hospital as we could have been. I googled "the list" of what one should bring. I made due and survived on the bare minimum. By the time our second baby arrived, we were seasoned pros. Here are some comfort items that you will want to have with you during your post delivery stay:
1. Your own pillow. The hospital pillows are thin and hard. After pushing a child out of my body I want to luxuriate in comfort, not on a bale of hay covered with a 125 thread-count pillowcase.
2. Portable DVD Player – While people are visiting you, chances are they will hijack the remote and ignore you after a while. That is when you pull out the DVD player and pop in a movie of choice. Instant entertainment!
3. Inflatable bed – for your partner/spouse/labor coach. They will thank you when they see the option that the hospital provides.
4. Shower shoes – no explanation needed.
5. Super Duper Extra Absorbent Mattress-Size Maxi Pads – Hospital issue pads are no match for what you will be up against.
6. Photo outfit for the baby – They take pictures day 2 or 3, so bring something cute!
7. Your own towel and wash cloth
8. Maternity clothes for the ride home – Many women think that they will be skinny after giving birth. Think again.
9. Blankets/jacket/outerwear for the baby – The baby is coming home with you and depending on the climate that you are living in, the baby blankets that the hospital gives you isn't enough.
10. Breast pump – the hospital has lactation consultants. May as well take advantage of the advice while you are there.


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Monday, August 06, 2007
Can't You See That I Am Losing My Marbles? It's Marvelous, Losing Another, Losing Another
Oh, right. There is my hair. My fucking too short, won't even get off my neck in five (five!) ponytails, ridiculously incompetent hair.
And I suppose I could bitch about money. And writing jobs that are actually disguises for advertising campaigns (where has our ethical code gone?).
Or I could complain about this being Aaron's last week in town before he goes on a three-to-four week business trip, oh my hell.
But meh, it's too hot to bitch and complain.
Let's see... good news... good news.. hmmm... good news... oh! Yes! I got some sewing time this weekend. But I can't ruin my friend's birthday surprise so I have to hold off till next Monday. Damn.
You would like me to bitch about that?
15 comments:
- Oil Cloth Junkie said...
oh, honey, 5 ponytails???
- Monday, August 06, 2007
- Angelina said...
I think you could start a girl-band with that hair do.
Why does Aaron have to take such long business trips? I don't think I could deal with that. If I had not kids I would totally LOVE IT. But with kids? ON your own for a month?
Holy shit.
- Monday, August 06, 2007
- LJ said...
you pull off the 5 ponytails very well. did you go out (I mean in public) like that?
- Monday, August 06, 2007
love love love that 'do (i sport one quite similar on hot days here too!)
- Monday, August 06, 2007
- amy h said...
That's how I ended up with shorter hair -- I can't stand to have it on my neck!
Yeah, writing jobs are not easy to come by. I saw one the other day to be a craft-blogger on babycenter at least five days a week, and they asked if you had ANY salary requirement at all. I guess writers don't deserve any salary at all. I'm trying to keep the freelance lines open with my soon-to-be-old job, because I know those financial tight spots pop up.
- Monday, August 06, 2007
- Berber said...
I like the hair :)
- Monday, August 06, 2007
Another trip? Are you being tortured?
I keep wondering why I won't go for a trim on the hair I haven't cut in 15 months. Then I remember, "oh yeah..I never take it out of this stupid clip because it's too hot" Why spend the money? It's too hot for fashion.
- Monday, August 06, 2007
- lera said...
I think your ponytails need to be braided, too. :-)
- Monday, August 06, 2007
- Chickenbells said...
Now that is an interesting hair-do...or is it don't?
- Monday, August 06, 2007
- Amanda said...
Wow. I am a new reader of your blog. You're funny as hell.
- Monday, August 06, 2007
- Heidijayhawk said...
fuck it. do whatever it takes to get your hair off your back! it will grow out. it will grow out. it will grow out.
- Monday, August 06, 2007
- Emy said...
Sweet hair!!!
So maybe the high up pigtails doesn't work.
Buy a whole pack of bobby pins and pin it up. If you do it while it's wet and kind of pin it in circles, it leaves your hair curly when you take it down!
Sorry about the hubby going out of town again. That sucks.
- Tuesday, August 07, 2007
- Chara Michele said...
I don't think I could handle my husband taking such long business trips! (And I don't even have kids to deal with!)
And it is way too hot outside right now to not be able to pull your hair back!!! I am still going with pigtails to try to keep it off my neck. (I tried one ponytail yesterday but it all kept falling out.... still too short.)
Your hair makes me think of this way that Gwen Stefani will sometimes wear her hair... So I had to go and find it. Maybe you should try it? :)
- Tuesday, August 07, 2007
- Amy said...
Oh my. I SO hope you are laughing because I am & I want to be able to say, "I am laughing with you not at you!"
- Tuesday, August 07, 2007
- Me and Him said...
I used to wear my hair like that...when I was about 7.
I'm with Lera, I think you need to braid them.
Can't Aaron take the boys with him, and leave you home alone for the 4 weeks? :)
- Tuesday, August 07, 2007


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February's Most Read
It's been another record-breaking month for traffic on DiS. We had 2,677,492 pageviews this month, which is rather mental. My personal highlight was the DiS Users 100 Albums You've Never Heard thread + Spotify playlist which woulda made it into our most read threads of the month had it not been pipped by the NME thread that inspired it.... I'll try not to waffle too much this month, so here is what you were collectively reading (or at least loading up to post complaints about).
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1) Blondes - Blondes
2) School Of Seven Bells - Ghostory
3) Tindersticks - The Something Rain
4) Burial - Kindred
5) Cast - Troubled Times
1) Rufus Wainwright reveals a teasing taster of his new Mark Ronson-produced album
2) Album Stream: Blondes self-titled debut album
3) The DiS Digest: January 2012's Must Hears
4) "Guitar music's dead? I think that's absolute bollocks!": DiS meets Feeder
5) Brighton's brilliant Great Escape Festival announces first batch of names for 2012 (More names were revealed yesterday here)
Discussion Threads
1) Weekend Football Thread
2) Humorous Pub Quiz Team Names...
3) Tomorrow's NME - The 100 Greatest Albums You've Never Heard...
4) Bands Drinking In The Last Chance Saloon
5) Chris Brown All Is Forgiven?!
Month In Playlist
There's a definite hint of melancholy running through the tracks this month. This perhaps says more about me than it does about February... Subscribe to Drowned in February on Spotify.
School Of Seven Bells 'Lafaye'
Sharon Van Etten 'Serpents'
The Twilight Sad 'Don't Look At Me'
David's Lyre 'In Arms'
Perfume Genius 'All Waters'
Halls 'Lifeblood'
Eight And A Half 'Scissors'
Kate Wax 'Dust Collision'
John Talabot 'Destiny feat. Pional'
Charlotte Gainsbourg 'Paradisco'
Creep 'Animals (feat. Holly Miranda)'
POLIÇA 'Lay Your Cards Out'
Grimes 'Genesis'
Sleigh Bells 'End of the Line'
New Look 'Teen Need'
Phantogram 'Nightlife'
Bright Eyes 'We're Gonna Be Friends'
The Magnetic Fields 'Andrew In Drag'
Andrew Bird 'Eyeoneye'
Field Music 'A New Town'
Tindersticks 'This Fire Of Autumn'
Peter Broderick 'It Starts Hear'
Ólafur Arnalds 'Near Light'
Blondes 'Moondance'
The Kills 'The Last Goodbye'
St. Vincent 'Cheerleader (Acoustic Version)'
Radical Face 'Black Eyes'
I gave this "sigh-fi, slow-wave...cat-gaze..." album a 10/10. It was the first time I've given anything 10/10 since Bright Eyes' I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning which remains one of my favourite albums. Not all of you agreed this is a 'perfect' album but life'd be pretty boring if we all agree on everything, wouldn't it? Many of you were intrigued by the 'hyperbole' and went out and bought it and stuff, which is nice. If you've not heard it, bash the play button above and decide for yourself.
The critical reception that this third School of Seven Bells album has received has been mixed, to say the least. It's the exact album I was hoping M83 was going to make last year and I'm utterly addicted to it. You can read my 9/10 "review" here.
In his 9/10 review Dan Cooper-Gavin wrote:
"Van Etten spent 14 months in the studio with The National's Aaron Dessner, picking over the bones of a shattered relationship. The resulting record, Tramp, reflects the period well – musically, it reaches new heights of richness, urgency and confidence, while lyrically it's every bit as intense and piercing as the back story would suggest.... If Epic was a hidden treasure, Tramp feels like Sharon Van Etten's career-defining album. It's a wonderful record, a colossal achievement, and features some of the most breathtaking, moving and downright beautiful music you'll hear all year."
Animal Joy
DiS' reviews editor Andrzej Lukowski reviewed this one, saying:
"...Seventh album Animal Joy is a more stripped back affair, though only in the sense that, say, Queen are more stripped back than Wagner. The Golden Archipelago's mannered intricacy and air of progginess are dialed back, replaced by a tougher, more direct sound and - on the album's most striking tracks - a surging sense of romance, abandon and joy... a touch stadium rock... the brooding Shearwater of yore are still very much there... swelling and luminous, crystal ripples of synth and angelic backing vocals guiding it home... swooping, eloquent, concerned with nature. You could maybe accuse it of being a touch AOR, but frankly that suits the immensity of the band's sound (and it's not like they didn't sound stadium sized already). Like nature itself, Shearwater simply continue, serenely untouched by vagaries of fashion."
In his 9/10 review George Bass said:
"In three tracks and 30 minutes it shows a more revved-up sound for the recluse, and has already driven scores of bloggers to spew out praise like the proverbial million monkeys. Well, this is monkey 1,000,001. Bevan has successfully morphed from the boy outside the nightclub to the boy who's gone back in, found a space and danced like he's wired up to Guantanamo."
What were your songs and albums of February 2012?


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The baton never even made it into Oscar Pistorius's handicapable hand. He was waiting to run the third leg for South Africa, and could only watch as the runner ahead of him collided with a rival, both going down injured. Everyone, most of all Pistorius, believed his Olympics were over without even getting to run a final time.
Coming around the final turn, Kenya's Vincent Kiilu moved to the outside to pass a runner in his path. That move put him in the way of South Africa's Ofentse Mogawane, who slammed into the Kenyan from behind. They went down in a heap, Mogawane with a dislocated shoulder. South Africa filed an appeal, but they didn't have much hope—appeals are rarely successful when a team fails to even complete the race. "Even a protest isn't any consolation," Pistorius said.
But the IAAF decided to uphold the appeal, announcing their decision less than an hour after the race:
"The Jury of Appeal met and agreed to advance the South African team to the final, even though they did not finish the race, considering that they had been severely damaged in the incident with Kenya," the IAAF said in a statement. "South Africa will run as an additional team in lane 9."
South Africa isn't expected to medal, and wasn't even favored to advance to the finals. But they at least deserve the chance to lose fairly, a chance denied by that strange collision today. And though the relay team is more than Oscar Pistorius, that's what Pistorius's 2012 Olympics have been about: the chance to run.


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The Winn family doll's house at Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire, is a remarkable time capsule of the taste in country house interiors of the 1730s, almost the equivalent of an interior decoration magazine like The World of Interiors today.
The furnishings and furniture were created with a high level of precision and detail, indicating that the house was made as a decorative model for the adults of the family, rather than for the children to play with.
All the fireplaces are copied from James Gibbs's Book of Architecture of 1728. In the early 1730s Sir Rowland Winn, 4th Baronet, was building a new house at Nostell and the doll's house may have been commissioned at that time.
The late John Cornforth has pointed out how the Nostell doll's house also illustrates the function of chinoiserie, or pseudo-oriental decoration, in the less formal spaces of 18th-century country houses.
While the principal or state bedroom is decorated with red velvet, its dressing room next door has walls hung with either Chinese wallpaper or leather hangings imitating Chinese motifs. One of the subsidiary family bedrooms on the floor above has a bed and curtains hung with Indian chintz.
So while 'west' stood for formality and grandeur, 'east' indicated a more intimate, informal and feminine atmosphere. And that characterisation has influenced the meaning of chinoiserie to this day.


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Inside President Barack Obama's 50th Birthday Dance Party
The president marked the milestone at the White House with Tom Hanks, Jay-Z and Chris Rock
From funny gal Ellen DeGeneres to a ninth grader from Dover, Del., President Barack Obama has a history of winning over his constituents – with his moves on the dance floor.
When it came time to celebrate his 50th birthday last Thursday, the president once again proved he's a true Capitol Hill mover and shaker.
Joined by wife Michelle Obama and his two daughters, Malia, 13, and Sasha, 10, economic woes couldn't keep the president from marking the milestone with a White House dance party.
A mash-up of Motown and modern radio hits, including songs by The Temptations, Michael Jackson, Beyoncé and the Black Eyed Peas, were spun by DJ Cassidy, as stars such as Tom Hanks, his wife, Rita Wilson, Charles Barkley, Herbie Hancock, Jay-Z and Chris Rock helped the Obamas celebrate.
Also making a special appearance: Stevie Wonder, who gave Obama a surprise serenade, which included hits like "Sign, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours." Hancock also performed.
The festivities ended at about midnight – but not before the Obama girls led partygoers through the "Electric Slide" and the Dougie dance routine (which Barkley helped Hanks perfect).
Earlier in the night, guests were treated to a BBQ dinner, where they toasted and sang "Happy Birthday" to the president.


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Entitled Mortality and based on his columns for Vanity Fair, Christopher Hitchens' final memoir will be published by Atlantic in the new year.
The forthcoming memoir will be based on the essays, said Atlantic Books, and will be called Mortality. The book had been planned for some time, said a spokesperson.
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Entitled Mortality and based on his columns for Vanity Fair, Christopher Hitchens' final memoir will be published by Atlantic in the new year.
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Just like Asimov, working up the last breath. Cheers!
I feel quite devastated about what Hitch had to go thru in his last months. I hope writing served as an opiate of sorts. I hope he received all the support he wished for. I wish I knew more about his last days.
Damn cigarettes and booze.
Like Hitch, I'm 62, a smoker and drinker. Just quit smoking because a young relative suffers from throat cancer; a lifelong non-smoker. Go figure. Anyway, Hitch continues on in my mind as I continual to reread his memoirs & VF & Slate essays. Thank you Hitch.
So, there is to be more...
Having learned Hitchens was dead, I finally read "Hitch-22".
Essentially an exercise in paltry name-dropping, the memoir is a true stylistic disappointment.
If there is now to be a continuation, there always remains the possibility that I should read it.
I just hope, if and when name-dropping goes forth, that the editors would this time oversee the spelling of non-English names and quotations!
Hardly one is correct in the present memoir, which therefore seems to me infuriatingly parochial (and imperialist).
To name just one example (of, literally, hundreds): the leading Lisbon daily A Republica is cavalierly named as "La Repubblica" - this in a name-dropping memoir that one is invited to take seriously...
Kim Peter said...
How extraordinary that the above should have occasioned no comments!
The slapdash treatment of facts quashes any credibility the author, and his editor, might otherwise have had.
Or is it OK for self-indulgent "Anglos" to despise all names that are not English?


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It's an issue that hasn't gotten much attention, but should be a red alert for first-time buyers and others who supplement their incomes with part-time work: Though part-time earnings are playing an increasingly important role in the post-recession American economy, the income you earn part time may not count when you go to buy a house.
What? Isn't income always income? If you make $42,000 from your regular full-time job and another $18,000 by working part time at a second job, isn't your gross income $60,000?
The IRS would tell you it is. But mortgage lenders may disregard the $18,000 unless you can document that you've been receiving the extra money steadily for two years and the pay is likely to continue.
There might be some wiggle room on this depending on your specific circumstances, but under rules established by the dominant players in the home loan market — Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Housing Administration — part-time income generally isn't "qualifying income" for mortgage purposes until it's been flowing for a couple of years.
The problem can be especially severe for borrowers with moderate incomes who have solid credit histories and have taken on second jobs to support their families. Robert Montalbo, a loan officer in San Antonio with Premier Nationwide Lending, a mortgage banking firm, says he sees many credit-worthy applicants who "get a [part-time] second job to make ends meet" and who simply want a piece of the American dream — to buy a home of their own.
"Even if they can show they've worked at that [part-time] job for 16 months straight I may have to turn them down," Montalbo said in an interview.
But modest-income applicants are hardly alone in confronting the problem. Richard M. Bettencourt Jr., a branch manager with the Mortgage Network Inc., in Danvers, Mass., recounts a recent experience he had with a borrower who earns $96,000 a year. The applicant had been self-employed as a certified public accountant for 12 years but had to close his business because of a heart condition. But two of the CPA's previous clients convinced him to accept part-time positions for their firms. He received regular salaries from both companies but had worked for only one of them for more than two years. As a result, only the salary from that company qualified as "income" for mortgage application purposes; the earnings from the other were deemed ineligible by underwriters.
"Because of the guidelines" — in this case Fannie Mae's rules — "I had to deny him a mortgage because the 'second' job was not on the books for two years," said Bettencourt. "How's that for a scenario?"
Part-time income snags like this could prove to be an increasingly important constraint to the housing market recovery, especially since relatively few prospective buyers who depend on part-time work become aware of the problem until they apply for a loan.
According to data released earlier this month by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 7.9 million Americans were employed part time "for economic reasons" in August — 4.8 million worked part time because of "slack work or business conditions," 2.7 million "could only find part-time work" — and 19.3 million worked part time for "noneconomic reasons."
Keith Hall, who served as commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics between 2008 and 2012 and is now a senior research fellow at George Mason University's Mercatus Center, says the proportion of jobs in the economy that are part-time has been climbing and is now 19.4 percent, up from 17.4 percent just before the recession.
Some analysts predict the percentage could rise even higher if businesses seeking to avoid paying insurance premiums for full-time employees under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) downshift large numbers of positions to part-time.
The two-year rule for counting part-time income has been an industry standard for years, and was recently incorporated into regulations adopted by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The rationale is straightforward: If part-time income hasn't been established for an extended period of time, it may not be dependable or available in the future to make monthly payments on a mortgage. The industry also has restrictions on qualifying seasonal income and overtime earnings.
Equally important, in an era of conservative underwriting and full documentation, there's little likelihood that Fannie, Freddie or FHA will loosen their standards. So homebuyers with part-time income need to know the sobering fact: You may assume that all income is equal. But it's not.
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Republicans may be worried about the potential fallout from the nasty feud between President Trump and Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN). But Marc Short, the White House's legislative affairs director, and others in the White House are reportedly also concerned about another GOP senator who could be a wild card in the push for tax reform: Kentucky contrarian Rand Paul.
Paul is sending signals that he'll vote against the Senate budget resolution, Politico's Burgess Everett and Josh Dawsey report. And while Paul has worked with the White House on a forthcoming executive order to expand association health plans — which would allow small businesses and other groups to join together to buy health coverage — he was a key opponent of some of the GOP's Obamacare repeal-and-replace proposals and hasn't been shy about publicly criticizing the nascent tax reform effort.
"The danger for this bill right now is the pay-for may be a middle-class tax hike. And if that's that, it's going to be a real problem," Paul told Politico. "If you lower the taxes on the rich and lower the taxes on the poor and then say, 'Oh, it's going to be revenue neutral,' we've got to raise somebody's taxes to pay for it."
Paul officially says he's undecided on the budget and the tax plan, and he may still be able to win changes to one or both. But for now, that sure sounds a lot like a "no."


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Attorney: Palatine flight attendant didn't know she had gun
The longtime American Airlines flight attendant stopped Friday at an O'Hare International Airport security checkpoint didn't know she had a loaded gun in her carry-on bag, her attorney said Saturday.
Sheila Schultz, 65, of Palatine nodded just once and otherwise stood silently Saturday afternoon in a crowded Chicago courtroom before Cook County Judge Israel Desierto, who set her bail at $10,000.
Defense attorney David Studenroth said Schultz's husband accidentally left the gun -- a fully loaded .22 caliber revolver -- in the travel bag without her knowledge.
Schultz, a 44-year airline employee with no arrest record, was taken into custody at about 9:30 a.m. Friday after Transportation Security Administration agents discovered the weapon in an X-ray machine during routine screening.
Studenroth wouldn't elaborate after the brief bond hearing, saying he didn't want to jeopardize the defense he intends to present.
"I will say there is a reason, there is an explanation," said Studenroth, whose offices are in Park Ridge.
Schultz, of the 1200 block of North Grove Avenue, faces a felony charge of boarding an aircraft with a weapon and possessing a firearm without a valid firearm owner's identification card, a misdemeanor.
Schultz's husband and one of her two adult sons attended the hearing, but declined to comment. They immediately posted the required 10 percent bail, or $1,000, for Schultz's release.
Her next court date is Friday, Nov. 30, at the Branch 50 court building, 5555 W. Grand Ave., Chicago.


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This was Week 13 of the MLS offseason, so maybe we shouldn't have been surprised that it delivered raging sandstorms, torrential rain and a freak injury to a young star.
There were also some underwhelming preseason results, and a hot-blooded scrimmage that produced nine cards and two apparent injuries.
But it wasn't all black cats and broken mirrors in Week 13, not by a long shot: There were some exciting and significant player signings, big TV deals announced in both Canada and the US and soaring anticipation for Tuesday's CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinal in Columbus—the official start of the 2011 season for the Crew and Real Salt Lake.
Let's knock wood and take a look.
Kickoff in Columbus
Weather and injuries impacted preseason games in Arizona, and both could figure in Tuesday's CCL quarterfinal at Crew Stadium.
Monday's forecast calls for a mix of rain and snow in Columbus, with a low of 28. The precipitation should be gone by tomorrow night, but the projected low for Tuesday is 23. Whatever kind of weather turns up, it'll be a far cry from the sunny preseason these two teams just experienced.
The Crew may also have some injury concerns. Left back Shaun Francis (leg) and midfielder Dilly Duka (abdomen) both picked up knocks in Columbus' final preseason scrimmage, a 4-2 loss to Houston last Thursday. The Crew will certainly miss them if they can't go Tuesday night.
As for that loss to the Dynamo, it was an oddly chippy affair: There were three red cards and six yellows in addition to the two injuries. All in all, the Crew did not end their preseason on a high note.
WATCH: Warzycha, Meram recap defeat to Houston
[inline_node:329098]Real Salt Lake, on the other hand, appear to be in pretty good shape on the eve of the CCL quarterfinal. They wrapped up their preseason schedule with a solid 2-0 win over Chivas USA this past Tuesday.
RSL do have two key attackers—Fabian Espindola and new signing Arturo Alvarez—who are slightly nicked up, but coach Jason Kreis has been pleased with the preseason showing of Brazilian Paulo Jr. and could start him up top alongside Alvaro Saborio on Tuesday night.
The return leg is on March 1, and the aggregate winner will become the first US-based club ever to reach the semifinals of the tournament in its current format.
"Scottish Barbecue Weather"
After RSL and the Crew left Arizona ahead of their CCL clash, conditions in the Grand Canyon State turned for the worse.
In Casa Grande, high winds kicked up a sandstorm powerful enough to stop a scrimmage between Houston and Portland with 10 minutes to play (it finished 0-0, as neither team could mount much offense in the biblical conditions).
WATCH: Sandstorm mars Houston-Portland scrimmage
Fifty miles to the north, in Phoenix, two days of gusting wind and heavy rains—"Scottish barbecue weather," as Vancouver assistant Colin Miller described it for The Province—marred two Whitecaps games. Vancouver slogged through a 2-2 draw with the US U-18s on Saturday, then had Sunday's meeting with the Galaxy postponed due to unplayable field conditions.
It wasn't surreal weather but a freakish landing that undid Sporting Kansas City striker Teal Bunbury this past Tuesday. The rising young forward dislocated his elbow—an injury every bit as painful as it sounds—after colliding with Houston defender Andrew Hainault in the Dynamo's 3-1 preseason win. Bunbury could miss up to four weeks.
Chivas USA Fill Mustache Void
As one astute commenter on this site put it, Chivas USA's acquisition of veteran defender Heath Pearce not only shores up the Goats' back line, it also "fills the mustache void" created by last season's departure of midfielder Sacha Kljestan.
Chivas sent allocation money to FC Dallas in exchange for Pearce, and the transaction was not the only significant player movement—or mustache-related news—of the week.
The biggest player-acquisition development, of course, was D.C. United's announcement on Wednesday that it had signed striker Charlie Davies to a one-year loan deal. The move represents another milestone in the US forward's remarkable comeback from an October 2009 car accident that nearly claimed his life.
Davies—who promised The Washington Post that he will bring back the Stanky Leg goal celebration, and introduce another one, as yet unrevealed—moves to the top of the offseason's list of big-name signings.
In other notable moves, Portland acquired winger Sal Zizzo from Chivas USA for allocation money, while San Jose made Khari Stephenson's loan a permanent move, and re-signed 2010 Golden Boot winner Chris Wondolowski.
New England announced a deal for Argentine center back Franco Coria, while Real Salt Lake re-upped with veteran defender Nat Borchers through 2014.
[inline_node:327709]New England and RSL also rounded out your mustache news of the week, as Revs defender Ryan Cochrane is currently sporting a luxurious lip sweater, and Salt Lake wingback Robbie Russell is rocking a look his teammates have dubbed "the Kimbo Slice."
Clearly, Matt Pickens raised the bar last season.
Pickens and his Colorado teammates scored an impressive win on Wednesday, dispatching Landon Donovan and the LA Galaxy 4-2 in Arizona. The Rapids got two goals from Conor Casey and one apiece from trialists Caleb Folan and Steve Emory.
In Florida, rookie Ryan Kinne and veteran Shalrie Joseph each hit the net to pace the Revs in a 2-0 win over the University of Central Florida, while Philadelphia fell to third-tier Orlando City SC 1-0 after new signing Carlos Valdes was red-carded in the 19th minute. The Chicago Fire tied Florida Gulf Coast University 2-2.
In Mexico, the Red Bulls let a 2-0 lead over CD Guadalajara slip away, falling 3-2 on a 90th-minute goal from Jorge Mora.
Soccer Night(s) in Canada
It was a busy week for MLS execs, too, as the league announced a new four-year partnership with Allstate Insurance, extended its TV deal with Fox Soccer Channel for one year and inked a six-year contract with TSN, which now becomes the official national broadcaster of MLS in Canada through the 2016 season.
The Fox extension includes 20 exclusive games and three playoff matchups, one of which will be a conference final.
TSN and TSN2 will televise 24 MLS games involving Canadian teams Vancouver and Toronto, with the bulk of them falling on Saturday nights. When Montreal join the league in 2012, that number will climb to a minimum of 30.


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This dessert was inspired by peach and almond galettes from Coles magazine summer edition. I replaced the peach with nectarines, and couldn't be bother to cut the pastry into circles. I didn't actually plan to make the banana ice cream, but after I pulled the tarts out of the oven, they looked desperately needs some companion of something cold or creamy. Having just finished 2 lt of ice cream the previous week, I tried to find a healthier replacement other than yoghurt. Then, I remember that I bought a bag of over ripe bananas (1 BIG bag for $1.90!!), and froze most of them. And I thought, hmmm, I came accross a simple banana ice cream recipe on vegan family vs omni world, stonesoup, and a few weeks later on where's the beef? . I don't know why it took me ages to make this ice cream, despite all the reviews, maybe I was being too skeptical. It was really easy to prepare, so sooooooo good, and because all the bananas were already over ripe, I didn't need to add more sugar to sweeten it. Give it a go, highly recommended if you crave for something sweet.
ingredients :
- 1 sheet frozen puff pastry, thawed
- 1 large nectarine
- 2 tbsp butter / margarine
- 2 tbsp almond meal / flake almonds
- 1 tbsp + 1 tsp brown sugar
- 1 cup frozen banana
- preheat the oven 200 c or 180 c fan forced
sliced the nectarine about 1/2 cm thick wedges
in a food processor, blend almond meal (or any nuts you have in hand), 1 tbsp brown sugar, and butter until the consistency resemble a paste
slice the puff pastry sheet in half, cut the pastry into 2 quarters and place on greased baking tray
spread the butter-almond mix on the pastry, arrange the nectarine wedges on top of it
sprinkle with the remaining of the sugar, bake for 20 min or until the pastry puffed up, and turn golden
while waiting for the tarts to cool of, whizz frozen banana in a food processor, if its too dry, add 1 tbsp of water / soy milk, blend until smooth and creamy
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Tales of epicly long labors usually involve a matter of many hours, or maybe even a few days. But one woman in Poland has laid all of those tales to waste: She was in labor for a whopping 75 days. Fortunately for her, it wasn't all active labor with full-force contractions, but it still sounds hellish.
Joanna Krzysztonek was carrying triplets when she went into labor extremely early. One of the fetuses was born prematurely and died. So, to save the other two, the doctors had her do something unusual: lay nearly upside down in an attempt to keep the babies in. She assumed the awkward position and held it for weeks. Fortunately, her doctor said they managed to ease her contractions, but she was considered to be in labor from the time the first child was born. Finally, after two and a half months of lying almost upside down, on February 15th, she gave birth to a Iga, a girl, and Ignacy, a boy.
The babies were born at 32 weeks and are still in the hospital, but they're expected to go home soon. Joanna had problems balancing after she no longer had to be upside down, but she's adjusted and is able to visit her babies. It's a good thing everything worked out after all of the difficulty, and this will probably make excellent leverage for the future. "I didn't lie upside down for 75 days so you could talk to me like that, young man!" "I was upside down for 75 days so you could be here. The least you could do is bring me breakfast in bed!"
Woman endures labor for 75 days to save babies [MSNBC]
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-- In a cup with lotsa ice! :)
What television show are you willing to stay up late to watch?
-- I'm always up late anyway, so I watch anything that is interesting.
Name one person, place, or thing you think of as brilliant.
-- The Internet :D
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Today's regular post follows this update.
The time for voting is nearing the end. I am nominated in the 'best overall' and the 'best personal' categories. Shannon at Half Soled Boots is nominated in Best Blog Post and Belinda at Whatever He Says in Best Religion and Spirituality categories. If you could spare a moment to vote, that would be often YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE CANADIAN TO VOTE. Too, you may want to pop around the various blogs for a good look see. I found some cool new blogs. The list of all that are nominated in each category is there. And here's where you vote.
This is for the first round, the second round will begin later in December. In this round you can vote only once, in the next round you can vote daily. I'll let you know if I make it to the next round.
Thanks for your support.
Tuesday, December 06, 2011
Canadian Blog Awards
4 comments:
Where is the link for the vote? I'll go look for it, but you'll probably get more votes if you give a link.
- 6 December 2011 at 13:25
- Dave Hingsburger said...
Hi, I put it up on the post, thanks, Dave
- 6 December 2011 at 13:30
- Lene Andersen said...
I voted for your already!
I'm also nominated in the Best Blog Post category - for the post you highlighted the other day (Sensitive to the D-word). I'm not expecting to win, but it's a thrill being nominated.
- 6 December 2011 at 20:12
- does i doser work said...
I just love reading your blogs. Sure you are going to make it through to the next round. +1 vote fir you!
- 6 December 2011 at 23:53
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VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) Juevol Myles scored 22 points, overshadowing a record-setting night by Nate Wolters, as South Dakota defeated South Dakota State 74-71 Saturday.
The Coyotes (7-10, 3-2 Summit) led by 20 points early in the second half before hanging on to defeat South Dakota State (11-6, 2-2).
Wolters scored 26 points in the losing effort to become the Jackrabbits' all-time leading scorer with 1,943 career points. He surpassed Mark Tetzlaff's mark of 1,931 set from 1981-85.
Brandon Bos added 16 points for South Dakota, including a 3-pointer to open the second half to put the Coyotes ahead 45-25. Casey Kasperbauer had 14 points and Trevor Gruis 12.
Chad White scored 16 points and Brayden Carlson 11 for South Dakota State, which used a 14-2 run midway through the second half to get within single digits and got as close as 72-71 on Jordan Dykstra's 3-pointer with 4 seconds left.


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Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies
I don't deal well with failure. Quinn likes to say that I would have made a terrible scientist. I like things to work well the first time.
When working on a recipe, sometimes you have to accept failure, learn from it, and try to make changes to make it work. Then there are the other times. The times when everything goes just as it should and the outcome is just as you'd hoped. This is one of those times.
These cookies worked on my first try. And that makes me very happy. Granted, the recipe isn't overly complicated. But, if you think it's difficult to mess up a cookie recipe, you might want to reconsider that.
Regardless of how I got there, I'm pleased to share this little twist on chocolate chip cookies. The thing that makes these different, as you can tell by the title, is the presence of my good friend cream cheese. The amount of butter for a traditional chocolate chip cookie is reduced and replaced with a good dose of cream cheese. These cookies are a little cake-y and just the right amount of sweet.
Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies
Yield: about 48 cookies
Prep Time:20 minutes
Cook Time:15 minutes
- 2 & 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup packed light brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 & 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 & 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
- Preheat oven to 350°. Grease or line baking pans.
- Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
- Beat butter, cream cheese, sugar, and brown sugar until fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, mixing well after each addition. Mix in vanilla.
- Gradually add flour mixture, mixing until almost combined. Add chocolate chips, stirring until dough is thoroughly mixed.
- Drop dough by tablespoonfuls onto prepared pans. Bake 12-15 minutes, or until edges are lightly browned. (These cookies will not brown like classic chocolate chip cookies.)
- Cool cookies completely on pan on wire racks.


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Short Voting Lines On Final Weekend Before Election
Voters had a pleasant surprise and some relief at voting centers Saturday. In-person voting started for most California counties on Halloween weekend.
Voters had a pleasant surprise and some relief at voting centers Saturday. In-person voting started for most California counties on Halloween weekend.
President Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and his campaign counsel Jenna Ellis on Wednesday floated the idea to Pennsylvania Republicans that the state legislature could decide on its own to give the state's 20 Electoral College votes to Trump, despite the state's certifying that Joe Biden won the Nov. 3 election in the state.
The settlement between Fox News and Rich's parents, Joel and Mary Rich, was publicly disclosed Tuesday, but with no details about the terms.
A South Korean court has sentenced the operator of a vast online sex trafficking ring to 40 years in prison in a case that outraged the nation. Cho Ju-bin, 25, oversaw a group of 38 accomplices who befriended and then blackmailed at least 74 women into sharing explicit videos that were then posted in pay-per-view internet chat rooms. Sixteen of the victims were less than 16 years old, the age of consent in South Korea. The Seoul Central District Court on Thursday found Cho guilty of violating laws to protect minors from sexual abuse and of making a profit from producing and selling abusive footage, Yonhap News reported. Indicted on 14 criminal charges, including inducing another person involved in the trafficking ring to rape a teenage girl and concealing more than £70,000 in criminal proceeds, prosecutors had initially demanded a life sentence on the grounds of the "irreperable damage" Cho had caused his victims. They had also requested that he be obliged to wear an electronic monitoring device for 45 years. In a petition to the court, one of the women said Cho, who had worked in an orphanage and adopted the online name "The Doctor", was "evil" and deserved a 2,000-year prison term. Passing sentence, the judge said: "The accused has widely distributed sexually abusive content that he created by luring and threatening many victims." Media reports have suggested that some of the video clips showed a group of men raping a teenage girl in a motel room, while others included images of the word "slave" cut into a woman's body. One video showed girls "barking like dogs", the Kookmin Ilbo newspaper reported. Cho operated the chat room on the Telegram messenger service, with at least 10,000 people accessing the site and paying as much as £1,000 for access. Authorities have been tracing people who used the site and have identified serving police officers and teachers as among the users. Cho's arrest in March sparked fury across South Korea after prosecutors initially refused to name the suspect before his trial opened. Within days, more than 5 million people had signed petitions on the home page of Moon Jae-in, the South Korean president, demanding that the authorities withdraw his right to anonymity. A committee of senior judicial officials, a psychologist and a psychiatrist weighed the public's right to know and took the unprecedented step of naming Cho. He was then brought out in handcuffs from a police station in central Seoul to face the public. "I apologise to those that I hurt", Cho said. "Thank you for putting a brake on the life of a devil who could not be stopped." South Korea's Ministry of Justice has been the target of criticism for its failure to deal with the growing use of technology to carry out sex crimes, with one ministry official admitting that the case had been "a disaster" and apologising for its "lukewarm response" to online sexual abuse cases.
With communications largely cut to the Tigray region, both sides in the conflict are trying to control the narrative.
Journalist Eli Lake, an aggressive critic of the government's handling of the investigation into Trump and Russia, said that while there was a "scandal" in how the FBI conducted parts of its investigation, there was not a "deep state conspiracy."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday phoned Jonathan Pollard, the former U.S. Navy analyst convicted of spying for Israel in the 1980s, telling him: "We're waiting for you." The U.S. Justice Department announced last Friday that Pollard had completed his parole, clearing the way for him to move to Israel 35 years after he was arrested. "You should have now a comfortable life where you can pursue, both of you can pursue your interests," Netanyahu said in a conversation with Pollard and his wife Esther.
A lawyer for Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite charged with finding girls in the 1990s for financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse, said Tuesday that her client is awakened every 15 minutes in jail while she sleeps to ensure she's breathing. Attorney Bobbi Sternheim told a Manhattan judge that Maxwell faces more restrictive conditions than inmates convicted of terrorism or murder. Maxwell has no history of mental health issues or suicidal ideation and no criminal history, either, she said. She asked a judge to intervene on her client's behalf to improve her conditions at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. In her request, Ms Sternheim made no direct reference to Epstein taking his life in August 2019 in his cell at another federal lockup, in Manhattan. US District Judge Alison J. Nathan instructed defense lawyers and prosecutors to confer over the next week over Ms Sternheim's request that the Brooklyn facility's warden directly address the concerns. A spokesperson for prosecutors declined comment. A message for comment was sent to the Federal Bureau of Prisons spokespeople. Maxwell, 58, has pleaded not guilty to charges that she procured three girls for Epstein to abuse in the mid-1990s. She has been held without bail while she prepares for a July trial.
President-elect urges Americans not to 'surrender to the fatigue' as surging infections and growing crisis surround holiday
As of Thursday, none of the Trump campaign's 22 lawsuits challenging the 2020 presidential election results have been successful.
You don't have to wait until #smallbusinesssaturday to shop smallOriginally Appeared on Architectural Digest
A mine in the Red Sea off Saudi Arabia's coast near Yemen exploded and damaged an oil tanker Wednesday, authorities said, the latest incident targeting the kingdom amid its long war against Yemen's Houthi rebels. The blast happened before dawn and struck the MT Agrari, a Maltese-flagged, Greek-managed oil tanker near Shuqaiq, Saudi Arabia.
The state premier of Thuringia on Thursday announced a first mass test for children in the district of Hildburghausen, Germany's coronavirus hotspot, to find out to what extent they contribute to a rapid surge in infections. The east German district saw a record 603 cases per 100,000 people in the past seven days, more than four times Germany's average incidence of 140, according to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases. "We will now conduct the first mass test for children and young people, who can be tested for free, starting next Tuesday," Bodo Ramelow told broadcaster ARD.
In 2019, about 567,715 homeless people were living in the United States. While this number had been steadily decreasing since 2007, in the past two years it has started to increase. For New York City, even before COVID-19, 2020 was already turning out to be a record year for homelessness. But as the lockdown commenced in mid-March, the 60,923 homeless people staying at the city's shelter system found themselves disproportionately affected by the pandemic.That's not all of the city's homeless, of course; the 60,000-plus doesn't include homeless people hidden within patient rolls and emergency department waiting rooms. In 2019, the city's annual count of hospital homeless shows more than 300 on any given night who are patients or using the hospital as temporary shelter.As a health care practitioner, educator and researcher in the field of public health and social epidemiology who works in the city, I'm fully aware of the challenges faced and the tragedies already seen. As of May 31, the New York Department of Homeless Services had reported 926 confirmed COVID-19 cases across 179 shelter locations and 86 confirmed COVID-19 deaths. In April alone, DHS reported 58 homeless deaths from COVID-19, 1.6 times higher than the overall city rate. While there is no reliable analogous data for other cities, what happens in New York can be a lesson for others. Homeless shelters are vulnerableThe susceptibility of the homeless population to COVID-19 is not unique to New York City. Homeless shelters nearly everywhere are particularly vulnerable to disease transmission. Shelters are typically unequipped, heavily trafficked and generally unable to provide safe care, particularly to those recuperating from surgery, wounds or illnesses. Add to that the inability to isolate, quarantine or physically distance the homeless from one another during COVID-19. New York City responded by using almost 20% of its hotels as temporary shelter facilities, with one to two clients per room. That helped, but it was hardly a perfect situation. So the question is: Where do homeless patients go to convalesce when discharged from acute medical care, especially in the post-COVID-19 era?Homeless patients discharged from hospitals or clinics who then go to drop-in centers, shelters or the street sometimes do not fully recover from their illnesses. Some inevitably wind up back in the hospital. The result is a detrimental and costly cycle for both patients and the health care system.And the situation continues to deteriorate: Between July 2018 and June 2019, 404 of the city's homeless died – 40% higher than the previous year and the largest year-over-year increase in a decade. There is no data since the outbreak began, but early evidence suggests that the number of deaths is higher between June 2019 and June 2020. Medical respite: A possible solutionMedical respite is short-term residential care for homeless people too ill or frail to recover on the streets, but not sick enough to be in a hospital. It provides a safe environment to recover and still access post-treatment care management and other social services. Medical respite care can be offered in freestanding facilities, homeless shelters, nursing homes and transitional housing.Medical respite has worked in municipalities across the U.S.; health outcomes for patients have improved, and hospitals and insurance providers, particularly Medicaid, have saved money. But these programs are few and far between. In 2016 there were 78 programs operating across 28 states. Most programs are small, with 45% having fewer than 20 beds. The care models vary, but essentially they provide beds in a space designed for convalescence, follow-up appointment support, medication management, medically appropriate meals and access to social services such as housing navigation and benefits assistance. Some programs provide on-site clinical care. Research shows that homeless patients in New York City stay in the hospital 36% longer and cost an average of US$2,414 more per stay than those with stable housing. By discharging patients to respite programs, hospitals reduced emergency visits post-discharge by 45%, and readmissions by 35%. The New York Legal Assistance Group, conducting a cost-benefit analysis, showed savings of nearly $3,000 per respite stay (the provider saved $1,575, the payers saved $1,254) through reduced hospital readmissions and length of stay. Studies outside of New York also show improved health outcomes in a variety of ways. One noted that 78% of patients were discharged from respite "in improved health." Patients showed 15% to 19% increases in connection with primary care after discharge to medical respite. Moreover, at least 10% and up to 55% of medical respite patients who discharged eventually went to permanent or improved housing situations. Next stepsWhile there are agreed-upon national standards for medical respite, program models can adapt to meet the needs of a specific community. Already, dozens of respite models exist across the country, in both major cities and small towns. One complication, however, is the sheer breadth of the medical respite approach. Because it intersects housing, homelessness and health care, medical respite does not fit neatly within a single system and would require collaboration and agreement among multiple city and state agencies.[Deep knowledge, daily. Sign up for The Conversation's newsletter.]Still, a growing number of communities are looking to medical respite to fill the gap. Chicago is partnering with providers to deliver health care to the homeless. This includes providing them with temporary residential facilities and clinics to help blunt the impact of COVID-19. There is a dire need to help the homeless with both housing and health care. Medical respite is a potential solution. It has successfully provided recuperative housing and medical care during a pandemic. Why shouldn't it become a permanent part of our service system?Andrew Lin, Supportive Housing Program Developer at BronxWorks, a non-profit group that offers homeless and housing support services in the Bronx, contributed to this article.This article is republished from The Conversation, a nonprofit news site dedicated to sharing ideas from academic experts. It was written by: J. Robin Moon, City University of New York.Read more: * Busting 3 common myths about homelessness * As few as 1 in 10 homeless people vote in elections – here's whyJ. Robin Moon does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday that Canada will have to wait for a COVID-19 vaccine because the very first ones that roll off assembly lines are likely to be given to citizens of the country they are made in.
'Rejecting Reed will be a major test for the soul of the Biden presidency', petition reads
There's a chance President Trump's pardon of Michael Flynn could backfire some day.Trump on Wednesday pardoned Flynn, his first national security adviser. In 2017, Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contact with former Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Flynn's sentencing was delayed while he cooperated with former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, but earlier this year, Flynn's new legal team accused prosecutors of misconduct and asked to have his guilty plea withdrawn. But Trump's pardon, which he announced in a tweet, means Flynn will theoretically no longer be protected from self-incrimination under the 5th Amendment should he ever be called to testify against Trump.> Not saying the President's legal advisors aren't the best, but by pardoning Flynn, he's taken away Flynn's ability to plead the 5th when asked to testify about the President's involvement. Quite the high risk manoeuvre.> > -- Ben Hammersley (@benhammersley) November 25, 2020As Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe explained to Time in 2017, "anyone pardoned by Trump would lose most of the 5th Amendment's protection against compelled testimony that might otherwise have incriminated the pardoned family member or associate, making it much easier for [the Justice Department] and Congress to require such individuals to give testimony that could prove highly incriminating to Trump himself."There are some caveats, of course. While there is speculation Trump could face criminal charges at some point post-presidency, there is no evidence that will happen. Even if it did, it's still unclear exactly what Flynn is being pardoned for, since, as Politico notes, he was criminally exposed both for lying to investigators and "acting as an unregistered agent for Turkey." So if the pardon is specific, there's a chance Flynn would still have that protection. > Q re: Flynn pardon and 5th Am right against self-incrimin. This rt is waived only w/r/t to illegal conduct he was pardoned for--lying to FBI re: contacts w/ Rus amb, right? I.e., hypothetically if Flynn conspired in some unrelated scheme, he retains 5th Am there? @AshaRangappa_> > -- John Kruzel (@johnkruzel) November 25, 2020More stories from theweek.com 7 cartoons about America's COVID Thanksgiving Our parents warned us the internet would break our brains. It broke theirs instead. This is the most important Thanksgiving of your life
France is leading a push for European Union sanctions on Turkey next month to follow through on a threat made by the bloc in October, but has yet to win support from EU governments beyond Greece and Cyprus, officials and diplomats said. Paris says Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has not heeded EU leaders' warnings on Oct. 1 to back down in a dispute over gas exploration in the Mediterranean or face consequences. The European Parliament on Thursday is expected to call for sanctions, decrying Erdogan's visit earlier this month to the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north of the island of Cyprus.
A leading Saudi women's rights activist who's been imprisoned for 2 1/2 years and drawn attention to the kingdom's hard limits on dissent will be tried by a court established to oversee terrorism cases, her family said Wednesday. The referral of Loujain al-Hathloul's case to the Specialized Criminal Court is a setback for efforts to push for her swift release and means she will face charges related to terrorism and national security. According to a 53-page report released earlier this year by Amnesty International, the court has been used as "a weapon of repression" to imprison peaceful critics, activists, journalists, clerics and others.
The city council hired the lawyers to collect the Trump campaign debt days after the National Guard was sent to help with bodies of COVID-19 victims.
No one is really sure what Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner will do after leaving the White House in January or where they will live, but people who know them are certain they plan on getting out of Washington, D.C., as fast as they can, The New York Times reports. President Trump's daughter and son-in-law have never fit in, several people told the Times, but it's not a sure bet that they will return to New York City. Donny Deutsch, a marketing expert and critic of the president, said he thinks Ivanka and Jared would have an "even harder time than Trump himself" moving back to Manhattan. Trump is "despicable but larger than life," he added. "Those two are the hapless minions who went along."Georgina Bloomberg — daughter of Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City and Democratic presidential nominee — told The Daily Beast earlier this month that Ivanka gets unfair criticism due to her father, and she thinks Manhattan society will be more forgiving. Two friends told the Times Trump could revive her jewelry and clothing lines, peddling it to a conservative audience, but two others said the Ivanka Trump brand is dead and won't sell. As for Kushner, who worked in real estate, Deutsch said he could go back to making deals, and "if he's doing anything with the Trump name, he can monetize it in red areas."The couple could be thinking about settling in New Jersey, where they have a large "cottage" on the grounds of the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster. The town recently received blueprints for renovations to the abode, including expanding the master bedroom and bathroom and adding two bedrooms, a study, and a veranda. There are also plans to build a complex for spa treatments and a "general store" on the property, the Times reports. For more on Trump and Kushner's future — and the drama surrounding their children's schooling in D.C. — visit The New York Times.More stories from theweek.com 7 cartoons about America's COVID Thanksgiving Our parents warned us the internet would break our brains. It broke theirs instead. This is the most important Thanksgiving of your life