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Vice-President Al Gore fought hard to become President Al Gore. He lost. He is now at a crossroads. He must decide whether to be a Patriot- that is, to put the interests of the country before his own- or to be a Litigant. I believe that, in the same situation, most public servants of both parties, would say, "I fought hard. I lost by a slim margin. Now I must allow the country to unite behind the man they have chosen." Those are the words of a Patriot. I don't believe we will hear those words pass the lips of Vice-President Gore until the last members of his party say publicly many are now saying privately: "Give it up, Al." Instead, I believe that we are doomed to hear Litigant Al defiantly whining, "I want to be President. I deserve it. If I can just talk to enough judges, I know I can find one that will help me. I want this." I, I, I. Me, Me, Me.
Gore is trying very hard to convince the American people that contesting this election is just part of the normal process in a close vote. This is NOT TRUE. NEVER in the history of this country has a Presidential election been contested, although there have been many very close votes. In fact, there has never been a contest to ANY statewide election in Florida.
Make no mistake. Regardless of the pretty phrases he uses, his protestations that he is doing this "for the people", and the LIE that this is a normal part of the election process, Gore is trying to OVERTURN THE RESULTS of a Presidential election. This has NEVER been done before, and only God knows what harm it will do to our nation. People all over the country are asking, "Why is Gore doing what no other Presidential loser has ever done? Why is he willing to further weaken the fabric of this country by contesting a Presidential election?"
The Democratic Party has been largely taken over by the trial lawyers of the nation. Gore is surrounded, as is Clinton, by advisors who are almost all lawyers. To those who ask, "Why?", I say he is listening to these unethical lawyers. He is giving heed to evil counsel that says, "What do you have to lose? You've lost the election anyway. Maybe if we get before the right judge, you might have a shot. Let's roll the dice." And they're right. He has nothing to lose. But the country has a great deal to lose. By going ahead with these self-serving, divisive court cases, Al Gore is proving that he is no Patriot.
Democratic apologists have been making the rounds of the talk shows claiming the high ground because they say Bush sued first. While it is true that Bush was the first one who was man enough to put his name on a lawsuit, Al Gore sponsored eight lawsuits within 24 hours of the election. The morning after the election, Palm Beach County was crawling with vermin trying to confuse senior citizens and twisting arms to get them to sign documents stating that they were "confused" by the now infamous Butterfly Ballot. Most of the litigants in these cases are elderly people living on Social Security. Do you think they could afford to hire Alan Gershowitz? No, Al Gore's name doesn't appear on these suits. But his people surely instigated them, and are paying the bill for them.
Bush filed suit because the county Canvassing Boards were clearly violating Florida law by starting hand recounts. The law states that there are only three justifications for hand recounts: (1) Disasters, such as hurricanes that prevented normal operation of the machines. There were none. (2) Evidence that the machines malfunctioned. All the machines were tested both before and after the election using standardized tests, as prescribed by law. (3) Evidence of fraud. If there was any fraud, it was perpetrated by the Democrats who designed the ballot and controlled the entire election process.
So what did they do? They ignored the law, and made up their own. They claimed they had to do hand recounts because people were "confused". Nowhere in Florida law does confusion appear as justification for starting hand recounts. The attorneys in the office of the Chief Elections Officer of the State, Secretary of State Katherine Harris, made it clear that the hand recounts were illegal. Yet many of the counties, run by Democrats, continued. They were encouraged by Democratic Attorney General Bob Butterworth's opinion (which cited no relevant law) that it was all right to do so. By the way, on Butterworth's internet Home Page, he clearly states that the Attorney General is not allowed to give opinions on election matters; all such matters are to be referred to the office of the Secretary of State.
I, along with 600,000 of my fellow citizens, voted on November 7th, 2000, using the so-called. Butterfly Ballot. It was designed by Palm Beach County's Democratic Supervisor of Elections, to help Senior Citizens. You see, we had so many Presidential Candidates that to list them all on one page required type so small that it would be hard to read. She was trying to be nice. Now the Democrats claim the ballot was some kind of plot by Jeb Bush to defraud the voters. Let me see if I can follow this. The Republicans got a Democrat to design and supervise the use of a ballot in order to steal votes from Al Gore... Am I missing something here?
Let's look at the facts. "19,000 people voted for two Presidential candidates in Palm Beach County", cry the Democrats. A terrible number! A huge number! Really? Four years ago, 16,000 Palm Beach County voters did the same thing, in a year with a much smaller voter tumout. Percentage-wise, MORE people voted for two Presidential candidates four years ago than in 2000. Why didn't the Democrats cry out then? Because Clinton won Florida. We have many senior citizens in our County. Even though there are signs telling them exactly what to do, and dozens of poll workers there to help, there are always mistakes. There will always be mistakes.
What about these ridiculous 3,400 votes for Pat Buchanan? Impossible! In the Republican primaries four years ago, Buchanan got 8,000 votes in Palm Beach County. This year, there were 10,400 third-party registered voters in this County, most of them Reform Party. Pat Buchanan has always gotten more votes in Palm Beach than other Florida counties, partly because he has a relative here who campaigns vigorously for him. Is it so unusual that one third of the people who refused to register as either a Democrat or a Republican, who registered with an alternative party, would vote for an alternative party candidate? Now Gore claims that all the voters who voted for Buchanan were really "trying" to vote for him.
If you just listen to the Democrats howl, "19,000 double votes! 3,400 votes for Buchanan!", and don't put the numbers in perspective, they sound ominous. In context, they are reasonable. That's why the Democrats don't ever want you to hear the numbers in context.
Another mantra of the Democrats, repeated often enough to nauseate even the Party faithful, is that there are "thousands of votes that have never been counted." Joseph Stalin was a master of this kind of lie. Say something often enough that has a little bit of truth in it, and the masses will start to believe it. The 11,000 votes in Miami-Dade County that were "never counted" were in fact counted twice: first on election night, and then again in the statewide machine recount. They just didn't have a valid Presidential vote on them. This is not unusual. Nationwide in this election, 1.5% of American voters failed to indicate a preference for President. In Florida that number was 1.6%: statistically insignificant. There may be many reasons why this happens. Some people may forget. Some may just not like either candidate. But to take such a ballot, examine it by hand, and search for some indication of "voter intent" is unfair to everyone. ("Let's see, this person voted Democrat in all the other elections; they MUST have intended to vote for Gore.") You might as well call the Psychic Friends Network and ask them who the people voted for.
Joe Lieberman and other prominent Democrats repeatedly refer to the demonstration in Miami as a "mob", a "riot" and "violent". If any of those descriptions were even close to the truth, why were there no arrests made? There were hundreds of police officers present. These officers are obligated to arrest anyone involved in the acts Lieberman claims took place. Obviously the "riot" is a fantasy dreamed up by the Vice-Presidential hopeful. The fact is that many of the "rioters" were media people and legally appointed observers who were told that 11,000 questionable votes were going to be counted by the Canvassing Board out of the public view. The "open and fair" process was about to become closed and secret. That is a clear violation of Florida's Government in the Sunshine law. Of course they were upset. Of course they shouted and protested. But there was no riot.
I saw Miami-Dade Canvassing Board Chairman state on national TV that he was not intimidated by the demonstrators. He said the only factor that influenced was the time limit imposed by the Florida Supreme Court (a decision initiated by a suit brought by Al Gore). Now that the Gore campaign has decided to contest Miami-Dade, I have heard that he plans to claim that the reason the Miami-Dade Board decided against the recount was that they were "intimidated".
The Democrats continually harp on their theme that "all the votes should be counted." But they have been deathly afraid of the Military vote, because the Clinton-Gore Administration is despised by most Military men and women. So they sent out a five page memo to the Florida Counties Canvassing Boards explaining in great detail various ways in which to exclude Military votes. (There was no mention of ways to exclude American voters living in Israel, whom the Democrats feel are likely to vote for Gore.) The main thrust of their argument was that Florida law requires that all foreign absentee ballots must be post-marked on or before Election Day. They knew (but conveniently failed to mention) that a Federal law (which supersedes State law) requires only that ballots be received within ten days after Election Day, and requires no postmark. This is because many APO (Army Post Office) units simply bag the mail and ship it to the states without a postmark. Another ploy they used to exclude Military votes was requiring that postmarks on foreign absentee ballots be foreign. They knew well that APO mail is often postmark when it is received in the States (usually in San Francisco), and they could use that as an excuse to exclude them. Also, for security reasons, military mail often CANNOT be postmarked, because doing so would disclose the location of Military people in secret or sensitive postings. Again, the Democrats have tried to use this perfectly normal situation as a ruse to exclude these ballots.
Finally, Florida has not in the past compared signatures on ballots to the signatures on the voter registration. Strangely, after the Democrats mounted this offensive on Military voters, this was done in many Florida counties. This is wrong for obvious reasons. Take out your own driver's license and your voter registration card. Are the signatures identical. Most likely not. One may have been signed when you had plenty of time; the other when you were in a hurry. Only a signature expert could tell if there were a forged signature; no such experts were present when these votes were illegally thrown out.
While our Military men and women are being denied the right to vote by Democrat lawyers and politicos, over thirty felons have voted for Al Gore. The Democrat Party in Florida made a major effort to register voters in Florida's jails. Yes, you heard me right: in the jails! You see, felons lose their civil rights, including the right to vote, but those convicted of misdemeanors can legally vote. Apparently in their zeal to register these unsavory characters (I guess they take them where they can get them), Gore's people didn't check very well. In Miami-Dade County alone, they registered 39 felons. 32 registered as Democrats, 4 as Independents, and 3 as Republicans. If you extend those percentages to the whole State of Florida, as many as 2,000 felons may have voted illegally for Mr. Gore, more than enough votes to put Mr. Bush far ahead. Seems fitting, somehow. Do you still want the whole State recounted, Mr. Gore?
Get this. The same Elections Canvassing Board in Palm Beach County that granted the WINNER of the Presidential race in this County a hand recount, denied a hand recount to the LOSER of an election here just two months ago. Of course, she was a Republican, but surely that had nothing to do with their decision. Here are the facts. Normally, losers ask for recounts if an election is close. In Palm Beach County, Gore WON by tens of thousands of votes, but was granted a hand recount by the ALL DEMOCRAT Elections Board. In September, Republican Beverly Green, who was running for the Florida House in the primaries, lost by ELEVEN votes. She was DENIED a hand recount by the same Board that approved Al Gore's request. Their reason? The difference, she was told, had to be less than ten votes to qualify for a hand recount.
The Democrats keep talking about the "fair and open process" used during the recounts, that observers from both parties were present at each counting station. This is true, and either party's observer could object to any ballot, which would then be put into the "disputed" pile. The question is, what happens to these "disputed" ballots? They are reviewed and decided upon by Democrat-controlled Boards. In Palm Beach and Miami-Dade Counties, ALL Board members are Democrats. In Broward the lone Republican on the Board was repeatedly outvoted by the Democrats, who often didn't even make a show of examining the votes he identified for Bush.
Some other examples of fairness in action: The Broward County Canvassing Board Chairman had a Republican lawyer who was observing the recount removed in handcuffs because he dared to question some of the activities of the Board. In Palm Beach on Saturday
Judge Charles Burton told a Republican lawyer who asked a question to "Shut up, or we'll get someone to replace you." Also, although Palm Beach County bragged about the openness of the process because they allowed TV cameras in the counting room, I was told by the cameramen that they were forced to turn off the camera's microphones whenever they were in the counting room. What was the Board trying to hide?
My personal experience in hand counting the ballots was that, although the room was peaceful enough, it was organized chaos. The first night I volunteered (Monday, November 20th) about a dozen Republican counters waited for an hour and a half, and were finally sent home because there were no Democrat counters to complete the teams. I went up to the observation gallery before I left, and found that only fifteen of the thirty stations were manned. I don't know if the Democrats were deliberately slowing down the count, but that was certainly the outcome.
The next night, my partial team waited almost an hour until they could find a Democrat observer. Then we waited another half hour before someone could find some ballots for us to count. When we were finally ready to count, they moved me to another team, because someone needed to be trained. One counter was not sure whether she was supposed to be a Republican or a Democrat counter. (That really made me nervous.) After over two hours, we finally started to count a precinct. The Democrat observer challenged over ten per cent of the ballots, many of which were clear votes for Bush. And of course, "chad" was everywhere, on the counting tables and on the floor.
One other interesting "fairness" issue: In Palm Beach County, County Employees (predominantly registered Democrats) were paid time and a half to serve as counters, and were encouraged by supervisors to "volunteer". These employees were assigned either as "Democrat" or "Republican" counters. But I can't help but wonder if these employees of a Democrat County Administration, counting votes for a Democrat Canvassing Board, and being paid up to $30 an hour might have been just a little biased. I certainly hope not, but it is something that needs to be considered before this situation arises again. Even the appearance of impropriety needs to be avoided at all costs in an election.
Hand recounts are inherently unfair, because people are doing the counting. Lets say we set aside the fact that these ballots are delicate, were never intended to be handled manually, and change with every count because human hands (deliberately or not) are knocking out chads and making a true count less likely with every handling. The fact is that it is impossible for partisans to be un-partisan. That's like asking a dog to stop being a dog while sitting in judgement on a dispute between a dog and a cat. The dog can try to be fair, but he can't stop being a dog. If there is a doubtful ballot, even the most fair-minded Democrat is going to decide in favor of the democrat; Republicans would do the same. In this case, all the counties in which Gore has requested hand recounts are heavily Democratic with large populations. Hand recounts can have only one result in such circumstances. Machines are neither Republican no Democrat. Are they perfect? Of course not. But machines are FAIR. Mistakes will be made with machine counts, but both parties will suffer or benefit from the mistakes. Machines don't care who wins. Many of the people in charge of counting these votes care DESPERATELY who wins.
Take Carol Roberts, one of the "impartial" Board members who are key to deciding this National election. She has Gore/Lieberman bumper stickers on the car that she parked in front of the building where the counting took place. She has stated on television that she would "...do anything to see Al Gore elected." During a news conference, when the Board's legal counsel told the Board that the hand recount was illegal under Florida, she dramatically extended her wrists towards the sheriff's officers present, and dared them to arrest her. "I'm ready to go to jail," she shouted. She did this in front of a crowd that was already very tense, and observers could see how nervous the officers became during her histrionics. It was a reckless act that could have resulted in inciting the crowd to violence. And this is a person we are depending on to fairly judge whether a voter "intended" to vote for Gore or Bush.
A partial recount is even more unfair than a full recount, because the partial result would likely be slanted. For example, Palm Beach County, knowing that they probably would not complete their recount by the deadline, counted their most heavily Democratic precincts first. These precincts would be expected to yield the most votes for Gore. Thus, the partial recount would probably give Gore a higher percentage than he would receive in a full hand recount. This is why Florida law allows the State Elections Board to refuse partial recounts
Gore is making a huge issue over the fact that the Florida Elections Commission abided by the rules set down by the Florida Supreme Court in refusing to accept Palm Beach County's partial hand count. Even though the Supreme Court violated judicial standards by making law (the Constitutional duty of the Legislature) rather than interpreting it, as is their Constitutional duty, Secretary of State Harris opened her office on a Sunday, and kept it open until 5PM on November 26th. All Florida counties were given legal notice that, according to the Courts ruling, 5PM was the final time for all counts to be in.
On Tuesday evening, November 21st, I was counting votes when the Supreme Court made its announcement at 9:45. We all knew the count was way behind schedule at that point. Even though I disagreed with the hand count, I wanted to see it completed by the deadline, so the Democrats would have no excuses. I spoke personally to the woman in charge of scheduling the counters, and volunteered to work all day Thanksgiving. Several others in my presence made the same offer. She refused us, saying that the Board had decided to take Thanksgiving off.
Palm Beach County had well over 10,000 disputed votes. Broward County had only 2500, yet they worked all day Thanksgiving to make sure they made the deadline. Many Democrats have criticized the Palm Beach County Board for taking Thanksgiving off and losing Gore votes. I personally think it was the Boards intention to miss the deadline by a few hours. I watched the live TV feed all day on Saturday and Sunday. They proceeded at a casual pace, and on Sunday morning they announced that they would make the deadline with no problem. Then a few hours later they said that they had sent a letter to the State requesting an extension. It was refused, and they sent in partial returns, knowing that they were unfair and by law would be rejected. They then took a break, and subsequently completed their count by 7PM.
If they had just picked up their pace a little on Saturday and Sunday, they could easily have made the deadline. Why didn't they? I believe they had already realized that the thousands of Gore votes they had envisioned couldn't be produced short of serious fraud. What other P.R. value could they garner from this situation? I believe they deliberately dragged out the process, then issued their pitiful appeal to the mean Secretary of State, begging for just a little more time. They knew that she could not accede to their demands because she was under a judicial order. But the thought of making her look ungracious was just too tempting. Getting the vote in on time wouldn't give Gore enough votes to win. But deliberately getting it in past the legal deadline might help Gore in his P.R. wars. Anything for the boss...
While trying to convince the American people of the supposed neutrality of the Florida Supreme Court, Joe Lieberman told one of the biggest lies of this election. He said that when the Justices took office, they gave up their party affiliation. In fact, six of the Justices are registered Democrats; the seventh is registered as an independent, but describes himself as an "independent Democrat."
The Democrats would have us believe that it is somehow unpatriotic to question the integrity of partisan people who are acting in a partisan manner if they are judges. Suddenly judges (whom Democrats have bought and sold on a regular basis over the last century) have mysteriously become some kind of saints who don't consider their political ideology or who appointed them when rendering their decisions.
Let me describe an event that took place in the break room of the Palm Beach County Emergency Operations Center while I was there counting votes in the hand recount. This took place about an hour before the announcement by the Florida Supreme Court of their decision regarding the hand recounts. I referred to the Justices as "Gore's Seven Dwarfs". Judge Burton expressed surprise that I would feel the Justices would not give Governor Bush a fair hearing. I told him that I felt the Governor had roughly the same chance of fairness that a black man in 1930's Alabama would have if he was charged with the rape of a white woman, and had an all-white male jury. The Judge stared at me for a moment, then turned and left the break room without saying another word. He knew as well as I did that this partisan Court would do Gore's bidding. In fact, David Boies, Gore's main attorney, bragged several times afterward that the Court had given them everything they asked for.
Gore's political hacks keep harping on the theme that Gore won the popular vote, even though legally this is meaningless. It is meaningless statistically as well; his lead is less than one-fifth of one per cent. Why then do they keep referring to this razor-thin popular vote lead? Because the Gore campaign is not concerned with the law and the Constitution, which make it clear that the winner is decided solely by the Electoral College. They are trying to win in the court of public opinion. They know that most Americans have never read the Constitution, and that many think the Electoral College is a place where you send your son if he wants to become a politician. They are playing on this ignorance by saying how "unfair" the Electoral College is. They have even had Hillary Clinton call for the abolition of the Electoral College.
All of this is part of their strategy to convince politically immature Americans that somehow Gore has won the election "morally"; that the "fair" thing to do would be to give the White House to the man who couldn't win it legally. Fortunately, voters who understand the Constitution know that the Electoral College is vital to fair elections in this country. Without it, candidates would only need to campaign in California, Florida, Texas, and New York to be elected. If they could be elected with only the popular vote from these four heavily populated states, guess which states would be treated well by their Administrations? But Gore doesn't care about the good of the American people, or defending the Constitution. All he cares about is getting elected, whatever the cost to the country. After all, the United States Treasury has paid for every bite of food he has ever eaten, bought every shirt he has ever worn, even provided him free government housing; why should we stop now?
Mr. Gore at one point dramatically offered to "recount the whole state of Florida" if Governor Bush would agree. That's like offering to give someone a million dollars if the moon turns purple. It's easy to make a promise you know you'll never have to make good on. Gore and his legion of lawyers know full well that it would be impossible under Florida law to recount the entire State. The law clearly states that recounts must be requested within 72 hours after the polls close. The last thing Gore would want would be a full hand recount of the entire state if the same standards were used everywhere, because he knows he would lose such a count. The great majority of Florida Counties voted for Bush. But he feels safe hiding behind his empty offer, because he knows it can't be done.
During oral arguments before the Florida Supreme Court, one of the Democratic Justices asked Bush's lawyers if they would agree to a recount of the entire State. Aside from the fact that he knew Bush's position was that hand counts are inaccurate and open the door to all kinds of fraud, the Justice also knew that Florida law does not allow such a recount. Why then did he ask the question? Because it helped Gore in his P.R. battle. Make no mistake. There was no justice available from these Justices. They were openly hostile to Bush's attorneys. The so-called oral arguments were not arguments at all. Every time one of Bush's attorneys attempted at make a point, a Justice would interrupt him. I estimate that of the hour allotted to Bush, his attorneys were actually permitted to speak at the most for twenty minutes. Of course, they also questioned Gore's attorneys, but the tone was much different, and they interrupted them much less.
Now, what are Gore's chances to succeed in the contests he is beginning? First, he wants the courts to force Miami-Dade County to recount their votes. Remember, they initially decided NOT to recount after doing a machine recount, then a sample hand count. The law says a candidate can REQUEST a hand recount, but it is up to the local Board to decide on whether it is warranted. After seeing little indication from the sample hand count that a full hand count would make a difference, the Board declined NOT to do one. Gore promptly threatened to sue to force them to do a hand recount (intimidation). They caved in and changed their vote.
After the Florida Supreme Court decision (which Al Gore requested), they decided they did not have enough time to do a proper recount, and voted again not to do one. Gore tried first in Circuit Court, then in the Florida Supreme Court, to force the local Board to do his will. Both courts refused him. (Keep in mind that his mantra all along has been to "Let the local Boards do their jobs without outside interference." That seems to be his position only when they decide his way.) What likelihood is there that a local court will go against the Supreme Court's decision in this matter? Or that the Supreme Court will reverse their previous decision if it is appealed to them? Very little.
He's also suing the (Democratic) Palm Beach County Board, which "found" 200 extra votes by hand counting. Why? They didn't find enough votes to make him happy. Gore claims the rules they used were "too restrictive" in counting the "dimpled chads." In fact, the rules they used violated a rule in place for ten years in Palm Beach County that "dimpled chads" are NOT to be counted. This rule was put in place by Teresa Lapor, the current Elections Supervisor and the Canvassing Board in place in 1990, citing the fact that "dimpled chads" are not reliable indicators of a voter's intent. Ms. Lapor now sits on the current Board, which has changed the rule AFTER the election, a clear violation of Federal law.
Judge Charles Burton was obviously uncomfortable with the pressure he was receiving from the Democrats to count anything that could remotely be considered a possible vote, and the knowledge that he was in jeopardy because his Board was changing long-standing rules used in hand counts. He sought, and received, direction from Judge Labarga, for the exact standards he and the Board were using (even though they represented a serious liberalization of the standards in place at the time of the election). I watched the entire hearing, during which Judge Burton described in great detail the standards the Board was using. The Judge Labarga asked numerous questions, and then ordered the Board to use exactly the standards they were currently using. This is the only judicial determination during this election process of standards for determining a vote where there was no clear vote indicated on the ballot. Gore plans to go to court to contest the Board's use of these judicially approved standards. Again, his chances of successfully contesting standards approved by a court are minuscule.
By the way, Gore has no plans to contest the results in Broward County, where they made up their own rules. Both the Broward and Palm Beach County Boards kept talking during the recounts about utilizing the same standards, but in fact, their standards diverged widely. In Broward County, out of some 2500 "disputed" ballots, Gore ended up with a net gain of 567 votes. By contrast, in Palm Beach County, which used rules approved by Judge Labarga, out of well over 10,000 "disputed", Gore gained about 200 votes. Gore is happy to accept the gift of hundreds of votes created by the Board trying to imagine the "voter's intent" in Broward County. Yet he has savagely turned on his own Party members in Palm Beach County because, in following a Judge's orders, they failed to produce enough votes for him.
As any thoughtful observer can see, Gore has no chance of overturning this Presidential Election. So, again, "Why is he doing this?" Because he has to. Without the Presidency, he has nothing. He knows that if he loses here, he has burned so many bridges, turned so many fellow Democrats against him, that he has no chance to nominated in 2004. So he is willing to do anything, regardless of the harm to the people he supposedly serves, to become President. It is pitiful, but if he does not become President, Al Gore has no life.
Tom Barrett, Patriot
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Dana's Low-Carb for Life (Podcast)
Miracle Frooties -- Making Sour Foods Taste Sweet
As I write this, I have a glass of apple cider vinegar and water on my desk. I made it good and strong -- maybe a quarter-cup of vinegar. And I added no sugar nor sweetener.
Yet it tastes delicious -- sweet and sour and apple-y. How can this be?
Miracle Frooties. And ain't they just the darnedest things?
You suck a Miracle Frootie until it's gone; the flavor is unremarkable, mildly fruity, but nothing you'd eat for its own sake. But after you suck a Miracle Frooty(Frootie?), sour things magically taste sweet. Hence, my glass of vinegar water that tastes like apple juice.
There are reports of lemons tasting like lemon drops; I may try that next -- or, come to think of it, I have grapefruit in the fridge. Bet that would be great. I may try a Miracle Frooty this summer when the sour cherries are in season! And I bet they'd be great with strawberries that are less-than-ideally sweet. The "magic" is supposed to last for anywhere between 15 minutes and an hour, mostly depending on what you eat.
Miracle Frooties mention just two ingredients on the box, "Miracle Fruit" and potato starch, though at Amazon.com -- my source -- they also list microcrystalline Cellulose, dibasic calcium phosphate and magnesium stearate; these don't alarm me.
But what's "Miracle Fruit"? Wikipedia says it's Synsepalum ducificum, a West African berry. The berry contains "miraculin," a compound that has this effect on the tongue. "Miraculin," huh? Sounds like the marketing guys named it. Reportedly the berry itself is low in sugar, and I can't imagine there's enough potato starch in one little tablet to spike blood sugar, so I'm pronouncing Miracle Frooties low carb.
They're not cheap; 10 tablets run $15, so unless the price comes down these are more a novelty than a viable alternative to other sweeteners. However, Wikipedia says that Miracle Fruit is now being cultivated in Puerto Rico and South Florida, so it's possible that the cost may eventually come down in the US.
Miracle Frooties are a fun diversion that can make your favorite sour foods sweet without sugar or artificial sweeteners. Worth a try!
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There was a CSI (New York, I think) where this was used in a murder - dah dah DAH! And the concept has been used in a couple of sci-fi stories I've read at some stage whereby you eat one thing that makes unpalatable food ambrosial with disastrous consequences
Surely a long-term low-carber would have a skewed (or should I say corrected) idea of what is sweet, so you'd be a rotten judge of what tastes sweet? I can't bear most sweet things now; it all tastes poisonous (which it is, of course). Oddly, the only thing I enjoy really sweet is custard - and I make my own with eggs, cream and stevia, which is now more readily available this side of the Pond, these days, so I can make that low-carb.
Why isn't the fruit on sale? Surely the fruit is cheaper than this highly processed tablet?
I wonder what the Wolverine makes of this berry? He makes an excellent argument that the majority of plants have thoughts for their own survival to the detriment of those who eat them. Eat me, sucker, and the toxic plants around me will taste utterly yummy.
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Hah! I'd love to see that ep.
I do find that most commercially-sweetened stuff is too sweet for me anymore -- particularly soda pop, which I loathe -- but I do like dark chocolate, and no-sugar-added ice cream, and occasionally make a good SF dessert. ("Occasionally" is defined as "maybe 3-4 times a year, or when I'm working on a cookbook.")
The fruit is not on sale because it's extremely perishable, and the "miraculin" does not survive heat processing.
Wolverine has a point. Or as one speaker at the Ancestral Health Symposium put it last summer, "Animals quit fighting back once they're dead." Well, except for those puffer fish they use for sashimi. But mostly, yeah.
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Mass Deacidification: Saving the Written Word
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Background: Some documents are highly susceptible to embrittlement, which can make those documents unusable. Examples include documents made with paper having acidic components. Acid components may come from fiber stock (such as ground wood pulp) or additives (such as bleach or alum rosin size). Once paper is weakened by acid, little can be done to restore original strength. The key to good preservation practice is to prevent the papers with acidic components from becoming weakened by inherent acids. Research has shown that adding alkaline compounds to acidic paper (in a process called deacidification), before embrittlement begins, can extend the life expectancy of these papers. The Library of Congress has a long history of developing a cost-efficient means of mass deacidifying appropriate materials.
More about Mass Deacidification
Contributing Studies: See the following
Library of Congress Technical Specifications for Mass Deacidification. 2004. [PDF: 5.03 MB / 115 p.]
Technology Helps Library Save its Paper Collection. April 1997.
Mass Deacidification Report: Bookkeeper Process Evaluation. September 1994. [PDF: 191 KB / 29 p.]
Project Description: Over several decades, the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of various mass deacidification reagents, compounds and procedures were tested by the Library of Congress. This has culminated in the use of a magnesium oxide procedure that has been tested, evaluated, and implemented to treat over a million books and paper sheets a year at the Library of Congress. (For more information, see Mass Deacidification )
1. It has been determined that a successful mass deacidification process must:
- raise the pH level of treated paper to a range of 6.8 to 10.4
- achieve a minimum alkaline reserve of 1.5%
- extend the useful life of the test paper (measured by fold endurance after accelerated aging) by over 300%
2. Selection criteria for books and papers to be mass deacidified have been determined.
3. Tracking systems have been developed.
4. Quality Control procedures have been developed.
Update and Images: Through a competitive process, the Library negotiated a fourth contract for mass deacidification in 2005 with Preservation Technologies, Limited Partnership (PTLP) of Pennsylvania. The company is providing book and manuscript preservation services to the Library using the firm's Bookkeeper mass deacidification process. The first contract, in 1995-96, was an R&D process enhancement initiative that enabled the Library to deacidify real Library books for the first time and to resolve book selection, shipping, and quality control details of the deacidification program.
The images below show how books are mounted in vertical treatment cylinders and manuscripts in horizontal cylinders, where magnesium oxide is deposited to neutralize acids in the paper.


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A frightening new trend among teenagers is sweeping the nation.
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It's growing in popularity in several cities, with New York leading the charge, thanks to seven incidents. Knockouts have also been reported in Pittsburgh,St. Louis, Chicago, Syracuse and Hoboken, NJ.
It's unclear if there's a coordinated effort or to attack victims based on race, religion or any other characteristic or it they are random stand-alone attacks. It's also not known just how widespread the problem is.
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It mentioned a Linux OS, which I have never come across before and it looks great for helping people make the transition between a Windows Machine and Linux. Zorin OS has a Look Changer, which lets you change your desktop to look and act like either Windows 7, XP, Vista, Ubuntu Unity, Mac OS X or GNOME 2. Information is a bit sketchy and there seems to be a couple of versions, one of which is supplied by donation and the other is free. What the real difference between them is, I have no clue. It seems to be under active development and well supported.
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Watch the video. It's full of phrasal verbs, which are red in the comic. Then do the exercises to check you understand and can use the phrasal verbs.
Do you often get cut off, or have to charge up your mobile? What's the most annoying phone problem?
Amusing video and fun exercises!
This activity has a lot of interesting and important vocabulary related to phone communication.
the most annoying phone problem is when the batery lows so quick and takes so much time to recharge it.
My phone's battery is good. No low battery problem... ha ha ha
I hate especially the situation when I am writing an email and suddenly and it announces me that it will turn of in a few seconds and I do not pug it in on time.
I feel it so noịsy to me. I hate it and I don't want to vote for anybody on TV even my relatives.
I took on a manner to improve my phrasal verb by taking up exercises here. I pretend to carry on with that, so I can't forget to charge up my phone! Fortunately, there's a socket to plug it in next to my bed!
Oh! I didn't know that "voting" could cost so much!
And the most annoying part of my phone is that is heats up faster. Right now it it S literally burning! I'll have to shut it down immediately!
Oh. I have never voted for a person from TV. I didn't think it can be so terrible experience.
I feel irritated by "lock" and pop-up which I didn't ask!!
I like a phone which is easy to operate in quick!
I'm using Safari and going mad with it...
At the moment, my mobile' battery is so low. And it's really annoying!! ~!
The most annoyng problem is if I forget to charge my phone up and it getting down.
The most annoying phone problem is that it run out of battery.
I don't like it when my internet is slow or when the battery dies.
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The Duke University economics professor will deliver a lecture titled "What?! You Don't Take College Sports Seriously?" on Thursday, April 5, at 4:30 p.m. in Twilight Auditorium on the Middlebury campus.
"The cost of big time athletics is growing faster than anything else that universities do," Clotfelter said.
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That's the slogan for Worth Mountain Designs LLC, a new Vermont company that designs customizable skis for Eastern skiers.
The company is co-owned by three Vermonters, Jason Duquette-Hoffman of Middlebury, Adrian Kostrubiak of Norwich and Dalton Harben of Cambridge. According to Duquette-Hoffman, all three are avid backcountry skiers who saw a business opportunity within their shared passion.
MONKTON — With four pressure-treated benches, some recycling bins and a creative scoring system on Bristol's tennis courts, 16-year-old Justin Kimball recently earned the rank of Eagle Scout and fulfilled a family tradition.
Only about 5 percent of Boy Scouts receive the highest rank, but Justin follows three older brothers in the achievement. Justin's cousin and grandfather are also Eagle Scouts.
LEICESTER — After a lifetime of service to his town, Bob Oliver on Monday evening will spend his last town meeting sitting at the front of the Leicester Meeting House with the other members of the Leicester selectboard.
NEW HAVEN — When sculptor Dennis Sparling started work on his nine-foot-tall sculpture of Leonardo da Vinci, he didn't expect that one day he'd have to load the 600-pound behemoth onto a trailer and cart it around on a world tour. But, starting next month, Sparling and "Leo" will hit the road for the first leg of their journey.
For the New Haven artist, creating Leonardo has been more than a technical feat — though it did present challenges. Fabricating the sculpture was almost a manifesto.
Town Meeting Day 2012 is right around the corner. Brush up on what's on tap for each Addison County town (and Brandon) in our town meeting previews.
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police investigated two suspected phone scams on Feb. 22. Police said a local woman reported receiving a call from a man alleging to be her grandson, who said he had been picked up for drunk driving and needed money. When the woman told the caller she did not sound like her grandson, he ended the call.
In the other case, a local man received a call from someone who alleged the man's grandson had been involved in a car accident. When the man said he had no grandson, the caller hung up the phone.
VERGENNES — Vergennes police on Feb. 20 cited two men involved in the same incident for driving with suspended licenses, criminal offenses, citing one of the men twice.
The incident began when police checked a suspicious car at Champlain Farms on Main Street and discovered its license plates were assigned to a different vehicle. They then cited the operator, George Hallock Jr., 28, of Waltham, for a criminal DLS (driving with license suspended), as well as ticketed him for driving an unregistered and uninsured car with unassigned plates.
When my roommate, Nikhil, announced he was going to Mauritius for three months and asked if I could take care of his dog, I thought immediately of body heat. A 70-pound German shepherd throws off a lot of warmth, and I sleep in a poorly insulated room.
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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – Or How Many Descendants Does my Roderick and Frances "Fanny" Great-Grandparents Have Now?
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – A Family's Increase
By Randy Seaver
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Hey, genealogy fans, it's Saturday Night! Time for some Genealogy Fun!
Your task, if you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music), is to:
1) Pick one of your four great-grandparents – if possible, the one with the most descendants.
2) Create a descendants list for those great-grandparents either by hand or in your software program.
3) Tell us how many descendants, living or dead, are in each generation from those great-grandparents.
4) How many are still living? Of those, how many have you met and exchanged family information with? Are there any that you should make contact with ASAP? Please don't use last names of living people for this – respect their privacy.
5) Write about it in your own blog post, in comments to this post, or in comments or a Note on Facebook.
How Many Descendants Do My Great-Grandparents Roderick and Frances "Fanny" Stocking Have Now?
by Sherry Stocking Kline
October 18, 2009
My Great-Grandparents were Roderick and Frances "Fanny" Stocking. Roderick was born in Butler, Michigan on Dec 25, 1853, and his wife, Frances Hitchcock, was born November 9, 1858 in Crescent City, Illinois.
They had four children, all sons, Elmer, Ralph, Roderick Porter, and John.
Elmer had nine children, one of which died at birth.
Ralph adopted three children, one died young.
Roderick had three children, one son and twins, a boy and girl. He died young. He was electrocuted while working on high lines. Electricity was fairly new to the area then, and people often did their own wiring, and so accidents happened.
John and his wife did not have any children.
Generation 1 – 4 children – all dead (Roderick Remine's Children)
Generation 2 – 15 children – 12 dead 3 alive
Generation 3 – 33 children – 4 dead 29 alive
Generation 4 – 39 children – 3 dead 36 alive
When I printed this report out and looked at it, I was shocked that I had so many new entries that needed to be made in my Family Tree Program.
91 members to generation 4, and I think there are at least 30 more individuals that could be added. It has been quite some time since I've sent out questionnaires to the families and asked them to fill them out.
We plan to have a family reunion next summer, so it looks like I certainly have my work cut out for me! Now I've got to get busy and get those questionnaires sent out so that I can learn just how many descendants Great-grandma and Great-grandpa Stocking really do have!


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Annual to tree
Leaves generally cauline, generally simple, generally alternate, petioled or not; stipules 0
Inflorescence: panicle, raceme, spike, or flowers solitary in axils, generally open; bracts leaf-like or not
Flower: bisexual, radial or bilateral, sometimes inverted (pedicel twisted 180°; hypanthium generally present, ± fused to ovary; sepals generally 5; corolla radial to 2-lipped, generally fused (tube sometimes split down back), lobes generally 5; stamens 5, free or ± fused (anthers and filaments fused into tube or filaments fused above middle); ovary inferior, sometimes half inferior, chambers 13, placentas axile or parietal, ovules many, style generally 1, 25-branched
Fruit: generally capsule, dehiscing on sides or at tip by pores or short valves
Seeds many
Genera in family: ± 70 genera, ± 2000 species: worldwide. Some cultivated for ornamental (Campanula, Jasione, Lobelia ). Subfamilies sometimes treated as different families.
Annual, glabrous to hairy; roots fibrous
Stem erect, simple or branched, 240 cm, 4-angled
Leaves cauline, widely linear to ovate, serrate, sessile
Inflorescence: flowers generally solitary, terminal
Flower pedicelled or not; sepals 0.53 X ovary, linear to narrowly triangular; corolla cylindric, funnel-, or bell-shaped, throat white, lobes linear to widely ovate, white to deep purple; ovary inferior, obconic to cylindric and narrowed near middle
Fruit dehiscing at top, through opening formed when style base falls off
Seeds ± 1 mm, angular-fusiform
Species in genus: 4 species: w North America
Etymology: (Greek: Githago -like)
Reference: [Morin 1983 Syst Bot 8:436468]
Plant glabrous to hairy
Stem clambering to erect, 230 cm
Leaf 315 mm; bracts 2.510 mm, linear or oblanceolate, < 5 mm apart
Flower: pedicel 0; sepals 1.52 X hypanthium; corolla 1.57.5 mm, 2.54.5 X longer than wide at level of sinuses, narrowly funnel-shaped, lobes = or < ovary, white to deep blue; filament bases narrow, glabrous; ovary 49 mm, cylindric to obconic, 26.5 X longer than wide at top, narrowed near middle, base swollen, ribs 10, those ending at sinuses narrower, style 24.5 mm, upper 3575% papillate
Chromosomes: n=10,20
Ecology: Shade or open areas
Elevation: 502000 m.
Bioregional distribution: Klamath Ranges, North Coast Ranges, Cascade Range Foothills, Sierra Nevada Foothills, San Francisco Bay Area, South Coast Ranges, n Channel Islands, Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges
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Iron-bearing Minerals in Sediments Naturally Reduce Contaminant Levels
Research team unearths innovative approach for reducing technetium risk
This research, which appeared in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is important for assessing the ability and length of time required for natural processes to reduce the risk of groundwater contamination.
Results: Led by researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), scientists found that iron-bearing minerals sediments at a former nuclear reprocessing site transform technetium, an environmental contaminant of concern. The team demonstrated that the mineral's ferrous iron reacts in a solution containing an oxidized, soluble form of technetium--pertechnetate--decreasing the contaminant's levels and making it insoluble.
According to the researchers' calculations, if all of the technecium-99 at the Hanford Site, a Manhattan Project site situated in Washington State, came into contact with all of the available ferrous iron, this natural process could remove the entire groundwater inventory of the isotope-which poses a major contamination risk-over a period of a few months.
Why It Matters: Wastes associated with decades of nuclear reprocessing at the Hanford Site have been stored in ponds and underground tanks, and contaminants such as technetium have leaked from these storage mediums into the underlying sediments and groundwater. This latest research is important for assessing the ability--and length of time required--for natural processes to reduce the risk of groundwater contamination. The study also suggests that remediation resources and efforts at the Hanford Site could focus on locations where iron-bearing minerals are not present.
Methods: Researchers recovered sediments from several Hanford Site locations, characterized the iron-bearing minerals, and assessed the ability of the minerals to react with pertechnetate. The team used scanning electron microscopy to characterize particle size and shape, micro-x-ray diffraction to characterize mineral structure, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to determine the surface composition of these minerals, and electron probe microanalysis to determine the composition of the bulk sediment. This research was done using resources at EMSL, a DOE national scientific user facility located on PNNL's main campus in Richland, Washington.
They found that magnetic minerals made up about one percent of the total weight of the sediment, and magnetite represented about 90 percent of the total magnetic mineral content. Ferrous iron was located at the surface of the mineral--magnetite--and thus was accessible for reactions with contaminants in the environment. The team's findings suggest that during these reactions, ferrous iron transfers electrons to pertechnetate at the mineral surface, producing the reduced, less soluble form of technetium.
What's Next: Scientists at PNNL are continuing to investigate geochemical reactions of interest to resolve defense and energy issues.
Sponsors: The research was funded by Subsurface Biogeochemical Research program within the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research. The XA and XMCD measurements performed at the Advanced Light Source were supported by the DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences.
User Facility: EMSL, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Facility; Advanced Photon Source and the Advanced Light Source, all DOE Office of Science national scientific user facilities
Research Team: Carolyn I. Pearce, University of Manchester; Jia Liu, Donald R. Baer, Mark E. Bowden, Mark H. Engelhard, Odeta Qafoku, James P. McKinley, C. Tom Resch and Kevin M. Rosso, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Steve M. Heald, Argonne National Laboratory; Elke Arenholz, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and Andrew E. Grosz, U.S. Geological Survey
Reference: Pearce CI, J Liu, DR Baer, O Qafoku, SM Heald, E Arenholz, AE Grosz, JP McKinley, CT Resch, ME Bowden, MH Engelhard, and KM Rosso. 2014. "Characterization of Natural Titanomagnetites (Fe3-xTixO4) for Studying Heterogeneous Electron Transfer to Tc(VII) in the Hanford Subsurface." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 128:114-127. DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2013.12.010


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Carmen is the most popular work from French composer Georges Bizet. For this, his 17th and last opera, Bizet took inspiration from the popular novella by Prosper Mérimée, which had enticed French readers with exotic tales of Spain. Its heady combination of passion, sensuality and violence initially proved too much for the stage and the opera was a critical failure on its premiere in 1875. Bizet died shortly after, and never learned of the spectacular success Carmen would achieve. Popular around the world, the opera has been performed more than five hundred times at Covent Garden alone.
Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy after the novel by Prosper Mérimée
Libretto: Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy revised by Ernest Guiraud after the novel by Prosper MerimeeProduction: Stanislav Gaudasinsky
First performance in Russia: 16 February 1878, the Italian Opera Company, Bolshoi (Stone) Theatre, StĀPetersburgFirst performance at the Mariinsky Theatre: 30 September 1885, StĀPetersburg
Act IĀScene 1ĀA squareinĀSevilleĀInĀtheĀguard house, Moralès and his soldiers are discussing theĀpassers-by. Micaëla arrives, looking for theĀcorporal Don José. Moralès explains that José isinĀanother company that is due to take over theĀguard. Micaëla decides not to wait and departs. TheĀofficer Zuniga and José leadinĀtheĀnew guard, accompanied by aĀhorde of children. Moralès tells José that Micaëla was asking for him.ĀIt is break-time at theĀfactory nearby and theĀwomen come out to smoke and flirt with theĀyoung men. Carmen is among them. She talks of love (LÆamour est un oiseau rebelle), that it is elusive and inconstant. TheĀbell rings, signalling theĀbreak is over. Carmen, desirous of catching JoséÆs attention, throws him aĀflower. Enraptured, he quickly hides it.ĀMicaëla returns, bringing José aĀletter from his motherinĀwhich she asks him to return to marry Micaëla.ĀUproar suddenly breaks outinĀtheĀfactory and theĀwomen pour into theĀsquare, accusing Carmen of drawing aĀknife on her friendinĀaĀquarrel. José is sent to question Carmen, but she refuses to answer. Zuniga orders José to take her to prison. Carmen starts to captivate José and tries to persuade him to release her. Forbidden to speak, she sings, contriving to arrange aĀrendezvous with him at Lillas PastiaÆs tavern. He agrees to free her only if she will love him. She promises to do so, José frees her and is subsequently himself arrested.
Scene 2ĀLillas PastiaÆs tavernĀCarmen, Frasquita and Mercédès are entertaining gypsies and soldiers. Zuniga tells Carmen that José, demoted and jailed for aĀmonth for aiding her escape, has just been released. A crowd is heard outside acclaiming theĀvictorious toreador Escamillo, who enters followed by aĀthrong of admirers. He returns ZunigaÆs toast, drinking to his health, and describes theĀexhilaration of fighting aĀbull. Carmen immediately captures his attention but she shows no interest. Everyone leaves.ĀTheĀsmugglers Remendado and Dancaïro arrive; they are about to depart and ask Carmen, Frasquita and Mercédès to help them carry their wares. Carmen refuses: she isinĀlove and waiting for José. Mockingly, theĀsmugglers suggest José joins their band. Don José arrives. Carmen dances for him. When aĀsignal is heardinĀtheĀdistance, summoning him back to his barracks he prepares to leave. Furious, Carmen accuses him of not loving her. InĀresponse he describes his passion and how, whileinĀprison, he treasured theĀflower she threw at him when they first met. As proof, Carmen insists he deserts and goes with her to theĀmountains. Zuniga unexpectedly appears; he has come to meet Carmen. When he sees José he orders him back to theĀbarracks. Zuniga and José fight over Carmen. TheĀsmugglers runinĀand separate them; then they tie up Zuniga and Dancaïro shoots him. Having refused to obey orders, José realises he has no choice other than to join theĀsmugglers.
Act IIĀScene 3ĀInĀtheĀmountainsĀTheĀsmugglers are examining their goods. They have stopped for aĀshort rest. Carmen and José are there too. Carmen senses that José would be prepared to kill her if she left him. Frasquita and Mercédès read their fortunes with cards. They see aĀprosperous future. Carmen joins them. But however much she shuffles theĀcards, only death is foretold. Dancaïro and Remendado return. TheĀgypsy women leave, having been instructed to distract theĀcustoms officers who are blocking theĀsmugglersÆ path. José is left to guard theĀcontraband goods.ĀHaving overcome her fear, Micaëla arrives. She is looking for José. A shot frightens her and she hides. It was José firing at an intruder Ś Escamillo. TheĀtoreador explains that he is pursuing Carmen, having heard that she no longer loves her soldier. TheĀenraged José reveals himself and theĀrivals start to fight. Carmen stops them. Escamillo thanks her and invites everyone to his next bullfightinĀSeville and leaves. Crazed with jealousy, José threatens Carmen. TheĀsmugglers find MicaëlainĀher hiding place. She has come to beg José to return to his mother. Carmen urges him to go. Micaëla then reveals that JoséÆs mother is dying and wants to forgive him. He agrees to accompany Micaëla.
Scene 4ĀOutside aĀbull-ringinĀSevilleĀA crowd has gathered outside theĀbull-ring prior to theĀbullfight. As they arrive, theĀparticipants of theĀcorrida receive aĀrapturous reception. Escamillo appears, with CarmeninĀhis wake. Frasquita and Mercédès warn Carmen that José is following her, hiddeninĀtheĀcrowd. However, she decides to wait and talk to him. All depart to watch theĀbullfight. José appears and pleads with her to return to him. She remains unyielding, she loves theĀtoreador. TheĀcrowd ecstatically greets Escamillo. Mad from suffering he plunges aĀdagger into her. TheĀcrowd rejoice at theĀtoreadorÆs victory.


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Heard about this before and council employees were saying it will be introduced in Campbeltown but wondered how as there is no Council re-cycling scheme. No mention of Campbeltown on this so does anyone know anything more??
Argyll and Bute Council puts recycling first – new refuse and recycling collection service to be introduced
Argyll and Bute Council today agreed its service procedures ahead of the introduction of a three-weekly household waste collection service which puts recycling first.
Councillor Ellen Morton, Policy Lead for Roads and Amenity Services, said: "Argyll and Bute Council is totally committed to recycling and despite our drastically reduced funding, we have protected recycling services. We will continue to uplift your blue (recycling) bin every two weeks and will continue to provide recycling centres.
"For people who use a recycling bag, the service will stay the same, as will the arrangements for people with food caddies and glass bins, meaning these will still be collected every two weeks.
"We're moving to the new system for your green (general waste) bin, collecting it every three weeks. We have seen a sharp rise in recycling since we introduced the blue bin collection service for most of the area last year, but even more can be done. There are still a lot of things people put in their green bin which could easily go in the blue bin.
"You can recycle more than you think. Recycling saves space in your green bin and saves money for council services. For every tonne of waste we put to landfill we have to pay a tax of around £80.
"Another good way to recycle and save space in your bin is home composting. Again it's easy to do, and is a good way to reuse your garden and uncooked vegetable waste. There is lots of helpful advice on home composting on our website at: www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/content/home-composting-advice
"By recycling more – by taking time to put more of your recyclable waste into your blue bin, rather than in the general household waste bin – you will be helping the council save money in the future, money which can be spent on essential public services, as well as helping to save the planet's natural resources, save energy and reduce the effects of climate change.
"We are currently finalising the implementation plans and residents will be receiving detailed information through your door in the coming months. Please look out for it, as well the information on the Council website, the local press and social media."
Blue bin – collected every two weeks
You can recycle paper, metal, cardboard and plastic containers in your blue bin.
Using your blue bin is easy. You:
• Collect and prepare your materials for recycling
• Rinse and squash cans, tins and plastic containers
• Flatten your cardboard and plastic bottles
• Place your paper, cans, tins, cardboard and clean plastic containers into your blue bin
• Place your blue bin at the kerbside on your collection day
You can recycle more than you think. Your blue bin takes:
• Envelopes
• Paper food packaging
• Magazines
• Newspapers
• Yellow Pages
• Brochures
• Catalogues
• Leaflets
• Wrapping paper
• Plastic lids
• Food trays
• Hand wash bottles
• Drinks bottles
• Milk bottles
• Shampoo bottles
• Sauce bottles
• Yoghurt pots
• Cereal boxes
• Cardboard packaging
• Brown corrugated boxes
• Toilet roll tubes
• Soup, juice and milk cartons
• Egg boxes
• Drinks cans
• Food tins
• Empty aerosol cans
• Empty paint tins
• Aluminium
• Metal lids
For more information on the service procedure go to: https://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/moderngo ... 202016.pdf
For more information on refuse and recycling in your area please use the postcode search in the refuse and recycling section of the council website.


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Monday, April 30, 2012
"we encourage" - Gettin My Workout On
22 comments:
- Tesha said...
My tip is have fun, if you like it you will stick with it :)
- April 30, 2012 at 11:46 PM
- Katie said...
i've done some denise austin videos before. I remember one of the she was talking about an exercise where you had to squeeze your butt muscles and she said if you don't squeeze them no one else will. : ) cheesy of course but I did like her videos. Have you done any jillian micheals ones? Like the 30 day shred or 6 weeks six pack. I do those often and even though I have to mute her sometimes they are good!
- May 1, 2012 at 4:58 AM
- Heather @ we.are.the.holdens said...
ugh.. i gotta get back to this too. Although i do walk every day. Puppy keeps me accountable with that one.:) But ohmygoodness little one saying naked to the t.v. was cracking me up. I love it!
- May 1, 2012 at 6:13 AM
- Julie Marie said...
such an amazing encouragement. i started working out yesterday after a 10 month lull. i ate like a junk food pig all day afterwards, but at least i started somewhere. hilarious about your daughter yelling "naked!"--and yes, denise austin is a overly positive annoying coach.. i used to work out to her all the time.. i dont know if i want to kick her or thank her.. =)
- May 1, 2012 at 6:52 AM
- Rachel said...
Loving this post today! And laughing so hard thinking about the dog sticking his nose in your ear and your sweet little girl yelling "naked" at the TV. I also have an affinity for oreos. They are dangerous and will be eaten in likely less than 24 hours at our house. Pitiful but true. I bought Zumba Fitness yesterday and I told my husband that I'm going to eat nothing but junk until it arrives and then Zumba is going to change his wife! Ha! Good luck to us both!
- May 1, 2012 at 6:58 AM
- Rachel said...
Loving this post today! And laughing so hard thinking about the dog sticking his nose in your ear and your sweet little girl yelling "naked" at the TV. I also have an affinity for oreos. They are dangerous and will be eaten in likely less than 24 hours at our house. Pitiful but true. I bought Zumba Fitness yesterday and I told my husband that I'm going to eat nothing but junk until it arrives and then Zumba is going to change his wife! Ha! Good luck to us both!
- May 1, 2012 at 6:58 AM
- hannah singer said...
working out with elijah around is quite the spectacle and nuisance. so, i don't do it. which means i'll be working out at night. fun.
you are and encouragement to ne, i LOVE you xo
- May 1, 2012 at 7:58 AM
- Trina {Beginner Beans} said...
Try the 4-minute workout ;) Only half joking. I do 4 minutes a day of "tabata training" or "tabata protocol." It's 20-second high intensity exercises with 10-second breaks in between. I guess the real point is find something you actually enjoy. I used to do P90X every morning; but I quit because I just couldn't see myself making a lifetime habit of it. But yoga, 4-minute exercising and daily walks with the family? I can see those as lifetime habits :)
- May 1, 2012 at 9:09 AM
Good Luck! It will get better. I am getting back on the exercising band wagon as well today! I really like the Biggest Loser workouts, riding a stationary bike & there is a 10 minute Kickboxing video on Netflix that is awesome.
Just have fun with it and don't think of it as a chore. :)
- May 1, 2012 at 9:19 AM
- Krista said...
So proud for you, it's not easy to do this exercise thing (especially as a mom I'm finding out). But it is indeed important for you and for them so I'm wishing you the best. It certainly helps to have good friends supporting you!
- May 1, 2012 at 10:04 AM
- karamurano said...
I'm with you on this! I am trying to get in shape & sometimes it's just not fun. Plus I love oreos way too much. who knew how many calories were in those stinkin things?!
I got the link to your blog from danielle's email & I sent you an invite to read mine (since it's private while we are going through the adoption process).
- May 1, 2012 at 11:17 AM
- EverythingIam-blogspot.blogspot.com said...
Hooray for Jami! Good girl!
- May 1, 2012 at 11:22 AM
- Angel said...
I just wrote a post about some of my food journey over the last few months. Isn't is such a pain practicing self-control over our fleshly desires? :) Painful, but good. Great job going public with your exercise journey. I hope you'll keep us posted!
- May 1, 2012 at 12:18 PM
- katygirl said...
Mkay. I am not the bloggy friend encouraging you, clearly. I might make you laugh a lot though. But seriously...I am about to go get a chocolate peanut butter bar from the fridge... Also, I'm nursing? I'm giving myself two months to let my insides heal and then I'll be hitting you up for tips.
- May 1, 2012 at 2:19 PM
- Jessica Johnson said...
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- May 1, 2012 at 3:21 PM
- Jessica Johnson said...
i am kind of obsessed with my fitness pal. but i wouldn't say pal is a very accurate word. more like my fitness pain in my bigger than i want it to be rear.
and i love your exercise assistant. she's cute. and modest is hottest.
- May 1, 2012 at 3:22 PM
- kaylee@life chasers said...
Working out in front of Ashlynn was a joke. She saw me in pain and would start crying. Not kidding. Then she would try to copy me and I would die laughing. It was pointless.
- May 1, 2012 at 4:01 PM
- DaisyGirl said...
Your daughter's reaction was so cute!! But, my dog does the same thing if I try to exercise at home. One situp and I have a face full of doggie nose! :)
- May 1, 2012 at 5:42 PM
- Mary said...
oh my Lord, jami.
you are hysterical!
i love your heart in it all though.
i have to keep in prayer about what i eat, a lot!
i keep in mind that i want to eat to live, not live to eat.
also, i love turbo jam! it is so fun!
you should try it...:)
- May 1, 2012 at 7:22 PM
- carina@a punk, a pumpkin and a peanut said...
you make me laugh. and so does your cute little lady.
love that we're buddies in all this!!
- May 1, 2012 at 10:04 PM
- Danise Jurado said...
I started a fitness and health journal of my own... learning self discipline and I have lost over 25 pounds in the last 3 1/2 months... Health and obedience to God are my motivation also. I saw your encouraging post and I linked up for the first time with my recent post about doing a plank a day! ouch! :) thanks for hosting
- May 2, 2012 at 1:25 AM
- ms.composure said...
stumbled onto your blog and just wanted to leave you a little blog luv! Def enjoyed this post!! good luck with your health journey! i def love those workout videos! they really are encouraging when they are yelling at you to keep going! LoL New Follower via email :-)
- May 2, 2012 at 1:16 PM


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department's internal watchdog faulted 14 federal agents and prosecutors on Wednesday for the botched anti-gun-trafficking effort known as "Operation Fast and Furious" but cleared Attorney General Eric Holder of any wrongdoing.
The report by the department's inspector general, Michael E. Horowitz, prompted two senior officials to leave the government.
Congressional Republicans investigating the mismanaged operation had accused Holder of covering it up. A report bolstering their claim would have been an embarrassment for President Barack Obama, who appointed Holder to his job, in the home stretch of the presidential campaign.
One U.S. agent was killed in Arizona, and two guns connected with the case were found at the scene of the shootout where he died.
The new report found screw-ups of "systemic" scope that risked public safety but no cover-up.
That, and a statement supportive of the report from Holder's main Republican accuser, Representative Darrell Issa, seems likely to defuse what could have been a politically explosive conclusion to the probe.
Two senior department officials left the government as the report was made public. Kenneth Melson, former head of the U.S. agency that enforces gun laws, retired, while Jason Weinstein, responsible for oversight of many criminal-related matters, resigned.
The highest-ranking person criticized, Lanny Breuer, the assistant attorney general in charge of criminal prosecutions, has been "admonished," said a department official.
The book-length, 471-page report is the most in-depth look yet at Operation Fast and Furious. It follows a 19-month review by the department watchdog that had access to non-public documents.
Fast and Furious began in 2009 as an effort to stop the flow of firearms from Arizona to Mexican drug cartels. As U.S. agents tried to build an expansive case, they did not pursue low-level gun buyers who bought about 2,000 potentially illegal firearms and trafficked many of them across the border.
The operation raised the fury of U.S. gun owners, who are an important Republican constituency and who helped to drive attention to Fast and Furious in Congress and the media.
The new report said that Melson and Weinstein failed to ask detailed questions about the tactics in Fast and Furious, allowing the operation to go on in 2010 when they could have stopped it.
Melson said in a statement that he disagrees with parts of the report but added in a statement that he was "ultimately responsible for the actions of each employee."
Melson was pushed out in August 2011 as acting director of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and recently worked on forensic policy for the department.
Weinstein wrote in a blistering resignation letter that the inspector general's conclusion about him is "completely false."
The report said Breuer, Weinstein's boss, should have alerted his superiors, including Holder, in 2010 to flaws in a program similar to Fast and Furious that was started during George W. Bush's presidency.
The nature of any disciplinary action and whether any is taken is up to the Justice Department. A department official said no further shake-ups are expected.
Holder pointed to the inspector general's report, which he requested in February 2011, as vindication.
"It is unfortunate that some were so quick to make baseless accusations before they possessed the facts about these operations - accusations that turned out to be without foundation and that have caused a great deal of unnecessary harm and confusion," he said in a statement.
In a rare show of agreement, Issa, the Republican who has led a congressional inquiry into Fast and Furious, also found reason to praise the inspector general's report. Issa said it confirms the operation's "near total disregard for public safety."
Fast and Furious came to light after the December 2010 shooting death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent, Brian Terry. Two guns that firearms agents attempted to track were found at the scene of Terry's death in rural Arizona.
Terry's family was pleased that Wednesday's report documented systematic failures, family spokesman Robert Heyer said in a statement.
But Heyer said the family was disappointed by Holder's statement praising Melson and Weinstein upon their departures. "The focus today should not be on political spin control ... but rather on the gross negligence of the department," he said.
There were no indictments of gun buyers in Fast and Furious until after Terry's death, when ATF agents decided to bring an end to the operation. Two men are now in custody in Terry's death.
The inspector general's report describes a series of mishaps, mischaracterizations and misleading statements that kept those in charge at the Justice Department from knowing all the relevant facts.
No federal agents or prosecutors in Arizona raised a serious question about allowing the purchase of firearms to continue for months, the inspector general said.
"This failure reflected a significant lack of oversight and urgency by both ATF and the U.S. Attorney's Office, and a disregard by both for the safety of individuals in the United States and Mexico," the report said.
But that failure was compounded by a lack of oversight at headquarters in Washington at both the Justice Department and the ATF, the report said.
After one January 2010 briefing at headquarters at which agents described the number of guns involved, ATF officials did not take any action to closely monitor the investigation or assess the risks involved, the report said.
The report pins blame on Arizona-based agents and Justice officials in Washington for an inaccurate letter sent to Congress on February 4, 2011, which denied that potentially illegal guns were allowed to be sold.
The report said the department, in preparing the letter, relied in part on Dennis Burke, who would later resign as the U.S. attorney in Arizona. But the report said Burke was "an unreliable source of information" about Fast and Furious, while Weinstein "advocated" for agents rather than examining their information skeptically, the report said.
The Justice Department was forced to retract the letter 10 months after sending it, intensifying congressional interest in the operation. Issa's committee issued a subpoena for documents related to the letter. When the Obama administration refused to comply on grounds of executive privilege, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives cited Holder for contempt of Congress.
The document dispute is pending in a federal court in Washington.
ATF Acting Director B. Todd Jones said in a briefing with reporters that Wednesday was a "sad day" and that the bureau "fully accepts" responsibility for the mistakes made in the operation.
Additional reporting by Aruna Viswanatha; Editing by Will Dunham, Philip Barbara and Fred Barbash


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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Kick-Off Thank You
Just a quick thanks to everyone involved with the kick-off party tonight. Thank you to Park + Vine, who graciously hosted us, to Switch Lighting and Design, who muscled in a gigantic light in a pinch, to everyone who helped make and supplyfood and drink for our crowd, and to all the great people who showed up to connect with good food in our fair city.
We were really glad to see so many people together and excited about supporting a great food culture here. Some of the conversations that were facilitated were great and exactly what we need. We will be posting and sending out some follow-ups about discussions at the meeting, but we just wanted to say thanks again for making the event a success.
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