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Becoming an Arab in America.see "Articles" on this website.
Gaza Journal Revisited July l4-to the 24th.20l4
All the material on this website,attempts to convey the Arab side of events since September ll,200l.
For the Blog on this website-see "Articles".
For a history of the Muslim Brotherhood,their rise and fall,see January 23.20l2.
"Gaza Journal", and other writings,can be viewed by clicking to "Articles"on this website.
Excerpt from 500 Great Books By Women: A Reader's Guide, Peguin Books 1994. ed Erica Bauerimeister, Jesse Larsen and Holly Smith, pp. 373-74:
The contrasts in Laila Abou-Saif's life are many. Born and raised in Cairo, she grew up in a family that valued education for both men and women, and arranged marriages for their children. After her college graduation she endured a seven-year marriage to a man chosen by her family. An Arab woman raised in the Coptic church, a Christian minority in Egypt, she developed an awareness of all the citizens of her country and began to question the true costs of the ongoing religious war with Israel. During a performance for injured soldiers in Cairo, where she taught theater at the Academy of Arts, she realized that "in order to reach the masses, Egyptian theater must retain its indigenous roots, must remain visual, physical, and musical." Using this insight, she put herself at odds with the politicians in power by challenging the government's actions in her productions. During the forty days of mourning the death of a family member, in seclusion with other women, she was inspired to film a documentary on Egyptian women. When the finished film was shown in New York City, its feminist approach threatened and angered many Egyptian officials, who retaliated by denying her access to local theaters. Despite her experiences, Laila Abou-Saif's love of her homeland is consistently felt throughout her autobiography as we come to know this vulnerable yet determined woman, honest about her faults, and committed to her beliefs.
Middle East Journal, is now available in a new edition,with an introduction which deals with the events of the Arab world, after the September attacks in 200l.
lAII.A ABOU- SAIF...,
American University, Cairo, Egypt, B.A.
University of Chicago, M.A.
University of Illinois, Urbana, PhD
Pace University, New York, NY, Instructor of Theater
Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CN, Instructor of Theater
Univ. ofNew Haven, New Haven, CN, Instructor of Literature and Composition
Macmillan Publishing Co., New York, NY, Writer
Centeri'or Research on Women, Stanford, University, Visiting Scholar
Cornell College, Mount Vernon, lA, Instructor of Theater
Columbia University, New York, NY, Instructor of Asiab Theater
Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, Instructor of Drama
Lawrence University, Appleton, WI
Director of Plays, including: Henry IV, Hakim Theatre, 1974; Hassan wa Naima, Wekelat-alGhouri Theatre, 1976; Mother Courage, Citadel Theatre, 1981; Ring Around the Moon, Cornell College, 1984; La Ronda, Southern Connecticut State Theatre, 1984; Saadawi, American Place Theatre, New York City, 1986 Director of Films, including the Egyptian TV play The Birth ofa Hero, 1974; and documentaries Where is my Freedom? 1978, and Enaba, Aziza, wa A beer, 1981 Acting Roles, including Lady Hurf in Thieves Carnival; Murya in Riders to the Sea, Inez in No Exit, Lady Bracknell in The Importance ofBeing Earnest, Mme. Desmortes in Ring Around the Moon, and the title role in Saadawi
WRITINGS: Middle East Journal, Vantage Books, June 2002 A Bridge Through Time: A Memoir, Simon & Schuster (New York), 1985 (under pseudonym Laila Said), reprinted under name Laila Abou-Saif, foreword by Gloria Steinem, Lawrence Hill Books (New York), Quartet Books, London, 1993 Middle East Journal: A Woman's Journey into the Heart ofthe Arab World, Chas. Scribner & Son (New York), 1990 Najib al-Rihani and the Development of Comedy in Egypt, Dar al-Ma'aref (Cairo), 1972
WHERE IS MY FREEDOM (Egypt) 1978
Producer, Director, Screenwriter: Laila Abou-Saif
Editor: Adel Mounor
Cinematographer: Ramsis Marzouk
16 mm, color, 85 minutes
WHERE IS MY FREEDOM had its world debut on June 4, 1978 at the Bleeker Street Cinema in New York City. A personal, feminist vision, the film according to Abou-Saif, is a result of her experience as a working woman in Egypt. It was inspired by the death of her younger sister, a feminist, in winter '77. According to Egyptian custom, Abou-Saif mourned her sister for 40 days. During this time she lived within an almost entirely feminine community. Afterwards she "was imbued with the agony and consciousness of my countrywomen."
Abou-Saif filmed highly successful professional women. Each of her subjects shares a spirit of defiance and a burning, indefatigable desire "to be something." They succeeded despite laws, social mores and religious sanctions which worked against them. Abou-Saif admits that such a woman must work at least 10 times harder than any man.
Interviewees include one of the first women to remove her veil in public, a painter jailed five years because of her political beliefs, a school teacher, a social worker, a lawyer and the owner of a pharmacy. There is also footage of women in divorce courts, village women and, in general, women of Egypt's lower classes.
Although WHERE IS MY FREEDOM is her first film, Abou-Saif is a well known figure on the Egyptian scene. She received a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and taught theatre in the Midwest before returning to Cairo in 1973 to teach at the Egyptian Academy for the Performing Arts. In 1974 she directed a videotape "Birth of a Hero" for Egyptian television and between 1973 and 1978 she directed 10 plays in Cairo. She is the only woman to teach acting and stage direction in her native country.
"I Want My Freedom" is a film that is both true to Egyptian women, and true for women everywhere. It is literally life in film; the best possible use of an artist's talents - and Laila Abou-Saif is a rare and true artist." --Gloria Steinem
"I found it a continually fascinating view of Egypt, not as a tourist attraction, or a "Third World" problem, but as a place where a great many people with whom I could identify are working out problems of identity, status, and cultural adaptation, not too dissimilar to ones we have known in our own country . . . That so complex a story should be told with such skill and clarity in a first film is truly remarkable."
--George Stoney, Professor of Film, New York University
Producer, director, Scriptwriter, Cameraperson: Laila Abou-Saif
Editor: Maher Abdel-Malik
Sound: Hamdi Gretli
super 8, color
A southern village, 60 miles south of Cairo, opens its doors and its hearts, and the women speak out. In a series of short sequences, they talk of their roles as peasant women, their work, their hardships. They talk about childbearing, contraception, and exision.
We see them at work, at home, in their little mud houses, tending their children, or in the fields, feeding the cows, the water buffaloes, gathering the crops, irrigating the fields, alongside their men.
Prominent in the film are Enaba, Aziza and Abeer. Enaba, a 14-year-old girl, is fully aware of the lot of her village women, but she would like to change things, see women get educated, and work, as human beings, not as cows. Aziza describes herself as a cow. A 30-year-old mother of three, she sees her limited role due to illiteracy. She candidly describes the life of a peasant woman in Egypt. Abeer is only seven years old. She lives in Cairo. Her mother works as a maid. It is her exision which is filmed. She is inarticulate, except when it comes to her suffering. Then she "speaks" for all those millions of girls who are exised on the African continent.
"Enaba, Aziza wa Abeer" presents the life of Egyptian rural women in an authentic way. A great achievement." --Fran Hoskem
"Some of the footage included in the film is so controversial that even Egypt's handful of feminists have indicated that they dare not interfere."
--Joan Borsten, The Los Angeles Times

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EAU CLAIRE, WI (WTAQ) - If a doctor goes on trial for allegedly molesting 16 patients, it will not happen in his home county of Eau Claire.
Circuit Judge Michael Schumacher ruled Thursday to move the possible trial of Dr. David Van de Loo to another county.
The judge agreed there's a "reasonable likelihood" that the 60-year-old Van de Loo cannot get a fair trial in Eau Claire. That's due to his status in the community, and heavy publicity surrounding both the criminal and civil charges against him.
Van de Loo was charged last fall with 17 criminal counts, all but one involving first or second-degree child sexual assault.
Authorities said he had sexual contact with male patients while serving as a pediatrician and sports medicine specialist at the Mayo Clinic in Eau Claire. Some of his former patients have also filed civil lawsuits against him.
The judge and the attorneys in the case will meet on June 4th – and a trial date and location are expected to be determined at that time. A defense lawyer says a trial could run for 2 to 3 weeks.


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By Dr. Esther Acolatse
Assistant Research Professor
of Pastoral Theology and Global Christianity
Duke Divinity School
Recently President Obama and his family visited Ghana and like all African Americans before them took a pilgrimage to a former slave castle in Cape Coast. Though I recall not only his words but the expressions on his face, what struck me most was the demeanor of Sasha Obama. She peered through the hole in the wall through which slaves were tunneled to the dungeon, averted her eyes, and began twisting the hem of her blouse as she looked up at her father. Obvious signs of discomfiture, but tinged with what seemed like embarrassment. But why?
I'm probably the only Ghanaian who's made the trip to the slave castles, even taken touring groups and has waited outside as they retraced the steps of former slaves, waited in the damp, dark dingy dungeons and came out through the now famous "door of no return." Perhaps one day when I'm old enough I may have the courage to go through the place without the visceral responses that I have experienced in the past. I'm trusting my body not to recall where it has been before – in the loins of some forebear who's walked that mile. And no one can tell me such things are not possible, especially people who've built a religion around an Adam and Eve and a "Fall."
Back to the discomfiture and embarrassment I sensed in Sasha's expression. Our people say that before the stranger dips his fingers into the communal pot, a villager must have shown him the way. Of course Africa had its form of slavery before colonial times, but it was nothing like what pertained before the emancipation bills and its aftermath. The closest inhumanity then was the 7th century Arab raids of sub-Saharan Africa in which slaves were transported to parts of Asia, and the documented female shrine slaves in parts of west Africa. Otherwise the common form of slavery known in traditional times was the kind that increased land ownership for the master. This is because the concept of individual land ownership was unknown in Africa. Land was distributed according to the need of the family for farming and domicile. The more people one had to farm a land the more land one could receive. Raiding neighboring villages for slaves, usually of other ethnicities, was not unusual for the wealthy and powerful. But usually the slave became integrated into the family with the opportunity to wealth as well as rise in military rank during war if he fought.
In the case of slavery on the coastline of Africa, sheer selfish greed and avarice from two unlikely sources colluded. The economic crisis which plagued Europe in the 14th century sent the Portuguese who had mastered the art of navigation on high seas to search for resources in distant Africa. They landed on the coastline of West Africa and raided it of its gold and ivory, naming present-day Ghana the Gold Coast, and the Ivory Coast was named so for its wealth in ivory. What tipped the scales was that the Europeans, who also brought with them religion, particularly the English Methodist and Presbyterian missionaries who established themselves as the biggest Christian denominations on these shores, discovered not only converts but cheap labor. The chiefs on the coast were more than willing to pay in slaves for rum and gin. Today, the Ghana House of Chiefs ─ a body comprising all the country's traditional kings and chiefs ─ has placed a plaque on one of the castle's walls, asking for forgiveness.
Perhaps the reason I'm unable to enter and retrace the steps of slavery is because I share a double heritage of guilt and shame ─ an African from Ghana and a Presbyterian Christian (I'm still working out which identifier takes priority). I find I still have only tentative answers for the questions raised by the atrocities of slavery and Christian??? complicity in it. How is a church atop a dungeon that houses human beings to whom a liberating gospel has been preached possible? How does one worship the God of all peoples ─ according to the Bible brought by these same missionaries ─ and treat them inhumanely? How does one sing and pray and preach at least on Sunday mornings and go buy human beings and dehumanize them, rape and torture their women the rest of the week, and many times immediately following worship? More to the point, what must it have felt like for these bound and chained humans to hear singing and praise in honor of a god of love?
If the gospel indeed has the power not only to free from sin but give power to overcome sin because of the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit, then it is fair to assume that chapel or no chapel these were in no way Christians. Products of Christendom perhaps, but not those who have been confronted with the claims of Christ and given accent to them, and turned their lives over and asked that they be continually transformed.
Most missional religious traditions have their own history of compromise with political power and privilege, and of complicity in violence that has marred human history. My own tradition, Christianity, for instance, has been, on the one hand, a force that brought the message of God's unconditional love for and acceptance of all people. On the other hand, its history, sadly, is also marked by crusades, insensitivity to Indigenous cultures, and complicity with imperial and colonial designs including slavery and its attendant effects to date.
Such ambiguity and compromise with power and privilege continues to be part of our Christian heritage and shows up in places where discrimination in any form goes unnoticed, unchallenged and unchecked. All the places and times when we "gain the world and lose our souls" individually or corporately we make the gospel ineffectual. In light of the history of slavery, it is to our shame and to God's glory that there are African Christians both at home and in the Diaspora. We see resplendent, the power of the gospel to transcend borders and transmitters and recipients. The gospel had full effect only in places of confession and repentance and desire for restitution. These are always the seeds and fruit of forgiveness. It is more than time for these to occur. Various trips to Elmina or Cape Coast castles may be therapeutic and cathartic, but we need a more enduring ritual that translates into flourishing for all.


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When we saw the Golden State Warriors rocking the short sleeve jerseys, it wasn't really a big deal. The Warriors have been a little out of the box in the past when it came to their jerseys, and it's not like their normal jerseys were a huge point of historical pride.
However, there are a few teams that you would assume could never resort to the short sleeve look. The Celtics are definitely one team that comes to mind, and then the Lakers would be a close second.
Forget whatever you thought about the Lakers and their prestigious purple and gold. They'll be wearing short sleeves for at least a few games next season.
Personally, I'm not a huge fan of short sleeve look, but lots of people are referring to it as "fashion-forward."
What do you think about the short sleeved look in the NBA, and what is your take on the Lakers trying it out next year?
Lakers to wear short sleeve jerseys in several games next season
One of the NBA's most storied franchises will be wearing short sleeves next season
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Hunters Rifle & Pistol Club scores for Match No. 5:
Match No. 5 (Rifle): Shawn Merrill, 392; Jim Dubell, 386; Dean Tharaldson, 386. Total: 1,164.
Match No. 5 (Pistol), team No. 1: William Campbell, 292; Shawn Merrill, 283; Vicki Stickney, 274; Scott Stickney, 273. Total: 1,122.
Team No. 2: Dean Tharaldson, 272; Larry Felton, 252; George Lippert, 250; Gale Hergesheimer, 245. Total: 1,019.
Also shooting was Becky Dubell, 230.
The Spokane Golf & Travel Show, in its 16th year, will be held Saturday, Feb. 15 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, Feb. 16 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Spokane Convention Center.
The show is the largest consumer golf and travel show in the Spokane and Coeur dŌĆÖ Alene region and features more than 100 exhibitors representing golf retailers, golf manufacturers, golf travel, PGA quick tip instruction, seminars by local PGA professionals, a Demo area, a putting contest, long drive contests and travel and golf give-a-ways and junior golf.
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It was another good week for Colville High wrestling.
The Indians turned in a rare shutout in last WednesdayŌĆÖs Great Northern League wrestling dual with visiting Pullman. CHS recorded seven pins and picked up five forfeits in an 83-0 shellacking of the hapless ŌĆśHounds.
The quickest pin of the night: Austin DonoghŌĆÖs donŌĆÖt blink 13 second pin at 126 pounds.
Riverside, L-side on tap this week
Kettle Falls (5-6, 0-4) dropped a pair of Northeast A League boyŌĆÖs basketball games last week at home. Back on Jan. 7 at Kettle Falls Middle School, Newport built an early 22-11 lead and made it stand up for a 70-62 win.
On Friday, the Bulldogs simply had no answers for Freeman (5-5, 3-1) on either side of the ball in a lopsided 77-39 loss.
In the loss to Newport (6-6, 2-3), defense tended to take a holiday, as the Grizzlies put up 22 first quarter points.
Riverside, L-side up next for KF
It was a rough week for Kettle Falls High (6-5, 1-3) in Northeast A League girlŌĆÖs basketball.
The Lady Bulldogs fell behind 17-5 after the first quarter back on Jan. 7 against Newport. It didnŌĆÖt get much better the rest of the way and KFHS dropped a 60-39 decision to the visiting Grizzlies.
Newport, like they have done all winter long, relied on two principal scoring threatsŌĆöHolly Malsbury (29 points) and Jolie Frederick (16).
The hard-working Malsbury was 12 of 14 from the free throw line. As a team, Newport was 22 of 28 at the charity stripe.
Priest River, T-lake this weekend
Defense was the name of the game in ColvilleŌĆÖs two non-league girlŌĆÖs basketball road wins last week.
In a 46-25 shellacking of host Medical Lake back on Dec. 18, the IndiansŌĆÖ defensive pressure exacted a toll.
It was much the same last Saturday at Chewelah, where CHS rolled to a 32-10 halftime lead en route to a 50-21 win over the Cougars.
The Jenkins High boyŌĆÖs basketball team fell to 2-5 on the season after going 1-2 in three games last week.
The Cougars began their week well with a 68-47 win over Kettle Falls at home, but Chewelah was overpowered in their next two games--a 68-46 loss at Riverside and an 81-50 home loss last Saturday night in the 395 Showdown to Colville.
Chewelah head coach Jason Norman knew there were going to be some growing pains with his mostly inexperienced varsity roster. But Norman certainly seeŌĆÖs signs of improvement.
The Northport High girlŌĆÖs basketball team experienced a rough week in a season that was expected to have its share of up and down moments.
The Mustangs opened their week with a 56-24 loss to Inchelium before traveling to the Wellpinit Christmas Tournament and losing to host Wellpinit on Friday, 67-1. On Saturday, NHS lost a rematch with Inchelium, 83-20.
NHS head coach Erik Stark says that Northport is working hard and despite the lopsided losses, the girls are not giving up on the young season.
Neah Bay runs
past Panthers
The Cusick PanthersŌĆÖ (8-3, 5-2) season came to an end on a frigid Friday night at Silverdale against the Neah Bay Red Devils (10-0, 5-0), 80-28.
The Panthers jumped out to an early 14-0 lead, but a bad couple of minutes early in the second quarter started a Neah Bay rally that didnŌĆÖt stop until the Red Devils had run into the B-8 semifinals.
Cusick head coach Sonny Finley knew his Panthers had run up against a buzz saw and an eight-man powerhouse.
State Saturday
in Pasco
With rain and 50 mile per hour wind punishing the open expanse of Spokane ValleyŌĆÖs Plantes Ferry Park last Saturday, Colville cross country standouts Megan Lee and Kevin Carpenter took the opportunity to punch their tickets to the WashingtonŌĆÖs State Championship. While it was expected that Carpenter, a senior, would make his fourth and final trip to PascoŌĆÖs Sun Willows Golf Club, it was Lee who shocked the field, running a personal course record on her way to an eye-opening third place finish.


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Beyonce may not even have an official single out now, but according to two unusual sources, she does have a new video in the works. New York artist DJ Harris and sports columnist Jeremy Bauman both say that the "Grown Woman" plans to spend this weekend filming a new video in a spacious backyard belonging to Bauman's grandmother.
Where and for what, however, neither has said. (They likely can't either; within an hour after posting, both have since deleted their tweets and a photo of the set.) To recap this #BeyPatient era: While her moving Detroit tribute did get the video treatment, Beyonce has yet to officially release a new single; "Standing in the Sun" was debuted via H&M campaign, while "Grown Woman" was performed live and leaked. According to a rep, she's yet to actually finish her new album.
That said, there's only one potential reason left for a video: an HD look at her new pixie cut. (Okay, but seriously, Beyhive — thoughts?) Check out DJ Harris' Twitter updates after the jump.
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Duo replaced by John Heitinga and Steven Naismith.
David Moyes has made two changes for Sunday's visit of Chelsea as John Heitinga and Steven Naismith come in for Phil Neville and Darron Gibson.
Midfielder Gibson was substituted at half-time during Boxing Day's 2-1 win over Wigan Athletic, while Club captain Neville is still working his way back to full fitness following knee surgery.
Neither Gibson or Neville feature on the bench, though there is a place for 18-year-old right-back Tyias Browning.
Seamus Coleman, who was thought to be closing in on a return from injury, does not make it.
The Blues are still without Belgian Marouane Fellaini, who is serving the final game of his three-match suspension.
The news means Tim Howard continues in goal, with Leighton Baines, Phil Jagielka and Sylvain Distin joining Heitinga in defence.
Moyes' midfield will be comprised of Naismith, Thomas Hitzlsperger, Leon Osman and Steven Pienaar, with Nikica Jelavic and Victor Anichebe the chosen pairing in attack.
Everton: Howard, Baines, Heitinga, Jagielka, Jelavic, Naismith, Distin, Hitzlsperger, Osman, Pienaar, Anichebe. Subs: Mucha, Oviedo, Gueye, Barkley, Vellios, Duffy, Browning
Chelsea: Cech, Ivanovic, Cole, Luiz, Ramires, Lampard, Torres, Mata, Hazard, Cahill, Azpilicueta. Subs: Turnbull, Oscar, Moses, Ferreira, Marin, Piazon, Ake
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Does Crofter's test for Bisphenol A (BPA)?There has been renewed concern about Bisphenol A (BPA) residues in foods due to the presence of BPA in food packaging. In January 2010, both The New York Times and the Washington Post reported that the FDA has expressed concern about the health risks of BPA. In a study of 2000 people, BPA was detected in the urine of 90% of the participants. BPA could be present in the seal material attached to the underside of metal caps to form an air-tight seal between the cap and the glass jar. Since Crofter's uses metal in the caps on their jars, they opted to have their fruit spreads tested in 2009 by an independent laboratory and test results indicate that their products contain no detectable BPA residues. Crofter's tested fresh, 6 months old, and 15 months old product to simulate maximum potential exposure. In all cases BPA residues were reported as less than 1 part per billion (1 part per billion is the lowest level which the laboratory can measure with current methods).
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The cap on my jar did not make the *pop* sound when I opened it. The product inside looks okay. Is it still okay to consume the product?No! The cap should always made a definite *pop* the first time a jar is opened. If there is no *pop*, then the cap seal has failed and the product can spoil.
Do their products contain corn?There are no corn ingredients in Crofter's products. Citiric acid can be made form corn through a fermentation process, however the manufacturer assures that there is no trace of corn remaining in the citric acid.
Do their products contain gluten?No. All items are gluten free.
Understand Your Jam
Jams and jellies; preserves and conserves; fruit spreads and butters and marmalades, oh my! These are just some of the terms associated with preserved fruit products. It's a real wonder that something as simple as preserved fruit could be so complicated.
According to convention and common knowledge...
According to the FDA...In the United States, some jam- and jelly-related terms are regulated and some are not. Regulated products and product names include Jam, Preserve, Jelly and Fruit Butter:
This means that products with these names have to conform to certain specifications and recipes. For instance, a product called "Jelly" must contain at least 65 percent water soluble solids (sugar) and must be made with fruit juices or concentrates. "Preserves" and "Jams" (interchangeable FDA terms), must contain at least 65 percent sugar and 45 percent fruit. If a product does not meet these requirements, it must be called by another name. For example, Crofter's Fruit Spreads are only 44 percent sugar, so they can not label them "Jams" or "Preserves."
One of the defining specifications for jams and related products is the total sugar content. This includes the sugar present in the fruit and the sugar added through cane sugar or concentrates and syrups. This is often referred to as "soluble solids" or "Brix." For example, if 10 grams of sugar are added to 90 grams of water, the resulting 100 grams of sugar solution are said to have a Brix of 10 or a soluble solids content of 10% (i.e. 10% sugar by weight). Similarly, a fruit preserve should have a Brix measurement of 65 (or 65% sugar by weight = 65 grams of sugar in 100 grams of preserve).
At Crofter's, They Prefer Their Product Nonstandardized
Premium Spread: 44 Brix, 50%+ fruit contentTheir Premiums Spreads are produced in the same manner as jams and preserves, but contain less sugar and more fruit. The sugar used in these products is cane sugar. They can not put "Jam" or "Preserve" on the jar, because this product does not conform to the FDA's specifications for "Jam" or "Preserve."
Just Fruit Spread: 44 Brix, almost 100% fruit ingredientsTheir Just Fruit Spreads also contain only 44% sugar. The sugar used in these spreads comes from white grape juice concentrate instead of the cane sugar used in their Premium Spreads. These spreads contain fewer calories per serving than jams and preserves (so do their Premium Spreads, though!).
Superfruit Spread: 44 Brix, LOTS of fruitThese blends are their lowest sugar product. Absolutely loaded with antioxidant-rich fruits, these spreads are sweetened with fair trade cane sugar.
About Crofter's Organic
Crofter's Organic has been making organic fruit products on the shores of the Georgian Bay in Parry Sound, Ontario, for 20 years now. They produce an extensive line of organic fruit spreads, conserves and jellies that are distributed in both natural and conventional channels throughout the U.S. and Canada. Gerhard and Gabi Latka founded Crofter's in 1989 after emigrating from Germany with an old jam kettle in tow (aka Sputnik). Gerhard's jam-making philosophy — "be serious about keeping it simple" — is undoubtedly a legacy from his father who founded a world-class food flavor house when Gerhard was a boy. Two decades after moving to Canada, Crofter's is the largest organic jam manufacturer in North America.
In addition to their traditional jam flavors, they manufacture a number of unique flavors including Sicilian blood orange, mango and pomegranate. Their Crofter's Superfruit Spreads are packed with exotic fruits such as Chilean maqui berries and yumberries from subtropical China. Crofter's is particular about every single ingredient in its fruit products. Their organic blueberries are wild harvested near Lac Saint-Jean north of Quebec. They use heritage fruit varieties like Senga Sengana strawberries, Willamette raspberries and morello cherries for their full flavor profiles and dark, rich color.
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The original feature of this Grande Champagne, until very recently strictly reserved for members of the family and their guests, is that it is not a blend, but an eau-de-vie from a single barrel and from a single estate. This Single Cask shows a slight difference from one cask to the other.Learn MoreExcl. Tax: €411.67 Incl. Tax: €494.00
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If you are wise enough to taste it slowly leaving it time enough to unfold in the glass this Cognac will reward you with inimitable aromas of truffles, wood berries, and delicate accents of pepper and vanilla.Learn MoreExcl. Tax: €409.17 Incl. Tax: €491.00
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"Dark colour, very sweet and mature nose, dried fruits, prunes, sweet chocolate pralines and some hints of dried flowers, very complex, the palate has good bite, very distinct, an aged sweetness, leather and nutty aromas, really long and rich aftertaste, complex", Andreas Larsson, 2008.Learn More
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Hine - Family Reserve - XO Grande Champagne
A venerable Grande Champagne from the HINE family's private reserves, proudly and sparingly released in a strictly limited number of bottles each year to be enjoyed by connoisseurs of truly exceptional cognacs.Learn MoreExcl. Tax: €390.83 Incl. Tax: €469.00
Jean Fillioux -1953- Private Collection - Grande Champagne
With his roots firmly planted in the pure, time-honoured tradition of his ancestors, a man content in the shadows and a conjuror of magical aromas, Pascal will be happy to welcome you into his cellars where you can discover and share his Collection Privée.Learn MoreExcl. Tax: €366.67 Incl. Tax: €440.00
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Students Arrested After Feeding Pot Brownies to Unsuspecting Classmates & Professor
What were these kids smoking? Oh wait. I think we know. Two University of Colorado Boulder students were arrested after feeding their classmates -- and their professor-- pot brownies. I don't even think Jeff Spicoli would have tried that. The reefer-laced brownies sickened their professor and seven classmates. The students have been arrested. Bummer, man.
Colorado recently passed Amendment 64, making recreational pot use legal. That doesn't mean, however, that you can go around feeding it to whomever you like without their permission. And if this is the first stunt that Amendment 64 is going to cause, I feel bad for the residents of Colorado.
I'm sure we'll hear a lot more wacky news about pot smokers out of this state before the Amendment is reconsidered. I personally shudder at the idea of getting on the road with a bunch of high people driving. One could argue that they would have done it anyway, whether or not the drug was legal, but I tend to err on the side of trying to make things more difficult for people who might be inclined to do something stupid.
At any rate, feeding unsuspecting people pot is no laughing matter -- even if they are laughing. The professor, who was reportedly nodding in and out of consciousness, and was taken to the hospital. Not everyone reacts to marijuana well. What might be a good ol' time for one person might be a bad ride of sickness, paranoia, respiratory issues, and other unpleasant effects for another. Plus it just seems to be the height of irresponsibility to feed unsuspecting people brownies. What if one or more of those students got up, left class, and went to drive home?
I hope the kids who did this are given some serious punishment and realize that this kind of thing isn't cool, man.
Have you ever eaten pot brownies by mistake? Or on purpose?
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starlighthippieDecember 10, 2012 at 11:23 AM
Just because some immature people do dumb things while high does not mean that there are not people who smoke responsibly. I don't think the amendment should be reconsidered because some people do dumb things with it. People do dumb things with alcohol too. That does not mean everyone does. Teenagers and college kids, many of whom are still teenagers, do dumb things in general. Once, when I was in high school a knew a guys whose brother peed in an empty bottle and then told him it was beer. Also, some people drive drunk, does that mean alcohol should be prohibited for everyone. No, it just means there should be consequences for people who do dumb things with legal substances, and it seems these children were appropriately penalized.
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SallyDecember 10, 2012 at 11:39 AMStupid people do stupid things. Plenty of smokers are responsible, fairly law-abiding (obviously not in one respect) people. Plus why the heck would anyone be dumb enough to spend that cash required to make brownies and the waste them on a bunch of unsuspecting people. There are way cheaper pranks.
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Common.SenseDecember 10, 2012 at 12:23 PMSo, in summary, drugs are stupid as hell and dangerous and people need to stop pretending otherwise.
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kelly24019December 10, 2012 at 12:49 PMOh for gods sake... Grow up. People huff paint fumes... People are idiots... Drugs are not all bad. Le sigh
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Megan LeeDecember 10, 2012 at 12:56 PM
And how many people have spiked drinks with alcohol at parties, etc?
We don't hear people calling for another prohibition.
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I hope they get some jail time. They had no business doing this to unsuspecting people.
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lalabooshDecember 10, 2012 at 8:36 PMIt pisses me off to no end when I talk about baking a treat for my family and this old man at the medical club tells me to medicate it secretly. It's so wrong to drug people against their will, and does the cannabis community no favors. He needs to grow the hell up, just like that CO kid with the brownies.
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ScorpioDeeDecember 11, 2012 at 9:49 AM
I am with Kelly...and I live in a country where it is not legal. We pulled stunts like that and nobody got hurt, just high. And it didn't have to do with the fact that was legal or illegal. And yes, I ate pot cookies, made some myself.


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WASHBURN, WI (WTAQ) - A man suspected of killing his parents in Bayfield County is under an induced coma at a hospital in Duluth Minnesota.
Sheriff Paul Susienka said Monday that he expects 44-year-old Jimmy Crain to be charged with first-degree intentional homicide -- but those charges might not come down for a few days.
79-year-old Jim Crain and his 76-year-old wife Eunice "Crickett" Crain were found in their apartment in Iron River, where their son was said to be staying on a short-term basis.
The sheriff would not say how the parents died, pending the results of autopsies. He said Jimmy Crain most likely stabbed himself.
His mother called 911 early Saturday evening. Susienka said it's possible that the younger Crain could be charged without being interviewed by officers -- and he would have to be extradited from Minnesota to Wisconsin.
Online court records show that Jimmy Crain was convicted of disorderly conduct three times over the last decade -- and his father was also convicted of the same charge in one of those cases.
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HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) - Authorities say a Henry County police officer shot and killed a woman in Hampton, about 30 miles south of Atlanta.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) - A man in Florida apparently got a dose of road rage karma when police say he was run over by his own pickup truck after getting out to bang on another driver's window.
PARIS (AP) - France's foreign minister says the Air Algerie flight that has gone missing over Mali has "probably crashed."
WASHINGTON (AP) - Regulators have voted by a narrow margin to end a longtime staple of the investment industry - the fixed $1 share price for money-market mutual funds - at least for some money funds used by big investors.
WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans want to slash President Barack Obama's emergency spending request for the border, speed young migrants back home to Central America, and send in the National Guard.
Fear is back in the market. Investors are fretting about China's growth, a plunge in Argentina's peso and the profit outlook for U.S. companies.
NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. stocks are falling broadly Thursday after earnings and forecasts from several companies disappointed investors. A survey from China, a major driver of global growth, suggested that manufacturing in the world's second-largest economy was contracting.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court lent a sympathetic ear Wednesday to a victim of child pornography who wants the court to make it easier for victims to collect money from people convicted of downloading and viewing the pornographic images.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Seeking to calm a furor over U.S. surveillance, President Barack Obama on Friday called for ending the government's control of phone data from hundreds of millions of Americans and immediately ordered intelligence agencies to get a secretive court's permission before accessing such records. Still, he defended the nation's spying apparatus as a whole, saying the intelligence community was not "cavalier about the civil liberties of our fellow citizens."
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With poverty at a record high, we all can help feed those in need in the Chicago area. Many of those in need are the new faces of hunger: the fallen middle class.
We asked Sheila Enright to tell us her story, in her own words.
"I'm somebody who put a bag of groceries on my porch for every food drive. I never thought I'd have need to go there and say, can you give me some of those groceries back? That's pretty frightening," Enright said.
"They're in a real bind because the middle class, the people that supported them, are suddenly coming to them for services. And I think that's terrifying.
"I had a special needs son, who was a birth injury in Florida. Horrible story, it costs me. Probably why I'm in the financial situation I'm in. I came back to Chicago because of Misericordia.
"My son passed away in 2005.
"The intriguing thing stated to me in Florida, many years ago, at that time I was pretty solvent. And I remember a neurologist saying to me, you have no idea the financial cost you're in for.
"I'm a home owner; it's kind of a double-edged sword. I have an asset; I have my home. So, how does the government look at me? Well, sell your home. You're sitting on a pile of money. No matter how bad the economy is and the loss I would take on my home, I have an asset. So that makes me not somebody you really want to give a hand to.
"My son's a physics major. So thank God, you know he'll work. But listening to his friends talk is the first time I've heard, and these are very bright college kids, talking about leaving America for jobs.
"You've taken us out of the work force and out of our earning years. What are we going to do? What are you going to do with us? And that's my question.
"I always thought of myself as self-sufficient. I didn't want a hand out. I wanted to help others. This is the first time in my life that I'm saying, 'what am I going to do? What do I do in ten years? What do I do in five years? What are you going to do with me? Literally, am I going to have a tent and a cart?'"
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The Gran Fondo Giro d'Italia presented World and National Champion Gianni Bugno during a press conference held at the Italian Consulate in New York City Thursday evening. Bugno, who twice won the World Championship, will be leading out riders in the Gran Fondo Giro d'Italia taking place Sunday May 5, in conjunction with the Five Boro Bike Tour. Bugno also has victories in the Giro d'Italia, the Tour of Flanders, and Milan San Remo to his credit. Currently he spends his time in the sport as a helicopter pilot filming the Giro d'Italia, and as president of the Association of Professional Cyclists.
Gran Fondo Giro d'Italia brings the Italian passion for cycling to the Five Boro Bike Tour, with priority VIP start access, a timed climb on the Veranzano Narrows bridge, and a celebration at the end of the ride with a pasta dinner. Over one thousand Gran Fondo riders are expected to lead an estimated 32,000 riders as the tour starts on Sunday morning. The Gran Fondo Giro d'Italia now boasts five events, including Five Boro Bike Tour. For more on the events visit www.granfondogiroditalia.com.
In light of recent events, security has been heightened at this year's tour. Participants will be prohibited from bringing backpacks, hydration packs, and panniers on the ride. Small saddle/frame bags, fanny packs, and water bottles will be allowed, and the route will have sufficient hydration/aid stations to meet riders' needs. For more information on event security, visit www.bikenewyork.org.


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A 30-year-old Missoula man faces felony charges for allegedly impersonating a sheriffs' deputy. Kyle Pritchard appeared in Missoula Justice Court Monday afternoon, facing a felony charge of impersonating a public servant.
Court documents show Pritchard called a local home in the middle of the night last month claiming to be a sheriff's deputy. He began questioning the woman claiming she was in a hit and run, and threatened to send deputies to the house to cite her for not cooperating. He also asked her to reveal personal information. Documents show Pritchard then called back and said he was "kidding", claiming it was a prank.
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Book Babies, 10:30 a.m., Oak Bluffs library. Storytime and open play for babies ages 3 to 18 months. Call 508-693-9433 or visit oakbluffslibrary.org.
Story Hour for ages three to five is at 10:30 a.m. at the Edgartown library. Call 508-627-4221.
David Hockney: To See Big, ages 9 to 12, with Lani Carney, 3:15 to 5:45 p.m., Featherstone Center for the Arts. $30.
Intro to Ceramics with Washington Ledesma, 4 to 6 p.m., Featherstone Center for the Arts. $149 for five-class series. Co-sponsored by ACE MV.
Supah Fun, Wicked Awesome, ages 5 and up, 4 to 5 p.m., Vineyard Haven library. Activities and crafts for kids. Call 508-696-4211 or visit vhlibrary.org.
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Slips & trips have accounted for approximately 40% of WKU's lost time and restricted duty injuries, and represent up to 45% of WKU's total Workers' Compensation costs.
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The concept of biophilia—first coined by American biologist Edward O. Wilson in the 1980s, theorizes that humans have a biological need to connect with nature on physical, mental, and social levels, and that this connection affects our personal well-being, productivity, and societal relationships. The concept is easy enough to understand on a micro level. We are all inspired by nature in some way, and respond positively to fresh air, landscape views, and natural light. But on the macro level—as a design concept that can shape the entire built environment—biophilia is somewhat more complex. An offshoot of the sustainability movement, biophilic design seeks to integrate nature and structure by focusing on bringing nature into indoor space, incorporating materials and patterns that evoke nature, and planning open space configurations that allow for expansive views.
Bob Fox, a founder of COOKFOX Architects in New York and a principal of Terrapin Bright Green, an environmental consulting and strategic planning firm committed to improving the human environment through high performance development, policy, and related research, has long been dedicated to the principles of biophilic design, as evidenced in many of the firms' more recent projects.
One Bryant Park
Also known as the Bank of America Tower, the now-iconic One Bryant Park in New York City was the first commercial high rise to achieve LEED Platinum certification. The 2.1 million-sq.-ft., 55-story tower set a new standard in high performance buildings when it opened in 2009. Among its many sustainable features, it draws on the concepts of biophilic design by emphasizing daylight, fresh air, and an intrinsic relationship to the outdoors.
In response to its dense urban context, the building blurs the boundaries between public and private space with a highly transparent corner entry. A daylit and neutral space, the lobby creates a layered connection to the public realm of Bryant Park, whose restorative green spaces extend into the building through green roofs and a publicly accessible Urban Garden Room. Solid, natural lobby materials anchor the tower to the earth; small, tactile details such as white oak door handles, fossil-embedded Jerusalem stone, and leather paneling keep the massive tower intelligible to the human hand and eye.
As it rises from the street grid, the massing of the tower shifts, increasing the surface area exposed to daylight. The resulting angles offer views around and through the forest of Midtown Manhattan skyscrapers, and on its southeast side, a deep double wall orients the building in its full height toward Bryant Park. A floor-to-ceiling glass curtain wall provides expansive views while minimizing solar heat gain through low-e glass and heat-reflecting ceramic frit.
641 Avenue of the Americas
COOKFOX "walks the green talk" in the design of its own offices. Its LEED-CI Platinum certified space at 641 Avenue of the Americas in New York serves as a showcase that reflects the firm's studio culture and its commitment to sustainability, as well as its vision for the future of biophilic design. The light-filled studio—in the penthouse of a former department store in the Ladies Mile Historic District—features and open floor plan, 14-ft. ceilings, and original column and ceiling details from the early 1900s. Daylight fills the interior space through a sweeping curve of 9-ft. windows that offer breathtaking views of the Manhattan skyline, including many of the city's most iconic buildings. An upgraded HVAC system, operable windows, and low-VOC materials provide natural ventilation and high indoor air quality. The interiors palette gives priority to natural, local, and eco-friendly materials.
A 3,600-sq.-ft. roof garden is the office's strongest biophilic element and is visible from nearly every work area. The green roof, planted with drought-tolerant, low maintenance sedum species, reduces stormwater runoff, decreases the building's cooling load, and houses an apiary with over 50,000 Italian bees. Three COOKFOX staffers who are amateur beekeepers tend the colony.
All of these sustainable features serve as the backdrop for regular office tours and a monthly environmental lecture series.
510 West 22nd Street
Inspired by its proximity to the High Line as much as by biophilia, the 10-story office tower for real estate developer Albanese Organization that is planned for 510 West 22nd Street will provide maximum visual and physical connection to the landscaped environment of the High Line and views of the Hudson River beyond.
A glass-enclosed lobby captures natural light from the High Line above, and offers tenants and visitors a view of the ground level garden, while a rooftop garden enhances the connection to the surrounding natural environment. The glass curtain wall relates to the park's infrastructure with structural elements in dark charcoal metal, and all terraces feature natural wood ceilings recalling the plantings and wood benches below.
Panoramic windows, coupled with support columns pulled back 15 ft. from the perimeter window walls, ensure light-filled office floors with expansive views over the High Line and West Chelsea. Exterior solar shades allow abundant natural light to enter work areas while mitigating glare and reducing heat load. Operable window panels enable tenants to enjoy fresh air and listen to birds living in the High Line's birch tree thicket below.
510 West 22nd Street also features over 15,000 sq. ft. of outdoor space for office tenants' use, including landscaped terraces cut into the building profile to offer close-up views of the landscape and trees along the High Line.
The tower is being designed by COOKFOX to achieve a LEED Platinum rating.
"If you are a decent architect today, you will focus on saving energy and water," says Bob Fox. "But how do you create architecture that has a direct connection to nature?" Biophilic design, a practice that essentially melds the two, is gaining popularity worldwide, and is already becoming an increasingly important conversation on the sustainability horizon. COOKFOX's work is evidence that biophilia can inform projects as diverse as super tall architecture for a global financial giant, to a speculative office tower for a real estate developer, to the adaptive reuse of an historic interior for a creative organization. What they share is a better vision for healthy, sustainable, high-performance space.


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Rammstein will release their complete music video catalog in a new box set. Titled Videos 1995-2012 , the three-DVD package contains over seven hours of material, including 25 music videos and 24 behind-the-scenes clips of how the videos were made. The collection also features two new videos for "Mein Herz Brennt," from 2001's Mutter .
Videos 1995-2012 is set to arrive in stores on January 15. You can pre-order your copy now at Amazon.com .
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Aiyeeee! The third season of HBO's "True Blood" debuts this Sunday! It is unseemly how excited I am. It makes me feel a little less embarrassed to know that Renee, over at the wonderful blog Womanist Musings, is equally obsessed with Alan Ball's tale of blood, sex, intrigue and the supernatural. Of course, Renee and I also share a devotion to analyzing culture through the lens of womanism and anti-racism. So, we were IM'ing yesterday and hit upon an idea--Why not combine our passions?
Beginning next Monday, June 14, at 9 p.m. ET, Renee and I will host a weekly podcast devoted to "True Blood" and our special brand of analysis. Okay, okay, analysis through an anti-racist and womanist lens doesn't exactly sound fun, but ya'll know how we roll: We promise to make it enjoyable. We can talk about biased representation of characters of color and Alexander Skarsgaard's talents (Hee.).
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I took a quarter-long yoga class in college and practiced prenatal yoga this past Summer. I really think it helped me relax and maintain some of my muscle strength while pregnant. I have decided that I am going to start doing yoga in the evenings again. I joined yogajournal.com. I had no idea that you could build your own yoga practice on their site, which is really cool. I really do not like following videos, so having my own routine will be nice. Just checking in!
-The Missus
I have worked with reward systems for as long as I can remember. The problem with me was that my reward was typically food of some sort. "Finish your paper so you can eat some of that cake." "Clean the cat box and you can have a hershey kiss." "Go to the gym so you can eat donuts."
M is getting a smaller reward when he is under 300lbs and a much larger one when he reaches his goal of 220lbs. I had yet to find anything I wanted, but tonight I did.
FANCY PANTS NAIL POLISH! I love having my nails painted, but always purchase cheap crap, and never bother buying a base coat, and never put a surface coat over, so it never lasts and is horrible for my nails. I am going to allow myself a small spree on Amazon (luckily they are cheap as hell on there) when I reach 142lbs.
Why 142lbs? I know that is only 14 pounds less than I weight right now, it will be exactly 50 pounds less than I weighed on the day I went in to labor.
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LAKE GEORGE LAKE GEORGE — Town officials expressed frustrations Feb. 13 about groundwater draining off state land into town sanitary sewer pipes and being treated at the village sewer plant at the expense of town taxpayers.
Their concerns were aired as the town heard from new town board member Dan Hurley about ongoing efforts to slip-line the town's sewer pipes to reduce infiltration.
Town Code Enforcement Officer Rob Hickey said that despite objections aired years ago, clean groundwater was continuing to flow from drain pipes under state-owned Battlefield Park and being dumped into the town's Caldwell Sewer District transmission line.
Hickey said that town officials took action in July 2010 to cap off the lines that illegally drained and transported the water, but reconnected the pipes just days later because water was backing up in the park.
"How come the state is not paying for this," town supervisor Dennis Dickinson responded at the Feb. 13 town board meeting.
Old-timers in town have said the drainage pipes were likely installed decades ago by the state Department of Environmental Conservation when the agency created Battlefield Park from former swamp land. The pipes were constructed to drain off underground sources of water that fed the swamp, they've speculated.
But in 2010, the state denied knowledge or ownership of the pipes.
For years, town and village officials have been concerned the village sewer system has been overburdened. In 2010, videos taken by a robotic camera inside water pipes confirmed that stormwater flow was a primary culprit for massive inflows.
It was discovered that the pipes under Battlefield Park were delivering a considerable flow — thousands of gallons daily — of clean stormwater into the town's main transmission line.
For many years, it has been illegal to pump stormwater into the municipal sewer system, which is reserved by law for septic sewage.
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#149 Hendricks Head Lighthouse from the Beach II 27" high X 9" wide. Finished February 13, 2014. Oil on canvas board, framed. Price $990.
This painting has a "light red" under-painting which gives the work an underlying warmth and will glow through in the evening light to create its own sunset.
#148 Kayaks and Fall Foliage 11" high X 14 wide." Finished February 2, 2014. Oil on Canvas, ready to hang. Price, $620.
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Today Im going to cover how to create a rippling water pattern in Photoshop using the clouds filter. This is a little technical, but itll become clear why were doing this over the next few days.
As light hits the waves on the surface of the sea its distorted and that creates a pattern of light and dark across the sea-bed thats very distinctive. We can replicated this pattern in photoshop with relatively little trouble, but there will be some new concepts so Ill take it step by step.
1. In a new document, create a new layer, make sure the colours are set to black and white, and run Filter->Render->Clouds. This creates an automated collection of noise with a characteristic scale you can see the overall pattern of dark and lights across the panel above. Note that youll get a subtly different pattern every time you run the Render->Clouds filter.
2. Run Filter->Render->Difference Clouds. This will give you a pattern like the one below. This still doesnt look much like a wave pattern, but bear with me.
3. Invert the layer (Image->Adjustments->Invert or command/ctrl + I).
4. Adjust the levels on the layer its currently very light and we need a wider range of lights and darks for it to be useful. To do this either go to Image->Adjustments->Levels or add a new adjustment layer. Ive taken a screenshot of the levels panel after Ive tinkered with it to get what Im after.
5. Now were getting somewhere. Finally I stretch the layer in this case horizontally by arond 200-250%, depending on what looks good. Now I agree that this might not look that exciting right now, but tomorrow Ill be showing you how to use this to turn any map into an underwater sunken vista.
Ive also uploaded one of my own ripple textures here: Ripples | Fantastic Maps
The file is CC-BY-NC licensed, so if you want to use the ripples in a commercial product youll have to follow the tutorial and make your own :)
There's a slightly longer version of this tutorial posted over on the blog: Using clouds to create ripples | Fantastic Maps along with an archive of previous tutorials here: Tips and Tricks | Fantastic Maps


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12 Workout Secrets from Celebrity Trainers
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- Go for the Glutes
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- Sculpt a Sexy Back
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Beat the Clock
Celebrity Trainer: Joe Dowdell, president of Peak Performance Strength & Conditioning Center in New York City, and trainer to Anne Hathaway and Claire Danes
Spend less time (about 20 to 30 seconds) resting between sets at the beginning of your workout when your muscles aren't exhausted, and more time (40 to 60 seconds) as they become fatigued. This method, known as density training, can cut the time you spend working out by as much as 15 to 20 percent. It also forces your muscles to work harder while improving your endurance at the same time.
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Morna Foy, president of the Wisconsin Technical College System made the following statement regarding the departure of UW System President Kevin Reilly.
"UW System President Kevin Reilly has been a partner with the Technical College System, improving the number and quality of education options available to Wisconsin citizens. He has been a champion for the critical role of educational opportunity and achievement in ensuring Wisconsin's economic health and quality of life.
I have appreciated Kevin's collegial support during my first year as WTCS president, and I'm confident he will bring his energy and enthusiasm to his new role at the American Council on Education for the benefit of higher education on a national level. I wish him all the best."


text: THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL SNOWDOWN - DURANGO, COLORADO As the nation worries about the effects of Colorado's recent legalization of recreational marijuana, it can rest assured that a Coloradan's first love is booze. And when it comes to booze, Colorado's premier winter celebration, Snowdown, delivers. Back in 1979, Snowdown was created as a town-sized party to brighten the long Southwest Colorado winter — when the sun can duck behind the mountains at 2:30 pm. With more than 100 events spread over dozens of locations for five days, it seems like the entire town turns out at some point. Though there are a few events aimed at families, the majority of them are for adults, and those adults are just as likely to be day-drunk 70 year olds as they are to be students from Fort Lewis College. Across the city, bars are packed for days on end with people in costume. This year's theme was "Safari So Good" — so lots of animal prints and pith helmets. Locals took part in events such as beer pong, the Bar Olympics, thumb wars, trivia contests, keg lid golf, outhouse stuffing, racy fashion shows and general heavy drinking, all leading up to the Snowdown fireworks and the wild light parade down Main Avenue. Guide Notes: snowdown.org More event pictures. More parade pictures. * * * At-Large Guide to the West James Orndorf was born in Minnesota, but knew at a very young age that the future lay out west. He is currently photographing and illustrating outside of Durango, Colorado. You can see what he's up to at inlandwest.tumblr.com and roughshelter.com. 306