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The Pleasure Island Blues and Jazz Festival was postponed last fall due to Hurricane Matthew and Samantha Fish and her band were pretty bummed about that. Bluesy soul singer and riotous guitar player Fish will be performing Sunday at the rescheduled festival co-headlined by Johnny Lang.
She's touring behind an excellent new album called "Chills & Fever" in which she covers classic and lesser known soul songs, backed by a tight band that included players from the Detroit Cobras. (If you haven't heard of them, you should really find their albums).
I spoke to Fish for an article while she and the band were prepping a show in Pennsylvania (there's some videos form that show below) in which she discussed making the album, how she got started playing professionally after high school, her first "show" and much more.
What led to "Chills & Fever"?
Fish: I've always wanted to have a bigger band but also finding the right time to grow. It came about in a natural way. The horn section adds something so dramatic and dynamic to what we're doing and keys are another melodic layering. It's a big band, it sounds huge. Its fun for me as an artist to grow, be creative. I didn't want to hold myself to a trio forever. It's always been in the back of my mind to do it. I've been a trio since i started music as a teenager.
Was the new album a means to challenge yourself or do something different?
Not so much a challenge, any time you make a record it's a challenge, figuring out new music. Going in this direction, I've always loved soul singers from the time I started singing. I always went the rock and roll direction, blues rock, just because I was playing in a trio. I don't want to say my vocals have taken a backseat to it, but when you get this bigger band you can stretch out things vocally, even on the guitar, because you're not focused on two things at once. But playing this music I've always loved the passion, and the energy. It was a good time to do that and with the expansion of the band.
In choosing songs, was this on your mind?
Producer Bobby Harlow and I, we picked the material together. I just think a lot of those songs from that time period are love songs. It turned out to a big love letter record really, other than "Crow Jane," which is about killing some chick, the rest of it was pretty sweet. ("Crow Jane") was the wild card of the record when I submitted it. It's an archive song, its one of those traditional songs, I was really drawn to the Skip James version – his version was so haunting. That's a little closer in line with the stuff I've done in live shows and on my album "Wild Heart." It connected the dots for me, and I wanted something on the record that my older fans (could connect with).
"Feelin Alright" from your "Runaway" album is a close cousin to this album.
That song was such a wild card; it was the weirdest song on that record. It stands out. We get requests for it, and I don't think we ever, ever played it (live). Thinking back you could say it correlates with what we're doing now.
You began playing music while in high school?
When I graduated, I didn't go to college, I got a job and just started working, paying rent, surviving, honing my craft. When I wasn't working I went out to jams and playing at my house, meeting people, and putting together a band slowly. Then it was opening up the phonebook and calling every bar and club in Kansas City and see who will pay you to put music in there.
I did that for a couple of years and filled up my calendar. I was at Knuckleheads in Kansas City a lot, the staff and Frank who owns it was really good to me. Really encouraging and introduced me to a lot of people, I met a lot of peers. I met Mike Zito who produced "Runaway" and he introduced me to Thomas Ruth at Ruth Records and I went off on the Blues Caravan, I got with an agency, got to working, putting out records and growing a fan base. One fan at a time.
Can you share some things that shaped your decision to play music?
My parents always had music on at the house. It wasn't the focus of what was happening but it was always around. I guess I never really picked up on the fact that it was always around, I would listen to anything from classic rock and country to bluegrass and Americana. Folk music. I just turned on the radio. That was the time period.
It was pretty organic how it happened, no one forced me to do it. I picked it up when I wanted to. I always think, why didn't I pick it up earlier? I had plans, can't even remember them, what my last genius plan was going to be for my life. I guess it was pretty insignificant. When I decided I was going to go the music route it was after the first time I played in front of people. I was such a shy kid, really scared to talk to people.
I remember getting on stage the first time and was terrified, it was a horrible feeling. It happened by accident. I was looking at some guy's guitar at a show and he said get up there and to play a few, sort of pushed me out on stage – here, just play. There were 200 people at this party and I was put on the spot, so I did. I remember the most horrifying feeling. But I wanted to do it again, I don't know why. It scarred me really bad. But it changed my mind. I thought, I want to do this as my job.
I grew up in the Midwest and my parents have always been really encouraging, but at the same time they were scared for me. I told them I wasn't going to go to college; I was going to play music. There was definitely a little, 'that's not a good idea.' They wanted me to have a back up plan. I went out on my own and showed them. It took a few years of showing them – this is working, I can make it work. Its grassroots, you're putting it together one day at a time, one fan at a time. It's doable; you're building a business, if you look at it like that.
Are you still nervous before playing? Some would say that's a good thing.
I still get nervous sometimes. It depends on the day. Sometimes its more nerve-racking going up when you're by yourself, I don't know why, maybe because of the attention. It just depends. It keep you on your toes, keeps your mind active. To me, the nerves contribute to the creativity.
How long before being comfortable with how you were playing and singing?
I didn't start singing until I started playing guitar. Those happened at the same time. I played drums for two years before started playing guitars. I had this rhythm background, and I don't know if the singing and playing at the same time kept my meter with the guitar. They contributed to each other; it was a tool that helped me play the guitar with singing. I think everyone should learn how to play the drums, every musician should take drum lessons, get that rhythm ingrained. It's important, that's what keeps people dancing, keeps the music driving – the rhythm. If you lose that, it's not working.
What did you learn from making your debut album?
I guess I wasn't very confident on my first couple of records. I wasn't sure what to do. I was glad there was someone to guide me and help me. I was in over my head, in a way. It's overwhelming. I just learned to trust myself a little more. It's taken some time, it's been eight years and I've only made five albums in that time. I've had a lot more experience live than in the studio. You just gotta go in their and trust yourself, and trust your instincts. I started doing that more on the "Wild Heart" record, the one I made with Luther Dickinson. I started trusting myself more and saw that it yielded better results. Putting that together, those two things helped a lot.
Do you prefer record live?
I really do, you get the energy of the band. We did "Chills & Fever" live, everybody played at the same time. Most of its done live. To me, that's what really captures the energy. It does help to go into the studio and give (fans) that energy
How did members of Detroit Cobras come to play on the album?
That was through Bobby Harlow. I met him last year. He was the lead singer of the band Go, with Jack White before The White Stripes. He's produced a lot of records. He's really well known in Detroit and in the record business. He knew the Detroit Cobras and hooked that up.
I'm imagining a double bill, you and Detroit Cobras band members playing and a set from the Detroit Cobras.
Oh yeah, it would be over the top.
Was it easy to record with them? Did you find that you had shorthand?
It was definitely fun and easy. We had the right players involved. There's a magic that happens. It's kind of scary of coming into the studio with people you don't know. But you go in and everyone is professional and they're musical, and everyone contributes to this big sound. It just works together. I definitely felt like there was magic in the studio when we put these songs down.
Was it freeing not having to write songs, looking to yourself for material? Or was it harder?
I don't know if its freedom because when I write material there's a freedom in that it can be whatever, it's not been written yet. But when you're covering songs there's a respect you have to pay to the original and also walk the line and make it your own. It's a different kind of approach. You have to think about it a little differently. I don't want to say it's harder or easier, it's just different.
What song was hardest to record, to get right?
There was a few I just wanted a special treatment for. I remember recording "Never Gonna Cry" and label owner Thomas Ruth was there and crying, saying it's so beautiful. He just loved the energy that was coming through the other side of the speaker. (The songs) all feel that important in the moment, that's the cool thing. I felt that way about every song we recorded. I know when we did the Nina Simone, I was attached to that one, and wanted it to sound like a really specific way. And the Skip James song as well.


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January 11, 2013
Francis Anthony Boyle is a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law.
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Leasing a condo is a very popular option these days. As the mortgage market remains in chaos and homeownership and apartment costs rise, many people across the United States have turned to leasing a condo as an affordable alternative to buying a house or renting an apartment. Condominiums enjoy many advantages over apartment rentals and homeownership. They are largely insulated from the volatile housing market and the uncertainty of the apartment rental market. Whether you're a young professional, family looking to settle down or empty-nester, there's never been a better time to lease a condo. The state of Georgia offers some of the best condos deals in the country right now.
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Zazen (seated meditation,) the heart of Zen practice, integrates body, breath, and mind, allowing us to enter into deep silence and stillness moment after moment. Kinhin (walking meditation) is the practice of meditation in activity, coordinating our breath with the movement of our feet and connecting our body firmly to the ground.
Besides zazen and kinhin, we also study the dharma (Buddhist teachings), participate in services of chanting and bowing, and share community meals and work practice together. All of these activities encourage and develop our ability to meet each moment of our everyday lives with attention and kindness.
For meditation, loose comfortable clothing that modestly covers arms and legs is most suitable. Cushions and chairs are provided for sitting. As a courtesy, please arrive ten or fifteen minutes before the beginning of meditation or other sangha activities.
We're on Winter Break--will reopen on January 15th
Safe and peaceful holiday season to all!
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(We are usually closed on the Thursday before a holiday weekend; please check Calendar page of this site for specific dates.)
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High School Sports
High school baseball: Heeman deals Bellefonte past Claysburg-Kimmel
Bellefonte's Darren Heeman allowed just one hit in five scoreless innings on the mound to lead the Red Raider baseball team to a 4-1 win over Claysburg-Kimmel on Wednesday.
Andrew Stover and Taylor Butts each went 2-for-4 with an RBI for Bellefonte (3-4). Trent Fortney also drove in a run. Heeman finished with four strikeouts to get the win, and Mark Armstrong pitched the final two innings.
Bellefonte jumped out to a 1-0 lead when Tanner Day scored in the first inning. The Red Raiders led 4-0 after four innings.


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Useful properties of certain plants can use them during the treatment of certain diseases. If, however, apply to such plants like ginger, it has many useful properties. The most important are:
* The ability of ginger to improve cerebral blood flow;
* Withdrawal of toxic substances;
* Prevention and treatment of colds;
* Prevention and treatment of peptic ulcer;
* Normalization of fat metabolism;
* Pain syndrome;
* Prevention of cancer, etc.
But today I wanted to be stay on the effects of ginger on a person's weight. It turns out that you can use ginger for weight loss.
In ginger are essential amino acids. They are known to play an important role in the proper metabolism. Regular use of ginger normalizes fat metabolism. Fatty fats entering the body, are assimilated to a greater extent.
To use this feature ginger, you must add it in dried or pickled form for meat (fat) and fish dishes. Ditto for this goal must be to use ginger tea.
According to Tibetan representations, Ginger is the hot product, which speeds up metabolism. There are numerous positive reviews for ginger as a means for weight loss. Lower female site nashajizn.ru presents a number of recipes that will help all who wish to make this drink at home.
Cut the slices of ginger root, put it in a thermos. Ginger is filled with boiling water, infused. Prepared tea to drink during the day. For those who are dieting, this drink can be consumed at any time. Otherwise the tea to drink for 30 minutes before meals.
Ginger root should be cut into small pieces and pour clean water. This mixture should be brought to a boil, and cook for another 15 minutes on medium heat. The drink then cooled to body temperature and added, if desired, such ingredients as honey, lemon juice. In addition to these ingredients in the drink, you can add your favorite parts. For example, some Hollywood star (Demi Moore) is added to the drink mint, lemon balm. And added to the drink list cranberry improves kidney and bladder.
The following recipe is ginger for weight loss is designed for those who relieves a lot of weight. In this case, ginger tea contains the following: ginger, garlic, water. The content of the ingredients must be taken in the following proportions: 1:1:20. Cooked tea for weight loss should insist 15 minutes, after which it is filtered and drink throughout the day.
But you can use not only the proposed women's site recipes, but also his own. Ginger for weight loss has several very important features. Ginger can be used not only at that point in time when people actively lose weight, lose weight. You can always brew with tea (black, green). If ginger tea drink with honey, it is necessary to slow or has been diluted in warm tea (or eat it with a spoon). Since ginger tea invigorates, it is not advisable to drink in the evening.
Ginger for weight loss, according to reviews, can be used not only in the form of tea, but also in handling salads. To make this salad, you must take the following ingredients:
* One piece ginger root, celery, orange peel;
* Two pieces of sugar beet (pre-baked in the oven) and lemon juice;
* Three pieces of carrots (fresh).
But to the ginger for weight loss maintained their quality, you need to properly store it. Thus, according to the recommendations of the women's magazine nashajizn.ru, fresh ginger can be stored in the refrigerator no more than a week, but dried up to 4 weeks. You can not use cellophane for storage. Clean the ginger as thinly as possible, since the largest number of mineral substances for the body is stored under the skin of ginger. During grinding can not use wooden utensils, it is better to take small grater. If you use dried ginger, then it is soaked before use.


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Who Knew? Canada is No. 3 in Global Horse-Meat Export Trade
By David George-Cosh
Amid the horse-meat scandal that has engulfed Europe over the past month, here's something you might not know: Canada is a big player in the global horse-meat trade.
Canada exported roughly 13,500 tonnes (29.7 million pounds) of horse meat in 2011, mostly to Europe and Asia, according to the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, a federal government agency that monitors the distribution of Canadian food items. About 82,195 horses were slaughtered last year, the agency said.
The U.S. essentially banned horse slaughtering in 2006, pushing American horse ranchers to ship so-called unsound horses—essentially horses that aren't useful in any other capacity, like racing—to Canada or Mexico for processing. That's helped Canada become the world's third largest horse-meat exporter, behind Argentina and Belgium.


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snip~In a divided America, Super Bowl Sunday holds a special place in the national psyche. Even people who don't like the New England Patriots or Philadelphia Eagles will tune into the game tonight, more than 100 million in total. And yet, poll numbers show the National Football League and, more broadly, the game of football itself facing some real questions coming into 2018, according to the January NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. The number of people following the NFL closely and the number who want their children to play football is declining. more @https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/super-bowl/concussions-protests-football-s-popularity-drops-n844506?cid=par-xfinity_20180205Side note..Super Bowl's average ticket price of $4,000, and the median ticket price for the 2017 Super Bowl is $3,850.I stopped go when the ticket price was over 25$.


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Watch Mike Huckaby's Ableton Live 9 Masterclass
Though Live 9 and the Push controller have been around for a good portion of 2013 already (our review of the music-making tools can be found here), it's unlikely that everyone has had enough time to dive deep into every feature and intricacy that Ableton's new units have to offer. Thankfully, Detroit house/techno icon and experienced music teacher Mike Huckaby has just shared a lengthy video giving would-be producers some keen insight into using Live 9, as well as some of his general production tips. "Production is really no more than a matter of interesting frequencies in different frequency ranges," says Huckaby at the start of his 90-minute session, before launching into an in-depth tutorial which covers topics like streamlining workflow, converting audio to MIDI, optimizing remix work, and plenty of others. He even opens the floor to receive questions from the audience. The whole piece makes for an informative and inspiring masterclass that will likely prove useful for production newbies and veterans alike.


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This morning, I re-read Matthew Sweeney's book, Astanga Yoga As It Is. It's very refreshing to re-read such a gem, and to come into contact with Master Sweeney's wisdom again. I highly recommend this book, especially the introduction, which covers the basics of Ashtanga practice as well as some of the more esoteric and lesser-known aspects of the practice and its philosophy. Upon re-reading it, there are a couple of passages that really speak to me. For instance, he writes:
'The traditional [Mysore] method is relatively linear and methodical. Keep adding asana, remembering the vinyasa as you go, until you come to something you cannot do. You keep practicing up to the asana that is difficult or impossible but you do not add new postures until you can do it effectively. This can be a little limiting but it does establish the body's capacity in the asana. You become settled in the "seat". An unfortunate side-effect of this format is the tendency in Astanga to ask the question "What posture are you up to?" as if this indicates some kind of personal development. It is normal to want to move ahead, particularly as far as positive motivation and liveliness is concerned. The practice should never be lifeless, something new can be experienced every day, even if it is just a changed attitude. This forward looking attitude, however, should always be tempered with present tense awareness; stay in contact with what is rather than what should be.'
These words speak to my present practice and life on so many levels. First, on the asana front, I have been doing the same sequence of postures (full primary plus second up to Ardha Matsyendrasana) six days a week for the last ten months, ever since certain issues in my body made me decide to scale back from my second-up-to-Karandavasana practice. I won't bore you with the details of exactly what these issues are; if you want to know, you can look up my blog posts from around September to November 2011 :-)
I sometimes think that if somebody who is not familiar with Ashtanga Yoga were to come to my home every morning and observe my practice, he or she would think that what I am doing is very boring, except for maybe the part from Kapotasana to the finishing backbends (even with these, though, I would still imagine that boredom would set in after a while: I mean, not to be immodest or anything, but just how many times can you look at somebody do Kapotasana day in and day out, even if that somebody can grab his heels in that posture?). But I think it was David Williams who once said that the real yoga is what cannot be seen, not what can be seen. I know he wasn't referring to asana when he talked about what cannot be seen, but in a sense, what he said can be applied here. Even though I haven't been adding any "new" asanas to my practice for the last ten months, I really feel that over this time, the consistent performance of the same postures has resulted in a certain depth to my practice. Every posture is really familiar, and yet also feels uniquely different from one practice to the next, because every single practice uncovers some new aspect of the posture and how my body relates to it. And since the mind and the body are ultimately one and the same entity, every single practice also, in this way, reveals some previously unseen or previously forgotten part of the mind. In this way, the practice is a mind-body meditation.
And actually, in a very interesting way, this no-new-asana practice has led to physical breakthroughs in other areas. Because I do not have to contend with learning new asanas, I am able to surrender my mind and body to the process of working deeper and deeper with the postures I already "have." And I can't help thinking that this attitude of surrender is very helpful with the backbends that I am currently focusing my attention on. This morning, for instance, as I walked my hands to my feet for Chakrabandhasana after the three dropbacks, a lot of mental chatter came up in my mind: "Will you be able to grab your ankles today? What if you don't succeed?" "Don't you feel your thighs burning already? Maybe you should call it a day?" And so and so forth. As my hands walked towards my feet and around them, I listened to these voices, mentally acknowledged and nodded at them in understanding, and then proceeded to continue the work of walking my hands around my feet, slowly inching my hands until they could grab the ankles. And then, with a steadiness that is almost not of my body, they held on to the ankles for five breaths before letting go. Again, something like this made me feel that the mind and the body really are one: If one seats the mind down steadily, allowing it to listen without judgment, and allowing it to direct the body to do what needs to be done, the results follow.
But having said all this, it is also true, as Sweeney observes, that "It is normal to want to move ahead." This is true both in asana practice and in life, whether we are talking about wanting to be in another physical location, or wanting to be in another, "better" situation in life. And this is good. But it is also useful to know that one doesn't always need to change one's external circumstances immediately in order to change one's state of life; "something new can be experienced every day, even if it is just a changed attitude." Or here's another way to look at it: If one wants to move forward safely and comfortably, it is best to first make sure that one is fully settled in the "seat" of the present moment. Again, this true in both asana practice and in life: If one doesn't settle oneself fully and securely in the seat and make sure the seat belts are buckled, etc., one might get thrown out of the windshield of life when the going gets rough.
Wow. I seem to be in "sermon" mode today. Wonder why? Pretty interesting, considering that it is actually quite sunny outside where I am right now, and sunny days are not usually associated with contemplative or "sermony" modes of mind. Hmm... interesting. Well, with this thought, maybe I'll sign off for now, and try to spend the rest of the afternoon enjoying some sunshine :-)


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The Holga 3D Lens Set for iPhone is about to take your iPhone photography to a whole new level. They say that the best camera you have is the one you have with you and so when the iPhone was released we knew we would always have a great camera with us. Over the past few years we have seen the rise of iPhoneography as a whole new genre within photography and so we were super excited to receive these latest Holga accessories.
Earlier this year even acclaimed film director James Cameron stated that eventually all forms of entertainment will 'inevitably be 3D'. And now with the Holga iPhone Case and 3D Lens accessory included in the kit anyone with an iPhone 4, 4S, 5 or 5S can now add literally another dimension to their images! Yes, we are talking about moving into 3D photography or stereograms. Simply use the Holga iPhone Case to hold your phone and then attach the supplied Holga 3D Lens using a handy magnet. Head out into the world and now shoot it in full 3D!
The Holga 3D Lens actually splits the capture of an iPhone image into two separate halves. Using some clever yet simple optics in the 3D Lens each image is shot from a slightly different angle to the other. Once you have your images just use the supplied Holga 3D viewer to be amazed by your stereographic masterpieces.
If you would like to share your amazing 3D pictures or watch others, simply just upload them to the Flickr group Holga 3D iPhone.
And as an added 'little' bonus you can also shoot video in 3D. Fancy yourself as the next James Cameron? Well, here's your chance, just pop on the Holga 3D Lens and shoot away! As with the still images you'll need to use the Holga 3D Viewer to view your movies in full stereo glory!


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Your doctor should screen you for the following conditions or indicators of risk:
- Blepharitis. Inflammation of the eyelids with crusting of the eyelashes, that may increase the risk of infection or inflammation of the cornea after LASIK.
- Large pupils. Make sure this evaluation is done in a dark room. Although anyone may have large pupils, younger patients and patients on certain medications may be particularly prone to having large pupils under dim lighting conditions. This can cause symptoms such as glare, halos, starbursts, and ghost images (double vision) after surgery. In some patients these symptoms may be debilitating. For example, a patient may no longer be able to drive a car at night or in certain weather conditions, such as fog.
- Thin Corneas. The cornea is the thin clear covering of the eye that is over the iris, the colored part of the eye. Most refractive procedures change the eye's focusing power by reshaping the cornea (for example, by removing tissue). Performing a refractive procedure on a cornea that is too thin may result in blinding complications.
- Previous refractive surgery (e.g., RK, PRK, LASIK). Additional refractive surgery may not be recommended. The decision to have additional refractive surgery must be made in consultation with your doctor after careful consideration of your unique situation.


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President Obama will press Republican governors to allow the ObamaCare expansion of Medicaid into their states during a trip to Dallas on Wednesday, according to White House and local officials.
The president will call on Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) to "put politics aside" and "not deny people healthcare because of ideology," White House deputy senior adviser David Simas told reporters on Tuesday.
When the Affordable Care Act originally passed, states were required to expand Medicaid coverage for all individuals making below the federal poverty level or within 138 percent of it.
But the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that the federal government couldn't force states to expand the joint program, enabling some Republican governors, including Perry, to reject the growth of Medicaid in their states.
Because of the way the ObamaCare law is written, consumers below that income level aren't eligible for the federal tax credits designed to help offset the required purchase of insurance on the insurance marketplaces. That means that in states that have opted not to expand Medicare, a certain slice of the population is neither poor enough to qualify for government health insurance, nor rich enough to buy their own coverage on the ObamaCare exchanges.
The White House estimates that in Texas, 1.2 million individuals are caught in that divide.
"If it makes sense anywhere to expand Medicaid, it makes sense in Texas," said San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro (D), who said poor and uninsured residents put a strain on state and municipal budgets.
"In this city, every day, we see the impact," said Castro, an ally of Obama's who gave the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention last year.
Perry has said that expanding the Medicare system would be "like putting another thousand people on the Titanic."
"The president himself said Medicaid was a broken system, and I totally agree with him," Perry said in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle. "So why would we want to put another X numbers of hundreds of thousands of people on Medicaid programs that are broken?"
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said earlier this year that the state is leaving some $79 billion on the table by refusing to expand the program. She also said that the federal commitment fully covered the expansion.
During his visit, Obama is also expected to thank neighborhood canvassers and navigators assisting in enrolling uninsured consumers in ObamaCare. He'll stop at Temple Emanu-El to meet with volunteers from Dallas Area Interfaith, a community group working on enrollment and outreach.
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said he expected the president's trip to give a "shot in the arm" to individuals on the front lines of the healthcare enrollment process. He said the trip would also energize individuals who had been unsuccessfully lobbying Perry to expand the Medicaid program.
The visit to Texas is the latest attempt by the White House to rally supporters behind the president's healthcare law, despite a spate of discouraging headlines highlighting the technical glitches and mismanagement that have plagued its rollout.
"When the unexpected happens, when the unanticipated happens, we're just going to work on it; we're going to fix things that aren't working the way they should be; we're going to smooth this thing out, and we're just going to keep on going," Obama told supporters at an Organizing for Action healthcare summit on Monday night.
"We are going to keep on going because it is too important to too many people, not just in this generation but in future generations," he continued. "And we've got to make sure that we stay on track to make this work."
Separately, White House officials and Cabinet members are being dispatched to the 10 cities with the highest rates of uninsured residents that participate in the federal marketplace.
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan will travel to Tampa, Fla., on Friday, and Labor Secretary Tom Perez will visit Orlando, Fla., next week, a White House official said.
During his Dallas trip, Obama will also attend a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee fundraiser that was postponed in early October due to the government shutdown.


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These CDs were purchased from Amazon Japan and were delivered by DHL on Memorial Day.
Message to Japanese record companies
I know music is copyrighted. I know you monitor sites such as Tumblr and delete music that belongs to you. However, I can't tell you how many times I've discovered new songs that I've fallen in love with because someone posted it online.
Americans may not be your target audience but we enjoy and buy your music too. I've spent over $1000 dollars just on Japan iTunes cards. I also have shelves filled with Japanese CDs.
I'm hoping you see the advantages of having your music on social media sites.
Japan iTunes card
Bought another 10000 JPY iTunes card for $96.00. That's the best price so far. It took 45 minutes for them to send my code. Their order process is different than before. They confirm your order by texting your phone with a code to complete your order.
FYI it might take longer if your place your order after normal business hours. Google "japan time" to give you an idea.
Shohjo-tai: Super Vario
This CD arrived from Amazon Japan. It's condition was listed as "acceptable" although it was in surprisingly good shape. No tears on the artwork. This was a rental and the obi was taped to the cover. There's a sticker on the artwork that I'm afraid to remove because it might damage the artwork. The CD itself is in excellent condition–it's hard to believe this was a rental.
I bought this CD for "Kimi no Hitomi ni Koishiteru" (Can't Take My Eyes Off of You). It's Shohjo-tai's 1986 rendition of the Frankie Valli song. There's also a 1987 version of this song on their P-CAN album which sounds more 80s dance.
Japan Post EMS delivery fast except…
I've had packages arrive the same day they left Japan. Amazing! However, US Customs can delay it 45 days. I've read online your package sits in a warehouse on pallets without even being inspected.
US Customs snagged my latest package. I'll update this if they really screw me. It's been been there for 3 days now.
iTunes cards on Japan Codes
Just purchased a ¥10000 on Japan Codes for $99.00. Thats the best price they've offered in the past few years. Two years ago I paid $141 for the same. My iTunes code was sent 3 minutes after my purchase. Another first.
Latest CDs from Japan
Bought my 5th iTunes card from Japan Codes
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Tenso found my CD
Tenso sent me an email they found my CD. They said the package had the wrong Tenso ID so they didn't know who it belonged to.


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That said, the silver lining about sleeping outside is just that: a literal silver lining around 6am, as the very first light of a new day spreads across the indigo plane of the eastern horizon. As the minutes pass the sun creeps slowly higher over the hazy highway, turning land from violet to heather grey to lavender and the sky from pale grey to a blushing peach. After two days and 1520 miles of driving this first spectacular sunset on the plains of eastern Kansas alongside a pasture of longhorns felt like a good sign.
Western Kansas is almost impossibly flat, sometimes allowing you to see for a hundred yellow miles nearly uninterrupted. I took a quick detour down a gritty dirt road out to the Kansas Monument Rocks, and inexplicable grouping of 70-foot tall, 80 million year old sedimentary chalk pillars jutting out of the dust. I was the only soul there besides a handful of lazily grazing cattle.


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Thanks To These Leaves You'll Get Rid Of Varicose Veins, Absence Of Memory And Headaches
Only some people know that laurel leaves besides being used in the kitchen can also be very beneficial for our health. Laurel leaves are used to prepare an excellent medicinal oil that possesses a lot of beneficial properties for our health and you can prepare it at home!
– Calms the nervous system.
– Strengthens the immune system.
– Decreases the problems with the colon.
– Decreases and stimulates the process of sweating.
– Is very useful in painful joints and it helps in cases of varicose veins.
– Improves the mental activity in general.
-30 grams of laurel leaves
-250 ml of olive oil
How to make:
– Crush the sheets with a mortar.
– You should notice a little bit of oil come out of them.
– Leave them to dry.
– Then, put the olive oil over them and keep them in a glass jar.
– Cover it and to leave it to rest like that for 2 weeks on a cool and dry place.
– After some time, you must change the crushed leaves with new ones, so that the aroma can intensify with the help of the same procedure.
– Cover and leave it for two more weeks.
– Strain the oil.
– Use a piece of gauze or cotton.
– Squeeze the cloth as much as you could to retain the minimal possible oil.
It is desired to use it warmed up.
Rub the oil on the affected area.
You can also use it for ear problems or to treat a migraine.
For strong pain in the head, massage this oil on the temples and the pain will disappear rapidly.
You can even replace aspirin using laurel oil because this oil reduces body temperature.
Laurel oil improves the appetite.
It helps you eliminate stomachache and intestinal problems.
It normalizes the renal and hepatic function.
This oil can also be used as a lotion to solve skin problems.
It is a very effective and can be used as a lotion against blackheads and acne.


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Captains named for Team USA World Cross Country squad
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SAINT-ETIENNE, FRANCE - In preparation for the 2005 World Cross Country Championships this weekend in Saint-Entienne/Saint Galmier, France, members of Team USA's squad selected team captains Thursday during a breakfast meeting.
Athletes earned their places on the Team USA roster at the 2005 USA Cross Country Championships held February 12-13 in Vancouver, Washington.
2004 Olympic Women's Marathon Trials winner Colleen De Reuck was selected as the women's long course captain by her peers on Thursday. The reigning two-time U.S. women's cross country long course champion, De Reuck won the individual bronze medal at the 2002 World Cross Country Championships in Dublin, Ireland in helping the U.S. squad win the team silver medal. De Reuck also placed eighth in the long course race at the 2003 World Championships as Team USA took home the team bronze medal.
2004 Olympic Women's Marathon Trials fourth-place finisher Blake Russell was named the women's short course captain. The 2003 Twin Cities Marathon champion in her debut at that distance, Russell won the Pan Am Games 5,000m bronze medal in 1999.
Fresh off her victory at the inaugural NACAC Cross Country Championships March 6 in Clermont, Florida, Jenny Barringer was named the captain of this year's U.S. women's junior team. Barringer is making her second appearance at the World Cross Country Championships after placing 35th in the junior race last year in Brussels, Belgium.
Following a commanding victory in the men's long course race at the U.S. Championships last month in Vancouver, 2004 Olympian Dathan Ritzenhein was named this year's Team USA men's long course captain. The 2003 NCAA Division I Cross Country Champion from the University of Colorado, Ritzenhein jumped on the world stage on January 9 with his surprising victory at the 2005 Reebok Cross Country Challenge in Belfast, Ireland, against a strong international field.
2000 Olympian Adam Goucher of Portland, Oregon, who remains the only man to win both the long and short-course national titles in the same year in 2000, was selected as Team USA's men's short-course captain. Goucher finished second at this year's national championships at the four-kilometer distance.
Goucher's Nike Oregon Project teammate Galen Rupp was picked by his fellow junior men as their team captain. Rupp, a graduate of Portland's Central Catholic HS, set the American high school record in the 5000 meters last summer and enters this meet as the U.S. national junior cross country champion.
Turner returns to France
Former Brigham Young University standout Laura Turner toed the line in the women's 8 km race at the 2005 USA Cross Country Championships with a special motivation to make this year's World Cross Country Championships team. "Three years ago I served a mission here for the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints, so I know a lot of people from here and I love France," she said. "I love the people and I love the food, and I love everything about it."
Turner used her desire to return to France as a motivating factor in her eighth-place finish at last month's Nationals that earned her a spot on the Team USA roster. "It was a huge aspect," she said. "I love having things to run for as opposed to just racing to race. When you have a lot of things to motivate you it helps you do better. Emotionally when I'm into the race it helps me run better. I was just ecstatic to make the team and I couldn't have been happier. I got very emotional when I found out I made the team and it makes me really want to do well here."
Turner, who speaks French fluently, will have a large homegrown contingent of fans supporting her during her race on Saturday. "I never imagined that my friends here would be able to see me race," she said. "For this to happen at the World Championships is amazing. I've spoken to many of them and they can't believe this is happening, and they're all going to be there cheering and that will motivate me to run faster. It'll be fun to hear people cheering for me in French."
Happy Birthday, Ryan!
Oklahoma State University freshman Ryan Vail of Gresham, Oregon, will celebrate his 19th birthday here Saturday as a member of the U.S. junior men's team. Vail, one of the three junior men with Oregon connections, earned the final spot on this year's team with his sixth-place finish in Vancouver last month.
For more information on the 2005 World Cross Country Championships, visit www.iaaf.org.


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Failure is easy. Operating a successful business is hard. The Small Business Association reports that half of new businesses fail within the first five years. Only a third make it to ten.
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Sure, information increases your chances—hence the need for efficient and comprehensive record keeping—but information alone isn't enough. History is full of business failures. In recent years, we have seen giants such as Enron, Sony, Quaker Oats, and Green Tree Servicing crippled when their leaders relentlessly followed wrong-headed strategies.
According to legend, an IBM executive in the 1960s lost the company millions of dollars in a failed development venture. When CEO Tom Watson Jr. summoned the executive to headquarters, the executive showed up with his letter of resignation. He was sure he'd be fired. Watson responded that he wasn't firing someone he'd just spent millions of dollars educating. Watson just wanted to make sure his executive had learned the right lessons.
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It's not that I'm less ambitious when it comes to getting settled into this new old house, it's that I'm spending a lot of time doing yard work (moving here was supposed to cut down that time, ha!) and watching home improvement programs on Hulu Plus, LOL!
But on Monday I opened up my IKEA curtains, washed the "drapes" and ironed everything. I won't go into all of the gory details, but suffice to say that the double curtain rods I ordered from IKEA are gigantic long, and using the two smaller rods from each of the doubles and using the two halves of each of those rods on the windows, I managed to do a fairly good "cosmetic" job of hanging my new curtains up in the mistress bedroom, hooray!
|BEFORE on the window facing you; IN PROGRESS on the window to the right.
So that is why I decided I needed new curtains. The antique white and black toile panels will be rehung in the guest room soon.
The Bad News: I was not able to get but one screw out of the brackets that were holding up the window blinds. I tried and tried, but I do not have much hand strength anymore nor the proper ladder here to get a good height up; and I could not figure out for the life of me how to get the battery part out of my allegedly high torque battery-operated screw driver. Not to mention that trying to figure out all the parts of the IKEA rods and brackets just made me dizzy.
So, I took down the former rods in my bedroom but left the rod holders up, since there are grooves for a front rod and a back rod; then I unwrapped one of the smaller diameter IKEA rods, took it apart so it was two halves, and lo and behold, they are a very good length to fit across the existing rod holders. So I proceeded with installation after pulling out the unfortunate blinds.
Fortunately, the curtains are voluminous enough, and the rods are held out far enough from the wall by the existing curtain rod holders, that the unremoved blinds brackets do not "show" (very much) underneath the all-white and not-very-thick curtains.
Pictures (not very good ones) -- first one above, shows a small peek of the dark brown wide-slat blinds underneath the toile panels, and the contrast of blinds removed and white under-curtain sheer voile panels installed on the window to the right! You can also see that because of the placement of the rod holders, the curtains do not cover the windows fully, nor did the blinds - ever. I felt like I was playing peek-a-boo constantly with the outside world when I'd get dressed or undressed! It made me feel decidely uncomfortable and I'd usually change in the bathroom or the guest room -- inconvenient!
Photo 2 above, a closer look at those unfortunate blinds. They were not cut down to size for the windows length-wise, so they banged and flapped if there was a breeze when the windows are open and I've always had a problem with getting blinds raised up and down perfectly even, LOL! Does that mean I'm a crooked little woman??? The dark brown color, while it sort of made sense as coordinating with the dark wood trim in the room, just did not ring my chimes, and they were certainly dust and dirt collectors, yech! As I mentioned above, they were ill-fitting, too, not covering the entire window from end to end. Not what I wanted for a bedroom, where privacy away from prying eyes is a must in my book.
Picture 3 above, shows the voile sheers going up -- these are the first layer, closest to the window. I ordered two pair of sheers for each window. The total measurement from one end of woodwork to the other end of woodwork for each window is 72" and each of the IKEA panels is 57" wide and about 98" long. I figured four of these panels (two pair of sheers) for each of the windows would be nice and full. I was wrong. But these curtains do iron beautifully and also hang beautifully, and I love the puddled effect on the floor (more about that later). The photo above shows 3 of the 4 panels installed.
Photo 4 above, shows the puddled curtains on my beautiful (but scratched up by the moving sellers, damn!) natural hardwood floor. I was able to pull the curtain at the right end of the photo over on the rod sufficiently to cover the wood window frame and it "stays" because of the puddling on the floor sort of acting as an anchor. I wasn't able to do that with the former curtain panels I'd put up, as they were 84" long and were far short of the floor because the curtain rod holders are up high.
Photo 5 above, you can see one of the thick gold wood rods I removed, and underneath it, the much sleeker white IKEA rod (one half of an IKEA rod, actually), waiting to go up. Also showing, an assortment of screwdrivers I used to try and remove the blinds brackets (EPIC FAIL), the sheer voile panels waiting to be ironed for the window behind the headboard, and the laundered and dried "drapery" panels that will form the second layer of window coverings.
Photo 6 above, the brown clunky blinds I am banishing! And another shot of my lovely bedroom floor. Nicole Curtis would be proud of these floors, my sellers did a great job in having them restored to their former beauty, but then they scratched and scuffed and scored them up quite a bit while moving, alas. As I did not get down on my hands and knees to inspect the wood floors during my final walk-through the day before closing, and saw only a few scuffs in the available light (not very bright), I figured the scuffs I saw would buff out by hand easily enough, so I didn't mention it. Note to self: There is no such thing as "buff out by hand easily enough" when it comes to hardwood floors.
Photo 7 above, the "cosmetic" finished product! I am so pleased with this look! Success! The curtains are doing the job they were intended to do, which is cover the ENTIRE window span from beyond the outer window trim to the inner corner where the windows meet; because of the style of Vivan's drapery header, I was able to pull the curtains "over" the rod brackets (was not able to do that with the rod-pocket top curtaind I'd had up in the before photos) and continue them on the curtain rod, so now the curtains extend past the rod brackets! Should mention that these curtain/drape panels can also be used as a conventional rod-pocket top, or with clip on rings, so lots of options. Personally, not only did the pleating tape option give me the flexibility I needed to arrange the curtains "just so" on the rods, I also love the look of the "pleats."
I just love how the western sunlight in this late afternoon photo shows the sillouette of the ornamental tree that anchors this corner of the house outside my mistress bedroom.
Final photo, photo 8 above, shows the west-facing window and north-facing window that overlooks my neighbor's driveway. Not a view I want to see and a reminder of how close together the homes are in this more "urban" area than where I used to live.
The curtains need more fullness, and I want a lush, full look in this bedroom that I intend to decorate to my heart's content. So, I ordered two more pair of IKEA Vivan curtains -- one pair will be added to each window, and two more pair of Teresia voile sheers, ditto.
I had also ordered window blinds to provide an additional layer of privacy on my bedroom windows -- the Schottis blinds:
They are really inexpensive, and really cool! They can be cut to size with a scissors or blade and stick up on the window frame with a long strip of adhesive. They can be raised or lowered with the use of two clips (provided) on either side of the blind. A Velcro strip is also provided that can be cut in parts and placed along the bottom of the shade and the window sill to secure the shade, if desired. They are a combination of paper products and polyester fabric and I would have loved to have installed them on my windows (two on each window) to provide more light filtering and thorough privacy corner-to-end of window coverage, but because I was not able to remove the metal brackets that held up the ugly brown vinyl blinds, I did not have space to "paste" up the Schottis blinds. So they will have to wait.
Progress. Painfully slow, but progress!


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Sales: (973) 455-0700
WAS $39,495, EPA 34 MPG Hwy/22 MPG City!, PRICED TO MOVE $1,800 below Kelley Blue Book! Excellent Condition, CARFAX 1-Owner, LOW MILES - 12,713! Nav System, Moonroof, Heated Seats, All Wheel Drive, Rear Air, CD Player. SEE MORE!
All Wheel Drive, Rear Air, Turbocharged, iPod/MP3 Input, CD Player, Onboard Communications System, Aluminum Wheels, Dual Zone A/C. Steering Wheel Controls, Child Safety Locks, Electronic Stability Control, Heated Mirrors, Bucket Seats.
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Great Gas Mileage: 34 MPG Hwy.
Was $39,495. This 328i xDrive is priced $1,800 below Kelley Blue Book. Approx. Original Base Sticker Price: $49,500*.
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Sales: (973) 455-0700
Year: 2016
Make: BMW
Model: 328i xDrive
Price: $23,984
Mileage: 12,713
Engine: 4 Cyl
Exterior Color: Black Sapphire Metallic
Interior Color: Saddle Brown Dakota Leather
Fuel Type: Other
Stock #: 48811LC
City MPG: 22
Hwy MPG: 34
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Mermaid Sequins Backpack
The Backpack Found
- Backpack covered in iridescent teal sequins which are matte black on the back
- Run your hands over them to change the color
- Super-satisfying for OCD and tactile types
How can you be expected to lure sailors to their deaths on the rocks if you don't have your magic comb to tame your long tresses after endless days in salt water? Or how can you possibly serve up hot, delicious coffee without the Sharpie with which to write someone's (not)name? And don't even think about forgoing your suntan lotion that stays on in the water. That's why all mermaids carry this backpack. It is the official backpack of mermaids everywhere. Well, okay. It's not waterproof. So you probably want to ensure everything inside is if you're going diving with it. But other than that, it's the perfect way to tote all your mermaid-y goodies with you wherever you go.
Product Specifications
- Mermaid Sequins Backpack
- The official backpack of mermaids everywhere
- Covered in iridescent teal sequins which are matte black on the back
- Run your hands over it to change the color
- Draw or write messages in sequins
- Super-satisfying for OCD and tactile types
- Padded and adjustable backpack straps
- Top handle for easy grab-and go action or hanging
- Main compartment closes with double zipper
- Includes an interior padded laptop/tablet sleeve
- Materials: Polyethylene foam
- Imported
- Exterior Dimensions: 12 1/2" x 7" x 17"
- Laptop Sleeve: 11" wide x 10" tall (could extend up to 16" tall since top is open)
- Includes padded shoulder straps, inside laptop sleeve, and front zippered pocket
- Ages 8+
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*Gas Prices Are So High That Teens Have Stopped Drinking & Driving.
Southern California is an island of gas-price hell this week. One station in Calabasas is charging nearly $6 ($5.89 to be exact) a gallon for high-octane fuel, the Costco in Simi Valley has run out of regular-grade gas (with other stations expected to follow suit), and one expert tells us that all-time high pump prices could be reached in L.A. this month.
What the hell is happening?
Even as pump prices had been falling in the rest of the country recently, Los Angeles is experiencing a surge as a result of refinery issues:
The AAA of Southern California says we have seen the largest one-day price spike -- 9 cents -- all year and blames " a 'perfect storm' of record low inventory coupled with refinery incidents."
Those incidents include a power outage at Exxon's 150,000-barrel-a-day refinery and Torrance that has shut down some of its output and the shutdown of a Chevron pipeline that moves crude from the Central Valley to Northern California.
Additionally, Chevron's Richmond plant in the Bay Area has been going at less than full-speed since early August.
Denton Cinquegrana, executive editor at the Oil Price Information Service told the Weekly that this week's heat wave "played a huge role -- knocked out Exxon in Torrance this week."
He also noted that the ConocoPhillips refinery in Wilmington had an untimely outage for maintenance in mid-September, which hasn't helped.
AAA spokesman Jeffrey Spring says in a statement that refineries were also letting their supplies run out in anticipation of the annual switch from summer blends to winter blends:
Reportedly in recent weeks, local refineries were dropping production levels, exporting supply to Mexico and other countries, and allowing inventory to dwindle in anticipation of switching over to production of 'winter blend' gasoline, then a refinery power outage and a pipeline incident occurred on Monday that sent wholesale markets into a panic about the adequacy of California fuel supplies.
Not good.
Cinquegrana says things will get worse before they get better. He notes that some suppliers of unbranded gas have told stations "we're out until further notice."
"That's rare," he says.
The Costco in Simi Valley has run out of unbranded regular and was giving customers high-octane fuel at regular prices today. Cinquegrana:
Costco -- a huge retailer -- is running out. They can't get their hands on barrels. A guaranteed buyer can't get hands on barrels. What's a mom and pop shop to do?
Don't be surprised if some independent stations close temporarily, he said.
Will Southern California meet or beat our all-time average gas-price high of $4.61, which happened in June, 2008?
"I think we have an outside shot at it," Cinquegrana says.
The good news? A consumer backlash and reduction in driving will level off prices a little, and SoCal's annual switch to cheaper winter blends will bring immediate relief, he says.
But it will be worse before it gets better: That switch won't happen for at least another two weeks.
[Added at 12:38 p.m.]: Jeffrey Spring of AAA tells us it could be "7 to 10 days" before we see any relief at the pump.
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He notes we're about 28 cents from our all-time high and says we're still in the midst of "a sharp spike:"
I'm not sure how high it will go. But it'll start tapering off towards the middle of the month.
The only thing you can do now is ease off the pedal, "clear the junk from your trunk" and save fuel as best you can, he says.


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~Innocence Lost ~
By Mindy Beazer
Chapter Fifteen
Two weeks later her vision blurred by tears her heart broken Katie hopped up into the driver's seat of a ranch pick up. She was leaving. Nico had turned out to be a total bastard! They had had a huge fight over the fact that he wanted to share her with his bodyguard. Clearly she was just a slut to him to be used however he wanted. Well screw him she was out of here. She would find a way to survive on her own. She had her paycheck from the ranch. Thankfully the ranch paid their employees well. Starting the pickup she tore out of the barnyard.
Will looked up as a ranch pickup sped by him with Katie in the driver's seat. What the hell was that girl doing? She wasn't authorized to take ranch rigs off the ranch. Before he could move a second pick up sped by with Nico at the wheel. Dammit had that boy done something to that girl. Will knew Nico hadn't given up on his pursuit of Katie. Hopefully the girl hadn't fallen for his advances like every other girl. Stalking toward his pick up Will raced down the road after them.
"Two fucking weeks and still no word on Katie? How is that possible? She couldn't have just disappeared off the face of the earth." Dimitry ranted from the back seat of his limo on the way back to the ranch.
"Maybe she's an alien?" Leonid replied only to receive a deadly glare from Dimitry.
"She's not an Alien for fucks sake!" Dimitry nearly shouted. He was exhausted having not slept in days. Where could Katie be? Her picture was all over the news. Why hadn't anyone called bout her yet. He was offering a reward for information. She didn't have any money so someone must be helping her hide but who? Was her family playing him? Did they know where she was at? We're they helping her hide from him?
"Fuck look out!!" Leonid yelled as they were nearly struck by a pickup pulling onto the highway from the ranch entrance. The pickup swerved rolling into the ditch beside the road.
"What the hell?" Dimitry muttered. As they stepped out of the Limo.
"Sorry boss, she came out of no where." His driver told him.
"Katie!!" The horrified cry of his brother Nico racing toward the ditch froze him in his tracks. No it couldn't be her. How would she have gotten on the ranch and then nearly collided with them in a ranch pickup.
"Boss it's Katie!" She's unconscious in the driver seat." Leonid told him as he returned to Dimitry's side.
"Fuck, how the hell is that possible." Dimitry asked as he ran toward the pickup. His brother was trying to wrench the door open to get to Katie. Shoving Nico aside he yanked on the door as well. He could see Katie lying unconscious over the steering wheel.
"What the hell Dimitry!" Nico stumbled to his feet having been knocked over by his older brother.
"Call an ambulance Leonid!" Dimitry ordered as he stared at the blood dripping from a gash in her forehead.
"We've got to get her out of there! She's pregnant!" Nico yelled surprising Dimitry by the panic he heard and saw in his brother's face. Clearly his brother was aware of who she was.
"How the hell do you know her? And what's she doing in a ranch rig?" He asked getting into his brother's face.
"She's a ranch employee." Will said as he pushed his way between them with a worried frown as he stared in at Katie.
"What?" Dimitry hollered.
"You knocked up a ranch employee your Father's going to kill you!" Leonid grinned.
"Fuck off!" Dimitry replied.
"Wait! You're the guy that got her pregnant and dumped her." Nico asked. Before decking his big brother. His brother had knocked her up! Dammit all to hell he would kill Dimitry. She was just a kid!!
"She's pregnant." Will muttered. "Is this your doing? I told you to keep your hands off that girl."
"Don't look at me! He's the Father!" Nico waved a arm at Dimitry who was rubbing his aching jaw. He couldn't believe that Nico had hit him. What the hell was going on.
"How long has she been working on the ranch." Dimitry asked relieved to hear the sirens of an approaching ambulance. His guards were working to pry the doors of the rig open.
"Couple weeks. What does he mean you're the father?" Will asked in confusion.
"That's not possible." Dimitry told him.
"How can you be the father she spends every second with him." Will was still stuck back on the fact that Dimitry had gotten Katie pregnant.
"What?" Dimitry glared at his brother who glared back at him angrily. What the hell was going on??
"How is she?" Nico asked as he flipped through a magazine in the hospital waiting area..
"The Doctor's examining her?" Dmitry commented. "We need to talk? How long have you known Katie was at the ranch?"
"Since the day she arrived two weeks ago." Nico answered truthfully. There was no point in lying to his brother.
"Why didn't you tell me she was on the ranch?"
"I didn't know you were looking for her?" Nico replied.
"It's been all over the news!" Dimitry retorted with a snort of disbelief.
"Yeah that her family is looking for her not you. I didn't even know you were looking for her." He replied.
"That's absurd you can't expect me to believe that bullshit. We live in the same house my search for her is all anyone is talking about." Dimitry told him with cold fury.
"I haven't been around the house. I'm grounded so I've been working down at the stables as part of my punishment. Haven't you noticed I haven't been at the dinner or breakfast table in a while?" Nico pointed out.
"Don't give me that. I'm sure Dad told you all about it."
"No I didn't. I haven't seen him since I grounded him two weeks ago." Sergie told them as he entered the waiting room. "Now Nico I want you to tell me everything you know about Katie and where she's been hiding.
"I met her two weeks ago down by the stables. She's the reason you grounded me after Will caught me coming onto her. I started working down at the stables to keep and eye on her. I knew something was off about her as I checked employment records at the ranch and discovered she wasn't an actual employee. I confronted her and she admitted she was pregnant and hiding from her family. So I helped her hide at the ranch. I got rid of ranch newspapers and cut the cable to stables and out buildings so Will, and the hands wouldn't find out she's a runaway. I let her hide out in the Marsh house that's currently empty." He told his Dad honestly leaving out the sex part.
"Christ Dimitry you sure know how to pick them." Sergei muttered shaking his head.
"Why wouldn't she tell me she was on the ranch?" Dimitry asked ignoring his Father's comment.
"I don't know she wouldn't even tell me who the Father was. I had no idea she even knew you! I would have told you if I knew you were looking for her." Nico was beginning to feel desperate as the weight of his mistake settled on his shoulders. "All she said was that the Father of her baby dumped her for someone else. So why did you dump her? Don't you want the baby?"
"I didn't dump her! Christ where does she get these ideas."
"Are you going to marry her?" Nikolay wondered aloud.
"Nico let's go get something to eat." Sergei said rising to his feet.
"What about Katie? Don't you want to wait and hear what the Doctor has to say." Nico complained not wanting to leave without knowing if Katie would be alright. Besides he wanted a word with her. She had gotten him into a ton of shit!
"Katie has…." He trailed off at the look on his Dad's face. Yup he was in deep shit!
"I expect you to call me as soon as you hear something, or suffer the consequences." Sergei warned Dimitry before turning to leave with Nico.
"You're Dad's going to be pissed when he finds out you're moving her to the ranch.." Leonid cautioned him.
"I know but he's left me with no other choice. He's supporting her mother." Dmitry snapped.
"He's trying to do what's right." Leonid commented.
"Killing my child is the right thing?" Dmitry glared at Leonid his fists clenching.
"You're Dad is looking at the big picture Boss. He thinks she's too young to be a wife and mother."
"And you agree?" Dmitry grumbled. Christ! His own men were turning on him.
"I didn't say that." Leonid shrugged. "She clearly loves and wants to be with you, it's there in her eyes whenever she looks at you. But you need to start doing what's right for her and hiding her away from her family isn't right. She's scared to death and has run twice now. She needs stability and security, or your going to lose them both." Leonid wasn't one for words he rarely spoke but it was his job to protect Dmitry even from himself.
"Christ! Now my own employees are lecturing me." Dmitry muttered shaking his head. "Go get her family and bring them to the ranch. It's time to settle things." Dmitry told him after a moment. Leonid nodded and left the to round up the men.
"Go get her family and bring them to the ranch. It's time to settle things." Dmitry told him after a moment. Leonid nodded and left the waiting room to round up the men.
Sergei was in the library flipping through files as he tried to concentrate a difficult task. He was worried about Dima. Losing Katie was going to hurt him bad, but Dmitry clearly wasn't going to budge on the issue. Hurting one of his brother's was completely against Dmitry's nature. He had always protected Dima and Nikolay. Sergei was well aware that Dmitry was in the habit of taking the heat for his brother's mistakes. His oldest son had a strong protective streak. And now it appeared that protective streak had been extended to Katie. Dmitry would be a good father he knew but he had doubts about Dmitry being a good husband. There was very little gentleness in Dmitry and his bitterness toward women worried him.
"Boss." Dino greeted as he entered the library.
"Any word on Katie?" Sergei asked setting aside the file in his hand.
"She upstairs in Dmitry's room." Dino answered.
"What?" Sergei asked. "That's impossible I was just up there."
"She's there. Arthur escorted a the medical crew up to Dimitry's room about thirty minutes ago.." Dino reported.
"Damn him he lied to me again!" Sergei ranted rising from his chair. He stormed out of the room and upstairs to his son's apartment. Entering the living room he headed for the stairs leading up to his son's bedroom. He found Dmitry talking to the Doctor beside his bed where sure enough Katie lay sleeping.
"Dad!" Dmitry groaned his father looked furious.
"So you lied to me again." Sergei confronted his son his fists clenching.
"You didn't leave me much choice." Dmitry commented.
"How's that?" Sergei questioned his face darkening.
"You chose to stand against me in this." Dmitry answered facing his father squarely.
"Dmitry I'm trying to do the right thing for this girl. You had no right to take advantage of her. It's not fair to expect her to give up her childhood to become a wife and mother. If you really care for this girl you'll do what's right for her." Sergei admonished.
"I am doing what's right by her. She wants the baby, I gave her the option of taking the morning after pill when I realized she might be pregnant. She not only refused the pill she ran off to keep me from forcing her to take the pill. She wants this baby! And I'm not going to force an abortion on her to suit her mother's vengeful agenda." He replied angrily.
"Even if what you say is true you still have to return her to her family." Sergei stated.
"I sent Leonid and the boys out to fetch her family. They should be here soon." He replied.
"They're coming here? Have you lost your mind? Her Mom will have you arrested for kidnapping for sure." He said as he pulled his phone out. "Dino, have Arthur prepare a guest room for Miss Anderson. Send up a gurney from the med room." He ordered when Dino answered.
"Dad she's not going anywhere." Dmitry told him placing himself between Katie and his father.
"The hell's she's not! Use your damn head if her Mom finds her in here it will be all over for all of us." Sergei said.
"Fine, I'll carry her to one of the guest rooms." Dmitry muttered. Maybe his Dad had a point. He needed her mother's cooperation, and pissing her off further wouldn't help.
Dmitry stayed in Katie's room seeing to her comfort. Katie was still drifting in an out of sleep, hardly aware of her surroundings. Dmitry was seated in a chair by her bed, holding her hand. "Katie, I'm sorry. I didn't mean for my actions to scare you." Dmitry told her quietly. "I was trying to protect you not get rid of you." Dmitry explained. He wasn't even sure if she could hear him. Her eyes opened slowly and she looked at him still to out of it to fully comprehend what he was saying. She had suffered a bad head injury in the wreck. He looked so worried, Katie thought studying him. Where am I, she wondered?
"Where am I?" Katie asked weakly in confusion. She was finding it difficult to keep her eyes open.
"You're in a guestroom on the ranch." Dmitry answered.
"How did I get here?" Katie asked trying to stay awake. She couldn't seem to clear her head enough to figure anything out.
"I carried you here from my room. It's not important right now. You're safe here." Dmitry answered afraid of causing her more undo stress. He would answer her questions in time. Katie seemed to accept his answer. Her eyes closed and she drifted into a deep slumber. Dmitry leaned over Katie to place a gentle kiss on her brow, before reluctantly leaving the room.
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So what's on the inside? Well, it's got 30W of driving power, a promise of decent sound (does anyone ever promise just average sound?), 16 presets for saving favourite stations, alarm clock functionality and it looks pretty too. But to be honest, we're not 100 per cent sure there's anything significantly more impressive on offer than what PURE's Chronos iDock offers.
Despite all this, the proof will be in the pudding. We've literally just received a model for review and it may transpire that the RDi spits on the freshly dug grave of PURE's triangular competitor. This, ladies and gentlegeeks, will be a fight to the death and we sure as heck aren't sure who to put our money behind. Watch this space for the showdown. -Nate Lanxon
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Down 4-3 to Louisiana-Monroe entering the top of the fifth inning, head coach Mike Bianco turned to his bullpen, and the trio of Matt Denny, Preston Tarkington and Wyatt Short answered the call and combined to put up five zeroes on the scoreboard to give Ole Miss a chance in the bottom of the ninth.
Ole Miss took advantage and plated two runs in the ninth to rally to defeat Louisiana-Monroe by a score of 5-4 Tuesday afternoon at Swayze Field. The Rebels tied the game at 4-4 on an RBI groundout from freshman second baseman Dalton Dulin and then completed the rally with a two-out, walk-off RBI single from junior outfielder Braxton Lee on a chopper hit at the shortstop.
"To have these kind of wins and have the comebacks, you always talk about the offense, which is the obvious thing," head coach Mike Bianco said. "The less obvious and one of the most important ingredients is on the mound. You have to put up some zeroes. We put up a bunch of zeroes, and it started with Denny out of the bullpen. He looked terrific. Preston was really, really sharp. Wyatt Short, for his third outing of the year, looked super dominant."
"In the last inning, we came in and had a lot of energy, especially with Tarky. He threw great, and so did Wyatt Short," Denny said. "It really brought a lot of energy."
Denny came on in the fifth and allowed just one hit with no walks and two strikeouts in three innings of work, which tied his career high. Tarkington followed in the eighth and did not allow a hit with a strikeout in 1.1 innings of work. Short inherited a runner at second with one out in the ninth, but he got a pop-up to short and a swinging strikeout to get out of the inning.
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|Daniel Bard is portrait in frustration after his throwing error in the seventh. (Yoon S. Byun/ Globe Staff)
Close the book?
Red Sox swept when they fail in the ninth
The Red Sox are a desperate team and manager Terry Francona is willing to do most anything to make the final weeks of the season relevant.
The alternative is running a glorified tryout camp for young players and watching pending free agents try to burnish their résumés with meaningless statistics.
The chance Francona took yesterday was asking Jonathan Papelbon to get the final five outs to preserve a victory against the Chicago White Sox.
It had been a year since Papelbon was put in that situation. But with setup man Daniel Bard having already been used, Francona went to his closer early in the eighth inning.
Papelbon has had problems getting three outs this season. Five proved impossible as the White Sox scored four runs in the ninth inning to escape Fenway Park with a 7-5 victory.
"We felt pretty good about ourselves and we walk away about an hour later with a loss,'' Francona said. "Yeah, it hurts.''
The Sox have lost six of their last eight games and fallen into third place in the American League wild-card race, still 7 1/2 games behind the Rays but now a half-game behind the White Sox.
The White Sox had not swept a series against the Red Sox since 2000 or a series in Boston since 1991.
Tampa Bay arrives at Fenway Park tonight for a three-game set that could determine whether the final weeks of the season have even a faint spark to them for the Sox.
"It doesn't look good,'' catcher Victor Martinez said. "This has happened before to us.''
With the Red Sox up, 4-3, Papelbon left two runners stranded in the eighth inning. The lead grew by a run in the bottom of the inning when Adrian Beltre doubled, took third on a wild pitch, and scored on a ground out by Bill Hall.
But the final three outs were elusive. Papelbon walked Alex Rios with one out. With Andruw Jones up, Rios stole second. Jones struck out and the crowd of 37,570 stood in expectation of a victory.
Disappointment followed. Carlos Quentin hit a blooper into shallow center field. Rookie Ryan Kalish should have played the ball conservatively, but he attempted a diving catch and the ball squirted past him.
Quentin took second base as Papelbon failed to cover the bag.
"He got caught watching. Everybody's going after it and he needs to get back to second,'' Francona said. "That ends up being huge.''
Papelbon disagreed with his manager, saying he thought Quentin would have been safe regardless.
Ramon Castro followed with a single to center, driving in Quentin with the tying run. For Papelbon (5-6), it was his seventh blown save of the season.
"I couldn't finish the job, basically,'' he said.
His pitch count mounting, Papelbon walked Alexei Ramirez. Francona finally took him out, Papelbon having thrown a career-high (as a reliever) 48 pitches.
"I think he got a little tired,'' Martinez said. "You could see it.''
Lefthander Dustin Richardson was not the answer as he walked lefthanded-hitting Mark Teahen to continue the inning. Another rookie, Robert Manuel, was next out of the bullpen and walked Gordon Beckham to force in the go-ahead run. Beckham fouled off three 3-and-2 fastballs before Manuel missed with another heater.
When Manuel walked Juan Pierre to force in yet another run, fans headed for the exits like they were being chased.
"Just a lack of execution,'' Manuel said. "You're supposed to get three strikes and I didn't do it.''
Richardson and Manuel never expected they would be in the game. But Papelbon had little sympathy for their plight.
"No, I don't feel for them,'' he said. "Their job is to come in and try and get outs like everybody else.''
The Sox had a 2-1 lead going into the seventh inning before throwing errors by starting pitcher Josh Becket and Bard gave the White Sox two unearned runs. Red Sox pitchers have committed 19 errors this season, the most in the majors.
Beckett allowed nine hits over 6 1/3 innings but only one earned run as he struck out a season-best nine. He took responsibility for not getting through the seventh.
"Bardo's used to pitching in the eighth. Pap is used to pitching in the ninth,'' Beckett said. "Pap shouldn't have to get five outs. If I go out for the seventh, I should finish the seventh.''
Martinez erased that mistake with a two-run blast over everything in left field off Mark Buehrle. The Sox had a 4-3 lead that Francona handed to Papelbon.
Watching the situation unfold, White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen didn't fault Francona for playing it that way.
"They played to win,'' he said. "A lot of people say they're not playing for anything. But you're not out until you're out.''
The way the Red Sox are playing, that will come soon enough.


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Molasses Cookies (Gingerbread)
Edible Bling By Kendee
3/4 c. butter
1 c. sugar (I use brown sugar)
1 egg
1/4c. molasses
2 c. flour
2 t. baking soda
1/2 t. salt
1 t. cinnamon
1/2 t. ground cloves
1/2 t. ground ginger
Mix all ingredients. Roll into balls then into sugar. Bake at 375 degrees for 7-10 minutes.
Or, you can roll out the dough and cut with a gingerbread cookie cutter to make little gingerbread men.
Recipe Categories cookies, dessert, gingerbread, molasses
2 comments:
- Kara Jones said...
mmmm, Molasses cookies hold a special place in my heart. is it just me or do these cookies taste THAT much better when pregnant?
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