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Slow Roast Pork shoulder with hot apple relishThe reason I like this recipe is because i find pork can be under rated and to be honest as a roast dinner this would have to be my last choice (next to chicken of course) This recipe I found on the Good Food website I thought really gave life to pork and is great tasting. Those like me who like a spice in their life will love this I promise, the amount of spice can be increased and decreased to your taste.
- Rolled pork shoulder approx 3.kg
- Glug of Olive oil
- 300-400ml cider (dry preferably)
- 4 cooking apples
- 3 Tbsp golden caster sugar
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1 tsp chilli flakes
- 3 tsp Fennel Seeds
- 2 tsp Coriander Seeds
- 1 tsp Black Peppercorns
- 1-2 tsp Chilli Flakes
- 2 tsp Sea Salt
- 4 large Garlic cloves
- 1 lemon zested and juiced
Heat the oven to 230C/fan 210C/gas 8. To make the spice paste, lightly crush the fennel seeds, coriander seeds and peppercorns with a pestle and mortar. Add the chilli, salt, garlic and lemon zest and mix to a paste. Using your fingers, push the mixture into the slits in the pork skin. Put the pork, skin side up, on a rack in a roasting tin and drizzle with a little olive oil. Roast for about 20-25 minutes until the skin starts to crisp
Turn the oven down to 150C/fan 130C/gas 2. Turn the pork over, pour over the lemon juice and cook for 1 hour. Pour 150ml cider into the roasting tin and cook for a further hour.
To make the relish, put the apples in a pan with the sugar, remaining cider, cinnamon stick and chilli Cover and cook over a low heat until reduced to a thick pulp. Add more sugar if needed.
Remove the pork from the oven and tip the pan juices into a saucepan. Turn the oven up to 220C/fan 200C/ gas 7. Cook the pork for a further 25-30 minutes until the skin has turned golden and very crisp. Rest for 10-15 minutes.
Spoon off the fat from the pan juices and warm over a gentle heat.
I serve this with a selection of seasonal veg .... Wonderful!!!
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Nux Gallica is growing so quickly that she already has me planning her education. I've located a truly excellent private preschool in my neighborhood, and I've calculated that the tuition costs less than diapers. Hooray!
But what happens when she turns five? The public schools in my area are among the worst in the developed world. (No joke.) The private schools are expensive, religious, and not extraordinary. And the thought of "homeschooling" my daughter at home, in isolation from her peers, makes me cringe.
Part of that is a stigma of homeschooling that I know is not always deserved. Families identifying as "homeschooling" are often linked to large networks of other families that help each other give their children rich educational experiences with classes, field trips, and other activities held outside the home. Not all of them are religious fanatics or conspiracy theorists. The majority of the "homeschooling" parents around here seem to be smart, educated people who enjoy taking a very active, hands-on role in their children's education. And the result is that the average homeschooled child, even including the ones from fringe-of-society families, score higher on standardized tests than public school children.
But the word "homeschool" doesn't seem to fit a model of taking the children out into the world, to interact with many adults and children of all ages (not just one or two teachers and a herd of peers) and learn in a more organic, natural, and fun way than can be done at a desk. The word "homeschool" connotes the same kind of activities done in traditional schools--dittos, drills, and that sort of thing--but done at a desk in the home instead of a desk in a classroom.
What I want to do for Nux Gallica, and what many "homeschool" networks do, is not traditional school, and it is not done at home.
So when people ask how I want to educate my daughter, I am going to use the term Village Schooling. I believe that it takes a village to raise a self-actualized child, and I want Nux Gallica to know and learn from the world directly--not filtered through lectures and textbooks among a heavily managed class of children her age. Lectures, textbooks, and homogenous peer groups have their limited value, but I don't want them to be the bread and butter of her intellectual and social development. I studied child development extensively in college and a little in grad school, and I know that hands-on, applied learning and interaction with many different types and ages of people are optimal ways to blossom.
I agree with something a schoolteacher and mom friend of mine said the other day: "All children are gifted." I would amend, if you give them the chance. Traditional classrooms can only do so much to accommodate different abilities among large groups of children, and the brightest stars often get held back--or become troublemakers when they get too bored and receive more discipline than encouragement. I saw a lot of that happening when I substitute taught and when I was in school myself. I can already tell that Nux Gallica is an especially bright, motivated, and strong-willed child--which can be a recipe for success or disaster, depending on the interaction between her nature and her environment. Traditional schools serve an important role providing food, shelter, and a very basic education to the masses. But I want to give my daughter something more, a special opportunity to be extraordinarily herself and to grow up as a natural, organic component of her community, her village.
So what will that look like? For (again) less than the cost of diapers and about 1/6 the cost of a private Montessori kindergarten program, I could enroll Nux Gallica in art classes, swim lessons, soccer, tae kwon do, ballet, and mini horse camp. Then there are free things like weekly educational programs at the library, private piano and foreign language lessons by family and friends, and Sunday school. I expect that, like me and her father, she will already have her reading and basic math skills down before preschool just from being an inquisitive and interactive child at home. I look forward to watching her grow and learn and helping her discover her own passions and interests.
Parents who may be reading this, have you tried something like this with your own children or know someone who has? What has it been like?

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A Brief History Of Papermaking
All paper used between the 14th and 18th century was made by hand one sheet at a time. Later, of course, in 1800s the paper machines were invented.
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FINRA Fines Rodman & Renshaw $315,000 for Supervisory and Information Barrier Violations; Former Chief Compliance Officer and Two Research Analysts Sanctioned
WASHINGTON — The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has fined Rodman & Renshaw LLC $315,000 for supervisory and other violations related to the interaction between the firm's research and investment banking functions. Rodman's former CCO, William A. Iommi Sr., was fined $15,000, suspended from acting in a principal capacity for 90 days and must requalify as a general securities principal. FINRA found the firm's supervisory system was deficient, which resulted in at least two incidents where a research analyst participated in efforts to solicit investment banking business, and another incident where a research analyst attempted to arrange a payment from a public company. FINRA sanctioned the two research analysts involved; Lewis B. Fan was fined $10,000 and suspended for 30 business days for violating NASD Rule 2711 by participating in efforts to solicit investment banking business from two public companies, and Alka Singh was fined $10,000 and suspended for six months after FINRA found that she attempted to arrange a concealed fee from a public company for which she provided research coverage.
Rodman, the New York-based broker-dealer subsidiary of Direct Markets Holdings Corp., provides investment banking services, including Private Investments in Public Entities (PIPEs) and registered direct offerings, to public and private companies. It also provides research, sales and trading services to institutional investors and therefore must have supervisory and compliance procedures to monitor potential conflicts of interest between research and investment banking, given concerns that research analysts could be pressured to tailor their coverage to the interests of a firm's current or prospective investment banking clients.
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Brad Bennett, FINRA Executive Vice President and Chief of Enforcement, said, "The deficiencies in Rodman's supervisory system created an environment in which the conflict of interest between research and investment banking was left unmanaged. FINRA will continue to ensure that firms have adequate supervisory systems tailored to the firm's business and we will continue to sanction firms that demonstrate a weak culture of compliance and internal controls."
In concluding this settlement, Rodman, Iommi, Fan and Singh neither admitted nor denied the charges, but consented to the entry of FINRA's findings.
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VERMILLION, S.D. -- The Vermillion Literary Project, a student organization at The University of South Dakota, will host a poetry reading and poetry slam on Thursday, March 26 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Coffee Shop Gallery, which is located at 24 W. Main St. in downtown Vermillion. The poetry reading will feature Omaha poet Heidi Hermanson.
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Dear Marriage Supporter,
Important legislation inspired by the illegal leak of NOM's confidential donor information to our chief political opponent by the IRS is making its way through Congress. It has passed the House of Representatives and now is moving to the Senate. HR 5053, the Preventing IRS Abuse and Protecting Free Speech Act authored by Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL), would prohibit the IRS from collecting individual donor information from nonprofit entities, including NOM. We urge you to contact your federal Senators urging them to support this critical legislation. You can find information on how to contact the Senate here.
In March 2012, NOM's confidential tax return and donor information was published by our main political rival, the grossly misnamed Human Rights Campaign (HRC). HRC had been unsuccessfully seeking NOM's confidential donor information for years, but that information is not public. NOM conducted a high-level investigation and determined that the confidential donor information published by the HRC was leaked by the IRS itself. At the time of the illegal action by IRS officials, the head of the HRC was serving as a national co-chairman of President Obama's reelection campaign. The IRS denied that they leaked the information — going so far as to claim that NOM must have given the HRC our confidential tax information and list of top donors — but after NOM filed a federal lawsuit, the tax agency was forced to admit wrongdoing and paid NOM $50,000 in damages.
HR 5053 would stop future abuses of this sort by prohibiting the IRS from gaining access to confidential donor information of individuals who contribute to nonprofit organizations.
March for Marriage Attracting Attendees From Across America
Citizens from across the nation are registering their intent to attend the 2016 March for Marriage on Saturday, June 25th, in Washington, DC. People are coming to the nation's capital to join us from as far away as California. Hundreds have registered to attend, and we urge you to make plans to join us as well.
2016 March for Marriage
Washington, DC
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11:30am until 2:00pm
All the details are available at the March for Marriage website.
Join Us at the March for Marriage
The March for Marriage is a critical event designed to serve as a rallying point to protest the illegitimate and anti-constitutional ruling of the US Supreme Court to redefine marriage in the law. We are also marching to protest President Obama's illegal attempts to redefine gender, and risk the privacy and safety of girls and women in the process. And we will use this occasion to demand that Congress pass the First Amendment Defense Act, critical legislation needed to protect people who support marriage from being persecuted by the government for maintaining these beliefs.
All the information you need about the March for Marriage is available here.
As you know, putting on an event of this magnitude is expensive. We have devoted all our available financial resources to the March, but are still $15,000 short of what we need to pay the bills. Please make an immediate financial contribution of $35, $50, $100, $250, $500 or even $1,000 or more to help us make ends meet.


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Design: Chairs Artist: Julia Rothman Inspiration: We took a load off, set a spell, and we fancied we'd honor the humble foundations of our inspirations. Who to send it to: Anyone named Anne, Louis, Chip, Dale, Chaise or.... Cherry. (?!) Or any antiques aficionado. Ideas we scrapped in favor of this one: The "Go for Baroque" pun fell flat on all but a few and the "Rockin' the Rococo" rocking chair card was... actually, we might re-consider. Favorite detail: Just can't decide which chair we'd most like to have and never sit in. Why letterpress? Antique chairs, antique presses— wethinks we see a pattern emerging!
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TAG Marks 25 Years of Activism
As TAG marks 25 years of activism and advocacy, our mission is more vital than ever. A quarter-century of progress promoting research, prevention, and treatment critical to ending the HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and hepatitis C (HCV) epidemics is at risk.
We are more determined than ever to shape policy toward defeating HIV and ending the TB and HCV epidemics, as quickly as possible.
To achieve our goals in the current challenging political environment, TAG has launched a new initiative, the 25th Anniversary Campaign, that will make our powerful and relentless voice stronger than ever to:
RESIST attacks on people living with or at risk for HIV, TB, and HCV, and on the research and programs they need to stay healthy;
DEFEND vital programs including those driven by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) research, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Medicaid, AIDS Drug Assistance Programs, President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and USAID, among others;
EXPAND, as quickly as possible, research, prevention, treatment, care, and support programs for HIV, TB, and HCV and ultimately
END these three epidemics by intensifying support for NIH-funded research on HIV cure, vaccines, and better treatments, working with New York State and City on the plan to end AIDS as an epidemic by 2020, and expanding our work nationally and in three southern jurisdictions to develop ending-the-epidemic strategies in these regions.
To succeed, TAG must invest in accelerated advocacy and communications activities, programs, and platforms so we can:
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◙ Catalyze and empower TAG supporters to engage in advocacy at the federal, state, and local levels; and
◙ Create a regularly updated strategy and data resource bank for activists and allies to use in our common work.
We live in an unprecedented political era that, daily, brings new threats to TAG's work. In this, our 25th year, we need your commitment more than ever before. TAG's 25th Anniversary Campaign's goal is $500,000, and we are committed to raising $250,000 in each of the next two years.
We hope you will consider a special contribution to our 25th Anniversary Campaign that will help TAG to expand its leadership role in defeating HIV and ending the HCV and TB epidemics.
Gifts to the 25th Anniversary Campaign may be pledged and made in two payments by December 31, 2018.
Donor levels
Visionary: $50,000
Enables TAG to create and regularly update a strategy and data resource bank accessible to all
Revolutionary: $25,000
Enables TAG to strengthen our staff and constituents' capacity to respond rapidly to new threats and opportunities
Trailblazer: $10,000
Enables TAG to create tailored campaigns to resist, defend, and expand
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Enables TAG to Create Action Alerts and Rapid Responses in real-time
Activist: $2,500
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Advocate: $1,000
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Sometimes he reminds us of the T-Rex from Meet The Robinsons, "I have a big head and little arms!"
Here is a comparison picture of his rash progress:
|Wednesday on the left, today on the right
Looking good, no?
We had our second house showing scheduled from 2-3pm so my plan was to spend from when we woke up until the showing: getting ready, packing for us, packing up the pets, putting everything in its place and making sure Ayden got in his morning nap. Guess who left the house at 1:50? I couldn't believe that I actually pulled it off! I have struggled with punctuality my whole life and contrary to what some people in my life may think, I really do prefer and strive to be on time. Today I challenged myself to list everything that I needed to get accomplished, think REALISTICALLY about how long each task would take and then add in time for the unexpected Ayden events (ie. fussiness, extra feedings, book reading breaks, etc. all of which happened...). I am proud to report that I did it :).
During the showing timeframe (we have to be out of the house), I went to Little Miss' family's pet store for some cat food, took Mav to the kennel, Polly to my parents' house, donated a broken vacuum to a vacuum shop for parts, made a quick stop at Whole Foods and was home by 4:00. Ayden slept almost the whole time and I actually had to pause the events above for a nursing break in the Whole Foods parking lot when he woke up. The plan once I got home was to get all of our food prepped and packed and David got home at 4:30 to help. Luckily, Ayden was in an awesome mood after his long car nap so he played while we worked. I LOVE watching him play! Some parents feel like the only way their child will learn is through direct instruction and constant interaction but this is not the case. It is very important to talk to a child about the world and happenings all around them but it is EQUALLY important that they get the chance to explore the world on their own. This time allows them to use their little brains, peaks their curiosity and lets them make their own predictions and, through cause and effect, come up with their own conclusions.
|Mr. Rogers totally got it!
My favorite parts were 1) how he is putting so many raspberry sounds into his babbling that he sounds like he is becoming fluent in Tasmanian Devil and 2) he is pulling up on everything all the time. So cute! He made it over to the dishwasher too. I think the kitchen is his favorite room in our house to explore. He loves the open dishwasher, fridge and pantry for so many reasons! They all have something he can practice his standing on as well as all kinds of stuff to get his hands (and mouth) on.
At about 5:45 when he declared he was finished with playing independently and ready to have some interaction he let us know by starting to fuss. Luckily we were almost done and were able to hold him off long enough to finish everything up by singing songs and acting silly. Actually, David sang all the songs and did the silly acting while I cleaned up the kitchen. The benefit of having to KEEP our house in showing order is that we'll come home to a super clean house which is always nice.
We are in the car headed to Nashville as I write this. Even though I fed Ayden before we left, I grabbed the 3 ounces I had in the fridge from a recent pumping session just in case. Apparently Ayden is well aware of what bottles are now because he saw it and there was no turning back. Besides the dream feeds that I used to do (which took place in his sleep so he probably doesn't remember them) the only bottles he's gotten are a couple while David had him without me and an ounce here and there for his probiotics. Anyway, he saw it and wanted it right then. He sucked it down and wanted more but we were already on the road and had left later than we had wanted so I leaned over his carseat and nursed him to sleep. It wasn't comfortable but it got the job done. Oh man, the things moms do... Here's a funny video I saw on YouTube recently that was inspired by this type of situation:
So funny and so true, ha! Ayden's been asleep for over an hour now and we're hoping he'll sleep the whole way since he's not a huge fan of long car rides when he's awake. Now I shall sign off and read some Mocking Jay to my love.
What is the craziest thing you've done in your car for your child?


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Is America Becoming The Land Of The Part-Time Job?: Most Of The Jobs That Are Being Created Are Part-Time Jobs And Some Companies Are Going To A "Part-Time Only Policy"
Do you need a good job? If so, there are millions of other Americans that are just like you. Unfortunately, most of the jobs that are available in America today are either part-time jobs, temp jobs or are "independent contractor" jobs. The "full-time job with benefits" is a dying breed. There are so many desperate unemployed workers in America today that companies don't have to roll out the red carpet anymore. Instead, they can just hire a horde of inexpensive part-timers and temps that they don't have to give any benefits to. But isn't the employment situation supposed to be getting better? No, it really is not. Yes, the U.S. economy added 216,000 jobs in March. However, the truth is that approximately 290,000 part-time jobs were created and about 80,000 full-time jobs were actually lost. This is all part of a long-term trend in America. Good jobs are rapidly disappearing and they are being replaced by low paying service jobs that do not pay a living wage. In many American households today, both parents have multiple jobs. Yet a large percentage of those same households can't even pay the mortgage and are drowning in debt.
Whenever a new government jobs report comes out from now on, try to find out how many of the jobs that were created were actually part-time jobs. Most Americans that only have part-time jobs are living around or below the poverty line. The truth is that it is really hard to get by if you are only making a couple hundred bucks a week.
As mentioned above, the U.S. economy added 216,000 jobs last month. The Obama administration and the mainstream media heralded that figure as evidence that the U.S. economy is recovering nicely.
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Cullen Breakfast event - Brigadier David Allfrey MBE
Wednesday. 17 February 2016
Brigadier David Allfrey MBE, Producer and Chief Executive of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, was guest speaker at the Cullen Breakfast event on Wednesday, 17 February.
Brigadier David Allfrey retired from the British Army in 2011 to become Producer & Chief Executive of The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. The Tattoo is being brought to Wellington by the New Zealand Festival and is running for four nights ahead of the main Festival. This is only the fourth time the Tattoo has performed outside of Scotland in their 65-year history.
The Brigadier gave an eloquent and humorous talk about his involvement in the Tattoo, and how it connects Scotland to the rest of the world.
Kerry Prendergast has chaired the New Zealand Festival for several years, with this year's Festival being her last one. Kerry provided the audience with insightful guidance on the Festival.
Brigadier David Allfrey, Peter Cullen and Thomas Harding, Pipe Major at Scots College


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Christopher L. Eisgruber wrote the following essay for our thirty-day series on John Paul Stevens. Eisgruber is the provost of Princeton University and the author of The Next Justice: Repairing the Supreme Court Appointments Process (2007). He clerked for Justice Stevens during the October 1989 Term.
During the 1989-90 term, when I clerked for Justice Stevens, all the clerks gathered for drinks on Friday afternoons. Most of us had a long evening at our desks ahead of us, and a working weekend, too, but the happy hour was a welcome break. At one such event, in around April, I mentioned to a clerk from another chambers that I was expecting Justice Stevens to send me the first draft of an opinion he was writing.
The clerk laughed. He thought I was joking. After nine months at the Court, he knew better than to think that any justice would ever write his own first drafts! It took me ten minutes, plus earnest testimonials from my two co-clerks, to convince him that he was wrong.
He would not make the same mistake today. Most fans of SCOTUSblog, as well as readers of the many recent retrospectives on Justice Stevens, know that Stevens has always done his own first drafts. When I worked for him, he would write enough to make clear where he wanted to go, and then he would hand the draft to me or to one of my co-clerks so that we could finish it. Sometimes his draft was almost complete, missing only a few footnotes. Sometimes it was just a couple of paragraphs, enough to sketch the basic argument.
I remember one majority opinion, though, when Justice Stevens wrote a first draft that was also a final draft. He did everything""he finished every snippet of legislative history, every footnote, and every citation. All I had to do was cite-check it (as law clerks are wont to do, I also proposed a couple of unnecessary footnotes).
What do you think the case was about? Abortion? Affirmative action? Free speech? Due process? Criminal procedure?
None of the above: it was Perpich v. Department of Defense. If the name rings no bells, don't worry. Almost nobody remembers Perpich, a 9-0 decision that attracted little attention even at the time it was rendered. The question presented was whether Congress had the constitutional power to authorize the president to call up the National Guard for foreign training during peacetime without first getting the consent of a state governor.
From an abstract, constitutional perspective, the case was interesting but hardly momentous. From a personal perspective, though, it mattered to John Paul Stevens. Perpich united two of the defining commitments in his life: his allegiance to the Constitution and his experience serving the United States during World War II.
Perpich is, of course, not the only case where these two facets of the Justice have intersected (some would say "collided"). The best known would have to be Texas v. Johnson, the first flag-burning case, in which Stevens invoked the "soldiers who scaled the bluff at Omaha Beach" on his way to concluding that states could criminalize flag desecration. Not far behind would be Young v. American Mini Theatres, Inc., in which Stevens, in his first term on the Court, declared that "few of us would march our sons and daughters off to war to preserve the citizen's right to see 'Specified Sexual Activities' exhibited in the theaters of our choice."
These examples have led some liberal admirers of Justice Stevens to regard his patriotism as important to his jurisprudence only because it is a source of potential mischief in free speech cases. That is a mistake. Evidence of deeper influence is there even in Texas v. Johnson, if one looks closely: Stevens says that those soldiers at Ohama Beach were fighting, not for America per se, but for certain ideas"" "the ideas of liberty and equality."
That view of America's defining mission has guided Stevens throughout his judicial career. In case after case, he reads the Constitution as a statement of America's aspiration to become a government of laws rather than a government of men, a place where reason prevails over passion, prejudice, or the arbitrary exercise of power.
During the term when I clerked for Stevens, Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois was one of the cases that exemplified his interpretive convictions. Rutan, like Perpich, resonated personally for the justice. He made his name investigating public corruption in Illinois, and Rutan was about whether the free speech clause prohibited the Illinois governor from hiring only Republicans for state jobs.
Justice Antonin Scalia argued, in dissent, that political patronage was an American tradition which the Court ought to respect. In a pointed concurrence, Stevens disagreed. "The tradition that is relevant in this case is the American commitment to examine and reexamine past and present practices against the basic principles embodied in the Constitution," he wrote.
That is the tradition that has always mattered most to Justice Stevens. He can be as patriotic as anyone in his retelling of the American saga, but for him the core of that story is an unceasing commitment to strive for ideals that we have as yet achieved only imperfectly.
The last decade has clearly tested Stevens' faith in American progress. There are overtones of despair in the final sentences of his dissent from Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, in which the conservative majority proscribed Seattle's voluntarily adopted desegregation plan:
The Court has changed significantly since 1968. It was then more faithful to Brown and more respectful of our precedent than it is today. It is my firm conviction that no Member of the Court that I joined in 1975 would have agreed with today's decision.
In 1975, Stevens believed that he and his colleagues, despite their disagreements, were partners in a shared quest for constitutional justice, for the values that defined American progress and for which he and his generation risked their lives in World War II. After the ideological battles of the last decade, he appeared more doubtful.
The current president, though, must give Stevens hope. Barack Obama personifies several of the ideals that have guided the jurisprudence of Justice Stevens. How poetic that Stevens's successor will be named by an African-American law professor who emerged from Chicago's post-machine politics, a man whose own supporters sometimes criticize him for preferring cool reason over impassioned rhetoric.
Obama's electoral victory made it possible to believe that America was still on a path toward the "more perfect union" that rendered both the Constitution and military service meaningful for John Paul Stevens. It also supplied a reason to hope that history will ultimately vindicate the constitutional vision of this remarkable justice from Illinois.


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FARMERS VALLEY, TEXAS. Farmers Valley is at the intersection of Farm roads 925 and 392, nine miles west of Vernon and one mile east of the Hardeman county line in west central Wilbarger County. A small community had been established in the area when a school was built in 1887. By the early 1900s it had grown to include a Methodist congregation established in 1881, a cotton gin, and a combination grocery store and service station. The Methodists built their church building about 1922. The school was renamed Wells Chapel in 1924 and served the area until it was consolidated with the Chillicothe school in 1946. The Farmers Valley population was reported at twenty-five during the 1930s and 1940s and fifty in later records. The Methodist church dissolved in the late 1970s, and the gin closed in 1982. The reported population was fifty in 1990 and again in 2000.
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These delicious little ham and cheese sliders are super easy to make and bursting with flavor. Absolutely perfect for a party, get together or for game day, they are great finger food! The beauty part is that you make all of these at once, so no one has to wait. These are also great for a quick hot lunch as they can be made ahead of time.
Often times I will rush through the midday meal, quickly grabbing something from the freezer or refrigerator and not really having a meal at all. The bad part about that is your body never really refuels and by the time dinner rolls around you are starving!
While these fabulous little sliders are great for a party or game day, they are actually ideal for a quick hot lunch too, just like this pizza sandwich casserole, a kid favorite! You can prepare this recipe ahead, and even portion it down to 3 or 4 sliders, and then just pop them in the oven for fifteen minutes.
If you work outside the home, cook them up first then wrap them in foil. When lunchtime rolls around you can eat them as is or zap them in the microwave for a few seconds. It's important to include fresh ingredients in your meals instead of all that processed food. I used deli ham and Sargento Havarti slices.
I am a Havarti NUT, but if you prefer other flavors try Swiss, Cheddar or Provolone cheese. All would be marvelous!
I've seen this recipe all over the Internet. I originally found it on Chef in Training.
Cut your rolls in half and add a little mayonnaise.
Layer one slice of ham and a quartered slice of cheese on the bun, then put the top bun back on.
Arrange all the sliders in a baking dish an brush on the poppy seed dressing. At this point you can cover and refrigerate until your ready to bake them, or go ahead and pop them in the oven and enjoy!
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- 24 slices smoked or baked deli ham
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- Mayonnaise
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- 1 tablespoon poppy seeds
- 1 1/2 tablespoons yellow mustard
- 1/2 cup butter melted
- 1 tablespoon minced shallot or onion
- 1/2 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- Cut each roll in half and spread mayonnaise on each side of the roll. Fold a slice of ham in half, then in half again and place on the roll. Top with small slice of Havarti cheese. Place top of roll back on to form sandwich.
- Place rolls close together in a 13x9 baking pan until pan in completely full. More than one batch will be needed to make all 24. I was able to fit 15 in the pan.
- Whisk together all sauce ingredients and brush it generously over the tops of all the rolls. Let the rolls set until the butter has set up a bit.
- For a toasted bun, bake uncovered. For softer rolls, cover pan with aluminum foil. Bake for 12-15 minutes.
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The silence around the Pflugerville school board`s unanimous decision to accept the resignation of Patricia Pickles as superintendent is prompting some parents to question the motives of the board. Why the board wants to replace Pickles has yet to be told. And that disturbs some people in the community. I think I have a right to know, " said Steve Dunn, a parent of two students at Connally High School, to the Austin American-Statesman. I`m one of the people paying for what the board decides to give her. I don`t even have enough information to form an opinion one way or the other as to if what the board was doing is right or wrong. "
The board voted unanimously in early July to allow Pickles, who had a three-year contract with the district starting last year, to leave with full retirement benefits Dec. 31 and a $50,000 check for relinquishing that contract. She had a salary of $165,000.
Rather, some say it was job performance.
Deputy superintendent Charles Dupre will serve as acting superintendent until a replacement is hired. He was put on the job after Pickles was placed on indefinite leave in June.


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August 23, 2012, - 5:25 pm
Turkish Man Molests Sleeping US Passenger – Guess the Religion (VIDEO)
Hey, yet another example on the dung-heap of "Islamic modesty":
A North Bergen man is accused of sexually abusing a woman who fell asleep during a five-hour United Airlines flight from Phoenix to Newark Liberty Airport.
Bawer Aksal, 48, was arrested Tuesday when the plane landed.
According to prosecutors, Aksal was seated next to a woman who had the window seat. They didn't know each other.
At one point during the flight, prosecutors said the woman fell asleep. When she woke up, prosecutors said Aksal had one hand in her shorts and another in her shirt.
According to the FBI complaint, Aksal, who was breathing heavy whispered to the victim "Kiss me."
Prosecutors said the alarmed woman told Aksal to get off of her and slammed down the armrest. She then told a member of the flight crew what happened. The victim's story was backed up by the passenger sitting on the other side of Aksal, who was isolated on the plane after the alleged incident and arrested as soon as the flight landed.
Police said the flight crew isolated the suspect on the plane after the alleged assault. . . .
According to the complaint, Aksal was interviewed by law enforcement officers when the plane landed and read his rights. Nonetheless, according to the complaint, Aksal admitted groping the woman, but claimed it was consensual.
Read the federal criminal complaint. I wonder what his immigration status is.


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Just another day on the ICW
The weather was beautiful today. Temperatures hovered around 68 and the sun was shinning. We covered lots of terrain, most of which was canal but we traversed a couple wider rivers and creeks. To pass the time we worked on the boat. It was not as productive as some of the days on shore but we were still able to get a couple tasks done. The luff attachments on the trysail were of the wrong type and I webbed the correct type of attachments in to the sail. We also made some headway on polishing the oil lantern. We anchored at mile 160 of the ICW. Mosquitoes made their first appearance today. We put up screens over our hatches and are praying the pests don't find another way in. It looks like a gale is on its way for Thursday. We may take the day off and spend some time in town getting supplies and hopefully updating the blog.
What's that smell?
We arose this morning at 6 and had the ICW to ourselves for the first hour or so. Then around 7:30 we were passed by the late rising fleet of motor vessels. There wasn't rain today, but rather a fine mist that beat into you, ensuring that you knew you are on the water. Breakfast was pancakes again. They were so filling that around twelve we decided we could hold on till our scheduled fueling stop at 3 for lunch. The
Start of the ICW
We left our anchorage this morning at 6 this morning with the impression that we may have anchored in the middle of the channel the previous night. The wind was manageable at 15k for the first hour or so. We dropped our sail to head into the
Dan's first day
The first couple hours of the morning were spent putting some final touches on the engine and cleaning up after the mess opening all the access points to the engine had caused. We pulled our anchor at 9:30 from
Do we need all four bolts to fit?
Anxious to take a shower we got out of bed around 8 to use the marina facilities before our privileges expired. A quick trip to the hardware store yielded little of interest and we were forced to twiddle our thumbs as we waited for our engine parts to arrive. Hal and I decided to use the time to catch some of these alleged fish that we here so much about but never see. The dingy provided a stable enough platform for our expedition. After a few hours of casting and retrieving with no luck/skill we decided to head back in case the parts had arrived. Our engine had other plans, like drinking the rest of the gas before we were in sight of our destination. Hal and I ended up rotating rowing duty for the next hour or so. We are young and needed the exercise, right moms? Shrimp net throwing lessons occupied our time as we waited. Finally around 3 Brad set to work installing the recently acquired parts. Quickly the excitement of the new parts faded as confusion and frustration set in. The holes in the new fresh water pump were a fraction of an inch off, making it impossible to get all four bolts in at the same time. After numerous phone conversations with little resolve, Brad went to see if the marina mechanics could offer any advice. He returned moments later excited with news that they would let us use their drill press. In his eagerness the dingy's prop became wrapped in the fishing line we had set moments earlier. Undeterred, brad rowed back to shore with our drill bits still trailing the fishing line. After breaking our drill bits twice and finishing the job with a borrowed drill bit Brad returned to try the new adjustments. The water pump still did not fit. Half an hour's filing later Brad and I both still could not get the part on the engine. Brad left to pick up Dan at the


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By 3:50 AM the lane for laborers was completely full. It holds perhaps 1000 people. We give cards to 3 people at the end of the line in hopes of retrieving at least one at the end when they have exited. We fill in the time that we give the card, and then fill in the time when we receive the card. This tells us how long it took to get from the end of the line through the check-points. Today the time was one hour 40 minutes.
One of our team members remains in the exit lane at the first ID check station. From the line, men are allowed to move from the 15 x 15 room one at a time through a turnstile. One by one they pass through a continuation of the chain-link structure, covered, with an office with windows on all sides, where one soldier sits, manages crowd control by controlling the turnstile. Once through the turnstile each person comes to the window and has to show their ID before proceeding out of the building. From there these men, normally running, go across a parking lot and into the next area where there is a scanner. They must remove coats, take off shoes, and have everything scanned and go through a scanner much like at an airport. When they have passed that check they move on to the document check. I just have to show a passport. As Palestinians have no passport, they must show their work, or study. or emergency need card plus their fingerprint card. The fingerprint must match the card in order for them to pass through to the "Israeli" side, which is still in Palestinian territory according to the Oslo Agreement. Today an Israeli organization reported that this was a very bad day for people getting through--more than the normal were sent back.
The process is dehumanizing. At one point the men had crowded so many into the 15 x 15 room that I feared for their lives. One man had previously been crushed to death in this room. As the checkpoint does not open until after 4AM, many of the men have been waiting for up to an hour, perhaps more, and have been standing throughout that time. At 5AM the call to prayer occurs, but most of the men do not have enough room to pray. Many wait until they get through the checkpoints to pray, a few drop out of the line, some find some little bit of space, and they do their morning devotions.
One person at a time is allowed through the turnstile, although many crowd in so that often there are 2 to 3 people in one turnstile section. Sometimes they then get sent to the back of the line. Most times the Israeli guard just instructs them to approach the office window one by one. When there is a back-up at the metal detection/scanner area the turnstile closes until the area has been cleared. The turnstile might then be open for 10 minutes and then traffic will stop for 5-10 minutes. This morning the turnstile let in perhaps 100 of the 3300 who would eventually pass through, then stopped for 20 minutes until my teammate called the human right hot line. They then reopened.
I did see a sign of hope. One of the Israeli soldiers was actually somewhat friendly with the Palestinian men. He actually joked a bit with them. At one time he noticed a man dressed in Beduin clothing return to exit the area, meaning he had been refused entry. The Israeli soldier stopped him and asked what had happened. The man showed the soldier his papers and he looked them over and then placed a call to his superiors. The man was ultimately refused entrance, but the soldier was able to tell him why he had been refused. Other than the fact that the 19 year old Israeli soldiers controlled the lives of these 3300 men, women, and children for a few hours daily, I did see a slice of humanity.
At a going away party for the team leaving I met a woman from Israel who is part of the group that reported on the poor acceptance of Palestinians through the checkpoint today. I had spoken to her for quite a while and then was speaking to the young communist man I mentioned in an earlier post. He pointed to the woman and said to me, "This woman is Jewish, no?" I said yes, and he greeted her in Hebrew and a lenghty and very friendly conversation ensued during which time I witnessed two people, one Jewish, one Palestinian, become friends. They embraced as they left the party.
Today I was reminded by a Palestinian that peace will come when we all recognize the God in one another. With that note I will go to sleep.


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An important member of the allied health team, the nuclear medicine technologist is trained not only as a specialist in patient care, technical skills and administrative functions, but also as a health care specialist with a strong background in the medical sciences. The nuclear medicine technologist employs special equipment, procedures and radiopharmaceuticals in the analysis of the patient's physiological problems. Under the supervision of a physician, the nuclear medicine technologist also directs or participates in the daily operation of the nuclear medicine department and works closely with other health professionals.
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Program length – During a 12 month internship featuring both clinical and didactic instruction, the student will be instructed in all aspects of nuclear medicine.
Start date – June 22, 2020.
Objective – Upon completion, the student will receive a certificate in Nuclear Medicine Technology and will be eligible to sit for the two national certification examinations: the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) and the Nuclear Medicine Technologist Certification Board (NMTCB).
Written evaluations are conducted on the students on a quarterly basis and are reviewed with the students to help develop the necessary skills to become a Nuclear Medicine Technologist.
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1. Transferring as a senior from one of our affiliated academic institutions. Our affiliates accept the nuclear medicine program as the fourth year, one's completing bachelor's degree. Tuition and fees are based on 85% of the tuition from the affiliated academic institution. This fee covers all textbooks and supplies. The supplies include one set of hospital scrubs, radiation monitors, and any other daily supplies required.
Our current list of affiliates is:
- St. Cloud State University – St. Cloud, Minnesota
- University of Wisconsin – La Crosse
- Luther College- Iowa
2. Transferring after completion of a bachelor's degree in a science or science-related major from an accredited college or university. Tuition and fees for the year is $6000.00. This fee covers all textbooks and supplies. The supplies include radiation monitors and any other daily supplies required. There is no financial aide available for tuition during the internship if you are not from an affiliated college.
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Chemistry with lab
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General physics
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Application deadline to the program is January 31st.
The Nuclear Medicine Technology internship accepts a maximum of 7 students each year.
Interns are selected from affiliated colleges:
- University of Wisconsin La Crosse
- St. Cloud State University
- Luther College
Interns from the affiliated colleges are preferred due to prior academic class work.
Interns can also be accepted into the internship with a Bachelor of Science degree in a related science, i.e. Biology, Chemistry, etc. with a grade point average of 2.5 or better.
Please contact Kerry Michell for access to the application and recommendation letter forms. One application and three recommendation letters will be submitted to Kerry Michell via e-mail. Application deadline is January 31st. Applicants are interviewed if all of the programs requirements are met. Interviews are conducted through the end of February. The selection of students is made by March 31. The students are notified and all students are required to confirm acceptance with a letter.
Program Outcomes
Graduate outcomes are indicators of program effectiveness, demonstrating the extent to which a program achieves its goals. Programmatic graduate outcomes data reported on the JRCNMT website include: 5-year time period of current report; graduation rate; ARRT credentialing success; NMTCB credentialing success and job placement rate.
For more information contact:
Kerry Michell, Education Coordinator
Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center
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Shot on location in San Francisco, the movie is almost documentary-like in appearance. Shot by ace cinematographer Burnett Guffey with an emphasis on flat lighting, this is no slick, glossy Hollywood production but a lowdown and dirty crime drama. It reminds me of one of those great grim and gritty 1970s crime movies like "The French Connection" (1971) or "The Friends of Eddie Coyle" (1973).
"The Sniper" is part of a gem of a DVD box set from Sony Home Entertainment called Film Noir Classics Vol. 1. Other titles include: Fritz Lang's "The Big Heat" (1953); "5 Against the House" (1955); "Murder by Contract" (1958) and "The Lineup." (1958). That's enough mean city streets mayhem to satisfy anyone.


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What kind of historian are you? Over the last week, I have been asked this question three or four times. It's a question the irks me because I don't quite understand why we continue to label our colleagues.
In this post, you will discover the various labels we have for historians, why many historians continue to label their colleagues, and why we should do away with most professional labels.
Overview of Historian Label Use
In graduate school, I learned that historians classify themselves by the period and geography they study: medievalist, early modern Europeanist, South Americanist, early Americanist, 19th-century Americanist, etc.
Classification by geography and period makes sense. Historians all study history, but by stating our period and geography in a quick and efficient way we allow our colleagues to know our area(s) of expertise.
Graduate school also introduced me to the fact that many historians like to classify themselves in terms of affiliation and profession: Academic, public, independent, and amateur.
After graduation, I discovered that professional labels did not stop with academic, public, independent, or amateur. Some historians also use the labels of digital historian, digital humanist, post-academic (also spelled post-ac or postac), and alternative-academic (alt-ac or altac) to define themselves.
I understand why many historians use labels: They provide a short code for who professional historians should take seriously. However, these labels of affiliation and profession are fraught with stereotypes. They are also restrictive, exclusive, and obsolete.
Below I offer my basic (and I am sure incomplete) definitions of each historian label. These definitions should help you better understand why I find them restrictive, exclusionary, and outdated.
Basic Definitions for Historian Labels
Academic: An historian with a Ph.D. in history and a tenure track position as a professor at a university of college. Academic historians teach, conduct research, write-up their research, and use this written work to set and participate in debates and conversations about history.
Public: Historians who convey history to the public. Public historians work at public and private institutions such as historical societies, museums, national parks, libraries, and archives. Sometimes they hold PhDs, often they have a masters degree. Public historians have expertise in developing exhibits and interpretive programs about history for the general public. They may also specialize in providing assistance to historians and history lovers who want to find information about history.
Independent: An unaffiliated historian. Someone who self-funds their research. These historians can be trained professionals or journalists-turned-historians. They may also be genealogists who perform genealogical research as professionals and who seek recognition as members of the historical profession.
Amateur: Hobbyist historians. These historians have a passion for history and have followed their passion into the world of archival research. They have no formal training and they pursue their work when they have time. They may write short articles for local newspapers or online publications. Sometimes they write full-length books.
Digital: An historian who works with and incorporates new technologies into their research and historical interpretation methods. They may conduct interdisciplinary work and might consider themselves as digital humanists. Some digital historians create computer programs to extract information from big data sets.
Postac: An academically-trained historian who has left the academy. Postac historians might work as independent historians or they might have left the profession altogether.
Altac: An academically-trained historian who has pursued a different career path within academia. They might head a special department or initiative or assist with or perform administrative work. Many altac historians teach history courses when time and opportunity allow.
Thoughts on Historian Labels
With the exception of the period and geography labels, I believe that the 21st century has rendered the above affiliation and profession labels obsolete.
Too many historians use affiliation and profession labels as a short code to make a quick assessment about an historian's work without taking the time to get to know an unknown colleague. They assume that if an historian they meet does not have the "right" label then they don't have the right kind of training or don't use professional research and interpretive methods.
Historian labels have created divisions within our profession; I have heard both academic and public historians use the term "academic" and "public" as pejoratives to describe a fellow historian.
I have also seen, and experienced, affiliated colleagues shrug off independent historians because of their unaffiliated status. The sentiment "there-must-be-something-wrong-with-you-or-your-work if you are unaffiliated" underlies many of these affiliated historians' dismissals of their independent colleagues.
We all know that there are numerous well-qualified historians who lack affiliation because the recent recession and an overproduction of graduate degrees has reduced the number of available jobs for historians who wish to work in academia or for public and private institutions.
However, it's not just professional snobbery that renders historian labels obsolete: it's how the labels limit the range of our work.
Present-day historians wear many hats and cultivate diverse skill sets to prosper in the tight job market and further their professional work.
I know plenty of academic historians who have a passion for public outreach and plenty of public historians who cross over into the academic realm by conducting high-quality, historical research and conveying what they find in scholarly publications.
There are altac historians who create interesting digital projects and independent historians who work with public and academic history institutions as consultants. Furthermore, there are amateur historians who have a deep passion and know more about certain subjects than those who teach those topics in college classrooms.
No one label can possibly fit most historians because most of us have multiple historical and professional interests.
Furthermore, labels also exclude a number of professional historians because their job descriptions do not fit into any of the above labels. Take documentary editors, for example. These historians have a specialized skill set and job functions that place them in numerous categories: academic, public, altac, postac, and digital. However, using multiple labels is cumbersome and the practice fails to produce a quick short code for their work.
It's time that historians stop obsessing over professional labels.
We are losing the funding fight with STEM subjects in part because our profession can become consumed with internal fighting over professional labels and the boundaries of work that they supposedly create.
Labels breed professional snobbery and inhibit profession-wide collaboration.
All historians need to be engaged in a quest to reassert the relevancy of history. Therefore it shouldn't matter what field you study or where you work. We should help instead of exclude and fight with each other.
Discarding labels won't be easy.
When was the last time you attended a professional seminar, conference, or event that didn't have you fix an affiliation on your name tag or state your affiliation at the start of the event?
I don't like labels and I dislike it when my colleagues try to affix a label to me, but I occasionally use them. And yes, I am guilty of using labels to make quick and unfair assessments about unknown colleagues.
But I will do better. I will make a conscious effort to discard labels.
The next time I attend a history seminar or attend a conference that requires me to place a label on my name tag, I will say that I am an historian of early America. Because this is the only meaningful and comprehensive label that describes what kind of historian I am.
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Turkish GP 2008
Race Report - Massa makes it look easy
Felipe Massa won his third consecutive Turkish Grand Prix in Istanbul on Sunday, but it was not an easy victory for the charismatic little Brazilian, who was made to fight all the way by McLaren's Lewis Hamilton. It was not a great race but for the tense struggle between Hamilton and the Ferraris, but this was sufficient to keep attentive fans interested.
The race began with a bang. Massa took the lead but Kimi Raikkonen was slow away. This meant that at the first corner the field was bunched up somewhat and suddenly cars were flying around. The first contact was made between Raikkonen and McLaren's Heikki Kovalainen, who had also made a poor start because the two men were on the dirty side of the track. This brush damaged Raikkonen's front wing and sent Heikki to the pits to have a slow puncture on his left rear fixed. He did not realise immediately because the race was neutralised almost immediately with a Safety Car, as a result of what happened behind them. Jarno Trulli was badly held up and behind him a bottle-neck developed until Giancarlo Fisichella arrived on the scene, going so fast that there was no hope of stopping in time. It was the end of an inglorious weekend for the Roman veteran, who flew into, and over, Kazuki Nakajima's Williams before crashing down in the tarmac with such violence that the car went no further. Nakajima went to the pits but there was too much damage to fix.
Fisichella had begun the weekend in ridiculous fashion by driving through the red light at the end of the pitlane before the first session began on Friday morning. This meant he was given a three-place penalty on the grid, which effectively ruined any chance he might have had for a good race. He hoped to be able to pick up the pieces and calm the team in the race but crashing at the first corner definitely did the opposite. Fisichella tried to blame Sebastien Bourdais, who had complained loudly after Fisichella in qualifying, but the claim that Bourdais changed direction twice did not equate with the TV images.
Whatever the case the Safety Car was sent out and the bashed and battered headed for the pits, including Sebastian Vettel, who picked up a puncture and Kovalainen who had a similar problem.
"That was almost it for me," said Heikki. "Because of my heavy fuel load and the traffic it is extremely difficult to gain any places during the race."
By the end of the race he had climbed only to 12th place. He fought his way back from the rear of the field and enjoyed a couple of good dices with the feisty Timo Glock. Heikki pulled off a lovely passing move on Glock, round the outside in Turn 11, but the German responded with an elegant move to take the place again before the end of the lap. Kovalainen got better traction and so was able to go ahead again on the straight. With Kovalainen out of the way and Raikkonen hobbled (but still able to set fastest lap despite a damaged front wing) the fight concentrated on Massa and Hamilton.
Raikkonen hung on as best he could.
The tyre choice was again important and with the Ferraris on soft tyres and everyone else on hard rubber it was an unusual fight. Hamilton stayed on the harder rubber until the final stint and was happy that he did because the car was not good on the softer tyres. Nonetheless he beat Raikkonen and closed the gap in the World Championship. Hamilton's race was ultimately ruined by tyres. Last year he drove a wonderful race only to suffer a tyre failure. Hamilton went into the race expecting to do no better than fifth because of his hard tyres and a small fuel load but he ended up second and was delighted. In fact it was better than that because in the mid-race Lewis was able to get into the lead thanks to a delightful move on Massa.
"I saw Lewis coming down the inside so I didn't risk going even more to the left because maybe we could crash," Massa said. "I tried to brake a little late but when he kept trying and kept coming I said, 'Okay, let him go and we see in the next stop how it's going to be.'"
"It was a very difficult race. Lewis was pushing me hard the whole way, but I thought he was very light to begin with. When I did my first refuelling stop he was straight away there so I knew he was light, and the team told me straight away that he was on three stops, so that was a little bit of help because he was very strong when he passed me. But I knew I still had a big chance to win the race. All I had to do was to create a reasonable gap to be in the front after my pit stops."
Despite this Hamilton reckoned this was a special race. The decision taken to go for a three-stop race was made on Saturday when Bridgestone expressed concern over the excessive heat build-up on Lewis's front tyres. Hamilton works his tyres harder than team-mate Heikki Kovalainen, hence the enforced decision to run him lighter on fuel and the cause for Lewis to be disappointed on Saturday afternoon when, in a lighter car, he had failed to take the pole position that he really needed to make the strategy work.
"I'm thrilled to come second with the strategy we were on," he said. "Starting today on the harder compound tyre we knew it would be very tough to challenge the Ferraris and that a finish in the top five would have been good. But the balance of car on those tyres was good and I was able to keep pushing and pushing. The three stop thing won't happen anywhere else. We knew that even if we had got the pole we weren't really going to be in line for the win, so for me this was probably the best race I've ever done. Last year's failure was in the back of my mind and I was always checking the tyre on turn in to Turn Eight. I was just making sure I could report to the team if necessary and come in.
"In the end you ask yourself and the team whether you could have done a better job and I strongly feel that I couldn't have. If not perfect, then I just feel that my race pace is getting stronger and stronger. Following a strong showing in Barcelona it was even stronger here. And we overtook a Ferrari! I feel we did a fantastic job as a team to bring it home second and to split the Ferraris."
Raikkonen tried to fight but found his second set of soft tyres did not work well. He had to settle for third. Behind him it was pretty much business as usual with BMW Saubers of Robert Kubica and Nick Heidfeld fourth and fifth. Kubica made a great start but then Raikkonen was able to get ahead by running two laps longer before their first stops. Heidfeld had a good first lap and moved up thanks to his strategy.
"I was then a little bit slower than the three guys in front of me, but quicker than the rest of the pack," said Kubica. "This was the maximum possible for me today."
"This is what I hoped for from ninth on the grid," Heidfeld said. "To finish fifth was the best I could achieve today. I wanted to overtake Trulli at the start and this worked, then I gained two more positions during the pit stops. After the first stint I had a pretty lonely race and in the end I was even able to reduce the engine revs."
Alonso gave Renault a solid sixth place, but again made a very early stop. Fernando reckoned this was a good strategy
"The car was well balanced and there were no problems with the tyres, so I am happy." he said.
Not so Nelson Piquet who struggled all day and finished a poor 15th.
The final points fell to Mark Webber after another solid performance for Red Bull, and to Nico Rosberg who was eighth for Williams.
"It wasn't the most exciting race," said Webber, "I was just trying to hold on to Fernando, which wasn't easy as he was a bit too strong for us today. It would have been nice to be able to fight him a little bit more. I was cruising a little in the last stint, as Rosberg wasn't a threat. Getting more points is good for the team."
Nico said he could do no more than he had done.
David Coulthard and Jarno Trulli were the last unlapped runners, but went home pointless.
"I just missed out today, which is frustrating," Coulthard said. "I raced as hard as I could. I think the strategy guys did a good job today, I just wasn't able to eke the last little bit of pace out of the car."
Trulli was disappointed at the first corner when he lost three places and could do nothing to win them back. His Toyota team-mate Timo Glock showed his fighting spirit in style but a one-stop strategy meant that he was in traffic a great deal.
Jenson Button was lapped in 11th mainly because of a brake problem which meant he was changed to a one-stop strategy that did not really gain anything. Rubens Barrichello finished 14th while those who cared continued to argue as to how many GPs he has done. Honda said 257, others said 255.
Of the rest Vettel was delayed on the first lap but then got going and the had a refueling rig problem (as did team-mate Bourdais). Bourdais disappeared after just a few laps when something broke in the back of the car.
After Fisichella's demise, his Force India team-mate Adrian Sutil, struggled with a damaged front wing.
There have been better races but the tension was a good. McLaren is getting better. Perhaps at Monaco Lewis will end the run of Ferrari victories.


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February 9, 2009
So we're back from another jolly jaunt across the channel and again we've had such an amazing time!
Massive massive thanks to everyone who came to the shows and also to all the fantastic people we met who made our weekend so much fun.
Here are my favourite parts:
- Obligatory sight seeing
- Desperados
- Mike's spaghetti bolomayonnaise
- Playing with This Is Pop
- Doing a show in Bozan's dad's workplace surrounded by ladders and stacked chairs
- Being thrown over the drumkit
- Straight vodka
- Aurelie's neighbours
- Talking about the glory days of French football
- Mike and Al 'bonding' under a zebra print duvet
- Sweet meal at the fleche d'or
- First show in Paris
- Finding the noise on the metro absolutely hilarious
- The 45 minute walk to Sabine's flat for a party
- Hanging out at Joris' apartment
- Mike forcefully befriending Matthew from Reuters
We certainly didn't make any friends on the Eurostar on the way home as a couple of us, mentioning no names (Mike and Andy), hadn't had any sleep and decided to drink a bottle of Jack Daniels before and during the train journey.
A combination of very choice language mixed with a very loud volume meant the calling of the train manager and threats of being thrown off the train at Calais.
Luckily we all made it back to England in one piece and hopefully we'll be allowed back sometime soon!
Thanks again to all that came.
Big love