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Ever wondered why fire trucks are red? Or what happens when you try to deep fry a frozen turkey?
You can get the answers to those questions and more on Mentor Fire Department's Facebook page.
Mentor Fire Public Information Officer Nathan Peters said the department launched the page recently to reach more people with their safety tips.
However, the page has also given them a forum to answer questions from the public and provide tidbits about the department's history.
For example, Firefighter Jeremy Szydlowski recently posted an answer to the oft-asked question of why fire trucks are usually red. (Answer: Red paint was expensive so it gave certain fire departments bragging rights when they could afford to paint their truck that color.)
It also allows the fire department to share its safety tips in a creative way.
One more example: Instead of just telling people that it's dangerous to deep fry a frozen turkey, the department posted a video of what happens when you try it. (Hint: You won't want to eat what's left.)
The page has already accrued more than 1,000 likes, even though the department launched the site quietly about two months ago.
"It's been a nice outreach tool," Peters said.
"If people have questions for us, they can ask us on the page," he added. "We'll try to get you an answer. After all, if you're thinking that question, you know someone else is, also."
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The rubber duck squeaked out a win for a place in the National Toy Hall of Fame, joining the ancient game of chess in the 2013 class inducted this week.
The pair beat out 10 other finalists: bubbles, the board game Clue, Fisher-Price Little People, little green Army men, the Magic 8 Ball, My Little Pony, Nerf toys, the Pac-Man video game, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the scooter.
Online polls had Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and My Little Pony running strong, but in the end a national selection committee made up of 23 experts, including toy collectors, designers and psychologists, voted in the winners.
"The two inductees ... are fantastic examples of the two extremes in the world of play," said Christopher Bensch, vice president for collections at The Strong Museum, which houses the 15-year-old hall.
"One is so strategic. It's rule-driven. It's something that adults play and puzzle over," Bensch said, "and at the other extreme is a toy that's pure fun. It has no rules. No one wins or loses. You squeeze it. You float it. It's so silly, so fun."
Anyone can nominate a toy for the hall of fame, but to make it through the selection process and become a finalist a toy must have achieved icon status, survived through generations, foster learning, creativity or discovery and have profoundly changed play or toy design.
"If there is a game you can call classic, this is that game," said curator Nicolas Ricketts as he introduced chess during an induction ceremony that featured the unveiling of chess- and rubber duck-themed cartoons by syndicated cartoonist Leigh Rubin.
Chess can be traced back centuries to an ancient Indian war game, but evolved into the game it is today by 1475, Ricketts said.
"In 1779, Benjamin Franklin wrote that playing this game inspires habits of foresight, circumspection and caution, all important traits in human life," he said. "Scholars today still study the effect of this game's play on the childhood brain and development."

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As you know, the Township has been aggressively cleaning and clearing debris due to Superstorm Sandy which made landfall on the evening of October 29. We are now in our 23rd day of cleanup and have made great strides. Unfortunately, FEMA has placed limits on cost reimbursements which results in the Township having to placedeadlines for collection and cleanup services.
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- Today, Wednesday, Nov. 21
- Saturday, Nov. 24
- Wednesday, Nov. 28
- Saturday, Dec. 1
Please make every effort to have any discarded items placed at the curb for pickup. Any items, other than household trash, placed curbside after December 1st will not be picked up. Any items requiring pickup beyond this date, it will be the responsibility of the homeowner to obtain a dumpster for its removal.
B. The Township will be continuing its brush and tree parts pickup process through Friday, Dec. 7. Any brush placed curbside beyond this date will not be collected. As you know the Township has a recycling drop off center that you may bring your brush to seven days a week.
Finally, the existing Compost Drop Off Center rules will be reinstated effective Dec. 7, which prohibits landscapers, tree removal companies, or contractors to deposit tree related debris including stumps, brush or wood chips.
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- Melt margarine in a large pan over low heat. Add marshmallows and stir constantly until marshmallows melt and mixture is syrupy. Remove from heat. Stir in food coloring. Add corn flakes and stir until well coated.
- Drop mixture, by 1/4 cupful, onto cookie sheet. Using buttered fingers, quickly shape into individual wreaths. Dot with cinnamon candies
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Because I've made these for over 40 years, I know that to try and form these into wreaths would be a lot of effort since these set up so fast. I just drop them into small, teaspoon size mounds. When my kids were young, they made the task of making these much easier--the extra set of hands to put the cinnamon candies on them were a real help! While I make these a bit differently, I write this review for those who are experiencing these stiffening up or hardening too fast. A little extra butter will take care of that. To 4 cups of corn flakes I use 1/3 c. butter and 32 marshmallows. For a brilliant green color, I use 1 tsp. of green food coloring, again for 4 cups of corn flakes. Finally, I add 1/2 tsp. each of vanilla and almond extracts for flavor. These have always been a family favorite and are a pretty and colorful addition to a Christmas cookie platter.
My kids loved it. They expanded on the Christmas idea by making Christmas trees from the mixture and sprinkling it with colored candy sprinkles, gold and silver candy balls etc. Really added color to the Christas cookie platter.
My aunt use to make these when I was little so I gave them a try. They came together nicely. I followed the recipe exactly and put the bowl in a larger bowl with a little hot water to keep the mixture soft. They are very pretty on a cookie tray as they have a bright green color. They do not freeze or last long as they get a little mushy (at least in my house) so I would make these just a few days before Christmas or the event you are taking them to. Thanks for this recipe from my childhood!
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i own i kahler, i have it on my custom guitar, and i shose a kahler for al the grewat things i heard and read about it, and serious, the kahler is nowhere compared to OFR's of edge pro's
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The first step an organization needs to take in establishing an Open Source strategy is to baseline the current landscape. Now to be perfectly clear: many people will jump on this step and "pooh pooh" about how unnecessary it is because they
However, regardless of what they think they may know – they probably don't. And if the corporation has carried out a prior assessment – that was probably in 2003 or 2004 when they were benchmarking Linux usage. At least I've had enough of those reports waved at me, together with a remark as to the fact that "and we have a few Apaches and MySQLs running".
So what are the typical goals of this first step? Well it's to pull together enough information about the internal adoption of Open Source that you can present the complete picture to the various people and departments you need to engage on the next step.
The result of asking these questions is that people within the organization will begin to understand that there is more to it than just knowing about the odd Apache installation.
A few years ago, SpikeSource, Carnegie Mellon West Center for Open Source Investigation and others decided that it was time to "gauge" the "readiness" of Open Source solutions for business usage. At the time even Tim O'Reilly was bullish on the whole idea:
..the initiative is one more signpost on the road that open source has taken from the hacker fringe into the mainstream of the technology business.
Now it seems that the initiative has failed – as Tim writes in the comments of the above post.
As I wrote at the beginning of 2006, some companies had this strange "vision" that they could suddenly become the Open Source service vendor overnight. Instead of looking to Open Source projects and people to build their business (as this company did and does for example), they created smoke and mirrors to hide the fact that really, they didn't understand anything about Open Source.
At the weekend I sat down and watched the HD video of the Palm Pre keynote – and really enjoyed it. Not only the phone but also the style of the presentation – very Apple'ish. If the phone can deliver on what was shown during the keynote then I might just delay getting a new mobile.
Interesting times.
In November, Lars Hinrichs announced he was stepping down as CEO of the successful business social network Xing.
Today, Stephan Uhrenbacher announces on Twitter that he is stepping down as CEO of Qype, to be replaced by Stephen Taylor (formerly managing director at Yahoo). Stephan is moving to the board of directors and focussing on product strategy.
Now Lars and Stephan wouldn't happen to be planning on doing something together now – would they?
My love of people predicting the future continues. I've just read an article on the German business community Xing. The article quotes a survey about what lies in store for 2009 when it comes to IT freelance work.
The article on Xing begins roughly:
The sky is falling. The main topics occupying current media are the financial crisis and the economic downturn. One black day follows the next. We have written a survey that details how the crisis will affect the Austrian IT project market in 2009.
I'll save you the details (you can download the full German article here) – let's skip right to the summary – which I've translated for your enjoyment:
In closing, it can be said that 2009 will not fulfill all the wishes of IT freelancers, but, there is no real cause for a lot of pessimism. So you could say the year will be "mixed".
I remember reading somewhere that the most accurate way of predicting the weather for tomorrow is to say it will be the same as today.
It is currently fun watching so called experts making predictions on the way things will develop. My favorite is an online service that monitors the price of oil and especially heating-oil. Every day they have a new blog post with the current average price in Germany and also with a prediction on how the price will develop over the next month or so.
Only a week or so ago they were predicting that the price of oil would drop further and that the middle to end of January would be an ideal time to fill up the tanks.
Then Israel marches into Gaza and Russia gets into a gas row with its neighbors – effectively cutting off Russian gas supplies to Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey today.
Today, my oil-price oracle is telling me that we can expect a massive increase in the price of heating-oil (it has already gone up about 10% this year). They are now expecting prices to drop again "in the Spring".
Unless of course, something else happens.
I recommend reading Taleb's "The Black Swan" – a really thought-provoking book that shows how much things are influenced by improbable and unpredictable events that have yet to happen.
Does it help me know when to buy heating-oil? Of course not.
Overnight, temperatures in this part of the world dropped to below -15 C. Temperatures haven't been this low in Winter for a few years and of course everyone has started complaining already. Including me. It's not funny when it takes 30 minutes to defrost the windscreen before being able to drive off.
Anyway, the drop in temperature seems to match the current economic climate (a coincidence? – I think not) where so-called "experts" are predicting everything from a quick recovery to many years of economic Winter. Over the weekend I saw that predictions for the German share index – the Dax – were ranging from 3000 to 8000 index points for the end of 2009. That tells you something.
So what will 2009 bring? Nobody knows. And therein lies the motivation to dig out of the snow and get moving.
I like to think that restarting the blog where I can dump ideas, thoughts and rants is my way of digging out of the snow and moving forward.


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Three men are running to replace longtime director Paul Warda. Campaign finance reports were due Wednesday, showing amounts collected from Jan. 1 through June 30. Jim Mortensen, retired Del Monte Foods manager, had received $13,840 and spent $7,225. For an MID race, that's a lot. By way of comparison, at the same point in 2011, Nick Blom had collected just under $6,100 and John Duarte, who ultimately lost, had collected $5,500.
Mortensen's contributors included $1,000 from Ronald Jackson, president of the Modesto & Empire Traction Co., and $500 from Thomas Nielsen, chief financial officer at Beard. Paul Van Konynenburg, who served with Mortensen on the MID water advisory committee, contributed $500, as did attorney George Petrulakis, Solecon Industries (whose president is former Supervisor Jeff Grover), Allen Layman and businessman Dick Hagerty. MID Director Tom Van Groningen contributed $100.
Jake Wenger reported contributions of $5,950, including a $1,000 loan to himself and a $1,000 donation from Duarte Nursery. Tim Byrd, brother of MID Director Larry Byrd, contributed $500 to Wenger.
Both Mortensen and Wenger are receiving significant dollars from people who live outside Division 4. Why? Because the MID board will be making critical decisions affecting lots of people.
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For those of you who may not yet know, New Pages is a great source and resource for writing news, information, and guides to independent bookstores, independent publishers, literary magazines, alternative periodicals, independent record labels, alternative newsweeklies. and more. (Essentially, go there and learn things.)
Today, I found out from one of the editors that my poetry website/blog has been listed up there as well, right alongside other prominent writers (such as Seth Abramson) and aspiring poets!
It may be but a small step, but it's definitely a step in the right direction.
Check out all the blogs listed right here!
(P.S. – I also wanted you to let you all know that I've been working quietly on a few different projects, and some of them are soon to come to light. Stay tuned.)
I hope the roller coaster was kind enough to you.
It may have tried a time or two
to dislodge and fling you
forty feet face-first into the ground,
but you held fast.
You rode the rails,
suffered through the hard banks,
and vaguely remembered learning something
about the powers of different forces.
I hope you've made the most of the ride,
because the next one,
whichever you choose,
is about to start in just a few minutes.
[Below is a poem I've puzzle-pieced together using my single best line/stanza from each and every one of my 30/30 poems composed this year. I like to think of it as a combination of two, popular poetic forms – the found poem and the exquisite corpse – and I always find it fascinating to see how these lines and words can be re-purposed to create entirely new meaning with minimal alterations. If you feel moved by a line or are curious how it fits in the original poem, then simply click on it! Each one links back to the initial post.]
She rouses from a road bump,
spots me reading a book of poems,
and assumes me to be educated.
Her sweatshirt is rolled up like a bikini top,
unveiling her large stomach
with the pomp of a premiering vaudeville show.
She's been unselfish since birth,
salt of the earth worth her weight in gold.
Sold down the river at her own demand,
she walked straight into our house of mourning,
wrapped her wise arms around my 11-year old frame,
and kissed my tortured mind.
She reminds me that spring is coming back for us soon;
we just have to spin the world a little more first.
But she's been forgotten and forlorn,
a run-down ghost town
whose people left her long ago in heart
before she lost them to industry.
And I write to you because I loved, love, will love you
and I want to understand who you are,
who you were, and who you're still yet to become.
Watch now how slowly a tear can form,
and then fall, when you're crying
and think you have nothing
worth being sad about.
The sexiest thing you've ever said to me was
I want you inside me
and all my blood rushed center and down.
But you were supposed to be my sandbox, not my stone tablet.
Make me realize how quickly I would die.
Our void grows contemptuous,
widens with each jealousy,
sprouts a new offshoot so green,
so doomed to be forgotten.
And I hope your children grow up to be poets
so you're never able to understand them.
I reread the printed letters from my lawyer,
make constellations of his patterned excuses.
I catch every person's phone conversation
and reply to both ends, snatch their vested secrets,
could expose the truths of their youths.
But you haven't read about me in your guidebooks,
and you're not sure who to believe anymore.
Born of the same soured soil and tainted rain,
we did the only thing we knew how,
grew inward – tighter and tighter into each other,
hoping that our togetherness could save us
from the harshness of our surroundings.
But the darknesses we hold inside us –
deep and consuming enough to digest galaxies –
have somehow found homes in our foreign bodies.
And we are eroding within,
like our coast, ever crumbling into the gulf.
Grown men seek a fantastical world
where their monsters obey them
and not the other way around.
She had to have heard the morning moanings
of VHS vixens through thin walls.
Just shut up, sit down, and get lost
in this sitcom rerun with him for the third time today.
His self-slapped golden handcuffs keep him
tight where his boss wants him,
marionetting stability and rigidity,
And our former selves fight inside to stay alive,
waiting for the worst moments to
resurrect themselves in their familiar haunts.
He couldn't domesticate the beast with obedience;
his training just taught him to gnaw the wrong things.
We want to be brackish,
but fear what we may kill in the process –
some just can't comprehend the water's ways,
filled only with soft breathing and flushed skin –
the work of an inexperienced child
who'd only before fucked women
to submission in his mind.
And your elegance and innocence couldn't save you,
not this time.
One day, they'll understand
the power of a peaceful moment,
the courage of calming the raging storms of their souls,
the wisdom of harnessing their ferocity for greater ends.
I like lists, and thus, I have decided to number out my top 6 most popular poems that now exist as a result of this year's 30/30 Poetry Challenge. If you have a different favorite, feel that WordPress' numbers are just off, or think another poem should've gotten more exposure, then please say so in the comments section below and let everyone know why.
Enjoy, share, say things, and thanks again for your support!
– Justin
In which I people watch while trying not to judge people.
In which I try to trade sex for love.
Day 16 – To The College Kids Who Only Came for Course Credit
In which I call out the college bros who aren't even trying to respect the poetry at readings.
Day 24 – The Top 9 Things Not to Ask a Dying Man (With Self-Given Answers)
If only all our lists could be this honest.
Day 25 – Half-Broke Horses (For Doc, Upon Her Retirement)
One of the greatest professors that Vanderbilt University's Peabody College has ever known, Alene Harris, is now beginning her life of retirement. This is a humble poem in honor of her awe-inspiring career.
Day 29 – Things Tonika Taught Me
In which my girlfriend finally gets her poem.
Dearest All,
As of yesterday (the last of April), I have succeeded in completing my self-imposed 30/30 poetry challenge, and thus, I have conquered National Poetry Writing Month 2014! (Muwhahahaha!)
All sinister, cartoon laughter aside, a gargantuan THANK YOU goes out to every one of you who has been reading, sharing, and commenting on my poetic blogging. Your support and encouragement are appreciated beyond understanding (and it's always good to hear your hardest words validated by others).
This year's line-up of poems was bound to be different. As I had mentioned in my "preamble" to NaPoWriMo14, I challenged myself to be more open, more honest, and more vulgar (when necessary) in my writing. And with poems concerning topics such as sex, porn, libido, masturbation, pregnancy, depression, rude college bros, death/dying, judging people, abandonment/exclusion, biracial dating, religious tolerance, national pride, and environmental decimation, I think I did a pretty bang-up job rising to the challenge (in my humble opinion).
As a result, my poems hit a record high of 220 views on April 29th alone, and they now have an overall record of 4,444 views (and counting) — nearly 3x the exposure my poems last year had earned. Being more diligent and consistent with posting and sharing my poems this year certainly helped, as did the addition of pictures, but I also think my writing is improving with each iteration, and it's still crazy and motivating to me to see how far they've come in a mere 30+ days. Most importantly, your support has helped give me the confidence to consider writing as a viable life option.
The other half of this 30/30 exercise was to make myself build the habit of writing like someone who's planning to make a career with his words. In his genius book The War of Art, author Steven Pressfield talks about what he calls "turning pro" — meshing your creative self with your business self, and knowing when to activate each. This is the beginning of my turning pro, and if all goes as I'd like it to, my next big steps will include getting published often in poetry journals and magazines, and then getting accepted into MFA in Poetry graduate programs. (Stay tuned for more on both fronts.)
In the meantime, I certainly plan to keep on writing more poems — just on a more lax schedule — and when I do, I'll post them up here for you all to enjoy.
Thanks again for all the love, and please share my words with anyone else who may be moved by them as well.
— Justin Barisich
(Little Writing Man)
I always knew this day would come.
I just didn't think it would be so soon,
or from such an objector.
But I guess no one likes to have their truth
chewed up and spat back at them.
My granny called me late last night and huffed,
"I don't need you writin' 'bout me no more!" –
the martini on her breath
coming in strong across three state lines.
She'd found that particular poem of mine,
about a year after I'd posted it,
and had to work (and drink) herself
up to this for god knows how long.
She must've changed seats from recliner to sofa
to rocking chair to see how it would sit with her –
dragging her bum leg and two iron knees behind her,
waddling precariously with every heavy step,
trying to get a different perspective
on a new subject that somehow snuck into
her house unchanged for nearly twenty years.
My directness, my confrontation,
was novel for her – someone who'd
spent her entire life keeping quiet,
biting her tongue, holding grudges,
internalizing her pain to avoid becoming a bother,
always allowing others' demons to possess her.
She'd pray that her sacrificial silence could
glue her cracked family back together again –
just like one of her beloved keepsakes
that had fallen off the shelf in
the backroom that was once a bedroom,
now long abandoned by her only son.
But in her stifled anger and saccharine offence,
she'd only managed to misread
my writing's honest intent.
I write about you because I care about you.
Because I've thought about you as a person,
as a character, as what else you might have been
in life had the circumstances been different.
I write about you to make sense of our relationship,
to find some logic and some meaning
in our shifts of age and power.
I write about you to remember you as you are,
to memorialize you as a real person
and not some vague notion of someone
I thought I knew or pretended to know for so long
that I tricked myself into believing it were true.
I write about you to document your complexities,
not to diminish them through generalization.
I write about you because I see myself in you,
and I want to tease it out and learn from it,
to borrow your wisdom, find reasons for your flaws,
and escape copying your mistakes.
I write about you because I loved, love, will love you
and I want to understand who you are,
who you were, and who you're still yet to become.
So, no, I won't stop writing about you.
Because then I would stop caring, stop trying, stop being.
And that's something I refuse to do.


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Any idea of which of the 3 Polk wireless subwoofers would work best as a third unit to use with 2 existing PSW505 subs?
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New employees of Vigo County government will have to undergo criminal background checks and pre-employment drug screens under two additions to an employee and management handbook approved Tuesday by the Board of Commissioners.
Connie Flood, county human resources director, told commissioners other Indiana counties are requiring the steps for employment.
"Right now we do random drug screens for various departments to follow either state guidelines or guidelines set by the [county] department. We took a look at most of the counties in the state, and they are moving forward with this," Flood said.
The required tests would be effective Jan. 1.
The change states that at the discretion of department heads and elected officials, current employees are also subject to criminal background checks. If information is received which may appear to be disqualifying, the elected official or department head will consult with the human resources director as to the impact of the candidate's potential employment.
Background check results will be handled on a case-by-case basis, according to the addendum. An applicant who provides false or misleading information during the recruitment process will face disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment and/or the withdrawal of an employment offer.
The county must establish a business necessity for the use of an applicant's conviction record in its employment decision. The county must consider the nature and gravity of the offense for which the applicant was convicted; the amount of time that has elapsed since the applicant's conviction and/or completion of sentence; and the nature of the job in question related to the nature of the offense committed, according to the addendum.
The background checks will be maintained in a confidential file in the human resources department, with access limited to elected officials and department heads, the applicant in question or individuals with a limited need-to-know interest as determined by the Vigo County Board of Commissioners.
On the drug test, applicants who refuse to complete the test, test positive or refuse to complete related documentation will not be hired by Vigo County, according to the addendum.
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"These are addicting little bites of goodness. A little sweet, and little salty, and extremely easy! If you are a white chocolate fan, use foil-wrapped white chocolate pieces instead of milk chocolate. Make these for a game day party or any get-together, and you will be very popular."
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- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Place pretzels on a baking sheet lined with aluminum foil.
- Place an unwrapped chocolate piece onto each pretzel.
- Heat the pretzels and chocolate candies in the preheated oven until the milk chocolate pieces become soft but hold their shape, 30 seconds to 1 minute. Watch carefully and don't let the chocolate melt to the point of dripping.
- Remove the pretzels from the oven and allow to stand for 1 minute to allow candy to finish softening.
- Push a colored candy-coated piece into the center of each chocolate kiss, pushing it down and flattening it. Set treats aside to cool to room temperature and fully set, about 30 minutes.
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I give this recipe a 5-star by experience.... I have made these treats for years..... but let me give you a tip or 2 to make it easier: 1. Use chocolate WAFERS, not Kisses. Wafers are chocolate discs, sold in a bag specifically for making candy - no need to unwrap! You can buy them from craft stores like AC Moore (in many different colors!) or from grocery stores that sell bulk foods. 2. Spread out the pretzels, a wafer balanced on top of each one, on a cookie sheet so they are not touching - no need for aluminum foil. 3. I put mine in a 250 oven for 10 minutes.... a little longer & cooler than written here, but it's really important to make the chocolate SOFT, but NOT melted! 4. Press the M&M down enough to make the softened choc. wafter hug the pretzel... then let it cool COMPLETELY! (If it doesn't, the chocolate will fall off when you move it.) I like to make several cookie trays full right before bed, then leave them sit out on the counter overnight & put away in the am. *They are wonderful holiday treats! I have made red & green ones at Christmas, ones in school colors for a graduation party, and at Easter: use pretzel snaps (looks like a basket weave), green wafers (like Easter grass), & egg-shaped M&M's on top. ALWAYS A HIT!!
I let my 5 year old make these, I just helped with the oven. He was so proud of himself! I love these simple recipes that the kids think are so much fun and the end product is a tasty treat.
easy to make, but mine took more like 4 minutes, with checking every minute. I then pushed m&m's immediately as they start cooling.
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- Calories
- 85 cal
- 4%
- Fat
- 2.1 g
- 3%
- Carbs
- 15.2 g
- 5%
- Protein
- 1.7 g
- 3%
- Cholesterol
- 1 mg
- < 1%
- Sodium
- 262 mg
- 10%
Based on a 2,000 calorie diet
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As we learned in the recent article "Exorcism is Islam," Muslims believe that evil djinn can sometimes possess human beings, as some Christians believe demons can possess people.
But what are the djinn? Our Muslim contact, who we identify only as M.M., and who provided the video of the exorcism, answers questions about these spirit beings.
Q: How were the djinn created?
A: Verses of the Koran and the Hadiths show unambiguously that the djinns were created of fire without smoke. According to Ibn ' Abbas, the expression "without smoke" means "end of the flame." Other scientists think that this expression means the purest of fires. What's important to know, quite simply, is that that the djinn were created of fire and therefore have a constitution completely different from ours.
The djinn were created before man. While the djinn were made of fire, man was made of clay and angels created of light.
In this way, the djinn are invisible. So if they are invisible, how do we know they exist? Many things exist that our eyes do not see, but their effects are perceptible, such as the air and electrical current.
Also, this word was reported by Allah himself, and Allah does not lie.
Q: Where do the djinn live?
A: The djinn prefer to live in places not inhabited by man, such as deserts and wastelands. Some among them live in the dirty places (dustbins) and others live among man. The djinn live in these dirty places in order to eat the remainders of foods thrown away by people. Also, certain djinn live in cemeteries and ruins.
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Rothwell has really transformed himself physically and has the grappling to defend himself. GG, on the other hand, has shown poor game planning and doesn't necessarily have the wresting to drag this into a JJ match.
Rothwell by TKO.
Would love to see GG take this, but I don't think he has the hunger of Rothwell. Gabe falls into the Arlovski file of fighters that shoulda been something big. As mentioned, this is a perfect match-up.
Gonzaga is the more skilled fighter but if Rothwell can drag him deep his break his will. I am going with Gonzaga by sub in the 2nd.
They should do betting odds on who gets injured first
WOW, good matchup.
Big fan of Napao but Rothwell has really seemed to transform his physique, leading to a more well-developed HW.
Should be a great fight, nudge goes to Napao if he gets this to the ground and fights with his brain.
Gonzaga is the guy with the biggest talent and also the smallest heart I had ever seen
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Perfect matchup as far rankings go.
Agreed. I don't really know how to call this one. I'm going to go with Rothwell by TKO. It should be a decent fight no matter which way it goes
That's a great match up that I never thought about. Should be a really good fight.
Both pretty equal on the feet and both have very different approaches to the ground game.
Love this fight...both of these fighters get injured a lot though...don't get too excited
Perfect matchup as far rankings go.
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May 10, 2013
Pella Garden Club celebrates 51st Tulip Time Flower Show
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Pella —
Members of Pella Garden Club celebrated their 51st Tulip Time Flower Show May 2, 3 and 4, 2013. Location of the show was in the Bicentennial Buildings at the Pella Historical Village.
Award winners for this year's show were: Sandy Heerema, who swept the show with awards in both Design and Horticulture Divisions. The awards were Table Artistry for best table and Petite Award for outstanding small design. She shared Sweepstakes for most ribbon points in Design. Horticulture awards were Award of Merit for best 3 of a kind of tulips and The Silver Anniversary Award for best collection not an award of Merit winner.
Janna Boyd won 5 major awards in Design including Sweepstakes for most ribbon points. The awards included Distinction for best dried design, Designer's Choice for most creative design, Presidents Award for an outstanding design and Design Excellence for best of show.
Milly Van Dyke won the Queen's Award for second most ribbon points in the Design Division. (Milly was absent for the group photo
Edie Buwalda won the 75th Tulip Time award for a design showing tulips to their best advantage.
Bernice Van Gorp won the Historical Society Award for second most ribbon points in the Horticulture Division, Award of Merit for best single tulip and Tulip of the Year for best single tulip not an Award of Merit winner.
Marcia Aguilar won the Gardener's Award for best group of 3 tulips, not an Award of Merit winner.
Charlie Zylstra won the Novice Award for best first design blue ribbon. Sue Brandl won the Pella Garden Club award for an outstanding Dutch table design by a non member.
Delores Boerigter won the Tricolor Award for best fresh flower design, Florence Vander Meiden won Horticulture Sweepstakes for most ribbon points and Pella Garden Club 25th Anniversary Award for outstanding expression of title in design.
Marlyn Rietveld Ebbers won an Award of Merit for best collection of tulips and the Award of Horticulture Excellence for best of show in Horticulture.
Pella Garden Club has 23 active members with Susie Gharst as President, Edie Buwalda as Vice President, Eileen Hessing as Secretary and Sandy Winkel as Treasurer.
Through 51 years, Pella Garden Club has contributed over $300,000 toward Beautification, Preservation and Restoration in the City of Pella supporting projects in Pella parks, Scholte Garden and the Pella Historical Village, as well the Pella Regional Hospital, Comfort House and Pella Schools landscaping.
Titles in the Flower Show were taken from experiences during the Club trip to the Netherlands in May 2012. The show title is from the Floriade Flower Show in Holland: 'Mooi Wat Bloemen Duin' Beautiful what flowers do...is the translation.


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Two Tahlequah teen-agers were killed and five others were injured in an early morning crash in Cherokee County, an Oklahoma Highway Patrol release states.
Paul Blevins Jr., 19, and Michael Rogers, 14, were both pronounced dead at the scene Saturday, at Indian Road and Pettit Bay Road, approximately six miles south of Tahlequah. Both died of massive head and internal injuries, the report states.
Micah Holcomb, 18, of Tahlequah was in critical condition when he was admitted to St. John Medical Center in Tulsa; Haley Seal, 16, of Tahlequah was taken to EASTAR Health System in Muskogee but was transferred to St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa, where she was stable when she was admitted with leg injuries; Christain Hooper, 22, of Tahlequah was taken by a personal vehicle to W.W. Hastings Hospital in Tahlequah, where he was treated and released; Casey Kelly, 15, of Tahlequah was treated at Tahlequah City Hospital and released; and Ryan Molina, 22, of Tahlequah was taken to St. Francis, where he was treated and released, the report states.
According to the OHP report, the crash happened about 3:45 a.m. Molina was driving a 2003 Ford truck westbound on Pettit Bay Road at high speed when he failed to stop at a stop sign. The truck went into a broadslide and struck a tree, ejecting Hooper, who was a passenger inside the truck, and ejecting Kelly, Seal, Blevins and Rogers, who were riding in the bed of the truck. Another passenger, Toland Bitsilly, 23, of Newcomb, N.M., was not injured. Molina was the only person involved who was wearing a seat belt. The vehicle's airbags did not deploy, the report states.
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We had a story on the news not long ago about Portland's ranking as a dog friendly city. We were rated #1 by Dog Fancy magazine in 2006. Clearly, the people running the survey have never been to Newport Beach, California.
We were there over the 4th visiting some old friends. Lots of beautiful people live there with their beautiful dogs. We saw a Great Dane the size of a pony checking in with its owner at the hotel. Some smaller dogs were lounging with their people around the pool.
But I didn't really understand what dog friendly meant until we went to check out an upscale shopping mall across the street. We were doing a little fantasy shopping...looking not buying...and there among the designer clothes were equally designer dogs. Not for sale of course. They were shopping with their owners.
Some had matching outfits with painted toenails. Would I make that up? Lots of fluffy little friends wandering thru Neiman-Marcus on sparkly leashes and a few tucked sweetly in strollers. Special dog strollers. One was a double decker for a set of Pugs. I think I audibly squealed when I saw them. No hiding that I was NOT a local.
Plus, there were no less than 3 competing doggie boutiques in this one mall to supply all these things. Am I the only one who thought this was just a Hollywood star kind of thing?
Just for the record, I did not catch the fever. I still make my poor pooch WALK when we go outside and I'm hiding the Nordstrom sale catalogs from him. Just don't tell Dog Fancy magazine on me.
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Newspaper posts photo-radar warnings
It's a very popular feature on our website. Whenever we post one of these, it's almost guaranteed to be in our top-ten-viewed stories of the day. -- More.
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Kim Dorr's hat trick propelled Squalicum girls' soccer to a 5-2 win over Burlington-Edison on Thursday, Sept. 19, at Burlington-Edison. Dorr scored the Storm's first two goals, then added her third with just two minutes left to play.
"Kim had a great game. We've been working on finishing with our forwards and we did that well tonight," Squalicum coach David Kish said in a phone interview.
Kim Hazlett had an assist and scored Squalicum's other two goals, and Storm goalkeeper Bailey Canup had two saves.
The Squalicum defense was able to keep Burlington-Edison's attack in check, but Evie Breckenridge still managed to break through and score two goals. Kish said the defense did a good job making sure a second defender was there to help cover the Burlington-Edison attack.
Squalicum's next game is against Jackson on Saturday, Sept. 21, at Civic Field.
Squalicum 5, Burlington 2
Goal: Kim Dorr (Squalicum), assist Kim Hazlett: time: 5; Goal: Kim Dorr (Squalicum), assist Lauren Gibb: time: 26; Goal: Evie Breckenridge (Burlington-Edison), time: 43; Goal: Hazlett (Squalicum), assist Jackie Dierdorff: time: 51; Goal: Breckenridge (Burlington-Edison), time: 65; Goal: Hazlett (Squalicum), assist Rachel Dorr: time: 75; Goal: Kim Dorr (Squalicum), assist Sarah Byron: time:78. Shots on goal: Squalicum 11; Burlington-Edison 4. Goalies (saves) Squalicum: Bailey Canup (2); Burlington-Edison: Kioko Soneda (5).


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Pacific Gas and Electric Reviews
81% of the CEO
Anthony F. Earley Jr.
Review Highlights
Good work-life balance although it's depends on a group you work in (in 38 reviews)
Great pay and benefits, support for volunteering (in 21 reviews)
It's hard to get your job done if you're constantly trying to prove your worth to upper management (in 22 reviews)
Middle management presents a significant barrier to changing corporate culture (in 10 reviews)
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"The Good and Bad"
Pros – Once you pass a 9 month probation you are golden on the call center
Benefits are cheap but they have high deductibles
Easy job
Cons – Awful shift bids
As a new employee information is only given if you know the questions to ask or you have a friend who can tell you
Mid Managers build leadership teams based on who they know vs the best candidate
Advice to Senior Management – Find a balance between promotions based on the bidding seniority process and the best candidates and their experience
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
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"Good times and bad times"
Pros – Lots of places you can go in the company, both regionally and occupationally.
Cons – Dinosaur company. Very slow moving and behind-the-times. CPUC & IBEW limits can also make things difficult.
Advice to Senior Management – Start practicing what you preach. And start treating your lower-middle managers/supervisors as well as you do bargaining unit employees. And stop creating so many high up positions that layers of bureaucracy. (Sr director, director, Sr manager, manager, Jr manager...etc)
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company
"Reactive, political org with too many chiefs and too few indians"
Pros – ok pay and benefits but you may have to fight to get what they promised, they hire good people
Cons – decisions come slowly. they don't know what to do with the talent they hire, internally focused mostly on themselves with supervisors and managers fighting to move one step up, a lonely environment to work in as there is really no reason for teams other than to have people under supervisors, you will walk away having learned little while watching your skills degrade, lack of tools and processes to do your job so it takes a long time to get easy things done, spreadsheet and numbers focused as if customers and employees are an afterthought, you will get blamed for any error even if you found something systemic and are trying to fix the issue, silo mentality, reliant on too many contractors who are treated as second class citizens
Advice to Senior Management – listen and support your people, get out of your offices, and talk informally to those doing the work to learn what is going on in the organization, enable your talent, find the funding for better tools, stop the blame game
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
"great pay and benefits culture of fear"
Pros – the pay and benefits are excellent.there are several ways to advance your career.large service territory so in time you will be able to work in area you want.
Cons – there is no backup from supervisors.will work you in to the ground then when you make mistake they will not stand by you.this is due to the fact that upper managment has them in fear of loosing thier job.
Advice to Senior Management – you have a lot of good and talented people.talk to them. listen to them.you send out surveys but they never seem to amount to anything at least while i worked there.everytime we got new senior management they put in new mandates without seeing what worked and what didnt.the co preaches saftey but in certian areas such as crew size and staffing levels the dollar always came first.qne of my biggest complaints was that when we had meetings with senior managment [vps and above] when you asked question they could talk for 5 minutes and still not answer the question
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
"Senior SAP ABAP consultant"
Pros – Very good Benefits, Perks, Relative stability
Cons – Leadership, Outdated Technology, Slow paced environment
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"so much potential, paralyzed by politics"
Pros – recession-proof business; interesting changes in the sector (smartgrid etc); industry's aging workforce means many entry level opportunities; unions for all field and skilled labor; good benefits for all full time employees; good perqs and bonus structure for management (non-union)
Cons – complicity & passivity pervade management & corp services; field techs & customer service are better as they are on the front lines but the overall culture suffers badly from a regulatory environment that guarantees profit and quasi-monopoly. all competition then, instead of to earn market share, is internal and political, creating a myopic focus on the shareholder and the regulator at the expense of the ratepayer; borderline corrupt in places
Advice to Senior Management – volunteer to cede all program management back to the state for open bidding and focus on managing and maintaining assets ("back to pipes & wires")
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
"Contractor- 8 Mo's"
Pros – PG&E pays well and has many open temporary contract roles available at any given time. The company is centrally located for commuters using public transportation.
Cons – The culture is terribly antiquated and lifeless. Employees wait to be told what to do and are not proactive or enthusiastic. I found most people to be very nice however there is no passion or energy to innovate or improve processes or the status quo.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
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"Pay isn't everything.."
Pros – Pay, benefits, and employee discounts. You also get to work with some really great people who care about the work that they do.
Cons – Lack of training, lack of concern to the environmental impact caused by construction (a very weak procedure put in place), management has this "us against them" attitude towards union employees which make communicating concerns a tedious task, and nepotism is often tolerated, and dare I say, practiced among the ranks of management.
Advice to Senior Management – There are a lot of companies out there that issue psychological testing for managerial employees for a very good reason.. Just a thought.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
1 person found this helpful
"Company needs a new strategy for middle management"
Pros – The benefits are pretty good, and the pay for management is average. If you didn't go to college, this is a great place to make good money, since unionized field workers often make much more than their non-union supervisors. People are generally nice and want to get along. Lots of training opportunities, volunteer opportunities and education reimbursement. Upper management is competent.
Cons – Don't expect to innovate here. Not much promotion from within. Highly political and bureaucratic management environment. Very hierarchical, and management expects automatic respect and deference just because of their titles, rather than earning respect through actions and leadership qualities. Mid-level management is especially poor and typically not qualified or trained for leadership. The rare, natural leaders are quickly promoted into upper management.
Advice to Senior Management – Spend significant time identifying talent within your lower "management" ranks and promoting them into middle management positions. Look for well educated, intelligent individuals with a good mixture of technical expertise and leadership experience and/or potential, and give them challenging leadership roles.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
"This is an Accenture shop"
Pros – Close to home so nice commute.
Cons – Too many people needed to make a decision.
Advice to Senior Management – Get rid of useless time consuming processes.


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An online journal about visual art, the urban landscape and design. Mary Louise Schumacher, the Journal Sentinel's art and architecture critic, leads the discussion and a community of writers contribute to the dialogue.
Peltz Gallery closed for water damage
Cissie Peltz returned to her art gallery, the Peltz Gallery, 1119 E. Knapp St., after the New Year's holiday to some bad news.
"We've had a very tough holiday," she said.
The furnace had gone out and a radiator had frozen in the victorian home that houses the gallery. There was water damage throughout the space, on at least two floors. Thankfully, none of the art was damaged.
"We are very grateful," Peltz said. "None of the art was hurt at all and we have everything out of the way."
The Peltz Gallery will be closed for repairs to the floors and walls in the coming days, but it will reopen in time for Gallery Night & Day, the quarterly event when arts venues remain open and hold special receptions, on Jan. 15 and 16.
The Peltz Gallery's new show will feature new acquisitions by artists such as Richard Bosman, Enrique Chagoya, Warrington Colescott, Lesley Dill and Andy Warhol. Gallery Night hours will be 6 to 9:30 p.m. on Jan. 15. Barbara Manger, author of a newish book on the late artist Mary Nohl, will be the special guest. On Gallery Day, Jan. 16. Peltz will be open from 11 to 4 p.m., and will host a free breakfast.
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Arian Foster was noticeably absent from the Houston Texans loss to the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday. Leaving in the third quarter, the in-game update diagnosed Foster as 'feeling ill', though post-game it was revealed that the star running back was suffering from an irregular heartbeat.
Electing to play it safe, the Houston Texans chose not to risk anything with Foster, sending him to the bench after 10 carries in Sunday's loss.
Without Foster the Texans' offense looked lost on Sunday, gaining just 187 total yards. Backup running back Ben Tate was unable to make an impact, finishing with 17 yards on four carries. Leading up to his exit, Arian Foster managed just 15 yards on 10 carries.
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"Shit," Albert muttered. When the bus lumbered forward, Albert made the right turn — and then another sudden right down a side street, followed by three more quick rights, until he had somehow maneuvered behind the Camaro. ("He's a ridiculously good driver," says Patrick.) As they followed the car that had been tailing them, Albert took out his phone, called Stephen in New York and ordered him to call one of his Secret Service contacts. "You gotta ask him this question," Albert told him. "Who's following us? Is it the boys in blue or the boys in green?" Blue, for the local cops, could be trouble. But green, for the Secret Service, would be even more worrisome. Why would his own handlers be tailing him?
Stephen relayed the question, and a few minutes later, he was yelling the answer in Albert's ear: "He said it's the boys in green! The boys in green!"
"OK," said Albert, smooth as could be. He stopped tailing the Camaro and drove back to the condo, where he sat down to think. In the end, Albert decided it was nothing to worry about. "Remember," he reminded Patrick as they helped themselves to the vial of LSD. "It's not what they know, it's what they can prove."
Albert was arrested in May 2008 by a team of federal agents. They found him holed up in the National, a luxury hotel in South Beach, with a gorgeous six-foot-tall volleyball player he'd been seeing on the side. Also in the hotel room were a Glock 27, two laptops and $22,000 in cash. Buried in the backyard of his parents' house, agents found a barrel with $1.1 million in cash wrapped in plastic bags.
The feds had been tipped off after Maksym Yastremskiy, Albert's Ukrainian card-hawker, was arrested outside a Turkish nightclub in July 2007. When agents got a look at Yastremskiy's laptops, they found millions of stolen card numbers, a program used to hack into corporate retailers — and logs of encrypted chats with Albert. Once they cracked the code, investigators were able to tie Yastremskiy and Albert, along with an Estonian hacker nicknamed "Jonny Hell," to the siphoning of 5,000 card numbers from a Dave & Buster's, a security breach that cost the restaurant chain $600,000 to repair. Ironically, it was this relatively small hack — not the cybercrime of the century — that Albert originally found himself busted for a year later. But once the feds opened up his computers and began connecting the dots, they were astounded by the scope of the operation their trusted informant was running. The government indicted 11 members of Green Hat Enterprises from five countries, accusing Albert of reaping $1.6 million from his worldwide enterprise. Prosecutors estimated that the scheme cost its corporate victims, banks and insurers $200 million, but they maintain that the economic damage is likely far greater. "The magnitude of the loss is enormous," says Stephen Heymann, a U.S. attorney who prosecuted the case. "Because of the impact on so many thousands of businesses and banks and millions of people, it's impossible to quantify the full vastness of the crime."
The morning of Albert's arrest, Patrick Toey woke up at the Miami condo with half a dozen agents pointing tactical weapons at him. He started cooperating even before speaking with a lawyer. "I don't feel good about it," he says, sitting in his mother's house in Virginia Beach days after his sentencing in April. "It's not something I really wanted to do. Albert was one of my best friends. From my perspective, he still is. But taking the rest of my life into consideration, it was kinda something I had to do." For his cooperation, which the government cited as crucial in bringing down Albert's operation, Patrick received a prison sentence of five years, after facing a maximum of 22. Under the terms of his pre-prison release, he is forbidden from using a computer for any reason — not even to e-mail his fiancee, whom he had met online. "I don't know if Albert understands," he says quietly. "Even though if it was me, I definitely wouldn't forgive me for what I did."
Stephen Watt pleaded guilty to writing the sniffer code that proved key to Albert's operation but continues to insist that he never knew it was being used for illegal purposes, noting that he made no money from Albert's crimes. (The uncompensated nature of his devotion stunned investigators; questioning his motives, they asked Patrick whether Stephen and Albert were lovers.) The prosecution argued that Stephen must have known what Albert was up to: After all, the two spoke or IM'd daily, sharing "all their exploits: sexual, narcotic and hacking," and openly discussed Albert's sale of stolen card data. The judge agreed, sentencing Stephen to two years in prison and ordering him to pay a share of the $172 million restitution.
A few weeks after the judge's ruling, stomping around the Manhattan apartment he owns with his new wife, a real estate agent, Stephen bristles at the suggestion that he is anything other than a black-hat hacker. His motives, he insists, are ideological, not financial. "I'm a computer criminal, not a thief," he says. "That's my statement, and I'm sticking to it." For the next five hours, he offers a complete tour of the alarmingly neat apartment — books arranged by subject, clothes lined up by color — pausing only to snort ketamine off the top of his bookshelf, where he keeps a minipharmacy of pills, powders and vials. He shows off credit-card offers he's been getting on Albert's behalf — "Albert Gonzalez, you have been pre-approved!" — ever since Stephen added him as a secondary cardholder on his AmEx.
"I walked a dangerous line," Stephen says, coming precariously close to a confession. "I did things I shouldn't have, and honestly, I had no problem participating in or enjoying the spoils of Albert's game. Am I morally responsible? Do I bear some guilt in this? Yes. Do I have any apologies to make?" He gives a derisive snort. "Uh, the answer is definitely no."
Albert, ever the realist, pleaded guilty and cooperated fully with the feds as soon as he realized that Patrick had turned state's witness. In return, after facing a maximum of life in prison, he was sentenced to 20 years — the longest punishment for a computer crime in U.S. history. "I never gave a thought to the millions of people whose lives I impacted," a penitent Albert told the judge at his sentencing, his dream of being a green hat replaced by olive-green prison garb. "I'm humbled by the 22 months I've spent in prison," he continued, as his parents wept in the front row. "I have no one to blame but myself."
It was a moving display of remorse. But one has to wonder if Albert was being more forthright in a letter he wrote me from prison, politely declining to share his story. "I'm fearful of what the DOJ's reaction may be if I was to go on record with the events of the past 10+ years," he wrote in his neat, spiky printing. "The motherfuckers have already proven to be untrustworthy and vindictive." Always the loyal friend, he added a concerned postscript: "Is Stephen OK? I haven't heard from him in two weeks."
To prepare Stephen for jail, Albert sent his friend a six-page typewritten letter explaining in detail how prison works: how the different races interact, how to properly climb onto a top bunk without offending your cellmate, even how to fart without stinking up the cell. He called it, with simple pragmatism, "A Guide to Being Successful in Jail." "Think Switzerland," Albert wrote. "When you're like Switzerland you have no loyalty to anyone or any group. Your loyalty should be to yourself, and your motto should be Google's: Don't do evil." The key, he added, is to show other prisoners that "we're str8 shooters who are highly intelligent. For some reason, people respect you if your IQ is over 130. You'll know you've reached this point when someone turns to you and says, 'Yo Stephen, when was JFK assassinated?' "
Even behind bars, Albert was still studying the angles, calculating the odds, figuring out how to hack the system to his advantage. "I hate the first couple of weeks when you arrive at a new facility, because it reminds me of the first couple weeks of school," Albert continued in his letter to Stephen. "You don't know anyone, and if you're anything like I was in school, anti-social, it's not enjoyable. The good thing is, we're one of the coolest motherfuckers on the planet, so we don't have a hard time meeting people once we're confident of our surroundings."
Then Albert's new surroundings forced him to cut his letter short. "I'm being rushed to finish because it's last call to get into the showers," he told Stephen. "Keep your head up and don't fear this. It's really not that hard. Remember, Switzerland."
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