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It's lookin like Broner vs. Demarco, not Guerrero...
It's lookin like Broner vs. Demarco, not Guerrero...
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I figured Broner vs. Guerrero at 147lbs. Was a bit unrealistic at this point though he (Broner) might claim otherwise. Broner even hinted at a clash with Demarco via twitter hoping that he would win the fight with Molina Jr., and now that ended quick, Dela Hoya threw out his own hint posting on his account "Broner vs. Demarco"
Broner SHOULD murder this dude, but I like the match. Would have loved the Guerrero fight more but looks like we'll have 2 wait for that 1.
I guess now Guerrero might go back to calling out Mayweather for the umf-teenth time.
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but it's broner that was calling out guerrero's name...not the other way around. don't get me wrong...i think broner has skills...but until he jumps two weight classes to take on an undefeated guy with plenty of ko's the way guerrero just did....i think guerrero is a step above broner in the accomplishment department. in broners case....he shouldn't let his mouth write checks his ass can't cash. looks to me like guerrero is willing to fight him. the next move is broners.
Im just laughing at how Guerrero thinks he has a solid spot at WW because he beat Aydin, still dont understand that. Do you see any top WW even entertaining smack talk from a guy who hasn't even had his first fight at LW?
I mean he was SERIOUSLY entertaining it...having his publicist "conveniently" whipping out his camera to record it..it looked planned to me. I think its safe to say that Robert is just confused at this point of time.
If he's serious about his reign at WW, then he shouldn't even be entertaining Broner, let alone, telling him to come up in weight. Floyd did the shit with JMM, which I didn't completely agree with, but you're talking about two fighters with names and a following.
he fought selcuk for the mandatory spot for the wbc. i have no problem with him calling out the man who holds the wbc title when he just won the mandatory position against an undefeated fighter two divisions above what he normally fights at.
broner was the one talking shit. he calls broner on it...broner is the one that needs to back it up. while i would thoroughly enjoy watching guerrero/broner....i respect guerrero more, because 1. he actually put himself in the mandatory position to face floyd after he called him out....and 2. he has the balls to actually call him out in the first place.
broner made himself floyds gatekeeper? he wasn't even in the conversation til he started talking shit. guerrero let it be known that he'll fight broner...broner needs to step up and back up his words or stfu and get out the way. it's that simple.
i have zero problem with fighters calling each other out. that's what the sport is about. remember lacy calling out calzaghe? or floyd calling out dlh....or dawson calling out ward....it's what makes the boxing world go round. plenty fighters have called out floyd....he's answered very few. guerrero is a worthy opponent.
Professor, you're my main man 50 grand, but its safe to say that you're putting way too much stock in Robert Guerrero...you may be one of his few fans. I hate him and Broner equally, and neither have accomplished as much as they think they have.
With that in mind, at least Broner is being reasonable about the guys that he's calling out. Guerrero has made the weight to get a Floyd fight, but his mind hasn't computed the fact that no one knows who he is, and he's yet to have a breakout performance.
It's not because he hasn't been given the chance, it's because he feels that he's too good to take on these guys. Either that, or he feels like they will slow down his journey to big fights. For a guy who has been out of the ring due to injury and his wife's illness over the years...one would have to ask if he's financially comfortable. He obviously is, if he's passing up all of these fights with a false sense of hope for a big fight.
You're right about smaller guys calling out bigger fighters, in regards to Broner calling out Robert, but they actually fought their way up. Im not sure how right I am about this, but I sincerely believe that Broner was just making fun of Guerrero, and Robert made a big deal of it, like he was being called out. Correct me on that part if you will, I could truly be wrong.
Answer this, even though Broner may have called out Guerrero, what is he actually getting in the way of? What big reasonable plans does Robert have pending? Is Adrien getting in the way of Robert twiddling his thumbs and waiting on a Floyd fight that wont happen? That makes no sense. How is he actually getting in the way of anything, if Robert is actually entertaining him...shows us how much Robert has going for himself if he's entertaining a guy who hasn't even fought at LW yet.
Anyhow, this "title" that you speak of, is non-existent. From what I remember, the WBC never did "interim" titles, like other sanctioning bodies. They more than likely just made that shit up for Robert, because they want another Hispanic champion, since Floyd was on his way to jail, and they had no idea of his plans.
Robert would be just as great a fighter, as you believe him to be, and honestly, he is good. He's making a dumb business move right now, and Im wondering why no one is tapping him on the shoulder to tell him that he's way off. A great fighter fights...he doesn't sit around with a made-up title, hoping for a guy who doesn't fight mandatories, to get old overnight and accept his challenge. Just weird to me, and its hard to respect.
He and K-9 are in the same boat. You see how long he waited and begged for a fight, and who did he end up in the ring with? Yep, you got it...a shot Spinks. Who did Guerrero end up in the ring with after all of that crying and whining? An unknown Aydin. Waiting around and calling out guys, doesn't work for everybody. I liked Robert better when he was active, but not so much nowadays. I STILL cant stand Broner, regardless.
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We've all heard the talk. Obama will bring much-needed change to America. But do we really NEED that change? Or is this just another political scheme to allow Oprah to take over the world? My answer is: YES. This is indeed another scheme to allow Oprah to take over the world. So what do I propose? I say we attack this madman with non-lethal weapons!!! The whole world will laugh. They'll laugh at Obama. And they'll laugh at us. They'll laugh at us.
edit The Water Balloons
For Phase One, we recruit a commando. Not just any normal person wearing no underpants, this commando must be sly, stealthy, and exceedingly handsome. Yes, comrades, I am indeed talking about her. Yes, we must incorporate Hilary Clinton into this, for political reasons. Anyway, as I was saying, this commando must sneak undetected into the local Obama rally. They will do so holding an Obama bag full of water balloons. On the signal, the commando will hurl the water balloons at Obama, perhaps causing him to fall off the podium and break something.
edit The Potato Cannon
Meanwhile, another commando, perhaps a man with experience with artillery, will set up a large potato cannon on a hill nearby. If there are no hills, then we will ask the target to change the amount of hills near the rally. When Phase One begins, the artillery specialist will begin to fire large quantities of potatoes at Obama, into the crowd, or toward the local KKK members. It doesn't matter. Some might even want to eat the potatoes. Anyone know cool potato recipes?
edit The Marshmallow Guns
Immediately after Phase One begins, our private helicopter will swoop in over the rally, and approximately 15 commandos will exit the aircraft and proceed to pelt Obama with several metric tons of freshly toasted marshmallows and John McCain buttons. If, at any point, Obama begins eating the marshmallows, the sheer quantity of them will force him to gain between 2 and 239857 pounds in the space of 4 seconds, thus making him incapable of speech.
edit The Taser
That's right, bro, we're going to tase him. Nothing says a brighter future for America like ten thousand volts of electricity sent through two small metal prongs released at the push of a button. No non-lethal attack would be complete without one.
edit The Recently-Castrated Sheep
The recently-castrated sheep will be sent in right as Phase One is starting. The sole purpose of these things is to make sure the Secret Service doesn't shoot anyone involved with the water-ballooning, potatoing, marshmallowing, and tasering. No, this doesn't mean I care about you. I just don't wanna find OTHER people willing to blow themselves up. Why recently castrated, you ask? Think about how you would feel if you were recently castrated. Yuh-huh. I'd be pretty pissed off too.
edit The Escape
You're all on your own here. We only have enough dough to rent the helicopter for 3 minutes, so it can't take us away. Just run in zig-zaggy lines.
edit The result
In the end, after the police chase us with helicopters and dogs and fat, doughnut-eating people, and after we get out of prison, we will appear on CNN. Once on CNN, we'll tell everybody that we support Ralph Nader. Both McCain and Obama's ratings will go UP. This is bulletproof!


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The British synthpop duo Yazoo was formed in late 1981 by former Depeche Mode songwriter/keyboard player Vince Clarke and the divine Alison Moyet (Adele may be her successor but it was Alison who started the flame). Signed to Mute Records in the United Kingdom and (as Yaz) to Sire Records in the United States they released their debut single, the electronic ballad "Only You" in 1982. It proved to be huge peaking at #2 in the UK Pop charts.
Yet it was the flip side "Situation" that did the trick in the U.S. This totally addictive futuristic jam, remixed by François Kevorkian & engineered by John Potoker, swept the dancefloors in New York (big favourite in Paradise Garage), Detroit & Chicago and topped the US Hot Disco/Dance chart for four weeks undoubtedly sowing seeds for house music. Most notable is that it also entered the US R&B chart peaking at #31, quite impressive if not utterly unusual for a white English synth band!!
"Situation"'s intoxicating hook has been sampled numerous times since then. A few examples are: "Lesson 1 (the pay-off mix)" by Double Dee & Steinski (1985), "Nude Photo" by Rhythim Is Rhythim (1987), "Traveling at the Speed of Thought (remix)" by Ultramagnetic MC's (1988), "Bass (How Low Can You Go?)" by Simon Harris, "I Wanna Have Some Fun" by Samantha Fox (1988), "Pump That Body" by Mr. Lee (1990), "Macarena" by Los Del Rio (1995), "In Da Arena (Situation)" by Flying Steps (2000), "If This Is Love" by The Saturdays (2008), "Body Language" by Heidi Montag (2009), "Boom" by Snoop Dogg feat T-Pain (2011) etc.
On this mix I intend to volume up its intensity "messing around" with plenty electro sound twists and vocal alterations. Extra synths, beats & hi-hats, longer breaks, different intro & outro sum it up pretty much. Enjoy :)
"Blue eyed dressed for every situation
Moving through the doorway of a nation
Pick me up and shake the doubt
Baby, I can't do without
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Move right through me, can you feel the power?
I don't know what's going on
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Move out, don't mess around
Move out, you bring me down
Move out, how you get about
Don't make a sound, just move out
Now he's in control, he is my lover
Nations stand against him, he's your brother
Been a long time, been a long time now
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- mashjan
mashjan at 0.54 on December 02, 2012 09:14
That laugh still gets me, great work.
- Discobody
Discobody at 4.36 on November 25, 2012 23:16
@lee fletcher: thanx 4 the luv,Lee!!! :)
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lee fletcher at 4.36 on November 25, 2012 21:56
lov it!!!
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Discobody on November 25, 2012 12:55
@brixtonmc: no problem, bud! enjoy :)
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brixtonmc on November 25, 2012 11:53
Tasty - thnx for the d/l!
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Discobody on November 24, 2012 17:48
@smashdad: so glad u notice all the details :) enjoy buddy!!
- smashdad
smashdad on November 24, 2012 00:08
Really top quality rework - lots of very clever, and also very familiar, little touches sprinkled here and there - very, very good indeed - can only imagine how good it would sound in a 320+
- Discobody
Discobody at 9.06 on November 22, 2012 16:33
@mickcollins_gellar: thank u 4 listening so carefully, Mick and 4 this so-warm feedback!! ...Don't Stop Now, You Know :)
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Discobody at 8.12 on November 21, 2012 21:12
@nicklibetta: thank u, thank u so much!! :)
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Discobody at 1.42 on November 21, 2012 21:11
@SAMJAY.: cheers, buddy!
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Nick Libetta 1 at 8.12 on November 21, 2012 21:04
Excellente !!! x
SAMJAY. at 1.42 on November 21, 2012 21:03
- Discobody
Discobody at 0.01 on November 21, 2012 13:50
@alienvspredator2: mine too :) glad u like it, Juan!
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alienvspredator2 at 0.01 on November 21, 2012 13:47
One of my favourite.Great version.
- Discobody
Discobody at 3.47 on November 21, 2012 11:35
@Al Music One: so happy 2 know it! thank u so much, mate :)
- Discobody
Discobody at 8.41 on November 21, 2012 11:33
@John 'Razor' Rushford: thankfully this electroshock gives only pleasure! best response I can get :) thank u so much, sir!!
- Al Music One
Al Music One at 3.47 on November 21, 2012 10:08
powerful edit, thanks !
- John 'Razor' Rushford
John 'Razor' Rushford at 8.41 on November 21, 2012 08:41
An electric shock goes through me on listening to this mix John !!! Super dooper work !!
- Discobody
Discobody at 7.33 on November 20, 2012 23:08
@KMTR Re Edits: fantastic! thank u, Konstantin! have great fun, my friend :)
- KMTR Re Edits
KMTR Re Edits at 7.33 on November 20, 2012 23:04
excellent, John! will use it for sure!
- Discobody
Discobody at 8.47 on November 20, 2012 22:46
@FRANCIS: had so much fun working this concept :) thank u Francis!!
FRANCIS at 8.47 on November 20, 2012 22:01
great production!!
- GeeJayDeluxe
GeeJayDeluxe at 9.10 on November 20, 2012 21:56
@Discobody: I'll shout it out loud ;) & it comes straight from my heart! ♥
- Discobody
Discobody at 9.10 on November 20, 2012 21:47
@GeeJayDeluxe: love your way with words :) thanx 4 the loud vote of confidence!!!!!
- Discobody
Discobody at 9.17 on November 20, 2012 21:41
@Jay Child *Let's Move*: so appreciated Jay!!! so glad u "understand the situation" :)
- GeeJayDeluxe
GeeJayDeluxe at 9.10 on November 20, 2012 21:39
@Discobody: :) It's difficult to make a choice John O.! All your tracks i've heard so far are Atomic Bomb!!! Fact! :D(iscopolis 4ever) ;)
- Discobody
Discobody at 9.10 on November 20, 2012 21:32
@GeeJayDeluxe: top-5 is fair enough for me :D thank u so much 4 loving it my friend!!!
- Discobody
Discobody at 5.48 on November 20, 2012 21:31
@André Stabo: I still remember the first time I heard it! I stood still not knowing what hit me! cheers mate :)
- Jay Child *Let's Move*
Jay Child *Let's Move* at 9.17 on November 20, 2012 20:38
beauty john thxs


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"The Border Patrol has 20,000 agents – more than twice as many as there were in 2004."
"Foreign aid makes up about 1 percent of our entire budget."
The United States has "one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world."
"Two years after the worst recession most of us have ever known ... corporate profits are up."
"When Social Security was passed, there were all kinds of lawsuits," just as there have been in the legal battle over the new health care law.
"Most of the jobs that we lost were lost before the economic policies we put in place had any effect."
"There's a big chunk of the country that thinks that I have been too soft on Wall Street."
"The unemployment rate for folks who've never gone to college is almost double what it is for those who have."
Some Republicans who voted against the stimulus "have been all too happy to claim credit for Recovery Act projects and the jobs those projects have produced. They come to the ribbon cuttings."
"We cut taxes for 95 percent of working families."
"History tells us that job growth always lags behind economic growth."
"FDR was called a socialist and a communist."
"Mathematically, the White Sox can still get in the playoffs."
"The claim ... that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to kill off senior citizens ... is a lie, plain and simple."
If you "already have health insurance through your job, or Medicare, or Medicaid, or the VA, nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have."
The health care plan for members of Congress "is no better than the janitor who cleans their offices."
"In the first round of repayments" from financial institutions that received TARP money, "the government has actually turned a profit."
"Nobody has ever escaped from one of our federal 'supermax' prisons."
Washing your hands and covering your mouth when you cough "makes a huge difference" in reducing transmission of the flu.
In Iraq, "civilian deaths, incidents of bombings, etc., remain very low relative to what was going on last year."
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YAKIMA, WA -- A new broadband network is up and running. The network spans 1,600 miles and brings high speed Internet to places that might not have an Internet connection at all without it.
Governor Jay Inslee announced the completion of the project Tuesday at Yakima Valley Community College.
A non-profit group called Northwest Open Access Network spearheaded the effort. They say most households get service that averages around 1 megabyte-per-second. But with this system, organizations in small communities would get service that's much faster than that.
"With this project we have hooked up all the anchor institutions with 100-megs symmetrical, that's up and down," NoaGeo CEO Greg Marney said. "So it's a pretty robust system. "It should be a great asset to the whole state of Washington for years to come."
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Like most folks I talked with, I had only a vague idea of what "Strike Debt" was before showing up today to the Nov 11 Debtor's Assembly in Love Park. Like them, having enough crippling debt in my life, the event piqued my interest.
Pretty quickly, before it even started, I got a good gist, looking over the literature on the table in front of the sound system, and asking random questions. Apparently, Strike Debt is a new movement coming out of Occupy Wall street, focusing on the predatory lending system and the 'debt servitude' of the 99%. The latter is both individual (as we know, from medical bills, credit cards, school loans, and on and on) ; and collective, in terms of our cities and communities' own 'debt servitude'. Reading these paragraphs here and there before the first speaker, I thought, here is a heartland issue of the Occupy movement. If this really takes off, it could be powerful.
A bit after 2 in the afternoon, the first speaker came on, to a gathering crowd of about 45 or so.
The format was simple enough: debtors sharing their stories with each other. As one of the organizers explained," We're getting into the mainstream media, just by doing what we're doing, coming together and sharing our stories, just like this!"
Early on, an older African American man spoke, setting the tone for many of the messages that would follow. "I admit, I voted for Obama. I just don't think he's powerful enough to go against the businesses who financed his election. I'm saying this with the hindsight of 20 or 30 years ahead of you, you the young people, they want you to give up! They want to wear you down with all this debt burden! So stay involved with Occupy and the things you're involved in. You are the future!"
Other stories that followed were hard to listen to because they just brought back to me all my own debt anxiety. These are the things we try not to think about but over which we lose sleep at night, so there is a level on which this Debtor's Assembly was really not enjoyable.
One woman is a cancer survivor, who lost all her possessions in hurricane Katrina. Her story was heartbreaking.
Another speaker from a more prosperous background spoke of the slippery slope we can all fall into- he did fine paying off his school loans, as long as he had a job. But then he lost that job. And his loans required him to report how much he made...working for temp agencies made that impossible, and so...they turned him over to a collection agency.
As the event moved on, we heard how debt affects us all. And depending on how far we are up or down the socioeconomic hierarchy, it plays out very differently. While some families have an "asset cushion"-- that is, the more prosperous family that can catch you as you fall behind--one debtor described the ways in which his own family is more of a "network of ticking financial time bombs"—that is, all it takes is one job loss or medical emergency, and everything changes. "Strange," he said, "in a country which values democracy, there's just no sense of economic democracy."
Other speakers compared the economic system of profits and debt servitude to industrialized feudalism.
There were a few props and moments of theater. One person was in a stockade, with a giant "Master Card" below, remade to read "Master Fraud". Another debtor could be seen walking around with giant chains and a ball that read "debt;" several people carried signs with them on which were written the staggering figures they owed. And as one person spoke, he tied his debt sign to a bundle of helium balloons and released it to the air as a symbol of of what must happen: release.
I heard from a few announcements that this Debtor's Assembly is only the first in Philly, and I started to get more of a sense of the structure of this campaign. On the table were copies of the "DROM", the Debt Resister's Operations Manual, with chapters on the different types of debt, ideas for grassroots mutual assistance, and forms of debt resistance (what these are I have yet to read).
A sister initiative of the DROM manual is "The Rolling Jubilee." Just as the banks sell debt for about 5 cents, and debt collectors demand the same for about a dollar, the Rolling Jubilee, based in NYC, will fundraise to buy as much debt up as it can, and instead of using it for a profit, will just abolish it on the spot. NYC Strike Debt will have a variety show and telethon of sorts this week on the 15th, Thursday, which will be live streamed at events across the country. In Philly, it was announced, a viewing will be at the Friends Center.
It was as the event wound down that I left with the feeling that...this could be big. The issue is one that affects us where we most hurt, and as one of the signs read, "Debt is the tie that binds the 99%." Perhaps we are seeing it catch, something along the lines of the famous "bank transfer day" of a year ago, something tangible to everyday debtors; this is a form of resistance in which everyday people can engage and feel ownership, and come to from their own stories of debt servitude.
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If theres any comfort in a 3-6 ACC start for N.C. States baseball team, its the same spot the Wolfpack was in last season.
N.C. State went on to win 16 of its next 20 conference games en route to a school-record 50 wins and a spot in the College World Series.
The Wolfpack is hoping it can duplicate last years turnaround, starting with this weekends home series with Miami, but it realizes it needs to get to work.
We want to do it, sooner than later, shortstop Trea Turner said Thursday. Hopefully, that win last night was a turning point and we can build on it.
Turner hit his fourth home run and drove in five runs as the Wolfpack (15-8, 3-6 ACC) beat UNC Wilmington 11-2 on the road on Wednesday night. Coincidentally, it was a road win last March against the Seahawks that kick-started the Wolfpacks surge after a slow start.
Save for a 9-8 loss in the third game of the Florida State series, offense has been an issue in ACC play for coach Elliott Avents team, which dropped 10 spots to No. 25 in the Baseball America Top 25.
The Wolfpack scored six runs in three games and were swept at Maryland last weekend. The Wolfpack had three runs in the first two games at No. 1 FSU before suffering the 9-8 loss in 13 innings.
We have to play better than we have been playing, Avent said Thursday at his radio show.
Turner, who has moved out of the leadoff spot, has hit four home runs in the past five games. He had five RBIs in Wednesdays win at UNCW.
Freshman third basemen Andrew Knizner leads the ACC in batting with a .382 average, and junior catcher Brett Austin, whos hitting leadoff, is third in the ACC with a .376 average.
Austins average is up almost 125 points from last season but production has been limited to the top of the lineup.
Slugging first baseman Tarran Senay, who led the team with eight home runs and 59 RBI last season, has been difficult to replace.
Run support has been scarce especially for ace Carlos Rodon, who has started 2-4 after going 9-0 as a freshman and 10-3 last season. The Wolfpack scored one run for Rodon in a 6-1 loss at FSU and none in a 10-0 loss at Maryland.
Of the 23 runs Rodon has given up this season, only 10 have been earned.
It has definitely been our fault, Turner said. We need to do a better job of scoring and playing defense behind him. Its hard for him to be perfect.
Rodons 2.18 ERA ranks seventh among ACC starters and hes second in strikeouts with 50 in a 41 1/3 innings. But Rodon and teammate Logan Jernigan are tied for the ACC lead with nine hit batsmen.
Avent will make one pitching tweak against the Hurricanes (14-12, 5-4 ACC), who dropped out of the top 25 this week. Andrew Woeck, who leads the team with a 1.25 ERA, will start Saturday, with Brad Stone moving to the bullpen. Rodon will make his usual Friday start and Jernigan will start Sunday.
Rodon will continue to get more at-bats as the designated hitter when he doesnt pitch, Avent said. Rodons hitting .412 (7 of 17) with three RBI and has started four games at DH.
Avent has tinkered with the lineup trying to find the right combinations. The ACC start doesnt necessarily bother him as long as the team turns the corner quickly, he said.
Ive never minded losing early if the prize at the end can be greater, Avent said.
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In this first opus of the series, Isabelle takes a ride on the world famous Trans-Siberian Railway. A journey from London to Beijing by train that is about 12,145 kilometres long! Isabelle crossed the Belarus, Russia, Mongolia, China and brought us back some fantastic pictures from this wonderful trip. A great way to learn about the countries, the cultures and the people.
The Author: Isabelle Guyot was born in 1973 in Dijon, in France's Burgundy area. She currently works in customer services for Eurostar, in London. She moved to the United Kingdom in 1995. She has done a lot of backpacking across Europe, has travelled twice to Nepal, went to Bhutan, Peru, did the Trans-Siberian Railway... and has learnt a lot about people and about herself.


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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is selling some of his abstract art, and buying a historic rocket. The eclectic Seattle billionaire has procured a rare Werner von Braun designed V-2 rocket, the first man-made object to fly into outer space. Allen's Flying Heritage Collection — located at Paine Field in Everett — is taking possession of the rocket on… Read More
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Slow-Cooked Tuscan Kale
These savory, and slightly sweet, greens are also great served with pork.
Published: November 2012 Servings: Makes about 1 1/2 cups
- 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt, divided, plus more
- 1 pound Tuscan kale (about 2 bunches), center ribs and stems removed
- 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/2 sprig rosemary
- 1 dried chile de árbol, broken into 4 pieces
- 1 cup sliced yellow onion
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 2 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
Nutritional Information
About 1 1/2 cups, 1 serving contains:
- Calories (kcal) 120
- Fat (g) 10
- Saturated Fat (g) 1.5
- Cholesterol (mg) 0
- Carbohydrates (g) 8
- Dietary Fiber (g) 2
- Total Sugars (g) 1
- Protein (g) 2
- Sodium (mg) 180
PREPARATIONView Step-by-Step Directions
Bring a large pot of heavily salted water to a rapid boil over high heat. Working in 2 batches, blanch kale for 2 minutes. Drain, let cool, and squeeze out excess water with your hands. Coarsely chop; set aside.
Heat a large pot over medium heat for 2 minutes. Add 1/4 cup oil, rosemary sprig, and chile. Let sizzle, shaking pan often, for about 1 minute. Reduce heat to medium-low; add onion. Season with 1/2 teaspoon salt and a pinch of pepper. Cook for 2 minutes, stirring often; stir in garlic. Cook, stirring often, until onion is soft and starting to brown, 5-7 minutes.
Add remaining 2 tablespoons oil and kale; stir to coat. Season with 1/4 teaspoon salt, reduce heat to medium-low, and cook, stirring often, until kale turns almost black and is slightly crisp at edges, about 30 minutes. Let cool. Discard rosemary and chile.
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The Theatre program offers training in performance, or technical theatre, leading to the Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree. It also offers a generalist Theatre major (BA), Theatre minor, and a Theatre Teaching minor. The BFA program allows students to concentrate in either technical theatre or performance. This program prepares students for entry into professional Theatre and/or graduate studies in Theatre. The generalist major and minor provides a course of study for students with an avocational interest in Theatre, and students who plan to pursue graduate studies in theatrical arts. Both programs are designed to provide students with practical production experiences that will develop their ability to express themselves creatively in the Theatre. To this end, students will gain a broad understanding of Theatre and Theatre history and become disciplined in a variety of specific areas such as auditioning, acting technique, stage-management, and stage design.
Performance students will be required to cultivate healthy body awareness, flexibility, and endurance with mandatory hours clocked at the Health and Wellness Activity Center. (This requirement can be double-dipped with yoga and dance courses.) Every week, students will blog about insights, discoveries, "ah-ha" moments and challenges they encounter. Faculty advisors will meet monthly with students to discuss their writings, their progress and their production work. Once every semester a faculty panel will review each student's classroom and production work in order to provide constructive feedback.
Students are required to complete twenty hours of crew and production work per year. In the final year, BFA students are required to take a seminar course in which they will meet weekly with faculty mentors to produce and/or complete work (e.g., portfolio, audition pieces, etc.) designed to assist in furthering their careers.
After completing the Lower Division Theatre Courses, students must declare an area of emphasis and apply for acceptance into the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre program.
Requirements for each emphasis:
Technical Theatre emphasis: Students must submit a portfolio;
Performance emphasis: Students will have to audition. The portfolio/audition should contain examples of work that the student has produced while at Westminster College. The application is due by the Friday before spring break in the main office of the School of Arts and Sciences. The BFA admissions committee will review the portfolios/auditions and notify students prior to registration for the Fall Semester.
Students who are not accepted may continue working as academic majors and reapply the following year. Transfer students will follow the same process for acceptance to the BFA track, except that the portfolio may contain work produced while studying at other institutions of higher education.


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A Murfreesboro cab driver who has only been on the job for three weeks said a customer he picked up early Monday morning wanted him dead. He was stabbed and cut multiple times, but he lived to talk about it.
Nicholas Kennedy is doing remarkably well considering what he has gone through.
"Bottom line is he didn't want me to live," Kennedy said. "He proceeded to stab me in my neck and then held the knife to my throat. He said, 'Do exactly what I tell you or I'll kill you.'"
The 24-year-old cab driver had picked up Ryan Yount, 19, at the Murfreesboro Motel on Northwest Broad Street early Monday morning and took him to a house in the Blackman Community. When they arrived, he told the cabbie his friend wasn't home and asked him to take him to another location on Northfield Boulevard.
"He said that man wasn't home either and asked me to take him to Marcos Pizza," Kennedy said.
That's when Yount allegedly asked for change for a $100, attacked Kennedy and took the cabbie's $86.
"I said, 'Just take the money. Please don't kill me,'" Kennedy said.
After stabbing and cutting Kennedy multiple times, he said the suspect apologized.
"He said, 'I'm sorry man. I'm just trying to feed my daughter,'" Kennedy said.
The cabbie suffered several cuts and stab wounds to his hands, arm and neck, but he said he didn't go down without a fight.
"I grabbed his wrist, and we tussled for a minute and he dropped the knife," he said. "I ended up punching him in the face. I tried to get out the car, and he jumped across the driver seat and grabbed me by the waist and tried to pull me back into the car. He didn't want me to live."
Kennedy said he was afraid he would die.
"I was afraid I had to say goodbye to my parents," Kennedy said. "I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid of what it will do to the people around me."
Kennedy managed to get away and flagged down a passing driver for help.
"I collapsed in the street. Four cars passed by and didn't stop while I was bleeding to death," Kennedy said.
Kennedy was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, where he received more than two dozen stitches.
Murfreesboro police, with the help of a Rutherford County Sheriff's Office K-9, tracked down the suspect at the Byrnwood Trailer Park on Wenlon Drive and arrested him.
"God had his hands on my back that night, and he definitely saved my life," Kennedy said.
Yount was charged with attempted murder and especially aggravated robbery. He remains in jail on a $500,000 bond.
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Many of the Thai girls you meet in the bars/discos/nightclubs want to be your paid holiday girlfriend! Others only want to keep you company for a few hours or for the night and hopefully she say goodbye to you in the morning with a kiss on your cheek. If the girl don't want to leave you in the morning she probably thinks of herself as your new holiday girlfriend!
Finding girl company for the night/week/month/year is extremely easy in Patong.
Too easy will some say. One never go home alone after a night out.
Even if you want to sleep alone you will "always" wake up next morning with a girl sharing your bed. This is after all Patong. A paradise for men, both young and old!
With one hundred or so bars around Soi Bangla and others spread around Patong you will not find it difficult to find a bar where you can sit down with a cold beer while enjoying the company of one the girls working there. They will all be more than happy to chat and play bar games with you while you order more and more drinks. You are happy. The bar owner are happy and the girls are happy knowing that the bar has earned money this night too!
If you meet a girl you would like to get to now better in one of the bars and she agree to go with you and the bar has not yet closed for the night then a bar fine have to be paid. Her leaving the bar where she work means less income to the bar and that has to be compensated.
If you don't meet a girl before the bars close then don't worry. Many of the bar girls that has not been bar fined earlier that night will go to a nearby disco or nightclub to have fun. There you will see them again and have a second chance without the need to pay a bar fine.
Discos and nightclubs are also where freelancers like to hang out while looking for a 'hansom man' to go home with.
Next morning you should wake up with a girl sharing your bed. If not, you must had a blackout and forgot which hotel you staid at!
There is a good chance the girl you met last night want to stay with you more than one day. But don't say yes if you want to meet other girls. Instead send her home. Don't forget you are here on vacation to have fun in paradise before going back home to the real world where no girls will shout 'hansom man' to you in the street.
If you still want to stay with her and take her on trips around the island, do it, and you will have a very good time with a lovely sweet Thai girl.
But read this first so you know the name of the game:
Some girls have boyfriends all over the world sending them thousands of baht every month.
Of course their boyfriends think they are the only man for her. While at the same time they work in one of the many bars in Patong hoping to meet a hansom farang with an even thicker wallet!
I don't say you can't meet girls and have fun, but don't give them too much money. If they love you they don't care so much about money anyway.
The best thing you can do is to only stay with a girl one night. Next day you meet another girl. If you stay with a girl two nights in a row she will treat you as a boyfriend and can get very angry if she see you with another girl.
It doesn't matter if you give her money for her company, she will not like to see you with another girl.
If she like you she may want to stay with you so long you stay in Phuket. If you decide to stay with the same girl you will have to pay for meals, tickets for trips, maybe a gift or two - like a gold bracelet. Thai girls love gold, it is a status symbol to show off for her friends. And when she need money, the pawn shop is never far away.
Maybe you don't have to pay bar fine every day, but that depends on the bar.
She will not always ask for money, but you can be sure she will ask for your e-mail address.
She will keep in touch with you, but the email you will receive are not always written by her. Lots of girls get help from the shop, friends or farangs to write back, so expect your email to be read by many people. Don't write anything you don't want others to read.
Sooner or later you may receive e-mail telling her mother's buffalo is sick or her sister is in hospital, asking for you to help her out with some money. She will send it to all her farang boyfriends hoping some of them will send money.
Never forget that Thai girls have a perfect memory, they will remember you for the rest of their life.
In Patong the girls take care of each other, both with money and information. Your girl will always now every move you do. If she stay in Bangkok or Isaan doesn't matter, her friends see everything and want hesitate to call her.
This is only some friendly advise. It doesn't mean you can't have lots of fun, but make sure she is a girl and not a ladyboy!
But the most important thing you must remember is that working girls work for money!
And don't forget that Patong is a paradise for men and every girl is different.
1. Between December and March many farang walking ATM machines will come to your bar. Choose carefully! Everyone have money, but some have more than others. If his skin is very white, check that he is not dead. If not so, this is your lucky day since he must be a Japanese. Every bar girl know they will give you heaven and earth just for a kiss.
2. No matter how young and handsome he is, no matter how fun he is, make sure he understand you only go for money. Don't sit close to him before he has paid the bar fine. As soon he has paid, you can let go and run your hands over his body, arousing him. Maybe he will not pay you, but your boss will not complain. Have fun this night for tomorrow only man you will get is a fat, ugly and smelly man.
3. Start collecting email addresses from all of your boyfriends. Since it will be your family's source to a life in luxury. Once you have a good collection of addresses, a visit to your local internet cafe is in order. All of those email addresses should be sent an email. Tell them that you want out of the bar scene and will wait for them to come back to Thailand on their annual four weeks holiday. But you will need financial support since you don't work in the bar anymore. It will not take long time before all of your five boyfriends will transfer money to your bank account every month. And if you should party too much and need some more money, just tell them you have been sick and have to pay hospital 5.000 baht. If that doesn't help never use the story about you being pregnant and the baby is his as it will soon or later backfire on you.
4. Practice crying on queue. Whenever something sad or bad happens - or even something that you just don't like, it is essential that you can produce tears immediately. This will have the effect of helping the walking ATM machine to see things your way!
5. When you get a customer for more than a week, make sure he takes you shopping at the nearest gold shop. Tell him that all your friends have so much gold but you have nothing. Make sure he buy enough gold so your friends will envy you. Later when one of your boyfriends forget to send the monthly money, a pawn shop is never far away.
6. To keep our trade secrets for ourselves do not speak Thai with your friends when locally based farangs are inside the bars. But rather use Lao, Khmer or any other local dialects that you may know. It's bad enough that some of them can speak, and God forbid, some can even read Thai too, but Laos and Khmer should be kept as sacrosanct. Under no circumstances should the farang be taught our regional dialects.
7. Always see him off at the airport. Thai baht cannot be used in his country, so it is highly likely that he will give you all of his leftover as he leaves and says good-bye. Say no to the money, tell him you like him very much and don't need it.
8. Search for Asian customers. They understand that we like to gamble, and they understand that we have lots of unemployed brothers and sisters who need to eat. Therefore, they pay a lot better than the farangs. And, their dicks are often smaller, and they finish a lot quicker too. Bonus! If you find that the Japanese men like you, go out and dye your hair as this is what they like best.
9. Remember, when you get paid, you must always ask for money to Tuk-Tuk and give him the excuse that Tuk-Tuk drivers cannot give change on big notes. Do not let him know that you live only a few hundred meters from his hotel. Instead tell him that you live in Karon. That should earn you another 300 baht. If Tuk-Tuk money isn't forthcoming, see rule #4.
10. If you are no longer making money in Bangkok, move down to Phuket where you will be able to start making money again. There are many elderly men in Phuket who will appreciate your long experience with men. Even if you are approaching 50, it is no problem as the elderly walking ATM machines appreciate inner beauty and more experienced women.


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Taylor County needed to score four runs in the top of the eighth inning to keeps its undefeated baseball season going with an 8-4 victory at Wayne County.
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I read a story years ago about a GSD that had constant seizures and the owner decided to put the dog down.
When he went to the vet they decided to try something in the thinking that gluten was the cause of the seizures. Gluten builds up in the brain of an intolerant patient and the seizure is the body's way of ridding itself of the gluten.
This dog was put on a gluten free diet and thrived – n0 more seizures.
Unfortunately months later a neighbor gave the dog a piece of toast when it came for a visit. The dog later had a seizure causing it to run in the street and get hit by a car and did not survive.
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I have a rescue weim that exhibited all the symtoms listed for celiac disease. Over the past four years he has seen several vets, and while lots of tests have been done, testing his tolerance for gluten was not one of them. After watching an episode of DIRTY JOBS that featured a company called Green Tripe that processes raw food for dogs (and in sheer desperation) I decided to try a raw food diet. What a difference! And now that I have finally "connected all the dots" and have switched to gluten free dog treats as well as the raw food, my dog is totally symton free.
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Here's a very smart, fresh, angular essay about Martin Scorsese, a recapitulation of his films, his trajectory in the art, but crucially focused on the idea and markers of success (material and otherwise) and tainted success, the kind of success that betrays authenticity. What makes this essay especially fascinating is that the author writes from the perspective of a Catholic intellectual, a stance not necessarily popular in this arid post-liberal climate we inhabit but nonetheless full of hermeneutic vigor. Scorsese is a lapsed Catholic, but a world view founded on ideas of sin, the fall, and redemption suffuses his gritty films—at least, when the case is made, it makes sense.
Philip Marchand is an old, old friend. See his complete and charmingly self-written biography below the essay. Suffice it to say here that he wrote the best biography of Marshall McLuhan ever, a book that I revisit and treasure and not just for what it says about McLuhan—it actually helped me understand how subplots work in novels. And he also wrote a gorgeous book called Ghost Empire about the great French explorer La Salle (but also about the author himself, the history of North America, and the decline of the west, which yet managed to be amiable and friendly and charming). Here's the opening of a review I wrote at the time:
In Ghost Empire, Philip Marchand's new book about the voyages of the great and peculiar 17th century French explorer Robert de La Salle, the author doesn't tell us much that is novel about La Salle. But in recounting the daring explorer's epic wanderings Marchand manages to compose an amazingly fresh, surprising take on North American history, French-Canada, Catholicism, and the author himself, a faintly quixotic character, bookish, erudite, and appealingly self-ironic.
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Martin Scorsese ends King of Comedy in the same way he ends many of his films — with a man alone, overshadowed by a huge moral question mark. In this case, the question mark is also a narrative one. The final scenes of the movie show a cascade of newsmagazines featuring on their front covers the face of this man alone — the movie's protagonist, the wannabe stand-up comic Rupert Pupkin. Pupkin, these magazine covers tell us, has finally become a somebody, a celebrity. But are those magazine covers "real," or are they part of Pupkin's fantasy?
There is an answer to that question, and we shall come to it, but more interesting for the moment is how starkly this movie's ending dramatizes a dominant theme in Scorsese's work. Pupkin is a character who, despite huge odds, obtains what he has long sought, a moment in the spotlight. Unfortunately he has accomplished this by kidnapping a genuine celebrity and refusing to release him until given a spot on the network so he can perform his comedy routine. Pupkin knows he is committing a crime but defiantly assures himself that it is better to be a "king for a night than schmuck for life." He is expressing in milder form the same imperative that drives the gangsters in Goodfellas, who would rather be "whacked" or imprisoned than remain "content to be a jerk" (Tommy DeVito) or a "sucker" (Henry Hill).
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8:30am Monday 17th February 2014 in News By Tom Edwards, Political Reporter
A MAJOR new bid to improve Worcestershire's "terrible" railway links is kicking off - with the county council preparing a fresh attempt to get the Cotswold Line dual-tracked from Worcester to Oxford.
Politicians have hit out at poor links from the county to London, saying the current services are "an albatross around Worcestershire".
Now the Conservative leadership says it wants fresh dialogue with the Department for Transport, operators and Network Rail over dualling the route to tap into services bypassing the county.
Your Worcester News can also reveal how last year's failed bid to secure £7 million of Government cash for Worcestershire Parkway, in Norton, is being revisited.
The council is preparing a detailed report known as GRIP 4 (Governance for Railway Investment Projects) after the 2013 bid for funds was rejected because it lacked that depth.
The authority says it hopes to made "significant" progress by early 2016 on securing the land, getting planning permission and tapping into some Government funds to finally make it a reality. It followed a debate on Worcestershire's train services during a full council debate at County Hall.
A motion by Councillor Paul Tuthill calling on the council to press for "urgent" dualling of the whole of the Cotswold Line from Worcester to Oxford was backed by all parties.
Cllr Tuthill said: "This is so important for Worcestershire, so much so that I think it needs to go on our corporate 'dashboard' so it's looked at regularly and monitored by management."
Councillor Robin Lunn said: "The current situation is an albatross around Worcestershire.
"It shouldn't be just on our dashboard, it should be right at the top of the dashboard - it seems so incredibly old fashioned that this section of track is not dualled."
Journey times from Worcester to London vary from two hours 20 minutes right up to three hours or longer, and areas like Rugby and Warwick have similar services despite being further away.
People in Cardiff have better, quicker services than Worcestershire, mainly because the Cotswold line is a single track.
During the debate Councillor Simon Geraghty, deputy leader and the cabinet member for economy, skills and infrastructure also said Norton Parkway is back on the agenda.
"It's been raised for decades but I am quietly confident and think we're finally winning the argument for it," he said.
"There is plenty of evidence around the growth of rail travel, and plenty of confidence here that we are making our case. We want to see it happen in Worcestershire.
"We're now working up to GRIP 4, the industry standards, plan to move forward with it and over the next two years I hope to make significant progress."
Last year Network Rail and the Government teamed up to launch a £30 million fund for new stations, but the cash went to rival bids in areas like Bradford and York instead, both of whom had developed the GRIP reports, which include details like passenger forecasts, costings and building scale.
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10:44am Mon 17 Feb 14
thesquirrel says...
In 1910 it took 1 hour 50 minutes to travel to London from Worcester. In 2014 it takes 2 hours 30 minutes - if it isn't delayed.
How many people out there are driving to Birmingham International or Warwick Parkway because the Worcester-London service is so slow?
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5:15pm Mon 17 Feb 14
bmoc55 says...
The cost of realigning bridges/roads/tunnel
s etc will have to be weighed against the revenue earnings projections
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thesquirrel says...
bmoc55 wrote:The Cotswold Line was originally a double track. In 1960s as a cost cutting measure under Beeching's plan, certain unprofitable sections of the route were completely removed and some converted to single tracks. As such this would be realigning the existing track and relaying new track - no realigning of bridges/roads/tunnel
Agreat idea but it will all come down to economics.
The cost of realigning bridges/roads/tunnel
s etc will have to be weighed against the revenue earnings projections
s required.
1:29pm Tue 18 Feb 14
I'm_not_bitter says...
You could almost get to Malvern in that time... from Worcester!!
If there's any money about, sort the roads out first and make everybody's daily lives better!
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"A woman called me on the phone, three days after we opened, and said, 'There's no way your pastries are organic—they taste too good.' She's come back every day but one since we opened. That's what makes me get up in the morning: the fact that I want to have the best product out there, and watching you eat it."
Osakwe gets up very early to start work: "I come in every morning at 3:30 am to bake everything. The same as you'd have in Paris, you can smell the fresh baked bread. Here, when you walk in any morning, your croissant or muffin was made most likely 10-15 minutes ago, and it's still hot. We represent the freshest you can get."
The restaurant opened at the end of July in Michelina's former space, at 126 Old Ridgefield Rd. Osakwe and his partner in the venture, Robin Marvin, renovated the space in hopes of making it a spot where guests will want to linger with brighter lights, free wi-fi, plentiful seating and an outdoor terrace with umbrella-covered tables. "We changed it up a bit, to make it more inviting."
The core emphasis of the café is its menu, which Osakwe said is all about fresh, quality, organic fare.
"We will be having two soups daily—one a soup of the day, which will fluctuate; and we'll have a fire-roasted vegetable soup, which we'll be getting all the vegetables from . We'd like to stay local. We make an array of sandwiches — all of our sandwiches are tartines, which are open-faced sandwiches, they're European. A lot of our dishes are low calorie, and everything is made fresh, made to-order and day-of."
He added, "Almost everything is organic — if something is not organic, when I can find an organic option, we will. We don't even have Splenda, we have Stevia and agave. Our coffee is organic, it's roasted for us to order in New York City. Everything we do is like that. We take the organic thing pretty seriously here."
Osakwe also touted the gluten-free items on the menu. "A lot of our salads are, and even our fallen chocolate soufflé."
Coincidently, the soufflé is one of his favorite items to make. "It's really intense. It's one of the things I'm most proud of."
Green Leaf offers several desserts and pastries in addition to that chocolate soufflé. Among the tart varieties luring customers behind the counter glass are pear chocolate, marzipan almond and fresh berries; individual fruit pies tempt as well. "I would put my pies up against anyone," said Osakwe.
The partners, who both live in Wilton, were encouraged by the recent resurgence in the town's restaurant scene, but Osakwe believed there was an empty niche to fill. "I moved to Wilton five years ago and we haven't really had any dessert places. There seemed to be a void for fresh-made pastry — a good croissant."
Pleasing guests seems to be Osakwe's highest priority, at any cost. "When I see a plate come back, I ask 'What did [the customer] say?' Terrific, wonderful— those are words I like to hear. Anything other than that, we're going to buy you your meal. If you don't like something I would rather you tell me than not come back."
Green Leaf Organic Bakery and Café is located at 126 Old Ridgefield Rd., and is open Monday-Friday 6:30 a.m.-7 p.m.; Saturday 7 a.m.-6 p.m.; and 8 a.m.-6 p.m. on Sunday. The Green Leaf menu is posted on the restaurant's website, www.greenleaforganicbakery.com.


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