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On writing & my first writing teacher
Gettin' all sentimental and lost in thought
Why, go through boxes of old letters, photos, and journals of course!
I just stumbled upon a poem I wrote in high school. I'm cringing a bit, but I'm still gonna share. I have a lot of things floating around in my head today, but nothing coherent enough for a real post. So this is whatcha get:
We stared blankly in a dumbfounded silence
Not daring to even steal glances at one another
The five of us sat, tense, unmoving
As rivers of emotion threatened to escape
From behind our downcast eyes.
My mom, my two brothers and I listened
As my father told us a story about how it felt to hide,
Crouched behind a wall of fear for forty years
He said it was time to face the truth,
Time to reveal the secret that had been silent
Within him for so long.
But it had always been lurking there,
Stirring underneath his skin.
It had crept up on him quietly, slowly,
Like a fever.
Until finally, on this day, the fever broke
And relief swam over my father as he confessed
In a shaky voice, "I'm leaving you all because I am gay."
It's too bad his relief wasn't contagious---
He seemed to think it should have been
I just fell apart
We all fell apart
A jigsaw puzzle dismantled
The pieces scattered everywhere
So we're trying to fit them together again
But it's hard to make a new puzzle
When we liked the old one so much better.
How could he create a family knowing all that he did?
His family was his garden--he watered it, tended it, nurtured it.
But he wondered why, if the flowers thrived so,
Did he still feel an unbearable emptiness inside?
After all, he did have a loving family,
Even if it wasn't the kind of family he desperately wanted.
He thought we, his fictitious family, could hide him,
Even from himself.
He was wrong.
My first cigarette--Wordful Wednesday
On this particular afternoon, we peer into my fridge. There's the box of pink Franzia wine my mother has grown to love lately. It and milk are the two constants in our Frigidaire. This beloved box made its first appearance after my dad came out of the closet; because really, how else are you going to cope with your husband's sudden revelation that he's gay after 20 years of marriage? But the wine isn't very appealing (I happen to love pink, but just not in a wine). Besides, we can drive through the Daiquiri Stop any old time (remember: this is New Orleans, people). We're 15 year-olds, not wine connoisseurs.
On the kitchen table I spy a pack of my mom's Benson & Hedges cigarettes. There are a few already missing from the pack and we decide Mom won't miss another two. We each take one and scuttle up the stairs, two at a time, stealthy as mice.
We go to my room and lock the door behind us. We're whispering and giggling. We've never smoked a cigarette before and we're so excited about it. Frankly it's a little hypocritical of me because I've been leaving my mom nasty little notes bitching about all of her smoking and non-mom-like behavior, like sleeping over at her boyfriend's house. But the rebel in me still yearns to know what all the fuss is about.
We prep my room, thinking the whole time how brilliant we are. We open my window, which has a screen on it. We turn on my ceiling fan. We crouch together near the window and light up. We're trying to breathe and puff and not cough too much. It doesn't taste very good. It stinks. Our eyes are watering and we're turning red from choking on the smoke. It's getting really cloudy in my room. WTF? The damn screen is in the way, preventing us from really hanging our lit cigarettes out the window. The ceiling fan seems to be making things worse; it's sucking the smoke back up into my room rather than expelling it. After several coughing fits and picking out bits of tobacco from our teeth, we stub out our cigarettes. And we realize with a sudden panic that my room reeks.
We're looking at each other wildly, trying to decide what to do. We don't have a clue. So we decide to call our mutual friend Joe*, who is in our class at school. Joe likes to smoke cigars and pretend to be cool. Clearly he must know how to remove the odor from his room. He can help us!
Michelle dials 834-9350. We know it by heart.
He answers on the third ring.
"Joe," Michelle whispers into the phone.
"What do you want?" he asks with a sigh.
I huddle next to Michelle and our ears share the phone as she explains to him what we've been up to.
"You have to help us," she pleads.
"Okay," Joe says dryly. "Here's what you do. Wet a big towel and swing it around the room a bunch. Then put some vinegar in each corner of the room. That should do it."
"Thank you SO MUCH," we shriek together into the phone before hanging up quickly to prepare.
I tiptoe downstairs to get the vinegar. Meanwhile, Michelle wets my bath towels in my shower and wrings them out. Then the two of us swing them around wildly, like we're magician's assistants for some sort of freak show. Each corner of my room has a Dixie cup of vinegar in it. As a result my room smells worse than before, if that's even possible.
Fortunately my mom noticed neither the smell in my room nor her missing cigarettes; and if she did, she didn't say anything about it. My guess is since she was a smoker herself, she couldn't really detect the scent elsewhere.
As for Joe, he confessed many years later that he didn't have a clue how to help us that day, but he knew how desperate and gullible we were.
*all names have been changed to protect the innocent (or guilty, as the case may be).
Post-It Note Tuesday
Memoir Monday (I Like to Fish Style)
Today I'm participating in Memoir Monday, hosted by Travis over at I Like to Fish. Check out his blog for more info! Basically it just has to be something true hiding deep in the recesses of your memory. So here goes!
I grew up in New Orleans, and my parents have some really good friends, John & Chelsea, who live in Houston. John and Chelsea have two kids, Brian and Teres, who are close in age to my brothers and me, so trips & visits always worked out well. They would often come to New Orleans to visit us and we'd go to Houston to visit them.
Back then, all of our parents smoked heavily. John and Chelsea would walk into our kitchen after the six-hour drive from Houston and suddenly my parents would light up and the heavy haze of smoke began to descend like a blanket. There was always a lot of loud, obnoxious laughter and it was only recently that I learned marijuana was sometimes involved, that it wasn't just Benson & Hedges the grownups were smoking! My parents pretended to be Ward & June Cleaver, but it was apparently a convenient disguise.
Sometimes the four adults went out to dinner and left Brian in charge. He was the eldest of all us kids, but he still knew how to have fun. As soon as the door shut behind them, we'd go up to my room and haul out the twin mattress from my trundle bed. We would take turns dragging the mattress to the top of the stairwell and riding on top of it all the way down. It was great fun. My parents often wondered why the bench and potted Schefflera at the base of the stairwell were always in different positions once they returned, but we never 'fessed up until we were older.
Anyway, we were in Houston once when I was probably seven years old. We were staying at the Adams Mark Hotel and had two rooms: one for my parents, and an adjoining room for Mark, Kevin, and me.
The trauma began early that Saturday morning when I wandered into my parents' room still wiping crust from my eyes. I discerned something very suspicious going on under the covers. Though I didn't really see anything, it was what I didn't see that was so disturbing. There was a lot of motion, rolling around, (thankfully no noise, as I'm sure they were trying not to wake us up) elbows jutting out here and there, and sheets being stretched this way and that. While I didn't exactly know what was going on, I had a pretty good idea since my parents had recently bought me a copy of this book, Where Did I Come From?. Its laughable cartoony images of naked parents will haunt me forever (I once brought this book to school to share with my friends at recess--but that is another Memoir Monday)!
I quietly backed out of their room and tried to erase what I'd just seen from my brain. I also told my brothers not to go in there and lied that mom and daddy were still sleeping and suggested we stay in our room quietly. I think I turned on some cartoons. And I began to stew about what I'd seen.
My parents got up, we all got dressed and went to grab an elevator so we could head over to John & Chelsea's house. An elevator opened up and my brother, Mark, hopped right in. The elevator quickly gobbled him up, its wide mouth closing before any of us realized what was happening. Hysteria instantly set in, as we were in a very large hotel with many floors and several elevators. We hoped that Mark had the common sense to at least stay in the same elevator and not get out somewhere. My dad went to alert the front desk to see if they could stop the elevators, etc., while my mom and I stayed right where we were. I think we were all hysterical, there was a lot of running around, panicking, and trying to get other people to help us look out for Mark on other floors.
Within about five very long minutes, the same elevator that had swallowed Mark whole returned to the lobby. It opened its mouth up wide and in one breathless moment my mom swooped in and grabbed him. Mark was grinning ear to ear and had apparently had a great time (or at least this is how I remember it, but he may have a comment or a different memory??) while the rest of us were running around like crazy people.
Once we finally left the hotel and headed over to John and Chelsea's house, my mom's radar went off and she could tell something was wrong with me. While the elevator debacle had temporarily distracted me from the debauchery I'd witnessed in the wee hours of the morning, I hadn't forgotten. I'd only grown more distressed about it. Mom finally asked me what was wrong and in a mess of tears I confessed what I'd seen. I think she was a little embarrassed herself, but she laughed and admitted that they'd been having sex. My worst fears were confirmed---MY PARENTS HAVE SEX. LOTS AND LOTS OF SEX. And not just procreational sex, which in my childlike mind was at least somewhat acceptable. This was recreational sex, sex for no good reason! Parents are not supposed to do that! Ewwwwwww!
I shudder to think of what will happen when our kids walk in on us. Perhaps that is an incentive to lock doors?!?!
Sunday Stealing --The Strange Question Meme, Part 1
1. What is the color of your toothbrush? white with some blue and green
2. Name one person who made you smile today. My daughter Izzy
3. What were you doing at 8 am this morning? Chowing down on my breakfast and praying that Abby poops today
4. What were you doing 45 minutes ago?dreaming about Halloween candy
5. What is your favorite candy bar? Heath! Not that I allow myself to have them very much.
6. Have you ever been to a strip club?once when we lived in NOLA many years ago
7. What is the last thing you said aloud? "Abby, I don't want to hear it anymore!"
8. What is your favorite ice cream? Baskin Robbins peanut butter & chocolate. Or strawberry. It's a toss up.
9. What was the last thing you had to drink? water
10. Do you like your wallet? yes
11. What was the last thing you ate? chili
12. Have you bought any new clothing items this week? yes
13. The last sporting event you watched? Snippets of a Chiefs game
14. What is your favorite flavor of popcorn?cheese
15. Who is the last person you sent a text message to? my dad, but have no idea if he got it or if he even knows how to text
16. Ever go camping? no
17. Do you take vitamins daily? most days I do.
18. Do you go to church every Sunday? I'm a Jew. So I don't go to church. I go to synagogue 1-2 times a month, depending....
19. Do you have a tan? definitely not
20. Do you prefer Chinese food over pizza? yes. I love me some crab rangoon, General Tso's chicken, and fortune cookies!
21. Do you drink your soda with a straw? I quit soda a few months back and I'm so glad I did! But before that I did not drink with a straw.
22. What did your last text message say? "on the ground in memphis" (from my mom who sadly just left today to fly back home to NOLA)
23. What are you doing tomorrow? errands, Jazzercise, and hopefully having a play date with a new bloggy friend and her daughter....
24. Favorite color? PINK
25. Look to your left; what do you see? the fridge
Halloween at Abby & Izzy's House
We had a great Halloween & hope you did, too! Thanks for checking out our pictures!


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my mic is kinda messed up so it doesn't work alot.Originally Posted by vagrant
my mic is kinda messed up so it doesn't work alot.Originally Posted by vagrant
360 is awsome,but the Wii is just so cuddly!
Originally Posted by Icetrash
Thats a good idea. If you guys ever plan on hosting a tournament I wouldn't mind playing.
My gamertag: SuperSlade , ill come on tonight.
Picked this up a few days ago and I like it alot.
My gamer tag is: CPT 0BVI0US (note that the letter "o" in obvious is replaced with Zero's "0")
I like the game alot so far, the campaign is absolutely amazing. The online play leaves a little to be desired. Wish I could increase my sensitivity a little bit, sometimes I find that moving around just isn't fast enough. I also wish there were an option for some kind of "Deathmatch" where you would respawn in 5-10 seconds, rather than wait for the round to be over. Kind of like Halo 2.
The game does rock, I have to say that.
I would hate to see this game turn out like halo 2 where you respawn every five to ten seconds. In my opinion it would just make the game worse.
you can change the sensetivity, i have mine on the highest but i do have to say it does make sniping a little bit harder (1 twitch and your off focused)Originally Posted by Master Wii
and yah this game would suck if you respawned every 5-10 seconds...UNLESSS they made a WAR mode where up to 8-16 players on each team fight like its the war their having. And I think there should be a capture the flag mode but if you get shot you don't die you just go down and have to either get picked up or tap A
Everything in this signature except for this text was made by Wiired, he is my creator and almighty.
Yeah I noticed when you got your head sniped off before,I keep mine on the one it started on.Originally Posted by Sovieto
iam gonna add a few of you guys.
360 is awsome,but the Wii is just so cuddly!
Mine is CH33SE WAGON
have you even played with vargrant? or is tlaking randomlyOriginally Posted by psychono2
Everything in this signature except for this text was made by Wiired, he is my creator and almighty.
I have played with him a few times, and he was never able to say anything.Originally Posted by Sovieto
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Who shall tempt with wand'ring feet The dark unbottomed infinite abyss And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way, or spread his aery flight Upborne with indefatigable wings Over the vast abrupt, ere he arrive The happy isle. John Milton
Beelzebub. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.2, l.404^10.
You will see Coleridgehe who sits obscure In the exceeding lustre and the pure Intense irradiation of a mind, Which, through its own internal lighting blind, Flags wearily through darkness and despair A cloud-encircled meteor of the air, A hooded eagle among blinking owls You will see Huntone of those happy souls Which are the salt of the earth, and without whom This world would smell like what it isa tomb. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Letter to Maria Gisborne' l.202^11.
I am getting more obscure day by day. Dylan Marlais ThomasSearch Quotes Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Inspiration & Motivation
Set Your Blog on Fire with Hot Article Topics
Blogging About Popular Article Topics Will Bring Crazy Traffic to Your Blog
Readers are like parking meters. You have to feeding them a constant stream of informational articles in order to keep their interest from expiring. Blogging on a consistent basis ensures they will return to your site again and again to see what's new. But coming up with article topics can be challenging, particularly if you've been blogging for awhile.
Luckily there are a number of awesome ways to get ideas for your article writing. Seeking out hot article topics can provide both inspiration and generate website traffic. Hot article topics are those subjects that everyone just can't stop talking about. It could be anything from Charlie Sheen's winning to the earthquake in Japan to the recent budget show down in the United States.
The article topics don't necessarily have to be in your particular industry either. As long as you are able to find a way to tie hot topics to the subject matter of your blog you will be able to capitalize on the public's need for more information about it. For example, personal development bloggers can write about the life lessons Charlie Sheen's public meltdown offers.
How to Find Hot Article Topics for Your Article Writing
Finding the hot article topics that are trending in the public conversation is easy once you know where to look.
Search Engine Popular Now
Most of the search engines have a page listing the most searched for keywords. Bing lists their most popular search terms on the bottom right of their front page. They also have a social section which provides a list of the hottest topics on Twitter and Facebook. (link)
Google's hot topics can be found on their Google Trends Page (link). In addition to hot topics and popular searches, the site will show the frequency in which people are talking about the subject in different regions and even different days.
Yahoo puts their trending topics on the front page of their site (link). However, they also keep a list of hot article topics on their Buzz blog (link).
Twitter Trending Topics
Showing hot topics is one thing that Twitter excels at. The social site lists trending topics both on their front page and in the sidebar of your profile (when you are signed in). The top tweets on the front page can also be a source of writing prompts for blog articles. Lastly, using a tool like Tweetdeck or Hootsuite to follow popular keywords in your industry can unearth some awesome popular article topics.
Check Blog Comments for Article Topics
Are you reading other blogs in your niche? If not, then you are leaving money on the table. Not only can you generate website traffic to your blog by leaving topical comments, the article section itself can provide a steady stream of article writing ideas. People will use the comment section to leave their opinion on the subject and ask questions. The number of comments left on an article can indicate just how popular the topic is as well.
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What are Some Great Quotes?
I see people on social media sites like Twitter and Facebook posting quotes to their profiles. I love quotes. I think they are a great way to start the day and get you motivated to achieve everything you set out to do.
I would really love to compile a page of quotes. So I'm reaching out to all of my friends and ask that you post your favorite quote in the comment section. To kick things off, here are a few great ones I found:
"Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful." – William Ward
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There isn't a person anywhere who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can." – Henry Ford
"We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it." – John Lennon
Drop your best quotes in the comment section.
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7 Tips for De-Stressing at the Office
7 Tips for De-Stressing at the Office
By: Joy Paley who also writes for onlinecollegedegrees.net on the topic of online business degrees
Work stress not only makes you feel terrible?it can also clog your brain and keep you from being productive and making the most of your workday. While ?working through the stress? may be possible for some, the human amongst us retreat to mindlessly reading our favorite blogs or playing Tetris on our phones. Here are seven ways to decrease the stress so that you can get back to work and come home from the office at a reasonable hour.
1. Take a Screen Break
There?s nothing like staring at a computer screen for 9 hours straight to make you feel anxious and fried. Bring a book or magazine to work to read, for regular 3-minute screen breaks. Reading something unrelated to your work will put your brain on autopilot and help get rid of built-up tension.
2. Do Some In-Office Yoga
While I don?t recommend downward dog, some yoga poses can be done right at your office. These stretches help combat an often overlooked cause of stress: the muscle aches that come from sitting down all day. Try some neck rolls, shoulder stretches, and others that can be done from the comfort of your cubicle.
3. Make a Timetable
There are some tasks you could work on endlessly to make them the best they can be. Whether you?re researching past cases or writing up document drafts for your boss, it?s easy to spend too much time on any given assignment. Help break your uber-perfectionism by setting a timetable before you begin a certain task. Quit when the time is up, no matter what. If it really needs more work, you can schedule a bit more time for it later.
4. Try 30 Second Meditation
Sometimes our minds will linger on something we really like, generating a little buzz of pleasure in our brains. Usually, our minds zip off to the next thought instantaneously, leaving that moment of reflection behind. The next time this happens, take 30 seconds to meditate on the happy thought and hold it in your mind. You?ll be surprised how much contemplating a cup of tea or the view from the office window can really revive your brain.
5. Eat Some Protein
Not to sound like your mother, but what you eat really does have an effect on your psychological well-being. While studies have shown carbs to actually leave eaters feeling less-satisfied and more hungry after eating, protein generates a sustained sense of fullness. Keep a bag of trail mix or some yogurt in the office fridge to munch on when you can feel your energy lagging.
6. Clean Your Desk
Why would you waste time cleaning your desk in the middle of a busy workday? Taking 10 minutes to focus on a task completely unrelated to what?s stressing you out will give your mind a bit of time to decompress. And, cleaning your desk is an easy but satisfying task; its accomplishment can bring a bit of positive energy to your mood.
7. Stop the Internet
One of many people?s innate stress responses at work is to start surfing the Internet. Surfing the Net can make you look busy, while also distracting your brain from the stress at hand. You should try to avoid this habit, however. The Internet, and its large volumes of diverse information, can leave your head feeling more abuzz and muddled, inadvertently adding to your stress. If you?re finding it hard to break the habit, consider a program to turn off your Internet for a set amount of time.?
The Importance of Being Present
Woody Allen once famously wrote that "Eighty percent of success is showing up." For the most part, he's right. It's almost impossible to get things done and achieve long-term goals when you choose not to participate in your own life. Disconnection from your surroundings–especially prolonged disconnection–makes it all the more difficult to tune back in when you finally decide to, hurting yourself and likely others around you.
When you actively participate in your own life, when you don't let people make decisions for you, when you take a stand for things you believe in, and when you don't do things solely for the sake of doing them, you make a number of things happen. You attract the attention and interest of others, you help to advance causes or your own career, and you bring up your own happiness, provided the thing you're doing is something you find fulfilling (and given that you've decided to make a career of it, I can only hope you do find it fulfilling).
As an example, for several years I worked in radio before leaving the small town in which I lived. Things often got done my way when I made a point of being in the station every day, our volunteers came to know me and assumed that I was a reliable, easy person to contact who could fix things, and I often was thanked and offered help with other things I might've needed help to do. Volunteers later went on to take care of problems I showed them how to solve when I moved on to other projects, ultimately making everyone's lives easier.
When you tune out, the opposite happens. People start doing things for you without telling you, making decisions that you likely won't agree with, and undermine your role in the system in which you all participate, and not necessarily by choice; sometimes things absolutely have to be done, and the absence of a supervisor simply means that the supervisor gets no say in how that happens, making everyone unhappy in the long term.
Again, taking us back to a job I once had, I was unavailable for several weeks while I resolved personal issues and tried to find ways to deal with an employee whose work I was unhappy with. While I was doing this (and was out of the office), I came back to find that the rest of my staff had authorized spending our entire budget on an event I wasn't happy with that was logistically unsustainable and degenerated, on the day of, into a complete and total mess. We put together a promotional event with painfully long wait times, gave money to people who shouldn't have been paid, and left people, especially me, unhappy.?
Around the same time, I also failed to file a letter of recommendation that needed to be filed, and while it didn't prove to be a long-term problem, as the candidate did receive his position, I put him in real, unnecessary danger of not getting hired despite the fact that he was the only qualified person who applied.
Staying involved can be tricky, but it's very doable. Make and keep regular office hours, but don't exhaust yourself; keep a functional schedule. If you have coworkers, maintain regular contact with them and ensure that you all know what you are (or need to be) working on. Don't ever outsource something totally unless you're prepared to be presented with something totally unsatisfactory. And don't disappear for a while without good reason if you expect to go anywhere but down.
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Bismarck-Henning senior Austin Toler wanted the ball in his hands.
The 5-foot-9 guard drained a 3-pointer with 1.1 seconds left in regulation to send Tuesday's game with Hoopeston Area into overtime.
In the extra session, Toler made 8-of-10 free throws to lead the Blue Devils past the Cornjerkers 43-37 in a second-round game at the Cornjerker Classic.
"I'm a three-year starter,'' said Toler, who is in his fourth season of varsity basketball. "I have to step up in those situations. These kids are looking up to me and it's my job to be a leader.''
And while it was a victory for Bismarck-Henning (2-0), it was anything but a celebration after the game.
"We didn't come to play today,'' Toler said. "We're not concentrating enough. We're not doing a lot of things right — offensively or defensively.
"We have a lot to improve on and we're going to get it done.''
Bismarck-Henning coach Deon Mennenga pointed out that his team had plenty of confidence starting the year.
"This group had a little bit of swagger coming off last year's season, but they have to create their own legacy,'' Mennenga said. "We are trying to fit the pieces together. We started a freshman (Dylan Allen) and we have some new big guys, so we're still trying to find the right rotation.
"We don't feel that we have played to potential yet. But as I told them a win is a win and we'll take it.''
Bismarck-Henning trailed 32-29 with 5.8 seconds left. The Blue Devils got the ball to Toler, who dribbled around a Dustyn Ingram screen and drilled his third 3-pointer of the contest.
"Coach drew up a play where Dustyn picked for me,'' Toler said. "I got open and luckily it went into the basket.''
Hoopeston Area first-year coach Matt Colston wanted his team to foul Toler before he could get off the game-tying 3-pointer.
"There was some miscommunication,'' Colston said. "We left the bench knowing what we were supposed to do, but when the screen happened, we got off script.''
That was one of many situations in the fourth quarter and in overtime, where the Cornjerkers (0-2) had some struggles.
Hoopeston Area committed four turnovers in the final five minutes of regulation and the Cornjerkers started the overtime with three straight offensive miscues.
"Early in the game, we did some good stuff on offense, but in the fourth quarter we got away from it,'' Colston said. "The kids got off script. That comes from being under pressure and the gravity of the situation. We got tight and we reverted back to the team that has struggled the last few years.
"We were trying to get out of the situation as opposed to making something happen.''
Toler had a game-high 22 points, while Andy Bott had nine points and a team-high 10 rebounds for Bismarck-Henning.
Daniel Lawson was the leading scorer for Hoopeston Area with 18 points, while Mason Layden and David Cornelius each had seven. Layden also had a game-high 13 rebounds.
Both teams are back in action on Friday at the Cornjerker Classic.
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The ceremony will take place at 5 p.m. on Friday before the Hoopeston Area and LeRoy basketball game.


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Saudi Arabia's Integrated Telecom Company (ITC) has signed a SAR 4 billion (US$1.06 billion) Fiber Network Expansion Agreement with the Korean Middle East Engineering Company (KOMEE) to increase its network coverage by 10,000 kilometers.
The agreement, one of the largest in the Kingdom's telecommunications sector, was signed by Engineer Ghassan Itani, CEO & President of Integrated Telecom Company (ITC), and Dr. Jong Man Kwon, President & CEO of KOMEE.
The South Korean embassy's Commercial Attaché attended the signing ceremony, along with officials from the two companies, the Saudi Communications & Information Technology Commission (CITC) and members of the media.
In a press conference that accompanied the signing, Eng. Itani stressed the significance of this deal, and indicated that it would solidify ITC's status as a major player in the Saudi telecommunications sector. He added that the project would be implemented in four phases, starting in February, following the completion of the Saudi National Fiber Network (SNFN), a 16,000-kilometer network that has been built over a period of four years to link the Kingdom's cities and provinces.
Eng. Itani said that the project with KOMEE would leverage the advantage of ITC's ownership of two independent Cable Landing Stations in Jeddah and Khobar. These facilities already enable ITC to connect its clients in the Kingdom and abroad through submarine cables, complementing ITC's terrestrial links with GCC and other neighboring countries.
Eng. Itani added, that the project will lend major support to the CITC's efforts to enhance the Kingdom's telecommunications sector, by actively contributing to the Kingdom's strategic educational, governmental and economic development.
Dr. Jong said that KOMEE is delighted to be able to serve its clients through this agreement, both in the Kingdom and abroad. He added that the Saudi telecommunications sector is one of the world's fastest-growing.
Dr. Jong reiterated KOMEE's commitment to implement the project, in co-operation with Saudi national contractors, according to the highest international standards.
It is important to note that Korea has the world's second most-advanced fiber optic infrastructure, with one of the most modern networks in the world.
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This article is about Japanese cuisine. For other uses, see Sushi (disambiguation).
In Japanese cuisine, sushi (寿司, 鮨, 鮓|) is a food made of vinegared rice, usually topped with other ingredients including fish (cooked or uncooked) and vegetables. Sushi as an English word has come to refer to a complete dish with rice and toppings; this is the sense used in this article. The original word Japanese: sushi, written in kanji, means "snack" and refers to the rice, but not fish or other toppings.[1] Outside of Japan, sushi is sometimes misunderstood to mean the raw fish by itself, or even any fresh raw-seafood dishes [2]. In Japan, sliced raw fish alone is called sashimi and is distinct from sushi.
There are various types of sushi: sushi served rolled inside nori (dried and pressed layer sheets of seaweed or alga) called makizushi () or rolls; sushi made with toppings laid with hand-formed clumps of rice called nigirizushi (); toppings stuffed into a small pouch of fried tofu called inarizushi; and toppings served scattered over a bowl of sushi rice called chirashi-zushi ().
The basic idea in the preparation of sushi is the preservation and fermentation of fish with salt and rice, a process that has been traced back to China, and Southeast Asia where fish and rice fermentation dishes still exist today. The science behind the fermentation of fish in rice is that the vinegar produced from the fermenting rice breaks the fish down into amino acids. This results into one of the five basic tastes, called umami in Japanese.[3] The oldest form of sushi in Japan, Narezushi still very closely resembles this process. In Japan, Narezushi evolved into Oshizushi and ultimately Edomae nigirizushi, which is what the world today knows as "sushi".
Modern Japanese sushi has little resemblance to the traditional lacto-fermented rice dish. Originally, when the fermented fish was taken out of the rice, only the fish was consumed and the fermented rice was discarded. The strong-tasting and -smelling funazushi, a kind of narezushi made near Lake Biwa in Japan, resembles the traditional fermented dish.
Beginning in the Muromachi period (1336–1573) of Japan, vinegar was added to the mixture for better taste and for preservation. The vinegar accentuated the rice's sourness, and was known to increase its life span, allowing the fermentation process to be shortened and eventually abandoned. In the following centuries, sushi in Osaka evolved into oshi-zushi, the seafood and the rice were pressed using wooden (usually bamboo) molds. By the mid 18th century, this form of sushi had reached Edo (contemporary Tokyo).[4]
The contemporary version, internationally known as "sushi," was invented by Hanaya Yohei (華屋与兵衛; 1799–1858) at the end of Edo period in Edo. The sushi invented by Hanaya was an early form of fast food that was not fermented, (therefore prepared quickly) and could be eaten with one's hands roadside or in a theatre.[4] Originally, this sushi was known as Edomae zushi, because it used freshly-caught fish in the Edo-mae (Edo Bay or Tokyo Bay). Though the fish used in modern sushi no longer usually come from Tokyo bay, it is still formally known as Edomae nigirizushi.
Types of sushiThe common ingredient across all the different kinds of sushi is sushi rice (known as shari in Japanese). The variety in sushi arises from the different fillings and toppings, condiments, and the way these ingredients are put together. The same ingredients may be assembled in a traditional or a contemporary way, creating a very different final result.[5]
- Nigiri-zushi (握り寿司, lit. hand-formed sushi). The most typical form of sushi in restaurants. It consists of an oblong mound of sushi rice that is pressed between the palms of the hands, with a speck of wasabi and a slice of topping called neta draped over it. This is possibly bound with a thin band of nori, and is often served in pairs.
- Gunkan-maki (軍艦巻, lit. warship roll). A special type of nigiri-zushi: an oval, hand-formed clump of sushi rice that has a strip of "nori" wrapped around its perimeter to form a vessel that is filled in with topping(s). The topping is typically some soft, loose or fine-chopped ingredient that requires the confinement of nori such as roe, natto, oysters, and quail eggs. Gunkan-maki was invented at the Ginza Kyubey (Kubei) restaurant in 1931;[6][7] its invention significantly expanded the repertoire of soft toppings used in sushi.
Maki-zushi (roll)
- Makizushi (巻き寿司, lit. rolled sushi). A cylindrical piece, formed with the help of a bamboo mat, called a makisu (巻き簾). Makizushi is generally wrapped in nori, but can occasionally be found wrapped in a thin omelette, sesame seeds, cucumber, or parsley.http://www.sushilandusa.com/cmenu_100.htm Makizushi is usually cut into six or eight pieces, which constitutes an order. Below are some common types of makizushi, but many other kinds exist.
- Futomaki (太巻き, lit. large or fat rolls). A large cylindrical piece, with nori on the outside. A typical futomaki is three or four centimeters (1.5 in) in diameter. They are often made with two or three fillings that are chosen for their complementary tastes and colors. During the Setsubun festival, it is traditional in Kansai to eat uncut futomaki in its cylindrical form. Futomaki is generally vegetarian, but may include toppings such as tiny fish eggs.
- Hosomaki (細巻き, lit. thin rolls). A small cylindrical piece, with the nori on the outside. A typical hosomaki has a diameter of about two centimeters (0.75 in). They generally contain only one filling, often tuna, cucumber, kampyō, thinly sliced carrots, or, more recently, avocado.
- Kappamaki, (河童巻き) a kind of Hosomaki filled with cucumber, is named after the Japanese legendary water imp fond of cucumbers called the kappa. Traditionally, Kappamaki is consumed to clear the palate between eating raw fish and other kinds of food, so that the flavors of the fish are distinct from the tastes of other foods.
- Tekkamaki (鉄火巻き) is a kind of Hosomaki filled with raw tuna. Although some believe that the name "Tekka", meaning 'red hot iron', alludes to the color of the tuna flesh, it actually originated as a quick snack to eat in gambling dens called "Tekkaba (鉄火場)", much like the sandwich.[8][9]
- Uramaki (裏巻き, lit. inside-out rolls). A medium-sized cylindrical piece, with two or more fillings. Uramaki differs from other maki because the rice is on the outside and the nori inside. The filling is in the center surrounded by nori, then a layered of rice, and an outer coating of some other ingredients such as roe or toasted sesame seeds. It can be made with different fillings such as tuna, crab meat, avocado, mayonnaise, cucumber, carrots. This is typically thought of as an invention to suit the American palate [1], and is not commonly seen in Japan. The increasing popularity of sushi in North America, as well as around the world, has resulted in numerous kinds of uramaki and regional off-shoots being created, such as the California roll, the B.C. roll (grilled salmon skin), and the Philadelphia roll (cream cheese).
- The caterpillar roll includes avocado, unagi, and carrot greens.
- The dynamite roll includes prawn tempura along with vegetables like radish sprouts, avocado or cucumber, as well as Japanese mayonnaise.
- The rainbow roll features like a sashimi, layered outside with rice.
- The spider roll includes fried soft shell crab and other fillings such as cucumber, avocado, daikon sprouts or lettuce, and spicy mayonnaise.
- A Philadelphia roll contains smoked salmon, cream cheese, cucumber, and/or onion.
- A BC roll has grilled salmon with sweet sauce and cucumber. It is named after British Columbia for its famous wild Pacific salmon.
- A crunchy roll is typically a California roll with shrimp tempura wrapped inside with the other ingredients, with the outside of the roll coated with fried tempura batter crumbs. It is often served with chili sauce on the side.
- A Craig Roll contains spicy tuna, crab, asparagus, and egg and is rolled in roe.
- The Godzilla Roll includes yellowtail, deep-fried in tempura, topped with teriyaki and a stripe of hot sauce, and then sprinkled with green onions.
- Other rolls may include scallops, spicy tuna, beef or chicken or teriyaki roll, okra, vegetables, and cheese. Sushi rolls can also be made with Brown rice and black rice. These have also appeared in Japanese cuisine.
- Temaki (手巻き, lit. hand rolls). A large cone-shaped piece of nori on the outside and the ingredients spilling out the wide end. A typical temaki is about ten centimeters (4 in) long, and is eaten with fingers because it is too awkward to pick it up with chopsticks. For optimal taste and texture, Temaki must be eaten quickly after being made because the nori cone soon absorbs moisture from the filling and loses its crispness and becomes somewhat difficult to bite.
- Inari-zushi (稲荷寿司, stuffed sushi). A pouch of fried tofu filled with usually just sushi rice. It is named after the Shinto god Inari, who is believed to have a fondness for fried tofu. The pouch is normally fashioned as deep-fried tofu (油揚げ, abura age). Regional variations include pouches are made of a thin omelet (帛紗寿司, fukusa-zushi or 茶巾寿司, chakin-zushi) or dried gourd shavings (干瓢, kanpyo).
- Oshizushi (押し寿司, lit. pressed sushi). A block-shaped piece formed using a wooden mold, called an oshibako. The chef lines the bottom of the oshibako with the toppings, covers them with sushi rice, and then presses the lid of the mold down to create a compact, rectilinear block. The block is removed from the mold and then cut into bite-sized pieces.
- Chirashizushi (ちらし寿司, lit. scattered sushi). A bowl of sushi rice with other ingredients mixed in (also refers to barazushi). It is commonly eaten in Japan because it is filling, fast and easy to make. Chirashizushi most often varies regionally because it is eaten annually as a part of the Doll Festival, celebrated only during March in Japan.
- Edomae chirashizushi (Edo-style scattered sushi) is an uncooked ingredient that is arranged artfully on top of the sushi rice in a bowl.
- Gomokuzushi (Kansai-style sushi). Cooked or uncooked ingredients mixed in the body of rice in a bowl.
Narezushi (old style fermented sushi)
- Narezushi (熟れ寿司, lit. matured sushi) is an older form of sushi. Skinned and gutted fish are stuffed with salt, placed in a wooden barrel, doused with salt again, and then weighed down with a heavy tsukemonoishi (pickling stone). They are supposedly salted for ten days to a month, then placed in water for 15 minutes to an hour. They are then placed in another barrel, sandwiched, and layered with cooled steamed rice and fish. Then the mixture is again partially sealed with otoshibuta and a pickling stone. As days pass, water seeps out, which must be removed. Six months later, this funazushi can be eaten, and remains edible for another six months or more.
- Funazushi (鮒寿司) is a dish in Japanese cooking, which involves with anaerobic lacto-fermentation of fresh water fish, funa (, crucian carp). The dish is famous as a regional dish from the "Shiga Prefecture", It is considered to be a chinmi, a delicacy in Japanese cooking.[10]
Sushi riceSushi is made with white, short-grained, Japanese rice mixed with a dressing made of rice vinegar, sugar, salt, kombu, and occasionally sake. It is usually cooled to room temperature before being used for a filling in a sushi. In some fusion cuisine restaurants, short grain brown rice and wild rice are also used.
Sushi rice (sushi-meshi) is prepared with short-grain Japanese rice, which has a consistency that differs from long-grain strains such as India. The essential quality is its stickiness. Rice that is too sticky has a mushy texture; if not sticky enough, it feels dry. Freshly harvested rice (shinmai) typically has too much water, and requires extra time to drain the rice cooker after washing.
There are regional variations in sushi rice and, of course, individual chefs have their individual methods. Most of the variations are in the rice vinegar dressing: "the Tokyo version of the dressing commonly uses more salt; in Osaka, the dressing has more sugar".
Sushi rice generally must be used shortly after it is made. The Wiki Cookbook has a simple .
NoriThe seaweed wrappers used in maki and temaki are called nori. Nori is an algae, traditionally cultivated into the harbors of Japan. Originally, algae was scraped from dock pilings, rolled out into sheets, and dried in the sun, in a process similar to making paper. Nori is toasted before being used in food.
Today, the commercial product is farmed, produced, toasted, packaged, and sold in standard-size sheets in about 18 cm by 21 cm (7 in by 8 in). Higher quality nori is thick, smooth, shiny, black, and has no holes.
Nori by itself is an edible snack and is available flavored with teriyaki sauce. The flavored variety, however, tends to be of lesser quality and is not suitable for sushi.
Omeletteomelet may replace a sheet of nori as the wrapping. The omelet is traditionally made on a rectangular omelet pan (makiyakinabe), and used to form the pouch for the rice and fillings.
Toppings and fillings
- Fish
- For culinary, sanitary, and aesthetic reasons, fish eaten raw must be fresher and of higher quality than fish which is cooked.
- Professional sushi chefs are trained to recognize good fish. Important attributes include smells, color, and being free of obvious parasites that normal commercial inspection do not detect (many go undetected).
- Only ocean fish are used raw in sushi; freshwater fish are more likely to harbor parasites that are harmful to humans if uncooked.
- Commonly-used fish are tuna (akami, chutoro, shiro-maguro, toro), Japanese amberjack, also known as yellowtail (hamachi), snapper (kurodai), conger (hamo), mackerel (saba), salmon (sake), and eel (anago and unagi). The most valued sushi ingredient is toro, the fatty cut of tuna. This comes in a variety of ōtoro (often from the bluefin species of tuna) and chutoro, meaning middle toro, implying that it is halfway into the fattiness between toro and regular red tuna (akami).
- Aburi style refers to nigiri sushi where the fish is partially grilled (topside) and partially raw.
- Seafood
- Other seafoods such as squid (ika), octopus (tako), shrimp (ebi and amaebi), clam (mirugai, aoyagi and akagi), fish roe (ikura, masago, kazunoko and tobiko), sea urchin (uni), crab (kani), and various kinds of shellfish (abalone, prawn, scallop, uni sea urchin) are the most popular seafoods in sushi. Oysters, however, are not typically put in sushi because the taste is not thought to go well with the rice. However, some sushi restaurants in New Orleans are known to have Fried Oyster Rolls and Crawfish rolls.
- Vegetables
- Pickled daikon radish (takuan) in shinko maki, pickled vegetables (tsukemono), fermented soybeans (nattō) in nattō maki, avocado in California rolls, cucumber in kappa maki, asparagus, yam, tofu, pickled ume (umeboshi), gourd (kampyō), burdock (gobo), and sweet corn may be mixed with mayonnaise.
- Red meat
- Beef, ham, spam, sausage, and horse meat are often lightly cooked.
- Note: It is a common misconception that in Hawaii, fried Spam is a popular local variation for sushi. In reality, Spam musubi differs from sushi in that its rice lacks the vinegar required to classify it. Spam musubi is correctly classified as onigiri.
- Other fillings
- Eggs (in the form of slightly sweet, layered omelet called tamagoyaki), and raw quail eggs ride as a gunkan-maki topping.
- Shōyu
- The common name for soy sauce. In sushi restaurants, it may also be referred to as murasaki (lit. "purple").
- A piquant paste made from the grated root of the wasabi plant. Real wasabi (hon-wasabi) is Wasabi japonica. Hon-wasabi has anti-microbial properties and may reduce the risk of food poisoning.[11] The traditional grating tool for wasabi is a sharkskin grater or samegawa oroshi.
- An imitation wasabi (seiyo-wasabi), made from horseradish, mustard powder and dyed green are common. It is found at lower-end kaiten zushi restaurants, in bento box sushi and at most restaurants outside of Japan. If it is manufactured in Japan, it may be labelled "Japanese Horseradish".[12]
- In sushi restaurants, wasabi may be referred to as namida ("tears").
- Sweet, pickled ginger. Eaten to both cleanse the palate as well as to aid in the digestive process.
- In Japan, green tea (ocha) is invariably served together with sushi. Better sushi restaurants often use a distinctive premium tea known as mecha. In sushi vocabulary, green tea is known as agari.
Nutritional informationThe main ingredients of sushi, raw fish and rice are naturally low in fat (with the exception of some rolls and western style rolls), high in protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals.[13] Specifically:
- Fats: Most seafood are naturally low in fat; and what fat is found in them is generally rich in unsaturated fat Omega-3. Since sushi is often served raw, no fat is introduced in its preparation.
- Proteins: Fish, tofu, seafood, egg, and many other sushi fillings contain high levels of protein.
- Vitamins and Minerals: These are found in many of the vegetables used for sushi. For example, the gari and nori used to make sushi are both rich in nutrients. Other vegetables wrapped within the sushi also offer various degrees of nutritional value.
- Carbohydrates: These are found in the rice and the vegetables.
PresentationJapan, and increasingly abroad, conveyor belt sushi/sushi train (kaiten zushi) restaurants are a popular, cost effective way of eating sushi. At these restaurants, the sushi is served on color-coded plates, with each color denoting the cost of the sushi serving. The plates are placed on a conveyor belt or boats floating in a moat. As the belt or boat passes, the customers choose their desired plates. After finishing, the bill is tallied by counting how many plates of each color have been taken. Some kaiten sushi restaurants in Japan operate on a fixed price system, with each plate, consisting usually of two pieces of sushi, generally costing ¥100.
More traditionally, sushi is served on minimalist Japanese-style, geometric, wood or lacquer plates which are mono- or duo-tone in color, in keeping with the aesthetic qualities of this cuisine. Many small sushi restaurants actually use no plates — the sushi is eaten directly off of the wooden counter, usually with one's hands.
Modern fusion presentation has given sushi a European sensibility, taking Japanese minimalism and garnishing it with Western gestures such as the colorful arrangement of edible ingredients, the use of differently flavored sauces, and the mixing of foreign flavors. Highly suggestive of French cuisine, this deviates somewhat from the more traditional, austere style of Japanese sushi.
EtiquetteSushi can be eaten either by hands or by chopsticks, although traditionally nigiri is eaten with the fingers because the rice is meant to be packed so loosely that it falls apart in ones mouth (and would disintegrate on chopsticks).[14] Traditionally, one should start with white-fleshed or milder-tasting items and proceed into darker, stronger-flavored varieties later. For example, putting condiments such as the famous wasabi or soy sauce onto a piece of sushi would make it taste better. Like fish (not the rice), they should be dipped into soy sauce to extract the raw taste, so this should be used sparingly. In top-end sushi restaurants, it is considered a bad form to request or add extra wasabi when the chef has (or should have) already placed a suitable amount in each morsel. Likewise, one connoisseur counsels "adding wasabi to soy sauce is a disaster. It reduces the spiciness dramatically and masks the taste of the fish."[15] Also contrary to popular belief in the west, sake is not considered a natural pairing of sushi, since the flavor is too similar to rice to enrich the meal.
Many sushi restaurants offer fixed-price sets, selected by the chef from the catch of the day. These are often graded as shō-chiku-bai (松竹梅), shō/matsu (松, pine), chiku/take (竹, bamboo) and bai/ume (梅, ume), with matsu the most expensive and ume the cheapest. The house soy sauce is often diluted with dashi, a broth made from fish flakes and kelp.
In Japan, staff in sushi restaurants often employ a complex code-like vocabulary, where alternate words are substituted for common items. For example, egg is called gyoku ("jewel"), rice is called shari (Buddha's bones), soy sauce is called murasaki ("purple") and the bill is known as o-aiso ("courtesy", "compliment"). The code words vary from place to place and often evolve locally to incorporate puns: for example, shako (giant clam) might be called garēji (garage), because the Japanese word shako can also refer to a vehicle depot. These terms would not be used, or even understood, in other contexts, but regular patrons may pick up and use this specialized terminology themselves while dining in the restaurant.
Utensils for preparing sushi
- Fukin: Kitchen cloth.
- Hangiri: Rice barrel.
- Hocho: Kitchen knives.
- Makisu: Bamboo rolling mat.
- Ryoribashi: Cooking chopsticks.
- Shamoji: Wooden rice paddle.
- Makiyakinabe: Rectangular omelet pan.
- Oshizushihako: a mold used to make oshizushi.
Guinness World Records
- January 1992. A 325 kg (715 lb) Bluefin tuna sold for $83,500 (almost $257 / kg or $117 / lb) in Tokyo, Japan. The tuna was reduced to 2,400 servings of sushi for wealthy diners at $75 per serving. The estimated takings from this one fish were approximately $180,000. At the time, the fish held the record for Most Expensive Fish.
- October 12, 1997: The longest sushi roll. Six hundred members of the Nikopaka Festa Committee made a kappamaki (cucumber roll) that was 1 km (3,281 ft.) long at Yoshii, Japan.
References1. ^ Barber, Kimiko;Takemura, Hiroki (2002). Sushi: Taste and Technique. DK Publishing. ISBN 0-7894-8916-3.
2. ^ "If You Knew Sushi," Urban Legend Reference Pages, February 20, 2007
3. ^ Kouji ITOU, Shinsuke KOBAYASHI, Tooru OOIZUMI, Yoshiaki AKAHANE (2006) "Changes of proximate composition and extractive components in narezushi, a fermented mackerel product, during processing", Fisheries Science, 72 (6), 1269–1276.
4. ^ Zschock, Day. The Little Black Book of Sushi: The Essential Guide to the World of Sushi. Page 14-15. 2005. ISBN 1593599617.
5. ^ Kawasumi, Ken (2001). The Encyclopedia of Sushi Rolls. Graph-Sha. ISBN 4-88996-076-7.
6. ^ Chad Hershler, "Sushi Then and Now", The Walrus, May 2005.
7. ^ (ja) 軍カン巻の由来, お寿し大辞典 > お寿し用語集, .
8. ^ Andy Bellin, "Poker Night in Napa", Food & Wine Magazine, March, 2005.
9. ^ Ryuichi Yoshii, "Tuna rolls (Tekkamaki)", Sushi, p. 48 (1999), Tuttle Publishing, ISBN 962593460X.
10. ^ Aiko Kitagawa, "AN ACQUIRED TASTE", KANSAI TIME OUT, SEPTEMBER 2001.
11. ^ Shin, I.S.; Masuda H., Naohide K. (Aug 2004). "Bactericidal activity of wasabi (Wasabia japonica) against Helicobacter pylori.". Int J Food Microbiol. 94 (3): 255-61.
12. ^ Shimbo, Hiroko (2000). The Japanese Kitchen. The Harvard Commons Press. ISBN 1-55832-176-4.
13. ^ Nutrition info at sushifaq.com. Retrieved on Oct. 18, 2006.
14. ^ Issenberg, Sasha. The Sushi Economy. Gotham Books: 2007
15. ^ Corson, Trevor. The Zen of Fish. HarperCollins: 2007
See also
- List of sushi and sashimi ingredients and styles
- Sashimi
- Japanese Dining Etiquette
- Kimbap
External links
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- How many calories are in sushi?
- The Sushi Eating HOWTO
- What requirements must be met for fish to be designated as "sushi-grade"?
- How Sushi Works
- History of Sushi
- The Sushi FAQ
- How to cook sushi at home
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Designed to be user-friendly for teenagers, encouraging engagement, and equally attractive to adults for adventures around town for them and their children. A dedicated Crafty Concierge will give personal attention to all engagement online and in person. Guests are encouraged to comment on posts of activities they have enjoyed, and to post their own photos and recommendations.
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The event, dubbed "The Last Word on the JFK Assassination" is open to the public and will also be carried live on the Internet. It's being produced by filmmaker and former television host John Barbour of Henderson.
Barbour's documentary film "The Garrison Tapes" will be shown in its entirety and then the panelists will interact with the audience.
Garrison was the district attorney of New Orleans who tried to prove that government intelligence agents were involved in Kennedy's murder.
Barbour hopes the event will bring more attention to Garrison's story.
"Well, for me, it would be an immense relief to know it's out there, that Jim's story is out there, for his family, for the world, for his children. That's enough for me. I guess maybe it will be an historic event because 50 years from now, the only two films that will mean anything to this case will be the Zapruder film and the Garrison tapes. He's the only person who looked into it and tried to bring someone to trial," Barbour said.
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I've been waiting on Darksiders from the moment I heard the "horsemen of the apocalypse game" announcement at E3, and since then I've done my research. Pestilence, Famine, Death, War. These are the names of the four horsemen sent to the human world from the realms of heaven and hell to herald the coming of the apocalypse, and yes, that is in every way as cool as it sounds. Vigil Games has gone ahead and taken that concept to the next level with Darksiders, and you needn't worry about being up to date on your biblical lore to hop a ride on this gruesomely entertaining action platformer. What you will need in order to appreciate Darksiders is a taste for toting very flashy weapons, cutting down swaths of angels and demons, solving puzzles, and looking damn cool doing it. Sadly, this is a game that is riddled with contradictions, and every aspect of the awesome monster slaying and vivid landscapes seems countered by abrasive annoyances that work in unity to make Darksiders feel anything but above the ordinary.
You play as War, servant of an otherworldly order and one of the four horsemen charged with heralding the apocalypse when the final of seven protective seals within the kingdoms of demons, angels, and humans has been broken. This task may seem like your run of the mill every day 8-hour shift for a rider of the apocalypse, but not is all as it seems, and as the call is sounded for War to initiate the apocalypse within the kingdom of man, everything begins to go terribly wrong. War arrives on the scene in our control, and the player is quickly prompted to make use of abilities that will at first seem alien in order to lay waste to swarms of demons, angels, and frenzied humans in a sequence that makes little sense above the realm of intoxicatingly unjustified and enjoyable massacre.
It isn't until after the first semi-boss encounter that the real game begins, and as War awakens after a climactic battle he is charged with wrongfully starting the apocalypse and the extinction of the entire human race. The only suitable verdict War can reach is his return to the realm of man to cut a bloody path of vengeance until everyone responsible for his betrayal lay in a heap beneath his enormous sword. With this, we're launched back to the human world with severely diminished combat abilities, a badass sense of retribution, and the painfully witty Watcher – a spirit charged with the power to instantly kill War should he deviate from his oath – voiced by the talented Mark Hamill. It's safe to say that the Watcher may very well be the most enjoyable character in Darksiders' repertoire of shadowy figures, providing hints to the player as needed and humorous threats and comments as War progresses.
Now if it feels like the story unraveling itself here is just a pinch over the top for you, take a deep breath, you're probably experiencing the symptoms of being absolutely correct. Darksiders doesn't do much in the way of subtle and long-lasting story appeal, but if you've come to the now extinct kingdom of man for the happy ending story, you're in the wrong place. The creative and exciting combat visuals and finishers are where this post-apocalyptic action title shines, and as War encounters new minions of the demon and angel armies, new finishing-move sequences will become available.
Fighting hordes of enemies at once has become standard fare for games of the 20th century, but the boss battles awaiting War provide a unique change in pace from your stroll down apocalypse lane, and may very well kill you once or twice before you get the knack of "bigger bad-guy killing". The control system generally works well during the fighting, but as you acquire new weapons and abilities the D-pad, shoulder buttons, and even the analog buttons may require use simultaneously, leaving on-the-spot reactions feeling cramped and uneasy at times. If you're familiar with the God of War series you know what to expect of Darksiders, as dashing, blocking, and combos quickly become your friend if you should hope to survive what is essentially one rider against heaven, hell, and everything in between. Combat flows smoothly and the fighting style looks good for an oversized behemoth of destruction brandishing a demonic claymore, but Darksiders falls victim to its own design as mashing the circle button begins to feel a lot less epic than a rider of doom ought to. This is slightly remedied as War encounters new baddies to slaughter in new ways, but it's difficult to say you'll be telling all your friends about the boss fights or coming back after the credits roll to experiment with the fighting system.
The End of the World
Is it just me, or has the entertainment industry been flooded with post-apocalyptic settings lately? I mean yeah, every once in a while it's nice to be reminded that we're consuming too much and the world is going to end, but what happened to the prosperous days of old when a princess was kidnapped and needed rescuing? If this is to continue, games and movies are going to become the standard for chronic depression. I'm getting weary of watching the world end.
You've got to give credit to Vigil Games for making one extremely pretty game. The apocalypse has never looked so good – demons, robotic angels, explosively colorful environments and creative concepts. What's better is that these environments don't go to waste! Darksiders isn't your every-day action game, it features many typical platforming elements such as puzzle solving, wall climbing, and destroyable environment props. I don't care what anyone says, being able to throw a taxicab at a fluttering angel soldier is better than the smell of coffee in the morning. When you're not gallivanting about throwing vehicles, you'll be navigating through some very basic puzzle sequences that ritualistically lead to a giant scary boss and a chest containing one of a handful of new weapons War will use to massacre the bad folk in new and exciting ways. Unfortunately I don't have the luxury of leaving this paragraph free of flaw speculation either. What some may call the inevitable result of a post-apocalyptic environment and others may call laziness is the haunting emptiness that surrounds War at almost all times. Life as a herald of doom isn't so great when everyone gets the message that you're coming and flees the scene.
Each and every breathtaking environment will spend half of its time giving your eyes some well-deserved candy, and the other half making you feel like you've done something wrong. I know that naturally after the end of the world there wouldn't be many people left, but animals? Aliens? Hell, I'd settle for enemy demons or angels, but instead we're given small spawn points where enemies magically appear, and a few key voice-acted chums to try and salvage the silence. Don't get me wrong, the demon salesman, hammer-wielding giant and of course, the Watcher were all very well voiced and hilarious to experience, but there were many missed opportunities to fill this world with more than the elements, jaw-dropping as they were.
At the end of the world, Darksiders grabs onto a fantastic biblical concept and makes good on it's promise to convert that idea into a great looking action title, but the game falls victim to its lack of revolutionary inspiration. There really isn't anything new or exciting to be seen here, and the trademark aspects of gaming that are given shelter under Darksiders's abruptly absurd plot all succumb to the same flaws we've seen in the past. If you're looking to get a fresh standpoint on a cool modernized story, you're starved for a Devil May Cry replacement, or you simply wish to turn the game on to drool over its dazzling, albeit empty end-of-the-world settings, look no further. Otherwise, the apocalypse could've been more.


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Hi! I wanted to let you know that life hypnosis is another app which can help in losing weight. I am using this app for a month now I dropped nearly a stone in just a span of time.
Hi! I wanted to let you know that life hypnosis is another app which can help in losing weight. I am using this app for a month now I dropped nearly a stone in just a span of time.
This app must have gotten real popular, they are now charging $3.99.
They just made sparkspeople free again. Which sucks for those of us that paid...
I gave all of these apps a run for their money, but none of them were what I was looking for. I don't want to scroll through endless lists of different foods and then enter the exact weight etc. A friend recommended an pretty minimalistic app that lets you just take photos of your meals and that's about it. I love it and use it every day to help me remember what i ate. So it's more like a meal log or meal diary but that is perfect for me.
The app is called 'What I ate' - not too creative but what the heck, it does its job. You can see it here: http://www.vigorouscoding.com/apps/whatiate/
Maybe you should add that app to your list. I think others will appreciate the app as much as I do.
Thanks, Kate! This roundup was written a year or two ago (the date on the page is actually not accurate), and I've been meaning to follow up and do a more updated list. I'll keep "What I ate" in mind and appreciate the feedback!
Each time you start reading a review the app being reviewed changes. I had to take screenshots to read them. I've never seen a web site implemented like this.
You just need to hit the Pause button.
Spark People food tracker will NOT give you a TOTAL of grams of SUGAR. Their head dietician Becky Hand doesn't feel you will use good judgement if you worry about sugar. She wants you to concentrate on carbs. Big difference between just plain carbs and sugar if you're trying to limit sweets. Who in today's over sweetened world doesn't need to limit sugar? Did anyone ever tell you "I think you need a little more sugar in your diet?"
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Southampton-based Cunard was forced to shut its online booking system after personal details of 1,200 passengers were emailed out to people who are registered with the company.
It is not known how many people were sent the information but it meant names, addresses and booking details were mailed out in error. The issue earlier has just been revealed. Cunard spokeswoman Jackie Chase confirmed the mishap.
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If you're driving through the Middletown Mall Loop in White Hall, you may notice three new businesses.
One of them is Firehouse Subs, which is celebrating its grand opening this week.
It opened its doors Monday and owners said it's been crazy ever since.
Firehouse has a mural illustrating the Fairmont Fire Department as well as firefighter memorabilia from around the county.
The restaurant has a variety of subs and invites the public in to give it a try.