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WEC 50: "Cruz vs. Benavidez" is all set for tonight (August 18) from "The Pearl" from the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. The five-fight main card will air live on the cable channel Versus beginning at 9 p.m. ET.
Bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz will defend his title for the first time ever in the night's featured main event against Team Alpha Male product Joseph Benavidez in a rematch of a barn-burner of a fight from WEC 42 last summer.
Shane Roller, Anthony Pettis, Scott Jorgensen, Bart Palaszewski, Cub Swanson, and several other WEC stars will be in action on the card as well.
Of course, MMAmania.com will provide LIVE blow-by-blow, round-by-round coverage of WEC 50 below, beginning with the Versus telecast at 9 p.m. ET. We'll also deliver quick results of all the action from the preliminary card earlier in the evening.
Many of our readers check-in before, during and after the event to share their thoughts on the action. Therefore, feel free to leave a comment or 49 before you leave and chat with all the other Maniacs during the show -- it always turns out to be a great discussion.
Keep in mind that we will also be the spot for the latest news, recaps and post-fight analysis after "Cruz vs. Benavidez."
Without further delay, see below for the latest WEC 50 results. (Note: This will go from the bottom up; therefore, scroll toward the bottom for the latest detailed round-by-round action!)
Dominick Cruz defeats Joseph Benavidez via split decision (47-48, 48-47, 49-46)
Bart Palaszewski defeats Zach Micklewright via technical knockout (strikes) at 0:31 of round two
Scott Jorgensen defeats Brad Pickett via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Anthony Pettis defeats Shane Roller via submission (triangle choke) at 4:51 of round three
Chad Mendes defeats Cub Swanson via unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 29-28)
Javier Vazquez defeats Mackens Semerzier via submission (rear naked choke) at 1:35 of round two
Ricardo Lamas defeats Dave Jansen via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
Fredson Paixao defeats Bryan Caraway via split decision (29-28, 29-28, 28-29)
Maciej Jewtuszko defeats Anthony Njokuani via technical knockout (strikes) at 1:35 of round one
Danny Castillo defeats Dustin Poirier via unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 30-27)
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135 lbs.: Dominick Cruz vs. Joseph Benavidez
Round one: Here we go with the big one! No gloves touching here. Push kick from Benavidez. Cruz's footwork is on display here early. Nice lean in punch from Cruz. They tie up momentarily. High kick is blocked by Benavidez. Both fighters miss with right hands. Benavidez lands one now. Nice counter right from the challenger. High kick is blocked again by Benavidez, but Cruz is able to land a nice right hand off of that that drops Benavidez for a second. He pops right back up. That may have been a slip. Cruz with a hard body shot and Benavidez latches on for a clinch. Knee to the body from the champ. Cruz has Benavidez against the cage here. Another knee as the separate. Nice leg kick from Cruz, but Benavidez makes him pay with a big counter punch. Leg kick from Cruz. Nice combo from Benavidez. Another nice coutner punch from the challenger. Another hard leg kick from the champ. Uppercut from Cruz. Cruz with great movement. Benavidez catches him with a left hand. Cruz answers with another kick. Hard counter right from Benavidez. Wow. Cruz just ate that and it was right on the chin. Cruz times a kick and scores a takedown. Benavidez looking for a guillotine. Cruz escapes. Nice ground strikes from Cruz. Elbows from Benavidez from the bottom. The round ends there and it was a close round. The takedown may be the difference for the champ.
Round two: Cruz on the stalk right away. Nice counter from Benavidez. Hard leg kick from Cruz, but Benavidez times a right hand counter perfectly. Cruz gets tripped up. Benavidez on him with a guillotine, but Cruz escapes back to his feet. Nice exchange. Benavidez is bleeding from his head. Hard leg kick from Cruz. Benavidez again times a nice counter combination of punches. Cruz eats another counter combo. Benavidez is standing tough in the center and countering nicely here. Leg kick from the challenger. Cruz swings wildly and misses with a left hook. Benavidez now whiffs on a right hand. Nice right hand lands for the champ. Benavidez again times a counter punch on a leg kick from Cruz. Benavidez shoots for a single. Cruz defends it well and they separate. Nice right hand from Cruz. Push kick from Benavidez. Benavidez shoots again and gets nothing. Cruz with a flying knee. Nice counter from Benavidez. Both fighters miss with big strikes, Benavidez a kick and Cruz an uppercut. Cruz shoots and scores on a double leg with 15 seconds to go. Benavidez tries for a guillotine and then pops back to his feet. Another close round. I'd give it to Benavidez. His counter striking was on point that round, and the takedown at the end was meaningless.
Round three: Benavidez wants the center again. He's looking to counter strike. Benavidez with a takedown attempt. Cruz sprawls nicely to avoid it. Benavidez just misses with a hard right hand. Nice leg kick from the challenger. Cruz sneaks a right hand in. Now he gets a high kick blocked. Another gets blocked. Benavidez with a leg kick. Nice right hand and Benavidez tries for anther takedown. Again he gets stuffed. High kick just misses on the break from Benavidez. Cruz leans in and Benavidez again tries unsuccessfully for a takedown. Nice right from the champ. Both fighters exchange right hands at the same time. Into the clinch now and Cruz drives Benavidez into the cage. Benavidez reverses and looks for the single leg takedown. Cruz defends it and they separate. Cruz showing his jab, but he's not landing it. Now he lands one. Leg kick from Benavidez. Cruz fires back, but Benavidez counters with a leg kick and punch combo that does some damage. Cruz with another leg kick. They tie up in the center and Benavidez does nicely to punch and kick is way out. Nice body kick from Cruz. Body punches from Benavidea. Cruz again shoots with seconds remaining in the round, and again he scores with it. Those aren't worth much to me at this point. I'd still give that round to Benavidez.
Round four: Championship rounds here! Benavidez misses with an overhand right and Cruz makes him pay with a takedown. Quick pass to side control for the champ. Benavidez works and gets half guard. Now full guard. Nice punches to the body and head from the champ. Benavidez tries for a guillotine, but he has nothing. Cruz is pounding away at the challenger from the top. Benavidez is warned about grabbing the fence. Cruz gets half guard. Now Benavidez gives up his back. He escapes and climbs back to his feet. Now Benavidez turns the table and has a single leg takedown attempt. Cruz defends it well and stands. Benavidez grabs on for another guillotine, but he has to let it go. Cruz with double underhooks against the fence here. Nice knee from Benavidez. Nice toss from Benavidez, but Cruz pops back to his feet and keeps Benavidez pinned against the cage. Blood coming from the bridge of the champ's nose now. Quick takedown for Cruz. Benavidez tries for a guillotine again. Nothing. Cruz to half guard. Knees to the body now from side control. Cruz now gets a full mount and Benavidez scrambles nicely to his feet. Double leg attempt for Benavidez, but he just hasn't been able to have success with any sort of takedown tonight. A big round for the champ ends there.
Round five: Cruz takes the center and shoots for a takedown. Excellent defense from Benavidez as he tosses him off. Nice right hand from the champ. Benavidez charges forward and misses with a right. Benavidez tries to time a counter punch, but he misses with it. Big exchange with both guys connecting. Benavidez drops down for a takedown, but he can't get it. Benavidez with a nice combo of punches. Flying knee from Cruz. Benavidez ducks under it to avoid it. Benavidez walking the champ down now. He eats a kick to the body. Now a push kick from Benavidez. Push kick from the champ as he avoids a right hand from Benavidez. Benavidez with a leg kick. Big exchange in the middle with both guys scoring. Spinning backfist from Benavidez! Right hand from a stalking Benavidez. Spinning backfist again, but it misses this time. Right hand lands for the challenger. Benavidez tries for another takedown, but he can't get it. Great takedown defense from the champion in this fight. Big right hand lands for Benavidez. Cruz leans in and eats another. He tries a knee but misses. Benavidez slips while swinging hard and missing with a right hand. Thirty seconds. Benavidez is flurrying. Big exchanges and now Cruz scores with a takedown. Flurry from the top by the champion and the fight ends there. The takedown was there at the end by Cruz again, but still, Benavidez won the rest of the round on his feet. It's going to be interesting to see how this fight is scored.
Final result: Dominick Cruz defeats Joseph Benavidez via split decision (47-48, 48-47, 49-46)
155 lbs.: Zach Micklewright vs. Bart Palaszewski
Round one: Gloves touch and we're underway with the first fight of the Versus telecast. Zack takes the center of the cage right away and Bartimus drills him with a leg kick. Another. Zack feeling out the jab and he takes another leg kick from Palaszewski. Mickelwright with a flurry and he ends it with a hard right hand. Nice counter left hook by Bartimus on an exchange. Another big exchange and Mickelwright gets the best of it with a nice left hook. Bartimus clinches to avoid anymore punishment. Against the cage now with both fighters jockeying for position. The referee wants action and calls from a separation. Nice leg kick from Mickelwright. Bartimus fires right back with one of his own. Zack walks him into the fence and unloads a combination. Nice head movement and counter boxing from Palaszewski as he circles away. Another big counter punch lands for Bartimus. Leg kick from Zach. Nicely timed combination of punches from Palaszewski as Zach lands a leg kick. Nice straight punches now from Mickelwright. Low kick to the groin from Mickelwright, but Palaszewski is okay and they restart right away. Leg kick from Mickelwright. Bart tries to time the counter punch again, but this time Mickelwright is ready for it and avoids it well. Kick to the groin from Bartimus now and there's another pause in the action. Back underway. Big counter right lands flush for Bartimus. Another solid right hand from Bart. Mickelwright is backpedaling now for the first time. Nice uppercut from Palaszewski who is winning this round with his counter striking. High kick gets blocked by Zach. Nice right hand from Zach. Another high kick from Palaszewski gets blocked at the bell. 10-9 Palaszewski.
Round two: Zach takes the center right away. Bartimus flashing his jab and he lands a right hand. Beautiful counter left hand from Bartimus sends Mickelwright retreating. Bartimus is all over him now with a big flurry of punches. Zach has his hands up, but Bartimus is smothering him against the cage. Body kick now. Huge right hand finds the button and floors Mickelwright. That's it. The referee steps in and this fight is over. Very impressive fight for Bartimus.
Final result: Bart Palaszewski defeats Zach Micklewright via technical knockout (strikes) at 0:31 of round two
155 lbs.: Scott Jorgensen vs. Brad Pickett
Round one: Jab from Picket opens up the action. Jorgensen circling around and he flashes some jabs. Straight right from Pickett and Jorgensen gets dropped. He pops right back up, though. Into the clinch momentarily before Pickett pushes out. Nicely timed right hand from Pickett as Jorgensen tries a leg kick. Back into the clinch here and Pickett is looking for a double leg takedown. Nice defense from Jorgensen and they separate. Big right hand misses from Pickett. Now he lands with a two punch combo. Jorgensen is not looking too comfortable on his feet in the early going. Jorgensen firing away with jabs now, but Pickett showing some excellent head movement to avoid most of them. Jorgensen shoots in now and gets the takedown, but Pickett is right back to his feet. Jorgensen sneaks a nice right hand in there. Pickett fires back with a hard two punch combo. A hard jab lands right on the chin from Jorgensen and Pickett's mouthpiece goes flying and he drops to the mat for a second before hopping back up. Jorgensen trying to finish here, but Pickett ties him up with his back against the fence. He looks to have recovered here as Jorgensen goes to work with knees. Pickett lands a right hand as Jorgensen pushes out of the clinch. Another big right hand stuns Jorgensen. He's okay, though, and now he lands an overhand right, followed by another hard jab. Much better stand up from Jorgensen in the second half of this round. Jorgensen shoots now and scores on a double leg takedown. Pickett takes advantage and locks in a guillotine choke. Jorgensen escapes by passing to side control. Nice elbows from Jorgensen. Pickett fights to get back to his feet and he does. Flying knee from Pickett. Jorgensen eats it and stands tough. Low kick from Jorgensen. Nice uppercut from Jorgensen. Pickett lands a right hand, but eats another knee right before the bell. Great round. 10-9 Jorgensen.
Round two: Pickett takes the center and tees off with big punches. Jorgensen eats them and circles away. Jorgensen shoots, but Pickett stuffs it. Nice uppercut from Pickett. Jabs landing for both fighters. Knee from Pickett out of a brief clinch. Pickett with some nice stand up to start this round. Another nice uppercut from Pickett. Jorgensen times a counter left hook. Overhand right just misses from Pickett. Hard left hook lands for him, though. Jorgensen now leans in and drills Pickett with a two punch combo. Pickett fires right back with a right hand. Pickett loses his mouthpiece again and there's a brief pause for him to put it back in. Back underway and Jorgensen shoots. Pickett does well to defend it and get separation. Pickett shoots now and Jorgensen stuffs it. Still clinched here and Pickett uncorks a low knee to the groin. The referee calls for a timeout while he recovers from the unintentional blow. Back underway. More big punches from Pickett. Jorgensen times a nice counter right hand. Pickett moving forward with wreckless abandon now. Jorgensen again counters will. Pickett shoots and Jorgensen reverses to take the top position on the ground. Picket with a closed guard. Elbows from Jorgensen. Jorgensen looking to pass now. He stands and gets side mount. Pickett stands, but Jorgensen has a guillotine. Pickett escapes and there's a nice exchange. Pickett shoots at the bell but gets stuffed. Another great round. I'd give it to Pickett for the striking and because he didn't spend too much time on his back after the takedown.
Round three: Pickett's eye is all blacked up coming out for this round. He takes the center and shows his jab. Nice uppercuts from Pickett. Jorgensen firing with straight punches now. Big exchange with Pickett landing a hard left hook at the end. Jorgensen flashing his jab here. Push kick from Jorgensen. Single leg takedown scores from Jorgensen. Into Pickett's full guard. Pickett with a half hearted guillotine, but he has nothing. Punches to the body from Jorgensen. Pickett trying to stay aggressive off his back. He's looking for a triangle. Jorgensen defends it, but Pickett uses the opportunity to get back to his feet. Jabs from both guys. Left hook from Picket. Pickett is winning most of the exchanges here. His jab is landing nicely as well. Jorgensen with another takdown, though, and that may be the difference in this decision. Elbows and punches from Jorgensen. Pickett with another triangle attempt and Jorgensen gets side control becasue of it. He's looking for mount, but can't get it. Knees to the side from Jorgensen. Pickett is doing a nice job not letting Jorgensen get mount, but he's not doing much else. Now he gives up his back. He tries to roll out, but Jorgensen is glued to him. Now Pickett reverses and takes the top with ten seconds left. A great fight ends there. Jorgensen took that round and the fight on my scorecard.
Final result: Scott Jorgensen defeats Brad Pickett via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
155 lbs.: Anthony Pettis vs. Shane Roller
Round one: Both fighters exchange left hooks to start and Roller shoots in right away looking for the takedown. Pettis defends it well until Roller trips him up. Pettis pops right back up. No harm done. Pettis stalking now and Roller shoots for a single. Pettis defends and has his back against the fence here. Roller with some knees from the clinch. Pettis punches out nicely and they separate. Leg kick from Pettis. High kick now from Pettis. Roller circles and fires a big right hand. He uses that to initiate another clinch and he pulls Pettis to the floor. Pettis lands on top of Roller and elects to get back to his feet. Pettis leans in with a nice combination of punches now. Flying knee from Pettis followed by some hard punches. Roller clinches and knees Pettis as they separate. Nice leg kick from Pettis. Roller leans in with a jab and he eats a counter punch. He stays in there though and continues with punches. Nice head movement from Pettis, though. High kick from Pettis and Roller is backpedaling. Flying knee attempt and Roller takes advantage and clinches. He's trying for another takedown, but he doesn't have it. Knees now from Roller out of the clinch. He looks to be recovered from the earlier flurry by Pettis. Pettis gets shoved to his back and tries an upkick that misses at the bell. 10-9 Pettis.
Round two: Roller takes the center and tries a leg kick. Roller leans in with jabs and gets another clinch. He's got a single now, but Pettis escapes and gets separation. Pettis stalking now and he lands a couple of hard leg kicks. Right hand now from Pettis. Roller shoots and eats a kick. Pettis sort of falls into a takedown and lands on top of Roller. Roller with a closed guard. Pettis staying busy with punches to the head and body. Pettis with good top control and ground and pound here. Roller isn't doing much but holding on and eating punches to the body and head. Pettis is lighting up Roller's side with punches. Roller looking for a triangle, but Pettis escapes to his feet. Roller follows him and lands a nice left hook. Pettis gets back into the cage and Roller unloads a flurry of punches. Pettis is firing back now and Roller wants another clinch. Elbows from ther from Roller. Roller with a trip takedown and he lands in full mount. Fantastic reversal from Pettis and he ends up on top of Roller. He's raining down big right hands now. Wow! Side control now for Pettis. Elbows from Pettis. Roller explodes and they get back to their feet. Pettis attempts a spinning head kick that Roller is just able to duck under at the bell. 10-9 Pettis.
Round three: Jabs from both fighters. Leg kick from Pettis. Roller stalking him down as he circles away. Jab lands for Pettis. Roller shoots and gets a big slamming takedown off a double. Right into side control for Roller. Pettis looking for a kimura. Roller escapes and stands over Pettis. Pettis pulls him back into his guard. Roller stacks him up now and Pettis almost gets a triangle. Roller isn't doing much from the top and Pettis is close with another triangle again. Roller escapes and maintains the top position. He's looking for a guillotine now, but Pettis isn't having any of that. Roller stands and lands another right hand. Pettis stands and a tired Roller follows him. Pettis misses with a lazy high kick. Roller moving forward as Pettis circles. Roller misses with a right. They exchange leg kicks. Hard leg kick then a right hand from Pettis. Roller definitely felt that combo. Now Pettis shoots and he gets a takedown now. They don't spend much time down there though as Pettis stands right back up. Leg kick from Pettis as a tired Roller tries to walk him down. Punches from Roller and Pettis gets a body lock and another takedown. Roller has a guillotine! Pettis has half guard though and Roller lets it go. Pettis fighting off his back and he's looking for the triangle again. He's got it! He tightens it up and it is very deep. Less than 20 seconds remaining, but Roller is in deep trouble here. That's it. He taps out and this fight is over. Great fight and great performance from Anthony Pettis.
Final result: Anthony Pettis defeats Shane Roller via submission (triangle choke) at 4:51 of round three
145 lbs.: Chad Mendes vs. Cub Swanson
Round one: Cub dancing around, switching up his stance to start here. Mendes has the center. Jab from Cub. Mendes avoids another. Mendes charges forward and drills Cub with a right hand. There's a brief clinch. Mendes with a knee on the separation. Cub misses with a big right hand. Cub shoots in and Mendes wraps him up and gets the takedown himself. Right into side control for Mendes after taking Cub's back momentarily. Shoulder punches from Mendes. The referee calls from action as Mendes isn't doing much from the top. Mendes looking for mount, but Cub defends it well. Great control her for Mendes, but he still hasn't done much. Now finally a big punch lands from Mendes. Now the referee has seen enough and he wants a stand up. Nice right from Mendes. Cub misses on a high kick. Now he swings wildly at the body and misses. Nice one-two from Cub. Now a leg kick, but Mendes makes him pay and dumps him back onto the floor. Cub does well to get back to his feet quickly. Jabs from Cub. Overhand right now from Swanson. Cub has the center of the cage and he's throwing jabs. Nice counter punch from Mendes. Cub with a flying knee attempt and Mendes makes him pay by putting him on his back again right at the bell. 10-9 Mendes.
Round two: Hard leg kick lands from Mendes and right away he scores on an easy double leg takedown. Cub had no defense for that. Cub does well to get back to his feet again. Punches from Cub and Mendes shoots again. Cub shrugs it off and unloads with a flurry of punches and kicks. Mendes felt those. Hard leg kick from Cub. Nice counter right hand from Mendes. Jab from Cub. Now a right hand. Another. More jabs. Nice counter right from Swanson as Mendes rushes forward. Cub can't stop the takedown though and he's on his back again. Mendes in half guard. Cub gets full guard back. Nice strikes from Cub from the bottom. He's trying to get back up, but Mendes is all over him. Excellent control from Mendes to pin Swanson on his back again. Body punches landing for Mendes in Cub's full guard. Thirty seconds remaining. Mendes manhandling Swanson here. Cub looking for a kimura. He lets it go and somehow escapes back to his feet right before the bell sounds. Another 10-9 for Mendes with the takedowns and ground control.
Round three: Cub takes the center and wants to exchange right away. Mendes gets in his face and puts him back on the floor. He might have slipped there. Either way, these are more points for Mendes. Punches from Cub off his back. He's trying to climb the cage and he does. They separate. Leg kick from Cub. Nice jab from Cub. Mendes swinging wildly, but Cub with some nice head movement. Mendes shoots quickly and slams Cub to the mat again. Cub with a rubber guard and he's landing punches. He's looking for the omoplata, but Mendes escapes. Now Mendes has mount. Cub gets half guard back. Cub with punches from the bottom. Now he gets full guard back. Mendes explodes with punches. Now a hard elbow lands for Mendes. Cub escapes back to his feet. He tries a flying knee and Mendes makes him pay with another slam. Cub hops back up and lands a hard leg kick. Cub with big punches now. Mendes with a hard counter right hand. Leg kick from Cub. Cub stalking and Mendes shoots and scores with another takdown. Cub looking for the omoplata again, but he doesn't have it. The bell sounds and the fight ends there. I've got Mendes 30-27.
Final result: Chad Mendes defeats Cub Swanson via unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 29-28)


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The Pacific Islands Museums Association (PIMA) was established as a regional forum where heritage professionals could exchange their views and work towards improving the quality of the services that they provided to the public.
The first PIMA Board was appointed in 1994 and the Association's Vision, Mission and Aims were first developed in 1997. During the first years of PIMA, the Secretariat for the Pacific Community (SPC) hosted and supported the Secretariat in New Caledonia. PIMA was officially accepted as an affiliated organisation of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) in 1998 and in May 1999 PIMA was incorporated in Fiji as a Charitable Trust. The Secretariat's office was located at the Fiji Museum until mid-2006 when PIMA relocated the Secretariat to its current office hosted by the Vanuatu Cultural Centre.
It is the first and only regional, multilingual, multicultural, non-profit organisation that assists Pacific museums, cultural centres and peoples to preserve Pacific Island Heritage. PIMA develops community participation in heritage management and brings together museums and cultural centres in Pacific Islands to develop their capacity to identify, research, manage, interpret and nurture cultural and natural heritage. PIMA advocates the development of regional cultural resource management policies and practices, facilities training, and provides a forum for exchange of ideas and skills.
Practically, PIMA works through courses, workshops, forums for exchange of values and ideas, the development of exhibits and other projects, all based on constant communication by email, fax, telephone, but most effectively, by meeting face-to-face. It is a difficult, challenging and costly task.
PIMA has been active in the region and in particular in Fiji when it comes to heritage management especially in terms of working with Pacific countries in nomination procedure to the World Heritage Sites. PIMA assisted in the coordination of the World Heritage Centre 2nd Global Strategy Meeting in Port Vila in August 1999.
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My favorite PFF stat (and one that I do think is creditable, unlike some of the others) is drop rate. Statistics don't lie (they don't always tell the whole truth either). But in this instance, they reveal something very true: Luck (and the Colts) were let down at times by poor wide receiving play. Avery, imo, had some sloppy route running and I'm extremely happy that KC did us a favor and got rid of him for us. He may be fast and he may of had a solid yardage total (which fools people at times: if a wideout has a high volume of targets, of course he is going to have a good yardage total), but he had butter fingers and is totally unreliable. Another wideout who had his fair share of drops was TY. I'd give his play in 2012 the benefit of the doubt though: he came up with huge plays at times (including 2 stellar TDs against Houston- 1 in each game), he had a high yards/reception total and he was a rookie in 2012- his ceiling hasn't been reached yet imo. If he wants to take the next step though, he should start catching more of his 'catchable balls'.
Thus, due to the fact A. Luck (who should've got ROY) had his #2 and #3 receivers finish DEAD LAST in drop rate, it is pure ignorance to say he has accuracy problems (which is a commonality if you speak to a Redskin fan). Along with other reasons, the lack of help at wide receiver for the Colts is a reason why Luck got robbed in the ROY race. In 5/10 years time he mostly wont care or even think about it at all. But I believe in giving credit when it's due, and Luck's fantastic play would have looked more impressive if his receivers didn't have catching issues.
P.s: we should thank KC for taking Avery from us. That is one thing Colts fans must do...i'm looking forward to DHB


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|Senior Citizen Services levy passes easily
|Tuesday, November 05, 2013 9:21 PM
Staff Writer
DELPHOS — Allen County voters supported the .3-mill 5-year replacement Senior Citizen Services levy on the ballot Tuesday night. With the passage of the measure, the county will appropriate over $616,000 for agency services over the next five years.
Director of the Delphos Senior Citizens Center Joyce Hale said it's been a good night.
"It's nice to be able to say, at this time, the people in the county are behind us," Hale was elated.
Monies generated from this levy will provide services and facilities for senior citizens in Allen County served by the following agencies: Allen County Council on Aging, Inc.; Delphos Senior Citizens, Inc.; Senior Citizens Services, Inc.; and Senior Citizens Association of Bluffton.
Funds received by the agencies from the levy will be used to provide services for Allen County elderly residents. Funds are also matched with federal and state grant monies to increase local service dollars and bring taxpayers' dollars back into the county. The services provided contribute to a better quality of life for senior citizens within Allen County.
Services and assistance available from the agencies include the Elderly Day Care Center, living wills, durable power of attorney/healthcare, Homestead Exemption, home-delivered meals, health and wellness programs, income tax forms, monthly blood glucose screens, review of medications, prescription assistance apps, senior fitness classes, caregivers' training and support groups and many others.
"With 69 percent of the vote, it makes us feel what we are doing is appreciated," Hale added. "We want to thank all in the community who supported us."


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Old Dominion University's graduate nursing program recently began a project, "Training of Nurse Practitioner Students in Health Centers," in collaboration with Peninsula Institute for Community Health (PICH). The project is funded by a $25,000 grant offered by the Department of Health and Human Services. The Advanced Education Nursing Grant ODU received was one of 10 awarded in the country.
Carolyn Rutledge, director of ODU's nursing program and associate professor, leads the project that began in January, allowing graduate nurse practitioner students to develop a collaborative partnership with PICH, which focuses its assistance to under-served areas. The purpose of the collaboration is to address the "Healthy People 2010" goals of increasing the quality and years of a healthy life and to eliminate health disparities by training nurse practitioner students.
Currently three ODU students work with nurse practitioners at PICH, with eight other students to be phased in over the next seven months. The three students taking part in the program now are working in different areas. One student is at the Stoneybrook Clinic, a homeless clinic that also has pediatrics as well as obstetrics and gynecology. The other students are at Epes Elementary School, working with a Spanish-speaking nurse practitioner, and also at Briarfield Elementary School. The school clinics provide sick visits, immunizations, physicals, and dental, vision and mental health referrals.
Students are learning about PICH's mission, governance, programs and the population they serve as they gain hands on experience at PICH's two school-based clinics, homeless clinic and their primary care clinic. The students also learn how various programs are used to collect data and how to use that data to identify the needs of the patients. As part of this project the nurse practitioner students also take part in the center's Board of Directors meetings.
This article was posted on: February 10, 2005
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UFC 145 Weigh Ins Video With Jon Jones Vs Rashad Evans Preview.
jONES WAR
I know Jones is gonna kill but GUYS what if??
Damn Rogan looks like he's on his roids cycle.
Jones better use that reach and be ferocious. Evans chance is to bully him if he can come out strong and get in his head.
Jones finished Rampage and Machida,Rashad couldnt,looks like a Bad night for rashad.Jones is right,Rashad is very cocky.
That's kinda interesting, not often do you see both main event fighters getting more boos than cheers from the audience.
If anyone thinks this is going to be an easy fight for Jon Jones they shouldn't follow MMA.
Jones is just such a douche. He'll probably win though. It would be nice to see Rashad knock him out though, maybe his head wont be so big any more. Not that Rashad isn't cocky himself.
Jones was screaming like a gay man in rainbow parade lol
Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Jon Jones.Sorrry but you time is up you cocky muthafucka.
hope rashad F*** him up, and when he wins he can say F*** grag an the whole camp
Both will have sub par performance…
Rashad will win…
I was surprised with the amount of boos. Hope the fight lives up to the hype.
doing numerology, jon jones wins…ouch
Rashad… I never thought I'd say this but I'm rootin for ya man… DO IT!!!
That was intense At the end… F*** I hope this will be a good fight, theres alotta Hype tossed into this one
The problem with being at the top,is that you dont have anywhere else to go,but down.Rashad by tko..Jones cant not handle the load of being the image of mma.He is too, full of himself. He needs a lesson in humbelnes..
it would be nice to see douche Jones get KTFO, I hope Rashad wins however the chance is slim.
I gotta say, wasn't really that into this fight… till seeing this weigh in. they ready to scrap!
and that jumping/screaming jones was doing was pretty lame. trying to pump himself up! make weight! come on.
pulling for rashad, but jones is the clear favorite. gonna be a good one.
jones seemed off, like not focused or something.
JBJ is gonna destroy Shad.
Jones does copy Rashad. Rashad WAR!!!
Rogan is a Dana mini me with tats!! WTF???? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
shut up with this cocky thing now!…both men have a mouth but they are going to fight unlike you keyboard-fighters! give it a rest with that cocky s**t!
every black guy with a belt is cocky and not confident? get the f**k out of hear and enjoy the fight!
Lol@all the honkeys rootin for rashad when theyre booing him every other time.like I said they cant handle a succesful black man period.they loved an up and coming jon bones jones but now hates him as un stoppable champion.this cocky label is the same as when there grandfathers called blacks with education and money back in th 50s and 60s a uppity N*****.but we never heard chuck liddel or matt hughes called.cocky.i wonder why
I think Rashad is going to give Jones a tough fight tonight. It's going to be a war. At least I hope so since I'm having my first ever UFC party at my house tonight. I just got a new Sony flat-screen and the technicians from my employer, Dish, just got done upgrading the rest of my equipment to high definition. And browsing through all the HD channels I get, and checking out the gorgeous picture has me that much more psyched for the fights. I should have upgraded sooner! Especially since Dish still has had the HD Free for Life promotion going on for a long time now, and with it I'll never have to pay for the additional HD content.
F****** please, now with the balling and crying, someone give this guy a hankie. he's being repressed…… get over it all ready, your reaching…….. again.
you start off with honkey. then start crying for the race card. I'm white, straight, irish, and lds. my people have been through plenty. read a little every race has been in slaved. not to long ago there were laws in the eastern states to kill lds on site. the only difference is you will teach your kids to cry like you, and hopefully they don't teach there's… lmfao
always reaching for a sob story….
rashad has improved a lot since losing to machida … this will be a tough fight for jones … i think the way to beat jones is to wait him out and make a mistake coming in … people have lost because they were attacking him
LOL. Black man vs Black man and some dumb F*** somehow plays the race card… ridiculous.
Im not crying at all just call it what it is unlike you denial kings.


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Bozell Column: Whose Movie Is Propaganda?
It's more than a little shocking when someone makes a movie that deals harshly with abortion. This is Hollywood after all. Abortion is a feminist sacrament. The movie "October Baby" just debuted on 390 screens and registered in eighth place for the weekend, with an estimated $1.7 million gross.
"October Baby" is a drama loosely based on the real-life story of Gianna Jessen, born with cerebral palsy after she survived a failed abortion procedure and now a celebrated pro-life speaker. In the film, the lead character, Hannah, discovers her adoptive parents hid from her that she was never meant to be born.
Naturally, the critics just couldn't judge this movie by artistic standards. It had to be savaged because it is so politically incorrect. New York Times film critic Jeannette Catsoulis bared her ideological fangs at this improbable movie: "Not even a dewy heroine and a youth-friendly vibe can disguise the essential ugliness at its core: like the bloodied placards brandished by demonstrators outside women's health clinics, the film communicates in the language of guilt and fear."
Ouch. A celebration of life is "essential ugliness." One of the film's most powerful moments was assailed by Catsoulis as propaganda. Jasmine Guy plays the clinic nurse who assisted at Hannah's birth. "Her pivotal speech, a gory portrait of fetal mutilation and maternal distress, conjures a vision of medical hackery that is clearly intended to terrify young women -- and fits right in with proposed state laws that increasingly turn the screws on a woman's dominion over her reproductive system."
Notice how the Times couldn't focus on the movie without imagining the horror of conservative state legislators reducing a "woman's dominion" over the termination of unborn children, no matter how advanced the pregnancy.
What is it that the nurse says that is so offensive? "I didn't see no tissue, just the face of a child." This is not a Hollywood talking point.
Catsoulis concludes, "'Hate the crime, not the criminal,' a friendly police officer advises Hannah. Except that abortion is not a crime, no matter how fervently some people continue to wish that it were."
But if you do consider abortion a crime -- against God -- isn't that the kind of compassionate message Hollywood preaches regularly? Such is the militancy of this issue in Hollywood.
Catsoulis also assailed Ben Stein's anti-Darwinist documentary "Expelled" as an "unprincipled propaganda piece" that was "one of the sleaziest documentaries to arrive in a very long time." But in 2005, Catsoulis adored a documentary on America's failure to uplift the poor, cribbing from socialist author Barbara Ehrenreich, finding it "eye-opening, often heartbreaking ... neither hectoring nor sanctimonious ... brisk and unexploitative." This woman is a fervent activist disguised as a film critic.
Another recent surprise at the cineplex was "Act of Valor," a war movie made with active-duty Navy SEALs that's made $66 million at the box office. It actually won the box-office crown on its opening weekend at the end of February. Again, newspaper film critics hated it.
On the front page of the Washington Post on Feb. 24, there was film critic Ann Hornaday reporting the movie was in "the crosshairs of critics who question whether the movie crosses the line between entertainment and propaganda, and whether the military should be in the movie business at all." She wanted a congressional investigation.
The Navy didn't fund the movie, but Hornaday wrote "it could be argued that the Navy heavily subsidized it in the form of access to its assets and personnel that would have cost millions to reproduce." The Navy also didn't have creative control, but Hornaday insisted "the filmmakers admit that there was little chance the Navy would be dissatisfied with their portrayal in the film, which depicts a group of strong, brave, unassuming men who pursue their missions, not with hot-dog swagger but cool teamwork and quiet professionalism."
My God, the hate-America crowd is alive and well.
Here's the rub: Hornaday had no problem with propaganda when it shredded the Bush administration and the war in Iraq. When it came to the 2010 movie "Fair Game," which glorified Bush-hater Valerie Plame Wilson, Hornaday complained that people would fact check this propaganda, and what "audiences often fail to take into account is that a too-literal allegiance to the facts can sometimes obscure a larger truth."
In that article, Hornaday even touted Oliver Stone's ridiculous fact mangling. Stone "favors bright lines and (often wholly imagined) emblematic scenes over messier shades of gray." Stone's imagination of "history" is somehow more truthful than "Act of Valor"? Obviously not, it's just more politically satisfying.
Critics slam politically incorrect movies with lines such as "this would have been better off as a bumper sticker." But when movies conform to Hollywood's long-standing libertine and anti-military prejudices, they qualify as "resonant" and "emblematic" pieces of art.
- Brent Bozell's blog
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Women have always had
Submitted by misterbee241 on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 8:51am.
dominion over their reproductive system. There was a time the people in this country had morals, a sense of right and wrong. Decisions had consequences. But thanks to the Supreme Court, abortion changed all that. The consequences of free sex is either a baby that could not be taken care of, or a sexual disease or both. Abortion is the back up plan when a roll in the hay goes bad. A child is an inconvenience that intrudes on a wanton lifestyle. And it's not all on the woman either. Too many baby daddies are sending their women to abortion mills to get rid of daddy's little indiscretion. so we've come to the point we'll just have sex with anybody we want to, and kill the child that will probably result. Once more, an innocent dies for somebody else's sin.
If you're not getting flak, you're not over the target.
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Woman have always had..
Submitted by NVRAT on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 9:57am.
Amen Mr. bee. You have so rightly hit one of the Liberal nails on the head.
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Submitted by Unsane on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 10:59am.
"Women have always had dominion over their reproductive system." - Indeed, that is one of the functions of knees.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
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It's such an intellectual challenge being a liberal,
Submitted by agingcynic on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 8:54am.
On the one hand, it's so much fun killing babies in the name of "women's rights" and feminist solidarity
On the other hand, since the majority of babies killed are FEMALE around the world, (often for no other reason than their gender), this is only the second advocacy group whose policies are fatal to the people they claim to protect. (The first was the "smokers rights" groups set up by the PR departments of cigarette companies.) Nice company, guys!
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Most folks ignore the critics
Submitted by neutron on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 9:29am.
Back in the mid-1980s, I quit listening to critics who tried to tell me what movies I should watch. Their tastes were too liberal, and they still are.
Brent Bozell is our hero for his life's work and the MRC media outlets, but I would suggest to him and others that we need to shift from complaining about the imbalance to ridiculing the imbalance. It is the next step in the "Rules For Radicals" method of eliminating our competition.
If the MSM was still powerful, the landslide of the 2010 mid-term election would never have happened. Look how fast the Fluked hysteria and attempt to turn a violation of our 1st Amendment rights into "access to contraceptives" fizzled. Look at how fast the long-laid plans to ruin Limbaugh fell apart.
The MSM is no longer the MSM. They are a side show. People no longer depend on just the 3-letter media for their news. Their day is over.
They are just a joke, and their film critics are the worst jokes of the lot.
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Reagan had it right
Submitted by neutron on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 9:56am.
Ronald Reagan's retort, "There you go again," to Jimmy Carter in the 1980 presidential election was a classic . Reagan frequently used it to disarm and belittle the liberal in question.
We need more of this type of response to loud-mouthed and furious-fingered liberals who attempt to tell us what to think and do.
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Submitted by GG_NB on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 10:44am.
Good point.
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
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Georgia Girl has it! I see it clearer now!
Submitted by neutron on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 9:41pm.
Georgia Girl posted:
"There you go again." -- Reagan to Carter
*Let's not keep falling for this*
Every Republican politician, when faced by by a rabid liberal pressing their "gotcha" questions should use "There you go again." as the 1st part of their response. Like with Reagan, current Republicans can turn their gotchas into a running joke that will ridicule them and the Democrats.
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Submitted by GG_NB on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 10:04pm.
Hey, let's be the first to start the trend -- maybe it will catch on! LOL. I'll first try it out on Jer (but he'll likely just keep going, God bless him) and then maybe on other NB liberals. Some aren't so bad...but some are so irrational!
I'm honestly so weary (annoyed?) at putting effort into trying to reason with/convince liberals of some of their errored thinking and pointing out the same ole tricks of their trade that I'm tired of wearing myself out anymore. Plus, you give them an inch of debate, and they will steal a mile. It's just about futile! ^_^
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
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reasoning with a liberal
Submitted by neutron on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 12:55pm.
"Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."
-- Robert Heinlein
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Tora Tora Tora!
Submitted by CobraMan on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 12:04pm.
"it could be argued that the Navy heavily subsidized it in the form of access to its assets and personnel that would have cost millions to reproduce."
Wow, you just described Tora Tora Tora, or Midway, or Run Silent Run Deep, or any other navy themed move over the last 50 years.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
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They Were Expendable.
Submitted by The Vet on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 1:03pm.
The Final Countdown (starring the USS Nimitz)
In The Navy
Operation Petticoat
Top Gun
Down Periscope
Master and Commander
Sink the Bismark!
The Last Detail
No Way Out
Trial by Fire: A Carrier Fights For Life (1973)
The Hunt for Red October
Under Siege (starring the USS Missouri)
Dead Calm
Blood Alley
Black Hawk Down
Below (Please take car of your Captain. Please. I.... Oh, I got the shakes again.)
Crash Dive
The Final Countdown (Did I mention the star? The USS Nimitz)
Whoops. Sorry. The DVD shelf fell on NewsBusters. I will clean it up. Hang on.
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Submitted by Unsane on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 6:15pm.
Hey, what about The Caine Mutiny?
Don't make me make YOU look for the missing strawberries...
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
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Pure unadulterated gobsmack propa-friggin-ganda.
Submitted by The Vet on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 1:46pm.
Pearl Harbor-NAVY Divers at the Arizona Memorial ND2 Brian Simic reenlists underwater next the the USS Arizona.
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Did they find your cigarette
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 1:54pm.
Did they find your cigarette lighter while they were down there???
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Dang buddy. You remembered.
Submitted by The Vet on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 2:05pm.
And a watch. And a half pack of Winstons. Nah, they would have to take a right and go over a couple thousand feet.
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Oh yeah, the watch too - I
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 2:09pm.
Oh yeah, the watch too - I forgot about that. What the hell were you doing, Vet - getting into a fight with some little leftist puke???
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Painting over the side.
Submitted by The Vet on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 2:29pm.
Put all my precious stuff in my shirt pocket so it would not have flecks of paint on them when I bent over and lost everything to the drink.
I got an ID card at the bottom of Apra Harbor in Guam if you are keeping track of all the stuff I lost to the drink over the years.
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Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 2:33pm.
can be such a b!tch.
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I watched a movie with Lee
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 2:34pm.
I watched a movie with Lee Marvin recently on the Military Channel - he was in charge of shaping up a bunch of punks and delinquents so that they could drop in on some chateau in France where the German brass was staying. I can't remember the name, but it was pretty good...............I always liked Lee Marvin, regardless of what he did. Charles Bronson too..........and, of course, Clint Eastwood.
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He's joking.
Submitted by The Vet on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 2:49pm.
He knows it is The Dirty Dozen.
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Yeah, that was
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 3:28pm.
Yeah, that was it......................but I couldn't figure out what the hell Trini Lopez was doing in there, and Donald Sutherland - is he one of the 'creepiest' actors in the history of Hollywood??? And I don't mean that in a negative way, like I would if I were agreeing with Peggy Noonan about Boy Baraka being 'creepy'.
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Hey Killa
Submitted by dyardley on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 7:25pm.
I'm with you on creepy Donald Sutherland. I saw him in 'Klute' with Jane Fonda (don't yell) and it was the scariest movie I had ever seen. Still gives me the creeps and that was MANY years ago.
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Ah-Waaaaaaaaa. Ahhhh. Ahhhh. Ahhhh. Ahhhh.
Submitted by The Vet on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 3:14pm.
Sorry. I drifted off and started dreaming about Below again. That's it. That DVD is going back in the freezer again so I can sleep soundly. Bad HooDoo I tellz ya. That DVD is full of bad HooDoo.
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My Column at My Blog In This Very Subject
Submitted by manofaiki on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 3:27pm.
I was so disturbed by the way liberal movie critics went out of their way to attack 'Act of Valor' that I wrote a column about it on my blog. It was entitled 'Why Hollywood Hates 'Act of Valor [& Any Other Film That Does It Politically Incorrectly]
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"October Baby": A Failed Abortion, A Wonderful Life
Submitted by berlet98 on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 5:34pm.
"October Baby:" A Failed Abortion, A Wonderful Life
Nothing disturbs liberals more than a perceived assault on their most cherished, radical feminist sacrament, abortion.
They consider the right to murder a pre-born baby sacrosanct and inviolable and venomously attack any and all thinking to the contrary, especially when that thinking is incontrovertible.
Thus, the liberal reaction to the movie "October Baby" was entirely predictable since the film undermines their most fundamental precept that a woman's rights supersede a baby's right to life.
The reaction rivals the negative, leftist reception accorded the films, "Act of Valor" which, despite its violence, is an affirmation of American values and our armed forces, and "The Passion of the Christ," which aroused the passion of anti-Christians everywhere.
Positive affirmations of virtually anything good tend to make libs queasy.
Just released on 390 screens nationwide, "October Baby" is what Hollywood would call "a small film," produced with minimal publicity and with major budgetary constraints.
Filmed in four weeks not in Tinseltown but in Alabama and on the Gulf Coast, "October Baby" nevertheless garnered eighth place and an estimated $1.7 million gross for its first weekend with a per-screen average of $4,352, finishing third behind "Hunger Games," which debuted on 4,137 screens.
However, despite its outstanding early success at the box office, the story of "October Baby" is not about gross receipts and screens. It's about life, understanding, and love.
Loosely based on the actual experiences of anti-abortion activist, Gianna Jessen, who was born with cerebral palsy and whose life was subsequently defined by pain, doctors, and medications, the movie focuses on Jessen's persona, Hannah Lawson, who mistakenly believes her "entire life is a lie." . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=20181.)
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I saw her whip this up on TV not too long ago and it's so much fun. I make a version of this but I decided to pay hommage to Rachael straight up. I loved it, but the kids like my turkey burger version better. Aren't they good boys??? Next time I'll post my sloppy doggies version and you can decide!
Serves: 9 little leaguers Prep time: 10 minutes Cook time: 20 minutes
- 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 pounds lean ground sirloin or ground turkey
- 1 packages beef or pork hot dogs, sliced 1/2-inch thick
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 tablespoon steak seasoning (recommended: Montreal Steak Seasoning by McCormick)
- 1 tablespoon chili powder
- 3 tablespoons dark brown sugar
- 3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1 (14.5-ounce) can tomato sauce
- 9 soft burger rolls – like at the ballpark
Be sure to have the kids help you with this one. It's right up there alley, minimal chopping and lots of goodies they like. Cooper and Brady helped me whip these up. Here's what we did…
Heat the extra-virgin olive oil, a turn of the pan, in a deep skillet over medium-high heat. Add meat and crumble as it browns. Add chopped hot dogs after 3 to 4 minutes then cook 3 to 4 minutes more. Add the onions to the pan and cook to soften, 5 to 6 minutes more. In a bowl mix the spices, sugar, Worcestershire and tomato sauce. Pour sauce over the meat and simmer a few minutes to combine flavors. Slop onto buns and serve.


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I feel the pressure when I am steadily asked this too familiar December question: When will my annual Holiday Lights Tour map through the San Jacinto Valley be published?
The map will appear in print Friday, Dec. 20, and likely will be posted on PE.com the night before.
My Press-Enterprise map and its online PE.com cousin chart a tour of lights in the San Jacinto, Hemet and Valle Vista areas.
New this year, PE.com features an additional slick interactive online map that accepts uploaded readers' photos and videos not only from the San Jacinto Valley, but also from communities covered by the Press-Enterprise in Riverside and San Bernardino counties. Use the map by clicking this PE.com holiday lights map link.
A sneak peek of pictures of homes along the route appears below.
My map, a project since the early 1990s, has turned into an annual holiday event in the San Jacinto Valley. Parties are planned around the publication of the map, residents of senior facilities tour the lights in vans and all sorts of decorated vehicles — from bicycles to hay wagons to vintage fire engines — travel the route.
The venerable Hemet Jeep Club again will be rolling by the lights in their decorated off-road rigs Saturday, Dec. 21.
It is quite difficult to produce the map any sooner than the week before Christmas for a simple reason. I can't view the lights until they are up.
Many decorators along the route still are stringing lights and setting up Christmas figures. The San Jacinto Valley won't be fully ablaze in LED bulbs until Sunday, Dec. 15, which is when my serious light hunting begins.
I started roaming Wednesday, Dec. 10, and did see isolated groups of beautiful lights. Some of the tour route's biggest displays only were partially set up.
Tierra Verde Drive in Valle Vista by Angler's Little Lake again is following the street of stately homes' usual theme of classy white lights. Way out east in the custom-home neighborhood above Marshall Avenue in Valle Vista, the displays are a must see. In the neighborhood, Bruce and Connie Kirk, who live on Chad Court, set up an amazing Santa decoration complete with a sign up sheet for kids. Dennis and Phyllis Patterson have their ski lift running and Christmas hot-air balloon is flying on Garrett-Ryan Court.
Perhaps my favorite decoration of all is in the same neighborhood. Gordon and Anita Anderson's tastefully and creatively designed tropical Christmas at the intersection of Denizen Heights and Valle Heights roads already is attracting light watchers.
On Dumont Road, Debbie and Rick Gumm were among the first in the valley to set up their lights. Michael and Joan Perrin already have their lights up on Barnhill Road.
On Nuckolls Court, Ty Heslep will host at Kiwanis Club of Hemet Valley food drive for the Community Pantry the evening of Saturday, Dec. 14, and Saturday, Dec. 21. His decorations are quite nice.
Every year, I cruise the tour route to make changes, add new displays and remove stops where there no longer are decorations. Unfortunately, I can't include all the decorations that people would like to see on the map because they are too far removed from the tour route. I don't send the tour through private mobile home parks with narrow streets. I don't direct light watchers up the steep streets in the hills above Hemet.
I stick to the San Jacinto Valley.
This year, thankfully, there is a way for more images of impressively decorated homes to be included. Please check out the PE.com interactive map for the entire region. I invite you to load your photos onto the map. If they are from the San Jacinto Valley, it will be great way to tip me off about your home.
Contact Bob Pratte at firstname.lastname@example.com or 3400 Wentworth Drive, Hemet 92545. Find Bob's blog at blog.pe.com/author/bobpratte and follow him on Facebook at www.facebook.com/PE.BobPratte and Twitter: @bpratte


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50 Cent roars into 2014 with a brand new freestyle. The hip-hop mogul issues a warning to the competition and stacks his paper on "This Is Murder Not Music," which he released on New Year's Day.
"I had your style 10 years ago, I just didn't use it/ You ni**as forgot how I do it/ Well I do it like there's nothing to it," raps Fif.
He plans to release a new project called Animal Ambition: An Untamed Desire to Win this year.
"This is gonna shake things up trust me," tweeted 50.
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Once again, the Washington Concert Opera delivered a thrilling musical experience. The singers and chorus were all excellent, but the Amina was beyond that. I felt that I finally understood what was so great about Bellini.
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As usual, the Washington Concert Opera had excellent soloists, and a very good orchestra and chorus. The rarely performed opera was a delight to hear.
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The lead soprano was wonderful and we will hear more of her in the future I am sure - Elgise Gutierrez. The lead tenor, Rene Barbera also had a wonderful sound. The support roles with Maureen McKay and Ben Wagner were very enjoyable as well. ...continued
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Orquestra + singers + libretto + music score = opera.
As operas go, la somnambula was amazing.
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"This performance of Bellini's lovely opera from Sardinia has a superb Amina in Eglise Gutierrez, the finest since Callas." —_BBC Music Magazine _
"Eglise Gutiérrez, the Cuban-American soprano, makes a sensational Amina, dispatching her roller-coaster solos with ease and genuine charm." —The Guardian (London)


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The Reds won a third straight and took three of four from the Diamondbacks with a 4-3 win Sunday afternoon.
Cincinnati (26-29) pounded four solo home runs, while Alfredo Simon gave up just three earned runs in his seventh win."You fight to win series and get on a roll, " said Reds manager Bryan Price. "We're heading in a nice direction. We're getting a nice supply with the four solo homers." Simon (7-3) gave up all three earned runs in the fourth inning, but battled back allowing seven hits and striking out four in 6 1/3 innings."He had to battle," said Price. "Somehow Alfredo kept himself in the game and gave us a chance to win the game." Sam LeCure, Jonathan Broxton and Aroldis Chapman carried the final 2 2/3 innings for the Reds. The bullpen collectively gave up two hits and struck out four. Chapman hit 103 miles per hour on the radar gun and fanned two Diamondbacks in his seventh save. Bryan Price said he's been impressed with the bullpen. "Early in the year, the starters were so efficient, not many of those guys were getting work. Broxton, Chapman and Hoover are pitching a lot more. And they're a lot more sharp because of it," said Price. Billy Hamilton sat out Sunday with soreness in his right elbow. Zack Cozart, Todd Frazier, Ryan Ludwick and Chris Heisey each accounted for solo home runs.
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Budget-Friendly Oceanfront — Pool, Sauna & Volleyball in Ocean City
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Begin your vacation at the Beach, not the grocery store! Life's necessities will already be waiting for you, such as Dish Soap & Detergent, Hand Soap, Paper Towels, Bag of Gourmet Starbucks Coffee, Sweetener, Creamer & more!
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Oceanfront at a Great Price
Enjoy the sparkling sun on the Atlantic Ocean from the Master Bedroom & Oceanfront Balcony of Antigua 1204 (85th St). This lovely 2-BR, 2-BA, Oceanfront condo has everything you need for a completely relaxing visit to Ocean City. Property features Cable TV, Central A/C, Washer/Dryer, and fully-equipped Kitchen with full size refrigerator, stove, microwave, dishwasher, etc.
Short walk to Beach & Dining
Grab your flip-flops & go! Walk down to the Beach for a day of sun & surf, or stay home to enjoy Antigua's guest amenities, including heated Outdoor Pool, Kiddie Pool, Volleyball Area, and Sauna. Antigua 1204 is also just an easy walk away from many local shops and restaurants, including La Hacienda, Fresco's, Jive & The Hobbit. Just a short drive from the famous Ocean City Boardwalk.
*This property is available for weekly rental with Saturday check-in date In-Season & FlexStay during Off-Season (check-in any day of week, 3- or 4-night minimum).
*Non-smoking. No pets, please. $25.00 Non-Refundable Building Registration fee due at check-in at the Antigua Bldg.
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- Cable TV
- Fully-equipped Kitchen
- Central A/C
- Private Balcony with panoramic Ocean views
- 1-Car Parking
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- Outdoor Pool
- Kiddie Pool
- Adult Sauna
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- Easy walk to restaurants, like The Hobbit, Jive, La Hacienda & more!
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- Living Room – Queen Sleep Sofa
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Antigua (85th St) is an Oceanfront building with lovely accommodations & amenities. Located just along the water's edge, this property offers you the best of both worlds: a quiet, Mid-Town setting with all of Ocean City's fun & excitement right at your fingertips. Many great shops, activities & restaurants are within walking distance, including South Moon Under, The Hobbit & La Hacienda. Best of all, you'll be just minutes from the popular OCMD Boardwalk, thrilling amusement rides & world-class golf.
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01/04/14 - 05/09/14 $163/night......................................$815/week (3-night min)
05/10/14 - 06/06/14 $185-$222/night....................$925-$1110/week (3-night min)
06/07/14 - 06/27/14 $278-$303/night...................$1390-$1515/week (7-night min)
06/28/14 - 08/22/14 $370/night......................................$1850/week (7-night min)
08/23/14 - 08/29/14 $296/night......................................$1480/week (7-night min)
08/30/14 - 09/12/14 $204-$252/night...................$1020-$1260/week (3-night min)
09/13/14 - 09/26/14 $192/night.......................................$960/week (3-night min)
09/27/14 - 12/26/14 $148-$152/night.......................$740-$760/week (3-night min)
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- Spend a relaxing day on the Beach.
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For the second time this week, the Big Brother house received tragic news.On Friday's live feed (as reported by TMZ), Derrick Lavasseur was informed that his grandfather had died.
The day before, Derrick had purposely thrown the Head of Household competition so that Frankie could get an opportunity to see photos of his grandfather, who died on Tuesday.
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Asheville, N.C.—Yesterday, we offered our report from Moogfest 2012. Running this past Oct. 26-27 at various Asheville venues, Moogfest offered 36 acts, a trio of engaging seminars, lots of costumed crazies and plenty of lasting musical memories. Today, we show you the pictures. Enjoy. [...] Continue reading
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The H206 Charity Game at KeyArena is next Saturday July 23, and the organizers of the event joined Sports Director Aaron Levine on Q It Up Sports.
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Norma Beecroft, Rasas I (1968)
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Luciano Berio, Sequenza III (1965)
Gilles Tremblay, Vers (Champs III) (1969)
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Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Credentials or "Think, Think Lucky" (1960)
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Luciano Berio, Visage (1961)
Cathy Berberian, Stripsody (1966)
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There is no such thing as a blood test for influenza. If you've been searching for one, you can stop.
Influenza is a respiratory disease, so specimens preferred for influenza testing come from the respiratory system: nasopharyngeal swab (from the upper part of the throat behind the nose), nasopharyngeal swab combined with oropharyngeal swab (from the cavity at the back of your mouth), or "nasal aspirate" (translation: "snot"). If specimens from those locations cannot be collected, a nasal swab or oropharyngeal swab by itself will work.But not a blood sample.
You can read the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance on collecting, storing, processing and testing influenza specimens. Swabs, not syringes.
As a colleague related in his account of being tested for H1N1 last month, Tan Tock Seng Hospital in Singapore took a blood sample from him when he went to be tested for influenza. When he asked why, he was told only that it was 'to be sure you don't have anything else.'
If medical personnel draw a sample of your blood for testing, they aren't looking for influenza. They might be looking for bacterial infections like typhoid or sepsis, viral infections found in Asia like malaria, dengue fever, hepatitis, yellow fever , or some other blood-borne pathogen. They could also be looking for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), of course, the cause of AIDS. Read more... (1167 words, 1 image, estimated 4:40 mins reading time)
Wearing an N95 mask - or any other kind of mask – will not prevent you from getting influenza, and buying multiple masks for each employee in your office as a pandemic preparation measure is wasteful and unnecessary. It will be more effective to get them to wash their hands regularly, because a primary transmission route for influenza is contact with an infected surface.
In an office, masks are for the sick people, not for the well people. A mask will prevent someone in your office who is sneezing or coughing from spraying saliva, "snot" and "germs" on you and your colleagues by trapping mucus inside the mask. How many sick people do you knowingly let into your office these days? None. You don't need any masks for them. You keep them out of the office by screening at the building entrance.
How many sick people do you expect to get into your office in the next twelve months? I wrote in September 2006 that my best guess was that about 20% of a company's headcount, including visitors and vendors, would catch the flu in any one year. Your company could buy masks for those people, I suppose, if you expect all of them to ignore sensible advice and come into the office sick. Read more... (1561 words, 1 image, estimated 6:15 mins reading time)
A colleague of mine returned to Singapore on Wednesday, May 27 from Boston, USA, where he'd spent the week between May 17 and May 24. He came back with a cold, a bad one.
He was sure it was a cold, not the flu: his temperature had not gone over 36 degrees C (98 F), he had no fever, no headache, no chills. He had cleared the thermal screening at Singapore's Changi Airport. But he had a meeting with a client scheduled on Friday, May 29, so he informed the client on Thursday, May 28 of his condition. The client asked him to (quoting the client's e-mail) "get clearance from a doctor that it is just a common cold, and not something serious" before coming to their office. He called his doctor on Friday morning, 29 May.
This is his first-hand, contemporaneous account of his experience as a suspected carrier of H1N1.
9.40 Call my doctor. All patients who have been to Mexico, USA or Canada and who have any of the flu symptoms, have to go to Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) by ambulance. [TTSH is Ground Zero for infectious disease in Singapore. It was the focal point for response to SARS, H5N1 "bird flu" and now H1N1 "swine flu". Five TTSH health care workers died of SARS in 2003 as a result of caring for patients. Read more... (1491 words, 0 images, estimated 5:58 mins reading time)
I can find no clinical evidence that Roche's Tamiflu is more effective than GlaxoSmithKline's less-prescribed Relenza against Type A influenza like H1N1 and H5N1.
I have found abundant evidence, however, that Switzerland-based Roche has run marketing circles around U.K.-based GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) by emphasizing the convenience of swallowing a Tamiflu capsule over the hassle of inhaling Relenza powder.
That's the only reason I can imagine why a dose of Tamiflu is two to three times as expensive as a dose of Relenza. A dose of 75mg Tamiflu costs US$5 to US$10 at Internet pharmacies, but a dose of 5mg Relenza costs only US$2.50 to US$3.50. Both require prescriptions.
If the target population covered by your business continuity plan includes a large number of children, you will prefer a Tamiflu caplet that is easier for children to swallow. But, for adults, inhaling Relenza is just as effective, much less expensive, and more readily available than Tamiflu at doctors' offices and pharmacies in Asia.
If this isn't a business school case study in the importance of packaging, it surely will be. Read more... (2506 words, 1 image, estimated 10:01 mins reading time)
Singapore's financial sector industry-wide exercise (IWE) will run from Thursday, Aug 28 to Friday, Sep 11, 2008. There will be three sessions, presumably corresponding to escalating stages of epidemic development, in a highly-pathogenic influenza (HPI) scenario over the two-week period, plus a "practical drill" on Friday 29 August that will require participants to execute HPI response plans at their own facilities.
These are the briefing slides used at ABS' Apr. 3 announcement in Singapore, and these slides are for the first "communique" briefing on May 7. This slide lists the dates of future briefings and communique's. The ABS has opened an IWE portal (exercise web site) specifically for the exercise.
• These are the MAS guidelines on pandemic measures for banks, issued in January 2006.
• These are MOH's recommended infection control measures for workplaces, last updated in May 2007.
• These are the Singapore MOH influenza alert levels (there are five; WHO has six).
The IWE is sponsored by the Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) with support from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), which includes the Singapore Police and Civil Defence Force (our fire department). Singapore's Ministry of Health (MoH) will surely contribute, too. Read more... (1133 words, 0 images, estimated 4:32 mins reading time)
An epidemic of avian influenza in West Bengal, India has the Indian "government in panic mode", according to the Times of India web site. And with good reason: 15 million of West Bengal's 80 million people are crammed into its capital city, Kolkata (Calcutta), a petri dish of poverty, pollution, political intransigence and hopeless public health. It is the city where Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity order.
If the infection reaches Kolkata's poultry markets, there is a much greater risk of animal-to-human transmission than there has been in Indonesia or Vietnam, where infections of H5N1 influenza have already crossed species from animals to humans.
There have been many more human infections of highly-pathogenic influenza in Indonesia (120 cases, 98 deaths) and Vietnam (102 cases, 48 deaths) than in India. There were three outbreaks of avian influenza in India in 2006, but there have been no human deaths there, yet.
But Kolkata is a whole other miasma of misery. The population density of Kolkata is 24,000 people per square kilometer (62,000 per square mile), the second highest in the world. The population density of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam's largest city, is only 3,000 per square kilometer (8,000 per square mile), a fraction of Kolkata's. Even the density of Jakarta, Indonesia, at 12,500 people per square kilometer (33,000 per square mile), is just half that of Kolkata. Read more... (443 words, 0 images, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)
Thousands of innocent bankers could perish in Singapore's next financial sector disaster exercise in 3Q 2008, when the Standing Committee on Business Continuity Management of the Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) plans to simulate the late stages of an infectious disease epidemic on the island.
No event in Singapore can be taken seriously until it has an acronym, so an exercise for the Lion City's entire financial sector is called an "industry-wide exercise," or "IWE."
The ABS committee favors a multi-day IWE spread over two (2) weeks. The U.K. ran a financial sector pandemic scenario, "Exercise Winter Willow," over three weeks from January 30 to February 20, 2007, and a similar exercise in the U.S.A in September and October also lasted three weeks. Members of the ABS committee, who represent big local and global financial institutions, participated in one or both of those exercises and have concluded that three weeks is too long. Senior management loses interest. Read more... (450 words, 0 images, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)
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And the Cannes red carpet rages on. Last night's big draw was The Tree Of Life premiere, which saw star Jessica Chastain face off against Angelina Jolie, Anna Dello Russo, Zoe Saldana, and Gwen Stefani. That's some stiff competition, the fact that both Dello Russo and Saldana then changed into second gowns for the after party notwithstanding.
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Every time you start preparing your trip, you probably head to the book store to search for some guides and maps because you get more engaged and you want to get a better idea of where you're going. Sometimes it means getting a little bit further from that dreamy outlook that you had when you decided to travel to that destination. You start planning more specific things, finding sights, restaurants, museums on the map, trying to figure out transportation etc. Some of us buy a guide and ignore the bad map in the guide saying "We won't get lost, we have travelled before and we were just fine…" or "Why would we need a map? We don't plan, we like to wander around more…" That's all great, and you definitely won't get lost, you can wander all you want but you start changing your opinion when you are at your destination or when you come back home and realize you haven't seen anything or done much.
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Some of you may have bought a city map. One of those pretty, colourfull, rainproof paper maps with some information on the side that at first looks "cool", but later you find it to be just an attraction factor, nothing useful. The thing is, it's not easy to know what you should be looking for if you are not an experienced traveller; or if you don't know much about the place you're going to. These maps start to loose their charm once you search for a street that is not marked, once you are having trouble folding and unfolding that huge map, or when you really wish you knew where your stations and stops were or how to get to where you want to go.
If you're like me, you probably thought of downloading and printing out public transportation maps from the net. That might be a good idea if you already bought your guides and maps. The tricky part comes when you're on the spot, trying to find the map you need :D Just kidding… but if you don't like a million papers, go for National Geographic Maps of cities. Except the city map, they include:
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Pumpkin Cake I Couldn't Duplicake
Unfortunately, Pumpkin Loaf also has a cup and a half of white sugar in it, and I have been trying very hard not to make anything like that lately. Coffeemamma has a slightly healthier version on her food blog.
Today's Pumpkin Cake experiment was at least edible, partially thanks to a few chocolate chips I threw in. I don't think it would be easy for anyone else to exactly duplicate this one, but at least it should encourage you if you're trying to make up your own low-sugar or no-sugar baking recipes: because it's no worse (and somewhat better) than stuff I've made from other people's recipes.
Unduplicakable Pumpkin Cake
Let's see if I can remember everything that went into this:
1 250-g (cup-sized) container of homemade pumpkin butter (I had frozen this; it's canned pumpkin cooked slowly with honey and spices)
1 egg
1/4 cup oil
about a cup of milk
1/2 cup leftover cooked oat groats (hulled oats) (same as cooked oatmeal)
Blend those together with a blender (I used a stick blender). If you're using cooked grains, you need some kind of power tool to blend them in.
Add in:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
(I didn't add spices because there were already some in the pumpkin butter)
About half a cup chocolate chips
Blend gently with a rubber spatula, adjusting liquid as necessary.
Pour into greased 8-inch square pan and bake in preheated 350 degree oven for...I checked it after 30 minutes and it was still pretty pale, so gave it ten more. Check it with a toothpick if you're not sure.
Notes: well, it would definitely have been zippier with some sugar and probably some extra cinnamon. I think I prefer the texture of raw oatmeal in baking rather than the slightly porridgy effect of cooked grains (even though Meredith's Kitchen Scrap Cookies are quite good).
But overall it wasn't bad. Creativity wins.
3 comments:
- AnnMarie said...
Your favorite one (on the other post) sounds a lot like the pumpkin bread recipe I use. I use only about 3/4c of sugar in my recipe. It does come out flatter (I bake it in a loaf pan, or actually, in my bread machine), plus I use at least half whole wheat flour. But it still tastes good with half the sugar of your recipe. (The eggs are the same amounts, I don't use any buttermilk, use only 1.5c flour.)
You pumpkin butter has honey in it--how much? Doesn't that negate the health savings of not using sugar?
- 9:35 am
- Mama Squirrel said...
The honey--depends on how much I put in in the first place, and yes, I know that doesn't really make it sugar-free (although I could tell by the taste of the cake that there wasn't much sweetener overall). I just wanted to use up the pumpkin butter.
Baby steps, right?
- 9:38 am
- Birdie said...
Sounds REALLY yummy!
- 12:43 pm


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