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Scientists agree: Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone
I've been meaning to try this: I am a nap person anyway, typically for about 30 minutes in the late afternoon. And since I have some coffee in my thermos from this morning…
To understand a coffee nap, you have to understand how caffeine affects you. After it's absorbed through your small intestine and passes into your bloodstream, it crosses into your brain. There, it fits into receptors that are normally filled by a similarly-shaped molecule, called adenosine.
Adenosine is a byproduct of brain activity, and when it accumulates at high enough levels, it plugs into these receptors and makes you feel tired. But with the caffeine blocking the receptors, it's unable to do so. As Stephen R. Braun writes in Buzz: the Science and Lore of Alcohol and Caffeine, it's like "putting a block of wood under one of the brain's primary brake pedals."
Now, caffeine doesn't block every single adenosine receptor — it competes with adenosine for these spots, filling some, but not others.
But here's the trick of the coffee nap: sleeping naturally clears adenosine from the brain. If you nap for longer than 15 or 20 minutes, your brain is more likely to enter deeper stages of sleep that take some time to recover from. But shorter naps generally don't lead to this so-called "sleep inertia" — and it takes around 20 minutes for the caffeine to get through your gastrointestinal tract and bloodstream anyway.
So if you nap for those 20 minutes, you'll reduce your levels of adenosine just in time for the caffeine to kick in. The caffeine will have less adenosine to compete with, and will thereby be even more effective in making you alert.
(click here to continue reading Scientists agree: Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone – Vox.)
Ask me tomorrow (or better yet next week after I try coffee napping a few times) how well it works…
Jabez Burns and Sons – Coffee Roasters
Seemed Easier Than Just Waiting Around
Fracking rules to be unveiled for Illinois
Great, just great. I guess this is why the Koch Industry was so concerned about Chicago's attempt to ban petcoke from being stored in the city.
Highly anticipated rules to regulate hydraulic fracturing in Illinois are to be unveiled Friday.
Once the rules go into effect, Illinois hopes to become the center of the next oil boom. Fracking, which involves injecting fluids and chemicals at high volumes to crack open shale rock and unleash oil and natural gas, could bring bring jobs to a struggling southern Illinois economy. Ilinois also is counting on tax revenue on extracted oil and gas to fatten state and county coffers.
A year ago a draft version of the proposed rules proved controversial, drawing about 30,000 comments, mostly from anti-fracking groups who sought to delay the law from taking effect.
Environmental groups claimed the proposed rules written by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources had undermined key provisions of state law dealing with containment of fracking liquids, fines for drillers who violated rules, and emergency situations.
(click here to continue reading Fracking rules to be unveiled Friday – Chicago Tribune.)
and to jog your memory a bit, from last spring:
We've had enough petcoke surprises lately in Chicago. Fortunately, the Illinois Pollution Control Board prevented another one last week.
The first surprises were mountains of petcoke — or petroleum coke — that grew as tall as five stories last summer near the Calumet River. The petcoke was generated by an Indiana refinery, and it was transported for storage to Chicago. People who live in the area said the powdery, black dust swirled off the mounds and coated their homes, along with any meals they were barbecuing outside.
In December, Chicago drafted new regulations governing the storage of petcoke, which is a refinery byproduct. Then, on Jan. 13, Gov. Pat Quinn announced his own emergency administrative rules. The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency filed the rules late on Jan. 16, and comments were due by Jan 21 at noon. Because the intervening Monday was a holiday, that left just one full business day for research and comments.
Many businesses that have nothing to do with petcoke found some surprises in the rules that they thought would hurt their operations. Some environmentalists, while pleased something was being done, thought the rules didn't go far enough.
(click here to continue reading For petcoke solutions, look to how state handles fracking – Chicago Sun-Times.)
Let's rape and pillage our state's environment so that a few can make profits. Whoo hoo! Earthquakes as a bonus!
Parasites Practicing Mind Control -Toxoplasma
Ladybug Cow (aka Cowccinella Novemnotata), climbing the wall of the Talbott Hotel under direction of Toxoplasma Gondii…
Wild, just wild. Fascinating stuff, and we are just discovering exactly how powerful these microorganisms actually are…
An unassuming single-celled organism called Toxoplasma gondii is one of the most successful parasites on Earth, infecting an estimated 11 percent of Americans and perhaps half of all people worldwide. It's just as prevalent in many other species of mammals and birds. In a recent study in Ohio, scientists found the parasite in three-quarters of the white-tailed deer they studied.
One reason for Toxoplasma's success is its ability to manipulate its hosts. The parasite can influence their behavior, so much so that hosts can put themselves at risk of death. Scientists first discovered this strange mind control in the 1990s, but it's been hard to figure out how they manage it. Now a new study suggests that Toxoplasma can turn its host's genes on and off — and it's possible other parasites use this strategy, too.
Toxoplasma manipulates its hosts to complete its life cycle. Although it can infect any mammal or bird, it can reproduce only inside of a cat. The parasites produce cysts that get passed out of the cat with its feces; once in the soil, the cysts infect new hosts.
Toxoplasma returns to cats via their prey. But a host like a rat has evolved to avoid cats as much as possible, taking evasive action from the very moment it smells feline odor.
Experiments on rats and mice have shown that Toxoplasma alters their response to cat smells. Many infected rodents lose their natural fear of the scent. Some even seem to be attracted to it.
Manipulating the behavior of a host is a fairly common strategy among parasites, but it's hard to fathom how they manage it.
(click here to continue reading Parasites Practicing Mind Control – NYTimes.com.)
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In a neighborhood pulsing with bulldozers and construction crews, the small church with the giant mural has managed to stand untouched, on an island of concrete and brittle grass, looking as lonely and alluring as a lighthouse.
The mural is faded now, its reds and yellows battered by sun and snow, but it's otherwise in good shape.
"Is there any graffiti on this piece?" said Pounds, who wears his gray hair in a short braided pigtail. "No. Thirty-five years, and no graffiti. That's a real testament to the power of the piece."
But a for-sale sign recently went up on another of the church's walls, the one that faces east toward the brand-new "eco-condos." If the mural's lovers don't act fast, Chicago is apt to gain a few more kitchens with granite countertops and lose a piece of art that Pounds believes is every bit as valuable as the Picasso sculpture in the Loop.
In 1972, an African-American artist named William Walker climbed some scaffolding and began to paint this 1901 church next door to Cabrini-Green.
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Cranky Reagan Biographer Gets Paraphrased, Demands Book Burning
Nixon – Reagan (Rick Perlstein) #doubleExposure
If you hadn't heard, Craig Shirley has been making the rounds accusing historian Rick Perlstein of plagiarism. For the record, I purchased a copy of The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan but haven't started reading yet. Most non-partisan writers, and several partisan writers have disagreed: historians quite frequently paraphrase from their sources, it is how we are taught to write! Perlstein didn't omit references, just made them available on-line instead of as footnotes or endnotes, nor did Perstein borrow more than a word or two at time. In other words, the accusation seems to be mostly without merit from where I slouch.
Mostly the accusations seem to stem from Perlstein's lack of hero worship for Ronald Reagan, the so-called patron saint of the Republican Party1.
So if you are at all interested in history of American politics, you might want to purchase a copy of Mr. Perlstein's book before the pitchfork brandishing hordes manage to storm the ramparts of Amazon.com's warehouses and burn the books that dare present a nuanced portrait of anyone so holy as Ronald "Bombing Begins in Five Minutes" Reagan.
Richard Nixon & Ronald Reagan (Rick Perlstein) – outtake
Some coverage that caught my eye includes:
Frank Rich reviews the book:
Next to the more apocalyptic spells of American history, the dismal span of 1973 to 1976 would seem a relative blip of national dyspepsia. A period that yielded the blandest of modern presidents, Gerald Ford — "a Ford, not a Lincoln," as he circumspectly described himself — is not to be confused with cataclysmic eras like the Civil War, the Great Depression and the Vietnam '60s. The major mid-70s disruptions — the Watergate hearings and Richard Nixon's abdication, Roe v. Wade, the frantic American evacuation of Saigon, stagflation, the dawn of the "energy crisis" (then a newly minted term) — were adulterated with a steady stream of manufactured crises and cheesy cultural phenomena. Americans suffered through the threat of killer bees, "Deep Throat," the Symbionese Liberation Army, a national meat boycott, "The Exorcist," Moonies and the punishing self-help racket est, to which a hustler named Werner Erhard (né Jack Rosenberg) attracted followers as diverse as the Yippie Jerry Rubin and the Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin. Even the hapless would-be presidential assassins of the Ford years, Lynette (Squeaky) Fromme and Sara Jane Moore, were B-list villains by our national standards of infamy.
"I must say to you that the state of our Union is not good," our unelected president told the nation in January 1975. That was true enough. America's largest city was going bankrupt. Urban crime was metastasizing. The C.I.A. was exposed as a snake pit of lethal illegality. The nostalgic canonization of the Kennedy presidency, the perfect antidote to the Nixon stench, was befouled by the revelation of Jack Kennedy's mob-moll paramour. Yet the mood of the union was not so much volatile as defeated, whiny and riddled by self-doubt. As Americans slouched toward the Bicentennial celebrations of July 4, 1976, pundits were wondering whether the country even deserved to throw itself a birthday party. "Everyone wanted to be somewhere else," Rick Perlstein writes in "The Invisible Bridge."
It says much about Perlstein's gifts as a historian that he persuasively portrays this sulky, slender interlude between the fall of Nixon and the rise of Reagan (as his subtitle has it) not just as a true bottom of our history but also as a Rosetta stone for reading America and its politics today. It says much about his talent as a writer that he makes these years of funk lively, engrossing and on occasion mordantly funny. Perlstein knows how to sift through a culture's detritus for the telling forgotten detail. Leave it to him to note that the WIN buttons peddled by Ford to promote a desperate "Whip Inflation Now" campaign were "designed by the same guy who invented the yellow 'smiley face.' " Or to recall that the Republican Party tried to combat its dire post-Watergate poll numbers by producing "Republicans Are People Too!," three fund-raising network television specials starring "everyday Republicans who want to tell why they have stuck with the G.O.P." Competing against "M*A*S*H" in prime time, the second installment brought in $5,515. The third never ran.
(click here to continue reading 'The Invisible Bridge,' by Rick Perlstein – NYTimes.com.)
Shouldn't That Be a Right Turn?
Jesse Walker from Reason Magazine:
Craig Shirley, the author of two books on Ronald Reagan, has sicced his lawyer on Rick Perlstein, whose '70s history The Invisible Bridge was published by Simon & Schuster this week. Shirley's attorney is demanding that the publisher pulp Perlstein's book, pay $25 million in damages, and take out ads apologizing to Shirley in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Nation, The New Republic, Slate, and Salon.
What provoked these demands? Basically, the 810 pages of The Invisible Bridge include some information that can also be found in Shirley's book Reagan's Revolution, and in some places Perlstein paraphrases Shirley. Shirley thinks this constitutes copyright infringement. If you'd like to read the bill of particulars, Dave Weigel has posted the attorney's letters and Simon & Schuster's response at Slate, and Shirley himself has posted a litany of alleged thefts on his website.
In the first item on the latter list, the two books do sound alike: Describing the red-light district in Kansas City, Perlstein echoes not just the info in Shirley's text but Shirley's words "festooned" and "smut peddlers." After that, though, we essentially get a list of places where the two writers cited the same facts. Facts are not copyrightable, and one pair of similar sentences does not an infringement make. I don't see a dollar's worth of damages here, let alone 25 million
(click here to continue reading Copyright Absurdity: Reagan Biographer Gets Paraphrased, Demands $25 Million – Hit & Run : Reason.com.)
Dave Weigel from Slate:
This just isn't what happens when Rick Perlstein releases a book. The first in his series, 2001's Before the Storm, was praised by William F. Buckley. George Will called it "the best book yet on the social ferments that produced Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential candidacy"—in a largely positive review of Perlstein's second book, Nixonland, which became a best-seller. What changed? This time Perlstein is writing about Ronald Reagan.
Goldwater, Nixon, Reagan—Perlstein has moved from covering a minor saint, to a martyr, to God. Thirteen years ago, when Perlstein profiled Goldwater's movement, there had been only one recent biography of the Arizonan. There will be at least half a dozen new Reagan books this year alone, everything from a deep dive into the 1986 Reykjavik summit to a collection of leadership tips. Perlstein is challenging an image of the 40th president that is built on many such books, celebrated at Republican county dinners, and quoted by everyone from Ted Cruz (in his arguments for conservative revival) to Joe Scarborough (in his argument that no one should listen to Cruz).
Yes, technically, The Invisible Bridge is a history of January 1973 to August 1976, and Reagan's own presidential campaign does not start until Page 546 (of 810). But in Perlstein's telling, Reagan was the essential figure who understood that Americans wanted to revise their history in real time. The Invisible Bridge starts with Operation Homecoming, the negotiated release of Vietnam POWs that was preceded by years of patriotic kitsch. Perlstein recreates the mood by quoting copiously from letters to the editor, from columnists, POW speeches and TV broadcasts. He recalls that it was future right-wing Rep. Bob Dornan who came up with yellow armbands as trinkets of POW solidarity, and recovers forgotten tidbits about them, like how "a Wimbledon champ said that one cured his tennis elbow."
(click here to continue reading Rick Perlstein's book on Reagan: The Invisible Bridge, reviewed..)
3/4 of a Kennedy Trumps 1/2 a Reagan
Eric Boehlert of Media Matters:
Right-wing publicist and author Craig Shirley doesn't like a new book about Ronald Reagan written by award-winning (and liberal) historian Rick Perlstein. So the conservative publicist has threatened to sue for $25 million in damages and has asked for all copies of the book to be "destroyed," claiming that with Invisible Bridge: The Fall Of Richard Nixon And The Rise of Ronald Reagan, Perlstein's guilty of plagiarism for paraphrasing facts Shirley had previously reported in his own book about Reagan.
But of course, paraphrasing is not the basis for copyright infringement and that's certainly not what constitutes plagiarism.
Meanwhile, for a best-selling author himself, Shirley seems to have little understanding of copyright law.
He seems to think that because he wrote a detailed book on a chapter of Reagan's political life (his failed 1976 presidential campaign), every writer who subsequently treads that same ground must credit Shirley because he was there first. But that's not how it works. "Any similarity between facts in non-fiction books – even if first reported by Mr. Shirley – does not support a claim of copyright infringement," wrote attorney Elizabeth McNarama, responding on behalf of Perlstein and his publisher.
McNamara stressed:
Your client's claim rests on the misguided notion that chroniclers of history, like Mr. Shirley, somehow acquire ownership and control over the facts and events they may uncover. This premise collides directly with the most basic principles of copyright law and is contrary to the very fundamentals of historical reporting.
The behind-the-scenes maneuvering suggests Shirley's plagiarism claim doesn't represent a serious pursuit. Instead it's a way for Shirley to draw attention to his own work and to make life difficult for an esteemed liberal writer chronicling a conservative icon.
(click here to continue reading Ann Coulter's Publicist Launches "Offensive" Against Historian Rick Perlstein | Blog | Media Matters for America.)
Paul Krugman weighs in, speaking from personal experience:
OK, this is grotesque. Rick Perlstein has a new book, continuing his awesomely informative history of the rise of movement conservatism — and he's facing completely spurious charges of plagiarism.
How do we know that they're spurious? The people making the charges — almost all of whom have, surprise, movement conservative connections — aren't pointing to any actual passages that, you know, were lifted from some other book. Instead, they're claiming that Perlstein paraphrased what other people said. Um, what? Unless there's a very close match, telling more or less the same story someone else has told before is perfectly ordinary — in fact, it would be distressing if history books didn't correspond on some things.
(click here to continue reading Sliming Rick Perlstein – NYTimes.com.)
Vote Reagan – Division Blue Line 1995
David Dayen at Salon:
Simon & Schuster responded to the letters here, by arguing that "any similarity between facts in non-fiction books – even if first reported by Mr. Shirley – does not support a claim of copyright infringement." In fact, it's self-evident that facts should remain similar over the course of histories of the same time period. Perlstein believes he merely built upon the historical record that Shirley helped register in his work. "He doesn't like the way I do history," Perlstein told Salon. "He thinks that if he digs up facts by the sweat of his brow that nobody else can use them. In fact, courts have used that exact phrase, 'sweat of the brow,' to say that there's no copyright protection for such facts."
In many cases, Simon & Schuster notes, Shirley alleges copyright infringement based on third-party quotes found in other sources. For example, Shirley claims that Perlstein stole a quote of Nancy Reagan's from him without attribution, even though the quote appears differently in the two books. In Shirley's, Nancy says "That's what I like to hear"; in Perlstein's, she says "Now that is the kind of talk I like to hear." The quotes differ because Perlstein got it from a different book called "PR as in President" by Victor Gold, which is whom he cited in his source notes.
In another allegation, about a hotel manager threatening to throw out the Pennsylvania delegation at the 1976 GOP convention, Perlstein's source is Time magazine, not Shirley (although he gives secondary attribution to Shirley anyway). Shirley even tries to claim copyright on a CBS News report of the number of delegates that Gerald Ford had attained near the end of the 1976 primaries.
A final claim of Shirley's reveals too much. Shirley says Perlstein stole his line about Reagan watching the chaotic last night of the 1976 convention on television, "dissolved in laughter" (which is cited). But Shirley doesn't add the line in "The Invisible Bridge" that comes afterward: "Then, he saw a televised image of himself on television watching it on television – that doesn't look good – and his smile disappeared." This additional insight, building on previous work and incorporating this cunning quality to Reagan, also came from a contemporaneous report in the Atlanta Daily World. As Dave Weigel writes, "In Shirley's version of the story, Reagan was underrated once again; in Perlstein's, he is underrated but calculating."
So Shirley, who as a right-wing operative and professional Reagan biographer is naturally protective of Reagan's legacy, and doesn't want a book to rise to prominence that calls him into question for any reason, has basically thrown every allegation up against the wall to see if something sticks. He claims plagiarism over inconsequential, ordinary short phrases. He claims plagiarism over quotes that other people said. He claims plagiarism on passages where Perlstein specifically attributes Shirley's book.
(click here to continue reading The right's "plagiarism" scam: How low it will stoop to protect Reagan's legacy – Salon.com.)
and after the New York Times published a "he said, he said" article about the ginned-up controversy, the NYT Public Editor Margaret Sullivan weighed in, concluding:
My take: There's a problem here. An article about polarized reaction to a high-profile book is, of course, fair game. But the attention given to the plagiarism accusation is not.
Yes, the claim was "out there" but so are smears of all kinds as well as claims that the earth is flat and that climate change is unfounded. This one comes from the author of a book on the same subject with an opposing political orientation. By taking it seriously, The Times conferred a legitimacy on the accusation it would not otherwise have had.
And while it is true that Mr. Perlstein and his publisher were given plenty of opportunity to respond, that doesn't help much. It's as if The Times is saying: "Here's an accusation; here's a denial; and, heck, we don't really know. We're staying out of it." Readers frequently complain to me about this he said, she said false equivalency — and for good reason.
So I'm with the critics. The Times article amplified a damaging accusation of plagiarism without establishing its validity and doing so in a way that is transparent to the reader. The standard has to be higher.
(click here to continue reading Was an Accusation of Plagiarism Really a Political Attack? – NYTimes.com.)Footnotes:
- despite his oft-stated differences with the policies of the current bunch of Tea-Bagger jokers who chant Reagan's name like it will ward off evil liberals, communists, and immigrants [↩]
Fela Kuti Vinyl Box Set Curated By Brian Eno
Fela Anikulapo Kuti – complete works
Since I own these albums already on CD, this box set, while enticing, seems too expensive for me: $30 per LP. If you are new to the delicious and infectious polyrhythms of Fela Kuti, Tony Allen, et al, these are excellent albums to start with.
Via Pitchfork's Evan Minsker
Knitting Factory have released two vinyl box sets reissuing Fela Kuti's albums—the first was curated by ?uestlove, the second by Ginger Baker. On September 29, they'll release a third, this one put together by Brian Eno. For Eno's installment, he picked the albums London Scene (1971), Shakara (1972), Gentleman (1973), Afrodisiac (1973), Zombie (1976), Upside Down (1976), and I.T.T. (1980). It comes with a 12-page booklet with a foreword by Eno, song lyrics, and in-depth commentaries by Afrobeat historian Chris May.
(click here to continue reading Fela Kuti Box Set of Vinyl Reissues, Curated by Brian Eno, Announced | News | Pitchfork.)
For the same money however, you can purchase 27 Fela Kuti discs instead: The Complete Works Of Fela Anikulapo Kuti on CD
Also here's Brian Eno discussing how he discovered Fela1 in a record store in London
This is the first in a series of videos presenting the salutations of celebrities on the occasion of what would have been Fela's 75th birthday. Also on this day, 15th October, Knitting Factory Records are releasing Red Hot + Fela, a compilation album featuring interpretations of Fela songs by a raft of top drawer artists. All profits from this album go towards combatting AIDS.
Brian Eno, producer, thinker, conceptual artist and lifelong Fela fan has contributed this salutory message, talking about how encountering Fela's music changed his life.
(click here to continue reading ▶ Brian Eno – Thoughts On Fela – YouTube.)Footnotes:
- his music, that is [↩]
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Ricky Gervais said it best:
The dictionary definition of God is "a supernatural creator and overseer of the universe." Included in this definition are all deities, goddesses and supernatural beings. Since the beginning of recorded history, which is defined by the invention of writing by the Sumerians around 6,000 years ago, historians have cataloged over 3700 supernatural beings, of which 2870 can be considered deities.
So next time someone tells me they believe in God, I'll say "Oh which one? Zeus? Hades? Jupiter? Mars? Odin? Thor? Krishna? Vishnu? Ra?…" If they say "Just God. I only believe in the one God," I'll point out that they are nearly as atheistic as me. I don't believe in 2,870 gods, and they don't believe in 2,869.
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Bruce Rauner channeled part of fortune to Cayman Islands To Avoid Paying Taxes
Illinois Democratic governor Pat Quinn, the incumbent, is not someone to get excited about, but his opponent in the upcoming election is a non-Mormon clone of Mitt Romney, down to the off-shore tax havens. Bruce Rauner won't release his tax returns either, basically thumbing his nose at the electorate.
Multimillionaire Republican Bruce Rauner has channeled at least part of his fortune into the Cayman Islands, a Caribbean paradise long criticized as a tax haven for American investors, the Chicago Sun-Times has confirmed.
A Rauner spokesman insisted that the former private equity investor has met his legal tax obligations and properly disclosed to the federal government information regarding at least five investments by him or his firm in a country that has no income tax and a financial system cloaked in secrecy.
Rauner's campaign has refused so far to release a full set of his most recent tax returns to corroborate that and perhaps show the extent and value of those investments in offshore companies. No one has suggested Rauner has done anything illegal. In fact, offshore investments among the wealthy have been a common practice in recent years.
(click here to continue reading Bruce Rauner channeled part of fortune to Cayman Islands | Early & Often.)
Are people really going to vote for this plutocrat who is too good, too powerful, too rich to pay his fair share of taxes to a near bankrupt state? If you planned to run for political office, why would you do this? And worse, once news of Rauner's lack of patriotism was exposed, he doubled down on it.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner funneled part of his wealth to a Caribbean territory long considered a tax haven, a business practice he defended yesterday, stressing there was no impact on his personal tax rate.
A central part of Gov. Pat Quinn's re-election bid has been scrutinizing how the multimillionaire Rauner made his money, and the Chicago Democrat's campaign has alleged Rauner "stashed" money to avoid paying taxes. "I'd think someone who anticipates being in the public eye wouldn't be in the Cayman Islands because the question to be asked is, 'Why would you have invested there?'" Richard L. Kaplan, a University of Illinois law professor told the newspaper. "
Rauner dismissed the notion yesterday after speaking to Asian leaders in Chinatown.
"At no point have I tried to avoid taxes or done these things that they're trying to spin," he said…
"GTCR has its own structure for just a couple of investments. When they invest in overseas companies, they set up that particular structure. It doesn't impact our personal tax rate whatsoever."
Cayman, a British territory, is considered one of the world's largest financial centers and a haven for mutual funds and private equity. International companies and ultra-rich investors have long taken advantage of offshore financial centers there, drawn by regulations and legal systems making it easy to move capital internationally.
(click here to continue reading Rauner defends Cayman Islands money move – Government News – Crain's Chicago Business.)
and as Aaron Cynic of the Chicagost writes, this isn't trivial amounts of money, but most likely millions of dollars:
While Rauner might be in full legal compliance, the practice itself allows major corporations and other wealthy individuals to skip out on paying taxes in the United States. According to a June report from the group Citizens for Tax Justice, U.S. based multinational corporations booking profits in tax shelters like the Cayman's has allowed them to skip out on an estimated $90 billion in federal income taxes. For someone trying to save the Illinois economy with a tax plan that targets professional and business services – many of which are smaller businesses – sheltering profits from a company boasting a $10 billion investment portfolio seems somewhat duplicitous, at best.
(click here to continue reading Rauner Defends Dumping Dollars Into Off-Shore Accounts: Chicagoist.)
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A few of Steinunn Thorarinsdottir "Borders" sculptures in Grant Park.
"Borders" — hosted by the Chicago Park District in conjunction with the Grant Park Conservancy and the Icelandic Ministry of Culture, and sponsored by Bloomberg — will remain through spring, the sculptures looming with pupil-less gazes over park visitors. (Each aluminum piece weighs 180 pounds; each iron piece weighs 440 pounds.) Thorarinsdottir, who sometimes "stands and peeks" at passers-by, said she enjoys watching her art evoke different reactions from people.
And that's the fundamental idea of this exhibition: Viewers make what they will of it. The pieces can be poked, stroked, cuddled — so long as the art stimulates some kind of mental and physical response, Thorarinsdottir said she considers her mission accomplished.
Her artwork, which took two years to complete, was first installed in 2011 at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza near the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Thorarinsdottir said she consciously placed her figures in that socially and politically charged environment, and her choice to install them in Chicago's Solti Garden was just as careful and deliberate.
Days before "Borders" was installed, she sat on one of the garden's benches for hours considering how her sculptures would fit into her surroundings. She recalled listening to the languages spoken by people of all sizes and colors, and she knew she had found her gallery space.
"I wanted the installation to relate to people that wherever we come from, whatever our life experiences, we're all connected in shape and spirit," she said. "This garden was my first choice, a natural choice."
The park, situated just south of the Art Institute of Chicago, provides the intimacy of an enclosed room in an area heavy with foot traffic. The lattice of tree trunks forms the walls, brambly branches netting up into a leafy canopy.
"Some sites are too big, but this garden had a nice body. I like that it forms a natural 'border' that the viewer can cross and connect," Thorarinsdottir said.
Thorarinsdottir purposely left her androgynous figures "neutral." Some may be sitting, a couple kneeling, others standing, but their faces are left enigmatic. Her Icelandic background influenced her philosophy, she said: "In Iceland, it's an island with lots of space, very few people, tons of organic nature. So everyone in Iceland gives this feeling that what you are, what you do, matters. We are individuals, but we are also all connected, we are all part of humanity."
more: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-08-07/entertainment/ct-ent-0808-borders-sculpture-20130808_1_art-institute-sculptures-exhibition…
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Definición de disagreeable en inglés:
disagreeableSaltos de línea: dis|agree|able
Pronunciación: /dɪsəˈɡriːəb(ə)l /
1Unpleasant or unenjoyable: a disagreeable thought aspects of his work are disagreeable to him
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- Eating meat is disagreeable to Thoreau's imagination, and his distaste of it is instinctual.
- Same goes for thoughts, if those thoughts are disagreeable to me, I would not agree with them regardless of how honourable you are or how many others are willing to vouchsafe for you.
- Your opinion, although disagreeable to me, is something that I risked my liberal life to protect.
unpleasant, displeasing, nasty, horrible, dreadful, horrid, frightful, abominable, odious, offensive, obnoxious, objectionable, repugnant, repulsive, repellent, revolting, disgusting, foul, vile, nauseating, sickening, hateful, detestable, distasteful, unsavoury, unpalatable
1.1Unfriendly and bad-tempered: Henry was always a very disagreeable boy
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- By turns disagreeable, petulant, and self-pitying, they have as a group failed their employees, their investors, and their customers.
- He is disagreeable, difficult and completely daft.
- When that happened, which was surprisingly often, she was snappish and disagreeable.
bad-tempered, ill-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humoured, curmudgeonly, cross, crabbed, irritable, grumpy, peevish, snappish, petulant, sulky, sullen, prickly;
unfriendly, unpleasant, nasty, mean, mean-spirited;
cruel, vicious, spiteful
informal grouchy
late Middle English (in the sense 'discordant, incongruous'): from Old French desagreable, based on agreer 'agree'.
disagreeableness sustantivo
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- Finally, he found that mothers' agreeableness during mother-child game-playing tasks was negatively correlated with children's disagreeableness during child-peer interactions.
- We children forgot a lot of the disagreeableness when the wagon was unloaded and we saw the good things to eat and the yards and yards of calico and outing flannel that Mother had bought to make us new clothes…
- Surely, since we would not intentionally create such disagreeableness, it must be the product of irresistible unconscious forces.
disagreeably adverbio
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- They rarely focus on textbooks but always introduce something awfully fresh and disagreeably insightful.
- It was a line-up that gave off an odour of complacency or perhaps, more disagreeably, of indifference to the prize at stake.
- It is really surprising what a number of cars will smoke disagreeably.
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Pronunciación: ˌəʊlɪˈadʒɪnəs
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Brewing your own beer is a complicated and scientific process that requires patience and a bit of training. One company, however, is attempting to simplify the process with an appliance that automates home brewing. Called Brewbot, the device turns you into a brewmaster -- without any training. See also: 15 Creative Ways to Repurpose Your Old Beer Cans Simply set up a recipe within Brewbot's app, and then pair your phone with the device.


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Further proof that (most) men don't need much in order to get the juices flowing.
It's a shame that we never hear about Chloe's background. And what's an even bigger shame is that Oscar sees no need in seeking such. On the very night of their first meeting (you know, the night were Chloe goes back to Oscar's house and sleeps with him and the theme of her never wearing a bra is set in motion) Chloe is very inquisitive about this new man. And rightfully so. As a result, we learn of Oscar's Mum who left home when he was young and all about his abusive, alcoholic father and then his own drug-ridden past and subsequent road-to-sobriety. So by this time, not only is Chloe just gagging for it, but we, and Chloe obviously, know about as much of Oscar's "heavy stuff" as one would need. They make out, yada, yada, yada, Chloe stays over, and they begin a wonderful relationship that leads to them buying a house and Oscar dying of a heart attack… all without ever getting to know who the real Chloe is.
Men, as a rule, will generally go for just about anything with great legs, nice teeth and a head of hair. A woman can walk into a room and we're already aroused. While this is very comforting for women, it takes away any real need for men to be aroused in any other ways, which are arguably the better ways. For men, it's one thing to be sitting across from a woman and think, "fuck this girl is so cute I just wanna lay one one her". Yet, it's a whole 'nother thing to sit across from a woman and think, "fuck this girl is so cute AND what she 's saying and how she's saying it is so attractive that I wanna lay one on her even more than I normally would!".
This, for mankind, is one of life's great moments. Though unfortunetly for Oscar, he's unable to appreciate the beauty of such an event because "chatty Cathy Chloe" won't let him get a word in before summing him up in under 5 minutes and jumping his bones.
Life fact: Talking to a girl can be just as arousing as looking at a girl.


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Best Ribeye (South Florida)
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Graziano's on Birrr Ro serves up a bone-in ribeye that is awesome and it gets lost on their menu....But it's thick....juicy.....well-marbled and you'll want to gnaw the last piece of flesh off the bone!....It's that good!.....Buckhead Beef is the purveyor and this is a great cut if you're thinking Ribeye......
Runyon's in Coral Springs for ribeye & btw, they have the BEST prime rib of practically anyplace in the 3 states we frequent regularly - FL, NJ & NY. NY Prime in Boca is pretty good for rib eye.
I'd like to see more regional Best Of's for the state instead of statewide. With gas prices they way they are now, nobody is going to drive across Fla. or even 100 miles just to try a resto.
Favorite ribeye or any steak for that matter is at my house.
I just had the ribeye at sardinia yesterday (again) and I can confirm it is awesome. I would suspect that grazianos on bird is even better but sardinias is pretty awesome nonetheless.
I have to agree with another post; I think the best rib eye is at my house. How much skill does it take to throw a quality piece of meat on the grill?
That being said, my favorite spot is an oldie but a goodie. I like The Raindancer in WPB on PB Lakes Boulevard. It's been there for years. Great salad bar, ambiance. Always a pleasure.
New chains are popping up, Capital Grill, Morton's, Ruth Chris. They'er probably good. I still like the mom and pop choices. Call me old fashioned!
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BooBoo, I agree with you regarding Raindancer..That would be my 1st choice. I have done the Morton's thing...I wasn't impressed. I have looked all over the state of Florida , in all the grocery stores, and I still cannot find the allusive $8.00 baked potato... Can you say "gouging"..or a $12.00 salad... and we complain about gas gougers.
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Ditto Raindancer...hands down...
best bone in ribeye at bourbon steak 18 oz .butter poached lighty seasoned with maldon sea salt and crushed black pepper


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"Whoa, hello!" Tom half shouted when he felt your bare foot slip up between his thighs. He gave you a playful grin followed by a disapproving scowl when the rest of the family began to file out of the kitchen to join you at the dining table.
Christmas was a big affair at the Hiddleston house, and Tom was the center of attention more often than not when his mother urged him to tell another story about his days on the set. He had been filming a made for television Shakespeare adaptation for a few weeks, and there was no shortage of interesting tales up his jacketed sleeves.
He glanced up at you from his pint, as he took a long drag of the dark ale. You instinctively blushed at the disguised emotion in his eyes, and he jumped when you made contact with his inner thigh again. A few drops of ale spilled on the linen table cloth and he mopped it up quickly with a napkin, apologizing to his sister, who took an elbow to the rib. She leaned over and hugged him around the shoulders, teasing him for "having a hole in his mouth" and you felt his legs clamp together to keep her from discovering your foot in his lap.
He shot a wide-eyed look your way and you couldn't stop the giggle that burst out. Everyone merely assumed you were laughing at his clumsiness, when it was the way he adjusted the linen over himself that had you snickering.
You patiently waited for the moments when he was distracted by conversation or quietly chewing his food, each time testing his reaction when you brushed up against his crotch. He was good at hiding it, but you soon felt him hardening at your touch. Before long, he was gripping the edge of the table and focusing on keeping his eyes from rolling back as you slid up and down the length of his now prominent erection.
When he met your eyes again, you were prepared with a finger swiped through the whipped cream which floated at the top of your hot chocolate. You brought it to your mouth, leaving a sloppy speck of cream on your lower lip as you pulled your finger back out with a pop.
His mouth dropped open when you licked your bottom lip. Slow and torturous and unabashedly sexual as you raised one manicured eyebrow. Tom shrugged his jacket off and quickly excused himself from the table. Smart move, holding it in front of him that way, you thought.
His sister rolled her eyes and smiled goofily at you. You simply shrugged and said, "Can't hold his liquor."
"He never could," she laughed.
"I'll go check on him," you winked, and left the table.
"What the fuck are you trying to do to me?" he hissed when you found him on the other side of the staircase. The hallway was dark but his green eyes shone brightly with a mixture of lust and embarrassment.
"Just having some fun is all," you crooned innocently and backed against the stairwell as he cornered you.
"Try to have a little less, darling. I was one more finger lick away from blowing a load at the table," he said, hushing ever more as he spoke. He reached for your hips and pulled you tight against him as he spun you into the nearby closet and shut the door. "You started it, now you have to finish it," he whispered, and you heard the distinct sound of a belt and zipper in the dark. "I can't go back out there like this."
He emphasized his sincerity by taking your hand and shoving it between your bodies to wrap around his straining cock. You squeezed him tight and gave him a few good pumps of your fist before he finally let out a ragged moan.
"Be quiet, babe. You don't want Santa to come find us fucking in the broom closet, do you?"
He laughed once through his nose and dragged his hands up your arms, to your neck, and finally to your face so that he could properly claim your lips in a heart stopping kiss.
Your hand stilled when his tongue stroked against your lips, parting them and opening you up to his exploration. He thrust into your grip as he caught your bottom lip and scraped his teeth along it until it snapped back into place.
"Take these off," he huffed, and pulled at your trousers. You let go of him and shoved them down your legs, along with your underwear. No sooner had you stood straight again, did he have you back up against the shelving at the rear of the closet. It dug into your ass, middle back, and shoulder blades.
He nudged your legs apart and reached down to hook beneath your knee, hoisting one leg high on his hip. You buried your face in his neck to muffle the cry that was sure to escape, but he had different plans and tugged at your hair, arching your neck back so that he could lick a hot path up the curve of your throat just as he entered your wet heat.
You let out a predictable yelp and impassioned whine at the intrusion, letting his hard length stretch and fill you to the brim. He smiled against your cheek, and nipped at your ear when you slapped a hand over your mouth.
"Now where is the fun in that?" he asked, giving a sharp thrust, the shelves biting at your backside. He peeled away your hand and held it at your side. "You should learn to keep quiet if you don't want to get caught." He punctuated the end of his sentence with another brutal thrust, surging up into you with no warning. You panted his name and a string of apologies but he was having none of it.
It was his turn to make you squirm, and force you to stay silent while he punished you. His hips slammed into yours, shaking the walls and rattling the items stacked behind you.
Every movement shoved you toward the goal. Breaths were getting difficult to manage as he went deeper and harder, until you were clinging desperately to each other as you finally came.
His remarkable control had him only grunting softly against your neck, but you cursed at your failed attempt to contain the strangled cry that ripped its way out.
He parted from you, catching his breath and balance as he leaned against the adjacent wall.


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Choose your topic wisely. This applies whether you're writing your college admission essay or any thereafter. Focus on one topic that you can elaborate on in detail. Don't pick a topic you think others want to hear about (unless, of course, you're assigned a topic). Write about what's important to you and show why you can speak with authority about the subject.
How to Develop Writing for a College Level Essay
There are at least two types of college level essays: the essay that helps you get into college and the essays that help you stay in college. Both require a writing style that goes beyond what Parke Muth, assistant dean at the University of Virginia, calls a "McEssay," an essay that's technically correct but doesn't taste any different from thousands of others -- similar to a fast food burger that has all the right ingredients but little distinction. By developing your voice along with your vocabulary, vision and grammar, you'll develop an essay that's fit for college and beyond.
Write in your own voice. Don't try to impress professors or admissions deans with "SAT language" transposed from the thesaurus. As author Stephen King famously said, any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. Tell the story of your essay as you would tell it to a friend, but with only sparse use of slang. Avoid profanity.
Appeal to the senses. The adage and cliche "show, don't tell" remains in the professional writer's psyche because it's sage advice. Don't impress others with abstract ideas; move your readers with precise detail and imagery that invites all the senses. Provide facts, but complement the facts with the story that shows why they have relevance.
Remove unnecessary words. After you've written your first draft, remove words that don't add meaning to your essay. In the case of an admissions essay, the traditional length is 500 words. Take note, also, of your grammar. Consult the book, "The Elements of Style," to refresh your understanding of clear, correct and active language.
Take some risk, but not too much. Parke Muth, in talking about writing style, says that to err on the side of the baroque might not be as bad as to stay in the comfort of the boring. Captivate your readers with a compelling introduction, but remember to appeal to, and respect, a diverse audience without diluting the story or sacrificing sincerity. 'Tell it like it is' with words 'seasoned with salt.'
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- University of Virginia; "Writing the Essay: Sound Advice from an Expert"; Parke Muth, Assistant Dean
- "Write Your College Essay in Less Than a Day"; Elizabeth Wissner-Gross; 2009
- "The New York Times"; Tip Sheet: An Admissions Dean Offers Advice on Writing a College Essay; Martha C. Merrill; June 23, 2009
- Quotations Page: Stephen King Quotes
- "The Elements of Style"; William Strunk, Jr.
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...was sad because of the shooting in Newport, Connecticut. What is our country and world turning into? Thinking of the pain and questions on these families' minds make me stop every time I want to complain or murmur. Life is fragile...one moment we are here and the next we are gone. Little children with immeasurable potentials do not have a chance to live it out, and families are mourning at Christmas. It saddens my heart, and I don't have the answers, but I pray that Christ will comfort all those affected and use this tragedy for good like only Him can.
On my "Shop my Closet" for work challenge, I did not get the chance to take pictures. I went into work twice, but I only have this Instagram image from Friday morning right before I left the house. I was wearing black knee length boots from DSW. My hair is out of twist after seven weeks, and I am loving it.
Week 6 - Day 12:Monday
Sad to report: I woke up late, and had to rush through the entire day. Taking a picture was far from my mind. I will better in the last two weeks of this year.
Week 6 - Day 13: Friday
Boots (not pictured here, but worn in second image here): DSW
Jeans/ Suit Jacket: Gift from friends
Gold top: Vintage
Purse: Nine West
Scarf: A stall in the middle of the mall
Ring: Vintage
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We have published a lot of posts about Chernobyl and Pripyat but never saw the exclusion zone from the height. How do they look from the height of ten thousand meters? The city where life stopped in the 80s is slowly getting swallowed by the woods today. Join us and fly over the zone right now.
Morning fogs over the Kiev region.
Gostomel airfield, the main airport of the world biggest aircraft An-225 "Mriya".
Big planes – An-124 "Ruslan", "Mriya" is standing in the hangar to the right. You can see its tail on the picture above.
This object is called "Chernobyl-2″. Twenty seven years ago it was an absolutely secret object. It allowed to follow ground targets over Europe and not only, detect launches of a potential enemy in North America. The complex was called "Duga-1″.
The first complex like this was built in 1975 in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia. It was first activated in Chernobyl-2 in 1980. According to some data there was invested seven billion rubles (two times more expensive than the construction of the Chernobyl NPP). There was built a garrison not far from Chernobyl where militarymen and their families used to live.
The infrastructure of the city Chernobyl-2 did not happen in a moment – it had been closed until 1987. Then it became clear it could not be used anymore in the exclusion zone. The main units were dismantled and taken to Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
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The country is making progress, but problems persist1
Johnson: Dutch Muslims: Of fanaticism and Yiddish
Unexpected revelations from some Dutch supporters of ISIS25
Protest culture in Morocco: Vibrant
People are no longer afraid to speak out12
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The debate on whether microcredit reduces poverty continues5
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100 years after 1914: Still in the grip of the Great War
The first world war was the defining event of the 20th century. Thousands of books have been written about every aspect of it. More are on the way217
The Dutch far-right: A step too far?
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First Play: Kevin Drew, Darlings
Darlings features several regular Broken Social Scene and Arts & Crafts collaborators: Charles Spearin, Ohad Benchetrit (Do Make Say Think, Broken Social Scene), Dean Stone (Apostle of Hustle) and Dave Hamelin (the Stills) all make contributions to this album. It was co-produced by Drew, Hamelin, and Graham Lessard (Young Galaxy, Stars). "This record is a celebration of memories," Drew said in a press release. "It's about the rise and fall of love and sex, in my own life and in today's society. This topic has been with me for years. I approached it focused purely on the songwriting, leaving all the tricks and explosions behind. I hope you like it … and if you don't, give to someone who will."
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As we take a look ahead to the summer festival season, here's a look back at the history of Salmo B.C.'s Shambhala Music Festival. The headliners over the years make up the cream of electronic music worldwide: Adam Freeland, Rusko, Nero, Noisia, the Freestylers, Benga, Spor, Skream, the Glitch Mob, Dieselboyand Shpongle. Big name Canadians like ill.Gates,Longwalkshortdock, Delhi 2 Dublin, and Mat the Alien have performed at Shambhala on multiple occasions, whileBassnectar plays the festival almost every year. In 2011 alone, the festival featured Skrillex, Siriusmo, Bonobo, Ed Rush & Optical and DJ Fresh, among dozens of other noteworthy names. This year's edition takes place from Aug. 8 to 13.
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Review: Sass for Web Designers
I've been reluctant to dip my toes into the waters of CSS preprocessors. I don't like the idea of having to compile my CSS for it to render, of having non-standard compliant code in my files, of introducing a new standard that none of the developers will know anything about. Of come up with all kinds of reasons not to even try Less or Sass. Dan Cederholm felt much the same way. Then he dove in head first and ended up writing a book about it.
Sass for Web Designers is another great, little book from A Book Apart. I'm a big fan of Dan's previous book, CSS for Web Designers, so when I saw his name on this one, I figure I ought to give it a shot. At just under 100 pages, I figured that even if I decided it wasn't for me, I wouldn't have to sink much time into it. I wasn't disappointed, and I'm now itching to put it to use.
There is a lot to love about Sass, but the two main advantages to my mind are variables and mixins. Variables allow you to, for example, define a color once, give it a name (the variable), and then use it in multiple rulesets by name, rather than having to repeat the hex value. If you need to change it, change the variable's value, and all references to it will be updated. Mixins basically do the same, except with chunks of CSS, rather than a single value. Define your drop shadow with all the various vendor prefixes and give it a name. Then you can use that name in any ruleset.
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text: 2 notes Posted 18, August, 2012 my brother and I treated the family to a meal at Otto e Mezzo, Hong Kong's only Italian restaurant with three Michelin stars The whole meal was about US$300 for four people, which wasn't too bad. The flavours weren't too great. The dressing in the snapper dish was lacking, the fettuccine had too much cheese (please keep in mind that I love cheese) and the pistachio ice-cream did not go well with the cherries. I did love the limoncello souffle and the soup that came with the ham & melon, though. All in all, not too bad :) #otto e mezzo #Hong Kong #food #i love my family <3


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Definition of Dubonnet in English:
DubonnetSyllabification: Du·bon·net
Pronunciation: /ˌd(y)o͞obəˈnā /
A sweet French red wine.
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- But in the '20s, she was known as the best dancer in London, and as she got older she liked to have a gin and Dubonnet every day.
- Well, the quick answer is gin and Dubonnet, which she consumes in generous quantities every lunchtime.
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The Blackhawks hot start to the season is saving them right now from facing must win games without their stars. The Hawks are in the middle of their first three game losing streak of the season and the last time they lost three straight was the Detroit Red Wings series which kind of well did end up the right way in the end.
The Minnesota Wild need wins although the team in the #9 spot has been dropping game on a regular basis in the Phoenix Coyotes. That being said the Wild are only 4 points ahead of the Coyotes while sitting in the 7th seed. They are still in need of picking up points on a nightly basis unlike the Hawks who have secured their spot for the 2014 Stanley Cup playoffs.
Last game Prediction- I must say since the Olympic break my prediction's have gone hairwire and it's getting a little frustrating. I nor did anyone else have a 4-1 loss at Pittsburgh so it's back to the drawing board for tonigh't matchup at the United Center.
Tonight's Prediction- I look for the youth of the Blackhawks to come out flying with something to prove tonight and will have a big push and Andrew Shaw starting as the #1 center will have a big game with a goal and assist in the Hawks 4-2 victory.
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Sure, the movie version of Nine kind of bombed, earning neither the financial returns nor critical accolades that the previous Rob Marshall-directed musical, Chicago, racked up. But that shouldnt poison future adaptations of the 1982 Broadway production (which itself is loosely based on the Fellini film 8 1/2a lot of layers at work here), such as this one from Fullertons Hunger Artists Theatre Company. While this production doesnt have Fergie, it does have the original numbers that Marshall cut from last years motion picture, and stars Dan Wozniak, a Hunger Artists newbie, in the lead role of Guido. Its a part originated by Raul Julia, and played in the past by Antonio Banderas and Daniel Day-Lewissome pretty big (and handsome) shoes to fill.
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This location is in the Laguna neighborhood in Santa Barbara. Nearby parks include Peabody Stadium, Ortega Park and El Presidio de Santa Barbara State Historic Park.
Nearby schools include El Montecito School, la Cuesta Continuation High School and Santa Barbara Junior High School.
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Vanilla Roasted Walnuts Recipe
By elanaspantry
Difficulty: Easy | Total Time: 10-15 minutes | Active Time: | Makes: 1 batch
I'm slightly addicted to these Gluten Free Vanilla Roasted Walnuts and so is my husband. They have a hint of sweetness and a nice burst of vanilla goodness. On top of that, Walnuts are a great source of Omega-3's, have a high antioxident count and are also beneficial for cardiovascular health. So I'm on the walnut bandwagon.
- 2 cups walnuts, raw
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 2 tablespoons agave nectar
- ¼ teaspoon celtic sea salt
- 1-2 Vanilla Beans
- dash cinnamon, ground
- Place walnuts and oil in a cast iron skillet (that's what I used, you can experiment) and turn heat to high
- As soon as you hear the slightest sizzle, turn heat down to medium or low
- Toast walnuts a few minutes until they smell nice and nutty
- Add agave and distribute around pan stirring, cook for a minute or two, then add salt
- Scrape the beans out of the vanilla pod and stir into walnuts
- Remove walnuts from pan and add just a dash of cinnamon if you like
- Serve
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As we move into July gardeners and maybe everyone else starts to wonder what just happened to the summer. In the beginning of June we were still coaxing baby plants along and now we're saying "Whoa, I better cut that back!" Where did the time go? Slow down! Many of the flowering bushes have come and gone, and I am not at all ready to dead head the first and best blooms of Jupiter's beard, salvia, blue flax, and catmint!
On the up side, the July plants are the rocks of the summer, the anchors. June flies by but July seems to stick around for a while. It is hot and sunny out there, so hot that it calls for an attitude adjustment. Soak up the sunshine and enjoy what is in front of you. Gallardia starts blooming and will give you a good show long past the Fourth. Callirhoe, or wine cups, will happily bloom through these long, hot days and don't forget the purple ice plant.
The hummingbirds just got here, so keep them around with penstemons and my very favorite, agastache sunset, dense tubes of hot pink (very yummy for birds.) Cardinal Penstemon is about three feet high with many scarlet tubes of flowers, really a traffic stopper if planted on a curb. I can never have enough of the orange California poppies that come up on their own and seem to find enough water to live on away from the irrigation.
There is, of course, still so much to look forward to. New seeds are just getting tall and container gardens are just hitting their stride with these nice warm nights. Regular feedings, "Superthrive,' and fish emulsion will keep thing happily bursting along.
July is also time to surrender some of your garden hopes to forces that are beyond your control. We never seem to be able to "have it all' and now is the time to be thankful for what is doing well in our gardens. "Oh well, the morning glories and scarlet runners that I planted up the back of my new coyote fence got wiped out by rabbits, but wow, that volunteer larkspur is really pretty with its deep blue in contrast to the maroon Mexican Hat. By next year I really will have those rabbits fenced out." And "darn, those thieves are at the alyssum again but this is going to be a memorable July for snaps." For every loss there is usually some kind of gain. Perhaps we will find that the loss of some pinons to bark beetle will open up some sunset views and some new wildflower meadows.
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Following the Battle of Antietam, Col. Robert Gould Shaw (Matthew Broderick) is offered command of the United States' first all-African-American regiment, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. With junior officer Cabot Forbes (Cary Elwes), Shaw puts together a strong and proud unit, including the escaped slave Trip (Denzel Washington) and the wise gravedigger John Rawlins (Morgan Freeman). At first limited to menial manual tasks, the regiment fights to be placed in the heat of battle.
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Release Date:December 15, 1989
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Not even that is true. You can always *access* the data. Depending
upon the type and complexity of the encryption, it may take a while to
decrypt, but once I have physical access, I have both the data and the
time to do just that. *Most* of the "encryption" schemes for things
like passwords that
several times the age of the universe is a while thoo.
used to be stored in plain text (until somebody pointed it out) are
fairly trivial and easily broken.
Even if they're not, I may be able to use the program itself to
decrypt the password and then capture it in plain text in memory.
you know you can use pretty strong encryption on Hd, right ?
Again, once you have physical access, it's game over, plain and simple.
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