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Delve into a world of mysterious rituals and fearful gods; discover the Aztecs and the extravagant possessions of the nobles! What treasures would have been fit for an emperor? Would you have lived in luxury as a noble or forced to dress down as a commoner? Interpret the messages from the skies and hang out with Mictlantecuhtli as he celebrates the Day of the Dead.
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Step back from the computer and join us on a journey of discovery as we roam the world to find our family. Where do we fit in? How big is your family tree? Explore our past with our friend the Hobbit and come with us as we bring the search close to home to look at the evolution of Australian fauna.
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Decorate a Giant Wall of Cacti - The Prickly Pear cactus was highly valued by the Aztecs for providing building materials, firewood and making glue. Help us decorate our giant cacti with beautiful paper flowers.
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"The Mexicutioner" Joey Beltran has officially arrived in the UFC's 205 pound division, and he put a solid exclamation point on his second fight in the division with a slugfest victory over Igor Pokrajac. Bouncing back in kind from a "Fight Of The Night" loss to fellow Heavyweight import James Te-Huna, Beltran waded through dangerous firepower from Pokrajac and showcased his dirty boxing skills en route to a unanimous decision victory.
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having recently started giving pupils email accounts, is there some way to bulk import their emails into sims?
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having recently started giving pupils email accounts, is there some way to bulk import their emails into sims?
this came up in a thread on SupportNet too i believe, as far as we know, no. i think someone checked and it wouldn't work from a CTF or other method either.
we set our usernames and emails to be the SIMS admission number, so it's already in there, and can be reported on. simples.
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The problem would be marrying them up. What's the chances you have the UPN or admission number in your AD? Also not sure why you would want the school email address within SIMS?
Get autoit to enter address and keep hitting next on the student entry page.
It wasn't completely reliable and SIMS does go bang when you enter too much data, i.e. after about 70 students the client crashes (same thing happened when entering by hand).
(We store admission number in AD "ExtensionAttribute1"/"Custom Attribute1" and as a double link, network logon name in SIMS udf.)
Hmmm, well... we did this so that staff can email groups of students using SIMS reporting, it's messy because they have to type/paste the group name but can be made to work.
e.g. choose
7Ma1, Your homework is...
Year8Choir, Remember be here on Friday at 3:30 for practise
Bit of a crossover with what you might do with a VLE.
(VBA in Excel report output creates pre-addressed email in Outlook.)
This can be expanded; email the teachers of "John Smith", parents of, supervisors of group etc., oh and with appropriate SMS service, text students in group, parent/carers, supervisors etc..
Sorry if I'm missing what's going on here, but don't you want to run a SIMS report to export the students\staff and basic details (admission no etc) then also run another to add them into groups - such as lessons\reg\subjects? Then the staff and use the distribution groups
I'm thinking that when we get our sharepoint set up working, teachers, students and parents will all be represented and have data directly taken from SIMS, grouped into AD and sharepoint groups.
Sharepoint will provide a means to email groups, and so we wont need it in SIMS.
We're almost thinking that this system will make things like Schoolcomms (our system for email/texting parents about absence or other notices) redundant and only used for texting. The nice feature it retains is that when an email/text is replied to by a parent it can update attendance.
Also, I'm just tweaking a version which a member of staff can use to email a chosen group some assessment results, e.g. for "here's your predicted grade" etc.
We do have some student voice groups which are supposedly synced (but I haven't finished it yet) from SIMS to network as students (not just staff) need to bulk email the groups.
One thing that annoys me though is the really awkward mechanism for choosing options at run time in SIMS reporting. Either long scrolly, unresposive checkbox lists or text entry for names of things.
SamanderSoft does a nice SIMS > AD solution, adds users and users to groups. Just a question of how often do you want it to check for changes.
It's easy enough to make something, so long as you think about it first. Really should a EduGeek SIMS to AD.


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Teachers in New York City wore blue today as part of a "Day of Action" taking place in two dozen states. At a rally outside City Hall, educators were joined by parents and students to call for more funding for public schools. In addition, organizers criticized State education leaders for "rushed implementation of new standards and evaluations" and for having "an obsession with testing."
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I heartily applaud the City Council's resolution and agree that evaluating based on new standards was rushed - it came well before a curriculum was even in place! As to more funding for classrooms -YES! Take it away from the bloated spending on consultants and standardized testing. (Regarding one element of school funding - Contracts for Excellence - it should be noted that spending earmarked to 'reduce class size' is often spent by schools to add an extra teacher to an over-full class...this is NOT a reduction in class size should be fixed.) Slam the breaks on charters and co-location until existing neighborhood schools have all the support, staff, materials and services they need.
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I'm for Michelle Rhee for School Chancellor. And for ridding the school system of the pestilence of unions.
JoePort Richmond, SI
The new chancellor should end over-testing of students, and the closing of schools which comes with the overemphasize on test scores, instead of what students and teachers learn collectively in the classroom about community and the world.
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John, My guess, based on Deblasio's appointments so far , the next schools chancellor will be someone who is unqualified and requires a waiver. December 9 and he doesn't know who is going to be chancellor. Give me a break... When we were kids, we had standardized testing that we didn't realize was standardized; they just sprung it on us once a year and we all filled in the circles. That is the way to teach children...don't freak them out about testing. I thank NY! for continuing to publish Cathie Blacks ridiculous emails!! They give me a good laugh. kate midtown east
I HAD MY BLUE ON TODAY!I want to see someone who doesn't put testing FIRST!!!!I want to see someone who takes "how" children learn the right way!I want to see someone who values TEACHER'S OPINIONS!HOPE IT IS NOT MICHELE RHEE!!!!!!!!!
Hi John, It still seems to me as though this DeBlasio is ill-prepared to get his act together. He needs to stop asking others and at the same time trying to please them about what route he's going to take to run this city. Looks as though to me the question of the standardized testing has come up once again. Why was this not brought up to Albany when Bloomberg was mayor. They all had just about 12 years ? As far as the money goes there is more than enough but as we all know they continue to rob Peter to pay Paul. [ AND SO ONCE AGAIN I ASK=WHERE IS ALL THE LOTTO MONEY? ] I believe the one that was chancellor in Washing, D.C. at one time = Michele D. Rhee has quite a good reputation and seems to me that in all of her interviews she has a hands on approach to this difficult job. But she has been very successful at it.
Thank you John,maxxieemp
I think that the next NYC Chancellor should rethink the new common core requirements. As a mom to a 7, 5 and 3 year old, I think the new requirements for my Kindergartener are outrageous. I hope the new Chancellor changes the core curriculum back to normal standards for my children.
Thank you Ann from Staten Island
We need a chancellor that cares about the kids not policies that are bureaucratic. standardized tests should be given in different languages because all kids can't speak english and it's hard for them to pass we need more bilingual classes and more teachers that are bilinual and want to see the kids achieve their goals. I think someone like Richie Ratvich should be our next school's chancellor because he knew what he was doing
Hermanupper west side
Regardless of who the Chancellor is; the Mayor needs to take an axe to Tweed to free schools from the do nothing "experts" and put the resources into reducing class size!
Rockey,Inwood, NY
As a veteran of 30 years as an educator in our city schools, the last 8 as a Math coach in a K -8 school in Long Island City, I feel that we need an experienced educator who will build a team composed of experts in all of the other areas that are vital to the healthy functioning and thriving of public schools in our city. Much damage has been done with the roll out of common core and so much money wasted tied to the mania of standardized testing. It all sounds like Orwellian doublespeak!
Kenn from Bayside.
Carmen Farina has quite an impressive resume and career, :) many accomplishments within the school system, I would support her 100 %
Carmen, Bay Ridge
The common denominator to turning around schools has proven to be teamwork. Programs, curriculums, standards, money, text books, computers, etc. do NOT produce successful schools. Naming schools after different famous people does NOT create great schools. TEAMWORK is the intangible common denominator for improving student performance. Teamwork between parents, teachers, unions, and management will produce great, lasting gains.
I taught a course called Turning Around High Poverty Low Performing Schools and was a teacher, administrator, test coordinator, staff developer, adjunct professor and school improvement specialist. Case studies of schools that have turned themselves around have proven over and over that the common denominator was TEAMWORK. Special interest groups, unions, etc. need to put their egos aside and have one goal in mind: TEAMWORK FOR ALL CHILDREN. WHAT WE CAN'T DO ALONE WE CAN DO TOGETHER.
I have grandchildren in public school. Would very much like to see someone like Ms. Adelaide Sanford, she was former vice chair of reagents and a former public school teacher. She knows the needs of our children and has a sincere and genuine concern about their well being.
Dee Harlem
I nominate Ken Mitchell, Supt. of the South Orangetown Schools. He was just elected head of "The Lower Hudson Council of School Superintendents—an increasingly forceful voice for public education in NYS.... The Council includes about 80 school chiefs from Westchester, Rockland, Putnam and Dutchess counties."
Mitchell wrote a great report detailing the true costs of Race to the Top mandates. In 2009 he even wrestled a gun-wielding middle school parent to the floor until police arrived.
Maria,Morningside Hts.
Why is everyone so concerned about getting rid of bad teachers- while we never hear about getting rid of bad cops or fireman? Probably because they have tougher unions. The fact is that principals have always had the power to get rid of a teacher during the 3 year tenure process.
Chris from Brooklyn
The idea of having a single NYC school's chancellor is outdated. Instead, a five person, five borough team of educational navigators need to oversee the quality of schools in each borough, and report back to the Mayor. This city has gotten too large for this job to be assigned to one person. Where standardized testing is concerned, it is a speed bump of politics and division, not a progressive solution for children in school for 2014, and beyond.
Michael in Woodside
I'd like to see Diane Ravitch!! She knows the school system in and out! Diane has researched schools around the country, as well as knowing the benefits to testing and non testing. Plus she had an educational background, and debunks the myth of charter over public schools for a better education.
Im Tired of politicians running the school system, when most of them only look at numbers and have never been in the classroom!!!
Ashanti - Harlem
Education suffers in this country from a low bar... not standardized testing or lack of money. Testing is a clear, scientific way to judge what a person has learned on a subject. And wasn't that once the point? Amassing knowledge? As for money, America spends a huge amount of money on education, both in total and per capita. The answer does not lie in spending more.
Our kids need a safe environment with small classrooms and parents who support the hard line taken by real educators: "learn these things within a set amount of time". That's real life and that's exactly what our kids need. Kids who make it hard for other kids to learn need to be removed. Parents who impede the process by insisting that their children are special and need unique methods need to be ignored.
In closing, why do we keep turning up the volume on the rally call to find new and progressive ways to educate our children - simultaneously dismissing the ways of the past - while year after year we watch our children become less and less educated?
Jason in Manhattan
The problem is that the people on top are making decisions about education that they have no clue about. They are disconnected with the classroom and the reality of where these students are academically. Teaching isn't fun anymore its stressful and draining and demoralizing.
All this talk about changes in the public school, but New York City really needs to become concerned about the New York City Department of Correction. Since under the incompetent watch of Commissioner Dora Schriro, her administrative staff idly does nothing while their male & female staff are brutally assaulted by these criminals, and only appear to take action when a staff member defends themselves from physical harm, and that is when they hold him/her up to rediculous scrutiny, so they can determine whether he should be criminally indicted, or departmentally charged. If something is something is not done soon New York City will end up paying the dangerous price.
Charles M.
The thing is to get right education in this country you have to pay, pay a lot of money. In public schools unfortunately teachers to get paid enough. Teacher is one of the toughest jobs to handle not only here, but world wide. Education is the future of our children. This question should be taken a very close look at.
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The lady named Mary Ann who called in mentioned that Finland has a good education system. Finland emerses immigrants to their country in the Finish language before admitting them into the 8-12 school system. Our immigrants are thrown into classes with English speaking teachers that they can't understand in the first place. So, how can we expect them to pass tests that are also in English. The ESL classes are not enough. We should adopt the program that Finland uses. Thanks,Cathy (Bay Ridge, Brooklyn)
Diane Ravitch for next Chancellor would be great choice because she is at the top of her game and knows what it takes to produce a good student. However, today too much responsibility is placed on teachers who see a student 45 minutes a day, 5 days a week. Nothing replaces family values and parenting input in taking responsibility their children's attitude toward learning. Teachers only see your child about 3 or 4 hours a week, parents need to step up to the plate. And we need to place responsibility daycare with the families, not me the taxpayer I found a daycare center at Brandies 10 years ago, and wondered is that where my tax dollars is also going? Smaller classrooms with maximum of 30 should be the standard, studies have shown, students do better in smaller classrooms.
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Everyone thinks that school chancellor should override Mayor Bloomberg decisions, but the chancellor is just Bloomberg puppet, the representative behind Bloomberg are just their for a wast of time because they do nothings to fight for the Community.
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A global recession and the subsequent stop-and-start economic recovery didn't stop the major U.S. and Canadian railroads from flexing their pricing power. Even as volume growth waned, resistant pricing, along with improved efficiencies gained through billions of dollars in network investments, kept the industry an investor darling.
But with the U.S. teetering on the brink of another major economic slowdown, largely because federal fiscal woes, can the railroads drive pricing, particularly for intermodal, as aggressively? Industry opinion is just as mixed as the forecasts about whether Congress and President Obama will blunt the sequestration and raise the debt ceiling.
"I think intermodal pricing is going to have a bit of a problem," said Ron Sucik, president of RSE Consulting. The railroads "are going to have to be more competitive with pricing. I think the recovery has slowed down to a point and the growth isn't there."
Intermodal volume in the third quarter rose nearly 3.2 percent year-over-year, compared with a 5.2 percent year-over-year gain in the second quarter, according to the Intermodal Association of North America. International intermodal traffic inched up only 0.9 percent in the same period, while domestic volume jumped 5.8 percent. Domestic intermodal growth decelerated slightly from the second quarter's 6.7 percent year-over-year gain.
That's likely the result of the slowing U.S. economy, particularly manufacturing growth, a main driver of domestic loads. Uncertainty about the fiscal cliff won't likely change factories' course, and the European Union recession will dampen domestic demand. Like the broader U.S. economy, the manufacturing sector appears to be in a holding pattern. Durable goods production was flat in October, after a 9.2 percent hike in September and a 13.1 percent plunge in August, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
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"Clearly, business decision-makers are engaging in just enough capital spending to keep their enterprises going," Cliff Waldman, senior economist for the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation, wrote in a November report. "In a shaky global economy and a highly uncertain U.S. policy environment, there is not going to be much entrepreneurial business expansion of the type that would result from, and reinforce, a strong economic expansion."
FTR Associates Senior Consultant Larry Gross doesn't expect any "dramatic reversals in intermodal pricing" in 2013. He said intermodal pricing will stay flat in the early part of the year and then rise in the second half of 2013, as federal regulation tightens capacity, emboldening trucking companies to raise their rates. Gross expects intermodal pricing gains to mirror that of 2012, with an increase in the 3 to 4 percent range.
FTR Associates forecast intermodal growth of 3.7 percent in 2013, compared with 4.6 percent growth in 2012. Domestic and international intermodal volume will slacken, with the former slipping to 4.5 percent expansion, a 1 percentage point decrease from 2012, according to FTR, a Nashville, Ind.-based research firm. International traffic gains are expected to decelerate to 2.8 percent from 2.9 percent in 2012. U.S. carloads will see some growth, albeit through a weak year-over-year comparison, rising 2 percent in 2013, FTR predicts.
Railroad pricing, including for carload business, will increase about 5 percent if intermodal business performs well and about 3.5 percent if its growth is lackluster, said Tony Hatch, senior transportation for ABH Consulting.
Intermodal pricing for 2013 is difficult to predict, but low end-of-2012 spot rates don't suggest shippers should expect aggressive pricing this year, said Rick LaGore, executive vice president of Plainfield, Ind.-based logistics provider IDS Transportation. Intermodal spot prices are historically low after the peak season, but the most recent buildup of holiday inventory was more of "faux peak season," lasting only a few weeks, he said.
The industry hasn't seen predicted spikes in truck pricing caused by new safety rules, and intermodal pricing has been more competitive as a result. LaGore has been advising potential clients to wait until early this month to sign intermodal contracts because he expects the carriers to price rates more competitively. "There are plenty of signs that the economy isn't taking off, and since the truck (pricing) factors haven't taken off, I get the feeling they will take the foot off the pricing gas," he said.
It's unclear whether the carriers themselves are easing off on intermodal pricing gains, a move that would be the antithesis to their historical resilience, or whether intermediaries such as J.B. Hunt Transportation Services and Hub Group are softening pricing hikes. In a research note on Hub Group, BB&T analyst Kevin Sterling predicted intermodal pricing would rise 2 percent this year at the most. "If IMCs look for large price hikes, we think shippers will use the soft truck market as leverage and threaten to put freight back on the highway," he wrote.
Intermodal pricing in November rose 1.6 percent from October and 0.4 percent year-over-year, according to Cass Information Systems' intermodal line-haul index. The uptick was largely a result of Hurricane Sandy, according to Avondale Partners. The financial investment firm Avondale Partners expects rates to stay "subdued" in the intermediate term because of the large amount of capacity entering the market and "aggressive pricing by carriers focused on ramping up their intermodal businesses.
"We believe that the volatile fuel market will remain the key driver behind intermittent swings in price in the near term," Avondale wrote in an October report.
Intermodal pricing will continue to become more important to railroads' bottom lines, particularly as coal and grain traffic remain sluggish. The major railroads are expected to deliver strong profit in the fourth quarter, but the earnings growth likely will pale in comparison to previous years. Total profit growth at the five U.S.-based Class I railroads — BNSF Railway, CSX Transportation, Kansas City Southern Railway, Norfolk Southern Railway and Union Pacific Railroad — rose 5 percent year-over-year in the third quarter. But profit growth would have slipped to 1.6 percent if BNSF hadn't increased its profit 22 percent to $937 million, in large part because of its booming domestic energy business.
Fortunately for the railroads, they can expect double-digit growth in the shipments of motor vehicles and equipment, Hatch said. The domestic energy production boom shows no sign of letting up, either. Major intermodal network improvements made in 2012 will provide even more benefits this year, and the railroads show no sign of letting up on the pace of their investments. So when truck capacity tightens, the railroads will be ready with a host of new offerings.
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|The official illustration for the festival, by Swedish artist (and boss for the festival) Mattias Elftorp.
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|Portuguese publisher Marcos Farajota and his company MMMNNNRRRG.
|British artist Howard Hardiman.
|Editor Johannes Klenell at the Swedish publisher Galago.
|The Swedish online anthology babian, and editor Mikael Sol.
|Hans Holm at the Swedish Comics Association.
|Artist Lisa Rydberg at the Swedish publisher Kolik.
During the festival weekend, there was a continuous flow of artist talks, debates, interviews etc. on stage.
|Artist Natalia Batista and translator Simon Lundström.
|The debate on alternative comics, led by me and with a panel consisting of artist Knut Larsson (SE), publisher Thomas Schröder (DK), artist Terhi Ekebom (FI) and artist Johanna Rojola (FI).
|Swedish artist Fanny Bystedt interviews French artist Ivan Brun.
|The painting by Ivan Brun.
There were a number of exhibitions before, during and after the festival, inviting the people of Malmö to look at comic art at a number of public venues. One of the most talked-about was the huge drawing, made at the festival by French artist Ivan Brun. The motive was a comment on the recent outrage caused by a female Israeli soldier posing for photos in front of bound and gagged Palestinian prisoners, and exactly as the artist intended, it started some heated debates.
|Artist Lars Krantz, with his original art.
|The very popular grand opening of Panorama III.
|The artists displayed three panoramic paintings each.
|One of the images by Sofia Falkenhem.
Another exhibition that attracted many visitors, not the least on the crowded grand opening, was the collective C'est Bon Kultur's Panorama III: Super Mario, containing works by all the active members of CBK on the theme of Mario of Nintendo fame. As usual, the interpretations were very different, but kept together by the widescreen format of the art. Above can be seen one of my personal favourites, a picture by Swedish artist Sofia Falkenhem (The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga).
An exhibition in another part of town was the evocative Zombies, by the collective Wormgod (Mattias Elftorp and Susanne Johansson). This was shown in a dark room, where the visitors were fitted with a head-lamp and made to walk around among life sized paintings of approaching zombies. A simple, yet strangely effective idea.
Then there was the exhibition Swedish Comic Sin, based on the anthology with the same name, showcasing the art of ten young Swedish artists making comics about one of the most primal of urges. This project has snowballed, and volume two promises to contain the work of at least twice as many artists.
Finally, at the City Public Library, there was, and is, an exhibition with comics made by Swedish and Danish artists, celebrating the masterpiece Maus by Art Spiegelman. These comics were also printed in the latest issue of the magazine Bild & Bubbla as part of a celebration of the fact that Maus after a long hiatus is in print in Swedish again.
|Danijel Zezelj and musicians.
We also had a great party on Saturday night, where the end-all experience was seeing the artist Danijel Zezelj painting live on stage, accompanied by musicians Jessica Luri and Marjan Stanic. They really left me breathless and the photo shown above cannot in any sense capture the experience.
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THE big freeze is set to deepen in North and East Yorkshire, with temperatures remaining below zero each day after severe overnight frosts.
Highways chiefs at North Yorkshire County Council warned that with road surface temperatures falling as low as -8C, there was an increased risk of icy patches even when roads had been treated.
A spokeswoman said salting was less effective than usual when temperatures fell below -5, and motorists should take extra care.
A bitter south-easterly wind is also likely to develop in the region by Friday, increasing the wind-chill factor, and scattered snow showers are likely to continue over the next three days, mainly affecting coastal areas. Weathermen have warned there could be further, more general snow by the weekend.
Snow showers were heaviest yesterday in coastal areas and over the North York Moors, including towns such as Pickering, although some reached as far inland as York.
The county council said several schools in the Scarborough and Whitby area were shut by the snow, including St Augustine's Roman Catholic School in Scarborough, which was due to reopen today.
As our pictures show, some walkers remained undeterred by the cold weather, making tracks for snow-covered beauty spots such as the Hole of Horcum, high on the Pickering to Whitby road across the moors.
In York, cycle tracks and paths have been cleared of ice and snow as well as roads, said delighted Green councillor Andy D'Agorne.
"I am still pushing for these to be a priority once the main routes are covered," he said, adding that he had also got a prompt response when he had highlighted the dangerously icy state of Butcher Terrace near the Millennium Bridge, which was used by hundreds of cyclists each day.


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Besides food, genealogy is probably my biggest passion. My roots are deep in Kentucky, and not surprisingly, steeped in bourbon. Both sides of my family settled in Kentucky before it became a state and include more than a few whiskey makers (both legal and otherwise) and a lot of whiskey drinkers. That said, until recently I was not a bourbon fan, more inclined to favor gin and vodka as my tipple of choice. It wasn't that I didn't like its taste, it was just so …so overbearing. I learned firsthand how bourbon was made in high school when I toured the now defunct Glenmore Distillery in Owensboro, Kentucky. It all begins with the mash—mostly corn, but with wheat and sometime rye added as well—rye produces a heartier,...
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For many years, I was unequivocally convinced that there was but one worthwhile use for a pumpkin: a jack-o'-lantern. From my culinary point of view, it was nothing more than a big squash and bigger wasn't better. The only squash I liked were the summer varieties, green zucchinis and yellow crooknecks, the smaller the better. The problem with all the fall varieties was they lived up to their name, being mushy and bland. Back then, I wouldn't even touch pumpkin pie. I'd been forced to eat one-too-many Thanksgiving dinners where the most popular dessert for everyone else was forced on me. My mother use to bake the life out of it—she had a propensity for making sure everything was done—yet, mysteriously her...


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With Ljubojna Brass Fantasy, Ljubojna exceeds the exceptionally high standards it has set for itself. For this occasion, that band leader/ bassist Oliver Josifovski has completely changed the concept of the band by using a huge brass orchestra instead of the regular band for a collection of traditional Macedonian songs, only this time coming exclusively from the region of Aegean Macedonia (today's Northern Greece). Experimentation or taking chances with arrangements is not something new for this group or its bandleader. As a group, Ljubojna has built its musical approach mostly upon this constant creation of musical and vocal friction or ...read more
As a band Ljubojna is a sum of many parts. While folk music is a prominent ingredient in its music, so, too, are jazz, pop, hip-hop, jungle and other forms; for this septet, the folk background is merely just another aspect of its musical Esperanto. All of the musos are more than able, prolific and have a more than solid background in playing jazz, avant and dance music. It is obvious that Ljubojna was not designed with purists in mind but for those with eclectic tastes. While love and war may be at the core (the name is ...read more


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Rosquitas de Anis
Makes about 24
3 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
A pinch of salt
1 tsp anise seeds
4 oz, or 1/2 cup butter, cut into chunks
4 oz, or 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
1/2 cup sugar
2 egg yolks
1/3 cup warm water
Confectioners' sugar, optional
Mix the all purpose flour, baking powder, salt and anise seeds in a large mixing bowl. Toss in the butter chunks and the vegetable shortening in spoonfuls. Begin to mix it with your hands, until the butter and vegetable shortening are mixed in with the rest of the ingredients.
Add the sugar, egg yolks and warm water, working everything together with your hands. In less than a minute, the dough should be soft and malleable enough to be turned into a ball. Don't knead it more than necessary, as soon as it all comes together in a homogeneous mass it is good enough.
Butter a large cookie sheet. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
One by one, make cookie balls with the palms of your hands, of about 1 1/2″. Then roll it out either with your hands or on a lightly floured surface, into a short rope form, of about 3 to 4″ long and less than 1″ wide. Twist the rope a bit and close the two ends making a loop. It is very easy! Like a doughnut shape!
Place the finished rosquitas on a buttered cookie sheet until you have finished the dough. Place them in the oven anywhere from 20 to 25 minutes, or until cooked and lightly browned on top. Remove them from the oven, let them cool, and sprinkle with confectioners' sugar.
If you're fighting a war, how do you cook food on the run? What sort of meals can you make around ranches, porches, and rustic bonfires? What might Pancho Villa or Emiliano Zapata have eaten? This episode looks at the culinary legacy of the Mexican Revolution, with recipes that include:
This cake is a treat. What's more, being flourless, it is perfect for both gluten free eaters and the coming Passover week.
As a fan of marzipan this cake feels like a fluffy, smooth, tasty piece of marzipan that has turned into a cake to become a bigger, lighter and longer lasting version of itself. It can be served as a dessert, with some whipped cream on top. If you are lucky to have some leftover, it makes for a decadent breakfast with a side of berries and some hot coffee or tea.
The recipe comes from the Mexican convent of San Jerónimo, where Mexico's most famous nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was settled. It dates to the late 1600's. Spanish nuns who came to help establish the different convents, had an indomitable sweet tooth, which paired with Mexico's exotic ingredients, made for some of the country's dearest and sweetest desserts. Centuries later, these desserts are staples in Mexico's kitchens.
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Pastel de Tres Leches or Three Milk's Cake, is one of the most, if not the most popular and sold cake throughout Mexico. It is also amongst the most requested recipes I have been asked for after Pickled Jalapeños and Piggie cookies. So dear readers, I am sorry it has taken this long but here it goes! I promise to get to the other requests, which I love getting on your emails, as soon as possible.
Tres Leches is a sweet, practically wet, homey cake. Its base is a vanilla sponge cake, completely soaked in a sauce traditionally made with three kinds of milk: La Lechera sweetened condensed milk, evaporated milk and regular milk. Some versions substitute regular milk with heavy cream. The cake will sometimes have a topping like fresh whipped cream, which I seriously consider of utmost necessity. Sometimes the topping turns out to be meringue or even chocolate ganache.
Growing up in Mexico City, there was a bakery called La Gran Via, which sold such delicious Tres Leches that even though it was far from home, we used to drive many Sundays to get one. These days La Gran Via has become a large chain store of bakeries… it has been years since I have eaten one of their cakes. This recipe, is as close as I get to my nostalgic memories.
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I do love the change of seasons in the Eastern United States. The fall leaves change to different shades and make fluffy mountains where the boys jump a thousand times in a single day. I also like the smell of winter winds waiting around the corner as our home heating starts to warm up. And I have so much fun getting all of us coats and hats and gloves, something I never did growing up.
But I do miss my piece of beachside coconut flan. The one I used to have in Acapulco, many Decembers ago, growing up. My favorite was from Pipo's, a restaurant in "la Costera", an old neighborhood along the beach. It has a creamy and smooth layer on top that blends into a bottom layer of softened and nicely chewy coconut. I have tried a couple versions and the best one is also the simplest one.
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"You know how some people become attached to a certain dish? They try it somewhere once and then want to go back to eat it again and again, or they make it at home repeatedly in an until-death-do-us-part kind of vow? Well, I am one of those people, and I have made that vow with quite a few dishes from the Mexican state of Michoacan.
It surprises me how Michoacan's cuisine has remained such a well-kept secret. It has a defined personality and a complex layering of delicious flavors like the more popular cuisines from Oaxaca and Puebla, but its dishes seem to be a bit more comforting and use fewer ingredients…"
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Ay, ay, ay! Patita, espérate mamacita! My nanny repeated, as she snatched the hot plantain tightly wrapped in aluminum foil, from my hands. Her hands were more resistant, she insisted, as they were older and had cooked so much. She would hold my chosen package with an open hand, so the camotero (sweet potato street cart man, who also sold plantains) could tear up the foil. As the steam flew up to the skies, he poured a more-than-any-child-could-wish-for amount of La Lechera sweetened condensed milk… and so it fell, sweet ounce, by thick ounce, onto that moist, rich, filling and immensely satisfying treat. Sheer joy, that was.
I devoured it in what seemed a couple bites, just to lick the last but yummiest remains from the crumbled foil. There we were, standing on the street corner where my family lived, mischievously laughing: it was already getting dark, almost dinnertime, and no, no, no, I wasn't supposed to be having any. Oh dear, how I miss that woman! Now every time I eat a plantain, I get a sparkle of that sheer joy.
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Plantains are now available almost anywhere in the United States. They have the appearance of being thicker, longer and bigger type of bananas. But they are not. No wonder they are called macho bananas, plátano macho, in most areas of Mexico. Although from the same family, plantains are a different ingredient. They are starchier, meatier, firmer, milder in flavor and have much thicker skin than bananas and are better treated as vegetables in a culinary sense, since they are only eaten cooked.
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gave ourselves a really good chance of winning the game.'' NOTES: The Senators were without Marc Methot (back). Jared Cowen , Erik Condra and Colin Greening were healthy scratches. ... The Devils were without Jordin Tootoo (foot), and
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- No sooner I had I hit the send button on yesterday's column when the selling pressure showed up in London. The low of the day for gold came around 3:30 p.m. in electronic trading in New York, and the price traded sideways from there.
The CME recorded the high and low ticks as $1,254.80 and $1,235.50 in the December and February contracts.
Gold finished the Wednesday trading session at $1,238.00 spot, down an even $4.00 from Tuesday. Net volume, once December was subtracted out, was very decent at 163,000 contracts.The top of the rally in silver that began shortly after the London open, ended a few hours later at 11 a.m. GMT. Most of the subsequent price decline was done by 12:30 p.m. in New York, and the rally that followed wasn't allowed to get far. The absolute low came a few minutes before the 5:15 p.m. EST electronic close. The high and low ticks in the December month were reported by the CME as $20.08 and $19.585. Silver closed on Wednesday at $19.665 spot, down 15 cents, and safely back under the $20 spot price for the second day in a row. And also for the second day in a row, platinum got sold down for a loss. Yesterday's sell off began shortly after 11 a.m. Zurich time, and most of the engineered price decline was done shortly before the Comex close. This was another new low for platinum in this move down. Palladium rallied a bit in overnight trading, but obviously ran into a price ceiling in Zurich trading before it, too, succumbed to selling. Palladium closed lower for the last two days, but only by a dollar or so each day. Here are the charts. The dollar index closed in New York on Tuesday at 80.75, but began chopping lower as soon as Far East trading began on their Wednesday. The index got as low as 80.50, but at precisely 9 a.m. EST a rally developed that took it back to almost unchanged on the day, as it closed at 80.73 on Wednesday, down a couple of basis points. The gold stocks spiked up over a percent at the open, but then got sold down to almost unchanged by 10:30 a.m. in New York. After that they chopped sideways for the remainder of the trading session. The HUI finished up 0.79%. It was pretty much the same story with the silver stocks, but they got sold down into negative territory by 10:30 a.m. EST, but recovered to close in the black by day's end. Nick Laird's Intraday Silver Sentiment Index closed up 0.40%. The CME Daily Delivery Report yesterday for the last day of November drew a blank, as there was no data to report; so the November delivery month was obviously done as of Tuesday. The First Day Notice numbers for delivery into the December contract were a bit of a surprise, as only 68 gold and 786 silver contracts were posted for delivery on Monday. In gold, the short/issuers were RCG with 40 contracts, and R.J. O'Brien with 24 contracts. JPMorgan stopped 45 contracts in its in-house [proprietary] trading account and another 5 for its client account. I expect the next few days will bring much more delivery action in gold, and it will be interesting to see who the issuers and stoppers are. But if I had to guess, it would be "all the usual suspects." In silver, it was Canada's Bank of Nova Scotia, Jefferies, and in distant third, Barclays as the biggest short/issuers; with 393, 326 and 46 contracts respectively. Of course the tallest hog at the trough as long/stopper was JPMorgan Chase with 360 contracts in its proprietary trading account and 81 for its client account. In distant second was BNP Prime Brokerage with 105 contracts. The rest of the contracts were divided up between twenty or so of the smaller commercial brokerage houses. Yesterday's Issuers and Stoppers Report is definitely worth skimming, and the link is here. There was another big withdrawal from GLD yesterday, as an authorized participant shipped out 183,306 troy ounces for parts unknown. And as of 9:54 p.m. EST there were no reported changes in SLV. The U.S. Mint had a small sales report yesterday. They sold 5,000 troy ounces of gold eagles and 1,500 one-ounce 24K gold buffaloes, and that was all. It was a very quiet in/out day in gold over at the Comex-approved depositories on Tuesday, as only 257 troy ounces were reported received, and nothing was shipped out. But, as it almost always is, it was a totally different story in silver, as 300,586 troy ounces were reported received and 608,227 troy ounces were shipped out. All of the activity was at Brink's, Inc. and the link to that action is here. I have the usual number of stories for a mid-week column, and I'm sure there are several posted below that you'll find to your liking.
¤ The WrapYou don't have to look far to see why gold and silver prices fell over the past four weeks – new technical fund short selling on the Comex. That's a fact, Jack. And you don't even have to accept my version that JPMorgan and other collusive commercials lured the technical funds into those short sales by lowering the price at key points, through HFT and spoofing. Let's leave that aside and just look at the data in the COT reports and other indisputable facts. - Silver analyst Ted Butler, 23 November 2013 It was another day where the precious metals got sold down after rallying a bit in Far East and early London trading, and for no reason I could think of. The supply/demand fundamentals in all four precious metals are off the charts, but JPMorgan et al are not allowing that to be reflected in the price, at least not until they've covered every short, and gone long every contract that they possibly can in all four precious metals. "Da Boyz" are still working over platinum pretty good, and it's been in a virtual non-stop down-trend for the last two weeks. It's now in oversold territory, and one has to wonder if the bullion banks finally cleared out their huge short position in this precious metal to the best of their abilities. Here's the six-month platinum chart. Are we at the bottom yet? Based on the price action, I'd guess so. " But it ain't over 'till it's over" as Yogi Berra used to say, and there's no way of knowing if JPMorgan et al are done sticking it to the technical funds and small traders. But there isn't much meat left on their bones, as they are so mega short already, and it's hard to imagine that they would go any further down that road. But it's what happens on the next rally that matters, and what "da boyz" do when it begins. I've always wondered what might trigger it, and I've always thought that when JPMorgan et al finally allow prices to rise for real by not showing up as short sellers of last resort, there will be some black swan event happening at the same instant. It could be economic, monetary, political, or now maybe even military. But whatever it is, it won't be by happenstance, as there are no coincidences anymore. As to when this seminal event might occur, I haven't a clue. But it's out there somewhere. Very little has happened price wise in Far East trading on their Thursday as I write this paragraph about 10 minutes before London opens. Volumes are certainly on the lighter side, and most of the trading activity in gold and silver is now in their respective new front months. The dollar index isn't doing much of anything. And as I hit the send button on today's missive at 5:10 a.m. EST, all four precious metals are attempting to rally in mid-morning London trading, and all are up a bit from yesterday's close in New York. Volumes in both gold and silver are still very light, so I wouldn't read much into the current price action. The dollar index is down about 14 basis points. As I said in this space yesterday, I'm not expecting much in the way of price activity during the next two days, unless one of those 'black swans' I was referring to puts in an appearance. Don't forget that unless something blows up or melts down today, I won't have a column tomorrow. I'll see you here on Saturday, or Sunday if you live west of the International Date Line.
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I could "sail to " the command in the AOP1 during a battle. I don't know why I can't do it in this game during a sea battle.
"Sail to" is not available in combat. It kind of sucks but does make things a little more strategic. If you usse the + key it will speed up the game which can help in battle.
Yeah my bosun always hollers at me "We got company captain" -or- "I see a pendant" and I think Sh--, now what?
But no you can't sail until you've either wiped out the enemy ( or he wipes you out, then it doesn't matter ) or maybe you are far enough ahead of the enemy that you may be given the "Sea" icon and you might be able to "Sail away". Sometimes if you do that your other ships ( if you have any? ) will not follow you and are never heard from again.
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Look whom Obama cites now
The blogosphere is burning red, consumed with fury over President Obama's announcement — made at the end of the news cycle, with talk-radio on weekend break — that he supports the construction of a mosque near the downed World Trade Center buildings.
While much is being said, there's one thing that really struck me about Obama's announcement: In a 1,200-word statement, which named the Constitution once, Thomas Jefferson twice, and the Founders three times — odd for Obama, who invokes the Founders far less than previous presidents — Obama began with backing from George W. Bush and ended with backing from Jesus Christ. At the same time, he didn't name Bush or Christ.
First, consider the Bush reference. It came in Obama's opening:
"Here at the White House, we have a tradition of hosting iftars that goes back several years, just as we host Christmas parties and Seders and Diwali celebrations. And these events celebrate the role of faith in the lives of the American people. They remind us of the basic truth that we are all children of God, and we all draw strength and a sense of purpose from our beliefs."
The line about "we are all children of God" is hardly unique — to Obama or Bush; numerous Americans and presidents have used it. That said, more than any president in history, Bush applied that line specifically to Muslims. He did so to insist that Americans not only respect Muslims but understand that Muslims, too, are born with fundamental, unalienable rights and dignity, and, moreover, are capable of establishing democratic governments in places like the Middle East.
Yet, where Obama directly, uniquely invoked Bush was in the very first line of his statement: "Here at the White House, we have a tradition of hosting iftars that goes back several years."
Americans might wonder when that "tradition" began. Well, not long ago — too recent, in fact, to be called a tradition. As President Obama himself said, this so-called tradition is only "several years" old. The hosting of iftars, consistently, goes back to President Bush.
Ironically, Obama and the angry left blasted Bush (with Obama, the digs have been more subtle) for his alleged callousness and insensitivity to Muslims. Nothing could be further from the truth. In researching a book on the faith of George W. Bush, I encountered innumerable glowing appraisals of Islam, so flattering and exaggerated — to the point of error — that Bush could have been mistaken for a Muslim.
Really, it was fundamentalist Christians who were most perplexed by Bush, especially as Bush repeatedly, over two terms as president, told multiple interviewers that Christians and Muslims worship the same God.
Obviously, that's a problematic assessment, given that Christians worship Jesus Christ as God. Muslims do not believe that Jesus was God.
The point here is that Obama's supporters hammered Bush relentlessly for his supposed intolerance of Muslims. And now, alas, we have the spectacle of Obama, in an extremely controversial statement calling for toleration — more than that, endorsement — of a mosque near the 9/11 site, launching his case by referencing the iftar dinners begun by Bush.
Will Obama's angrily secular supporters know that the dreaded Bush was behind this "tradition?" Of course not.
For that matter, will they recognize the source of Obama's concluding thought? Obama finished his case for the mosque with this wrap-up:
"And we can only achieve 'liberty and justice for all' if we live by that one rule at the heart of every great religion, including Islam — that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us."
I'm happy to argue that this is a universal principle. As St. Augustine said, there's a God-shaped vacuum in all human hearts that God alone can fill. We know, in heart and soul, as products of God, designed by God, made in God's image, through faith and reason, that such abiding principles are true.
In other words, being merely a creature — a creation of God, whether you know it or not — you nod in assent when you hear this statement. To borrow from Jefferson, such are the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God.
That said, any Christian immediately recognizes that Obama's final words are Christ's words: the Golden Rule (Matthew 7:12).
Here, too, though, Obama didn't cite his source. Why not? Is it because the principle is so universal that no source is needed? Or could it be that Obama, ironically, is bending over backwards not to offend Muslims in a statement calling upon Christians (and other non-Muslims) not to be offended by the mosque?
As often with President Obama, when it comes to matters of faith, he has left us with more questions than answers.
[Dr. Paul Kengor is professor of political science and executive director of The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City (Penn.) College (www.VisAndVals.org). His books include "God and George W. Bush" and the forthcoming "Dupes: How America's Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century."]
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Cal : I tried with much dint of effort to simply send you an e-mail. Alas, your website is rather a potpourri of conflicting instructions on e-mailing your departments. In any event, I just wanted to comment on Paul Kengor's use of who/whom and his (and yours) habit of over-working, and incorrectly so, the hyphen. The hyphen is usually used to maker a sharper point than that of, say, a comma. It should not be used so much as to indicate that the writer is unsure of the correct punctuation and uses the hyphen as a crutch. It should always be two un-paired dashes.
The article by Mr. Kengor, "Look WHOM Obama cites now." Obviously, WHOM should have been WHO. The rule is: The subject is always WHO. The object is always WHOM. I assume from the syntax of the title that WHOM is the subject of the title and not Obama.
I took the liberty of counting all the hyphens in some of your's and Mr. Kengor's articles, but soon tired of the task and lost count. And, Cal and Mr. Kengor, please know that I really do mean this gentle grammar correction in the most sincere way.
James Studdard, Atty and columnist for the Fayette County , News and other publications.
James, I agree that writers these days make too liberal (oops) a use of the dash, a handy piece of punctuation that traditionally indicates within a sentence a sharp break in the sense of the sentence. And I also agree with you that a judicious use of correctly placed commas — and if necessary, parentheses (note that dash, correctly used) — would mollify most strict grammarians.
(By the way, an online dictionary has this to say:
parenthesis |pəˈrenθəsis|
noun ( pl. -ses |-ˌsēz|)
a word, clause, or sentence inserted as an explanation or afterthought into a passage that is grammatically complete without it, in writing usually marked off by curved brackets, dashes, or commas.
• (usu. parentheses) one or both of a pair of marks ( ) used to include such a word, clause, or sentence.
• an interlude or interval : the three months of coalition government were a lamentable political parenthesis.
in parenthesis as a digression or afterthought.)
My penchant, however, is to let writers have their say, so long as the meaning and intent of their writing is not obscured or impeded by their use (correct or incorrect) of common punctuation. So, I plead guilty, with good intent. If you were a judge, you might not be swayed by my good intentions, but as a good defense lawyer, you might give me the benefit of the doubt.
As to "whom," we had a lively discussion among my writers and me. I prevailed.
My case is built on the now almost extinct skill of sentence diagramming, demonstrated herewith:
"Look whom Obama cites now."
Look — the imperative form of an intransitive verb. The subject "you" is understood. Likewise the following adverb "at" is also understood. So, thus far we have "(You) Look (at)" and we await what comes next.
And what we have next is an adverbial clause: "whom Obama cites now."
Within that clause, we have a subject, "Obama," and a transitive verb (meaning it takes an object), "cites," and the objective case of the nominative pronoun, "who" — in this case, "whom."
An explanation: "Cites" takes both a subject and an object ("James cites a book as his authority," "I cite you as my source."). Since "Obama" is the subject doing the citing, "whom" is the object being cited. Since "whom" is the objective case of the relative pronoun, "who" (with its "relation" being to the so-far unnamed persons or sources that Obama is citing), the sentence is correct as stands.
And I appreciate your quest for good grammar, even if, in this case, you incorrectly diagrammed the sentence.
(I now look forward to the grammarians who will cite "at" as a preposition; the difficulty with that is that prepositions take objects, either a word or a phrase. I have sought to find a "prepositional clause" and have found no citations. But this is the World Wide Web ....)
English teachers applaud you! I often cringe when I read some of my 'missives'. (But I must admit - I do enjoy novels that sometimes crucify the English language.) Thanks for allowing us to express ourselves - even though many times we are grammatically incorrect!
It's an en dash or em dash, not a hyphen. A hyphen is used to connect two words that are related in some way, as in a ticked-off reader. The uses of the em dash in this column were correct -- to set off descriptive phrases that added information to the sentences.
Usually, but not always people who correct people on grammar and punctuation are attempting to deflect from points made by an opponent.
This makes "progressive" elitists feel good and superior to their opponents, but it does nothing to change reality. Luckily they did not have spell and grammar check by grammar police when they created the Founding Documents.
I can't wait for the dint of words you will get!
"some of your's," indeed!"maker a sharper point," indeed!
"two un-paired dashes."
Object of what?
"Fayette County, News." (is that the same as Fayette County News?)
Them what abide in cristol shacks shood remaine stil!
And I have ignored who and whom for many years--it is lak air ye goin for are you going.


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Cheer on your Detroit Tigers in this New Era women's Wintry Warm knit beanie! This knit hat will let your Detroit Tigers spirit explode with a pom of team colors on the top, an embroidered team logo on the folded up cuff and team colors woven throughout. So combine that warm feeling you get from your pride in the Detroit Tigers with a comfy knit beanie.
- 100% Acrylic
- Attached pom
- Embroidered graphics
- Fold up cuff
- Officially licensed
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American Kickboxer (1991)
Kickboxing champion B.J. is jailed for an accidental murder thanks to the testimony of his arch-nemesis Denard. A year later, B.J. is released and then challenged by Denard for $100,000. ... See full summary »
Director:Frans Nel
Writers:Emil Kolbe (screenplay), John Barrett (story)
Stars:John Barrett, Keith Vitali, Terry Norton | See full cast and crew »