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'No party save NCP has joined Congress; is this not a no-confidence sign against the UPA government?'
In a vitriolic attack on the Centre, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said the Congress government had no moral right to continue in power and likened it to a "dead body" that was "rotting."
"What will have to be decided is whether to take [the body] for cremation or burial on the shoulders or in a hearse because there is none to carry it," Ms. Banerjee said."The reshuffle was an internal matter of the party [the Congress] and it was left to it to decide whether to cut the head of the fish or its tail… No other party has joined the government but for the Nationalist Congress Party, which was only to please Sharad Pawar. Mulayam Singh Yadav, Mayawati, the DMK had been asked to [join] but none joined the government. Is this not a no-confidence sign against the UPA government?" she asked.
"So we can clearly say that what is left is a Congress government, not a UPA government… It is a one-party government, a one-party rule. There are one or two constituents who are flickering like fireflies and providing it some shelter," Ms. Banerjee said.
Ms. Banerjee observed that she had raised the question of moving a no-confidence motion against the UPA government in Parliament the day the Trinamool withdrew support to the alliance.She said the government should have ascertained whether it still enjoyed the confidence of the House after having taken controversial decisions such as the cap imposed on cooking gas cylinders, the repeated hike in fuel prices and allowing foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail.
Ms. Banerjee also charged the government with misusing the CBI. She derided the Cabinet reshuffle saying "the Ministers have no importance, they are valueless as the government has no majority."
Keywords: Trinamool Congress, UPA, Cabinet reshuffle, Mamata Banerjee, Congress


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Authorities hope one murder holds key to another
A DNA match has given new life to the troubled investigation into Holly Staker's 1992 rape and murder, and Lake County authorities are trying to solve her killing by reinvestigating a crime committed nearly a decade later.
Attorneys revealed in court last week that DNA suggested the same person may have been involved in both the Staker murder and the slaying of Delwin Foxworth, who was beaten and lit on fire in North Chicago in 2000. A lab report showed a link between semen from the Staker scene in Waukegan and blood on a board used to beat Foxworth in North Chicago.
The man connected to the DNA has not been identified, but the genetic evidence doesn't match the original defendant in either case. Juan Rivera spent 20 years in prison for Staker's killing before a state appeals court freed him; Marvin Williford's lawyers argue the new DNA tests clear him of Foxworth's murder.
Now, Waukegan police — tasked with solving Staker's murder since Rivera's release in 2012 — are trying to use witnesses and information from the Foxworth killing to solve the earlier murder, said Lake County State's Attorney Mike Nerheim. Prosecutors hope that detective work might also illuminate facts in Foxworth's case and help determine how they should handle Williford's innocence claim, Nerheim added.
"Any information they get that's relevant to either case … we'll certainly take action," Nerheim said.
Meanwhile, one of Rivera's former lawyers and a forensic science expert agreed that because DNA database searches have failed to identify a suspect, authorities should use DNA to try to find one of the killer's relatives and use that to track down the suspect. Illinois doesn't use that controversial technique, called familial searching, though officials said the method is under review.
Williford, arrested three years after the crime, hopes to be cleared like four men who were exonerated by DNA in Lake County in the last years of former State's Attorney Michael Waller's term. Under Waller, the office earned a reputation for disregarding evidence showing prosecutors had imprisoned the wrong men while dangerous criminals went free.
Foxworth was beaten with a board and set on fire in his home in 2000, and prosecutors depended on a witness who said Williford, now 43, wielded the board and dumped gasoline on the victim before he was set on fire. Williford, who has maintained his innocence, was convicted and sentenced to 80 years in prison.
Foxworth's mother, Ann Adams, said she took a call in recent weeks from a Waukegan officer investigating the Staker case. The officer wanted to know about her son's associates, whom she said she didn't know. Foxworth did not succumb to his injuries for two years, and when Adams asked her son about the attack during that time, she said he told her, "Mom, stay out of it."
Authorities have also been in contact with Williford's lawyers but have not asked to speak with the inmate. The lawyers are providing leads on potential alternative suspects to authorities.
"The DNA hit in our case gives new life to the Staker murder, but it also supports an argument that my client is innocent and had nothing to do with either offense. In light of that, I hope police are independently investigating both cases instead of relying upon a false assumption that my client is guilty or connected in any way with the real murderer of Holly Staker," said Jennifer Blagg, one of Williford's attorneys.
While the DNA match has offered police direction in the unsolved Staker case, prosecutors are reviewing what it could mean to the Foxworth case. Nerheim was elected state's attorney in 2012 promising to reform an office whose prosecutors dismissed and even ridiculed claims of innocence that turned out to be valid. He said he'd consider every possibility.
"It could mean any number of things. It could mean Williford is innocent, it could mean there is a tie to one of the (other men involved) in that case," he said.
Waukegan police declined to comment.
While major developments in the Staker case have been driven by forensic science, one of Rivera's lawyers and a DNA expert lamented that authorities apparently are not using one emerging forensic technique — familial DNA searching.
A familial search can be done when authorities — finding no DNA match to a suspect in a database — search for potential family members of the offender, allowing follow-up investigation that might lead to the criminal. Critics of familial DNA searching have voiced concern that it is imprecise and it could lead to invasions of privacy.
Only a handful of states do familial searches; Illinois does not. Illinois State Police spokeswoman Monique Bond said her agency recognizes the technique's potential but noted the controversy and said the method is under review.
Familial searching makes sense in a cold case such as the Staker investigation, said Rockne Harmon, a DNA expert. Harmon, a former prosecutor in Alameda County, Calif., who helped prosecute O.J. Simpson, noted California's Grim Sleeper case, in which authorities found the son of a man whose DNA was allegedly discovered at various crime scenes and used that to locate the man now charged with killing 10 women.
Judy Royal, a lawyer at Northwestern University Law School's Center on Wrongful Convictions who helped defend Rivera, said she'd like to see a familial search on the DNA sample done in Wisconsin because of its proximity to Waukegan and because the state recently authorized familial searches.
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Makes 1 liter
- 1 1-liter bottle 151-proof rum
- 2 vanilla beans, each split lengthwise
- 1/4 cup cocoa nibs*
Pour rum into large bottle; add vanilla bean halves and cocoa nibs. Close bottle; set aside for 3 weeks, shaking bottle every day to mix ingredients. Strain liqueur into another bottle.
* Bits of shell-roasted cocoa beans; available at many specialty foods stores and from chocosphere.com.
my notes
- Calories1,124
- Carbohydrates7 g (2%)
- Fat1 g (2%)
- Protein2 g (4%)
- Saturated Fat1 g (4%)
- Sodium7 mg (0%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat0 g
- Fiber4 g (14%)
- Monounsaturated Fat0 g
- Cholesterol0
recipe at a glance
type: Alcoholic
main ingredients: Chocolate, Rum
dietary considerations: Low Fat, Low Cal, Low Cholesterol
holiday/celebration: Valentine's Day


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Voters can meet congressional, legislative candidates at forum
October 16, 2012
Hear from the candidates for offices in Olympia and Washington, D.C., Oct. 18 at a candidate forum cosponsored by The Issaquah Press, the American Association of University Women and the League of Women Voters.
The lineup includes candidates for the state House of Representatives and state Senate, plus Democrat Karen Porterfield, a candidate to represent Issaquah in Congress.
The forum is meant to offer voters a chance to learn about local candidates as the clock ticks down to Election Day. King County Elections is due to mail ballots to voters by Oct. 19.
Voters can join the event at 7 p.m. in the Council Chambers at Issaquah City Hall South, 135 E. Sunset Way. Or, Issaquah residents can also watch the candidate forum live on the local government access channel, ICTV Channel 21.
State audit prompts changes to city finances
October 16, 2012
State auditors chided Issaquah officials for inadequate financial oversight, but also praised the city for correcting problems, in a routine financial audit released Sept. 26.
Auditors examined municipal finances for 2011 and discovered officials lacked adequate internal controls in place to ensure accurate accounting and timely financial reporting.
The problem arose from staff turnover in key financial positions and, as a result, the city did not have sufficient controls in place and could not prepare financial statements on time.
City officials acknowledged the finding, and hired staffers for the positions affected by turnover, and changed policies to increase accountability and transparency.
The team from the state Auditor's Office said the changes adequately addressed the concerns uncovered in the audit.
City surveys 2,300 businesses for ideas, input
October 16, 2012
Issaquah leaders put a question to business owners in recent days: How can we help you?
Citywide, all 2,300 businesses started to receive surveys from the economic development team at City Hall last week. The effort is designed to help officials understand business leaders' concerns and needs.
The data collected from survey responses could influence future decisions related to business regulations, incentives and more.
Not long after joining the staff at City Hall earlier this year, Economic Development Manager Andrea Lehner gathered anecdotal information from business owners from meetings and visits, but, through the process, started to crave more empirical information.
Salmon Days Festival is packed to the gills
October 9, 2012
Unseasonably warm weather greets visitors for fun, sun
The calendar says it is October. The changing colors of the tree leaves suggest that autumn is in the air and the endless stream of chinook congregating at the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery definitely confirms it.
Issaquah mayor eyes property tax hike
October 9, 2012
Issaquah homeowners can expect to pay about $5 more in property taxes next year, if City Council members adopt a 1 percent rate hike to fund long-term projects.
The property tax increase, proposed Oct. 1 by Mayor Ava Frisinger, is not expected to generate much next year. If enacted, city officials expect to raise only $69,707 — a drop in a proposed $35 million general fund budget.
The decision to raise the property tax rate by the maximum amount allowed under state law, 1 percent, is projected to cost the average homeowner $4.75 per year.
Meet congressional, legislative candidates at forum
October 9, 2012
Hear from the candidates for offices in Olympia and Washington, D.C., at a candidate forum cosponsored by The Issaquah Press, the American Association of University Women and the League of Women Voters.
The lineup for the Oct. 18 forum includes candidates for the state House of Representatives and state Senate, plus a candidate to represent Issaquah in Congress. The forum includes candidates in contested and uncontested races.
The event is not a debate. Candidates offer opening statements to the audience and then answer a series of questions from the moderator, Publisher Debbie Berto.
Press Editorial
October 9, 2012
Join conversation at candidate forum
In 2008, fueled in part by the historic candidacy of Barack Obama to the highest office in the land, voters engaged in the political process in a once-in-a-generation way.
Though 2012 cannot recapture the sense of excitement, contests up and down the ballot merit some serious attention from Issaquah voters. So much attention is focused on the race for president, but Washington voters must decide important races for governor and other executive positions.
Voters also face a chance to make history through ballot measures to legalize marijuana and affirm the rights of same-sex couples to marry.
Dump expired, unused medication at Issaquah City Hall
September 25, 2012
Saving unused or expired medication can lead to improper and illegal use.
So the Issaquah Police Department is offering residents a chance to dump leftover medication. The agency is hosting a medication take-back event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 29 at City Hall, 130 E. Sunset Way.
Issaquah residents can also drop off medications anytime from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays, at the police department.
Dispatchers demonstrate poise under pressure amid shootout
September 18, 2012
The callers punching 911 into cellphones on Sept. 24, 2011, a bright Saturday darkened as a gunman stalked across downtown Issaquah, heard a calm voice amid the chaos.
In the hours after the gunman set across from a downtown intersection to Clark Elementary School, communications specialists at the Issaquah Police Department fielded a tsunami of calls.
In the tumult, a trio of dispatchers — including a recent addition to the team — attempted to assuage panicked citizens and advise the officers at the scene.
The voices citizens and officers heard on the line came from Dominique Hill, Janelle Knight and Felicia Moore.
Issaquah marks 9/11 anniversary
September 18, 2012
City leaders lowered flags to half-staff at Issaquah City Hall and other municipal buildings Sept. 11 to commemorate 11 years since the 9/11 attacks.
The federal government and local governments across the United States lowered flags at public buildings for the day — officially Patriot Day and the National Day of Service and Remembrance.
U.S. Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell and other elected leaders marked the anniversary.


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They come from all over the ethnic patchwork of this neighborhood of modest-to-fancy brick houses and square green lawns in the borough of Queens, New York: East Asian, South Asian, Caribbean, African-American, Jewish. (Only one speaks Japanese at home.) But at the library, they identify as otaku — Japanese slang for manga aficionados — and their divisions run purely along manga lines. Fans of shonen action manga challenge partisans of romantic shojo; experts debate the merits of series like Full Metal Alchemist, Death Note and Fruits Basket. Readers pool their knowledge to puzzle out magic spells, ninja moves and warrior codes that dominate the manga universe.
Manga clubs have coalesced in libraries in various Queens neighborhoods — Flushing, Jamaica, Long Island City — and the genre has colonized young-adult rooms in libraries around the country.
Now, librarians write books and journal articles to figure out how to tap into this powerful vein of interest that seizes early adolescents just at the age when they are most likely to drift away from libraries.
The manga mania, like so much else in the city during the recession, is threatened by budget cuts. Beginning in July, proposed cuts would reduce library staff by more than one-third and opening hours by nearly half, library officials say. Thirty-four community libraries would be open only two or three days a week. New York Times reports.
The man they call "the library guy," Paul Clark, returned to the State Capitol Tuesday carrying a simple, happy message: "Thank you."
The 39-year-old father of three put a very human face on the 2010 legislative session through his sheer tenacity. Day after day, Clark stood silently in the Capitol pleading for lawmakers to find $21-million to maintain the level of state support for public libraries.
When lawmakers came through near midnight Monday, Senate budget chief JD Alexander made a passing reference to "that guy" who persisted in getting library money. Clark, who earns about $45,000 a year, had forfeited most of his personal vacation time to push for funding-- including putting in a 12-hour day on Sunday in the Knott Building, where budget negotiations took place.
The Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment to the Minnesota Constitution, approved by voters in 2008, was a financial windfall for supporters of the state's wildlife and wetlands, drinking water, arts, history and cultural heritage. And for Neil Gaiman.
The 2009 Newbery Award-winning author earned $45,000 — all of it coming directly from so-called legacy-amendment funds — for an appearance a week ago at Stillwater Junior High School in the kickoff event of Club Book, a project of the Metropolitan Library Services Agency. The project brings well-known national and regional authors to Twin Cities-area libraries by tapping into the arts and cultural heritage fund portion of legacy-amendment funds.
Chris Olson, director of the Metropolitan Library Services Agency (MLSA) and one of those who helps oversee the $4.25 million in legacy amendment funds that were allocated to the state's regional public library systems, admitted last week that he was somewhat taken aback when he learned the amount of Gaiman's fee for the Stillwater event.
"Frankly, yes, I was surprised," Olson said. "That was my immediate reaction." Politics in Minnesota.
WALNUT CREEK — Librarians from Walnut Creek, Concord, Castro Valley and San Jose joined members of the California PTA today at Foothill Middle School to denounce education cuts that are shutting school libraries.
Because of cuts in the Mt. Diablo district, most middle schools libraries are open two days a week and closed three days. But Foothill parents raised about $17,000 to keep their librarian on-site for a third day and to pay for a library aide who staffs the facility from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. the other two days.
California ranks 51st in the nation in its ratio of librarians to students, with one school librarian per 5,124 students compared to the national average of one to 916 students, according to a 2006-07 report from the National Center for Education Statistics.
Read more at education writer Theresa Harrington's On Assignment blog at www.ibabuzz.com/onassignment.
April is National School Librarians Month, and today is National Library Workers Day, bad timing for the American Association of School Administrators to report that 19 percent of school districts surveyed expect to cut librarians' jobs next year.
Rockwall High School librarian Nicole Redmond shows students in a family living class how to better explore resources on the Web in the library's computer lab.
Cuts couldn't come at a worse time, librarians and their advocates argue, because the close reading, critical thinking and research skills they teach are more important now than ever.
"The Internet and Google are wonderful tools, but it's all kind of a cut-and-paste mentality," said Gloria Meraz of the Texas Library Association in Austin. "There is such a fundamental need to continue to teach children to think critically."
Dallas News reports.
Changes in the way the federal government plans to allocate money to increase and improve literacy pose a severe threat to one of the country's best-known nonprofit groups, Reading Is Fundamental.
Known commonly as RIF, the organization, which provides free books to needy children and has been promoted in memorable public service announcements by celebrities like Carol Burnett and Shaquille O'Neal, stands to lose all of its federal financing, which accounts for roughly 75 percent of its annual revenues.
"We are looking at having to completely reinvent ourselves," said Carol Rasco, chief executive of RIF, which has received an annual grant from the Department of Education for 34 years.
Story from the New York Times.
Want to keep up on what's happening with efforts around the country to help save libraries? There's a great new site for that, appropriately named Save Libraries. Their motto is "When one library is in trouble, ALL libraries are in trouble." This project is being run by Lori Reed and Heather Braum. They can't do this alone and are looking for additional help creating and maintaining the content on this site.
Save Libraries is a grassroots effort to compile information about libraries in need of our support. Save Libraries will aggregate information about current advocacy efforts, archive advocacy efforts, and provide links to resources for libraries facing cuts. The project began barely two weeks ago, and is already attracting attention.
Please email us at savelibs (at) gmail (dot) com for questions, comments, or concerns. Please tag your Web content with savelibraries to make it easier for us to find and collect it.
Kudos to none other than our own Blake Carver and LISHost.org for donating hosting for this site and getting WordPress up and running within minutes. This site is dedicated to advocacy for libraries–getting the message out about why libraries are important.
We're looking for advocacy information, testimonials from patrons and staff, photos, videos, anything to help save our libraries. Please pitch in!! Use the tag savelibraries or #savelibraries on Twitter. If you would like to contribute to this site please email firstname.lastname@example.com.
From School Library Journal: Q & A by recently laid-off librarian Sara Scribner, a (former) school librarian for the Pasadena Unified School District.
Scribner had recently penned a Los Angeles Times op-ed piece, "Saving the Google Students" which went viral and talked about how critical media specialists are in this digital age. We asked Scribner how her students—and society—would fare if librarians didn't exist.
When will you know if your position is terminated?
Right now, Pasadena has a parcel tax measure that is going up for a vote throughout the month of April and early May. It has to pass by a large margin, something like two-thirds of the people voting need to say yes to it. On May 5, we should know if it has passed or not. The word is that the librarians will go if it doesn't pass and that they will be saved if it does pass. That's the district speaking. What will happen in the end is anyone's guess. We might not know for sure until we leave for summer break, or even later.
What would the fate be of school libraries in Pasadena without librarians?
No one is willing to discuss what will happen if all of the district librarians are laid off. Since our school will be going through a major renovation next year, I'm going to guess that the library will be "mothballed." Lights out. No librarian. No books. No media lab.
Check out this comprehensive list of Save the Library campaigns, compiled by Stephen Abram.
He writes on Stephen's Lighthouse Blog: Some of these campaigns are grass roots and some come from the state library association, friends' groups or others. Some may have ended. It's just one influencer strategy and it's is not a mark against a state if they haven't chosen public viral campaigning since there are other choices to educate, lobby, advocate and influence the budgetary process.
I just felt that it might be useful to pull the lot together for others to see them and learn. I am sure I missed a few so please add them in the comments. In the next week I will add postings for the main value of the library studies by library sector for your use.


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So, so good. The grilled corn brings a smoky/sweet flavor, which balances perfectly with the garlicky lime butter. I have made this several times now....this time with mostly fresh basil, a little fresh cilantro and green onion (because that's what I had), and a pinch of dried tarragon. It was just as delicious as the other times (where I'm certain I used different herbs). Really can't go wrong with this one!
Used sage, flat leaf parsley and basil. A perfect side for anything and any occasion. I scaled down the whole thing since there were 2 of us but I wish I hadn't. You keep eating it even when full! Just don't refrigerate the leftovers--the butter globs up. Careful with the lime juice too--can over-do it. Might be good to add roasted red pepper for color but the flavors as is are spot on. And no need to pre-soak the corn either!
I made this dish at home and enjoyed it so much I decided to try it out while camping. Threw the corn cobs over the big fire-pit grate and roasted them up - very easy. Mixed up the lime butter sauce while they cooked. Didn't have electricity, so no blender, just mashed the garlic and salt together well, let it sit in the melted butter to soften a bit before adding lime juice and herbs at the last minute. Used basil, chives and thyme. Got rave reviews from the others in our group. Easy and delicious!
This was incredible. The key is the lime butter. I doubled the garlic and the resulting flavor was totally compelling. I had a lot of herbs in the potato salad I was serving, so I went easy and just used a little basil and chives. Of the three dishes from epicurious on the plate, this was by far the best (other two were Potato Salad with Pancetta, Rosemary, and Lemon, and Grilled Jerk Pork with Curried Peach Relish).
Made this using chives and basil for the herbs and it was delicious, we couldn't stop eating it. Made it exactly as written. Can't wait to use the lime butter on something else.
This recipe is so easy but really packs the flavor in! This is our second year of making this and is now my husband's absolute favorite way to do fresh corn. It's also a great way to do corn for a crowd without all the hassle of corn on the cob. I used some lime basil as the herb last night and it was the absolute best after plain basil as the herb.
Yuk. I used the exact mixture of fresh herbs reccomended and the taste that resulted was kind of gross.I love fresh herbs and use them all the time in my cooking but this mixture didn't work in my opinion. Not so sure about the lime butter either. For the amount of butter used which was supstantial, I couln't really even taste the butter. The flavor kind of got lost and it wasn't worth eating all that fat if I couln't even taste it in the recipe. No, I won't be making this again.
I must agree, this is a great recipe and so easy! Definitely will make again and again! I made it just as written.


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This is just alright. Kind of 'meh' … you know? Boring. And chai blends shouldn't be boring. I've tasted better rooibos chai blends. The body seems thin as does the flavor. I think that might have something to do with the fact that the only spices listed in the ingredients is clove and cinnamon. Kind of a boring chai blend, really. If I'm going to have a rooibos chai blend, I want some zesty spices to make up for the fact that I'm drinking rooibos.
Ah well, I guess they can't all float my boat. It's tasty, I guess, but it's just … kind of 'meh.'
This is a deep, rich, spicy tea. It's so heavy to the spices that the tea base doesn't really shine as much as I would like. Whole cardamom, cloves, orange peel and cinnamon pieces are richly interspersed with the leaves. It reminds me of holiday baking- but the exotic notes of cardamom add their own layer to the brew.
I have a habit of drinking my chai as I would any black tea- straight up, no milk, no sugar. This chai is a bit strong for my taste without the additives. It's truly meant to be traditionally brewed as a chai- the robust spiciness still shines strong underneath the milk and sugar, unlike some other chai blends I have tried. Some of the spices (I believe the cloves are guilty) can add a bitter taste if steeped too far beyond 4 minutes.
I personally prefer more tea flavor, but this is a pleasant jaunt away from my constant black tea drinking.
It's not special but there's nothing bad about it. In fact, I'd say in its defense that it is a tea of no real downsides at all. Crisp, no aftertaste, clean. It seems like it would respond well to sweetener (I didn't use any) and if I was served some as a guest somewhere I would be satisfied.
State at time of consumption: Coffee Mug, Silk Almond Milk (just enough to color it lighter) and around 170 deg at time of consumption.
Sipping this tea while I am waiting for the milk to come up to the right temp.
I am making Chevre cheese with all this goat milk around.
I am milking a friend's goats while she away and have tons of milk around.
So, I am making into cheese, buttermilk and ice cream.
Anyway, I realized while I was sipping this tea that I never logged it.
It is a pretty standard Sencha.
Which is good, because that is sometimes exactly what I want.
Dry leaves smell of hay drying in the sun.
The tea itself does not actually have much of a odor, very light hay smell.
The color is a light yellow.
Taste is grassy and bright.
A bit of a bite or astringency at the back of the throat.
A very enjoyable afternoon tea!
Oh delicious! I wish my daughter had some goats on her farm. She has the room and a barn and knows how to make cheese and me to eat it! The ice cream…oh yes! So good! Lucky you! Do you make feta too?
Gmathis: Cheese can be intimidating, but it really is not hard to make at all:)
Bonnie: Goats are simply awesome. But I grew up on a Goat Milk Farm, so maybe I am biased;) And yes, I have made feta before.
I've been looking at mozzarella recipes lately, thinking I'd like to try making it at least once. Of course, I'd like to try everything in the world at least once :D
This is a great Rooibos Tea - I was surprised what great tasting tea this is - If you have never tried Rooibos this is one to start with — It smells great when you open package and it brews up this beautiful red - I drink this everyday too - This is my late afternoon eve tea - This is a great bargain too - I paid 12.99 on amazon for 16 oz - Their web site has a higher price for some reason - It tastes like a really good smooth Rooibos tea — I would recommend this tea to try
This is my go to tea. I drink it all day non-stop. I love the rich tobaccoy flavors. Low tannins means you can steep it for an extended period of time, it won't get bitter, and it doesn't stain you teeth like camellia sinensis does. I have found that fresh ginger root goes really well with rooibos as well. It's also pretty cheap on Amazon which is nice because I go through about a pound per month.
To start, this tea was an amazing deal, I got one pound for 13 bucks on amazon. When brewed correctly with 2 tsp. per 8oz. with boiling water for 7 minutes, it tastes amazing. It has a beautiful deep reddish amber color that goes hand in hand with the taste. This tea has a very strong aroma of acorns, and tastes woody, nutty, sweet, and has slight notes of honey.


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As Shyne tells it, he had no clue it was 50 calling in to give him grief. "I don't listen to nothing he do," he states.
Later Shyne explains, "I thought it was just maybe somebody, you understand, having a bad day that wanted to know about the situation. And it wasn't until after everything was finished, muthafuckers at Def Jam was like, 'Yo—that was Boo Boo. That was Hawaii 5-0′."
Boys, boys—so much wasted time. Why not put all that energy into some actual new music?
Well, then again, it probably won't be long before someone takes these two video tirades and does something like this with them.
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Stories / News, Events and Issues from Central Pennsylvania
Our series, Beyond the Classroom looks at the college experience beyond bookwork and classes. Two recent college graduates have created a place for students and young professionals with big goals for the future. "Co.Space" opened in downtown State College in August as both a place to live and a place to plan how to make the…
General Norman Schwarzkopf called him "the finest combat correspondent of our generation---a soldier's reporter and a soldier's friend." He was referring to Joseph Galloway, co-author of We Were Soldiers Once…and Young, written with Lt. Gen. Hal Moore. WPSU's Patty Satalia talks with Galloway about his experiences in Vietnam--and more.
This Sunday afternoon, Penn State's Essence of Joy will give a concert that will be broadcast live here on WPSU-FM. WPSU's Kristine Allen reports it will feature the world premiere of a piece written especially for the choir by Raymond Wise. (Photo above: Women from Essence of Joy at rehearsal.)
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The power of two well-known consistency conditions for shared-memory multiprocessors, sequential consistency and linearizability, is compared. The cost measure studied is the worst-case response time in distributed implementations of virtual shared memory supporting one of the two conditions. Three types of shared-memory objects are considered: read/write objects, FIFO queues, and stacks. If clocks are only approximately synchronized (or do not exist), then for all three object types it is shown that linearizability is more expensive than sequential consistency: We present upper bounds for sequential consistency and larger lower bounds for linearizability. We show that, for all three data types, the worst-case response time is very sensitive to the assumptions that are made about the timing information available to the system. Under the strong assumption that processes have perfectly synchronized clocks, it is shown that sequential consistency and linearizability are equally costly: We present upper bounds for linearizability and matching lower bounds for sequential consistency. The upper bounds are shown by present-ing algorithms that use atomic broadcast in a modular fashion. The lower-bound proofs for the approximate case use the technique of "shifting," first introduced for studying the clock synchronization problem.


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Apple will open its latest high-profile store on Boylston Street (Boston) on Friday, May 16th at 6 p.m. The three-story store will feature a impressive glass façade once the Green Monster covering is removed. The opening is expected to draw attendees from all points on the globe. (Later determined to be May 15th!)
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- May 5, 2008 at 2229
When do you think people will start lining up/camping out? I want to be near/at the head of the line.
- May 5, 2008 at 2240
Not to toot my own horn too loudly, but I guessed this back in April:
"So the scaffolding comes down which means final sidewalk work, I'm hedging my bet for 3 weeks from now on May 17th as the opening date. That gives them sufficient time to rip up the old sidewalk and replace it with a new one and have that cure in time for literally thousands of people to trample on within several hours.
April 25, 2008 at 7:59 am"
P.S. Gary replied that large stores open on fridays, thus my estimate would be friday the 16th, not saturday the 17th. [IFO– Toot, toot!]
- May 6, 2008 at 0514
Well, I'm glad to hear that it'll be on a Friday, which is a day that I'm in town for work. I know I'll probably be at the end of a very long line, but I'll probably just stop by after I get out at 5.
Wonder if I can scrape up the change to buy a new iPod/iPhone that night. My current 3G iPod is still kicking, but running out of juice pretty rapidly each day.
- May 6, 2008 at 1131
This is going to be great. No more driving out to Chestnut Hill Mall, like I used to.
- May 8, 2008 at 0605
This date is wrong.
- May 8, 2008 at 0609
How do you know, Jafo? It's not that I don't believe you — walking by there every day, I get the sneaking suspicion that they're not going to be done by next Friday — but I'm just wondering.
- May 8, 2008 at 0721
Well, I was at an interview seminar for this Store, and they said they'd be bringing employees on for training the end of April, and the store would be opening "May-ish"
I haven't been by there recently to check it's progress, I haven't even seen the green monster replica in person yet.
But is it typical for Apple to only give a weeks notice for the opening of store, let alone a Flagship store?
- May 8, 2008 at 0735
Interesting. So, did you get the job? Have you had training somewhere yet?
You should definitely check out the green monster replica before they take it down. It's really cool.
- May 8, 2008 at 1023
I've been checking the progress almost daily. The glass staircase has been installed. I don't see why they can't open by the 16th. I remember pictures of the West 14th store just a week before they opened, and the interior was just a concrete shell.
- May 8, 2008 at 1043
No, Sadly, I didn't get past the first part. I'm sure there were quite a few more qualified applicants than I. and I heard that they were taking alot of internal employees from other stores (cambridgeside) etc…. and relocating to the new store.
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Alohalani, Where in So Cal are you? If your in coastal So Cal it may take a bit for the purple/lavendar to pop a bit more. It maybe your camera but it looks a bit white pink. Its Eye and shape resembles Purpla Jack or Muang Jack. Sometimes in Thailand people sell things that they rename. Its pretty and may take couple more seasons to reach its full potential and to get fuller bigger inflos. |
She's lovely, alohalani! I've always loved that quote, "The best things in life are worth waiting for". |
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You give me hope, I have a seedling about that age from a friend who brought seeds back from Thailand. Darn thing is almost 5` tall and well branched. Very pretty! I do so love purple flowers. Tally HO! |
- Posted by printmaster DFW TX (My Page) on Mon, Sep 24, 12 at 7:16
Nice, very nice! Lonnie |
The plants my brother sent me were grafted plants. I really had lost hope--they took so long to bloom. I have lost a couple to rot over the years. I plant is about 3 or 4 feet tall and leggy. Now, I can't wait until he goes back. I think he paid $7 for a 1 gal plant. Here is a pic of the 2nd bloom which opened for me this morning, |
Lovely color! Wow, it didn't take long for the new branches to shoot up, did it? Hopefully they'll produce for you next year. |
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When an old outlet has 2 neutrals and 2 hots connected to it via the backstab holes, is it always appropriate to pigtail those connections instead? I changed an outlet (first time for an old lady!) and realized the 4 wires were in the backholes.Maybe I should have looked it up first but I pigtailed them instead with wirenuts and put the pigtails on the screws.... Got me to thinking, is there any situation in wiring where it must be wired the other way (ie using the outlet as the junction point) ? |
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- Posted by bcarlson78248 (My Page) on Tue, Nov 19, 13 at 17:48
In most cases its better to use wirenuts and pigtails so that power to other outlets does not rely on the backstab connections; however, sometimes space in the box is tight and its hard to fit in the pigtail and wirenuts. Its especially tight if the outlet happens to be a GFCI and the box is small. If everything fits I don't think there is any case where it would be better to use the outlet as a junction point. Bruce |
Is there a chance that this outlet was a duplex that was split to switched/unswitched on the same circuit or even on two separate circuits? |
It was a antique 2 prong outlet. It only had one screw on each side. However, it had 2 backholes on eachside which the 4 wires were connected too. I dont see any place a tab would be removed to split the plug like you suggest. So I assumed, if a tab isnt removed on the outlet, the holes in back would be the same connection as a pigtail. In other words, I didnt change the way it was wired by just adding the pigtails? |
- Posted by glennsparky (My Page) on Thu, Nov 21, 13 at 4:39
"In other words, I didnt change the way it was wired by just adding the pigtails?" You didn't change anything, except for the better. Pigtails were perfect. |
Now I come to another dillema. I changed another outlet, again with 4 wires. This time I didnt feel comfortable adding pigtails to it, it seemed kind of cramped in the box. So instead of backholes, I just replaced the outlet and put all 4 connections on the screws. But I got fancy and switched the way wires were designated. I kept the wires that came from the pipe above on the top screws (white to silver brass for hot of course) and the 2 set of wires coming from the side pipe I put them in the bottom. The old outlet they were mismatched, I figure whoever installed it didnt think about being neat unless there a reason why you would use different screws (tabs are not removed, standard duplex outlet)..... ? The outlet tests OK. I assume it was alright to do that, correct? THanks again! |
- Posted by ronnatalie (My Page) on Thu, Nov 21, 13 at 14:14
If the backstabs were legal, then so are using the screws. The problem is however, that there are certain times (MWBC) where you should not be using the device to make the connection for the grounded conductor (neutral). Doesn't matter if you were using the screws or the backstabs. |
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In 1963, Martin Luther King addressed a group of local white clergy who were upset with him and his colleagues for being so confrontational, so direct, and so impatient in what became known as "Letter from Birmingham Jail." After recounting the many earlier attempts to address matter that produced little if any change, King wrote this:
You may well ask: Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path?" You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks to so dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored.
In 2010, on the eve of the midterm Congressional elections, President Obama sat down with five prominent LGBT bloggers to try to tamp down the LGBT community's pressure on him to quit defending Don't Ask, Don't Tell and the Defense of Marriage Act. LGBT activists had been raising the temperature on the White House, and Obama had the audacity to refer to King's letter in telling them that LGBTs simply need to wait until the right time:
And so, I'll be honest with you, I don't think that the disillusionment is justified.
Now, I say that as somebody who appreciates that the LGBT community very legitimately feels these issues in very personal terms. So it's not my place to counsel patience. One of my favorite pieces of literature is 'Letter from Birmingham Jail,' and Dr. King had to battle people counseling patience and time. And he rightly said that time is neutral. And things don't automatically get better unless people push to try to get things better.
So I don't begrudge the LGBT community pushing, but the flip side of it is that this notion somehow that this administration has been a source of disappointment to the LGBT community, as opposed to a stalwart ally of the LGBT community, I think is wrong.
As I said at the time, I think Obama needs to reread the Letter, as he completely misses King's meaning time and time again over his tenure at the White House. In January 2011, the DOD's General Counsel Jeh Johnson attempted to say that King would have been fine with drones, indefinite detention, and the War in Afghanistan, totally misunderstanding King's life's work in general and his very specific comments about war and non-violence in particular. Let the record show slightly less than two years after making those remarks, Jeh Johnson become the Secretary of Homeland Security.
Those old posts came back to me as I watched Obama's speech about the NSA last Friday, and watched the subsequent analysis of it — especially that done by the invaluable Marcy Wheeler (see here, for instance). Barack "No Drama" Obama disdains confrontation, and yet it was the drama created by the direct action of Edward Snowden, together with the journalistic work of Glenn Greenwald, Der Spiegel, the Guardian, and others, that has done what King talked about: "create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue."
Marcy and others have been shouting for years about unconstitutional institutional overreach in the intelligence community, and the response from Obama was no better than the response from Bush, until Snowden's leaks started appearing in print. When Obama nominated Dawn Johnsen to be the head of the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel shortly after his election in 2008, he raised hopes that this kind of unreviewable, unchallengable, behind-the-scenes approach to the Executive branch's conclusions about what is and is not constitutional would change. While others nominated to senior DOJ posts were confirmed, she waited, and waited, and waited some more. While Obama fought for other nominees, she sat alone, in silence. When her nomination was eventually withdrawn, it came as no surprise. As bmaz wrote most eloquently,
It [the withdrawal of the nomination] is indeed a serious blow to progressives; but far more than that, it is a serious blow to the country and its desire to bring common sense, morality and the rule of law back to the tattered United States Department of Justice. No division of the DOJ has more symbolized the rot, moral and legal decay brought on by the Bush/Cheney Administration than the OLC where the sick and despicable opinions of John Yoo, Jay Bybee and Steve Bradbury emanated from. This is why Dawn Johnsen was both symbolically and pragmatically so critical and so welcomed. But it was not to be; it was never to be.
But Stein, and the rest of the major media that has had their head in the sand and not been paying attention need to wake up and realize that the failure of the Johnsen nomination is NOT and NEVER WAS about a lack of votes. No, it is completely and unequivocally about the failure of Barack Obama and his Administration to support their own nominee and stand up for the values she proffered which led them to select her in the first place. This is about Obama, not the Senate, not Republicans and not about obstruction.
(Click through to see his reasoning and documentation to support it.)
Obama held his NSA speech on Friday, hoping perhaps that the subject could be disappeared into a Friday news dump, to be forgotten in the midst of the latest from New Jersey, Michelle's 50th birthday party, and the run-up to the Winter Olympics in Sochi. As a Cubs fan, I get the whole "hope springs eternal" thing, but this isn't going away for Obama any time soon.
Let me direct your attention, for example, to our friends across the Atlantic . . .
In Germany, the NSA scandal has done what many thought impossible — united Angela Merkel's previously shaky "grand coalition" government (linking her conservative Christian Democratic Party/Christian Social Union and the more liberal Social Democratic Party) behind efforts to negotiate a strong "no-spy" treaty with the US. Thus far, Obama has been able to hold off any kind of formal agreement, but that is not likely to mollify the folks in Berlin, nor the out-of-power Greens, The Left, and tattered Free Democrats. Failure to get an agreement — not a handshake, but a written agreement — would likely force Merkel into a choice between (a) siding with Obama and backing off on holding the US accountable for its spying (which would likely bring down her government in Parliament) or (b) standing against the US and throwing at least part of the US-German alliance overboard, perhaps derailing the SWIFT program that tracks suspect banking transactions as has been mentioned as a possibility by Philipp Mißfelder, one of the CDU's foreign policy leaders, as a response to the US spying.
Snowden, like King, has forced the powerful in front of the cameras to defend their questionable behavior. Obama professed his love for King's letter, but Friday proved that he still doesn't get it. Maybe he'll take today as an opportunity to reread it, and perhaps it will sink in a little more.
If not, the continuing flow of stories coming out of the Snowden leaks and the ongoing negotiations with Berlin over limits to our spying will provide him with additional opportunities to meditate on King's message.
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Good point, since it's Kickstarter and "pay-what-you-like", I'd be happy to pay for a version of the record undamaged by clipping and extreme compression.
So maybe that kind of effort could be crowd-funded. After all, mastering does cost money-- $500/track for pro mastering IIRC, plus any remixing that might be necessary to fix problems masked by the extreme compression. And there are like 20 tracks on this thing, so I guess if there are enough people to raise $10k+ then maybe it's make sense for her to remaster it with less compression and release an undamaged version of it.
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I feel like anytime spent on gamefaqs means constant exposure to poverty gamer threads about saving $15 a year on their live subscriptions, or about $100 being the difference between a day one purchase of a console they know nothing about, and waiting for a price drop.... ... Then on the flipside everyone seems to have a huge pile of games they just haven't had time to open and play yet.... That they're thinking about putting on eBay... and a huge list of current games that are in a backlog... I don't even know where to start questioning the financial sensibilities of these people... Then there's the word backlog itself. Just a question, but does anybody that has ever experienced a proper job refer to having unplayed games as a backlog? --- They say cooking is about experimenting, but no matter how many drugs I take it still tastes like crap...It needs more LSD, It doesn't taste loud enough yet. | |
I have a backlog which has nothing to do with my finances or i how i manage them. I myself limit the amount of games i buy at full price usually 3-4 games and the rest i wait till they're atleast 10 dollars, well with the great invention called the internet and the trends most games have it doesn't take long for games to drop in price and because of this i often find myself buying other games i wanted for atleast 50 dollars less than what they originall cost. Best example i can give is every year a CoD game comes out i buy last years for 10 bucks, i never touch the online so the SP is worth the 10 bucks i spent. --- Juan is........NUMBER 1! XtremeWRATH-Gamertag | |
I have a huge backlog (100+, I think) and still buy new games and would pay large amounts for hard to find games of my past. What is this poverty you speak of? :P --- My theme song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBjQ9tuuTJQ Most people think they are the odd one out but never truly are. I am that one who actually is. :D | |
No seriously, I work a full 40 hours every week and still build my backlog. My main reasoning is I'm building as much of a backlog of unplayed/unbeaten games as I possibly can for when times are hard and I can't spend bunches of money or for when I'm unemployed and can't buy new ones (not that I plan to make a habit of being unemployed) Plus I'm a collector on top of being a gamer so just OWNING some games is enough for me to bask in my nerdism. --- My theme song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBjQ9tuuTJQ Most people think they are the odd one out but never truly are. I am that one who actually is. :D | |
I have no idea what the DJ at my job does during the week, but he makes like 250 a night while he's there, gets every console on launch day, and just spends ridiculous amounts of money on old games that are hard to come by. I swear he just buys games simply to have them, dudes almost always got a video up on YouTube each month just to show him unboxing rare games or doing reviews. He's got 2 kids so I can understand why he doesn't get as much play time in, but he really goes all out. I came around the work like a week before Christmas, he called me back to the staff area because he just picked up BO2, BL2, FC3, and Hitman: Absolution. I wish my finances were that good lol | |
I don't get it either. A bargain isn't a bargain if it's going to sit on a shelf and never get played. Still, gaming is adjacent to a lot of other 'geek' hobbies, and collecting is a geek impulse. --- "'Grab the guns!' 'What about the troll?' 'Leave the troll.'"--ATHF | |
Cheapskates? I can't speak for anyone else, but I have a backlog because I spend a lot of money on games, not because I'm too cheap to buy newer games. --- When the trolls say "jump", the mods ask "how high?". | |
You seem to be forgetting that the people that come to this website and whine about prices are actually an astronomically small minority. There's probably more collectors here. | |
I don't have a backlog at all. I play one game at a time and play to completion before moving on to another one. I don't buy a game if I'm in the middle of another because it'll probably be much cheaper by the time I get around to playing it. I hardly ever pay full-price, as most games aren't worth it and my wife has been struggling to find work lately so all the bills fall to me, leaving little money for hobbies. --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIbu3wJDmVQ - New gaming series My podcast: hulkshare.com/inferiorminds | |
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1 On that day you will say: "I will praise You, Lord, although You were angry with me. Your anger has turned away, and You have had compassion on me. | 1 In that day you will say: "I will praise you, O LORD. Although you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you have comforted me. |
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So says the NRA concerning Alan Gura, our guy presenting oral arguments before the Supreme Court in the Heller case.
I was reading today's Novak column, where he argued that the Bush Administration purposefully (or through ineptness) is trying to sabatoge the Heller case. We are aware of the [not too gun friendy] DOJ brief and we are also aware of Cheney's brief contradicting the thrust of the DOJ brief. Novak mentioned that the pro gun attorney, Alan Gura, was arguing before the Court for the first time and that was all part of Bush's plan to put an inexperienced lawyer at the front of the case.
So I looked for information on Gura and found a post of his from 2005:
http://www.tomgpalmer.com/archives/022501.phpThe NRA did not want us to file the suit, or at least wanted the suit structured in such a way as to have the courts avoid, if possible, ruling on the Second Amendment issue.
They don't think a decision on the Second Amendment should be risked. We don't think a decision on the Second Amendment can be avoided much longer, and are not impressed by the results of doing nothing to defend the right.
They filed their copycat lawsuit as a direct response to ours, and filled it with their kitchen-sink garbage arguments that we had rejected as frivolous and contrary to our litigation objective. They immediately tried to use their lawsuit as a vehicle to wrest control of our case by seeking to have the matters consolidated.
We opposed their consolidation effort and sought to have their attorney disqualified on account of various ethical problems we believe he has. For his part, he stated in his pleadings that the NRA case was filed because they think I'm a crappy lawyer, and he believes the case is too important not to let him run it. Call it a "Kelo" theory of attorney-client relationships.
The court agreed with us that his conduct raised meaningful ethical and attorney-client professional responsibility issues that would overwhelm the case, and denied the attempt at consolidation. Unfortunately, he was not kicked off his case. Subsequently, both cases proceeded separately, before different judges.
The NRA attorney made several critical mistakes that sank his case and greatly complicated ours. Of these, the gravest was suing Attorney General Ashcroft, who was not a necessary party to the case because the federal DOJ does not actually enforce the gun laws we are challenging, and would not enforce the gun laws under the theory of our case (simple home possession of a functioning firearm or handgun is a misdemeanor prosecuted by the city attorneys, not the feds). As we feared (and strongly advised our NRA-sponsored friend), suing Ashcroft triggered a much more vigorous defense of the city's gun laws than the city's lawyers, or their amici, could muster in our case.
Ashcroft may have personally believed in the right to keep and bear arms, but his litigation position amounted to a theory that citizens could almost never have standing to assert this right in a civil case. This was largely adopted by the appellate court in throwing out the NRA copycat case.
The standing defense, having been raised by Ashcroft in the NRA copycat lawsuit, was quickly exported into our case. But unlike the NRA's brilliant legal strategerist, we defeated it completely at the District Court level. We also believe that, even under the unhelpful standing doctrine generated by the NRA case on appeal, our own case is factually distinguishable and should proceed.
We'll find out soon.
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20 No, don't say that. Who are you, a mere human being, to criticize God? Should the thing that was created say to the one who made it, "Why have you made me like this?" | 20 But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? "Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, 'Why did you make me like this?' " |
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47 And someone told him, "Behold, your mother and your brothers are standing there outside desiring to speak to you." | 47 Someone told him, "Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you." |
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The Coast Inn accommodates 12 in 1 King, 2 twins, 1 queen, 1 daybed with spring loaded trundel, 2 queen sofa beds.
The "Coast Inn" is a spacious 2200 square feet with four bedrooms and three baths, with sleeper sofas in the living area and the tower bonus room. There are great views of the Gulf from the living area and especially the tower. TVs are in every room along with three VCRs "for movies," a video game machine, and books for your indoor relaxation. Your home at the beach is decorated to the tee with all conveniences. Washing and drying clothes in the laundry room will even provide a great view of the Gulf. Attention to detail is evident throughout the house especially in the kitchen, which has all conveniences for inside dining. There are two wrap around covered porches, one with an electric grill and bistro table, the other with table and chairs near the gas grill provided for your outside dining pleasure.
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