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3Yearn Worthy Yarn: Cloud Cotton
Still on a plant fiber kick, this week I've come back to cotton. It isn't recycled this time but an honest to goodness 100% organic cotton. This lovely yarn from Estelle Yarns is certified organic and comes in wide range of sturdy colors.
Cloud Cotton is available in dyed and undyed. The dyed cotton ranges from bright spring greens to soothing blues. The undyed cotton is natural looking browns and neutrals.
Cloud Cotton is nice and soft, true to its name. The worsted cotton is light and easy to work with. Be careful as it is known to shed in the beginning but knits up nice and neat in the end.
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During your holidays at Il Poggetto you can play sport and enjoy the numerous cultural and recreational activities. It is in a perfect position for those who are interested in discovering the Tuscan countryside on foot or bicycle. You can also read a good book on the green hill, just called Il Poggetto, surrounded by olive groves and age-old oak trees. The farmhouse has a large lawn with solarium and relaxation area, open gallery with barbecue and wood-burning oven for lunches and dinners in the open air, swimming pool ( 6x12 m ) equipped with sunshade parasols, tables, chairs and sun beds, large garden with outdoor games for children. If you want, you can also participate in an agricultural activity of the farm (i.e. cultivation of vegetables or fruit harvesting).
The farm Il Poggetto produces and sells its own Chianti wines with controlled and guaranteed denomination, Vernaccia di San Gimignano and other typical products like extra virgin olive oil, Vinsanto di Tavio, honey, jams, seasonal fruits and vegetables. You can taste, free of charge, our products during lunches and dinners, which are prepared by Mrs. Franca. Should you wish these products are also available for purchase at the indoor "Cantina dei sapori".
BY CAR You can reach the farm estate Il Poggetto: from the NORTH or SOUTH on the A1 motorway. Take the exit Firenze-Certosa and continue on the highway Firenze-Siena. Take the exit Poggibonsi Nord and get onto the state road 429 in the direction of Empoli until Certaldo. Drive for about 2 km in the direction of San Gimignano and follow the road to the left in the direction of San Benedetto. From the WEST on the A12 motorway, take the exit Pisa Centro Aeroporto and continue on the highway Firenze-Pisa-Livorno (FI-PI-LI) in the direction of Florence (Firenze). Then get onto the state road 429 in the direction of Siena until the town of Certaldo. From here follow the above-mentioned instructions. BY TRAIN: Take the railway line Firenze-Empoli-Siena and get off the train at the station of Certaldo.


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April 16, 2013
NEW ORLEANS — The tennis teams of Xavier University of Louisiana are the defending champions and seeded first in an NAIA unaffiliated group qualifying tournament.
It will be the second consecutive year that the Gold Rush and Gold Nuggets travel to an Atlanta suburb for this tournament. The dual-match event — to be played at Clayton County Tennis Center in Jonesboro, Ga., on Friday and Saturday — is for schools from the Gulf Coast Athletic and Appalachian Athletic conferences, which do not field
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Quarterfinals — Friday, April 19
#1 Xavier has a bye
#4 SCAD Atlanta vs. #5 Reinhardt, 9 a.m.
#3 Tennessee Wesleyan vs. #6 Tougaloo, 9 a.m.
#2 Milligan vs. #7 Fisk, 9 a.m.
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Xavier vs. SCAD Atlanta-Reinhardt winner, not before 2 p.m.
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We live in an era of more is more, from books to television to movies, the general consensus seems to be that, when it comes to the horror genre, showing viewers everything is the way to go. If it doesn't shock, it isn't scary, and the best way to scare is through the magic of special effects. Graphic is the name of the game and nobody seems to care if the audience ends up losing their popcorn halfway through the show.
I actually like quite a bit in the horror genre. A good scare, especially during certain times of the year, makes me inordinately happy. For the most part, while I may jump during core scenes in a given movie or TV show, it's rare that the unsettling feeling lasts past the end of the viewing. Scares that stick with me are getting rarer and rarer. The shock and awe approach to brutality and gore is just boring to me and, more than anything, annoying. It seems like rushing to the point that they can start slathering the sets with blood and fake body parts means that there's no need to build a story anymore.
Last year, FX started airing a series called "American Horror Story". Dylan McDermott was one of the stars, which had me at least curious to watch it. The ad campaign was stylish and disturbing and didn't actually give much of any idea as to what the show was really going to be about.
Horror has always been a mechanism for allegory as social commentary, from early morality plays all the way up through "Frankenstein" and "Night of the Living Dead" and beyond. Human nature, consumerism, the hubris of science, it all gets paraded onto the stage in wonderfully trumped up stories that exaggerate the circumstances and the consequences. "American Horror Story" is no exemption to the idea. It is, I think, a particularly intriguing entry into that grand tradition.
The first season, at face value, was about a far creepier than average haunted house. That can't be a spoiler, despite the vagueness of the original ad campaign, for anyone who has yet to see that season of the show. It's now out on DVD. McDermott played a psychiatrist whose family is unraveling around him. They relocate to a restored mansion, a beautiful home that they purchased for well below its value. Part of the fun of the series is the fact that a seriously underpriced property would not have felt as suspicious as it should have. After all, the American economy has slumped and real estate values are declining.
The cast is amazing, McDermott is joined by Connie Britton, Jessica Lange, and Zachary Quinto. While Lange's creepy, failed starlet neighbor, Constance, stole the show and provided some of the most disturbing and horrifying scenes, the younger members of the cast proved to be the ones who offered the most depth and maturity. The storyline involving Violet, played by Taissa Farmiga, and Tate, played by Evan Peters, was the more wrenching story emotionally. Violet was the daughter of the couple who moved into the house and she was the one who seemed to be the most adult about everything going on around her. As the house revealed itself to be more and more sinister, Violet's reactions were the ones that were the most poignant.
Throughout the series, the writers played with themes of family and betrayal. Basic need factored heavily into the story, need for family, need for success, the need for acceptance. It was all spread across story lines for individual characters who were all connected, often through threads they couldn't seem to view. Some of those connections were tenuous and some were more solid. The plots might have seemed throwaway from time to time until the relevance to the more modern threads were revealed.
"American Horror Story" is intended to be an anthology series. Each season is a miniseries, containing a full story arc over its episodes. The format allows them to tell a serialized, complex story without creating a mythology that will overwhelm someone who missed the previous season. The season ranges between flashbacks and current story lines and brings in a multitude of back stories and motivations.
Certain characters do, of course, come to the forefront, but even the supposedly minor players are better realized and more clearly formed than so many TV shows allow. "American Horror Story" is not a show that leaves its characters to be two dimensional representations of the classic horror genre tropes. The characters have reasons for what they do and a particular viewpoint that, if nothing else, allows for the audience to get a feel for why they made the choices that they did. Nobody in the show just suddenly snaps and goes on a rampage. Instead, they have steadily come undone to a point where the damage they suffered overrode any of their ordinary sensibilities. "American Horror Story" is a remarkable, extended character sketch that tells a satisfying story.
That first season also played extensively with color schemes. In dream sequences, the color palette was full of livid, super-saturated hues that gave those scenes a frantic, fever dream intensity. The flashbacks were grainier and muted, their colors were faded and cooler. In contrast, the modern scenes were subtler, hints of bright color in otherwise mundane earth tones surrounding characters who stood out because they were the most vivid presences on set.
The second season has started airing. Entitled "American Horror Story: Asylum", it takes place, of course, in the Briarcliff Mental Institution. Some of the actors from the prior season have returned for "Asylum", notably, Evan Peters and Jessica Lange. Zachary Quinto is given a larger role in this season. "American Horror Story" seems bent on getting fans of the show to get very good at separating an actor from a character that they have inhabited.
This season, Jessica Lange plays the sadistic Sister Jude. She rules Briarcliff with an iron fist and anyone who opposes her is soon confronted with the realities of who deals with the day to day of the asylum. She seems cold, but not calculating. Her path is one of piousness not love. She believes that dedication and routine are the keys to salvation and will cure those patients that can be. It's a dogma she recites in various incarnations over the course of the first two episodes.
This isn't to say that she sees no opposition. Her equally sadistic counterpart, Dr. Arthur Arden, does not believe that God is going to heal anyone. Instead, he is firmly dedicated to the conviction that science will cure all of the patients at Briarcliff and is working towards those ends, often through experiments conducted on patients who do not have families that will complain about what has happened to their loved ones.
Joseph Fiennes play Monsignor Timothy Howard, the man who is supposed to be running Briarcliff. He has hired everyone who works there and seems to think that the friction between Dr. Arden and Sister Jude is merely a rivalry brought about due to conflicting interests. Whether he'll realize that the issues are on a much bigger scale than that remains to be seen.
Kit Walker is one of the patients. Evan Peters gives him a bewildered vulnerability tempered with reserved toughness. Kit is accused of being a serial killer. He naturally claims that he is innocent. The circumstances surrounding the death of his wife have yet to be revealed. Kit's own memories are jumbled and seem to fit an explanation involving alien abduction, rather than a murder.
"American Horror Story" seems to enjoy putting psychiatrists in the midst of the unexplained. The psychiatrist involved in this season is Zachary Quinto's Dr. Oliver Thredson. Thredson is less than impressed with the methods of treatment available at Briarcliff and, in the second episode, voiced those opinions rather harshly at Sister Jude.
Men of science being forced to deal with the uncanny has also been a common plot point in "American Horror Story." A good horror story often makes the characters (and the reader or viewer) doubt their own perceptions of reality. Occam's Razor cuts deeply and when all that is left is the overturning of rationality, it has a tendency to break people. "American Horror Story" makes them shatter in slow motion. It's a messy process and it leaves pieces everywhere.
Two episodes into "Asylum" the driving themes seem to be sanity and taboo, especially in regards to sexuality. Religion seems like it will also be getting its turn in the "American Horror Story" limelight as well, especially if it's highly organized religion. I predict that this season will show characters being driven to insanity by treatments for afflictions they don't actually have. And, of course, secrets are going to be an enormous factor in the story. Everyone has them, everyone is trying desperately to keep them. None of the secrets thus far revealed to the audience are of the harmless variety.
The look of the show has also changed. It's a darker, more shadowy show. There is a washed-out green quality to the lighting reminiscent of the paint on institutional walls and there's a decidedly more sinister feel from the outset. It's less foreshadowed than it is outright foreboding. Briarcliff is very clearly someplace that no one would want to be and no one would want to visit, except as a viewer from the safety of a comfortable couch in a warm living room, preferably with the ability to stop the show when it gets too uncomfortable to keep watching.
It's also, most definitely, a show intended for adult audiences. There is solid grounding for the "M" disclaimer that airs throughout the show when it's on. The writers don't shy away from either adult language, violence, or sexual situations. This is an adult story taking place in an adult world. It's not for the squeamish and it's not for people who don't want to be scared.


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RBC Fruit SaladI would use a little less honey next time but it was delicious! — davidmorones 3/10/2013 |
Indian Okra and TomatoesFlavorless and slimey — 2/6/2012 |
Indian Okra and TomatoesI would not make this recipe again. okra is very tricky and this recipe comes out slimy. — 10/9/2011 |
Mashed Potato CasseroleI knew this would be a hit with my friends because it has butter, cheese, and cream in it. I also added 8 oz. of cream cheese and used unpeeled red potatoes. It was delicious! I think you can pretty much use any cheese that you would normally put on a lasagna or enchiladas. It's not necessary to buy expensive cheese. I will make this again for sure! — sgrishka 12/24/2010 |
Lentil LoafThis recipe is not good. It seems like someone just put together a few things they had left in the pantry and got creative. It's also a poorly written recipe. How can you put a vegetable stock cube in the loaf without dissolving it first? Also, at the beginning it says to heat up some water in a kettle, but then it never says to continue cooking it under fire. It implies I just let the lentils sit in the hot water and cook that way. — angiew 11/30/2010 |
Roasted CauliflowerPretty impressive. I would buy a few heads of cauliflower if you're feeding a lot of people because one isn't enough. I went with the lemon, rosemary, and capers. It was very good and I am surprised how well the cauliflower held up in the oven. Definitely need to make way more next time. One head yields like 3 small servings. — promfh 11/30/2010 |
Mushrooms Sauteed with Garlic ButterUse small white mushrooms, not just the white ones at your local grocery store. I tried it with the large mushrooms because I figured it didn't matter, but it does. I would have liked them to have had a stronger garlic taste, but that depends on the cook I guess. Overall a nice quick way to get some veggies in your diet. — sgrishka 11/30/2010 |
Spicy Southwestern Pasta SaladI like the flavor of the lime juice and the cilantro. I used a ghost pepper salt that I bought at a specialty spice shop that added a lot of spicy flavor to the dish. I would add a little more pasta and I would use shallots instead of red onion. Red onion is way too strong so I would suggest shallots. Other than that, it was fantastic! I am going to triple the recipe and use it for my potluck. Thanks! — sprite67 7/16/2010 |
Liver and Onions— 5/1/2010 |
Zucchini CakesAll ovens are different. I have an old oven so 350 is really hot. Next time I would make them smaller and on 300 degrees. "allaboutfood" is right, be careful with the old bay, it overpowers the cakes slightly. — allaboutfood 4/25/2010 |
Salad: Orzo with Corn, Green Beans, TomatoesThis is a wonderful cold pasta salad. It is perfect for those hot summer days. It is a very flavorful salad that tickles my taste buds! — katehandel 7/2/2009 |
Sun-dried Tomato, Veggie, and Goat Cheese Pizza[I posted this recipe.] — SpiceJunkee 12/18/2008 |
Pasta Puttanesca SauceI LOVED this sauce. It's killer! It's hard finding a good Puttanesca sauce in a jar. Actually, it's impossible so make your own. It isn't cheap. It'll run you about $25 including the pasta, but if you are making dinner for that special someone you will win their heart with this recipe. [I posted this recipe.] — SpiceJunkee 12/18/2008 |
Tuna Burgers[I posted this recipe.] — SpiceJunkee 12/15/2008 |
Chicken Tortilla Soup ala SteveThis dish would be great with some angel hair pasta. — stevemur 12/14/2008 |
Genovese Pizza[I posted this recipe.] — SpiceJunkee 12/11/2008 |
Chicken with Cilantro and Onions[I posted this recipe.] — SpiceJunkee 12/7/2008 |
Three-Cheese Macaroni And CheeseI made this for my 2 year old nephew and he couldn't get enough! I don't think the bread crumbs are necessary. — 12/7/2008 |
Sicilian Sweet and Sour ChickenIt was yummy — 12/7/2008 |
Broccoli, Mushroom and Double Cheese QuicheI have some issues with the recipe... 1.) You didn't mention the vegetable oil in the recipe, but still called for it. 2.) The recipe also called for 3 kinds of cheese, and the recipe only mentioned two. 3.) I would add one more egg and less cream because even when it settled the custard was mushier than i expected. (Do cage-free eggs make a difference?) 4.) The recipe for the dough was very confusing, but luckily i did it correctly in my own way. 5.) Overall, it was very very good. However, I will not be making this dish again because it contains a lot of fat. — stevemur 12/7/2008 |
Thanks for the rating, but you put it on "Perfect Corn on the Cob"... did you mean to provide your rating on a pasta salad recipe?
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Currency strength expresses the value of currency. For economists, it is often calculated as purchasing power,[1] while for financial traders, it can be described as an indicator, reflecting many factors related to the currency; for example, fundamental data, overall economic performance or interest rates.[2] It can also be calculated from currency in relation to other currencies, usually using a pre-defined currency basket. A typical example of this method is the U.S. Dollar Index. The current trend in currency strength indicators is to combine more currency indexes in order to make forex movements easily visible. For the calculation of indexes of this kind, major currencies are usually used because they represent up to 90% of the whole forex market volume.[3]
Currency strength is calculated from the U.S. Dollar Index, which is used as a reference for other currency indexes.[4]
The basic idea behind indicators is "to buy strong currency and to sell weak currency".
If is X/Y currency pair is up trend, you are able to determine whether this happens due to X's strength or Y's weakness.[5]
With indicators of this kind one is able to choose the most valuable pair to trade; see the reactions of each currency on moves in correlated instruments (for example CAD/OIL or AUD/GOLD); look for a strong trend in one currency; and observe most of the forex market in one chart.
Typical examples of indicators based on currency strength are relative currency strength and absolute currency strength (percentage). Their combination is called the "Forex Flow indicator", because you are able to see the whole currency flow across the forex market.


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Vivid Light 2014 saw 56 light installations brought to life by 140 artists from 15 countries. In 2015, Vivid Light will engage lighting artists, designers and manufacturers from around Australia and the world to illuminate, interpret and transform Sydney's urban spaces for 18 nights through their creative vision.
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The business press has done well documenting Toyota's spiraling problems, including this morning's news that U.S. regulators are accusing the carmaker of dragging its feet on fixing defective gas pedals.
The Journal, for example, provides a good overview of Toyota's safety and business troubles, including new problems cropping up with the Prius in Japan.
But while other papers did good work, only the Los Angeles Times can claim the distinction of having been attacked by the carmaker well before its troubles were widely known, back when the company was still vigorously defending its safety record and its many loyal fans were still howling over press accounts that called attention to safety concerns about the company.
On December 23, Toyota posted on its website this statement:
Today the Los Angeles Times published an article that wrongly and unfairly attacks Toyota's integrity and reputation.
While outraged by the Times' attack, we were not totally surprised. The tone of the article was foreshadowed by the phrasing of a lengthy list of detailed questions that the Times emailed to us recently. The questions were couched in accusatory terms.Despite the tone, we answered each of the many questions and sent them to the Times. Needless to say, we were disappointed by the article that appeared today, and in particular by the fact that so little of our response to the questions appeared in the article and much of what was used was distorted.
Toyota has a well-earned reputation for integrity and we will vigorously defend it.
The statement was signed by Irv Miller, group vice president for environmental and public affairs of Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., Inc. and offered a link-through to its detailed replies to the LAT's questions.
Miller was responding to a December 23 story, by Ralph Vartabedian and Ken Bensinger (an ex-colleague of mine from the Wall Street Journal), that ran under the headline:
Toyota found to keep tight lid on potential safety problemsA Times investigation shows the world's largest automaker has delayed recalls and attempted to blame human error in cases where owners claimed vehicle defects.
The story said that Toyota engineers found acceleration problems back in 2003, but only issued a recall last year.
During a routine test on its Sienna minivan in April 2003, Toyota Motor Corp. engineers discovered that a plastic panel could come loose and cause the gas pedal to stick, potentially making the vehicle accelerate out of control.
The automaker redesigned the part and by that June every 2004 model year Sienna off the assembly line came with the new panel. Toyota did not notify tens of thousands of people who had already bought vans with the old panel, however.It wasn't until U.S. safety officials opened an investigation last year that Toyota acknowledged in a letter to regulators that the part could come loose and "lead to unwanted or sudden acceleration."
In January, nearly six years after discovering the potential hazard, the automaker recalled 26,501 vans made with the old panel.
By then the paper and the carmaker already had a history. It's worth following the travel of this.
After Toyota recalled nearly four million cars in September, in the largest recall in the company's history, the Times began a series of stories, starting here in October, looking more deeply into safety concerns at the company. While the company was blaming mechanical problems, starting with defective floor mats, and driver error, the Times's reporting raised the possibility that safety issues went deeper than that. Eventually, in a November 29 story, by the same pair, the paper pointed to evidence that the problems centered on electronics:
Data point to Toyota's throttles, not floor matsAmid widening concern over acceleration events, Toyota has cited 'floor mat entrapment.' But reports point to another potential cause: the electronic throttles that have replaced mechanical systems.
That prompted what diplomats might call a frank public exchange of views between newspaper and carmaker, starting with an LAT editorial on December 5 that called on Toyota to look more deeply into its accelerator problems:
Toyota's acceleration issue Blaming floor mats may not be enough; the automaker needs to look at its vehicles' electronics.
Toyota's reply, "A Healthy Discussion on Safety," offered a stout defense of its handling of the accelerator problem:
The issue of unintended acceleration involving Toyota and Lexus vehicles has been thoroughly and methodically investigated on several occasions over the past few years. These investigations have used a variety of proven and recognized scientific methods. Importantly, none of these studies has ever found that an electronic engine control system malfunction is the cause of unintended acceleration.


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Suffice it to say, Frank Benton, head of operations in Girbaug, India, for NaturalSolutions herbal remedies, is having a bad day.
"As he jumped out of the vehicle under the protection of the umbrella Satish was holding out for him, Frank felt unreal, had the feeling of being trapped in one of those movies based on a Graham Greene novel," Thrity Umrigar writes in her powerful new novel, The Weight of Heaven.
Suspecting your life could have been written by Greene would be enough to send me running for the nearest airport, but Frank and Ellie have already fled once. They moved to India after their little boy died of a sudden illness, in an effort to rebuild, or at least to live in a place that wasn't steeped in memories of Benny.
"The Arts and Crafts bungalow in Ann Arbor was positively shimmering with mockery." Ellie held out hope that India could provide healing; Frank was mostly looking for "a country where there was no possibility of running into of his son's teachers."
Sixteen months after Benny's death, the change of scenery hasn't abated the Bentons' grief or helped them reunite.
"[Frank] knew he was losing Ellie, that she was slipping out of his hands like the sand that lay just beyond the front yard, but he seemed unable to prevent the slow erosion. What she wanted from him – forgiveness – he could not grant her. What he wanted from her – his son back – she couldn't give."
There are a few generic opening pages that rely too much on worn out expressions of grief, such as missing "the patter" of Benny's size four feet. (Note: Not only is this a cliché, but based on daily observation, I'm here to tell you that seven-year-old boys' feet do not "patter." Stomp, tromp, skip, run, thunder, splash, kick, and jump – yes. Patter? Not so much.)
But then Umrigar really gets going, and the clichés get brushed off like barnacles on a fast-moving ship. Twisty, brimming with dark humor and keen moral insight, "The Weight of Heaven" packs a wallop on both a literary and emotional level.
Bring along a flashlight – despite the Indian sunshine, you're going to need it.
Umrigar ("The Space Between Us") examines the dark moral recesses of one American liberal couple, who can't seem to cope now that their formerly charmed life has been ripped away.
Frank's only source of joy is the child of the Bentons' housekeeper and cook. Nine-year-old Ramesh is bright, athletic, egotistical, and alive, and what starts out as tutoring and basketball lessons slides into a bitter tug-of-war between Frank and Ellie and Ramesh's father, Prakash.
His mother, Edna, is all for the advantages the Americans can provide her son. Prakash is illiterate and an alcoholic, and Ramesh's chances for a future commensurate with his intellectual gifts seem dim until Frank comes along.
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Outraged by what he sees as the wholesale purchase of his son's affections, Prakesh takes wire cutters to the machine. Then there's the scene where Ellie, a psychologist who is usually far more sensitive to the rights of Ramesh's parents, threatens to fire Prakash if he doesn't let them take the boy on an already-promised overnight trip to Bombay.


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When I was contacted by the Tri-Lamb group a couple of weeks ago to create a lamb dish I got very excited about the opportunity. I love lamb. However, I don't have a lot of experience cooking it. I decided to have a dinner party at my friends' house in Dayton for Valentine's day (I know it was more than a week ago, sorry for the delay). It took me a while to decide what I wanted to prepare. I got some ideas from a couple of friends in twitter, some from my friends in Dayton and a lot from browsing the internet.
However, after some consideration I decided to make something easy using familiar ingredients. After all, lamb is new territory for me. Using the concept of the "Mexican burgers" that my parents used to serve at their restaurant I created this dish with ground lamb and some ingredients that I am very comfortable working with.
The dinner consisted of the following:
- Sweet potato soup.
- Mexican lamb burgers served with mashed potatoes and sauteed vegetables.
- Avocado dinner rolls.
- Desserts from Dorothy Lane Market.
The ingredients were bought at Dorothy Lane Market, I had never been in that store before and I fell in love with it. It is a foodie's paradise! Now that'll be the store I get food from when I visit my friends again. The dinner was a big success considering this was an experimental dinner and my friends were my guinea pigs, hehe. They all seemed to enjoy it and I received several compliments. The dinner rolls where Darrin's favorite item.
You can find the recipe for the rolls here and I'll be posting the recipe for the lamb patties once the Tri-Lamb group tests, tweaks and gets it nutritionally analyzed. Just a quick note, the chipotle/mango sauce on top of the patties was a last minute addition. After dinner we were talking about them and agreed that although they had been very good, a sauce on top would've made them even better. So the following day I prepared the sauce for the patties I was going to photograph. My friends were right, the sauce takes them to the next level and makes them look more photogenic.
This is only the beginning of my lamb adventures and now I want to try all those ideas I got in the brainstorming sessions the week before this dinner. That's why I'd like to know if you have a recipe, idea or favorite way to eat lamb. Just leave a comment with your links or ideas and I'll pick one for my next lamb dish. I can't wait to see your suggestions!
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Your photos always are a joy to look at.
A delicious choice Ben which you have made your own.
Lamb is one of my favorite meats. Of all time. I really love that gamey flavor. If anyone wants to contact me to cook lamb, I would say yes in a heartbeat!
Your dinner party sounds excellent…I would ahve loved all of the dishes that you prepared. I can't wait to see the recipe for that mango sauce…mangoes are, after all, my favorite fruit!
The mango chipotle sauce sounds delicious, and it's a lovely color. Have fun cooking more lamb!
Okay, first those rolls look soooo good!!! And the lamb burgers do sound delicious! I know lamb is so much healthier than regular ground beef so this is going on my to-eat-list as we are all trying to eat a little healthier.
oh yum! I really need to find some chipotle and make one of your recipes…
Agreed the chipolte mango sauce takes it to the next level. Love the avocado dinner rolls and I look forward to the lamb series.
that sauce sounds divine Ben!
I love lamb too, but because Tom is not a big fan of the taste I have never made it myself. I did promise myself I would go and make more lambdishes though as I firmly believe he just had some bad examples of badly prepared lamb. It can be quite strong in taste but the lamb I have tasted sofar was delicious. So no suggestions from me as I wouldn't know where to begin, but I will be eagerly seeing what you come up with so I can learn and try it out myself!
I love lamb burger but usually give it a Greek treatment. I'll have to try this way.


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Running is by far the culprit of the most triathlon-related injuries. Studies relate up to 78 percent of injuries as overuse.3 A review of the literature shows little agreement on the "most common" injury but shows an injury rate of up to 75 percent of runners.4,5 One study did find a small correlation with a cavus foot type and an increased rate of injury, but did not confirm this as a major risk factor.6 Training time and errors seem to lead to the greatest number of injuries.
Since there is little agreement except for the fact that triathletes get injured at a rate that is comparable to long distance runners, here is a practical top ten lower extremity injury list for discussion.
1. Stress fractures
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4. Achilles tendonitis
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7. Iliotibial band syndrome
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9. Medial tibial stress syndrome
10. Sacroiliac joint dysfunction
Pertinent Pearls On Treating Stress Fractures In Triathletes
Metatarsal stress fractures are the most common injury I see in triathletes in my office. Of course, stress fractures of the tibia and calcaneus as well as the occasional cuboid fracture are also common. One study in the literature did correlate age with an increased incidence of stress fractures but this is not unique to the triathlon.3
In my office, I correlate the rate of stress fractures with a rapid increase in training volume as well as shoe gear. The barefoot running phenomenon has infiltrated the triathlon to the point that many triathletes are shedding their stability running shoes for much lighter and "barefoot feel" shoes. If athletes make this transition too drastically and increase the volume of running at the same time, this is a recipe for a stress fracture.
Personally, I think we see stress fractures more often than anything else because triathletes are notorious for "running through" an injury. You can't "run through" a stress fracture. I have tried. It hurts too much.
The diagnosis of a stress fracture can be difficult in the early stages. Accordingly, if your athlete has pinpoint tenderness on the bone and the plain film X-ray is inconclusive, I recommend a magnetic resonance image (MRI) for definitive diagnosis.7 Be aware that if you do not have a definitive diagnosis, this group will try to run anyway.
Treatment for stress fractures is relative rest for six to eight weeks. I recommend placing the athlete in a below-knee walking boot type cast to rest the fracture for at least four weeks. If you place patients in a post-op shoe, they will try to run on it. I have actually had several athletes complete up to a marathon distance in a below-knee walking cast, which is crazy. I also give athletes a steel shoe insert similar to a turf toe insert for their cycling shoes and make them promise to cycle indoors on a trainer and stay in the saddle. They can swim as much as they want but they shouldn't perform any flip turns or use flippers.
Remind them that a stress fracture can lead to a displaced fracture if they are non-adherent. Have them picture a plate and six screws. This will usually instill the need for adherence.
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You may think that blisters are not a big deal. Think again. Blisters will sideline an athlete quickly. After Ironman Texas, the most painful thing I had was a large blister on the back of my heel. Spectators were trying to be helpful and cool off the athletes by spraying us with their water hoses. Yes, it helped cool us down on a hot, humid day but try running a marathon in wet shoes.


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Sheffield United have signed former Wigan striker Henri Camara on a deal until the end of the season.
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Sheffield United have dropped their interest in the four trialists who were hoping to impress at Bramall Lane.
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Henri Camara has vowed to prove he is of Premier League calibre having joined Stoke City.
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Henri Camara came off the bench to ensure Wigan moved out of the relegation places with a 1-0 win over Everton.
Henri Camara is keen to break into the Wigan starting XI after spending much of the term on the bench.
Wigan boss Steve Bruce has reiterated his desire to retain the services of Emile Heskey this summer.
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I had the brilliant idea to apply TerraShield essential oil blend on my body before I went to bed and so I slept better than I normally do when I sleep in strange beds - I felt protected from any potential bed bugs and also felt protected energetically too. According to Daniel MacDonald in his book, Emotional healing with Essential Oils, repellent blends such as TerraShield energetically strengthen the protective shield around one's body, helping them to feel safe. I certainly did feel safer and more protected with TerraShield that night.
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ASU Police reported the following incidents Wednesday:
- A 22-year-old undergraduate woman was arrested Monday around 8:45 p.m. at the University Towers residential complex on the Tempe campus, on suspicion of possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, according to a police report.
- An unknown person or persons committed theft Monday between 12:30 and 12:45 p.m. by stealing a laptop from the Business Administration building on the Tempe campus, according to a police report.
- An unknown person or persons committed theft Feb. 20, sometime between 9 and 10:15 a.m. by stealing a backpack from the East Music Building, according to a police report.
- An unknown person or persons committed theft Feb. 9 between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., by stealing keys from the Alberta B. Farrington Softball Field on the Tempe campus, according to a police report.
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The woman told police that she placed her laptop on a metal shelf and left it there upon exiting the restroom, according to a report.
The backpack, which belonged to a 21-year-old ASU staff member, was left in a basement hallway around 9 a.m., police reported.
The man returned at around 10:15 a.m. and his backpack was gone, according to a report.
The total estimated value of the loss was $470 and there are no leads, suspects, or witnesses at this time, police reported.
A total of 10 keys, estimated to be worth $300, were stolen from inside of the batting cages, according to a report.
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- Kayleigh said...
I have the Anthro berry crate in the large size. I am going to use it to store instagram pics in it. I got the idea from the blog A Beautiful Mess. But if you don't have instagram it will store 4x4 pics!! Its definitely something to think about to put on a coffee table so people can browse thru while over. :)
@ The Gotta Have It Girl - February 22, 2012
- jillconyers said...
Love your pins this week! I'm totally into stripes right now so I love the cute dress. Monograms look great almost anywhere. And the glass berry crates are too cute. They would be great for a centerpiece!
- February 22, 2012
- Leah @ Leahmariev said...
I need some super cute rain boots, good idea!!! Also love the stripes, addicted to them!
- February 22, 2012
- Kristina said...
Oh my goodness. I love all of these pins! Those Anthro bowls are fantastic! I love that lace frame. I think I may have to DIY that.
- February 22, 2012
- Trish said...
i love the stripped hallway - particularly the framed letter among the photos. very cute!
Trish @ Tales from ... - February 22, 2012
- Cheryl E. said...
Oh such pretty pins! That hallway is so gorgeous. I love how they framed the letter. Genius! I also have some of those ceramic egg crates from Anthro that I LOVE. So I am totally into these other crates. Very cute.
Cher - February 22, 2012
- Lauren said...
I went to Anthropologie for the first time last week...LOVE those berry crates..!!!!
- February 22, 2012
- Erin said...
I've been LOVING striped paint lately too, but I'm apprehensive about trying it anywhere lol. Our hallway upstairs could use some visual interest, but I'm not sure it's a big enough area to look right. We'll see :)
- February 22, 2012
- Jessica said...
I love all of your pins today! I would love to paint a wall in my house stripes for an accent wall, love the idea!
How did you get the "Follow me on Pinterest" button to link to your Pinterest page? - February 22, 2012
- Molly said...
I love the anthro berry crates. I use them for fruit and vegetable storage in the fridge. I like using something other than plastic in the kitchen.
- February 22, 2012
- Holly said...
Fun pins! Those chocolate covered rice krispie treats looks so yummy, and cute too! Love the stripped hallway.
- February 22, 2012
- Beverly said...
So i've had choc covered rice krispie treats, but PINK chocolate... now that is too darn cute!!!
Welcome back home! - February 22, 2012
- megan said...
Now I'm really wanting some coral rain boots... :)
- February 22, 2012
- Meghan @ More from Meg said...
I love the idea of framing a photo with lace - very cute!
- February 22, 2012
- Rachel Larson said...
I want to try those rice krispie treats! I am now following you on pinterest as well :)
- February 22, 2012
- SimplyHeather said...
I love rainy day fashion !! I made a post about it a little over a week ago ((: heres the link if you wanna check it out
But I'm totally obsessed with rain boots and coats. I love the coral boots in the picture ((:
Great pins!
Have a happy hump day ((: - February 22, 2012
- erin vancura said...
i majorly LOVE everything you pinned this week for sure :) especially the rice crispie treats!!
- February 22, 2012
- natasha {schue love} said...
The striped hallway is adorable! And I LOVE those little berry crates!
- February 22, 2012
- Steph said...
LOVE the anthro berry bowls. I dont have any as of yet - but im totally thinkin about using them to store jewelry. I just revamped my jewelry storage and made a sorta tree branch stand to store my bracelets, but im in need of something for earrings!
oh and PS your blog is very cute. Come have a look at mine sometime:)
www.fallwith.us - February 22, 2012
- p e b b z said...
aw such a cute pin's i love the wooden image too xo
pebbz | www.pebbzblog.blogspot.com - February 22, 2012
- susanna said...
I really liked the glass berry crates. They're such a different idea.
You can come see my pins if you'd like. http://inthelimelife94.blogspot.com/ - February 22, 2012
- Marissa said...
I love those glass berry crates! Anthro has some of the cutest things seriously! Love your blog. Stay beautiful!
- February 22, 2012
- Katie said...
LOVE the lace picture frame idea!
I painted my bedroom in stripes like that once, and it was SUCH a pain! It took hours to line and tape, and turns out the room was crooked. I got sick of it within a year, and it took at least three coats of paint to cover it up, and you could always see the indent from where the dividing line was. I'd *maybe* do it as an accent wall, but not in a large space. - February 22, 2012
- Sunni Dae @ It's A Sunni Dae said...
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- Ashleigh Nichole said...
I love any & all things monogrammed :) Super cute & adorable...
- February 22, 2012
- MJ @ Teaching in Heels said...
She's so cute!! I love the outfit of those first pics. Can't wait to see your redo of the hallway!!
- February 22, 2012
- just tututiny said...
awww cute pins julie, I love rice krispie treats!
Stumbled upon your blog through pinteresting, I am so addicted to pinterest now! Let's stay connected! I am following your blog now. Please visit mines when you have a chance a follow me too if you like it, thanks sweetie! - February 24, 2012
- Jayme and Mendi said...
I painted stripes in my upstairs hallway (unfortunately there aren't any pictures on our blog...yet...I need to do a home tour soon). It took me an entire Sunday from start to finish & I might have slightly lost my mind a few times, but it's one of my favorite features in our house & it gives me quite a sense of accomplishment!!
I have three of those small Anthro baskets in white. I keep them on my dresser to hold bracelets. :)
Mendi @ Her Late Night Cravings - February 24, 2012


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July 22, 2010 - by Moshe BildnerTwo major pieces of legislation moved forward yesterday, as the President signed the financial regulation bill H.R. 4173, and the Senate passed an unemployment insurance extension H.R. 4213, by a vote of 59-39. Here's what's going on in Congress:
- Democrats in the Senate finally broke a Republican filibuster and proceeded to pass H.R. 4213, a fourth unemployment insurance extension; the bill still must be voted on by the House and signed by the President before it becomes law. (Christian Science Monitor)
- Testifying to Congress, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke called the economic outlook "unusually uncertain", and announced that the Fed would keep in place all financial stabilization measures it has taken since the 2008 financial crisis. (CNN)
- President Obama signed into law sweeping new financial regulations in H.R. 4173, ending a quest that had begun as early as 2007. Minority Leader Rep. John Boehner (R, OH-8) attacked the bill, offering his now-standard call to repeal the new legislation. (AP)
- Congressional Democrats are divided over proposals for new energy legislation; liberal members are pushing to enact a comprehensive energy and climate change bill, while more conservative members, worried that a large energy bill cannot get through congress before the November elections, are urging Congress to consider smaller piecemeal energy reforms. (Politico.com)
- Feeling pressure from its Gulf oil spill, BP increased its spending on lobbyists to $1.7 million this quarter. (Bloomberg)
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It is time for you people to wake up to why this is all really happening. THE FEDERAL RESERVE IS NOT A GOVERNMENT AGENCY! It is a privately owned and controlled, for profit, corporation. The Fed LENDS our money to our government AT INTEREST. Our government has the constitutional right and obligation to print America's money itself and therefore it would be created DEBT FREE if they would just do it.
I highly recommend you all take time out of your schedules to learn about the most important issue facing our country and most of the rest of the world. Almost ALL of the central banks of the world, including the IMF, are private, for profit companies that LEND money to governments AT INTEREST. Here is a VERY good video about this subject being hosted on youtube. PLEASE, for the sake of our country and world, take time to watch it and learn. It is the most important history lesson our schools never taught us.
"I haven't heard anybody say we shouldn't be extending unemployment benefits. The difference is one side wants to borrow 34 cents on the dollar, mainly from the Chinese, and send the bill to our children and our grandchildren," Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Tex.) said during debate in the House on Thursday.
Democrats argued that emergency benefits have never been paid for — even during the Reagan administration — and accused Republicans of trying to undermine public faith in the Obama administration.
"They'll say it's because of the deficit. But in reality, they're simply trying to make this president fail at any cost," said Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.), who accused the GOP of trying to "infect" voters with "fiscal fear."
Our government is nothing but a giant corporation sponsored by Wallstreet….then again the racist GOP do not want this country to have a successful black president, therefore they are puttin this bullcrap hysteria around about the same deficit they didnt give a crap about when the BIG BANKS were failing!! They want to make Obama look bad so they can turn around and say America isnt ready for a black president….they need to suck their pride up and write the freakin same checks that didnt mean shit a couple of months ago!!!!
I agree, but its not because he is black it is because he is not a reptile, Bush, Cheney the prime minister of England the Queen of England and almost all the white politicians are descendants of reptilian aliens that have infiltrated the leadership positions of earths top governments so they can take over the world, they do not like oboma because he is not a reptile but they disguise their dislike of non reptiles as racism.do some research on the "reptilian agenda"
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I'm confused as hell, I live in Ca. My regular UI claim was for 26 weeks, my 1st. tier was 20 weeks, my 2nd. tier was 14 weeks, my 3rd. tier was 13 weeks, and my 4th. was 6 weeks. Now that adds up to 76 weeks, so my question is when this bill is signed by the President, will I still qualify for an another 20 weeks on Fed-Ed ? California has a 12.3 unemployment rate, went to the Ca. Edd web site and now I'm more confused then ever.I thought your could have a max benefit of 99 weeks, with the 4 tiers and the Fed-Ed extension, now I'm not so sure.
OT it is not over for people in Florida we are all considered 99er even if we are84er. It makes me sick to see a balance on my account and know I am not getting it. I was a State Employee, with a Disabled husband and 2 girls, I have lost my car been evicted an because of some BS i am unable to get my EB. not right to get our hopes up and then smack us in the face…..
An executive order issued today by Gov. Charlie Crist will prevent thousands of Floridians from a delay in receiving unemployment compensation.


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When you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts & minds will follow. Semper Fi.
Hey, I don't think it's a bad thing to be on high alert at all these day's. The thing that is strange is that the teacher say's he confinscated it from a student. In my day's in school that was enough said and the teachers were taken at there word.
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I think this is the kind of things that come from zero tolerance policies. Administrators no longer have to think or rationalize their actions. They should consider each case individually.
"But the toy was an air soft gun, meaning it shoots little plastic pellets. So, it was not exactly harmless.
"It could still shoot a projectile, it still could be considered dangerous," said Donovan. "
Are you freakin' kidding me?? I guess you better get rid of those sharp pencils and pens--someone might lose an eye...
Local radio news is saying that the teacher took the gun out of a box of stuff used in a play, not from a student.
He intended to take it off school grounds.
Typical, liberal cowards, overreacting
When you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts & minds will follow. Semper Fi.
I kind of agree with you.
Airsoft guns have no place in school. I've been shot with one playing at the local paintball place. I had a huge fat lip. They can easily cause major damage to an eye. At least pencils have a legitimate use in school.
The student should be suspended and the teacher should have had enough common sense not to tuck it in the back of his pants. If the teacher is that dumb I don't know if they should be teaching kids anything.
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Administrations and meetings are the worst thing to happen to business as unusual. This seems to be a total attact of the dumbs perpetrated upon the public interest.
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It does kind of leave you wondering. While stuffing it in his pants probably wasn't the best idea, he DID have to get the thing "someplace, somehow".
Maybe he should have just moved through the halls with the gun held high overhead, screaming "toy gun coming through"! (That was sarcasm!)
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Exactly. We can't have plastic knives to use at lunch time, but students can have very sharp and rigid pencils, pens and drum sticks. Now of course they need to use those in the course of a normal school day, but those are certainly just as, if not more dangerous than a flimsy plastic knife.


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The historic district of Ponce is a pleasant walk into a graceful past.
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Plaza Las Delicias, the main square of Ponce, had a fortuitous accident. It is two squares in one: The Parque de Bombas (which see) divides two plazas: Plaza Degetau and Plaza Luis Muñoz Rivera. This makes the area extremely roomy with a great number of monuments, attractions, and historical markers all around it and plenty of benches to sit rest, eat some exotic ice and see the people pass. Also a beautiful fountain and a memorial to Juan Morel Campos, the great Puerto Rican composer of our national dance, the danza, makes you feel as if you were hearing that music of long ago. If you want to have a different perspective of the area you can take one of the calesas (horse drawn carriage), which will give you a wider view of the area. (I did not see them two years ago, but I was told the were being repaired)
An important aspect of Ponce is that it has had the foresight to preserve the many XIX century buildings that stand around the main squares expanse. Two of them are right in the square. The first you cannot miss: the Parque de Bombas (Fire Department). It was built in 1882 as the Pavilion for the Agricultural Fair. The next year it was seceded to the Fire Department and it was an active firehouse until 1990, when it became a museum. It is a wonderful place to wander amidst the memorabilia of the old firehouse. The other is the cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Most of the time it is open to the public and its altar is well worth a peek. Around the square you will find the Armstrong Poventud House with its cariatid columns. Not too far away, but still a lovely walk is Casa Salazar, an architectural treasure that houses the Museum of the History of Ponce.
There is walking mall, on what used to be Calle Atocha, which has an innumerable amount of stores. At the end a beautiful Art Deco movie theater with Mediterranean influence (Fox Delicias) has been converted into an air-conditioned place where you can get any type of fast food you want. This walking mall opens right in front of the square. Another fascinating shop is El Coquí. This store is dedicated to Puerto Rican artifacts that range from pure kitsch, to beautiful vegigante masks (one has to see them) and artisan renditions of the santos, beautiful enough for the Smithsonian.
The historic district that spreads from the sun drenched square is a pleasant walk into a graceful past, with the Teatro La Perla and many beautiful homes, still inhabited, that graced its lovely streets.
History & Background
A great grandson of Juan Ponce de León founded Ponce, Puerto Rico, at the end of the 17th Century. Like most Spanish colonial towns it had a square with a church and the cábildo o casa alcaldía (municipal building). These two buildings, church and state, were the center of any colonial city life. Of course, the center is still the square and it merits a relaxing stroll among its many well-preserved architectural jewel, interesting stores and delightful street vendors that offer the public ices with such exotic tastes as parcha, guanábana, guava, mangoes and coconut (for me, the best). This legacy, and the well use of the space, has made of Ponce a delightful city to visit, offering the visitor a sense of rest and peaceful dignity.
Related Links:
- Welcome To Ponce, Puerto Rico - information on the culture and history of Ponce, as well as other cities in Puerto Rico
- 60 of the World's Great Places - Ponce Center City was named one of the 60 greatest places in the world


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Former 'Saturday Night Live' star Seth Meyers exchanged wedding vows with his longtime girlfriend Alexi Ashe Sunday during an intimate Martha's Vineyard ceremony.
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