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Article brought to you by: Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)Feast of the Guardian Angels: Living as Though Angels Are Real - Because They Are
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October 2nd, 2012 Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) The Lord has given us devoted, powerful friends of resplendent beauty who stand ready at our side, ever-watchful angelic guardians who take a personal interest in seeing us arrive safely at our final destination. Let us remember to frequently speak with our guardian angels, converse with them as true friends, and gratefully thank them for all they have done, for we cannot as of yet know of the many times they have rescued us from some calamity. Let us ask for their assistance as we live our daily lives in the Lord. GLADE PARK, CO (Catholic Online) - When we contemplate the nearly endless gifts of grace and love our God has given us, we are left awe struck. Just a short time ago, each one of us did not exist. Now we live; not simply for a time, but for ever as the result of God's free gift of an immortal soul and the promised resurrection of our bodies.
Just a short time ago, we were lost. Now we have been found; for our Lord Jesus Christ stretched out his arms upon the cruel Roman cross, allowed himself to be brutally nailed to that unyielding wood, fixed there until death, and thus laid a new horizon of salvation before us: A road of Love stretching from here into eternity. In the Mass and the Eucharist, in our parishes and families and homes we are surrounded by God's gift of himself and his love. From the farthest reaches of the cosmos to the depths of the sea, all of material creation has been given to man. We should think that enough. It is not enough for God. In our Lord's infinite love, compassion and tenderness, he sends us each our very own guardian angel, an invisible, spiritual creature who, magnificent and powerful, carefully guides us as we travel along in the midst of what is often a dangerous world. "The Lord will send his angel to accompany you and to guide you safely on your way." -- Memorial of the Guardian Angels, Morning Prayer antiphon. Angels: The Good And The Bad We have not to look long nor far to find out something about angels. The question is, is that something accurate or inaccurate? Is it true, or, on the other hand, is it downright false? Whether it be a glance into the darker recesses of the Internet or a trip to the local bookstore -- whose shelves are often laden with dozens of pounds of printed material concerning the angels -- both will yield a bewildering array of conflicting information. This problem of discord is due to many factors, which we will not go into here. However, it is important to remember that our knowledge of the angels is not a matter of natural revelation (what can be known by human reason), but rather is a matter of supernatural revelation; that is, God himself has revealed what we know of the angels' existence, who and what they are. So, the question arises, how do we access what God has revealed about these powerful spiritual beings, sorting out what is true from what is false? In order to do that, it is necessary to turn to the authoritative institution God willed should exist: The Catholic Church. It is through the Church that, founded by Christ and guided by the Holy Spirit, we receive the fullness of truth that is faithfully transmitted to the nations. It is necessary to here mention that some will think it trivial to speak of the need to turn to the Church's authority concerning the angels. It is not, however. For in our contemporary society we find people who insist they have communicated with angels, and who, against the teaching of the Church, make wild claims about spiritual and eschatological realities. For instance, it is not unusual to find people who insist that, according to the messages they received from angels, hell does not exist, as a final separation from the Love of the God who is Love. Such false claims are obviously due to an lack of awareness of the aspirations of the fallen angels, those diabolical spirits we know as demons, and their evil intent. The guardian angels, however, do not bring us messages opposed to God's revelation, for their intellect thrives on God's truth, and their will is fixed on love of that same Truth. The Catechism of the Catholic Church tells us that Satan and the other "demons are fallen angels who have freely refused to serve God and his plan. Their choice against God is definitive. They try to associate man in their revolt against God" (CCC No. 414). St. Peter warns us: "Be sober and vigilant. Your opponent the devil is prowling around like a roaring lion looking for (someone) to devour" (1 Peter 5:8). The point is, the devil and his cohorts intend not only to destroy our belief in God and his Church, but also pollute our understanding of God's revelation with every sort of error. Thus it is necessary to turn to the Church whose divine Founder is Jesus Christ in order to properly understand what God has revealed about the angels and, in fact, all of created reality. Who Are The Angels? The word "angel" comes from the Greek word angelos, which means "messenger." The chief source of Divine Revelation about the angels is Sacred Scripture, and in both the Old and New Testaments there are many references to these incorporeal beings. For instance, we find in Acts that angels opened prison doors for the apostles, delivered Peter from chains, and accompanied Paul during a storm at sea. The Catechism reminds the faithful that the "existence of the spiritual, non-corporeal beings that Sacred Scripture usually calls 'angels' is a truth of faith. The witness of Scripture is as clear as the unanimity of Tradition." These purely spiritual creatures "have intelligence and will: they are personal and immortal creatures, surpassing in perfection all visible creatures, as the splendor of their glory bears witness." Further, from our beginning until death, "human life is surrounded" by the "watchful care and intercession" of our angel guardians, for "beside each believer stands an angel as protector and shepherd leading him to life" (see Nos. 202, 203, 328, 330). The Lord has given us devoted, powerful friends of resplendent beauty who stand ready at our side, ever-watchful angelic guardians who take a personal interest in seeing us arrive safely at our final destination. Let us remember to frequently speak with our guardian angels, converse with them as true friends, and gratefully thank them for all they have done, for we cannot as of yet know of the many times they have rescued us from some calamity. Let us ask for their assistance as we live our daily lives in the Lord. 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- 2 cups sugar
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh rosemary
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fresh rosemary sprigs (leaves stripped except for top 1 inch)
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Food Director Susan Westmoreland suggests recipe substitutions to make your favorite foods healthier
Now, when it comes to making over your food, wouldn't it be nice to take some of those traditional recipes and make them healthy without losing the flavor, is that possible?

It is.

Well, Susan Westmoreland, Director of Good Housekeeping Test Kitchens is here and I cannot wait to see because I know you got Caesar Salad which I make at home--

Good.

and I am always wondering why I'm making it because I know it's going right here. Traditional Caesar Salad starts out with some extra virgin olive oil, we have Parmigiano, we have egg, so you got lots of delicious yummy fat and lot of times, the croutons are friend in garlicky oil. So we just took a few steps back and look to see what we could do. And here, you see the traditional stuff and I'm gonna let you taste that just to give you a frame of reference. No cheating, I want you to taste both kinds.

Okay.

And I'll give you a couple of these nice croutons.

And you know, you're right. I make my own croutons--

Yes.

and I just-- I totally soak them in butter.

We like to do that. We like to soak them in butter but we'd like to make our own croutons too 'cause I think it'll just get a fresher taste. So, this one, just tell me what you think.

Okay.

Isn't that nice?

Yup.

Interesting?

Okay.

So good.

Taste familiar?

Not, [unknown] that better.

But can you?

I can make it--

Okay, let's see what we're gonna do.

Okay. Come over here.

Right off the bet, I'm looking at this mail going, how can this be healthier, really?

It is. It's a--

Okay.

light mayonnaise and we're gonna use that as our base and add a little bit of olive oil for flavor. So, we've reduced the fat in general on this thing.

Okay.

And then we've done a lot of the same things except we traded out the egg, we've got nice lemon and we toasted our croutes in the oven.

Oh nice.

It's still homemade, still from scratch.

So they're not drenched in butter or oil.

So they're not drenched in butter but they're gonna get some of that nice dressing and I'm gonna give you another look.

They do taste a little different.

With--undress, they will but wait 'til it all comes together. All right. So, this is our dressing and that looks kinda yummy, isn't it?

Uh-hmm.

So, I'm just gonna give you that and--

Okay.

we'll [unknown] with these on and there's--

Actually, I like those.

Yeah, those are good.

You know, because oftentimes the croutons take too much of the flavor, it's like they steal the show. Let's see. Very nice and creamy, a little lemony but boy, it tastes so much like the first one. People wouldn't know--

Right.

that this is the light version, and you're saving a lot of-- just the calories in general and fat. Okay. So, tell me again what you substituted.

Basically, the key to it is this light mayo. We had a half a cup olive oil in the original recipe. This one only has a tablespoon of olive oil to add flavor but your base is coming from this and it's only a quarter cup of that. But we've got all the same cheese, the lemon, all that and to be paste.

The garlic?

Garlic. All the other ingredients are in there.

Yeah.

So the big change is this and you're getting basically using 1/8 of the amount of fat of the oil than you did here.

Our hips will like this one, right?

They will.

And here's the Good Housekeeping Recipe.

Four ounces of Italian bread sliced, one clove of garlic, cut in half, nonstick olive oil cooking spray, quarter cup of light mayonnaise, quarter cup freshly graded parmesan cheese, 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice, a tablespoon of olive oil, teaspoon of anchovy paste, some coarsely ground black pepper, and your package of lettuce hearts.

We know that kids love fried food from fries to fish sticks--

Uh-hmm.

and all of those things. So, and while you take a taste of this, I'll give it you.

Okay.

Get some of that homemade tartar sauce.

This is the cod.

Uh-hmm, that's cod.

It's really crispy. My kids would like this.

Really good.

Uh-hmm.

Guess what, it never hit that oil.

Really?

This is oven baked.

How did you get it so crispy?

Let me show you. We start with some cod fillets and we're gonna dip them in flour first just to sort of absorb any excess moisture that might be on them. Instead of whole beaten egg, we've got beaten egg white here. So, we're cutting some fat right there and you can see.

Uh-hmm.

It's just beaten until foamy, nice, just get all the sides.

Uh-hmm.

Some whole wheat bread crumbs, I'm gonna just gonna dip it now. I just-- I love to have wax papers instead of a plate because I can start away but also you can kinda bring this crumbled stuff over.

Nice.

Please do that. And then, I've just got a cookie sheet that's been sprayed with some cooking spray. I'm gonna put this on. So bake at 450, just about 15 minutes.

And you--

It's nice and crispy. And you have one extra tip if you want it real crispy. You want it really crispy. With yours, it wasn't actually but if you want it really crispy, you can just miss the surface of it with a little bit of cooking spray.

And here's a full meal.

Here you have it. Now that we have our fish fillet but to go along with that, gonna have some fries. So we did oven fries just [unknown] of potato, toss with a little bit of oil, one tablespoon for 4 people, roasting in the oven at the same time as the fish, got fish--

So you've got a whole meal in 20 minutes?

Got a whole meal in minutes.

And this something my kids would eat.

Absolutely.

This is a great idea. How do you guys come with some of your different recipes like this one for example?

Well, basically looking for things that we know people love in their cooking and kind of are the culprits of you know, either high fat or too much salt and fat, or saturated fat, and looking at ways to, you know, make them a little bit healthier but still deliver satisfaction 'cause if it doesn't taste good, they're not gonna make it more than once.

Now, how about this. A healthier version of cheesecake that tastes as good as the real thing, honestly?

Yeah.

Okay. So, we're gonna try this out. You made a healthy cheesecake and you've made the classic New York gutsy cheesecake. Good for your hips. All right. Go ahead, let me try it and I don't know which is which by the way. So, this is the first taste.

Ready? Okay. Open. There you go.

That's good.

Okay. You like that.

Uh-hmm.

Okay.

It's nice, it's light.

Here we go. Here's another bite.

Texture is a little different. I gotta tell you, like the first one.

The first one is the makeover.

It's lighter? I like--

It's creamier.

It is. And it's not so rich.

Uh-hmm.

And it is creamier.

It's satisfying but it's so good.

All right. There you go. Need we say more? Give us the recipe.

Okay. This is the one that you like, and basically it's the same formula for cheesecake. In fact, we have the same exact amount of cream cheese but for this one, we went the 1/3 less fat. Sometimes going to the lower fat and supposed to just straight fat free, gives you a more satisfying texture.

Sure.

I think that's what's going on here.

Uh-hmm.

So, and this has two eggs plus two whites, as opposed to the original cheesecake which has that same amount but has 4 whole eggs, we kind of a little bit there--

Okay.

For the cream cheese, this has-- to make it that extra creamy silky, we've got some sour cream in it but fat free sour cream, so you've got nice--

I really like that, that addition.

Really, that's got light texture that you really like.

Uh-hmm.

Yeah. So, basically, you see that we kept the formula really pretty similar but the big difference here is savings, 200 calories a slice, 21 grams of fat.

Two hundred calories a slice? It seems like I'm not cheating on portion size either.

One size. Okay.

I'm doing the same thing. Two hundred calories, 21 grams of fats saved, and 140 mg of cholesterol.

Per?

Per slice, per serving.

I'm going with this one.

Thank you. Three quarter of the cup, graham cracker crumbs, 2 tablespoons trans fat free vegetable oil spread, melted, 3 packages 8 ounces each, a reduced fat cream cheese, a cup of sugar, tablespoon of cornstarch, 1-1/2 pints of fat free sour cream, 1-1/4 teaspoons of vanilla extract, 2 large eggs, and 2 large egg whites. And if you missed the recipe, just go online to goodhousekeeping.com. Not only will you find these recipes but others that Susan has tested as well.
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Drinking lemon water in the mornings is quite a common thing, particularly hot water and lemon. People believe that other than improving digestion it also helps in weight loss and cholesterol control.
My mother, who is 60 years old, is taking the hot lemon water on an empty stomach daily for the same reasons.
While discussing this with someone, it appeared that consumption of the same can lead to adverse effects on her bones.
My mother is already suffering from arthritis, and so we want to be sure of it.
I have heard this concern before, and I am not sure where it is coming from.
As you probably know, the accumulation of excessive metabolic and acidic wastes in the body (from overeating, chronic or acute stress, unhealthy diet, lack of exercise, or simply aging) is one of the underlying causes of many dis-eased conditions in the body, including arthritis.
Drinking lemon water regularly can help to remove overall acidity in the body, including uric acid in the joints, which is one of the primary causes of pain and inflammation.
I think the main reason that some people believe that drinking lemon water might be harmful to bones is because lemons contain citric acid.
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Longtime member Mary Beth Sancomb-Moran is known throughout the WebJunction community for her commitment to creating libraries that best serve patron information needs. I was pleased to see this KAAL news story showcasing her newest project, the University of Minnesota Rochester Library and Information Commons. Be sure to watch the video (right panel of the news story) to catch a glimpse of Mary Beth and to hear her articulate how libraries are changing in this virtual age. Way to go, Mary Beth!
Are you or your WebJunction friends making the news? Please, do tell!
I wanted to highlight 2 blog posts that Janet McKenney and Ellen Wood posted on the Maine blog shortly after we launched our new website to help their members enroll in and launch courses in their catalog.
Thanks, Janet and Ellen, for being so proactive and posting these helpful guides!
In an effort to provide an easy and pain-free experience in enrolling in courses in the WebJunction or Partner catalogs, we have added 2 member guides to the Help & Support section of our Member Center
You can also check out the Courses section of our FAQ in the Member Center for other issues you may encounter or questions you might have.
Have other questions not answered by these documents? Post in our Courses discussion forum or email email@example.com.
As long as we're knee-deep in PLA, this is a good time to draw your attention to our current Member Spotlight. Stephanie Gerding presented Wednesday a PLA pre-conference Grants workshop and is participating Saturday as virtual panelist on a WebJunction-led session ("From Hype to Help: Making a Difference with New Technologies Saturday").
Gerding is a independent consultant with deep experience in the library world, seemingly having worked everywhere—the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, two state libraries, SIRSI, as well in academic and corporate libraries.
Of course we're a little biased here, but we think some of her best work has been done as a WebJunction supporter. In addition to all the great content she has contributed to the community, Stephanie has been a trainer and coordinator for WebJunction's Rural Libraries Sustainability and Spanish Language Outreach programs.
She even included WebJunction in the acknowledgments in her latest book, the Accidental Technology Trainer: A Library Guide:
"WebJunction—the organization, the website, the members, and everyone working there—has been very valuable to me, not only in writing this book, but as a trainer and librarian as well."
Stephanie subscribes to the motto: "Live the Dream." In the member spotlight, she passionately explains her method of directing her time and energies directly toward her goals. Once you accomplish that, she says, you'll find opportunities for achieving your personal and professional goals begin appearing.
The process is certainly working for Stephanie! There's more good stuff in the profile, so be sure to check it out.
Make sure you swing over to our latest Member Spotlight. This month we're learning a bit about Mary Beth Sancomb-Moran, the Community Information Librarian with SELCO — a regional multi-type library consortium in Rochester, Minnesota.
Like most WebJunction members, Mary Beth has her hands full. In this case, her SELCO responsibilities have her working with 119 academic, public, special, and school libraries across S.E. Minnesota on continuing education, ILL, advocacy, grant writing, and marketing/public relations. (more…)


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Trauma Facts
This section of our website is designed to provide consumers and health care workers with information about injury in the United States and around the world. It is critical that every effort be made to decrease the impact of injury on the global burden of the disease. To that end, injury prevention is an invaluable part of our efforts. Injury is a major public health problem. In the United States, injury accounts for over 150,000 deaths and over 3 million non-fatal injuries per year. Around the world, injury is responsible for more than 5 million deaths per year. Many millions more are injured. The events which result in injury are not random or unpredictable. Injury can be prevented and many lives saved by learning more about the causes of injury and implementing appropriate injury prevention strategies. Many of these strategies are well-established, easily available and relatively inexpensive, such as seat belts and helmets.
"Crashes, Not Accidents"
In the United States:
- Trauma is the leading cause of death for individuals up to the age of 45 years (Table of Causes of Death)
- Trauma is the fourth leading cause of death overall for all ages.
- There are almost 40,000 homicide and suicide deaths each year in the US.
- There were over 30,000 suicides in the US in 2001
- Suicide Fact Sheet from the NVIPC at CDC
- There were 43,443 deaths and 2.7 million injuries from motor vehicle crashes in the US in 2005. Traffic Safety Facts, 2005 from the NHTSA
Around the world:
- Road traffic crashes kill 1.2 million people annually around the world (3242 people a day) 90% of these deaths are in low or middle income countries
- Estimated cost: $518 billion globally
- Predicted to become the third largest contributor to the global burden of disease by 2020
- World Report Summary on Road Traffic Injury Prevention, 2004, WHO and the World Bank.
- View full World Report report at: http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/publications/road_traffic/world_report/en/index.html


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Inside Story
*Posted on: December 27, 2010
- Planning
- Design and Development
- Sales and Marketing
Communicating the Ricoh digital camera concept
People who have seen the CX4 TV commercial currently being broadcast in Japan probably noticed the words "new angle, new day" at the upper left at the end. This is meant to express the Ricoh digital camera concept that "By just changing your angle of view, you make the world an infinitely interesting place." According to Marketing specialist Shigeki Takeuchi, "This concept is presented in a TV commercial for the CX4, but it actually communicates something that is fundamental to all Ricoh digital cameras: the idea of the 'Candid Photo' that captures the photographer's moment of inspiration in an image." A member of the Personal Media Company Planning Office, Takeuchi is one of the Marketing Group staff people working to raise the level of recognition of Ricoh digital cameras as a whole, including, of course, the CX4.
Actor Osamu Mukai's words "Change your angle and see a new you" and "Change your angle and see a new story" are meant to directly communicate the "new angle, new day" concept. "During this fiscal year, we have been working harder than ever on activities to make many more people aware of Ricoh digital cameras. It does seem to me that awareness of the appeal of Ricoh digital cameras is spreading, partly thanks to the power of the TV commercial," said Takeuchi.
The challenge of communicating product appeal via the catalog and the Web
"Our emphasis is on communicating digital camera appeal through the photographs themselves. With this in mind, we created the 'new angle, new day' special site," said Takeuchi. In addition to showing the TV commercial, this site has a wide range of other content, such as the "Finding my own angle" page presenting moments caught by creative people from various fields.
The CX4 catalog includes the catch phrase: "Catch My Moment?Walk with me. Inspire me." To communicate the appeal of the CX4 through images, the text is accompanied by many photos capturing such moments of inspiration. Takeuchi emphasized that "All those photographs were actually taken with a CX4." This may seem only natural, but this level of insistence on the use of the actual product itself is almost unprecedented. "We really wracked our brains for ways to best communicate the appeal of the CX4 in the limited number of pages available. We wanted to create a catalog that would be useful both to people who download the pdf version for careful reading after viewing product information on the webpage and to people who try out the CX4 at a store and then take the catalog home for further consideration," said Takeuchi.New initiatives are being tried on the webpage, with special focus on communicating the appeal of the product by using the actual photographs.
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Rumors surface on the big G and their plans to take on ebay with their own site for buyers and sellers.
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Hehe - love it.
Some of the best online marketing tactics I've ever seen have come from Google.
Sounds more like they want to BE the Internet. :)
According to the G mission statement, their "mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."
A database like G Base seems like a neat way to get users to submit more of their information to the search engine and make it immediately and usefully available to people around the world.
Looking at it this way, G Base is not a direct competitor to eBay or Craigslist, G just wants more of the world's information available to Google users.
Actually, your article sounds like their putting some customer service reps in Phoenix.
The current Google search indexes the vast unstructure sea of information online. In Base, they talk about users defining attributes (think tags) when posting information. It is a build on the fly database table that can be customised for any application.
As the database grows, Google can start making links between everyone's custom attributes and providing a most robust search than just a text search. For example, show me all birthday's on April 2nd.
Yup, and next is the Travel Industry
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Looks like Google is taking another bite at ROR an XML format for indexing structured information.
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What is the Internet good at? It's good for bringing together widely scatter people together with widely scatter items, information, groups, etc. If you have a small set of one or the other, the web is of little use. It's handy, but it doesn't change the rules of the game.
Google is simply focusing on making the web do what it does, better: Linking scattered-about people with other scattered-about people who are looking for each other.
The travel example here is a good one. Several different sources of "cheap flights" brought together where people can find them.
And wrecking a lot of travel sites, which do the same, in the process I suppose. I assume most of them will be toast soon.
I have no travel site or any other site resembling this btw. ;)
I think it's all a bit fast ... I can kinda follow G enthusiasm/business interest, but I kinda lost track after GMail [which btw provides excellent functionality] :) Maybe I am getting old.
Just analysing:
The problem is that PI inflation of connecting sites [aka the once described above] dwarf any PI's of people actually writing producing all that content.
IE When I put my PhD on the web that took quite a couple of years to write and a lot of effort. Or someone writes 300 high quality pages on a new domain. Both cases have few chances to actually make reasonable money, but involve certainly more work than scraping the content and linking to it.
Google has, praise them, with adsense at least brought a wee chance of earning some return on that content investment. But we can ultimately only really get rid of spam if solid content pays as much or more than ripping loads of content off, you never worked on.
Spammers just recognised that concept and exploit it in various successful or unsuccessful variations.
There is a reason that libraries evolved in non net societies as people realised some intelligence has to go into indexing. Just picking the scroll that most people pointed to as it has the nicest cover and had many clever sounding words in it wasn't enough anymore.
So trust ranking evolved. etc etc .. We will see a repetition of age old society processes on the web. Wikipedia will collapse on the long run or adapt some form of government as large scale anarchy just doesn't work.
New society will be old society .. same species same problems, same solutions.
Thanks for ignoring this, flaming it etc, etc ;)


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Cairo is a 2D vector graphics api used by Firefox, Gtk and other desktop projects.
I'm going to show here that it can also be used to generate web content, using Django.
I'm going to port two examples from the Michael Urmans Cairo Tutorial for PyGTK Programmers.
To understand the cairo and it's drawing model I'd recommend his his Cairo Tutorial for Python Programmers.
Note: In this example I'll be generating SVGs… as I.E. (as of 2010) does not support them, you might want to generate PNG or PDF – if you need to do this with cairo, look for one of the many cairo tutorials on the web.
The example django project can be downloaded at the end of the article.


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Spread the love this Valentine's Day with these simple, delicious chocolate dipped treats for your family and friends!
There's nothing I love more than a hot cup of coffee mid-morning. I have a routine everyday… wake up, eat breakfast (cereal with berries – every morning!), play with Matty, get some work done and then mid-way through the morning I treat myself to coffee!
Not just any coffee though. My cup is always full of a chocolate flavored or pumpkin spice or something delicious topped off with whatever seasonal creamer is in stock at the commissary. And my coffee is always served in a Starbucks mug. ALWAYS. It's one of my most favorite times of the day… coffee time.
About two weeks ago, my friend Margot dropped off a bag full of chocolate goodies to go along with my morning coffee. She had included a few chocolate dipped cookies and a few lollipop style chocolates on sticks. I think it only took me two cups of coffee to enjoy it all. But, her treats gave me the idea to recreate them as gifts for Emily's teachers for Valentine's Day!
I had already made the White Chocolate Dipped Valentine Fortune Cookies for her teachers. But now they could have a few days worth of goodies to go with their morning coffee at school with these Chocolate Dipped Spoons and Cookies! Perfect!
You could really make these in so many different ways. Any type of cookie or biscuit could be used. Any kind of chocolate could be used! I chose the Biscoff cookies because they go so wonderfully well with coffee and dipped them in a dark chocolate. My favorite dark chocolate is one that is 60-70% cocoa. Not too bitter, but still smooth and oh so chocolaty!
The spoons I dipped are just from the grocery store, but you could easily used colored spoons or even order cute wooden spoons! Instead of pink and red sprinkles, green could be used for St. Patrick's Day or brown for Thanksgiving. The possibilities are really endless!
And of course, Matty had to try a chocolate spoon too. Okay… he didn't really ask for permission before he grabbed this spoon. But how can I bet mad at that face? I'm just happy he loves chocolate!!
So, get creative and start dipping things in chocolate! Valentine's Day treats don't have to be difficult… just delicious and fun!
- 12 Plastic spoons
- 24 Biscoff cookies
- 12-15oz high quality dark chocolate (I used Lindt 70% cocoa chocolate)
- Valentine nonpareils and heart shaped sprinkles
- Valentine M&M candies
- Wax paper
- Double boiler
- Lay out a piece of wax paper on your counter.
- Chop chocolate into very small chunks and place in a double boiler.
- Over medium-high heat, melt the chocolate until smooth.
- Dip the spoons into the chocolate making sure that the spoon cavity is full of chocolate. Holding the spoon horizontally flat, tap any excess chocolate off. Lay the spoon on the wax paper. NOTE: If the chocolate spills out, prop the end of the handle up with an Oreo or other cookie (or whatever you have) so that the chocolate stays in the spoon cavity.
- Immediately place a M&M candy and heart shaped sprinkles into the chocolate. Optionally, sprinkle with the Valentine nonpareils.
- Dip the Biscoff cookies into the chocolate until ½-2/3 of the cookie is covered.
- Tap the wrist of the hand holding the cookie so that the excess chocolate dripped off the cookies. Gently scrape the bottom of the cookie on the side of the bowl to remove any excess chocolate.
- Place dipped cookie onto the wax paper and sprinkle with Valentine nonpareils.
- Allow spoons and cookies to dry completely before packaging – about 3-4 hours.
29 Comments on Chocolate Dipped Spoons and Cookies
I love these, you can never go wrong with such an easy treat! Chocolate dipped Biscoff cookies?! I need to make a few of these for myself
Funny treat. And easy!!
love the Starbucks mug!
Love these. Must make to sweeten a few of my daughter's high school teachers up!
Do you use the Lindt chocolate bar?-
Btw, what a gorgeous baby boy!
Oh that chocolate covered face! I love dipping my biscoff in chocolate! The two just go together perfectly.
Beautiful blue eyes!
What a great idea for Valentine's Day!
Betsy, look super yummy. You are such a talented young lady.
Love Midge -
mmmmmmmmmmm! your little guy has the right idea!
What a nice mom you are to let your little guy enjoy a chocolate spoon They look delicious!
Love all of these! The chocolate spoon idea is so simple, yet amazing! Can't wait to try, I know the kids and hubby will love it! xx #sitsblogging
Cute idea – looks like your little one loved it! #SITSblogging
The spoons are a cute idea for after dinner coffee. <3 ww.sweetanddownlow.com #SITSblogging
Mmmm, these look delicious – what a perfect V-day gift!
Love the chocolate spoon idea! So easy to make & cheap too! Thanks for sharing! #SITSBlogging
You take beautiful photos, and your desserts look wonderful. I've always wanted to try the chocolate covered spoons. I still need easy Ideas for Valentines day goodies, so I might try this.
Such a lovely idea which is simple but pretty, I just love the presentation & may do some for friends & family. Thanks for sharing! Coping with the Big C – The Sits Comment Love Challenge
I've used the chocolate covered spoons in my coffee and as extra chocolate in my cocoa, they are wonderful.
hey did you cool these at room temp or in the fridge? Thanks


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Maranello, 27 September–Yesterday we published the first part of an interview with Neil Martin, in which the head of the Strategic Operations department explained what is involved in coming up with race strategies during a Grand Prix. Today, we will try and understand, through Neil's personal history, how a working group has been built up that is able to maximize the opportunities that can arise during a race and, at the same time, to minimize the risks. All this while bearing in mind that not everything is predictable or quantifiable, because if it was, then Formula 1 would not be a sport!
Neil studied Pure Mathematics at university, but as a young student, he was already very keen on Formula 1. "Having finished my degree in Mathematics and Computer Studies, I began a Science Masters in operational research from 1994 – 1995 in which I had to apply these techniques to a real case," recounts Neil. "As I really liked Formula 1, I asked my supervisor, if I found a team as a sponsor, if the planning of race strategy could be considered a sufficiently complex problem from a mathematical point of view. The answer was yes and so I wrote to several teams, getting a positive response from McLaren. They would give me some printed information relating to the races and I had to compile by hand forms showing all the laps completed by every car in every session, split into various sectors: at the time, OCR was not very precise and there were more downsides in terms of errors than benefits from using it. I remember I had produced a module from which it could be deduced that the teams were stopping too early to refuel, losing the opportunity to refuel for nothing at the start of the race, as no time was lost filling the tank. Once it was possible to demonstrate, using just pre Grand Prix data that the McLaren could have made just a single stop, something that was only realised once the race was over: so they were keenly interested in my research and, once I'd completed my masters, a handful of collaboration contracts were drawn up and I was taken on by the team in October 1995."
The first algorithms were based on data relative to just one car, at a given track with parameters linked to the weight effect and fuel load, needed at the time for refueling and for the operations during the pit stop, as well as time lost driving down pit lane and those linked to tyre degradation. Essentially, this served to come up with a simple answer: come the end of the race, is strategy A quicker than strategy B," continues Neil. "It was an application which worked on a computer not linked to the network and was activated by the race engineers prior to the race. After that, various new elements were introduced but the change came with the Monaco techniques used as from 1998. It allowed to take into account all the cars in the race, traffic models, neutralisations, overtakes and other incidental events. The results were interesting, because when you are dealing with probabilities, you come up with things like 'if we chose a two stop strategy we have a 20% chance of coming first or second, but if we get stuck in traffic then there is the same chance of finishing seventh or worse: if however we go for one stop, then very probably, we will finish third or fourth but it will be equally difficult to win or finish the race seventh or lower.' For the first time, simulation allowed for visualization of the risks associated with each option and therefore, you could take into account the team's acceptance of certain risks. It was a considerable step forward even it meant the cards were jumbled up a bit. Before that, engineers had in front of them the confirmation that a single stop strategy was quicker than a two stop; concise if rather simple."
"Up until then, development was carried out entirely off-line and the analysis done before the race: we did not have data that could automatically be inserted in real time, we had to bash the keys entering the gaps between the cars we were interested in, lap after lap to understand if we were ahead or behind our predictions," says Neil. "When the engineers working at the track asked to have someone with them during a race weekend, I had written so much of the software that I was the obvious choice. In 1999, there was no direct communication between the pit wall and the garage and so you had to shuttle to and fro with the sheets in your hand to try and explain by shouting into the ears of those in charge, telling them what you thought they should do. Fortunately, over time, the tools were improved and all the computers were linked and the situation got better but the real step forward came in 2001, when for the first time, FOM supplied the data from all cars in electronic format in real time, which allowed us to tackle strategy management during the race in a much more efficient manner. Also, the monitors are always improving and so its possible to run Monaco simulations to answer questions such as 'given the situation on this current lap, what is the best thing to do if our main competitors decide to make three stops?' or 'what is the best strategy that our opponents might choose?' The next step was being able to work from the factory, in a control room which we call the Remote Garage, where people can monitor various aspects of the car's performance, while being in direct communication with the race track via intercom. From here, the amount of data available has increased, just as the reliability of the models has improved and this whole sector has grown in an organic manner."
Martin became well known to the general public in 2005, when a strategy he sent via email to the McLaren pitwall resulted in Kimi Raikkonen winning the Monaco Grand Prix. "Honestly, I only found out about it on the Monday, when a friend in the team told me I was in the Daily Telegraph: I thought it was a joke but mid-morning, I got myself a copy of the paper on my desk," says Neil with a smile. "I was surprised because nothing had happened that was different to what I had been doing week in week out for the four previous years! The way it was all described also made me smile: it's true that some things were correct, but let's say their version of events was different to the way I remembered it!"
In Maranello, Neil doesn't just work on strategy: "Today, I'm in charge of a group of engineers who act in a certain sense as consultants to the whole team. It's a well balanced mix between mathematical modeling and software engineering: we try to look at every area of activity, trying to give support where possible, through observation of the processes, trying to typify them in models and, when possible, optimizing them or introducing further elements of understanding, of management or software which can definitely bring improvements."
Algorithms, Monaco simulations, remote garage, etcetera, etcetera: all elements that make strategy decisions ever more logical: to underpin them, to use to explain things in hindsight. The truth is however, that Formula 1 is still a sport and, as such, the mistaken choices are better remembered than the right ones, even more so if those making the decisions are sitting on a glorious and yet sometimes uncomfortable pit perch, like Scuderia Ferrari's.


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[1]ARLINGTON, Texas — Elvis Andrus had never stepped up to bat with a fifth infielder staring in at him. He still knew exactly what he wanted to do when it happened to him for the first time Wednesday night.
With the bases loaded and one out — and with Houston Astros left fielder Chris Carter moved in to play first base — Andrus sent a ball soaring into left-center field for sacrifice fly that scored pinch runner Adam Rosales and lifted the Texas Rangers over the Houston Astros 5-4.
"It made it easier. You don't really have to hit it anywhere, you just have to make sure you hit a fly ball," he said. "I had to stay focused and stay sure of my swing. He threw me one high enough and I was happy to be able to bring the run in and win the game."
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My take on DevOps
August 26, 2010
Alright, several people have asked me why I haven't weighed in on the current "devops" movement. Mostly because no two people can absolutely agree on what DevOps is. I'm outside of that particular community, although I read a lot of the blogs of the key members, so maybe I'm in a good position to comment on my perspective.
First, lets define DevOps. If you strip away all of the touchy-feely stuff that gets associated with the name, at its core, DevOps is an increased interaction and interdependency between developers and operations staff, whether that operations staff is specifically system administrators or whatever.
This means that the people who develop code no longer have willful ignorance of operational environments, and the people who operate the environments can't do so in a vacuum of knowledge about the software itself. This increased communication and reliance IS DevOps. That's it. Nothing more. It's a methodology. It's not a panacea and it's not for everyone. How can you tell if it's for you?
Let's answer some questions...
- Does your organization have programmers?
- Do you provide Software as a Service?
- Do you release software updates frequently?
Developers are necessary for the DevOps relationship...otherwise you've just got Ops
DevOps grew up in the web world, around places like Flickr, who provide applications over the web. Other people may just think of them like websites, but in actuality, they're applications with incredibly large code bases. Since a solid application depends on well-developed code running in a known stable environment, it's natural that this kind of biosphere would produce methods like DevOps
If you're in an environment where something is broken and gets fixed immediately, then you can say yes here, but it's not just bug fixes. Features get rolled out, pulled in, and switched around. Agility of this nature isn't possible without everyone working from the same playbook. It's also not possible with an environment that can't change rapidly to match the code.
For the 90% of companies out there without that particular environment, then you probably aren't using DevOps, and that's fine, because there's almost nothing it can do for you. Especially if you don't have programmers. Because hey, no dev, right?
You'll notice that nowhere in the preceding text did I mention the tools that DevOps uses. That's because the tools are completely separate. Using "puppet" doesn't mean you subscribe to the DevOps methods (or even the mentality), and although DevOps may not be necessary for your environment, you might find puppet extremely useful. Let me say that again, Using the same tools as DevOps shops use does not tie you to the DevOps methodology.
As alluded to in the last answer up above, the shops that run DevOps need environments that can change quickly and absolutely. They needed tools that could do it, because you can't manually change hundreds of application servers. Because of their need to change that many machines, and have it happen nearly instantaneously, tools to automate this kind of change were developed and implemented.
Other technologies that get lumped into DevOps, cloud computing and virtualization, are also natural off-shoots of the type of environment where you have hundreds of application servers. Of course that kind of environment is going to be heavily into virtualization (if they've got an existing large infrastructure) or cloud computing (if they don't).
Again, DevOps doesn't "own" these technologies. They just use them (and advance them by writing tools to improve them, in many cases).
So there, that's my take. For the people who can use it, DevOps is developing into an exciting methodology to ensure increased availability and stability of IT resources.
It's not for everyone, but you owe it to yourself to take a look at the tools that too many people have been misbranded "DevOps". There's a lot of functionality there, and it can decrease the amount of time you spend slogging through administrative tasks.
It looks like I'm not the only one who's been thinking about this, too. Benjamin Smith wrote his take as well, and it seems like we agree quite a bit.


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When is the last time you cried & why?
A few days ago during some sappy movie. I'm such a sucker for a happy ending!
Describe yourself in 3 words.
Sarcastic. Loving. Complicated
Do you have any ritualistic behaviors?
I wash my face and brush my teeth, in that order, every night.
If you had to resort to cannibalism to survive, would you/could you do it?
Nope. I'd eat bugs or dirt or die blissfully. I wouldn't wanna live with that on my conscience.
If you were extremely horny and had nothing else to use, would you use a produce item to masturbate?
LOL! NO! That doesn't sound comfy at all.
Now go link up! And don't forget to follow the hostess's!
When & where was the last time you went to an amusement park? Did you ride on a roller coaster?
I went to Great America about 3 years ago, and I rode every roller coaster!
Friday, August 13, 2010
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You're a porn star (just work with me here)-what's your porn name?
Big Poppa Da Panty Droppa
When is the last time you cried & why?
1991 grandfather died.
Describe yourself in 3 words.
Poor, Fat, Bald
If you had to resort to cannibalism to survive, would you/could you do it?
Hell yeah before I died I would
If you were extremely horny and had nothing else to use, would you use a produce item to masturbate?
Well I don't how exactly I could use a piece of produce to masturbate, but I suspect not. - August 13, 2010 at 10:20 PM
- Kel said...
Thanks for joining us for our Spotlight Saturday Blog Hop! Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
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- Julie @ Get Healthy Cheap said...
Hi there, I'm visiting from Spotlight Saturday. Back in the old days.....WAY BACK....we used to say your porn name was your middle name & the street you grew up on...Maria Lackland..ha ha
Love your blog - I followed, hope you can visit me too. :) - August 14, 2010 at 3:56 PM
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- Amy said...
I am not a coaster fan. Cheers to you for doing it. I did try and I still get scared.. Have a great Sunday..
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The browser is completely free and available for download here.
From a web development standpoint, it's worth downloading the brand new browser to ensure your website is still compiled correctly. However, Chrome is built on the same rendering engine as Apple's Safari browser (WebKit), so if it looked alright in Safari, you're golden.
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Without the slightest hint of irony, President Obama said last week, "If people can't trust not only the executive branch but also don't trust Congress, and don't trust federal judges, to make sure that we're abiding by the Constitution with due process and rule of law, then we're going to have some problems here."
Yes we are, because more and more of us don't trust government. In fact, according to the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, "trust in the federal government remains mired near a historic low, while frustration with government remains high." Furthermore, notes Pew, a "majority of the public says that the federal government threatens their personal rights and freedoms."
What has led to this distrust? The Benghazi cover-up, the IRS fiasco, the Justice Department's monitoring of reporters, the commandeering of phone records of private citizens in the name of national security, "data mining," the so-called "kill list," drones with the power to spy and kill, the proliferation of surveillance cameras, DNA swabs after arrests, Obamacare, unrestrained spending and unending debt. This is the federal government encroaching on our civil liberties.
The federal government long ago exceeded its constitutional boundaries. It has reached into our public schools, our colleges and universities, our wombs, our wallets; Congress banned incandescent light bulbs, Bloomberg tried to ban Big Gulps, and now government wants to insert itself into our health care. Government does few things well, but it does them at great expense.
A loss of some privacy was supposed to be the price we had to pay for security following 9/11. President Obama declared the war against terrorism over, but the surveillance expanded. Now, it seems there are more cameras out there than there are cicadas.
The president claims, "Nobody is listening to your telephone calls." But the government has the ability to listen. Michael Isikoff of NBC News, citing two former U.S. intelligence officials, reports, "The National Security Agency has at times mistakenly intercepted the private email messages and phone calls of Americans who had no link to terrorism, requiring Justice Department officials to report the errors to a secret national security court and destroy the data." Oops.
When I was a kid, some of my relatives had party line telephones. People shared the same phone line, but were assigned different numbers of rings so you'd know which call was yours. My cousins and I eavesdropped on other people's conversations. Will the federal government now take listening in to a new level?
We have a "on the one hand, but on the other hand" attitude about security. On the one hand we want to be safe; on the other hand we don't like government intruding on our rights because once we've lost them, they will be difficult to regain. The notion that we should trust government is foolish and dangerous. Government officials, like all human beings, have the capacity to do wrong, as well as right. That's why the Founders gave us a Constitution, to control government that "the blessings of liberty" might be secured.
Here's some history for those who missed it in history class: "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution ... are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite." -- James Madison
"Freedom is lost gradually from an uninterested, uninformed, and uninvolved people." -- Thomas Jefferson
On this 64th anniversary of the publication of George Orwell's novel, "1984," uninterested, uninformed and uninvolved Americans should consider his concocted language called "Newspeak," which includes: "War is peace; freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength."
President Obama is speaking in "Newspeak" when he says government can be trusted. Government cannot be trusted. We -- and he -- must trust the Constitution.
Email nationally syndicated columnist Cal Thomas at email@example.com. For archived columns, go to www.gwinnettdailypost.com/calthomas.
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Why_not 1 year, 8 months ago
On the issue of listening to phone calls....I have absolutely nothing to hide from anyone. If they choose to listen to my boring conversations then fine. I guess Cal isn't in that category. Skeletons in the closet maybe. By the way, the NSA deal was on the front page of USA today in May of 2006 so I don't understand why everyone is in an uproar now.
JV 1 year, 8 months ago
Cal Thomas is not presenting one issue but many. And by the way, Bush's approval is the highest since 2005.


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People are always asking me, "Brandon, when are you going to team-up with Dr. Crusher?" Well, the wait is over! This image was created for a fundraiser in support of Gates McFadden's experimental theater lab on February 11 (read more about the event here). Gates has offered to sign a small number of prints, which you can pre-order in my store.
Thursday January 29, 2015
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Friday December 19, 2014
The Sears Fan Club Kit
The $25 reward for the Sears Kickstarter project is now shipping! I also have some extras for sale here.
Wednesday December 17, 2014
Sears #4
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This is a very belated wedding gift for Jeffrey and Holly, who run Topatoco. Way back at Calgary Expo Holly mentioned, "I kind of want to get Jeffrey a velvet painting of Barry from Storage Wars," and I was like, "Dude, I'll do it, that's totally something I should have already made." I even had my sometimes-assistant Lacy build and stretch a black velvet surface, but as it turns out, working on velvet is incredibly hard. So I made this delicate oil painting instead. Prints here.
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Tuesday November 25, 2014
A Hero Rides Forth
The 2014 T-mas cards are here! The inspiration for this design comes from a set of Western-themed Christmas cards by the painter Jack Sorenson purchased in an Oregon truck stop during Sears Trip 2013. I discuss the origins of T-mas on my pal Tony Thaxton's year-round Christmas podcast, Feliz Navipod.
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Wednesday November 19, 2014
Sears #2 and #3
More work from the Sears Kickstarter project. Pictured above is Torrance; below, Capitola:
Tuesday November 4, 2014
New T-Shirt Time
Three new shirts in my TopatoCo.com online store! There's Captain Picard's Mean Pizza-Launchin' Machine, a shirt about the terrifying menace that is Bane, and a new version of Metalhawk. Oh yeah, also I met Jeff Goldblum and he liked my book.
Sunday October 19, 2014
The All-New, All-Different Nicolas Cage Adventure Set
I've made a brand-new Nicolas Cage Colorforms-style Adventure Set. You get 9 reusable vinyl cling stickers, and a double-sided backdrop to arrange and re-arrange your scenes. The accessories this go-round are rocket boots, keytar, sombrero, Gryzzblyzzyx, golden idol, and basket of kittens, and the play environments are "outer space" and "jungle ruins." And it's fully-compatible with the original 2009 set!
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Training Announcement: Recovery from Disaster/Local Government Role (G270.4) August 6, 2013 The Waldo, Hancock, Knox and Penobscot County Emergency Management Agencies will be conducting the FEMA training program Recovery from Disaster: The Local Government Role (G270.4), Tuesday and Wednesday, October 1 and 2, in Belfast. This 2-day course will increase local government awareness of issues involved in disaster recovery, provide a forum for discussion of "lessons learned" in disaster recovery at the local level and promote the development of a pre-disaster recovery plan. Target Audience:The Target Audience includes:
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When the school year started, it looked like this could be the biggest game in the country this year. But then something unexpected happened: Katy lost its first two games of the year, one of them in a blowout. The ESPN game was moved up from the original prime-time slot to Saturday afternoon. But for Cypress Bay, Katy's rough start meant they would be playing a team with something to prove.
In its final game before the Katy trip, Cypress Bay is as good as advertised. A crowd of soggy blue-and-gold-clad supporters packs the grandstands despite a heavy thunderstorm to watch the Lightning take on rival Western High School from Davie.
Cypress Bay is known for its running attack, and Coach Guandolo starts the game by calling 13 straight runs. Cypress Bay moves down the field easily. On a pitch-out play to the right, running back Jason Douglas turns the outside corner and streaks 25 yards before the first defender touches him. Cypress Bay eats up seven minutes on the 80-yard drive. Craig Dee caps it off with a five-yard plunge into the end zone.
Zach Green doesn't drop back for his first pass until there is less than three minutes to go in the second quarter. The tall, slim quarterback misses on his first attempt but eventually connects with Corey McCabe down the left sideline.
The Lightning looks inspired — perhaps motivated by vandalism of the home field. The night before the game, someone carved the letters WHS six inches into the turf across the middle of the field, then threw the dirt onto the home team's bleachers.
On defense, linebackers Phil Walker, Shane Gordon, and Austin Gamble help hold Western to just 16 yards rushing and two first downs in the first half. In the second quarter, Gamble wraps up a Western running back in the open field, lifts him off his feet, and drives him into the mud near the carved-out letters.
Cypress Bay Athletic Director Bill Caruso stalks the sidelines wearing jean shorts, tennis shoes, and a Harley-Davidson raincoat. With a walkie-talkie in either hand, he sloshes through the grass, in constant communication with the swarm of camera crews and student producers filming the game for Cypress Bay's own internet television station.
The school is no stranger to big business. Last year, MTV featured the school on The Paper, a reality show chronicling the melodrama of a high school newspaper. MTV wrote the school a check for $10,000.
Outback Steakhouse banners dot the fence around the football field, and every time the announcer mentions the game clock, Rolex gets a plug. It's the kind of place where the mothers collecting money in the parking lot don't hesitate to tell a stranger that his 10-year-old pickup truck is a "clunker." One Cypress Bay student wears a shirt declaring Western — from considerably less affluent Davie — "Trailer Bums."
The campus itself looks more like a bustling college or a military base, a web of pavement and colorful new buildings. It matches a city where the streets are each perfectly manicured, lined with evenly spaced, cropped palm trees and bright-green landscaping.
"Yeah, a lot of these kids are well-off," Caruso says, referring to the football players and the student body in general. "People think Weston, they think money, but a lot of parents aren't rich. They move here. They rent apartments here so their kids can have the chance to go to Cypress Bay."
Weston epitomizes the new era of high school football in South Florida. The top-ranked teams used to come from inner-city Miami or the rural sugar-cane towns south of Lake Okeechobee. Now, scouts flock to public schools like Cypress Bay and private ones including St. Thomas Aquinas in Fort Lauderdale, which recently ranked third on ESPN's list of the top programs in the nation.
The biggest programs in Texas all come from wealthy suburbs as well: Austin Westlake, Southlake Carroll, Highland Park in Dallas, and Katy, which has appeared in the state championship game in seven of the past 11 years and has taken home four titles. KatyNation, a book chronicling the school's athletic dominance, is being turned into a movie.
Zach Green says he's seen Friday Night Lights and Varsity Blues. "I know how big high school football is in Texas," the quarterback says. "It's big here too. I know we're going against a good team, but we're confident we can take care of business and get the job done."
By halftime against Western, Cypress Bay has more than 300 yards rushing and a 28-0 lead. If there's any flaw in the dominant performance, it's the passing game. Green throws just five passes and completes only one, for 23 yards.
In the second half, Guandolo rests many of his starters, making sure they're fresh for Katy. Cypress Bay wins 35-3, with 468 total rushing yards. It was Guandolo's 200th career victory.
The Cypress Bay coaches begin the October 4 game against Katy with a surprise. They knew Katy would expect them to bring their dominant run game. So on the first play in Texas, Green, who had attempted just 18 passes all year, fakes a handoff and drops back to pass.


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Owned by the same Israeli chain that runs Jerusalem's historic King David, the Dan is as close as Tel Aviv gets to a true grande dame: a landmark built in 1953 that still lures the city's most important (and deepest-pocketed) guests. But it's a grande dame in the most Israeli of ways: The landmark modernist structure has a kinetic multicolor facade painted by famous artist Yaacov Agam. A 2008 $7-million makeover turned the hotel into one of Tel Aviv's most modern, with Wi-Fi, iPod docks, and LCD TVs in roughly half of the hotel's 286 rooms. Capping it all is an oversized "forest" photo rendered in dramatically illuminated greens. The best rooms to book are the Sea View Executives, which are the only hotel rooms in town literally right on the Med (the others are all set back behind the waterfront promenade). Also on the sea are the Dan's main lobby lounge and new haute-kosher eatery D (with split dairy and meat menus).
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