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Anna Wintour boosts Hillary Clinton for 2016
ATLANTA (CNN) — Hillary Clinton, a self-described "pantsuit aficionado," got some ringing praise from perhaps the fashion industry's biggest voice.
Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour expressed support for the former secretary of state and her potential presidential bid at an event Monday for designer Oscar de la Renta.
"I can only hope that all of you here in Little Rock will be celebrating her come November 2016," Wintour said, according to CNN affiliate KARK.
"Just as all of us, all of us at Vogue, look forward to putting on the cover the first female president of the United States," she continued, as she introduced the former first lady and U.S. senator from New York.
Hillary Clinton, widely considered the potential Democratic favorite in 2016, has not said whether she plans to launch another White House bid.
For her part, Wintour has become more of a political power player in recent years and became a major fundraiser for both of President Barack Obama's presidential campaigns. Her ties to Obama sparked rumors that she was up for a potential ambassadorship, but CNN did not confirm those reports and she remains in her top post at the magazine.
The Oscar de la Renta reception, held at the William J. Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, displayed several of the designer's famous pieces, including the teal pantsuit Clinton wore when first being sworn-in as U.S. senator in 2001.
De la Renta, 80, also designed Clinton's dress for one of her husband's inaugurations, as well as for a 1998 Vogue photoshoot--the first time a first lady appeared on the magazine's cover page.
The Clintons have remained close with de la Renta ever since, and the designer has been the mastermind behind many of Hillary Clinton's suits and gowns during her public service career.
"I never got to wear one of his dresses," former President Bill Clinton said. "But I have every day for many years worn the mantle of his friendship."
Last month, Hillary Clinton honored de la Renta at the annual Council of Fashion Designers of America award ceremony at New York's Lincoln Center, where she jokingly pitched a show idea for Bravo: "Project Pantsuit."
She again offered more praise for the famed designer on Monday.
"It's not for me just about the clothes, although they're really spectacular, it's about what it means, the continuous effort to be as good as you can be," Clinton said.
A number or celebrities attended the event, including Barbara Walters and former Vogue contributing editor Andre Leon Talley.
"I am overwhelmed at the fact that my very first retrospective happened to be at the President Clinton Library," de la Renta said.
Clinton was also in Little Rock Monday to attend the dedication of a new children's library named in her honor.
CNN's Kevin Liptak contributed to this report.


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6 Rental Cars + 1 Stash House = Big Drug Dealer?
by Melissa Bailey | Jan 10, 2014 8:09 am
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Michael Smith rented six cars in four and a half months.
Was he an automotive enthusiast? Or was he going under cover to move kilos of cocaine through city streets as part of a dangerous drug ring?
Those questions emerged Thursday in Judge Robert Chatigny's federal courtroom in Hartford, where jurors are weighing the fate of one of the last remaining defendants arrested through 2012's Operation Bloodline. The state's largest criminal sweep in state history, Operation Bloodline targeted crack and cocaine drug rings in New Haven's Dwight-Kensington and Fair Haven neighborhoods.
The questions added a new twist to an ongoing challenge emerging in the courtroom this week: How, in the absence of catching a dealer in the act of selling lots of drugs, to prove that he is a big-time supplier. Earlier this week, the government used some new math, street-lingo translation, wiretapped phone conversations and recovered text messages to try to paint that picture. Thursday, the conversation turned to rental cars and baking soda.
The defendant, 43-year-old Michael Smith, faces 10 years to life in prison on drug-selling and drug-conspiracy charges. He was one of 105 people arrested in the operation, which police claimed dismantled a large and dangerous drug operation in New Haven affiliated with the Bloods gang.
So far, over 90 defendants have pleaded guilty. Two were found guilty by trial. Five, in addition to Smith, are heading to trial this month. Charges were dropped against a few others.
To win a guilty verdict against Smith, the government is trying to prove two accusations: That Smith sold 6.6 grams of crack to a cooperating government witness on Oct. 27, 2011; and that he took part in a broader conspiracy that distributed at least 5 kilos of cocaine, or 280 grams of crack, between January 2011 and May 2012.
Defense Attorney Diane Polan intends to argue that even if Smith was a small-time dealer—she has not conceded in court that he was—the government doesn't have enough evidence to prove he moved a large amount of drugs.
The prosecution, led by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Marc Silverman and S. Dave Vatti, on Monday, they used an expert witness from the FBI to give jurors a vocab lesson in the ABCs of street drugs. On Wednesday, they plunged into some of the 3,100 recorded calls and texts the government deemed pertinent to Smith's alleged drug-dealing.
On Thursday, they presented new evidence about rental cars and an alleged stash house that aimed to corroborate a picture suggested by the coded wiretapped conversations: That Smith was running a robust drug-dealing operation. Again, Special Agent Eric Ndrenika of the federal Drug Enforcement Agency, who led Operation Bloodline, served as the government's witness and jurors' guide through the evidence.
6 Cars
Ndrenika recounted how his team of federal and local cops got warrants to attach GPS tracking devices to Smith's cars. Six cars.
Smith had six rental cars in four and a half months. Prosecutors didn't explicitly draw conclusions in court—conclusions will likely come in closing arguments Monday. But the implication was made clear by a previous witness. An FBI witness testified Monday that drug-dealers often change cars to avoid detection from police and others who might raid their stash.
Ndrenika's DEA task force, which included federal agents and local cops, slapped GPS devices onto six cars. The warrants lasted 45 days, but in most cases, the cops didn't need to use the warrant for that long, because Smith swapped out cars.
Ndrenika said cops snuck into Smith's driveway and a parking lot to hide the monitors on his cars. The first one was a burgundy Ford Taurus (like the one pictured at the top of the story). Smith also owned a white Acura and a black Range Rover. In one case, cops put the device on one of Smith's cars while he was working out at a gym in a strip mall, Ndrenika said.
In cross-examination, Polan suggested cops didn't know why Smith was trading cars so frequently. Maybe he had one-month rental contracts. Did Ndrenika review his rental contracts? No, he replied.
Stash House
The GPS tracked Smith's movements for four and a half months, from December 2011 to April 2012, Ndrenika said.
With a hidden GPS, "we're able to track the vehicle's movement throughout the day and night, 24-7," he testified.
"Were there locations to which Mr. Smith regularly traveled?" Silverman asked.
Yes, Ndrenika said.
Ndrenika said the GPS showed him staying at his girlfriend's house at 70 High Top Circle in Hamden every night. Every morning, he would head to Apartment 102 at 456 Lombard St., a brick building in Fair Haven that used to be the Ezekiel Cheever School.
Smith followed a regular routine: He would spend some time at 456 Lombard, leave, return to 456 Lombard in the late afternoon, then head back to Hamden to sleep.
At Polan's urging, the government refrained from calling the apartment a stash house. But the implication was clear.
In cross-examination, Polan offered another interpretation: 456 Lombard wasn't a stash house. It was Smith's apartment. He paid rent there. Sometimes guys have one apartment where they live and another place where they stay at night with a girlfriend, she offered.
Ndrenika didn't buy it.
Ndrenika testified that a cooperating witness—who is not testifying in this trial—bought 6.6 grams of crack from him while wearing a body wire. But the agent conceded that despite watching Smith for months, police never observed him making a hand-to-hand buy.
Attorney Silverman noted that seeing a drug deal in action is difficult.
"Is it fair to say that surveillance officers can't see through walls?" he asked Ndrenika.
Yes, Ndrenika said. They can't see into dark places, or behind buildings, either.
Baking Soda
To further its "stash house" theory, the government let jurors see what was behind the door on one special day, dubbed the Takedown Day. That was May 22, 2012, the day a wide network of cops from New Haven and beyond teamed up to round up the alleged participants in the Bloodline scheme.
Meriden Police Sgt. Christopher Fry came into town for the occasion, as did other cops from nearby towns. On the witness stand, he recounted conducting a search and seizure warrant on Smith's Lombard Street apartment.
As photos flashed before jurors' monitors, Fry outlined the bounty collected at Smith's apartment:
• 3 Pyrex cups
• One big box of baking soda
• Several small plastic bags
• A digital scale
• A hot plate.
• About $2,000, most of it in bundles of dollar bills, bound with rubber bands.
To the government's eye, these are all clear signs of a drug den—they are objects typically used to cook and package crack cocaine, according to the government's FBI-agent witness. But at Polan's urging, Fry was not permitted to describe the goods as drug paraphernalia. He said that police went into the house to search for drugs and drug paraphernalia, and seized these things. Police can seize any amount of money if they have probable cause to believe it resulted from the sale of narcotics, according to Ndrenika.
Other police seized Smith's bank accounts and found a total of $6,100.
Polan downplayed the bounty as ordinary items people have in their kitchens. She picked up a big box of baking soda and walked it over to the stand where Sgt. Fry was sitting. She asked him he had ever tried to lift it to see how full it was.
Fry said he hadn't—he was afraid to touch it without wearing gloves.
At Polan's request, he held the box in his hands Thursday.
Does it feel full? Polan asked—implying that it was barely used.
Fry said it felt like it could have been full, though he didn't know for sure.
Attorney Vatti later brought the box to the front again for reexamination.
Is the seal broken? he asked Fry.
Yes, it was, Fry testified.
Polan seized every inch she could in her quest to downplay the evidence. At one point, Vatti held up a bag of evidence. He said it used to contain three Pyrex containers. Now shards of glass were protruding from the bag. He asked Fry if the bag contained two intact Pyrex containers and one shattered one. Fry said yes.
Polan objected. She held up the bag for close inspection. The evidence—which had been broken in transit or in storage—was too damaged for her to properly see three Pyrexes, she said.
Vatti agreed to label the evidence it simply as "Pyrex containers," without specifying that there had been three.
"White Chunks" Thrown Out The Window
Officer David Rivera, a New Haven cop, also testified about a wild ride on Jan. 18, 2012, in which he chased after an associate Smith had just dealt with.
In a recorded phone call on that date, a voice Ndrenika identified as Tyrell Gary (a co-defendant in this case) called Smith's phone to "see if I could get like 28." Then Gary upped his order: "give me 42."
"I gotta do the math on that.. um … let me see, um, hold on, um. 16 even," a voice Ndrenika identified as Smith replied.
The two arranged to meet at Winchester and Lilac in Newhallville.
Rivera testified that he knew the deal was about to go down. Ndrenika dispatched him to pull Gary over after the deal for identification purposes. Rivera didn't aim to arrest him, just see who he was.
Rivera saw Gary fail to put on his turn signal as he made a turn. Rivera flipped on the lights on a police cruiser and tried to pull him over. Gary, however, kept driving—and led Rivera on a pursuit, chucking "white chunks" out the window as he drove.
The "white chunks" turned out to be crack cocaine, Rivera testified. Gary was arrested on narcotics and driving charges—charges that were later dropped when he was prosecuted federally for the drug-dealing conspiracy.
After the episode, Smith stopped using the cell phone he had used to arrange a deal with Gary. Smith started making calls on a separate phone "to all of his customers," Ndrenika explained.
Polan objected: It's not fair to call them "customers."
That's a conclusion extrapolated from the data, she argued—not a hard fact.
Past Independent stories on Operation Bloodline:
• TXT From B.O. To Big Dog: "14s 36h"
• Bloodline Jurors Learn The Drug-Dealing ABCs
• YouTube, Facebook Helped Bust The Bloods
• Biggs' Jailhouse Plea: Don't Believe The Rap
• Wiley Don Raps Feds From Prison
• "Bloodline" Cop Wiretapped Sister's Boyfriends
• Guilty Verdict In "Bloodline" Trial
• Bloodline Defense Lawyers: That's All You've Got?
• Drug Trade's "Great White Hope" Grilled
• "Bloodline" Trail Leads To White Boy Chris
• Judge To Feds: Fix Your "2nd Class" Mess
• "Top" Blood, Rapper's Pal, Pleads Not Guilty
• Feds Indict 105 In Tre Bloods Probe
• "Operation Bloodline" Nets Alleged 61 Tre Bloods
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Charissa N. Terranova is Associate Professor of Aesthetic Studies in the Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History at The University of Texas at Dallas. She lectures and teaches seminars on art and architectural history, theory, and criticism and media and new media theory. Terranova is the author of Art as Organism: Biology and the Evolution of the Digital Image, 1920-1970 (forthcoming from I.B. Tauris, London) and Automotive Prosthetic: Technological Mediation and the Car in Conceptual Art (UT Press, 2014). Terranova is coediting an anthology, The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture, with Meredith Tromble,(forthcoming from Routledge Press, Architecture). In January 2010, she stepped down from the position of founding director and curator of Centraltrak: The UT Dallas Artists Residency.
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Dr. Terranova is currently completing two books. The first is an anthology titled The Routledge Handbook to Biology in Art and Architecture and is co-edited with Meredith Tromble. This anthology brings together essays from a transdisciplinary array of experts on biology in art, architecture, and design. They consider why, how, and under what circumstances artists, architects, and designers have integrated biology into their practices. The authors – artists, architects, designers, scientists, historians, and theoreticians – connect biological thought past and present, on topics such as complex systems, epigenesis, ecology, evolution, and expanded mind, to the use of living materials in art, architecture, and design. This anthology surveys the emergent field of biocreativity and outlines its theoretical foundations. The hybrid art-and-science thinking it reviews newly articulates the relationship between science and culture to meet the burgeoning needs of programs of academic study and research integrating biology into art, architecture, and design.
The second book project currently underway is titled Art as Organism: Biology and the Evolution of the Digital Image, 1920-1970. This book traces the development of the digital image in art, focusing on the centrality of the integrated human, i.e. the human as a total biological system of the mind, body, and senses. Art as Organism foregrounds current video and digital new media art, interactive gaming, and virtual reality in a materialist politics of the body, which effloresced around the interactions of artists and scientists in the twentieth century. The story unfolds across time among an array of modernists, including László Moholy-Nagy, Walter Benjamin, Gyorgy Kepes, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, J. D. Bernal, Conrad Waddington, Kevin Lynch, Rudolf Arnheim, Robert Rauschenberg, A. Michael Noll, and Billy Klüver, from the heady waters of Weimar Berlin to the New Bauhaus in Chicago to the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Automotive Prosthetic: Technological Mediation and the Car in Conceptual Art, Dr. Terranova's first book, combines critical theory and new media theory to form the first philosophical analysis of the car within works of conceptual art. At its core, the book offers an alternative formation of conceptual art understood according to technology, the body moving through space, and what art historian, curator, and artist Jack Burnham calls "relations." This thought-provoking study illuminates the ways in which the automobile becomes a naturalized extension of the human body, incarnating new forms of "car art" and spurring a technological reframing of conceptual art. Steeped in a sophisticated take on the image and semiotics of the car, the chapters probe the politics of materialism as well as high/low debates about taste, culture, and art. The result is a highly innovative approach to contemporary intersections of art and technology.


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Along the way, the company has lost quite a bit of market cap, as its stock fell from over $61 in Jan. 2010 to under $18 a couple of years later, and dropped even further to $6.30 in Sept. 2012, as its smartphone market share dropped to 5%. Therefore, the BB10 launch was much anticipated, particularly after delays and the need to regain the confidence of CIOs, developers, and an end-user base that still boasts a good number of loyalists.
The introduction of the all-touch Z10 and Qwerty Q10 devices represents only the beginning of BlackBerry's business and brand transformation, as per CEO Thorsten Heins' comments. The new models are a targeted effort to deliver an innovative and differentiated end-user experience rather than the former Research in Motion's previous traditional strong tech-specs focus.
Many pundits expected today's results to be an early indicator of how well the new BB10 models and OS will fare, but it is still early and we will not likely know how well the company is doing for at least a couple of quarters. That said the early signs seem to be encouraging: 19 cents a share versus a loss of 24 cents a year ago; 1 million new BB10 phones sold (roughly 100,000 above most consensus estimates) and a solid number of older handsets sold with good service revenue generation during the transition to the new models.
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Date & Time: Saturdays, July 11 and Sept. 12, 2015 - 12:00 pm to 3:30 pm.
Location: Breezeway of the Harborview building, next to Spaulding Rehab Hospital, at the base of 16th Street in Charlestown. View a Map
Each year in July and September, Courageous organizes and runs Charlestown Adaptive Sailing Day in cooperation with the Charlestown Waterfront Coalition and Piers Park Sailing Center. Adaptive Sailing Days are an opportunity for adults and kids with any sort of disability to come out for a free one-hour sail with an instructor from Courageous Sailing or Piers Park Sailing Center. A hoyer lift and physically adaptive boats are available for participants who use wheelchairs. Families and friends are welcome, and lunch and bottled water are provided.
In the years that we've been hosting this event, it has proven to be an incredible experience for instructors, participants, and family members alike. In the words of one mom affiliated with Special Townies, a Charlestown grassroots organization serving children with autism or special needs and their families, being on the water is "just about heaven." Another mother noted that her son would happily sail all day if given the chance. Clients of Spaulding Rehabilitation Center have enjoyed the chance to get out on the water, too. Every year, more people become part of the community that participates in Adaptive Sailing Day year after year.
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The sailing teams of Special Olympics Massachusetts (SOMA) have been guests of Courageous Sailing since the early 1990s. SOMA begins weekly Wednesday practices shortly after Courageous opens for the season in May, using the Rhodes 19 fleet. Sailing is a "Unified Sport" in Special Olympics, meaning there are generally two athletes with intellectual disabilities as well as two coaches, called Unified partners, in each crew.
By late June each year, some fifteen or more teams from various parts of the state have honed their sailing and racing skills to compete in the Special Olympics Massachusetts Summer Games at MIT. Special Olympics sailors continue to practice at Courageous through September in preparation for the multi-state Rhode Island Special Olympics Invitational Regatta held at the Naval War College in Newport. Massachusetts sailors have won the gold in the top division most years.
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text: I love Wikis and Blogs! One tool to try in your classroom is Classblogmeister (http://classblogmeister.com) The thing about it is that when students write their writing first comes to you and you can make comments on it OR corrections before it is posted. All comments come to you or approval also before being posted. You have control of what is visible to the public or what is password protected. There are lots of teachers using this and finding great enthusiasm of students for writing. In Blogmeister there is a central blog which you (the teacher) can write assignments into. Then on the side all the students are listed with a pseudonym or initials) and they each have their own blog. They can be required to comment on each other's blogs. If you go to the Blogmeister page (link above) you can do a grade level search and then look for teachers who are your grade level and see what they are doing. I am sure that there are a lot of empty accounts, but there are many people using it effectively. Next post will be on Wikis. Janice janicef at jfriesen.net On 3/7/07 12:35 PM, "Valinda Kimmel" <vkimmel at esc11.net> wrote: > Karen, > You asked about blogs and wikis. The first thing that is important to note is > that many people are using blogs simply as another version of a webpage. Blogs > or weblogs are really intended to be website where the author writes in > journal style. Multiple posts with links are typical. > People use blogs to provide commentary or information on a specific subject. > There are some great educational blogs out there where teachers are talking > about their instructional practices. Check these out: > http://readingyear.blogspot.com/index.html > http://medinger.wordpress.com/2007/02/23/teaching-with-blogs-amistad-poetry/ > As for teachers using blogs with students here are a couple of examples: > http://tellraven.us/ the teacher's site is found here > http://borderland.northernattitude.org/category/commonplaces/ > Also, at Educating Alice she talks about her upper elementary students > blogging so go back to her site from more info. > http://medinger.wordpress.com/2007/02/23/teaching-with-blogs-amistad-poetry/ > Wikis are really online collaborative authoring sites (Wikipedia being the > biggest and some think the best) Here is an example of a class creating their > own wiki in response to a novel they read: > http://wiki.woodward.edu/hannalee/doku.php > There are some great things teachers are doing out there to prepare our kids > to be competitive in today's global marketplace by teaching them how to be > creators on the internet, not just consumers. Blogging and creating wikis > gives kids opportunities to read and write in an innovative way (kids are more > motivated and engaged, as you can imagine). Email me offline if you would like > more info. > > Valinda Kimmel > vainda.kimmel at sbcglobal.net > > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > Mosaic at literacyworkshop.org > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. >


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- Lose Control to Gain Advantages - Brands have to get comfortable losing some control online in order to win in the digital space. Encourage and inspire conversation and go with the flow to be successful.
- Quality and Consumer Relevance – Are the core of digital marketing. Provide a great experience that is relevant to your consumers through your marketing and your product.
- Control over Brand Identity is a Thing of the Past – Brands are being defined through social media and through what people chose to share. Brand identity is increasingly based on the consumer experiences and articulation of these experiences.
- Strategy and Execution should be Separate – Keep strategy and execution separate to be successful in the space. This helps you stay strategic vs. reactive.
I'm at the ad:tech conference this week (note – ad:tech is a client) which kicked off with an awesome keynote by Jamie Cohen Szulc, the CMO of Levi Strauss. The keynote was great – Jamie had a very engaging and entertaining presentation – if you ever get a chance to hear him speak DO IT!
There were a few key insights that I took away that I want to share.
SXSW Recap: Why it is THE place to be.
First, for those of you who are not familiar with South by Southwest (sxsw) – dubbed "Spring Break for Geeks" sxsw is one of the must attend events for those in the digital space. While sxsw may be best known for music and film, the interactive component brings together all the best geeks to converge, network and make great ideas happen. What makes the conference great is that it brings together marketing people, entrepreneurs, social media peeps, VCs, tech geeks, programmers, and all sorts of other people interested in technology and digital marketing.
As my good friend Steve Hall at AdRants points out:
But where else can you physically hang with so many people in the marketing/interactive/advertising/social/geek space all at once. Evan Williams. Kevin Rose. Bob Garfield (yes, I include him), Justine Ezarik, David Armano, Brian Solis, Henry Copeland, Gary Vaynerchuk, Chris Brogan, Violet Blue, Rick Webb, Ze Frank, Jason Fried, Guy Kawasaki, Pete Cashmore, Marshall Kirkpatrick, Jeremiah Owyang, Benjamin Palmer, Adam Pash, Jeff Pulver, Ian Schafer, Ariel Waldman, Adam Wallace. And, yea, Ashton Kutcher.It is true. SXSW has one of the best collections of people, and countless opportunities for networking, sharing ideas or just making friends. SXSW is probably best known for the party scene, and while it may seem that partying isn't work, the party scene is where some of the best connections are made. My friend Lewis Howes (who I sadly hardly saw this year) points out that some of the best business is done at 2am (although I suppose that depends on how many drinks you have had). During SXSW I had the opportunity to connect with many new and old friends. For me, SXSW has resulted in 2 direct business opportunities and 2 opportunities to collaborate on projects with people I really respect. I was also on the front page of the Thoora sxsw newsletter (above). Next year, if you get the opportunity plan on joining us.
Boot Camp Digital CEO Krista Neher Interviewed at Search Engine Strategies Toronto
Boot Camp Digital CEO, Krista Neher, presented on a panel at Search Engine Strategies Toronto on a panel called "Social Media, Do Big Companies Get It?".
You can view the social media presentation and notes on her blog.
In this interview Byron Gordon of SEO-PR interviews Krista Neher about some of the challenges that companies face when engaging in social media.
At bootcampdigital we work with large companies like Procter & Gamble as well as small businesses and start-ups. Large companies face a number of unique challenges due to their organizational structure and risk factors.


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Slow Cooker Carnitas (Pulled Pork)Wow, this came out great! I only made a few changes: my roast was almost 8 lbs, so I doubled most ingredients. Also, I used a whole orange instead of the zest and juicr. After the meat was shredded, I put them in a 425 degree oven to crisp for about 25 minutes. Next day leftovers with bbq sauce were awesome! — Firebyrd 7/8/2012 |
Brie and Apple Chicken BreastsThis was a great dish! The chicken stayed juicy, and the flavors were incredible. I reduced the sauce down by more than half, then added in some cornstarch dissolved in water. Also, I held the chicken together with toothpicks. This is a dish I will definately make again. Thanks for the recipe! — cabassakat 7/3/2012 |
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Refreshing, is a word used often to describe the music of 20 year old Rapper, Songwriter, and Engineer, "Zoo!", born on the eastside of Buffalo, NY, known for its high crime rate. At a young age, Zoo's mother, in an attempt to escape an abusive relationship with his father, relocated the family to Portsmouth, VA to live with his uncle. Once on her feet, she moved the family to Chesapeake, where a young Zoo found his love for music. While his mother was working two jobs to support the family, Zoo was being babysat by local artist "Kenny Kenny" and looked up to him like the big brother he never had. Kenny, being an artist himself, would take the time to work on his music while he was babysitting and Zoo would watch in amazement wanting to learn how to rap himself. At age 9, the family relocated to another area in the city and by 12, Zoo was ready to show off his skills to his peers by battling. From the start, he was already ahead of all the other young rappers. This was a result of his dedication and constant practice of this craft over the years. Known for his witty and humorous punch lines, Zoo easily defeated all of his opponents and was ready to take things to another level. He linked with other local rapper and friend Marc, who at the time was the only one recording his music. They formed the group "Gutta Boyz" and the two soon parted ways and Zoo went on to work on his music solo. Learning to record his own music from Marc, by the age of 14 he was ready to release his mixtape around school. Around this time, Zoo was affiliated with a crew called "SoundSquad" which was lead by friend and producer Majik. As he progressed, Zoo continued to get better with his music and was so focused on pursuing in his music career he graduated high school at the age of 16 so he could focus. Zoo wanted a new surrounding, so he relocated to Orlando, FL for college. Going to School and working full time took away from the time with his music which led him to move back to VA after graduating with his Associates degree in Computer Networking and Security. Now back in Va he is ready to take his career to the next level....


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Create funny images with Make Me Bald
Use a hysterical filter to make your photo subjects bald.
With many photo-editing applications on the market, it's hard to choose one that is legitimately useful or at least amusing. Make Me Bald is neither. It functions poorly and features are limited.
This app loads easily and it's quite straightforward due to its uncomplicated nature. The application initially hesitated when opened, but eventually opened to a stock image. A universal menu button at the bottom of the screen allows you to take a picture from within the application. We tested this app on three different devices -- Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Acer Iconia A100, and Asus Transformer Pad -- and this function caused the application to crash. On occasion, the user should be able to take a picture; however, this does not guarantee success. The actual baldhead then must be lined up on the portrait using two bulls-eye targets. There is no explanation where these targets should be lined up so the entire operation will take some time. After a lot of trial and error, the head eventually lined up and we could view the final picture. But the humor was lost at this point because of the extreme inconvenience of the whole process.
Make Me Bald doesn't function properly and therefore we cannot recommend it to any user. The final product after all the hassle is not impressive. Multiple crashes and slow functions also make this app fairly unstable, even when tested on different devices.


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World Track Championships 2007 Palma, Majorca, Spain Previous coverage of the World Championships >> 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 WCN quicklink >> Day 1 - Team Sprint Qualifying Team Sprint Final Qualifying Photos Finals Photos Day 2 - Sprint Qualifying Pursuit qualifying and final Photos Day 3 - 500m TT Scratch Race Sprint Final Photos Day 4 - Points Race Keirin Finals Photos On this page >> Write-up Comments Results Jump to Day 3 Photos |
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her way a gold medal in two heats against Shuang Guo (China). Pendleton
moved to the front with a lap and a half to go and never looked back. Guo
could not hold the power of Pendleton as the British rider was able to ease
up on the way to the finishing line. In round two Pendleton came from behind
and Guo could not match the Briton's speed. In the Bronze medal ride, Meares (AUS) had to gather herself to compete against the Cuban Guerra Rodriguez. Meares was dominant through both rounds to secure another medal in the championships. Victoria
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felt good today, I really wanted this, I was focused and kept it simple." Anna Meares (AUS) chatted after her medal winning ride. "That was tough I got up on the line and the suit felt tight and I was dizzy and I said to Martin 'Marv I can't see straight'," Meares said. "I was shaking and he said 'just remember she's feeling as bad as you' which was a good point. We even left the same gear on [bicycle gearing] because we didn't even have time to change it and you know what - it came down to who had a bit left in the legs and luckily it was me and now I've got two bronze medals and a gold."
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On the Hazards of Teaching Reading
Recently, some friends of mine with a 4-year-old daughter decided to homeschool and asked for my advice on finding a good preschool program. They had attended the local homeschool convention and were overwhelmed by the plethora of different programs and were unable to decide which program was right for their daughter. So they asked for my opinion on the various programs, especially one they liked. They considered me to be the expert.
Humanistic Psychology in the Schools (Part 2)
One of the reasons why we know so much about Humanistic Psychology today is because of the defection of one of its major practitioners, Dr. William Coulson, a former colleague of Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow. He testified how fraudulent the Encounter Movement was as science and how destructive it was in practice.
Humanistic Psychology in the Schools
The cultural upheavals of the 1960s saw the rise of a so-called Third Force in American education. The leading figures of the Third Force were humanist psychologists Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow. Maslow had worked on sexological research under the auspices of Edward L. Thorndike from 1935 to 1937. Thorndike had developed the purely behaviorist teaching method of SR, stimulus-response, which reduced education to a form of animal training. But eventually Maslow rebelled against such pure behaviorism. As for his sexological research, feminist Betty Friedan believed that Maslow's findings helped advance the feminist approach to psychology. Maslow, trained in behavioral psychology, began to moderate it with his own theory of self-actualization.
Godless Schools Cannot Serve a God-Fearing Nation
Schools that deny God cannot in any way serve a God-fearing nation. Their Satanic aim is to destroy it. The colonists who created our American civilization believed that the Bible would forever be the spiritual foundation of its governments, laws, and education. Today, we have an atheist public school system, a government in Washington fiercely divided between atheist socialists and Bible believers waging endless political wars for dominion.
CFR Task Force Calls for Education Reform
It seems as if the American elite establishment has finally discovered that our public schools are doing a lousy job of educating American children and that a drastic overhauling of the system is needed. That's the conclusion of the Council on Foreign Relations Independent Task Force Report on U.S. Education Reform and National Security.
How a Homeschooler Became a Best-Selling Author
How did Christopher Paolini, a homeschooler from Montana, become one of the world's best-selling authors? The story of his remarkable career has appeared in The Writer magazine of May 2012 in the form of an interview and also in an illustrated article in Rolling Stone magazine of March 1, 2012 by freelancer Amanda Fortini. Indeed, if you type in his name in Google search, you'll find that he has already become a world literary celebrity.
It appears that Christopher, now 28, who still lives with his parents, started writing his first fantasy novel at the age of 15. He got his inspiration from reading J.R.R. Tolkien, E.R. Eddison, and Anne McCaffrey. His family liked the story and decided to publish it themselves as a homeschool family business. It took them a year to prepare the book for publication. The book, Eragon, was published in 2001, when Christopher turned 18.
How Humanist Public Schools Create Dysfunctional Citizens
Everyone wants to know why 24-year-old James Holmes, the killer in the movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, randomly shot over 70 people, killing 12 innocent moviegoers. Why did he do it? What was his motive? What drove him to massacre so many people he didn't know, including children? The answer will never be provided by the psychologists, or the media, or the government. Most of them are too unwilling to figure out why these massacres are taking place. And if they knew the answer, they would not want the public to know it.
But since I am old enough to remember a time in America when such massacres were unheard of, I suspect that I know why our society is creating young sociopaths with the urge to kill. It has something to do with our atheist education system and the nihilist morals they now teach
Michigan Parents Sue Schools for Failing to Teach Their Kids to Read
A group of parents in Highland Park, Michigan, have sued the public schools in their district for failing to teach their children to read as required by state law. The suit is being filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, which is part of the Progressive movement that has deliberately dumbed-down the American public education system.
Big Brother and Education Data Collection
One of the more disturbing aspects of the U.S. Department of Education is its obsession with data collection. But it all makes perfect sense if you see it from the point of view of the educational totalitarians whose aim it is to use behavioral psychology for the purpose of modifying and controlling human behavior.
John Dewey and the Decline of American Literacy (Part 2)
In John Dewey's article of 1898, "The Primary Education Fetich," in which he warned his progressive colleagues that "change must come gradually," lest it arouse violent resistance on the part of parents and taxpayers, he outlined his plan for how all of this was to be carried out.


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