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Trying to hail a cab in the sea of Olympic tourists may be nigh impossible. Traverse London on foot; Travel with Carnet has a number of walking guides and shortcuts; hotel, restaurant and cultural recommendations. The Mandarin Oriental Hotel Situated just on the edge of Hyde Park, The Mandarin Oriental is within walking distance of many museums, Buckingham Palace, and the renowned shopping districts of Mayfair and Soho, but removed enough to provide respite from the throngs when needed. Museums and Galleries Explore the best of Londons museums in three days with Travel with Carnets museum and gallery guide; must-sees are arranged by neighborhood for greatest efficiency. Benares Indian Restaurant Indian restaurants are all the rage in London. Try the exotic dishes of hot up-and-coming chefs in London. Several of the best restaurants are located in the Mayfair/Soho area. Get the full stories and more at http://www.travelwithcarnet.com/travel-guide/london report a problem


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I will be building a new home in Chicago and plan on having it prewired for Comcast. I presume RG6 is the proper cable, but should it be Quad shielded? What brand/ specs does Comcast use in this area for cable, connectors, and splitters. Also should I do a single splitter at the DMARC with direct runs to each unit (8) or would down line splitters for each floor be a better move. Finally do you have a recommendation for a high quality modem/router? Your assistance and any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
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Comcast installers use Commscope F677TSVV RG6 tri-shield in many area's, available here. Quad is overkill unless there are very strong transmitters in the area. Quad is also harder to put on the fittings. An equivelent Belden product is 7915A available here.
Comcast uses PPC EX6 and EX6XL fittings in many area's for tri-shield RG6, the difference the XL is slightly longer that uses a standard compression tool, the shorter ones use a modified compression tool set for the shorter fittings.
All coax should be home run, never spread splitters around the home on each floor or attic. Run a separate line for the cable modem If it's done right the modem can be located in the structured wiring cabinet in the basement where the router, network switch and phone termination would be located.
Comcast uses 5-1000mhz splitters from Antronix, Regal, Commscope, Extreme Broadband Engineering and Holland. For a home your size, normally a 2-way splitter would be first off the ground block, one leg feeding the cable modem. The other leg would feed a 8-way drop amp so enough signal is supplied to the 8 TV outlets.
Run both Cat 5E or Cat 6 networking cable with each TV outlet's RG6 run. 2 cat 5E or cat 6 cables will serve as one for phone and one for networking, or two for networking to each outlet. Run extra networking jacks to other places in the home that phones, computers and printers would go. Remember it's easier to put in while the home is going up. Many home technology installers run 2 runs of RG6 and 2 runs of Cat 5E or 6 to each and every jack being put in. If you switch to U-Verse, either the ethernet cables or coax can be used for U-Verse equipment.
The best thing on new construction is to run flexible conduit to each TV / networking low voltage jack location an example is here and here. This is so cables can be added and replaced as technology changes. Install these to future locations even if you don't wire them up yet.
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On the day before the airing of the final episode of School Days in Japan, a 16 year old girl killed her father with an axe in Kyoto. Due to an extremely similar scene present in the episode and to avoid relation to the axe murder, TV Kanagawa replaced it with a half hour of unrelated scenery with "Air on a G String" playing in the background. Among the shock and rage expressed among fans, a 4chan user commented "Nice Boat", referring to the Norwegian ferry shown in the replacement footage. Immediately the phrase became a meme, however is far more popular in Japan than in English speaking countries.
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Here's another morsel of Q info for you: Ron Garriques apparently claimed recently that the Motorola Q will drop in price to $50 after carrier subsidy by the end of 2006, which seems like a major incentive for any fence-sitters out there. Garriques also claimed that Motorola will launch a UMTS version when Verizon's exclusivity contract on the device ends, probably on the Cingular network. Exciting time for Q fans, isn't it?


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Yakow again asked me to sit with him at lunch, which I had to accept, so I haven't gone to my fourth period class all week. It went fine, but after a while I guess he got bored and started listening to music, so I just talked to his friend a bit and fucked with his iPad while he was doing stuff on it. I proposed that we go walking around a local lake that he lives near, an offer to which he excitedly replied.
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Walden Schmidt an Internet billionaire! During the Television Critics' Association summer press tour, CBS entertainment president Nina Tassler talked about Ashton Kutcher's new role he will be playing on the embatteld hit comedy series "Two and a Half Men." Tassler layed to rest rumors that Kutcher may actually play a plastic-surgeried Charlie Harper or even the possbility of Kutcher playing himself.
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BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian Education Ministry official says a mortar that hit a ninth-grade classroom in the Damascus suburbs has left 13 students and one teacher dead.
Earlier, state media gave a death toll of 29 students and a teacher. The government-run news agency SANA blamed the attack on terrorists, the term used by the government to refer to rebels fighting against the Bashar Assad regime.
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This is the second year I've had a fuchsia in a hanging basket. Just realized I've been spelling it wrong (as fuschia); it's actually named after Leonhart Fuchs, a 16th century botanist and doctor.
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It's true that my constant companion -- in the past four years, he has missed only three "review" dinners -- has it pretty easy. As much as I enjoy this occupation, it's still work; no matter how delicious the meal, I have to concentrate what I have in the way of analytical, investigative, and writing skills (not to mention sense-memories). All he has to do is eat.
Still, the key word here is "job." Every once in a while, I realize that I rely on his company to the point where I've made my work his work. Sometimes I even feel sorry for him, like after really hard days when he comes home from work only to be told, "Hurry up and get ready. Our reservation is in an hour."
"God," he'll groan. "Wouldn't it be great if we could just go to Dab Haus?"
Dab Haus is a consistently good German restaurant not far from where we live that has a welcoming, neighborhood feel to it. In a perfect world, we like to relax there on Fridays after a long week, toasting the weekend with honey-garlic Brie and a big, big beer. In reality I'm often reviewing on Friday evenings and dragging my overworked husband with me. So it was with equal parts pleasure and relief that I informed him on a recent Friday that we'd be dining at Edelweiss, a Dab Haus-like establishment on Biscayne Boulevard just north of downtown that's run by former Haus chef Alex Richter and his partner Gabriel Erhard.
Richter has a penchant for decaying neighborhoods -- or maybe a nose for bargains. He last owned Movies, which flopped quickly in an equally dicey Biscayne Boulevard location (at 84th Street). But since he's been working on Edelweiss -- the location used to be a rehab center -- he says he's seen the neighborhood improve, and I have to agree with him: New Times recently moved in just up the block. The cops that dine regularly at the new gasthaus and restaurant don't hurt either.
Cops or no cops, the fare is a draw in itself. The menu is similar to Dab Haus's; Richter says both are typical of such lists, which are common in northern Europe. In fact, one of the only noticeable departures from the Beach's Bavarian is the honey-garlic cheese appetizer, made at Edelweiss with Camembert as opposed to Dab Haus's Brie. Otherwise, the starter that comprises chunks of garlic, smooth honey, and a small, melting wheel of cheese is identically delicious. Served sizzling hot with a small loaf of warmed bread for dipping, this is a terrific appetizer for those not-quite-cold-yet Florida nights.
The decor, too, is suggestive of cooler climes, conjuring up images of the Von Trapp family singers running around the hills of their homeland. The interior is innlike -- more like a house than a restaurant -- with two small dining rooms plus a bar, wood paneling, checked cloths on the tables, and dried flowers garnishing shelves crammed with Austro-German knickknacks. You almost expect to warm yourself at a hearth glowing with fragrant logs, but remembering where you really are you settle for the subtler fire of soup. We leaned for a moment toward the French onion, gratinated with Swiss cheese, but ultimately chose the bracing bowl of goulash. This hearty stew consisted of hunks of falling-apart beef and tender white potatoes, moistened with a paprika-enriched broth. Coupled with more bread, this can be a bit filling; but then, German cuisine doesn't register as one of the lightest in the world.
Sauteed oyster mushrooms, a more delicate appetizer for the daintier appetite, was a special on the evening of our visit. The pale, ruffled mushrooms were scrambled with a good quantity of butter and garlic and served with yet another long loaf of crusty carbohydrates. We were hungry enough to ask at the beginning of the meal for an order of toasty garlic bread (not on the menu); this turned out to be unnecessary.
All entrees were preceded by a refreshing little salad, crisp lettuce topped by shredded red cabbage and a light, tangy vinaigrette. Other than that, fresh greens are scarce in this restaurant unless you order a salad plate (topped with your choice of pork tenderloin, marinated baby shrimp, or sauteed chicken breast) or one of these three items: a vegetable crepe garnished with Emmentaler cheese, bread dumplings with mushrooms, or spaetzle with fresh vegetables. Having a soft spot for this last, we ordered a dish of the small rolled noodles and were served a generous portion, with verdant broccoli, red pepper, and fresh mushrooms interspersed throughout. Sauteed rather than steamed or boiled, the vegetables had something of a grilled flavor that added to the overall appeal of the dish.
Deciding between types of sausages was difficult. We avoided the problem by ordering a mixed entree of veal loaf, bratwurst, and bauernwurst (hot garlic sausage). The sauerkraut that accompanied the dish was authentic and aromatic with caraway seeds and juniper berries, and a scoop of creamy-chunky mashed potatoes had a nutmeggy flavor. The veal loaf -- meat that has been cured, ground, reformed into an oblong shape, and sliced, was a bit salty, we thought, while the bauernwurst had a tough, overcooked skin. Bratwurst, a mild veal sausage as thick as a wrist, was best, particularly when dipped in the strong grainy mustard served on the side.


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Drums that are to be used for ceremonial purposes must be composed of materials that were once alive -- specifically, wood and animal skins. Rope made from hemp is acceptable too. As symbols of spiritual unity, bata drums must also each be formed from a single piece of wood. Commercially manufactured knockoffs mass-produced by American companies like Latin Percussion, however, are fashioned from wooden slats. Molded fiberglass drums are also available.
This doesn't sit too well with Torres. "It isn't just a piece of wood with holes in either end. The bata is the means of communication between man and the saints. It is not like any other drum -- the orichas live inside it. This is an art that we Cubans inherited, and we know how to do it well," he says, scornfully adding that he has seen rope used in place of leather strips on the sacred fundamento drums, and drummers at religious ceremonies playing mass-produced drums with metal tuning lugs.
"I guess that's modern." He shakes his head. "Well, if you want, you can be so modern that you play a tape at a ceremony instead of real drums. You have to be careful. You have to have ethics. There are things that can't be changed." (In addition, Torres and many of his fellow practitioners prefer to call their syncretic faith oricha worship rather than to use the Spanish term Santeria -- literally "the way of the saints.")
As he was taught, Torres carves his drums only from trees that have fallen naturally. He knows how to tell whether the wood is solid or rotten inside just by looking at the bark. (He won't say how, nor will he reveal where he usually looks for the wood he uses.) Almond is most often used for bata drums, but Torres says he has found mahogany to be another good choice.
Several logs lie haphazardly in his back yard near the lathe, which he keeps covered with a plastic tarp. To start a drum, Torres uses an ax to hack the bark off a log. After cutting the wood to almost the right length -- ranging from about a foot for the okonkolo to about four feet for the iya -- he spins the log on the lathe while pressing against it with a carving tool. The roughly finished bodies, whose feminine forms mimic the shape of the head of the ax Chango is said to carry, he hangs from the ceiling in his small laundry room. When he feels the wood has sufficiently dried, he hollows out each drum by hand, sitting at a small picnic table with the wooden forms between his knees, chipping away with a hammer and chisel.
Goatskin is customary for the heads at either end of the drum and for the laces that wrap around the body, but cowhide is stronger. (Torres says he has had trouble getting tough enough leather in Miami; he finds it's overprocessed.) After soaking the leather in water in a plastic baby pool, he stretches it out on a large sheet of plywood, then fits it to one end of the drum with a rattan hoop before lacing it fast with leather or rope.
He strokes a smoothly varnished drum, part of a set he made to send to one of his sons. (Now college-age, both still live in Havana. A four-year-old daughter from another relationship lives with her mother in Miami). "It's not the body, it's the finish that you give something. Water's not going to get in there, nothing's going to get in there," he says, knocking the side of the drum. "I'm selling you an instrument that will last a lifetime."
A full set of Torres's bata drums costs between $1500 and $1800. He says four sets are currently in use in Miami, plus the drums bought by the Historical Museum. One client recently commissioned a set of ceremonial drums and sent them to Cuba.
Torres figures he's doing pretty well. He knows the drums are expensive relative to the income of most of his potential customers. There's more of a call for congas, chekeres, and cajones). With the money he earns from selling those added to what he makes from playing at the ceremonies, he gets by.
Once in a great while he takes on other jobs. He appeared on a 1995 Sony Discos CD by a friend from his old Havana neighborhood, a Miami-based guitarist known as Toledo; and last summer he traveled to Washington, D.C., for several performances with the Afro-Cuban folkloric group Ile-Ife, sponsored by the Smithsonian. The group is led by another of Torres's sisters, Neri Torres, a dancer who recently went on tour with Gloria Estefan.
But the percussionist prefers to stay near home, "maintaining the ancestral identity": making drums, rehearsing, and teaching several apprentices to play the bata. (Unlike his own teachers, Torres encourages them to keep coming back for lessons.)
He also cooks for his fellow musicians. "I'm just doing what my ancestors did," he asserts, dishing a serving of stewed goat and potatoes onto a plate. "Even though they came to Cuba as slaves, they were able to preserve their culture in the place where they found themselves. It didn't matter how well they were treated, or how badly. They were able to integrate themselves into the creation of a new society.


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"This cake is like the best gingerbread you've ever had," says David Guas of Gateau de Bayou, his version of a traditional spice cake from the Acadian region of his native Louisiana. Guas's recipe includes nontraditional ingredients like black pepper, fresh gingerroot steeped in boiling water, and hot sauce, which "adds a little acidity as well as heat." After it is baked, the cake is soaked in Steens pure cane syrup which tastes like a mild, smooth cousin to molasses and then topped with a burnt-sugar meringue, browned with a blow-torch for a toasted-marshmallow effect.
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- 2 piece(s) (4-inch) fresh ginger, peeled and grated
- 2 tablespoon(s) unsalted butter, softened
- 4 cup(s) all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon(s) baking soda
- 2 teaspoon(s) kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon(s) ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon(s) black pepper
- 1.66 cup(s) Steen's 100% pure cane syrup
- 1.66 cup(s) vegetable oil, or peanut oil
- 1.25 cup(s) light brown sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 2 teaspoon(s) hot sauce, such as Crystal
- 4 large egg whites, at room temperature
- 1 teaspoon(s) kosher salt
- 1 cup(s) sugar
- 1/2 cup(s) light corn syrup
- To make cake: Combine ginger and 1 1/3 cups water in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat; remove from heat and let stand 5 minutes. Set a fine-mesh sieve over a bowl and strain ginger through sieve, pressing with a spoon; discard pulp and let ginger water cool.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 10-inch Bundt pan (without nonstick lining) with butter. Dust pan with 3 tablespoons flour, tapping out excess.
- Whisk together 3 3/4 cups flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and pepper in bowl.
- Combine 1 1/3 cups cane syrup, oil, brown sugar, and ginger water in the bowl of a standing mixer; whisk with a handheld whisk until blended. Whisk in eggs, one at a time. Add hot sauce and flour mixture; attach bowl to a mixer with paddle attachment; beat on low speed until batter is smooth, about 1 1/2 minutes, scraping bowl with a rubber spatula. Pour batter into prepared pan.
- Bake 50 to 55 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean. Let cake cool on wire rack 10 minutes; then unmold cake onto rack. With a thin wooden skewer, poke holes in top of cake about 1 inch apart. Brush cake with 1/3 cup cane syrup. Let cool.
- To make meringue: In a stand mixer with whisk attachment, beat egg whites, salt, and 1/4 cup sugar on medium-high speed until soft peaks form.
- Combine remaining 3/4 cup sugar and 1/3 cup water in small saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, swirling pan occasionally to dissolve sugar. Cook until syrup is dark amber, about 10 minutes. Stir in corn syrup; mixture will bubble vigorously. Cook, without stirring, until syrup is 240 degrees on a digital thermometer.
- With mixer on low speed, pour syrup into egg white mixture; don't let syrup touch whisk. Increase speed to high and beat until meringue is thick enough to spread, about 2 minutes. While meringue is still warm, spread over cake with a large spatula, making peaks and swirls. With a crème brûlée torch, brown meringue. Serve at room temperature.
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The Mesa Police Department is currently seeking information to identify two robbery suspects responsible for robbing and stabbing a victim.
On Saturday, January 31, 2009 at 9:00 p.m., the victim was waiting at the bus stop located at 829 E. University. Two suspects sat down on either side of him. Suspect #1 brandished a knife and demanded the victim's money. The victim only had $1.80 and he gave it to the suspect. The suspects demanded more money, but the victim did not have any more money to give them. The victim attempted to leave on foot, but he was attacked by both suspects. A fight ensued and the victim grabbed a wood bead string necklace and cross from the neck of suspect #2. Suspect #1 stabbed the victim in the back and face. The suspects ran off when a car with two witnesses pulled up to help the victim.
Suspect #1 is described as a Hispanic male in his late teens, 5' 9" tall, 130 pounds, black curly hair, brown eyes, "peach fuzz" mustache and chin growth. His right ear is pierced with a hoop-style earring and his lower lip is pierced with a stud. This suspect has a tattoo covering the right side of his neck that looks like a dragon or snake in black and red ink.
Suspect #2 is described as a Hispanic male in his early 20s, 6' 0" tall, 240 pounds, muscular build, short black hair, brown eyes and a goatee. This suspect has a tattoo on his chest (no description).
Anyone with information is urged to contact the Mesa Police Department at 480-644-2211 or Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS (480-948-6377).


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World Superbike takes on Assen this weekend.
Official factory team to compete in 2014 World Superbike Championship.
Ducati announce 2014 World Superbike riders: Chaz Davies and Davide Giugliano with first pre-season testing getting underway at Jerez.
Sam Lowes wins his last Supersport race in Jerez, Spain,
The race at Jerez mark the final round of the BMW Motorrad factory in the Superbike World Championship.
BMW Motorrad Goldbet STK Team celebrating factory rider, Sylvain Barrier (FRA) winning the FIM Superstock 1000 Cup for the second year in succession.
Having taken third and eighth respectively in the dry session on Friday, Chaz Davies and Marco Melandri secured their place in Superpole.
In the Manufacturers' classification, BMW is currently third with 354 points.
Marco Melandri and Chaz Davies will start tomorrow's first ever Superbike races on Turkish soil from seventh and eighth on the third row respectively.
Chaz Davies won the second of Sunday's races and teammate Marco Melandri (ITA) finished second and third.
In the World Supersport race, Lowes has scored probably the most important win of the season so far.
Jonathan Rea (Pata Honda World Superbike) and Leon Camier (FIXI Crescent Suzuki) have been air-lifted local hospital
Marco Melandri qualified second on the grid with his BMW S 1000 RR in Superpole qualifying, his team-mate Chaz Davies finished seventh.
ChazDavies and Marco Melandri were fourth and sixth respectively with their BMW S 1000 RRs.
Davies grabs first position at the very end of first qualifying
The FIM Superbike World Championship looks for more close battles this weekend in the 10th round of the season at the iconic circuit in Germany
Factory rider and local hero Chaz Davies (GBR) fought for the victory in race two but had to retire for a technical issue, Marco Melandri (ITA) crossed the line in ninth.
Loris Baz wins second race over fellow Frenchman Jules Cluzel at the Silverstone circuit with red flag on final lap due to heavy rain.
Neither rider for the BMW team fared well during qualifying for the World Superbike event at Silverstone.
Marco Melandri finished eighth with his BMW S 1000 RR in today's first qualifying practice while Chaz Davies was 12th.
Great expectations are placed upon home riders, who are eager to battle for the top positions in front of their local fans on this weekend.
BMW Motorrad Motorsport announced last week that it will withdraw from the FIM Superbike World Championship at end of season.
Chaz Davies finished second and team-mate Marco Melandri finished fifth.
On their BMW S 1000 RRs, Melandri and Davies have successful first qualifying in Russia.
BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK Team is heading to the East of Europe where the second half of the 2013 FIM Superbike World Championship starts in Russia.
Tom Sykes enters the round in Russia as the first Kawasaki rider, after 19 years, to lead the World Superbike standings.
The Hudderfield-born rider has led every single lap of Race 2 to cross the line as the winner for the 10th time in his WSBK career.
Marco Melandri finished first qualifying practice sixth on the provisional second row on his BMW S 1000 RR and his team-mate Chaz Davies (GBR) was 11th.
Marco Malandri qualified sixth on the provisional second row, directly followed by Chaz Davies who was seventh on the third row.
Jonathan Rea (Pata Honda World Superbike) in today's Qualifying 1 secure 1st place for just 52 thousands of a second over Eugene Laverty (Aprilia Racing Team).
Marco Melandri (ITA) and Chaz Davies (GBR) have claimed a total of seven podium finishes on their BMW S 1000 RRs, including three victories.
The Portuguese track is a riders' favourite thanks to the challenging, fast and undulating layout that gives a unique character and offers great racing.
From Donington, the BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK Team heads directly to Spain, where it will conduct two days of testing at "Motorland Aragón" this week.
The British "Donington Park Circuit" is the venue not only of the first ever victory, but also the first ever one-two for the German manufacturer in the Superbike World Championship.
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quote:Get rid of the whole piece of shite family. Is there a crappy island out there they can be shipped too?
quote:It's called Africa.
quote:It's gratifying that the South has evolved since the 1950's.
quote:It's evolved to killing 13 month olds in strollers.
quote:t's evolved to killing 13 month olds in strollers.
quote:Neither does the black community in Georgia.
quote:well we know that at least 5 people are OK with it in GA, while 1 guy in this thread made a comment about sending them all back to Africa, so at this point the "baby killer support group" outnumbers the other
quote:It would appear the cavalry has arrived.
quote:I'm pretty sure no one here thinks that's a good thing. Neither does the black community in Georgia.
quote:THIS WOULD NOT HAPPEN IF THE RACES WERE REVERSED.
quote:Exactly what I was thinking with regards to your misleading, race-baiting title.
quote: It seems some of our posters search the web daily to find stories of misbehaving black folks,
quote:This. It seems some of our posters search the web daily to find stories of misbehaving black folks, corrupt and stupid black politicians and items of a similar ilk and fricking race to the keyboard to start a thread to establish or prove . . . ???
quote:well i think this is an isolated and terrible event....but so was the trayvon martin situation


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You are not alone in your pain Ann. I have been a widow for 4 years and am disheartened at the number of men who think its ok to have a physical relationship outside of marriage. Be steadfast in your beliefs and in your prayer life. Know you are truly special and God will send you a spouse who is worthy of you.
Outstanding post Naomi, and to those in this thread who have supported that.
It's snowing in Kentucky right now, and watching the many flakes falling, I think that Our Lady of Fatima said that souls would be falling into Hell like those snow flakes, and many of those for sins of the flesh.
I wonder, and as Naomi said to pray for them, about the people who are "devout", "Christian", "love God", but still think immoral sex is OK.
I've talkedwith many men from this site and even if they disagree with church teaching at first, sometimes through our talking on the phone I can open eyes to why I fully believe and embrace each teaching, from fornication and adultry to women priests or married priests, and also to the fact that men don't have a 'get out of jail free' card when it comes to the myth that 'their physical needs, drives, desires are more difficult then women's' so they aren't judged as harshly by God! Some of these discussions have changed hearts, positions, and beliefs. Don't totally write off the men who don't follow church teaching until you have tried to enlighten them! Of course, do it safely!! Some of them will try to change your mind, especially on physical no-nos, in any way they can.
Other men (and women) on here profess to believe in the rules -- but think they don't actually apply to them in any way that would interfere with their pleasure. It can be very tricky to deal with them -- especially when you are feeling vulnerable or are involved emotionally already.
Be one of the few, the humble, the brave -- live the GOOD life as God commands us!
I am finding it very painful to be a single Catholic who is following the teachings of the Church, in regard to abstinence before marriage. It is not so much that it is painful for me to follow the teachings, but rather, painful to see such a small number of other Catholics willing (able?) to follow the teachings. Is anyone else feeling this way / seeing this problem?
I visited with my priest about this a few days ago, with many tears. It doesn't seem that it should be so difficult to find others among the Catholic ranks that have a fervor for living this teaching. Can anyone share their feelings about this? I only know a few other Catholics who followed this teaching prior to their marriage (but now they are married) . . . so I am feeling very lonely in this pain. Any thoughts, ideas, feelings, or remedies appreciated!
God bless everyone!
Sorry you're experiencing this. It is painful to see. But the only thing any of us can do is to live right ourselves.
"Wisdom enters through love, silence, and mortification. It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others."
- St. John of the Cross
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried." G K Chesterton
That is the way it is with sexual morality.
I praise God for everyone who believes the Truth about how destructive living a life of sexual sin can be. You are NOT alone, and you will find someone who loves God as much as you do (and proves it by how they conduct themselves).
What people need to know is that all laws have consequences...like the law of gravity...you jump out a window, the law of gravity will have an immediate affect.
But when you break a moral law, it too has a consequence, it just is not instantaneous like the law of gravity,but just as serious.
Many saints and mystics have reported that more people are burning in hell for sexual sin than any other kind of sin.
Satan's greatest deception is that he has convinced everyone that nothing is a sin anymore, especially in the sexual realm.
We are truly a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah.
As Naomi said, the road to hell is wide, and the way to heaven is narrow; choose the narrow way.
Right on!
Have you considered youth ministry? You are an excellent role model and would be an outstanding youth minister for young girls and boys.
That is an excellent suggestion, Josephine.
Pray. Spend time in adoration. Pray the rosary, Mother Mary is a perpetual virgin, she knows better than anyone what its like, pray to St. Max Kolbe who accepted both virginity and matrydom.
Thank you for this advice, Naomi. I am so thankful that people have responded and understand my feelings. It is helping me to not feel quite so lonely. God bless you!
Kudos to you for following the Church's teachings, especially on pre-marital sex. You are like a diamond in the rough, I can assure you. I myself am a follower of the Church's teachings in this area but like you, I find it hard to find someone of the opposite sex who is also on the same page as me. I do not buy into the excuse that it is "just harder for guys to wait." I believe that with the help of the Holy Spirit and through prayer and other means of communicating with God that a man can hold out just like a woman can. It is a matter of self-control. As the Bible says, (paraphrased) "The Spirit is willing but the flesh is weak." I find that if you want to find a man who is on the same page as us, you're going to have to find one that is VERY close to God. If he is not in a strong relationship with God then he undoubtedly will not be on the same page as you. There are men out there--trust me! However, they are like us--few and far between. Maybe who God has for you has not held out, but is repentful and has changed his ways. Try to keep this in mind as well. However, ideally it'd be great to find someone who had waited as well.
Tiffany, thank you, for being a diamond in the rough with me. I agree with you and do not buy into the excuse that it is "harder for guys to wait". I would love to find a man that is a leader in this area! I hope he is out there! I also agree that this man is probably going to be very close to God. That's why I'm hoping this sight will be a great place to meet strong men of God. God bless you!


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Actually, it was pretty much a "non-event."
Thought I'd make a run down to "Wally World," but decide that would be just toooooo cliche'! Didn't really need anything from there, anyway. But there was a few things I wanted to get from the local gun shop!
Already had on my jeans and a dark T shirt, so I put on my "cover" shirt after donning my Blackhawk cf SERPA paddle @ 3:30 and Fobus paddle mag carrier @ 8:30, with my Glock 23 (.40 S&W, 13+1) in place.
About that cover garment, it's a Wally World special, $9.95. A kind of full-cut, square tailed, almost Hawaiian shirt. Fits kind of loose and doesn't stand out in my area. This one isn't one of the bright, loud patterns, it's actually black with a tan print that is some sort of bamboo pattern.
I have 3 of them, that dark one, and two brighter colors. What I've found out is, the all cotton version is probably the better choice than the synthetic ones. Only have the one cotton shirt and it doesn't billow in the breeze as easily as the synthetics do, and the cotton seems to "print" less, as the synthetics tend to want to drape over the form of the gun. (I'll be buying more of the cotton shirts.)
What I learned from reading on this Forum and from "carrying" at home and in the yard, the wind problem can be dealt with by hooking my thumb in the top of the jeans' pocket, with my little finger securing the cover shirt. It doesn't look as "obvious" as it sounds. I do have to make sure when the pinkie finger grabs the edge of the shirt, that it isn't pulling it tight, making a "print" where there wasn't one. That "trained finger" grasp the front edge of the shirt without pulling down on it.
So, the synthetic shirt wasn't my best choice, but the cotton one had some blood on it (mine,) and needed washing. (Nothing terrible, just a minor disagreement with one of my cats, we're friends again.)
Off I went to the gun store!
This gun shop has a sign on the door, "No loaded weapons allowed inside, CCW permit holders exempt." It's the one I bought my G23 from, and my wife got her G26 here as well.
As I entered, one customer was leaving, so only the owner and one guy behind the counter was there. Both have seen me in there more than once, but neither knew I'd gotten my permit.
I saw NO indication that either of them suspected I was carrying!
OK, it is possible that they did, but didn't feel the need to ask, or they were just assumed I was legal. But I've spent enough time in there to have seen how they react to people who come in, they do a "quick-scan" every time. I'm convinced that my concealment was good.
"Can I help you with anything today?"
"Yes, I was thinking I might want a double mag carrier, or maybe another single. . . I'm not sure."
"OK, what's it for?"
"This," I said, as I reached back with my weak hand and pulled my one spare mag from the carrier and placed it on the counter.
"Oh!" The counter man stiffened just a bit, then seemed to relax. "Uh. . . OK, uh, that's a 40 cal, isn't it?"
No, I didn't scare him with that move, it was slow and deliberate, with my right hand resting on the counter top. He just didn't expect a loaded magazine to be pulled out and placed on the counter, I guess.
It was at this time that I told him I'd gotten my CCW and would have my wife get with them to see about taking the required course they offer so she can get her permit. Now both the counter man and the owner were smiling again. I think they have us on their list of "good customers." When I come in, I may or may not buy something. If she comes in with me, its a sure thing money will be spent.
He did have the spare mag, but didn't have a double carrier in stock. I decided to come back next week and get that double carrier.
While there, I bought another box of carry ammo, this time it was Winchester Ranger, 155 gr. JHP. I'd been using Federal 180 gr. HST JHP's, but noticed that I shot better with the bulk 155 gr. (I think) from Wally World, in the white box, than with the heavier Federal stuff. I'll try the Winchester ammo at the range and see how it does.
All in all, I'm pretty satisfied with my "first carry" experience. I was able to walk without hearing the theme from "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" playing in my head. I didn't have an embarrassing "I got made" story to tell. And I did do it in a gun shop, not at Wal-Mart!


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Fazle Rouf, Syed and Anwar, Naeem and Clements, Mark O. and Rhen, Mikael (2011) Genetic analysis of the pnp–deaD genetic region reveals membrane lipoprotein NlpI as an independent participant in cold acclimatization of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 325 (1). pp. 56-63. ISSN 0378-1097
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The cold acclimatization response in many bacterial species is a tightly regulated process, which ensures the correct folding of macromolecules. In enterobacteria, this response is in part dependent on polynucleotide phosphorylase, which is encoded by the gene pnp. Based on transcriptional analysis of the pnp locus of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, we show that pnp and the adjacent membrane lipoprotein nlpI gene form an operon with both genes contributing independently to the cold acclimatization response at 15 °C. Our findings thereby define a new role for NlpI in bacterial cold acclimatization.
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Jim Lynch, of Capoeira Communities.
Kim Briscoe
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
A Norwich capoeira teacher was among performers taking part in the Paralympic closing ceremony.
Jamie Lynch, who teaches the Brazilian martial art which combines elements of dance and music, was invited to take part in the section of the ceremony where the flag is handed over to Rio de Janeiro, through his involvement on the British Capoeira Council.
Mr Lynch, who appeared alongside a blind ballet troupe from Rio, said: "I felt on top of the world to take part. It was absolutely amazing to run out into the stadium with 80,000 people watching, particularly following the incredible feats of excellence by all the Paralympians over the past few days.
"To celebrate their achievements and their success was such an honour."
Mr Lynch, who lives in St Philips Road and runs Capoeira Communities, was able to exchange greetings with gold medal-winning Ellie Simmonds and Mayor of London Boris Johnson.
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Are Acellular Dermal Matrices Effective For Grade 0 Ulcers And Fat Pad Augmentation?
When it comes to an extreme load-bearing region on the bottom of the foot, one can surgically address this by placing a piece of graft in the subcutaneous space. Surgeons can perform this procedure on either isolated submetatarsal regions or generally in the ball of the foot or the heel. Preoperative evaluation and medical management are imperative as immunocompromised patients may have difficulty healing.
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Incision placement depends on the location of the pressure load. However, I prefer the medial or lateral aspects of the foot.
For the first, second or third submetatarsal or the global fat pad, I utilize a medial first metatarsal head incision. I will retract the medial common nerve to the great toe or the medial marginal vein if I encounter these after the incision. Tent and retract the plantar skin, and use a blunt instrument to create a space between the deep dermis and plantar plate. Most of the subcutaneous tissue is lost and there is a natural space that you can enter. You will encounter septal attachments and adhesions from the dermis to the deep layers, and may incise these accordingly.
The graft of preference is a regenerative tissue matrix. Companies such as KCI, Wright Medical, Biomet and Integra provide grafts. There are varying ranges of thicknesses available, typically from 0.45 mm to 2.0 mm. The dimensions of the allograft depend on the size of the area in which you will be inserting the graft. Remember, it is easier to cut away excess than be short.
One would open the graft and allow it to soak for at least 10 minutes although some grafts require a lengthier hydration. Proceed to pass a 2.0 absorbable suture through two distal corners of the free graft and tie a knot, leaving one long end of suture in each corner. Use a Keith needle to pass the suture from the open incision, through the subcutaneous tunnel and out the skin at the far end of the desired graft location. Pulling the Keith needle through the skin and gently pulling the absorbable suture taut allows the graft to shift into place.
A blunt instrument can help guide the graft and allow adequate placement and seating. Tie the two ends of absorbable suture on the outside of the skin anchoring the graft. I have found that there is no need to anchor the graft at the end nearest the incision. Surgeons should take care to avoid kinking, folding, overlapping, bunching or stuffing the graft in the opening. One can insert the graft with it lying in place flat. Finally, irrigate the area and close the skin.
Apply a bulky dressing and allow partial weightbearing in a surgical shoe. One would cut the absorbable suture ends flush with the skin at the second postoperative visit and allow patients to return to a supportive sneaker by week four. The graft ends are palpable and usually the patient can feel the cushion and graft as he or she walks for approximately six weeks.
By the sixth postoperative week, the patient should be back to most normal activities with complete graft integration by 12 weeks.
To help facilitate graft integration, I have utilized Laser Genesis (Cutera).
Laser Genesis is a gradual warming of the dermis that allows for increased blood flow, oxygenation and collagen remodeling. Postoperative complications have included wound dehiscence in one patient. I have not seen graft rejection in my patients who have undergone this procedure.
The remarkable changes noted with the procedure include relief of symptoms and a return to activities that patients could not otherwise perform. I do see a diminished need for pads as well as less potential for non-adherence. Most importantly, the potential lack of progression from Grade 0 ulcerations to more advanced stages is evident.


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On the other hand, maybe that's just as well. One of the all-time historical mavericks, according to Lauderdale's methodology, was one William "Wild Bill" Langer, whose biography is titled, natch, The Dakota Maverick. Here's how Lauderdale describes his career:
…Langer (R-ND) had been removed from office as governor of North Dakota after a felony conviction for fraud in 1934, an episode that led to Langer (temporarily) declaring North Dakota independent of the U.S. and barricading himself in the state house with a group of armed supporters. His popularity resilient, Langer was re-elected Governor in the following election, and then elected to the Senate in 1940. Langer was sufficiently controversial that the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections recommended that Langer not be seated 13-3, but was overturned 52-30 by the full Senate. During his legislative career, Langer opposed Lend Lease, NATO, and the Marshall Plan. Unlike most Americans (senators included), Langer was no fan of Winston Churchill, "in 1951, when the former British Prime Minister visited the U.S. Langer sent a telegram to the pastor of Boston's Old North Church requesting that two lanterns be placed in the belfry to warn Americans that the British were coming."
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Clive James wrote, in a recent essay in Poetry, that "Had he not been a poet, John Berryman would have been a Shakespearean scholar, and well qualified for the task". So, really, I shouldn't have been surprised, when trawling through the beautiful Cecil Court in Central London, to find this literary gem for sale.
On walking in to the wonderful Natalie Galustian Rare Books, I was immediately struck by this gem in a glass box: A rare pamphlet of John Berryman, signed by the poet himself, complete with his 'General admiration' to the late eminent literary critic Frank Kermode.
The bookshop boasts a huge range of rare and and antique books, everything from 20th Century prose and fiction to some antique books on two of Natalie's most favourite pastime – poker and gambling. But, being the poetry wonk that I am, I was incredibly interested by the pamphlet.
Kermode was not only a huge figure in 20th Century fiction, but he was easily one of the most influential Shakespeare critics of the last 50 years, and is still considered so. He was also a great lover and critic of poetry – his selected prose of T.S. Eliot was invaluable during my time at University. So it makes a great deal of sense that Berryman would have, at the very least, 'general admiration' for Kermode.
I managed to catch up with Natalie herself and ask her a few questions about the pamphlet and her time in the rare book trade.
How did you come across the book?
My friend Anthony Holden (music and opera critic for The Guardian/Observer) was a great friend of Frank Kermode, despite Frank being a good 25 years older than him. In fact, they were friends right until the last.
Anthony was the executor of Frank's estate and, when Frank died, there were all these books, which the family didn't know what to do with. All they knew is that they had to get them out of the flat.
I went down and ran an evaluation on the books. One large chunk of it I sold to Kings College. His Shakespeare library, and all of his books he worked with when writing his Shakespeare body of work, went to The Globe (Shakespeare remodelled theatre). The rest we took in lieu of payment for organising the library and I also took some books which I'm selling on behalf of the family to help the estate. I believe the Berryman book is one of those.
Really, it was a result of doing the right thing by all of Frank's books, ensuring they found good homes rather than getting thrown out to charity shops.
As Frank was, first and foremost, a critic, I imagine his library to be cavernous. Was there anything else you came across like the Berryman pamphlet?
Well, he had this terrible accident with his library. He had a marvellous library of 1st editions, where writers like Philip Roth would send him copies of their books, inscribed to him.
But when he was moving house about 10 or 15 years ago, the main parts of his library were packed up in boxes and left out on the street, as he was waiting for the removal men. He went inside for a few minutes and Cambridge Council's rubbish collectors, thinking the boxes were rubbish, picked them up and threw them in the incinerator.
So a huge amount of his collection, inscribed first editions of the who's who of 20th Century literature, was destroyed. Several of the local papers picked the story up at the time – it was big news.
It seems to me, with news about the bookshop being in decline and facing financial difficulties in these times, that rarities like the Berryman pamphlet and the stories around them are in danger of becoming lost.
With your bookshop being in Cecil Court, and being so close to the Charing Cross Road bookshops, whose financial problems are well known (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charing_Cross_Road), do you feel this threat of the 'end of the bookshop'?
The Charing Cross Road problem is simply one of Landlords, and we have different ones here in Cecil Court. The Charing Cross Road bookshops are owned by the Soho Housing Association, who are a charity. And, because they are a charity, they are duty bound to get as much rent as possible for their properties – hence the reason the rent has gone up annually and why many of the 2nd hand bookstores who were there ended up leaving. They simply couldn't afford the rent.
Of course 2nd hand bookstores, as wonderful a thing as they are, are never going to make a lot of money. So only the better bookshops with the highest turn over, Henry Pordes, Quinto books and Any Amount of Books, have been able to survive.
Saying that, I don't think the 2nd hand bookstore will become extinct. I'd be quite interested to see how they manage with the boom of electronic books like the Kindle becoming more widely available.
It might have a positive impact on the rare book trade, in a way. I think that people will always like reading printed books, and I don't think the Kindles or IPad will detract from this enjoyment. We'll have a clearer idea in the next 5 years.
Do you feel part of a community here in Cecil Court?
We're very lucky here because of our benevolent landlords. All of the properties on this street belong to one family, and they do like us being here. And, although our rent isn't peppercorns, it isn't hiked up on an annual basis to the point where we can't stay here. We're very lucky, really.
This whole area is so steeped in book tradition, and anyone who is interested in books comes here at some point. Its one of those old fashioned ideas that everyone who is in the same trade is in the same space and, because we're specialist bookshops, instead of being in competition with one another you're actually helping each other. That's something you can't get on the Internet.
What you can get from the internet, however, is more information on the books Natalie currently stocks in her bookshop. Click here to be taken to her website, or visit her shop on 22 Cecil Court, London WC2N 4HE


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It's a slide show of gratuitous celebrity cleavage with the headline "Real or Fake?" But CBS totally isn't stooping to devoting web space to aimlessly wondering if stars had boob jobs. No, they're just simply wondering if other things in the picture are fake, like "Is Toni Braxton's mic real or fake?" Fake, she is singing into a dildo. "Is Sophia Bush's skin tone real or fake?" Fake, she was actually born black and got the Michael Jackson special at the dermatologist. "Are Tara Reid's pearls real or fake?" Trick question, she's not even wearing pearls in the picture.
In CBS 4's defense, this seems to be on other websites of CBS O&O stations. Meaning they don't even care enough to cultivate sexist web content aimed at dudes too timid to look at real porn that best fits the needs of the local community. We are outraged!
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PACITAN, Indonesia — In Indonesia, a singing politician is hardly a novelty.
Candidates belting out karaoke are a common sight and even the dour president, ex-general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, has a string of albums under his belt.
But the cleavage-out, hip-thrusting style of model/actress/singer Julia Perez hardly fits the usual script. The 29-year-old, popularly known as Jupe (pronounced: joo-pay), is causing controversy in Indonesia by running for local government in President Yudhoyono's home district in Pacitan, in eastern Java.
Final candidates for the position of district head, or bupati, are yet to be decided and the election will not be until December. But Jupe's candidacy doesn't go down well with many conservatives who like to see Muslim-majority Indonesia as a moral nation. This is, after all, the woman whose last album, Kamasutra, came with free condoms and whose biggest hit, Belah Duren (Splitting-open the Durian), is laden with graphic innuendo:
More importantly, her candidacy has become the latest focal point for fretting over the spread of celebrities in Indonesian politics — a symptom, critics say, of a system where venal politicians and policy-free parties have left democracy looking hollow just over a decade after the 1998 fall of dictator Suharto.
Reached by a narrow ribbon of road through lush, forest-covered limestone hills, Pacitan itself is a rustic, slow-paced place. Most people live off farming or fishing. The main tourist draws are some caves and a beautiful, windswept and flotsam-strewn beach that is unsafe to swim.
The day I turned up was meant to be a big appearance by Jupe, but at the last minute, she was a no-show. Sutikno, the local head of the Hanura party of ex-general Wiranto (who has been indicted, but never tried over crimes against humanity in East Timor), is open about his disappointment. He speaks darkly of Jupe receiving "extraordinary pressure" from unnamed individuals not to come.
Still, Sutikno is upbeat about Jupe. The incumbent from Yudhoyono's Democrat Party, who was elected in Indonesia's first local elections in 2005, is a failure, he says. A coalition of nine parties, including some Islamic parties, is wooing Jupe to challenge the Democrats.
"The law doesn't say sexy artists can't be candidates," Sutikno says, using the Indonesian catch-all term for female starlets.
"Jupe came and I tested her. She was dressed like this," he says, smoking a clove cigarette and gesturing the outline of a tank top and hotpants. "I was happy. If she came wearing a headscarf I wouldn't have been pleased, she would've been faking it."


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A legal career was kind of an afterthought for Udolf. In the mid-Seventies, having graduated from college, he was playing bass in a blues band, touring around the Southeast and hoping to make a living that way. But the road wasn't very lucrative, and Udolf eventually enrolled at law school at Emory University in Atlanta. His intentions weren't particularly lofty: "I thought it would be fun," he explains. "I was always sort of interested in the law; my father was a lawyer." Still, he quickly got serious and embraced the profession. He went on to clerk for a circuit judge in Atlanta, and in 1982, at the age of 30, he was elected district attorney of a suburban area north of the capital.
After a four-year term, he ran for re-election and lost, whereupon he headed south to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami -- a city he chose partly so he could be near his ailing grandfather and partly because it was a hotbed of legal activity. While chief of the public corruption unit, Udolf's work hasn't been confined to the U.S. He has traveled to Bolivia, Venezuela, Honduras, and the former Soviet Union to train prosecutors. During his ten years in Miami, he worked under six U.S. attorneys.
How destabilizing has this revolving door of U.S. attorneys been?
If you look around the country, the average term of a U.S. attorney has been two and a half or three years. I don't think the length of the terms has had a destabilizing effect.
But now we're looking at the nomination of a Republican to head the office, and that's at least significant, because he's been nominated by a Democratic administration. Is this a signal of a need for more consistency?
I hope that's a signal that they're more interested in competency than they are in party loyalty.
Do you think party loyalty and the politicization of the selection process has hurt the U.S. Attorney's Office?
This particular office? No. I think everyone who's been selected to be U.S. attorney has had their strengths and weaknesses, but clearly all have been exceptionally bright people and are talented in some way or another.
How destabilizing to the office was Kendall Coffey's resignation and the circumstances thereof? [Coffey, who was U.S. attorney from 1993 to 1996, resigned amid allegations that during a bender at a South Miami strip club he bit a dancer on the arm. He was replaced by an interim chief, William Keefer, a career prosecutor who was recruited from within the ranks of the Southern District.]
How destabilizing? The office has a remarkable resilience. In many ways it runs itself. Having Bill Keefer there was a tremendous help. I guess it could have been tough, but I think he has held things together on a lot of different levels. Had it been anyone else, it might have been tougher to accomplish all the things that have been accomplished in the past year, including Greenpalm and Hallandale. There are so many things that have been going on, not just in the area of corruption. There's been a heck of a lot of movement in the area of economic crime, special prosecutions, narcotics, appeals.
But were the circumstances of Coffey's resignation in any way embarrassing to the office?
I don't think it had anything to do with the office.
A widely held perception, at least among observers of the U.S. Attorney's Office, was that Dexter Lehtinen was politically minded. Was Lehtinen more political than any of the other U.S. attorneys you worked for? [Lehtinen, husband of U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, was U.S. Attorney from 1988 to 1992. Raul Martinez's attorneys accused him of targeting the mayor for political reasons, in that Martinez was considered a likely political opponent of Ros-Lehtinen.]
I'm not going to get into that.
Was the Martinez prosecution in any way politically motivated?
No. When I was first assigned this case, in December of '88 or January of '89, I didn't even know who Raul Martinez was.
But Dexter did.
I can't say what was in his mind.
What motivated you to enter elected public office?
When I got out of Emory, I clerked for a judge for a while, then I went to work for this one district attorney who had been D.A. for 33 years. He was a legend in the state of Georgia. I worked for him for about two and a half years. He was getting ready to retire, and he said he would endorse me if I ran. At the time of the election, I hadn't even been practicing law long enough to serve as D.A., but by the time I took office I was.
Has that experience made you more empathetic toward public officials?
For one thing, I don't see things in black and white. There are different shades of gray in matters that we look at. So maybe it has given me some perspective. It may also have helped my ability to gain insight into the people we are looking at, and to anticipate what their defenses may be.


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One of the most common uses of hen hackle is for dry fly wings. Everyone wants to tie an Adams with perfectly shaped grizzly hackle wings that are as beautiful as they are functional. Hen hackles are easily the best choice for dry fly wings. The stems are flexible enough to allow the wings to "collapse" when cast, thus preventing undue leader twist. Most hen neck feathers have an obvious web line, which makes the wings more visible in the finished fly. Necks also have a large range of feather sizes, allowing for wings on various sized dry flies. Finally, a good hen neck will have hackles that have a fairly broad outline all the way to the tip with a rounded, rather than pointed, tip. If your intention is to purchase a hen neck for dry fly wings, you are well advised to purchase them in person so you can examine the shape of the feathers. If this is not an option, order from a trusted source and clearly explain that the neck will be used for dry fly wings. Not all genetic necks are good for dry fly wings - as some are too long and narrow with pointed tips - almost like cock hackle. Hen "pullet" capes are quite consistent in shape and texture and will typically create outstanding dry fly wings. Ask your supplier if they have access to pullet capes. You won't be sorry.
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Wet flies and Palmers Palmers, as the name suggests, as flies that have a hackle wound over the length of the body. There is no doubt in my mind that no area on the planet has more palmered wet flies than the UK. Bumbles, Zulus, Palmers, Goslings, and a host of others - all with a characteristic palmered hackle. While most UK tyers will use cock hackle, genetic hen hackle will serve the purpose as well, especially the higher grade necks from the premium brands. These hackles have the length to make the required wraps of hackle with a similar glossy sheen and stiffness to the lower grade cock necks normally used. For "American" palmered flies like wooly worms and such, genetic hen necks are preferred over the more commonly used saddle hackle.
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