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With aims or goals that conflict or interfere with one another, as in I'm afraid the two departments are working at cross purposes. This idiom, first recorded in 1688, may have begun as a 17th-century parlor game called "cross-purposes," in which a series of subjects (or questions) were divided from their explanations (or answers) and distributed around the room. Players then created absurdities by combining a subject taken from one person with an explanation taken from another.
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The Dewars started a homestead in 1979. My dad, Wallace Baikie, had sold them forty acres up behind the Lodge property. Penny was Wallace's niece. The Dewars had been studying cougars at Northwest Bay, near Nanoose. They wanted to move up Island to be near Strathcona Park because it was an excellent area in which to study cougars. They built a magnificent 4,000 sq. ft. house, all without any heavy equipment, and using recycled materials from a building that they had torn down in Northwest Bay. Perched on a hill high above the Lodge it has a magnificent view to the south. This energetic pair also built a large chicken house, a barn for their Alpine goats, a large woodshed and a separate barn for their two Arabian horses. Two Akbash dogs from Turkey were so good at protecting their animals that they never lost even a Bantam chick. Penny sold goat cheese and eggs to the Lodge and also to the health food store in town. They had a magnificent garden. They used chicken and horse manure, seaweed, sawdust, compost and the peat-like material that had been dug out of a nearby boggy lake. This mixture eventually turned into rich loam. A big green- house stretched across the south side of their house. A large exterior woodstove (a gift from the Lodge) and black water barrels (they capture and retain the heat) enabled them to grow tomatoes, peppers and melons till the middle of winter .
Penny was a biologist and had been a brilliant student. Accompanied by her husband Percy who had been a cougar hunter in his younger years, they tranquilized cougars and tracked them, and become well known for their cougar studies.
Penny often came down the hill to visit her mother Nancy Brown, (Myrna's aunt) the chef at the Lodge. One day, Nancy needed something delicious to serve guests and there wasn't a lot of food in the kitchen. They did have some eggs, some powdered milk and some oranges. With Penny's help, Nancy came up with Desperation Scones. They have been a favourite at the Lodge ever since.
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More like this query find documents that are "like" provided text by running it against one or more fields.
{ "more_like_this" : { "fields" : ["name.first", "name.last"], "like_text" : "text like this one", "min_term_freq" : 1, "max_query_terms" : 12 } }
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selected with respect to their tf-idf scores. These are controlled by
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AFTER weeks in which both the media and markets were mesmerised by Silvio Berlusconi's vacillation, Italy's attention switched over the holiday season to Mario Monti, his successor as prime minister. In a Dance of the Seven Veils, Mr Monti, who has headed a non-party government since November 2011, teasingly revealed his intentions. First, he announced he was ready to serve again as prime minister after the general election, which is likely to be held on February 28th. Then he launched a policy agenda. Finally he held talks with a cluster of like-minded centre-right groups.
It was decided that they should form an alliance for the election to the Senate, but run independently—with as many as four sets of candidates—for the Chamber of Deputies. Adding to the potential for confusion in the minds of voters, Mr Monti ruled himself out of the election, but not the campaign. His name will feature on the logo of the parties that support his agenda, but he himself will not be a parliamentary candidate (ostensibly because, as a life senator, he is already a member).
It was not the most propitious start, especially since two of his best-known supporters decided to pull out of the race. Corrado Passera, the "super-minister" for economic development, would only run as part of a fully integrated slate. Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, who heads NTV, a high-speed train operator, and Ferrari, a sports-car maker, feared charges of conflicts of interest. Polls taken before Mr Monti showed his hand nevertheless suggested the prime minister's endorsement could be worth about ten percentage points to the combined vote of the parties backing him.
That, though, would still give them only about 20% of the vote. The party leading the polls is the centre-left Democratic Party (PD), which has attracted scant attention since a primary election in December that saw its leader, Pier Luigi Bersani, chosen as its prime ministerial contender. On December 29th and 30th, the PD held another primary to select parliamentary candidates. The PD put the turnout at over 1m, a respectable tally for a vote limited to party members held just after Christmas.
In recent polls, the PD has been scoring, on average, more than 33%. Its allies—notably the more radical Left Ecology Freedom (SEL)—have been getting another 6%. That would be enough to give the left a working majority in both houses of parliament.
A clear-cut victory, even for the centre-left, should be welcome to the markets. Romano Prodi, who headed a centre-left government in 1996, implemented an austerity programme that was largely responsible for winning Italy admission to the euro. His second government from 2006 to 2008 undertook the only concerted attempt to liberalise Italy's hidebound economy until Mr Monti's arrival. The minister in charge of deregulation was Mr Bersani.
In practice, however, a PD-SEL coalition with a secure majority would prompt misgivings. The PD was born of a merger between the heirs to western Europe's biggest (and most moderate) Communist party and a smaller group with roots in the progressive wing of the Christian Democrat movement. Mr Prodi, a Catholic academic, ran Italy's last centre-left government from its right-most edge. Mr Bersani, a former Communist and lifelong politician, is further to the left. And it looks as if his party in parliament will also be tilted more in that direction. To secure the prime ministerial candidacy, Mr Bersani had to fight off a challenge from the moderate wing of the PD in the person of Matteo Renzi, the young mayor of Florence. Mr Renzi's followers did poorly in December's legislative primaries.
But the results also furthered a much-needed rejuvenation of the PD that should help to erode its internal divisions. A 31-year-old will top the list of its candidates in Lombardy, the region around Milan. Her counterpart in Palermo, also a woman, is aged 27. Like others who will sit on the PD's benches in the next parliament, both are too young to have been either Communists or Christian Democrats. As for Mr Bersani, his indisputable left-wing credentials could mean he is better able than Mr Prodi to keep in check the radical left whose constant sniping helped bring down Italy's last centre-left government.
For the time being, however, Mr Bersani's biggest challenge will be to maintain the PD's lead. Mr Berlusconi is in growing difficulties. His best hope of exerting influence after the election is in the Senate. For that he needs an alliance with the Northern League, which can deliver him seats in Lombardy and Veneto. The League's de facto leader, Roberto Maroni, is insisting that he would agree to an electoral pact only if Mr Berlusconi stepped down as his party's candidate for prime minister.
Mr Monti poses an altogether more serious challenge to Mr Bersani. What scant polling evidence there is suggests he can rob votes from the PD. And, as a political outsider, he is well placed to appeal to the voters who are most likely to decide the outcome of the next election—the 40% who say they have either not made up their minds, or lean towards abstention.
Paradoxically, it is the reassuring Mr Monti who is most likely to cause an unstable result in the form of a hung Senate. (Italy's electoral law guarantees a majority to the biggest party in the Chamber of Deputies.) That, however, would enable Mr Monti to offer his services to Mr Bersani as a coalition partner and, just as importantly, a counter weight to the radical left.


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Sometimes we get all caught up in the high tech gadgets of today and totally forget how to function with the basics. Simple machines can do amazing things when you really think about it.
For instance, I used to work in the theatre and we had a very high, very scary catwalk. (Very high and very scary for someone terrified of heights, anyway.) Now, a lot of the lights that are used in theatres are pretty big, and we had perhaps fifty plus mounted up in this catwalk at any given time. How crazy would it have been to try to lug all those babies up the very high, very scary ladder?
A pulley system gave us a huge mechanical advantage. Plus, it meant I only had to go up that ladder once to work and then back down once. (I was really more terrified of the ladder than the catwalk itself.) As long as I had a helper on the ground, we could hoist those huge things up, and lower them down all day long. We were also known to send a Mountain Dew or two up that way, as well


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Publisher: American Malacological Society
The American Malacological Bulletin serves as an outlet for reporting
notable contributions in malacological research. Manuscripts concerning any
aspect of original, unpublished research,important short reports, and
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Recent issues have included AMS symposia, independent papers, research
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It is a place that acts as testimony to the diversity of our country. It is a portfolio of ancient and traditional ceremonial objects, ornaments, dresses, masks, musical instruments and other relics of glorious past. It is a gigantic structure with an impressive collection of the art and artifacts of all ethnic communities of the country. It is a place where visitors will find a group of Chakma people sitting on machang in a room, engrossed in their conversation, while in the next room they might come across a troupe of Murong people performing energetic folk dances to celebrate the arrival of the harvesting season.
One can experience this kind of vibrant diversity while visiting the Ethnological Museum in Chittagong that preserves and exhibits various remnants and information on anthropological, ethnical, and the origins of different communities in the world.
"When I was a student, I remember paying a ticket worth Tk 2 to get admission into the museum," reminiscences 60 year-old Abdul Gofur. "Back then we used to be amazed with the exhibits that it had. However, at present there is a dire need of updating and enriching the exhibits and the aesthetics of display at the museum. Nothing except for the ticket price has changed since then," he laughs.
"Having grown up with the internet, we are now exposed to detailed knowledge on anything. Why would we come all the way here if it fails to offer us something more than we already know?" Adnan Alam, his son adds. "Since the area is big, and has the capacity to house much more detailed relics and newer technology, the museum authorities should incorporate them. For example they should deploy a corner featuring movies on the lives of these communities, along with a digital information kiosk or multimedia to help increase the number of visitors."
Situated on 1.30 acres of land in Agrabad, Chittagong, the museum was established in the early sixties to exhibit the lifestyle of different Pakistani ethnic groups. Later it was reopened to the public in 1974. The four galleries and a hall room depict 26 ethnic minorities of Bangladesh and 11 others from India, Pakistan, Australia and Kyrgyzstan.
Exhibits include outfits, tools, musical instruments, weapons, ornaments, idols of deities, paintings, photographs, dioramas, and sculptures. The Bangladeshi ethnic communities include Chakma, Marma, Tripura, Chak, Tanchangya, Murong, Khumi, Garo, Bawm, Pankho, Lusai, Khyang, Monipuri, Khashia, Oraon, Hajong, Mandai, Dalue, Hodi, Bona, Polia, Koch, Rajbangshi, Santal, Munda and Ho.
It has also has relics of the five groups from Pakistan are Pathan, Swati, Sindhi, Kafir and Punjabi. The Indian ethnic communities include Adi, Muria, Mizo and Futtowa. The remaining two come from Australia and Kyrgyzstan.
Despite being one of the biggest museums in the country and the lone ethnological museum, people hardly know about this institute. "Our attitude is partly responsible to the fact that people don't even know of the existence of the museum," comments Nurul Kabir, Assistant Professor, Department of Archeology, JahangirNagar University. "We are reluctant to consider any monument a national heritage site unless it is in Dhaka. This museum shares the same status as the national museum of Dhaka, but only because it's not in the capital, many visitors will not consider going there."
Once swarming with visitors, at present the museum receives not more than a hundred visitors a day, says Uttam Das, Office Assistant of the museum. A local visitor, unwilling to publish his name, informs us that unfortunately 15% of the museum's land is encroached upon by a petrol pump and the rest of the land has fallen into disrepair.
Experts like the visitors, have mostly blamed the lack of updating and modernisation as the main reasons for not attracting enough visitors. "We need to keep in mind that the museum was situated in the Pakistani period, therefore it includes information of many Pakistani ethnicities which might not interest present day Bangladeshis," Kabir says. "A recent survey showed that 30 percent of the objects and information in the museum needs to be updated. The rest of the artifacts need proper attention and restoration," he adds, expressing anguish over the neglect of the government in protecting an important heritage site like this.
"We, the board of this museum, have already submitted a project design to the Department of Archaeology (DoA) in April this year to upgrade the museum, including gradually and regularly increasing collectibles, improving display styles and launching a publicity campaign," states Lovely Yasmin, Assistant Director of the museum committee, with optimism. "The project is yet to receive approval from the Cultural Affairs Ministry."
Experts believe that the project may cost than Tk 2 crores; once the project is approved, the ministry also has to make sure that the money is utilized in a proper manner. Museum experts, curators and professionals need to be involved in the overall process.
Although the ethnological museum is not among the best-maintained museums in our country, a visit to it is not a complete waste of time. "Since the museum is not getting too many visitors, what if the museum itself goes to people?" asks Kabir. "If we can arrange a few mobile museum tours by arranging a van equipped with some of the artifacts of this museum, which would travel across the country, school students could get a unique interactive experience of getting up close to the lifestyles of different ethnicities of the country. A mobile museum can therefore be instrumental in making this museum popular all over Bangladesh," he ends.


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In addition to the big-ticket prices that people in the Bay Area pay for homes, there is the big-ticket property tax that has to be paid. Thanks to Proposition 13 (which coincidentally kept me from getting a county job back in 1980), taxes remain fairly stable throughout the duration of ownership of a home. The tax rate limited by Prop 13 is a max of 1.2% of the home's assessed value, plus any special city, county or state assessments, with increases not to exceed more than 2% per year. This is good news for your grandparents and parents, and you, if you have owned the home for a significant period of time. But for new homeowners, it can be a big shock. There is a general tax levy of 1%, but each county has its own additional taxes. For example in San Mateo County the annual property tax is 1.06% and in San Francisco it is 1.141%. How do California property taxes fare against the rest of the United States?
Unlike California, 37 states have state property taxes in addition to whatever the local jurisdiction (city or county) charges. That means higher property taxes for those particular states. Overall, it sucks to live in New Hampshire, Connecticut, New York and Massachusetts, as these states have the highest taxes based on Census Bureau information. States like New Hampshire do not have taxes on wages, choosing to obtain 43% of state funds from homeowners. On the other end of the spectrum are southern states, such as Arkansas, Mississippi, West Virginia, Alabama and Louisiana. According to the "Residential Real Estate Tax Rates in the American Community Survey" authored by Natalia Siniavskaia, Ph.D. and published on HousingEconomics.com, the three states with the most expensive homes (California, Hawaii, and D.C) have some of the lowest property tax rates in the nation.
If you live in California, the average property tax rate is $4.77 per $1000 of value. It took me awhile to reconcile this with the above referenced rate of 1.06%. But it is based on home values now and taxes collected now. For example, if you bought a house in 1995 for $315,000, you would currently be paying about $4000/year in taxes. That house is now worth approximately $1,000,000, but you aren't paying 1.06% on that value. Because of Prop 13, you are only paying .4% or about $4 per $1000 of value. People who have been in their home for 30 years may only be paying $1-2 per $1000 of value, while today's buyers are paying $10.60 per $1000, averaging out to that $4.77 I mention above. (Hope I got that right!)
So it appears, that while our home prices are still exorbitant by most state's standards, our tax rate is within reason. Chalk one up for California…..


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Portsmouth bridge woes up close: Signs of wear and tear on 86-year-old structure obvious
Saturday, April 25, 2009
PORTSMOUTH — Memorial Bridge's once green beams are pockmarked with peeling paint, its support beams are deteriorating and the complex system that supports its estimated 4,000 lifts per year is showing the equivalent of mechanical arthritis.
"People get very emotional over bridges. They get attached and Portsmouth is a historical community so it's not surprising," said Carol Morris, the public affairs person hired by the Maine and New Hampshire transportation departments to take input on the issue. On Monday Morris will head up two "public information" sessions designed to take citizen input on the bridges connecting Portsmouth to Kittery, Maine. The first will be held from 3:30-5:30 p.m. at the Kittery Trading Post meeting room with the other happening from 6:30-8:30 at Portsmouth High School's Little Theatre. On Tuesday a recently formed ad hoc "Save Our Bridges!" group will hold a rally in John Paul Jones Park in Kittery at noon.
Morris said DOT officials in both states are going into the process with an open mind leaving "everything on the table" until December of this year when they begin to narrow down the most "feasible" options. DOT leaders say the price tag will certainly be a major consideration. The annual operating costs of both the Memorial and the Sarah Mildred Long bridges now exceed $1 million for each bridge, according to N.H. DOT Project Manager Bob Landry. This is compared to the Interstate 95 "high level" bridge that costs roughly $73,000 to maintain each year.
The biggest difference is that Memorial Bridge and Sarah Mildred Long Bridge — both on New Hampshire's "red list" — are lift bridges that raise and lower roughly 4,000 times a year requiring costly maintenance on deteriorating mechanical parts. On Friday Landry and Morris traveled to Memorial Bridge to provide the media with a first-hand view of the problems facing a structure that was opened in 1923 and remains safe despite numerous maintenance challenges. Landry pointed out that exposed support beams on the road deck have corroded over the years due to exposure to the weather, and rust envelops nearly every bolt on the bridge's beams. A walk up to the operations room on the liftable span of Memorial Bridge shows significant deterioration in certain structural and mechanical portions of the bridge's lift system in its towers. Landry noted that a hole in a metal plate that once securely held a pin connecting thick steel cables to a huge counterweight that allows the liftable portion of the bridge to raise and lower has worn significantly over the years. The pin is still in the hole but space can be seen around it, unlike on the other pins affixed to the plate. "We are keeping a close eye on that," Landry said. He said many parts of the mechanical systems in the bridge are far past their "design life." The bridge's liftable span still rises and lowers smoothly, but is requiring more and more maintenance, said Landry. The rusted railings in the upper portion of the bridge no longer protect workers and cannot be trusted, according to N.H. DOT bridge maintenance worker Rob Poggi. Officials in Maine and New Hampshire were looking at overhauling Memorial Bridge last year, but that project got derailed when bid numbers came in $15.3 million more than the anticipated.
"It's an environment when very hard choices have to be made. I need to hear from everybody," Morris said. A new website at www.MaineNHconnections.org is slated to be up and running on Monday to help officials garner input and answer questions on the connections study to compliment concerns heard first-hand at upcoming meetings. To check out the site of those committed to saving the bridges go to www.PortsmouthBridges.com.


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Four Cool Ajax Plugins for WordPress
WordPress and all other popular blogging packages have many features specifically designed to make conversations between authors and readers as easy as possible. If you are used to instant messaging, however, you may think nothing is better than instant messaging for a quick on-line conversation. Don't worry; there's no need to leave your beloved WordPress home page to have such conversations. The Ajax-based Wordspew/Shoutbox plugin adds real-time chat functionality to any WordPress Web site. Installation is possibly the simplest one of all the plugins described in this article: unpack the tarball in the WordPress plugins directory, and call Shoutbox with this line of code in the piece of the theme where you want it to appear:
<?php jal_get_shoutbox(); ?>
Figure 4 shows the result. Whenever anyone writes some text in the Message input field, everyone else who is visiting the home page at that moment will see it, without doing anything, the next time the Shoutbox area refreshes itself, and everyone will be able to answer in the same way. Shoutbox users also can add their name and home URL, if they choose, as well as use emoticons or links in the message text.
The scrollbar on the right allows newcomers to follow the whole conversation (Figure 5). The refresh interval is programmable. When it expires, new posts appear highlighted in a different color, which then fades away in the background after an equally programmable interval.
Almost everything else in the Shoutbox is configurable. You can set all the options from the Manage→Live Shoutbox page. The screenshots here show the vanilla version, but you can change the colors of user names, text and background of all comments. Even the one-line input area can be replaced with a larger field, but this obviously uses more space and may ruin the overall layout of your pages. One Shoutbox feature you might want to disable as soon as possible is the sound alert when new messages are loaded. You don't want your coworkers to know when you're chatting in your browser, do you?
Security-conscious readers will immediately spot the potential for abuse here, but Shoutbox has two configurable mechanisms to prevent spammers from filling it with garbage. One is a place (Options→Discussion→Comments moderation) where you can enter a list of banned words, URLs and sentences. The package includes a sample word list; to add new ones, simply type them in the right place on the list. People trying to use banned words will see the alert box shown in Figure 6. The drawback in using the banned word list is that it requires continuous monitoring and maintenance. To avoid this burden, it is much better, without giving up the list itself, to set Shoutbox to accept comments only from registered users. Anonymous visitors still will be able to see the chat in progress.
Besides English, the Wordspew Shoutbox is also available in about ten other European languages. If your language is already supported, simply download the corresponding PO-MO files from the plugin home page, and place them in the Wordspew folder on the server. Otherwise, the author welcomes localizations in other languages.
Ajax still is a relatively new technology. Depending on which WordPress version you run, how you configured it and which theme you chose, you may experience messed-up internal links, misaligned blocks or similar problems if you download everything described in this article and simply drop it in your WordPress installation.
One reason for these issues is the simple fact that all these plugins are still under active development. In the Calendar version (0.8.3) we tested, for example, one php tag was missing (surely due to a typing mistake before packaging) from the source file called ajaxcalendarscript.php. To make it work, we had to replace <? with <?php on line 89 of that file. Surely all the plugins will have more stable interfaces by the time you read this article.
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Awesome. I am just trying
Awesome. I am just trying out AjaxWP
I am really liking the lets talk plugin, I am away to use it now for a site of mine.
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Good plugins
Im a wordpress user and the chat ones looks like nice for me, but I think that there are better plugins based on ajax for wodpress out there.
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Rihanna had a great time at Kiss & Fly night club on Jan. 30, where she was 'dancing and laughing' at the NYC hotspot, all because of Chris! HollywoodLife.com has all the EXCLUSIVE details, so read on to find out the unexpected thing that made her go wild!
Rihanna was in New York City on Jan. 30 for work-related purposes, but she still found time to party with the help of Chris Brown at Kiss & Fly night club in the Meatpacking District, and a source EXCLUSIVELY tells HollywoodLife.com that she was "supporting her man."
Rihanna's Wild Night At Kiss & Fly
"Rihanna jumped on the couch to dance when DJ Camilo played 'Don't Wake Me Up' by Chris Brown," a source tells The New York Post. So Chris wasn't at the club, but Rihanna still went wild when she heard his song!
"Rihanna was at the Wednesday night party with a 3 or 4 girlfriends," a source exclusively tells HollywoodLife.com. "She arrived at 12.30am and was partying — it was a girl's night out. She has been here before with Chris — they have been here together two or three times. She was drinking Jack [Daniels] and coke, and when Chris' song came on, she jumped up onto a sofa and started dancing. There was no trouble brewing; she was definitely supporting her man. She left at 3.15am."
Rihanna, 24, and Chris went to Kiss & Fly together in November, where they had a hot date after her SNL appearance. At the time, their romantic reunion was not confirmed by the pop stars.
Rihanna Admits She's Dating Chris In 'Rolling Stone'
In Rihanna's candid new interview with Rolling Stone, she leaves nothing on the table and tells the publication that even if you think Chris is a "monster," he's actually a fun guy who she loves and adores.
The "Diamonds" singer also wants the world to know one very important thing: Chris, 23, is a changed man!
In the issue, which hit newsstands on Jan. 31, Rihanna says she knows everyone has an opinion about her decision to fall in love with Chris all over again, but insists that he's "paid his dues."
Rihanna adds, "He's not the monster everybody thinks. He's a good person, he has a fantastic heart. He's giving and loving and fun to be around. That's what I love about him. He always makes me laugh. All I want to do is laugh, and really that's what I do with him."
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Posted at 3:06 PM on February 3, 2013
I just appreciate all of Rihanna defenders, because she is truly not the monster her haters is making her out out to be. They need to make a blog only for her haters……lol:-) . I bet that would be most funniest site ever. RiRi is doing her and getting paid, and some people can't handle that truth……..so why are her haters keep torching themselves? Never gonna figure that one out and notgonna try. I am to thrilled being happy for this couple and watching them rise to the top together. If a person don't have nothing good to say about someone. Why????????? Say anything at all…….No one is perfect…….let us all own that truth and I believe the world would become a better place to live. A true Rihanna and Chris Brown Fan.:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
kay kay
Posted at 12:49 PM on February 2, 2013
@meme who are u to talk about when u have no pic as well.@Kiki look like a man as i see her /he lol.nobody is jealous of a female /,Man WHO hate on people we like, and stay on a blog all day Long hating on somebody WHO basicly don't give a fuqk about her /he opinión.@Kiki is a hater because he/ her could never have Chris because @Kiki is a man and Chris is not gay lol.
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Posted at 11:01 PM on February 1, 2013
Ha ha I find it truly comical that the chrianna.tumblr.com where all u Riri Stan's claim all there info as gospel has stated that even though Riri done that rolling stone interview they themselves are still not 100% sure whether Chris & Ri are back together as boyfriend girlfriend
kay kay
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Posted at 4:03 PM on February 1, 2013
@Kiki u Say Rihanna can't dance.But I don't see u making a effort to do anything but run your mouth on every blog of Rihanna's.Come on now.U admire Rihanna because u stay hating on her like Rihanna care.At the end of the day Rihanna also get paid to get hate on because this site stay hating on Rihanna like they wanna be in her shoes lol.oh and yeah Rihanna can dance because all island women can dance they butt off.Did u not see the video "Where Have You Been All My Life"I rest my case lol.
Posted at 8:37 PM on February 1, 2013
@ kay kay @Suominen
if you call that dancing whatever lol yeah island ppl are susposed to be able to dance so shame on Riri
like i said before and i will say again this is a public blog website designed for people to have their say so therefore i will continue to say what the fck i like
kay kay
Posted at 10:05 PM on February 1, 2013
@Kiki u are entitled to your opinion, and u are entitle to hate lol.But u are a basic chick living off of hating a women WHO does not care what u Say about her.Rihanna has not done nothing to u to hate on her.so to all u haterz u are a joke to her.because basicly u are reading off of unknown facts that are not true.basicly because none of this was confirmed with Rihanna,Chris,and Karrueche.HL make up stuff to get paid.Its nothing but gossip.That yall feed up to.So shame on u lol.
Posted at 3:41 PM on February 1, 2013
until I saw the receipt which had said $9948, I accept that my neighbours mother woz like they say realey erning money parttime at there labtop.. there moms best frend has done this less than nineteen months and a short time ago repaid the loans on their mini mansion and got a brand new Bugatti Veyron. go to, Fox76.comCHECK IT OUT
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@Con right. The thing is done. If he's changed or not doesn't matter. He will not act up again doing her any harm. He knows the consequences. I think the longer they be together the more their relationship will get even stronger and back to where they were if they're not there yet.
Posted at 12:40 PM on February 1, 2013
It doesn't matter..she dances for him and goes wild all the time I'm sure (he's used to it). Anywho… haters have a good day because the Rolling Stone mag is out today and OMG!!!!!!!!! Chrianna fans stay strong and keep praying that everything works out for them . You may also want to stop arguing back&forth with the haters because it just doesn't matter anymore. Did any of you fans buy the Rolling Stone mag?? OMG!!!!!!!!!!! You have got to buy it. Just stay on Chrianna.tumblr.com and leave the haters alone. Don't be like them, there's no need. HA!
I'm all aboard the Chrianna train, choo choo….love em together. Trying not be a hater, just an observer….saw pic of KT at 06 prom she posted and Lawd ole mighty did she ever get half of her nose…shall we say reconstructed or chopped off! Yes, Rihanna had a little tweak, but you can still define her heritage and her exoctic beauty, plus she's in the biz. Now miss thing is just a Cali girl, what a difference a doctor's knife makes!!
Posted at 1:05 PM on February 1, 2013
so what if the rolling stone mags is out today and also if you have such a big problem what is said on these blogs simple dont come on here, and continue to stay pressed up on yout chrianna tumblr who's info is not 100% seems as it jus some random person who designed the tumblr, and dont know Ri or chris personally to be even getting the correct info, so therefor there sources are really no more creditable then this site .
(rolled eyes) where all haters cus we simply dont worship Riri
Posted at 11:52 PM on February 1, 2013
Love is wicked
Posted at 11:43 AM on February 1, 2013
Ah contrar, if not for Rihanna's very public forgiveness of CB, he would just be the guy who beat her up. She has made him human and to somewhat sympathetic. He was 19 yrs old when this horrific event occurred, but it occurred to her and I applaud her for trusting God and not dancing with the devil with whom many of his…… so called, let's make money off of him or get it from him…..friends have done. Rihanna asks for his truth and love….not the rent money.
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China Philharmonic with Yuja WangPresented by StrathmoreFriday, March 11, 2005 at 8:00 PMMusic Center at Strathmore
THE CHINA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAThe China Philharmonic, foundedin May 2000, makes its Washingtonarea premiere on its first world tour.Established on the basis of the formerChina Broadcasting SymphonyOrchestra and under the auspices ofChina Radio, Film and TelevisionGroup, the China Philharmonic hasemerged as a national level orchestrawith 120 musicians. Long Yu isits current artistic director andprincipal conductor.The CPO's predecessor, the ChinaBroadcasting Symphony Orchestra(CBSO), was one of the first symphonyorchestras to be founded in Chinaafter 1949, and has collaborated withmany world class conductors, instrumentalists,and singers. In the yearsfollowing its founding, the CBSO gaveconcerts in cities all over China, andbuilt an impressive repertoire thatincluded works by Chinese andWestern composers.On December 16, 2000, the ChinaPhilharmonic Orchestra gave a highlyacclaimed inaugural concert in Beijingunder the baton of its artistic director,Long Yu. The CPO's first season ranfrom September 2001 to July 2002,during which it offered a repertoire ofworks from different periods and styles.Among the highlights were the worldpremiere of the Philip Glass Concertofor Cello and Orchestra, and performancesof Gustav Mahler's Das Lied vonder Erde and Symphony of a Thousand (aPRC premiere), Hector Berlioz's LaDamniation de Faust, and Du Mingxin'sSymphonic Peking Opera FemaleGenerals from Yang Family, composedfor the CPO. The CPO attractedattention from overseas soon after itsfirst performances. In September 2001,the CPO toured Taipei, Hsinchu,Taichung, and Kaohsiung, the majorcities of Taiwan. At the invitation ofthe Casals Festival, the CPO visitedSan Juan, Puerto Rico in June 2002.The two performances, conductedrespectively by Long Yu andKrzystof Penderecki, its principal guestconductor, proved to be a great successand one of the major events of thefestival. Equally impressive were thetwo concerts that the CPO gave in SanJose and Los Angeles, CA, followingthe tour of Puerto Rico. In September2002, the CPO made a successful tourof Japan and Korea.Under the guidance of Mr. Yu, thecurrent China Philharmonic aims tointroduce the gems of China's symphonicmusic to the world and the bestoffered by the western musical heritageto Chinese audiences. The Philharmonichas collaborated with many worldrenownedmusicians, includingMikhail Plentev, Anatol Ugorski, YundiLi, Lang Lang, Itzhak Perlman, PlacidoDomingo, and Sergiu Commissiona.The orchestra has recorded two CDsfor Deutsche Gramophone under LongYu's direction—one of Wagner andBrahms, and another of Chineseorchestral works.YUJA WANGYuja Wang was born in Beijing in1987. A former student of the CentralConservatory of Music, Beijing,she studied with Professors LingYuan and Zhou Guangren. Yuja Wang's debut CD was released in 1995. She has received criticalacclaim in the press and from themusic community wherever she has performed. When she visited Australia in 1996, her performances were highly praised and the musical communitywas stunned by the maturity shown bythe then tiny eight-year-old. In 1998,the German press praised her poeticinterpretation of Liszt's La Leggierezza.World-renowned pianists VladimirAshkenazy and Fou Ts'ong have highlycommended her playing. Fou Ts'ongdeclared her playing "miraculous."Yuja has been a frequent prizewinner innational and international competitions,including first prize in theHuapu Cup National Piano Competition,the First "Mido" Concours DeTiano Sino-Francais, the Xinghai CupNational Piano Competition, and theVeo Internacional Primer Premio inSpain, as well as the third prize inEglington International Piano Competitionin Germany. She was first prizewinnerof the Junior Group of theSeiler International Piano Competition(May 2001) and third prize-winnerand recipient of the Special Jury Awardat the First Japan Sendai InternationalMusic Competition (where she was theyoungest of all competitors).As an active performer, Yuja Wanghas given recitals in Beijing, Zhuhai,Shijizhuang, Harbin, and Urmuqi inChina. In November 2000 she tookpart in the special concert "DialoguesBetween Two Generations of MusicalTalents," where she shared the stagewith Maestro Xu Zhong, Jian Wangand Hu Kun. In May 2002, Yuja was afeatured performer in the CanadianBroadcasting Corporation's "Up andComing" series hosted by notedCanadian pianist Jon Kimura Parker.She attended three Morningside MusicBridge summer programs (1999-2001)at Calgary's Mount Royal College. Inthe summers of 2002 and 2003, shestudied with renowned pianopedagogue John Perry at the AspenMusic Festival, where she won theConcerto Competition in her firstyear of attendance.For the past two years, Yuja hasattended The Curtis Institute ofMusic in Philadelphia, where she is astudent of Gary Graffman. In March2004, she was selected as one of thefour participants in Leon Fleisher'sCarnegie Hall masterclasses on the lateSchubert Sonatas.Yuja's recent performances includethe Young Musician's Forum in NewYork, the Seattle Chamber MusicSociety Emerging Artist Concert,and a performance in Zurich ofBeethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4with Maestro David Zinman and theTonhalle Orchestra.LONG YULong Yu is a Chinese conductor with an established international reputation. As aguest conductor, Mr. Yu regularlyappears with orchestras in Germany,France, Poland, Hungary, Switzerland andSingapore. Over the years, Mr. Yuhas worked with a variety of groups,including the Hamburg Sate Opera,Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin,The Radio Symphony Orchestra ofLeipzig, Academy of St. Martinin the Fields, the Budapest RadioSymphony Orchestra, and the HongKong Philharmonic. Born in Shanghai in 1964 into a family of musicians, he received hisearly music education from hisgrandfather, the composer DingShande. This prepared him for therigorous formal music education heencountered at the Shanghai MusicConservatory and then at Hochschuleder Kunst in Berlin. His professional achievements include an appointment as principalconductor of the Central Opera ofChina in 1992, founder of the BeijingMusic Festival in 1998, and founderand artistic director of the ChinaPhilharmonic in 2000. As an artist and administrator, Mr. Yu's mission is to develop the CPO as a world-class professional institutionthrough extensive collaboration withtop musicians from all over the world.His vision for the CPO is the creationof a truly professional orchestra thatcan bring the best of China's symphonicmusic to the world and offer highquality performances of a wide varietyof western classical music to Chinesepeople. Long Yu's other achievementsinclude recording Korngold's ViolinConcerto and Ding Shande's LongMarch Symphony for NAXOS with theSlovak Radio Orchestra. In November2000, he recorded two CD's for DGwith the CPO, one of Wagner's Overtureto Tannhäuser and the Shoenbergorchestration of the Brahms PianoQuartet in G minor, the other, ofhighlights of Chinese music.LÜWA KEMs. Ke has performed in MadamaButterfly directed by Seiji Ozawa. Shehas sung the roles of Violetta in LaTraviata, Despina in Cosi Fan Tutte,and Servillia in La Clemeza Di Titto.She has participated in many performancessponsored by the Ministry of Culture and CCTV including the Spring Festival Party, the LanternFestival Party, and the New Year's DayBilingual Party. She has also performedin the Hong Kong Mid-Autumn Partyin 2003. Ms. Ke completed her undergraduateand graduate training at the Opera Department of the Central Music Academy. She studied with Professor Guo Shuzhen, a well-known sopranoand vocal music educator, Professor Zhao Bixuan and Professor Marina. She performed in the world premiere of the symphony Dielianhua by Chinese-French musician Chen Qigang in France, as well as the premiere at the Shanghai International Music Festival and the Beijing InternationalMusic Festival. She has received the New Star Prize in the Second World Chinese VocalMusic Competition, the Honorary Prize in the Second International Vocal Music Competition in Beijing, and the Silver Cup in the Dahongying International Vocal Music Competition forNew Stars and New Works in 2003. YE XIAOGANGRegarded as one of the most influentialcomposers in China. Vice Chairman ofChinese Musicians' Association, Professorand director of the compositiondepartment of Central Conservatory ofMusic, composer in residence of theShanghai Symphony Orchestra, andboard member of Chinese Music Copyright Association, and national member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.Born into a musical family, Ye beganstuding piano with his father at age offour and was transferred to work in thecountryside after graduation from highschool during Cultural Revolution.Finishing six-years of benchwork in afactory, he was enrolled into theCentral Conservatory of Music andstudied composition with Du Mingxin.Ye studied in Alexander Goehr's classin 1980, and received a full scholarshipfrom the Eastman School of Musicin U.S. in 1987 to further his studiesin composition with Dr. SamuelAdler, Dr. Joseph Schwantner andLouis Andriessen. Since 1983, Ye has received numerous national and international awardsand commissions, and has participatedin many international artistic activities,including five Dance Dramas (Dalai VI,The Snow is Red, When the DreamFades, Shenzhen Story, Macao Bride);Chamber Music (Threnody, Ballade,Tribasic, Marginalia, Nine Run, NineHorses, Enchanted Bamboo, WoodySpring, Lotus Flower, Eight Horses andWa); Orchestra works (The Last Paradise,The Silence of the Sakyamuni,The Silence of the Red Poppy, The FarCalls, Song of Ruan, Pipa Concerto,Great Wall Symphony, Horizon,Spring, Cello Blue, Tide Wave,Twilight in Tibet, The Scent of BlackMangoo, Winter III, Sounds of Chu,Moon Over the West River, Winter).These works were premiered in Canada,U. S. A., Japan, New Zealand,Britain, Finland, Norway, Germany,Switzerland and Taiwan, Hong Kongregions respectively.Among his awards included a 20thCentury Chinese Music Master Piece,grand prize in the first OrchestralComposition Competition presentedby Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, thefirst prize in Alexander TcherepninComposition Competition in theU.S.A., the Louis Lane Prize andHoward Hanson Prize at the EastmanSchool, Heritage Prize for Excellence inCreative Activity in Music from the LIFoundation of San Francisco, BestMovie Music Award of Shanghai,National Best Score for Film, NationalGolden Bell Award for Symphony andChamber Music, Five-One-ProjectAward by Publicity Department ofChina Central Committee and WenhuaAward by China Ministry of Culture.Ye has also scored for about 30Films, among these Showers, A Girlfrom Hunan, Life Song, Out of TriumphalArch, Evening Liaison, EighteenSpring, The Treatment, The End of theBridge, Jade Buddha.Musical America considered Ye Xiaogangas one of the "Chinese Bachs" andreviewed that his music displays suchboldly defined musical personalities,vividly expressed. It is to be hoped thatthe daunting political and geographicobstacles separating from the worldmusical community will not preventhim from achieving the internationalreputation he deserves. JohnCorigliano, a well-known Americancomposer, acclaimed that "his musicis deeply felt and highly crafted, sobeautiful and yet always intellectuallystimulating, completely magical – so amazing.


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Former Bayside couple dead in murder-suicide
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If you have considered suicide or know someone who has, call the Gulf Bend Center's 24-hour suicide prevention hotline at 1-877-723-3422.
An Ingleside husband and wife, who once lived in Bayside, died June 13 after an apparent murder-suicide.
Jerry Wolfshohl called the Ingleside 911 that day saying her husband, James Wolfshohl, was going to kill her, according to a news release from the Ingleside Police Department.
While talking to the woman, a dispatcher heard a gunshot over the phone.
The two were at their home in the 2000 block of La Quinta Drive. After the initial 911 call, the husband called his son to tell him he shot and killed his mom and that he was going to kill himself, according to the news release.
When officers arrived at the home, they found the husband holding a gun.
Officers told him to drop the gun, but instead he walked around a wall and shot himself, according to the news release.


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Top 10 essential Refused
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Tue 11th Sep, 2012 in Features
Ahead of the first ever Australian tour from hardcore legends Refused we asked STU HARVEY, host of triple j's Short.Fast.Loud, to choose the ten most important songs of the band's career.
When coming up with a list of essential Refused tracks, it's hard not to include so much of The Shape Of Punk To Come. Released in 1998, it really was one of those albums that came along unexpectedly and turned everything on its head. The album polarised, I suspect by design. I still have staunch hardcore mates who despise it and the band.
New Noise
Perhaps Refused's best known song and, in many ways, one that sums up the entire Shape Of Punk To Come album: A call for change, to live with an open mind and ask questions, particularly of those in control. No song has ever done quiet/loud so perfectly. The intro still gives me goose bumps 14 years later – that guitar, the beat, the electronic refrain, "Can I Scream?!"
Pump The Breaks
This is the sound of a young Refused from back in 1994. To understand what made their later recordings so impressive you need to visit where they started; the band were playing metal tinged hardcore, that took influence from US acts such as Earth Crisis with whom the Swedes shared similar political and ethical beliefs. Great to see that this track still appears in setlists from the reformed band 18 years later.
Circle Pit
A song that originally appeared on the Rather Be Dead EP that was released between Songs To Fan The Flames and The Shape…. The lyric points to a "circle pit" as an analogy of just how conformist punk rock had become: "One more round. One more round. We wouldn't want to tread new ground.
Rather Be Dead
The opening track on their second album Songs To Fan The Flames Of Discontent demonstrates the significant progression the band had made from their early days. It was the first real hint that the band wanted to expand their sound and challenge what was expected of and called hardcore.
Coup D'etat
I always loved this song because it combines a revolutionary call to arms with that classic punk rock "get on the stage" spirit that was preached by fellow Euro's Spermbirds. The lines of Coup D'etat scream: "Revolution with a catchy phrase/Shitty band with an awesome plan."
Worms Of The Senses / Faculties Of The Skull
"They told me the classics never go out of style, they do, they do. Somehow baby, I never thought that we do to." From that moment on, this seven-minute piece throws all conventional punk songwriting structure out the window and dares the listener to come along for the ride.
The Shape Of Punk To Come
Refused embraced the very ethos of punk rebellion and challenged what the genre could sound like. In doing so, they created an album that will go down in history as one of the most important of its genre ever released.
Liberation Frequency
The production of the Shape Of Punk… album is incredible. The impact that can be given through space and silence is demonstrated flawlessly on this track. To get a complete understanding, I suggest you grab some headphones and listen to the full album from beginning to end.
The Deadly Rhythm
Solos are frowned upon and seen as unnecessary in punk and hardcore, so I love that Refused decide to push the rules one step further. 'The Deadly Rhythm' features a bass solo at the heart of the song.
Refused Are Fucking Dead
They came back to life and thankfully we finally get to see them in Australia and I can not wait. See you in the pit.
You can hear Stu Harvey hosting Short.Fast.Loud on triple j every Wednesday from 10pm-1am. For more details head to the show's Facebook page.
Refused Australian tour dates:
Friday 9 November – Metro, Fremantle
Sunday 11 November – Eatons Hill Hotel, Brisbane
Tuesday 13 November – Enmore, Sydney
Thursday 15 November – The Palace, Melbourne – SOLD OUT
Friday 16 November – The Palace, Melbourne – JUST ADDED
Saturday 17 November – Thebarton, Adelaide


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SPX 2010 Coming Fast! Plus Intervention
- Posted by Johanna on September 1, 2010 at 8:06 am
- Category: Comic News
It's nearly the end of summer, but there are still good comic conventions to attend! I'll next be visiting the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Maryland, on Saturday, September 11. (Although the show runs two days, it's relatively local for me, so I'm only making the trip for that one day. Unfortunately, other obligations call that same weekend.)
Isn't this a darling promotional poster by Raina Telgemeier (Smile)? Look at all those diverse people enjoying comics and the chocolate fountain that's a feature of the Saturday night festivities!
I'm honored to be part of two of the scheduled panels. First, I'm on the Critics' Panel: How We Judge at 3:00. The subtitle is geared to give a little more focus to the usual journalism coverage. We'll be talking about how to "regard different kinds of work in different ways" and how we form critical opinions. Panelists also include Gary Groth (The Comics Journal), Tim Hodler (Comics Comics), Chris Mautner (Robot 6), Joe McCulloch (Jog the Blog), Ken Parille (Blog Flume), and Caroline Small (The Hooded Utilitarian). That's quite the group! I hope we all get a chance to share our opinions, but I'm pretty sure that won't be a problem, since we're all outspoken.
Next, I will be moderating Comics for Younger Readers at 5 PM. We'll focus on comics for kids/young adults by Metaphrog, Aaron Renier, Raina Telgemeier, and Drew Weing. If there's anything you'd like to know about these folks, let me know!
If you're going to be in the area, although I don't know how you could tear yourself away from SPX, you may also want to check out Intervention, an odd new assemblage of "webcomics, videos, gaming, music" all with an online focus, debuting the same weekend. It's an unfortunate coincidence that they're scheduled for the same dates in the same area, as the Intervention organizers comment on:
The more we thought about it though the more we believe this isn't a problem. SPX has always been focused on the idea of independent print comics. While some webcomics guests do attend SPX, the "idea" of SPX, as shown by the multitude of their programming, is still very much focused on the print realm. Intervention is about online distribution and promotion, and somewhat more open ended in the content type discussed (video, music, comics, blogging, etc.).
There is crossover, but in many ways Intervention and SPX appear to be the Yin and Yang of focus and programming. I can actually foresee people who might attend both for the elements that they want to get info about. Considering that the cons are also physically located only a few miles from each other, this is a very easy thing to actually do.
Here's an interview with a founder that provides more focus on what they're aiming to do.
2 Responses to "SPX 2010 Coming Fast! Plus Intervention"
- Anatole Wilson Says:
September 1, 2010 at 10:17 AMFantastic poster–thanks for sharing! SPX is the one conference I attend each year–I think this is my 5th. I'm planning to start (yet another) blog/site focusing on children's and young adult comics, so I'll be very interested in both of your panels.
- Johanna Says:
September 2, 2010 at 7:36 AMSo glad to hear it! I hope they go well. It'll be nice knowing there's at least one friendly reader in the audience. :)


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Petite Sante Fe Casserole Cups
Casseroles are easy to prepare, mix all the ingredients together and bake. Sometimes those can be a little boring though. Dividing this mixture of rice, beans and southwest spices into individual serving sizes makes them fun to eat and also easier to freeze. It's easy to take a few out of the freezer and eat for a quick meal.
Petite Sante Fe Casserole Cups
Abbi @ onceamonthmeals.com, adapted from Healthy Tipping Point
- 0.25 cup chopped onion
- 1 Tablespoon garlic, minced
- 0.25 teaspoon salt
- 0.50 teaspoon pepper
- 2 teaspoon chili powder
- 0.5 teaspoon cumin
- 15 ounces black beans, rinsed and drained
- 0.75 cup salsa
- 1.5 cup cooked brown rice
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 cup cheddar cheese
- 0.25 cup chopped green chilies
In a large bowl, combine all ingredients. Spray non-stick muffin tin with non-stick cooking spray. Divide mixture among muffin cups. Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes.
Freezing Directions:
After baking, allow to cool. Remove from muffin cups and flash freeze. Once frozen, place in gallon size freezer bags. To serve, thaw and reheat.
Servings: 6
Nutritional Information: Serving Size = 2 casserole cups. Calories – 530, Total Fat – 10.4 g, Total Carbohydrates – 84.2 g, Protein – 26.4 g. Dietary Fiber: 2.8 WW Plus Points: 14
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This sounds great… if you replaced the brown rice with Quinoa, do think it would still freeze ok?
Made these tonight. My family LOVED them. The only problem I had was most fell apart when I took them out of the muffin pans. Thought it was because they were hot, but the fully cooled ones were worst.
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Do you reheat these in the oven or microwave? For how long?
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Joe Frisaro of MLB.com reports that Garrett Jones is generating trade interest.
Garrett Jones had a solo homer and an RBI double versus the Brewers on Monday.
Garrett Jones tripled, doubled and scored twice against the Nationals on Monday.
Garrett Jones went 2-for-5 with a go-ahead two-run single in the 10th to lead the Marlins to a 3-1 win over the Braves on Monday.
Garrett Jones went 2-for-4 with a two-run home run in Tuesday's loss to the Phillies.
Garrett Jones hit a game-winning three-run home run as the Marlins came from behind to edge the Cubs 6-5 on Tuesday.
Garrett Jones blasted a pair of solo home runs in Friday's loss to the Brewers.
Garrett Jones went 4-for-5 with a pair of doubles and a pair of runs batted in, but the Marlins fell to the Phillies on Tuesday.
Garrett Jones struck out all four times he was up and committed his fourth error at first base in Friday's loss.
Garrett Jones tied a Marlins team record with three doubles, leading the Marlins to a 6-3 victory over the Dodgers in Miami on Friday.
Garrett Jones went 2-for-4 with a solo homer against the Mets on Friday.
Garrett Jones launched his first home run as a Marlin Sunday, hitting a solo shot in a loss to the Phillies.
Garrett Jones went 2-for-3 and homered in a second straight game Saturday against the Mets.
Garrett Jones went 0-for-3 against the Yankees on Sunday and is in a 2-for-31 slump.